Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains

Chapter 260: 152. Breakthrough, Condensing the Martial Dao Spirit_2

Merit: 129812

Karmic Obstacle: 392102

Seeing the explosive increase in both merit and karmic obstacle, Hou Yuxiao's face revealed an unnatural expression. First, he looked at the more than two hundred thousand people he had rescued from the city, then turned his head toward the prefectural city to the east, showing a trace of guilt on his face...

The Divine Lotus tallied his actions, good or evil, with an extremely accurate count of merit and karmic obstacles, which did not interfere with each other. It seemed as if it was aware of all his actions, clearly tallying them and then assigning the corresponding merit and karmic obstacle.

By saving the Hou Clan and the forces of three other third-rate powers, as well as the additional more than two hundred thousand lives, he was rewarded with almost a hundred thousand points of merit—a lot compared to the earlier Zhaoyang Disturbance, likely due to the many martial artists among the rescued.

Meanwhile, with over two million people suffering disaster in the prefectural city, the Blood Demon was undoubtedly the main culprit, but he had indeed played a role in exacerbating the situation.

Therefore, his karmic obstacle value also skyrocketed by more than three hundred thousand...

"Fortunately, the ratio hasn't reached 1 to 20, it's not yet imbalanced."

If karmic obstacle values exceeded twenty times that of merit, the Divine Lotus would backlash against him—it was, perhaps, the Divine Lotus's way of advising him not to commit too many evils!

Hou Yuxiao absorbed the seven orbs of light in his palm in one breath, setting aside the two largest orbs for later and first absorbing the five slightly smaller ones.

These seven orbs of light originated from Liu Fufeng and Chen Yuhe, two grandmasters, and Tong Hu among five other warriors in the Dan Embracing Phase. Upon exiting the secret realm and seeing the increasingly inscrutable situation in Tongling, Hou Yuxiao instantly slew these seven, retaining their cultivation in his hand for emergencies.

Now, they finally came in handy.

Hou Yuxiao held his breath and concentrated, first integrating the cultivation of Tong Hu and the other four Dan Embracing Phase peak experts into the Divine Lotus. His karmic obstacle value initially decreased by 2500 points, then suddenly skyrocketed by 250000 points, reaching 639602.

Seeing such a massive fluctuation in karmic obstacle value, Hou Yuxiao's pupils contracted, and a shadow of worry crossed his face.

Before, when he had devoured the lifelong cultivation of a Warrior of the Gang Qi Realm, it only used up 10 points of karmic obstacle value. Now, absorbing the cultivation of a peak Dan Embracing Phase warrior actually cost a full 500 points of karmic obstacle value.

The consumption was minor, but during the absorption of these cultivations, his karmic obstacle value would be replenished by a hundredfold of the consumed value.

This might seem like an endless cycle of karmic obstacle, but in fact, it was a restrictive measure for his use of the absorption ability. If he used it too much and didn't have enough merit, the Divine Lotus would immediately backlash against him.

Having just absorbed the cultivation of five peak Dan Embracing Phase warriors, his karmic obstacle had neared 640,000. There were still two grandmasters' cultivation yet to absorb; he didn't even know how high his karmic obstacle value would soar!

The lifelong cultivations of five Dan Embracing Phase peak warriors, once transformed by the Divine Lotus, became a dense True Qi that surged into his dantian. The originally empty dantian instantly grew by half, and Hou Yuxiao's face showed a look of exhilaration as he continued to absorb the remaining two orbs of light.

Both Liu Fufeng and Chen Yuhe were grandmasters; once their two cultivations were transformed, Hou Yuxiao saw his karmic obstacle value decrease by 6000 points. Then, he saw it increase by 600,000 points, accumulating a total of 1,240,000 karmic obstacles on his body.

120,000 merit and 1,240,000 karmic obstacles, it was 1 to 10 already, but still within an acceptable range!

Hou Yuxiao breathed a sigh of relief and began to guide the newly transformed True Qi into his body, watching the True Qi in his dantian gradually rise, his expression becoming more and more exhilarated.

"It should be about enough..."

As the True Qi in his dantian rapidly filled up, Hou Yuxiao felt a warm current passing through the meridians in his body.

But gradually, even after the two orbs were exhausted, he realized that his dantian was still not full, and his face immediately darkened.

"Five Dan Embracing Phase peaks, two grandmasters, and it still isn't enough!"

Hou Yuxiao shook his head, looked at his nearly but not quite full dantian, took a deep breath, and then took out the last and brightest orb of light than the previous seven from his chest.

"Thankfully, I kept Gu Chenfeng's too!"

Gu Chenfeng was one of the earliest grandmasters Hou Yuxiao had encountered. Moreover, as the ninth Sword God of the Wanjian Holy Sect, his cultivation resources would definitely be far superior to those of both Liu Fufeng and Chen Yuhe. His cultivation would certainly rank above theirs. With this orb of light, no matter what, it should be enough for the Grandmaster Realm.

Just that he didn't know if he could still accumulate more karmic obstacles...

As the sounds from the prefectural city reached his ears, Hou Yuxiao didn't ponder for long. He directly integrated the orb of light into his Sea of Consciousness, placing it on the third black petal of the Divine Lotus.

With 6000 karmic obstacles expended, it would increase by 600,000. Adding that with the 1,240,000, it makes 1,840,000!

Calculating this number, Hou Yuxiao let out a huge sigh of relief. As long as it didn't reach 20 times, there was no panic; he could simply slowly do good deeds to boost his merit.

Indeed a Sacred Land Successor, once the lifelong cultivation of Gu Chenfeng surged into his dantian, Hou Yuxiao's face immediately reddened, and in an instant, the True Qi filled his dantian, continuing to nourish the Sea of Consciousness through the meridians.

With a stir of mind and spirit, Hou Yuxiao sensed a mysterious aura gradually awakening within the Sea of Consciousness. He quickly closed his eyes in meditation, operating the Hou Clan's Xuanmo True Qi cultivation technique to connect to the Sea of Consciousness, and plunged into deep contemplation.