As soon as Hou Yuxiao left the cave of Ten Thousand Demons, he knew that the time flow rate there was much slower than that of the outside world. He and the Lords of the Holy Land had only been there for at most five or six days, but the outside world had already passed for a full year and three months.

After such a long time, a lot of things have obviously happened to the outside world.

Fortunately, his situation is still within his expected plan.

This is enough. Of course, Hou Yuxiao was eager to know about the situation in other holy places, but now that the demons are dancing around, even if he has the ability to go to other states, he is not at ease with Jianye City, so he can only stay at ease and concentrate on managing Jianye.

What will happen after Zhao Yulong and Li Tingzong come back at the city entrance of Qinjian Villa?

Bailu Academy, Wanjian Saint Sect, Ziqing Saint Sect, Haoran Saint Sect, and the four Hedong families can still unite in the face of demons in the world?

The three emperors of the Great Jin Holy Dynasty were all scattered out, and they would definitely not be able to continue the war in a short period of time. They could only defend their garrison and resisted the invasion of demons. The three parties had strength. This is the problem. Including the three northern states, wouldn’t the Great Jin Holy Dynasty be divided into four?

If you don't change the situation quickly, and once the demons pass, all the holy lands will be greatly damaged. If the three armies outside are attacked by groups, it will be dangerous.

Sikong Yue had done all the calculations and released millions of demons. Her purpose was achieved. After fighting this wave of demons, what actions did the Crescent Moon God Cult do next? Should we cooperate with the alliance to fight against Jin, or set up our own business and become the world's top?

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Hou Yuxiao was confused, but it was mainly concentrated after this demon rebellion. The most important task at present is to guard Jianye Prefecture City, and then slowly clear the rest of the territory of the entire prefecture and save the people of other counties and counties.

These tasks are not easy.

At present, there are demons everywhere in China. Only one Jianye Mansion can attract seven second-grade demons, three-grade and four-grade demons, not to mention the rest.

The millions of Red Flame Army, the Marquis Gate, the Marquis Gate, and all the warriors of the Hou clan had no leisure. They all kept clearing the demons around Jianye Prefecture City under the leadership of Hou Yucheng, Hou Yuling and Hou Yujie. With the participation of nearly 20 million warriors, they completely cleared all the twenty miles around Jianye Prefecture City, and it took more than a year.

During this process, the three counties of Jiuchi, Yeyun and Fuyang were also taken back one after another. The five counties of Jianye Prefecture City were only Peng Kang in the east and Xia Pi in the west. Because these two counties were connected to Zhongyuan Road in the east, Xingnan Prefecture in the west, the Crescent Moon God Cult in the east, and the Dajin in the west, Hou Yuxiao did not take back, and he deliberately kept a distance from the two families.

Hou Yucheng had already found him and expressed his concerns about cooperating with the Hou Jin. With the situation before the Great Jin Dynasty, the Hou really joined forces with the Great Jin to suppress the Crescent Moon God Sect, and then the Great Jin Dynasty would be invincible.

When Hou Yuxiao learned about it, he felt relieved and complicated.

First, I am pleased that even though Yu Lao Er had this idea, I still did not make any decisions on his own, but waited for him to come back; second, I am pleased that Yu Hou Yucheng's growth, and seeing this also proves that the second son Hou Yucheng's strategic vision is no longer limited to the role of Hou's army.

As for the complexity, it was himself, and he didn't know what choice the current Hou family should make. Instinctively, he felt that Sikong Yue was the most difficult to deal with, but the current situation forced him to be wary of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Dajin is really too strong.

You know, until now, the three emperors and Zhuge Yuan who were dispatched to the Great Jin Dynasty, Yuwen Dong, the emperor of Jin, had at most exposed his face in the cave of Ten Thousand Demons. He had not really taken action yet. He also had a late emperor, Yuwen Hongzhang, who had not even exposed his face yet.

The war on the third line of the Great Jin Dynasty was the three emperors and Zhuge Yuan’s three disciples. If the two generations of Jin emperors and Zhuge Yuan took action personally, what would be the situation?

Isn’t it a matter of working with Dajin at this time to make a fuss with the tiger?

Today, with the strength of the Hou family, whether it is Hou Yuxiao or the millions of warriors under the Hou family, what they want is not just survival. From the moment he returned to Jianye Mansion and showed his saint's strength, the Hou family had already qualified as a holy land.

Since it is a holy land, it is not qualified to bow down and surrender.

The current Hou family is no longer just the five of them.

To put it in a big way, the Hou family currently has eight heavenly forces, namely Jiangbei Alliance, Lu family, Canglan Sword Sect, Longshan Tianzong, Dong family, Chen family, Hongyue school, and Shenyuan Sect. To put it in a big way, in addition to these eight, there are fourteen prefecture-level forces, more than ninety influential forces, and more than 17 million warriors. It is no longer the time for Hou Yuxiao and the other five to decide everything.

The Hou family has become a huge consortium. Any decision by Hou Yuxiao will have a profound impact on the Hou family. Even if it is just a small mistake, it can be a strange movement in people's hearts, and the seriousness will be a disintegration, let alone the Hou family's future trends, such a major choice.

In fact, Hou Yuxiao and the other two knew it in their hearts.

There is only one next choice, that is, to dominate the world.

If this major premise is set, it can basically reject the road of uniting with the Great Jin Dynasty. Even if Hou Yuxiao is afraid of Sikong Yue, there is no way. With the current strength of the Great Jin Dynasty, Sikong Yue has fallen. The alliance formed by the four holy lands in Hedong that are in harmony with the gods will basically have no hope of resisting Jin.

Thinking of this, Hou Yuxiao also understood why Sikong Yue dared to be so unscrupulous in his previous actions. I believe she had already concluded that she would not choose to cooperate with Dajin.

The more this happens, the more fear Hou Yuxiao becomes of Sikong Yue.

Especially, her son is still in her hands.

Because of the thoughts in his mind, Hou Yuxiao deliberately did not spend time to take back Xia Pi and Peng Kang counties. He was not clear about the situation of Xingnan Prefecture and Zhongyuan Road, but once these two counties were taken back, the Hou family would inevitably border these two families. Once they bordered, the choice would be immediately in front of him. He did not dare to make a decision whether to join Jin or resist Jin, so he could only drag it back as much as possible to see if there would be a new situation.

Of course, the matter between Hou's family has never stopped.

The demons were rampant. Although Hou Yuxiao's actions were already very fast, the people rescued were still minimal during the recovery of the three counties.

The population of the three counties was above two million, and the total number should be six or seven million, but the number of people actually saved was only one million. According to this ratio, the original population of more than seven billion in China is probably less than one billion.

The sharp decline in population should have been detrimental to the expansion of the Hou family, but by chance, when the Hou family headed south, its military strength had actually reached its peak. The addition of more than 100 forces and the number of 17 million soldiers was already the peak that the Hou family could bear. Therefore, in the process of clearing the demons, Hou Yucheng did not care about the expansion of the army.

His focus is on expanding the number of Red Flame Army.

Indeed, this is the top priority.

The Hou family has the qualifications of a holy land, and the biggest reliance is two. One is Hou Yuxiao, the martial arts saint; the other is Hou's millions of Red Flame Army.

At present, the Red Flame Army needs to clear the demons around him. After clearing the demons in the future, they will also need to compete with the holy land in the world. Therefore, expanding the Red Flame Army is the second key task of the Hou family in addition to clearing the demons.

To improve the number of people in the Red Flame Army, in addition to improving their cultivation, we also need to teach the Saint Army Code. Two things are not difficult for Hou Yuxiao. To improve his cultivation, there are divine lotus source blood and the Five Elements Heaven. As for teaching the Code, he who has been promoted to a saint now can rest assured.

At first, he was a little worried that the source blood and the five elements heaven needed too much karma and good deeds. After all, the number of soldiers was 17 million, which was once consumed, which was astronomical, but as a period of time passed, he was no longer worried.

At the same time, he also suddenly realized why Sikong Yue said that to him when he left the Ten Thousand Demon Cave, would you thank me for releasing these million demons?

Hou Yuxiao played an auxiliary role when releasing millions of demons. The most important thing was Sikong Yue, followed by Jiang Tianming, so he also obtained a small part of his karma. Although it was a small part, it was a huge amount. If it weren't for the fact that he had accumulated a lot of good deeds over the years, only the karma of Ten Thousand Demons' Cave would have caused him to die in chaos.

He had good achievements in killing demons. This was the first time he went north. When he came back from Baiming Du and helped Lu deal with demons, he discovered that, over the past year, he took Hou Yucheng and the army to seize the demons around him. The good achievements he obtained were dozens of times higher than the karma value in a short time.

Only then did he realize what Sikong Yue meant.

The benefits he gained by releasing millions of demons are indeed great.

His karma and good deeds are almost endless. In this case, the functions of the source blood and the Five Elements Heaven can be used unlimitedly. Correspondingly, the Red Flame Army, both in a state of rapid growth in terms of quantity and average cultivation.

As for the senior management of the Hou family, those newly joined martial arts sub-saints, powerful powers in the Broken Realm, Yin-Yang Realm warriors, as well as the elite warriors of the Shanghou Sect, the Xiahou Sect and the Hou family, their cultivation is also rising.

The strength of the entire Hou family has ushered in a blowout improvement.

Under the unlimited supply of source blood and the special effect of the Five Elements Heaven, the breakthrough of the top warriors of the Hou family has almost become commonplace, which has affected the speed of clearing the demons. In desperation, Hou Yuduan arranged for the senior members of the family in the Broken Realm and above to take turns to kill demons with Hou Yucheng, so that they can free up time for them to enter the Five Elements Heaven to practice.

Except for the breakthrough from the sub-saints of martial arts to the saints, it depends on opportunities, the following cultivation is almost determined by the roots and time. Therefore, the breakthroughs from the upper-level masters of the Hou family have become a natural thing.

Hou Yucheng, Hou Yuling, and Hou Yujie successively broke through to become the martial arts sub-saints, followed by the top Breaking Realm powers of the Jiangbei League, the Lu family, and the six heaven-level forces, and also broke through with the three of them.

The Martial Arts Sub-Saint of Hou's family was in June 1334, the moment the demons were released from the cage. There were only ten people in total: Hou Yuduan, Chu Kuangren, Lu Kangping, Zhou Xuankai, Ying Tianyu, Dong Daokang, Li Ziyu, Hongjue, Chen Yuanfu, and Ding Bufan.

A year later, in June 1335, after the Hou clan cleared out of the three counties of Jianye Prefecture, there were as many as eighteen martial arts sub-saints in the clan, and thirty-seven powerful people in the Broken Realm. As for the Yin-Yang Realm, there were more in the Yuandan Realm, so there was no need to say anything further.

Just seventeen or eighteen years ago, Hou was still cheering for a warrior in Gangqi realm. Today, the warrior in Gangqi realm is not even qualified to be a guard in Hou. Such a huge leap has been so earth-shaking that Hou Yucheng and others have been promoted to sub-saints, even Hou Yuxiao, the martial arts saint, will be inspiring from time to time.

The promotion of top experts is so great that ordinary soldiers are even more terrifying. All 1,7 million soldiers have been reinforcing them into the Red Flame Army. With the release of blood, more and more warriors in Jianye City who were originally limited by the root bones and had low cultivation. After the promotion was huge, they joined the Hou family and became new recruits of the Red Flame Army.

In May 1336, another year passed, and the number of the Hou family's Red Flame Army officially exceeded 20 million. At this time, the total population of the three counties of Jianye Prefecture was only less than 40 million.

Forty million people, half of the army, would definitely not work if it was in the ordinary era of China, but now there are demons everywhere and soldiers are needed everywhere, so this number is not an exaggeration.

No matter how many top warriors there are in the Hou family, can there be more demons?

Hou Yuxiao has been so tired that he has almost no time to rest in the past two years. He must be there whenever a second-grade demon appears. In only a very rare case, Hou Yucheng and others lead the army to deal with it alone.

Hou Yuxiao didn't know how many second-grade demons escaped from the cave of Ten Thousand Demons at that time, but in the past two years, at least sixteen people died at his hands. By this calculation, the rest of China's country is probably rampant and the creatures are suffering.

He didn't have any ingredients to mix water.

He has the Divine Lotus, but others don’t. In fact, if the Hou family had not experienced a surge in strength in the past two years, it would be impossible to rely on him, a martial arts saint, to protect Jianye City.

The demons are not stupid either. After that wave two years ago, no second-grade demons came alone. Since then, they have almost all in groups of three or five, and they have also brought a large wave of third-grade fourth-grade demons. The most dangerous one happened in February this year.

That time, there were nine second-grade demons, plus hundreds of third-grade and fourth-grade demons coming together. At that time, there were five million Red Flame Army outside, and there were only one thousand five million troops in the city. Hou Yuxiao almost fought his life. In addition, he quickly summoned all the masters from outside to come back, and Hou Yuduan's early arrangement of the Xuan Realm, the three factors gathered together, so he finally managed to defend it.

But even so, he paid more than 4 million Red Flame Army and hundreds of top masters in the Yin-Yang Realm to make Hou Yuxiao feel distressed for more than three months, but he has not recovered yet.

Even if he has a divine lotus, the other holy places are nothing more than one or two more saints than the Hou family. It can be foreseen that except for the powerful Dajin and the Crescent Moon God Sect, the situation in all other holy places will definitely be bad.

Hou Yuxiao was very interested in other holy places, and even had the impulse to go out and see it by himself. However, considering that the current situation in Jianye Mansion has not been completely stable, and he is currently out at will. If he is targeted by a large number of demons and without the Red Flame Army, he will not be able to guarantee 100% safety. So he gave up going out and continued to stay in Jianye Mansion, calming down to improve his and his family's strength.

Such days continued until the fifth day of the 10th month of the 1335th year of the New Yu calendar. As Hou Yucheng's army successfully recovered the last Pengkang County east of Jianye Prefecture, the Hou family officially announced that the demons in the entire Jianye Prefecture were almost completely eliminated. The five counties each stayed with a million troops and the commanders, Hou Yucheng and other martial arts sub-saints outside were all ready to return to Jianye Prefecture and report to Hou Yuxiao.

Before the crowd could come back, a piece of news suddenly spread in the city, and the speed of spread and the wide range of spread were far beyond ordinary people's imagination.

This message was not unveiled on the surface, but there are four words that can be 100% certain, that is:

The Great Journey of the Great Journey

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Chapter completed!