Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains

"Guard the city gate well, no one is to open it without my command."

"Yes, Junior Sister!"

Atop the city tower behind the gates of Lingyuan Governor's City, Mo Qingning, dressed in a white gown with sleeves rolled up to her elbows, was efficiently directing a few dozen sect members to block the city gate. Hearing the response of her fellow sect members below, she turned her head towards the city exterior with a triumphant expression on her face.

Just then, Hou Yuxiao arrived at the foot of the city gate with three hundred White Feather Guards.

"Miss Mo, I hope you've been well!"

Hou Yuxiao looked up at Mo Qingning on the city wall, his expression slightly strange.

This little junior sister of Zhao Qingxue had caused him some unpleasantness.

Last year, after the formation of the Hexi Alliance in Xingnan Prefectural City, he was leading his Hou Clan back to Hexi Prefecture City when they were ambushed. It was considered an assassination attempt, but the assassins, shockingly, were just two young Master Realm Martial Artists. At that time, Hou Yuxiao had the proud achievement of having fought alone against a Wufa master; any slightly informed power wouldn't send Master Realm Martial Artists to assassinate him.

Hou Yuxiao was puzzled as he subdue the pair of assailants, a man and a woman.

Those assassins were none other than the current Mo Qingning and a little Taoist named Qing Yuan. It was fortunate he hadn't been heavy-handed; otherwise, had he really killed these two, and Zhao Qingxue found out, the marriage would probably be off.

Later, he learned that Mo Qingning's assassination attempt was merely to tease him.

This little girl was just a mischievous little Daoist nun.

Being able to develop such a personality within Ziqing Holy Sect, sharing the same surname as Moxuzi, and, most crucially, despite Hou Yuxiao's current influence and the not insignificant cost, he was still unable to ascertain Mo Qingning's exact background; this was indeed intriguing.

"Hmph, Hou Yuxiao, if you think marrying my senior sister will be easy, think again!"

Blocking the wedding entourage might be a marriage tradition, but doing so from atop the city wall, using the entire Lingyuan Governor's City to block the wedding party, was definitely unique.

Hou Yuxiao forced a bitter smile, stepped forward, gestured to the White Feather Guards behind him to bring forward ten golden chests, and then with a cupped-hand salute, he said to Mo Qingning with a smile, "Of course, the Hou estate might be modest, but when it comes to marrying Qingxue, I dare not be careless. These ten chests are the betrothal gifts I've brought this time..."

After finishing, Hou Yuxiao signaled to the ten White Feather Guards carrying the chests with his eyes.

They understood the cue, and began to loudly announce the contents of the chests one by one.

"First item: 1,314 East Sea Spirit Jiao Pearls."

The previously noisy city gate fell silent instantly as the White Feather Guards loudly announced the contents of the first chest; not only at the city gate, but even Mo Qingning on the wall was taken aback upon hearing it.

"East Sea Spirit Jiao Pearls?"

"They're the Spirit Jiao Pearls from the Jiaozhou market, made from deep-sea jiaos. They have miraculous effects for women's beauty and youth maintenance, each fetching up to one hundred thousand taels of silver!"

"1,314 pearls, that's..."

"...worth over a billion taels of silver..."

...

"Second item: 888 Yin Yang Drunken Jade Pills."

After a brief outbreak of whispers, the crowds at the city gate once more erupted into intense discussion. The Ziqing Holy Sect sect members who were originally blocking the gate couldn't help but climb onto the walls to see the second chest.

"Yin Yang Drunken Jade Pills, pills used by Yin Yang Holy Realm martial artists for cultivation, only produced by top-tier powers, and priced exclusively in gold. One pill is worth fifty thousand taels of gold, and 888 pills would be... how much?"

"44,400,000... taels... of gold..."

...

"Third item: Three hundred bolts of Immortal Spirit Brocade from the Great Jin Youdu Tiankong Workshop."

"Fourth item: A pair of Rainbow Mandarin Jades from Bingzhou."

"Fifth item: A private estate spanning three li in Hexi Prefecture City."

"Sixth item: Ten Spiritual Artifacts-grade weapons."

"Seventh item: One hundred of the Hou Clan's White Feather Guards as personal retinue, to serve the main wife for life."

"Eighth item: The main wife is granted lifelong revenues of all Wanyang County."

......

If the first and second items had already turned the Holy Sect members green with envy, the next six items were enough to drive them to frenzy, as each was worth many times more than the former.

Let's not even talk about the early items; just the sixth item, which is ten Spiritual Artifacts...

This was about Spiritual Artifacts, ten of them!

And regarding the seventh item, Lingyuan Prefecture was only separated from Hexi by the Tongtian River. They knew a lot about the Hou Clan. The White Feather Guards were the personal armed force of Master Hou, meaning Hou Yuxiao himself, composed entirely of Grandmaster Realm Martial Artists. To directly assign a hundred of them for life to serve Zhao Qingxue, what did that mean?

Grandmaster Realm Martial Artists could head a second-rate power, and even within the Ziqing Holy Sect, such martial artists could serve as administrators or even lower-ranking elders.

One hundred, serving Zhao Qingxue for life...

The eighth item went so far as to grant Zhao Qingxue the revenues of an entire county for life, meaning as long as Zhao Qingxue lived, all revenues of the county would belong solely to her; how enormous a fortune was that?

The entire Lingyuan Governor's City gate, whether it was the locals or the Ziqing Holy Sect members there to deliberately block the wedding party, couldn't help but show intense envy at the sight of the eight opened chests outside the city.

Wait, there were still two chests left...

"Ninth item: 1,888 taels of Mysterious Gold!"

Wow......