Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains

"Qingxue, are you alright?"

Hou Yuxiao looked down at Zhao Qingxue in his arms, noticing that her hands were still tightly guarding the red veil on her head to prevent it from falling, his heart instantly softened.

"I'm fine, that person's strength, so strong!"

Zhao Qingxue's voice carried some worry. With her strength as a Great Grandmaster of the heavenly tier and her status as the direct disciple of Moxuzi, she was certainly broad-minded and could naturally sense how powerful the palm strike aimed at her had been.

"Don't worry, I will definitely protect you!"

Hou Yuxiao whispered soothingly, his right hand still firmly holding her in his embrace. He waited for her emotions to calm down before turning his head to look at where the carriage had been.

What had turned to ashes was not just the carriage; the two war horses that had been pulling it were also nowhere to be found, leaving behind only a faint scent of blood in the air. On the ground was a deep crater more than ten meters wide.

In the middle of the crater sat a figure shrouded in a black robe, his face unclear, his right hand above his head still in the pose of a palm strike—evidently, the previous attack had been his doing.

"As expected, Master of the Hou Family, you were on guard early!"

The voice was hoarse, the tone surprisingly calm, without the slightest hint of annoyance from failing. Instead, when speaking the words "on guard early," there seemed to carry some mocking undertones.

"I knew the journey wouldn't be this easy, and surely some hidden rats would cause trouble. I just didn't expect someone of your level to appear, who even dares not reveal his true voice. This rat robe suits your shattered realm cultivation—it's laughable, haha..."

Hou Yuxiao laughed unrestrainedly, his laughter echoing, without any pretense, across the three thousand Red Flame Army and the three hundred White Feather Guards under the midday sun and could be heard from miles away.

Initially, the Red Flame Army and the White Feather Guards were in a state of high alert, but after hearing Hou Yuxiao's words, they looked at the man in the black robe with a strange expression.

"Really? A shattered realm powerhouse..."

"The Family Head himself is a powerhouse, would he lie?"

"Then why is he still covered in a black robe? Is he afraid he won't win against our family head?"

"Not necessarily, maybe he's afraid of offending our Hexi Alliance."

"Didn't you hear what the Family Head just said? That's a rat robe."

"That..."

....

Mocking a shattered realm Great Grandmaster, no one from the Hou Clan would dare on any normal day, but they didn't need to mock. Just their whispered gossip was enough to bring shame to the robed Great Grandmaster.

The robed figure's breath had already become a bit heavy due to Hou Yuxiao's words, and the discussions from the others only filled him with immense humiliation. Although his facial expressions were obscured by the black robe, the undulating shoulders were proof enough of his inner turmoil.

"You foul-mouthed beast, no wonder you collude with demons. In my eyes, you're probably a reincarnated demon yourself. Today I shall purge this villain from Hexi for the people!"

The robed man's angry roar was chilling, and a singularity suddenly appeared behind him. The powerful waves emanating from the singularity immediately overturned the thousands of soldiers of the Red Flame Army.

His figure was as fast as a ghost, his black robe flickering several times in mid-air, instantly reaching Hou Yuxiao. That same right hand aimed a palm strike towards Hou Yuxiao's forehead.

"The peak of the shattered realm, and Leiyin Temple sent you here as cannon fodder to court death!"

Hou Yuxiao uttered that sentence in a low voice, audible only to the two of them as the robed figure reached him.

The robed man heard Hou Yuxiao's words but didn't falter in his movements.

Clearly, his intent to kill Hou Yuxiao was strong!

But the next moment, a change in Hou Yuxiao's aura turned the man's intense murderous intent into fear and... panic.

The phantom of an Ape Demon abruptly appeared behind Hou Yuxiao.

Martial Artists who reach the rank of Great Grandmaster of the Fourth Realm and break through the Dike Shenxue can display their martial spirits when they use their True Yuan to execute martial arts. However, depending on their comprehension level, the size is usually between ten and a hundred meters at most.

The issue was that Hou Yuxiao's Ape Demon phantom was at least a thousand meters tall...

A thousand-meter high martial spirit phantom!

The robed man suddenly looked up at the phantom behind Hou Yuxiao, and upon seeing a fist-sized, star-like brilliant light at the center of the Ape Demon's belly, he froze on the spot, his body starting to tremble and his voice quivering:

"Star Sea Saint Core, Martial Dao... Sub-saint..."

The extreme cycle of Yin and Yang marks the point when the Sea of Consciousness shatters. Following that, the complete destruction of the Martial Dao singularity and then the condensation of the Star Sea Saint Core in the dantian, merging with the martial spirit above the divine platform to create a thousand-meter tall martial spirit phantom.

These three stages are the Yin Yang Holy Realm, the shattered realm, and the Sub-Saint Realm of Martial Arts!

A thousand-meter tall martial spirit phantom, a Sub-Saint of Martial Dao!

Hou Yuxiao, is he a Sub-Saint of Martial Dao?

"Impossible... Absolutely impossible... How could you be a Martial Dao Sub-Saint, no... wrong... wrong... this is impossible!"

It seemed that the robed man was so shaken by Hou Yuxiao that he couldn't believe it, and even seemed to be losing his mind a bit.

But Hou Yuxiao, he would not waste such an opportunity!