These Cyber Cultivators did not know that this splitting of Cyber Aura was only the beginning.
In the days to come, every half month, Cyber Aura would split once again, and it would not stop until its quality reached the level that each Cyber Cultivator should naturally possess.
Compared to stripping all of the cultivators' Cyber Aura quality away at once, this gradual division was already the last bit of mercy Xiao had given them.
Xiao had provided these cultivators with sufficient time to adapt and make adjustments. They still had opportunities to compensate for the decline in Cyber Aura quality and avoid having their cultivation realms collapse due to insufficient aura quality.
After all, for cultivators who had already reached a certain level, it was not difficult to stabilize the foundational materials of the Cyber Aura within their bodies once more.
With the influence of a Golden Core cultivator, a single sentence from them could attract the support and response of countless people.
Eighty percent of the factories in the mortal world would willingly serve them without conditions.
This was the terrifying influence of a Golden Core Ancestor—a human-shaped nuclear bomb.
In this world, the strong would always receive more attention and assistance.
Therefore, even the weakening of Cyber Aura would not cause any real trouble for high-level cultivators.
If someone still could not solve the problem of their declining Cyber Aura under such circumstances, then that person was either a selfless and benevolent Great Saintess or a great sinner hated by everyone.
In either case, they deserved to die.
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Within The Lands Between, Volcano Manor had become the gathering place of the Xiao Clan.
Everyone applauded and fully supported the old ancestor's newly formulated Cyber Aura plan.
Because the Xiao Clan had suffered from the Cyber Aura system for a long time.
In fact, when it came to research into Cyber Aura quality, aside from the fundamental factions of the Mechanical God Cult that ignored profits entirely, most of the research had been carried out by the Xiao Clan themselves.
After all, the power of the Dimension Farm gave them far more opportunities to experiment and make mistakes.
Within the entire system, sixty percent of the material properties had been researched by the Xiao Clan.
However, allowing Cyber Aura to be freely copied and spread, improving everyone's strength equally, had caused them tremendous losses.
The Xiao Clan had long been dissatisfied with this situation, but they only dared to grumble privately.
At that time, Xiao had not paid much attention to it. After all, he had already provided generous contribution rewards, and the Xiao Clan could not simply demand even more benefits.
Out of respect for their ancestor, the Xiao Clan dared not say anything further and could only let the matter go.
Now, the old ancestor had finally awakened to the problem.
They were so delighted that they practically wanted to set off firecrackers.
This meant that every branch of the Xiao Clan would obtain another enormous source of income.
To celebrate, the Xiao Clan directly held a grand banquet, inviting everyone near their territory to come and feast.
At the banquet, Xiao Wenhong, Xiao Yufeng, and the other first-generation members of the Xiao Clan sat together chatting.
Looking at Li Hong, who was only seven or eight years old, Xiao's children immediately became curious about their youngest brother.
"Brother Hong'er, where are you from? Why do you call Father 'Empress Mother'?"
Xiao Wenshun, the homebody of the Xiao Clan, curiously asked Li Hong.
"My mother is the Empress Mother, and my father is the Emperor, so of course I call her Empress Mother!"
Although Li Hong was young, he had awakened some inherited memories and spoke with confidence and logic, behaving like a little adult.
"He even managed to hook up with an Emperor? Hiss, Father really has quite the appetite!"
Xiao Wenshun gasped.
He never expected their father to even transform into a woman and enter the imperial harem. That was truly wild.
The others also became curious and started asking Li Hong about his parents.
The Xiao Clan members looked at each other, their curiosity exploding.
Even the grandchildren and great-grandchildren stopped making noise and quietly pricked up their ears to listen to their ancestor's gossip.
"Holy crap, you're saying your father is Li Shimin and your mother is Wu Zetian?!"
Xiao Wenshun was so shocked that he cursed.
The entire Xiao Clan collectively sucked in cold breaths, never expecting the story to be so explosive.
"It's not Wu Zetian. Mum's name is Wu Meiniang, right?"
Li Hong put down his chopsticks and frowned unhappily.
"There's no problem. It's just that your Imperial Father and Empress Mother are too famous. No wonder that fellow would end up becoming feminine."
Xiao Wenshun grinned strangely, revealing an expression of sudden understanding.
After all, if the other party was Li Shimin, that legendary human succubus who was attracted to both men and women, then everything suddenly made sense.
However, although Xiao Wenshun teased endlessly, he still didn't dare directly mention his old man's name.
He was afraid that his father's omnipotent authority might somehow sense it and reward him with another beating.
"Brother Hong'er, tell Big Sister more about your family. Big Sister loves hearing these stories~"
Xiao Yufeng placed a chicken leg onto Li Hong's plate and urged him.
"Thank you, Big Sister!"
Li Hong was not shy around strangers.
After only a few sentences, he had already been coaxed by his older brothers and sisters into revealing all the family secrets.
The Xiao Clan members were left dumbfounded.
They had never expected the love story between Li Hong's parents to be so complicated and dramatic.
Li Hong, however, remained calm and composed like an adult, clearly already accustomed to these matters.
Still, the way he raised his head revealed just how proud he felt.
Xiao Yufeng continuously asked for more details, while Xiao Wenshun occasionally inserted teasing comments, causing everyone to burst into laughter.
The entire atmosphere was filled with joy and curiosity.
However, after the topic gradually came to an end, the first generation of the Xiao Clan discovered a problem.
Although Wu Meiniang's personality and manner of speaking were eighty percent similar to their old man, she was clearly not the real Xiao.
At the very least, their old man's personality and strength would never fear imperial authority, much less obey an emperor's decree and enter the palace to serve him.
More importantly, Brother Hong had mentioned that his Empress Mother was still pregnant with a younger sister.
That made it even more impossible.
Although their old man usually behaved casually, it was impossible for him to be pregnant and still go head-to-head against Radahn.
Given how much Xiao valued family, if he were truly pregnant, he would absolutely never allow Radahn to touch him.
Even if Radahn would not harm the child, Xiao still would not permit such a thing.
"Most likely, it's a counterpart from another world that our old man assimilated, just like the Gloam-Eyed Queen of this world. That's an old monster who died tens of thousands of years ago. It definitely wasn't originally our old man!"
Xiao Wenhong quickly deduced the truth and voiced his conclusion.
"Exactly. But our old man probably didn't completely assimilate Wu Zetian's identity, so he allowed Wu Zetian to occupy a secondary head. That's why our old man said that the Gloam-Eyed Queen is another one of his bodies!"
Xiao Wenhong's explanation immediately caused everyone to understand.
"I never expected our multiple heads could be used like this!"
Those Xiao Clan members who possessed multiple heads immediately had their eyes light up as they began considering how to take advantage of their own unique abilities.
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