Hou took up residence where he previously lived, the layout fresh in his mind when he merged with his old self.
"I'll let you think things out yourself, I'll be out for a bit"
With that said, Hou flew out of his house landing on a mountaintop. Hou intentionally stopped the sun, without his control the sun would be out all night long.
He watched as the sun shrunk, the light it let out slowly becoming less and less until it blipped out of existence.
Hou sat on a mountaintop, feeling the grass under his fingertips. He took a deep breath, looking at the peace he created.
In the day since he built up the environment around the newly created Hou sect, there were already people taking advantage of the new crops.
Hou looked using spirit wills, looking hundreds of feet down in immense detail, he could see people having set up farms, diverting a river from a mountain to a rice paddy.
'I'll need to sort this out, we should set up different sections of land for farming and separate them between willing workers'
Creating vibrations, Hou activated scrying, seeing the beautiful arrangement of lights, all the different laws.
Hou deactivated his sight and starting generating wills, saturating his body with them.
"Master, Araxis. Are you both up? I've saturated some wills to talk"
"Yes I'm up"
"And I too"
"I did it, I really did. Thank you, both of you, without your help I wouldn't be where I am. But it's not over yet, what do I need to do next?"
"Well the next step is fighting that miasma cultivator. And while I have some methods, I feel Araxis might also have something to add" Yue gave his opinion.
"Yes exactly, I agree with Yue. You need to fight that cultivator but that's only the start. As Yue insinuated, I could probably use magic to do something but let's hear his option first"
"Well my option is to refine all the qi here and see what he does. If he descend, we fight him. And since we refined his qi he should have shaker reserves than us. With the blood formation I gave you, Hou, you can refine it quite simply."
"That seems like an adequate thing to do, even if he doesn't descend, you'll get more qi. My idea is to lock onto the cultivator with his qi signature then use the gateway to teleport to him." Araxis agreed with Yue regardless if it works.
Hou nodded and took in the suggestions.
"Okay, then it's final, I'll take in all the qi when I'm ready, for now the Hou sect will train. I'll distribute the powers between me, Hafar and Armen. And if you have anything you want to teach Hamar, Araxis, give me the memory packet."
"Will do, I'll just send him a sword movement formation, he's talented enough to figure out what he needs to do." Araxis says to Hou just as the wills saturating his body were used up.
Once again Hou was left alone as Yue and Araxis fell asleep. Hou flew down to Hamar who was still training, ever since he became a knight with aura he could stay awake throughout the night and see perfectly.
"Hey Hamar, take this!" Hou shot out the memory packet and it penetrated Hamar's forehead.
The memory packet unfolded, a sword formation forming in his memories as if he's done it thousands of times.
"Can I test it out right now?"
"Sure go ahead, I'll make sure it's contained"
How used his spirit will, creating a barrier around the training grounds. Hamar pulled out his sword and started, he held his sword with two hands and concentrated.
Aura started to leak out of Hamar and form into a series of blades made entirely of aura. They became numerous and were around Hamar in a circle, it's circumference slowly growing as more swords were added.
Then Hamar started the movement, the swords all started moving in a synchronised motion they all slashed, disappearing. They left the material world entering the astral realm. There they all shot out into different directions, forming a cage of sword laws.
Then Hamar opened his eyes, now Hamar slashed, realising an aura blade in the air. Then he did it again but this time it came from a different location, and again and again.
Hamar could create larger aura blade from anywhere within the formation, then he closed his eyes again. The swords re-materialised and Hamar did something original.
The wind started to turn a vortex around Hamar, even the QI and mana and even laws were being pulled!
Hamar let go of his sword, the compressed qi,aura,laws,wind all exploding outward bypassing Hou's barrier and creating a large crater, even Hou had to use a gateway to teleport away.
Hamar was floating in the middle of the crater until he fell.
Hou teleported back, seeing whether Hamar was okay.
"Are you okay, what happened, what was that?!"
Hamar struggled as he rose up, deep wounds over his body. Hou opened a gateway to Armen as soon as he saw the injuries.
Armen was relaxing with his family when he saw space warp around him, he saw Hou and Hamar in a crater with Hamar being injured.
Instantly, Armen jumped out of his chair into the gateway, activating all of his healing abilities. Various false spirit wills created miraculous effects. Healing light, fogs and threads formed, causing Hamar to be enclosed in a light.
When Hamar was free, he was as good as new, except his clothes which were tattered. Hamar looked at his clothes and activated another false spirit will they had gained, regenerating his clothes.
"I'm fine, thank you Armen. I was too reckless, I gained an inspiration after using that sword technique. To explain what it did was cut everything's connections around me, but then everything went towards the nearest point of connection, me, and I lost control. But if I can improve this technique, I feel it could become extremely useful, it cut the qi. That means abilities can't activate!"