Over the next few days.
The members of the Li Family each chose more complete magical inheritances better suited to their fighting styles, or contracted the Shikigami most suitable for them.
The dozen or so ancestors each took command of anywhere from a few to over a dozen Soul Collectors.
The family head and several Clan Elders each contracted a swarm of bats with Hundred Demons Bats blood flowing through them. (Since they were all low-level minor monster bats, ordinary Contract Ritual Altars and Spirit Shrines sufficed; there was no need for high-quality ones.)
The three Clan Elders who had first invested in Li Xia each had the good fortune to contract a high-level demon sealed inside Mount Hakurei.
There were actually stronger demons on the threshold of becoming great demons, too. Unfortunately, the Clan Elders lacked the cultivation to control them.
The other Clan Elders also gained something.
As a result, the materials recently collected at considerable expense from cultivation families around the world and the open market to build superior Contract Ritual Altars and Spirit Shrines were almost entirely exhausted again.
But because of this, the overall strength of the Li Family's leadership swelled dramatically, increasing many times over.
Meanwhile.
Li Xia had not been idle either.
He paid another visit to the resting places of the Li Family's forebears.
Based on the family records, he selected three great-grandfathers whose cultivation had been unremarkable, leading them to switch entirely to the warrior path, commonly known as body cultivation. Then, using the same method he had used to modify Bankotsu, he fashioned enhanced Clay Figures with portions of Ryūkotsusei's bones and artificial diamond as additives.
Since there was no need this time to consider the conductivity of demon power or magical power, only to provide hard, powerful bodies, he