The Smith Family actually had considerable reserves.
Aside from their large stockpile of firearms, they also kept more than ten demons.
With that strength, they could likewise have crushed and slaughtered the Li Family before Li Xia strengthened them.
But there were not that many ifs in this world.
Several months earlier, thanks to Li Xia, the Li Family had successfully formed contracts with the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit and the little ghost girl Mayu.
Ghosts, especially the souls of children, originally could not remain in the world of the living for long; the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit, however, had broken that restriction. It could also seek out ill-natured child ghosts lingering in the Mortal World because of their obsessions.
To prevent these little ghosts, who had been brats while alive, from wreaking havoc whenever they were unhappy (cultivators would otherwise have to destroy such evil spirits or wait for Hell to summon them), and to properly guide this power into becoming part of the family's reserves, the Li Family's clan elders had very pragmatically subdued these little evil spirits.
Over several months, their ranks had rapidly expanded.
There was no helping it. The Modern Era World lacked people least of all.
In the Sengoku Era, productivity had limited the population.
But in modern times, productivity had been unleashed, and the population had exploded.
Thus, people were the last thing in short supply.
After several months of searching far and wide, the number of little ghosts sheltered by the Li Family had gradually approached a hundred.
That was also the maximum number of little ghosts a single Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit could soothe at once.
Several cultivators working together could easily handle a single little ghost.
But if dozens, or nearly a hundred, little ghosts like Mayu formed a fighting force, the telekinetic