Since the chaos in Tongling County, when Hou Yuxiao first witnessed the organized Mansion Army of the Rakshasa Holy Sect in battle, he understood that a martial artist's army was truly the core force of any power. After these two years in Hedong, he had seen even more clearly that no matter how strong an individual's martial power was, against thousands of martial artists united as an army, it was still useless.
In the end, this is the difference between the martial world and the divine halls!
The martial world is governed by the divine halls, and to all beings in the thirteen provinces of The World, the ten Holy Lands are the divine halls, while those smaller forces like transient lords across the river make up the martial world.