Luckily the Silver Wolves were only in the early stages of body refining, so they didn't put up much of a challenge.
Whereas the rest were quickly subdued under Dantes army's iron fist. Especially Ash. With no other spirit tempering cultivator in the entire army he was like a lion in a flock of sheep.
And with another boring process all were finally converted into Puppets.
But what made Dante unprecedently happy was that there were two Rank 6 Physique LipFreeds and one Rank 5 physique LipFreed!
Naturally Dante made the two rank 6 into bloodline families with the same reward as Marcus.
But for Rank 5, it was actually the peak of spirit tempering that Dante was Fighting!
For the reward Dante provided him with 1000 LipFried Mortal Women and 20 Body Refining women as concubines.
And for his personal defence Dante provided him with 20 bone refining cultivators and 1 peak bone refining cultivator who originally came from the crystal.
As for the rest that came from the crystal, there were once again a large amount of body refining cultivators and 2,000 silver wolves.
This easily raised Dantes' soldiers up to over 30,000 and hundreds of bone refining cultivators. All led by two spirit tempering warriors.
By the time the dust settled there were now 5 Bloodline families, and the competition was already brewing.
Each patriarch started to recruit the soldiers in the army to their own camps. Of course they would be completely loyal to Dante when the need arises but during daily scuffles they will work for their joined force.
The city was continuing to take shape, the mortal women who weren't awarded to certain families were prohibited from matching up with other males in the city.
Dante needed to cultivate powerful bloodlines, not to continue reproducing rubbish.
Of course this was only a short term measure. In the future Dante would only award talented people to the Bloodline families.
As for the rest they will naturally be married out to mediocre or slightly talented people in order to create a large population.
But Dante decided he will slowly reduce his control over the people in the world. As for the women and men born from various families, they can be married wherever they want.
Soon he hopes that each bloodline family will have their own mage, allowing them to acquire their own slaves and to occupy their own tribes to increase the power of their family.
The men can be trained into their private armies or bodyguards or given to their talented female disciples. While the woman can do the exact same, they can even be maids for whatever Dante cares.
He wants to make these planes into complete autonomy, after all any offspring will have complete loyalty to Dante.
And Dante wanted to start right now. He immediately found five talented LipFreeds among the thousands and taught them the puppet technique.
Each was at the peak of the Bone Refining Realm and were able to transform any below it.
There were still hundreds of tribes spread out within hundreds of miles of the city. But they were mostly weaker ones.
So Dante gave the option to the bloodline families to use their own forces to take them down.
The only prerequisite was that Dante would receive the gold obtained from the tribes.
Any tribe member obtained from the camp itself or from the crystal will naturally be integrated into their own bloodline family.
After all, which family doesn't have subsidiary forces?
So that's what Dante was giving them the opportunity to create, even if they found Rank 6 Physiques among the tribes they could recruit them for themselves.
This order led to a flurry of action among the five families. Especially the current number one family under the control of Lucas the peak spirit tempering warrior.
He had previously been the patriarch in charge of the LipFreeds among the head-sized crystal, so naturally a majority of them joined his family, increasing his soldiers to the most among all the bloodline families.
Lucas immediately mobilised all of his available troops and divided them between hundreds of tribes.
And the other families were quick to follow suit attacking dozens of tribes at the same time.
Dante also realised that this is the true point of the test. The antique who built this test wanted someone who was able to manipulate an army.
The reason? Dante didn't know but he did know that if he wanted to win the inheritance he needed to start promoting independence among his puppets.
Even the golden skinned puppets were being told to start reproducing among their families. After all, there is a chance to develop intelligence after a reasonably long time.
Another ten days passed quickly and the end of the month was nearing. But Dante was constantly receiving good news from the five bloodline families.
Each was occupying dozens of tribes a day ranging from small to large. The main city itself was constantly expanding and so were the bloodline families.
Each compound is now the size of a dozen football pitches, with divisions being made. The patriarchs had already built separate palaces out of heavenly metals for their future children and their concubines.
Over time these have also increased. Lucas has already got close to ten thousand women in his palace alone.
If placed on earth this is unimaginable, but on this continent it was considered to still be low numbers.
As for the number of puppets in the city. That had long since passed the half a million mark out doing the number of slaves Dante had bought.
And combined with various herbs that were found on adventures, many warriors have increased their cultivation.
Unfortunately there was something blocking Dante from receiving the feedback from the slaves, instead of being wasted it pierced back through the golden ropes and headed towards the slaves within Dantes Pendant.
Dante could clearly tell that every mortal he had previously bought was promoted to the peak of Body refining and many showed no signs of stopping.
Now that the population had increased, Dante removed his control over who mortal women could marry, so the city went through a quick period of mass pregnancies when mortals and cultivators matched up.
As for the mortal men? Well they were just unlucky.
Dante could already predict that next month the population involving all the children would most likely pass the million mark.
But the expansion wasn't stopping here. Dante had just received news that his bloodline families have started seeing other human movements.
Naturally he told them to follow and finally found 4 neighbouring castles. They were still in the same state they were when the test had started, however you could clearly see guards uniformly patrolling the walls.
But this is to be expected, after all it takes time to gain loyalty with the promise of items. Only a few unique inheritors might be at the stage where they can start to develop.
So Dante quickly set out a plan, he wanted to occupy these four castles, and build his city connecting them all.