Chapter 38: The Second Child with Spirit Root!

Time flies by like a flash, and half a year has passed in the blink of an eye. 

In those six months, Lu Changsheng had given birth to fifteen or sixteen children. 

None of them had Spirit Root, which made Lu Changsheng even more eager for the child in Qu Zhenzhen’s womb.

At the same time, thanks to Lu Changsheng’s efforts in the past six months, he had impregnated five more concubines.

Except for Qu Zhenzhen, who was still pregnant with her first child, all of his other three wives and six concubines were already pregnant with their second child.

Even Lu Zier and Lu Qing’er, the two sisters, had already begun their third pregnancies.

One day, after Lu Changsheng finished his daily cultivation, he went to the study to start making talismans.

These two tasks had become his daily routine.

With his cultivation at the third level of Qi Refinement, making mid-level talismans was no longer a challenge for Lu Changsheng.

He could paint them easily.

As for the high-level talismans, due to the limitations of his spiritual strength and mental energy, as well as the quality of the brush, ink, and paper, they posed some difficulties.

He could only risk failure and forcibly create some relatively simple high-grade talismans.

Therefore, only a small portion of the advanced talisman paper and ink he bought from Niutou Mountain was used to make talismans for emergencies.

He planned to wait until his cultivation progressed further, buy a good brush, and then make more talismans.

After all, there was no way to sell the talismans he was making now, so he was just making them for his own use in case of emergencies.

After making two mid-level talismans, Lu Changsheng put down his brush and prepared to relax with his wives and concubines.

As he was leaving the study, a servant handed him a letter.

It was a letter from Hong Yi.

The letter mainly talked about catching up on old times and mentioned that the writer had been doing well lately. His father, Marquis Ru Yi, had also entrusted him with some family affairs. Then he inquired about Lu Changsheng’s current situation.

This was not the first letter Lu Changsheng had received from Hong Yi. 

It was the third letter he had received since returning to Qingzhu Mountain, and Lu Changsheng naturally understood why Hong Yi was writing to him.

“Now I have some surplus talismans to sell. Even if the Lu family finds out, they won’t blame me.” 

Lu Changsheng thought to himself.

The reason he had hesitated to sell talismans to Hong Yi before was simple. 

He was afraid that his private dealings with Hong Yi would be discovered by the Lu family. 

If the Lu Family found out and saw that he had a lot of talismans to sell, it wouldn’t be good.

But after all this time, with over a year of experience as a skilled talisman master, it was normal for him to have some surplus talismans to sell. 

Immediately, he replied in the letter that he did have some talismans for sale, and he could sell them if he needed them.  

He also inquired about the terms of the transaction. 

Naturally, It was impossible for him to leave Qingzhu Mountain just to sell the talisman so he left it up to Hong Yi to figure out how to proceed.

After finishing the letter, Lu Changsheng handed it to a servant to be sent to the post office. 

The Lu family had a station for sending letters to the secular world, but it was relatively slow. It would probably take a month or more for a letter to reach Hong Yi. 

If there were urgent matters, they would have to use messenger talismans.

Afterwards, Lu Changsheng went to the backyard to accompany his wives and children. 

This had become his daily routine. 

Seeing Qu Zhenzhen’s swollen belly, Lu Changsheng also remembered her brother’s situation.

He went to Qingzhu Mountain Manor to ask Li Feiyu if there was any news about Qu Zhenzhen’s brother, Qu Changge, from the Crimson Whale Gang. 

However, Li Feiyu said that they still hadn’t received any relevant information about Qu Changge from the Crimson Whale Gang. 

It had been over half a year, and there was still no news about Qu Zhenzhen’s brother, making Lu Changsheng even wonder if something unfortunate had happened to his brother-in-law.

After all, as Qu Zhenzhen said, her brother was just an ordinary scholar.

The journey to the capital for the imperial examination was thousands of miles long, and it was not out of the question that they might encounter danger along the way.

Lu Changsheng planned to wait for some time, and if there was still no news, he would ask Hong Yi to help him investigate.

After all, the Crimson Whale Gang was just a gang, and once they left Tianshui Prefecture, their influence was limited.

At the junction of Jiang Country Qinzhou and Jizhou, there is a cliff with steep mountains and jagged rocks. 

The cliffs were surrounded by thick fog, making it difficult to see the other side. The valley between the cliffs, shrouded in fog, seemed to be bottomless, causing anxiety to those who approached.

At that moment, in the seemingly endless and deep valley:

*Whoosh…*

*Woo…*

A gray mist enveloped the area, and eerie winds howled, resembling the cries of ghosts and wolves.

In the middle of the valley was a blood-red lake about ten meters wide.

There were piles of white bones around the lake, sending chills down one’s spine, and the blood-red lake itself was even more terrifying.

The bloodwater was dark and sinister, exuding an indescribable evil aura and bubbling with blood bubbles.

Each bursting bubble was accompanied by a faint and eerie howl.

In the middle of this lake of blood was a cocoon as thin as a cicada’s wing, emitting a crystal-like blood-red light.

The cocoon undulated in the blood lake as if it were breathing, emitting a blood-red light that was both captivating and eerie.

If one looked closely, one could vaguely see a man wrapped in the cocoon.

At that moment, the man seemed to be about to open his eyes, but the next moment, a blood-red lotus flower appeared on his forehead, causing his eyes to close tightly as he fell into a deep slumber.

Three months later…

“Peak of the Third Level of Qi Refinement!”

“But to break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, who knows how much longer it will take…”

In the cultivation room, Lu Changsheng, who was sitting cross-legged, opened his eyes, exhaled lightly, and muttered to himself.

“It took me one year and four months to break through from Qi Refining Level Two to Qi Refining Level Three.”

Lu Changsheng had reached the peak of Qi Refining Level Three.

But this time, he could clearly feel that the breakthrough from Qi Refining Level Three to Qi Refining Level Four was different from before.

There was a bottleneck, a hurdle that couldn’t be overcome easily and required a lot of patience and hard work.

Lu Changsheng didn’t pay too much attention to it.

After all, with his mediocre aptitude, it was already quite remarkable that he was able to progress at this rate and reach the peak of the third level of Qi Refinement.

He had a clear understanding of his own position.

A late bloomer!

Things would get better as he had more and more children.

“Zhenzhen should give birth soon.”

Lu Changsheng stood up, patted his dust-free robe, and walked out of the practice room

Eleven days later, Qu Zhenzhen gave birth.

At the moment the baby was born, Lu Changsheng immediately felt a mysterious sensation outside the delivery room.

It was the palpitation of a Spirit Root.

He knew that his child had a Spirit Root.

This made Lu Changsheng very excited.

He felt that his anticipation over the past half year had not been in vain.

“It seems that I still have to have children with women who possess Spirit Roots.”

“Otherwise, if I only have one Spirit Root, the probability of the child inheriting it would be too low.”

“Before, when Little Seven had a Spirit Root, it was pure luck.”

Lu Changsheng took a deep breath, feeling very happy and excited.

Seeing Lu Changsheng’s attitude, some of his wives couldn’t help but feel a twinge of jealousy.

Despite their virtuous and gentle nature, they couldn’t help but feel that Lu Changsheng favored Qu Zhenzhen a bit.

Not only did he show more concern for Qu Zhenzhen on ordinary days, but now, with the birth of their children, he seemed much happier than before.

However, they also understood the reason.

Qu Zhenzhen had a Spirit Root and could cultivate immortality, and the children she had with Lu Changsheng would probably inherit Spirit Roots as well.

Naturally, this caused Lu Changsheng to show a little more favoritism.

“When Little Seven was born, the system gave a bonus.”

“If I have ten children with Spirit Roots, the system should give a bonus as well.”

Lu Changsheng didn’t notice his wives’ expressions as he was immersed in the joy of the child’s birth.

When Little Seven, Lu Xianzhi, was born, he received a reward for having his first child with a Spirit Root. This led him to speculate that the system would probably give rewards based on the number of Spirit Root children born.

Soon the midwife came out of the delivery room carrying the baby. 

It’s a boy.

Lu Changsheng walked into the delivery room with the baby in his arms and visited Qu Zhenzhen. 

Although Qu Zhenzhen was a cultivator, she became pregnant not long after she started practicing.  

As a result, she had not yet completed the process of refining qi in her body, and her body remained very weak.

Moreover, the early stages of qi cultivation don’t improve one’s physical condition very much.

Seeing the weak Qu Zhenzhen, Lu Changsheng put her to sleep, handed the child to the wet nurse, and went to the cultivation room to cultivate.

He couldn’t see the child’s Spirit Root, and he couldn’t clearly observe the changes in his own Spirit Root. 

Therefore, he could only judge the improvement of his Spirit Root and estimate the level of the child’s Spirit Root through this simple and straightforward method of cultivation.