Chapter 83: Giving Birth! Pregnancy +10! Lottery! 

Outside the delivery room.

Lu Changsheng held his son, Lu Quanzhen, and waited outside with several concubines.

Lu Quanzhen was his and Qu Zhenzhen’s first child, with an eighth-grade Spirit Root.

“Wow!”

Before long, a clear cry sounded from the delivery room, lifting Lu Changsheng’s spirits.

However, at this moment, he didn’t feel anything unusual.

Immediately, Lu Changsheng knew.

The child Qu Zhenzhen gave birth to doesn’t have a Spirit Root.

After waiting for so long, at this moment, knowing that the child doesn’t have a Spirit Root, it’s impossible for him not to feel disappointed.

But in a moment, Lu Changsheng felt relieved.

Even if both husband and wife have Spirit Roots, the probability of their child having one is only one or two in ten.

Qu Zhenzhen’s first child and the child born to Lu Miaoyun last month both had Spirit Roots, which was already considered fortunate.

How could one expect every child to have a Spirit Root?

Lu Changsheng was very open-minded about this. Holding Lu Quanzhen he walked into the delivery room.

The midwife immediately handed him a swaddled baby, carefully passing it to Lu Changsheng, with a smile on her face, “Congratulations, young master, it’s a girl.”

“Good, thank you for your hard work.”

Lu Changsheng smiled and took the swaddled baby, and looked at her.

Qu Zhenzhen’s previous child was a boy, and now they have a girl, so they have both a son and a daughter.

“Quanzhen, this is your little sister.”

Lu Changsheng looked at the newborn and said to Lu Quanzhen.

“Mua mua.”

Lu Quanzhen was already a year and a half old, and was able to say some simple words.

Looking curiously at his newborn sister, he babbled.

Lu Changsheng went to the bedside, put down Lu Quanzhen, and held Qu Zhenzhen’s small hand tenderly, “Zhenzhen, you’ve worked hard.”

He had always cherished this girl who he had rescued halfway.

On one hand, she was indeed obedient, sensible, and lovable.

On the other hand, Qu Zhenzhen had a Spirit Root, and when he brought her back to Qingzhu Mountain, he had utilitarian motives.

Moreover, her unfortunate background, lonely and destitute, with only him to rely on, made him love her even more.

“Husband.”

Qu Zhenzhen smiled and called out to Lu Changsheng, then tried to sit up to look at the child.

“Look, how cute she is. When she grows up, she’ll definitely be as cute as you, Zhenzhen.”

Lu Changsheng smiled and immediately handed the child to her to see.

“Quanzhen, you must take good care of your sister in the future and protect her, understand?”

Qu Zhenzhen smiled again, then looked at her son, Lu Quanzhen, who was still puzzled beside her, and said gently.

Seeing Qu Zhenzhen’s expression, Lu Changsheng knew she was thinking of her own childhood, thinking of her brother, Qu Changge.

He hadn’t told Qu Zhenzhen about Qu Changge’s cultivation of demonic arts.

He just said to her that they were still searching, and there was no news.

Now that over two years have passed, and there’s still no news of my brother. Qu Zhenzhen gradually realizes that the situation with her brother was probably dire.

Immediately, Lu Changsheng held Qu Zhenzhen’s hand and gently comforted her, “With me here, I’ll take care of you all and protect you all.”

In this world, wives and children are also his soft spot and one of his motivations to strive.

In his view, if he can’t even protect his wives and children, then cultivating immortality would be in vain.

“Husband, have you thought of a name for this child?”

Upon hearing this Qu Zhenzhen revealed a sweet smile on her delicate face.

“Let’s call her Yuzhen.”

Lu Changsheng pondered for a moment and gave the little girl in his arms a name. 

“Quanzhen, Yuzhen.”

When Qu Zhenzhen heard the name, she muttered silently, and then said softly to the little girl: “Yuzhen, Lu Yuzhen.” 

The baby in her arms also babbled, as if responding.

Seeing this scene, Lu Changsheng and Qu Zhenzhen couldn’t help but smile at each other.

Immediately, the couple talked for a while, and Lu Changsheng asked Qu Zhenzhen to have a good rest and took the child out of the room. 

On a solemn, and eerie high platform, the dark wind howled. 

Around the high platform, there are tall metal flagpoles, and the black flags were embroidered with different forms of demon patterns. 

Some with three heads and six arms, some with ferocious faces, some covered in eyes, some with demon heads on human bodies with wings, and some with no heads and their faces on their chests.

These diverse and lifelike patterns give people a chilling feeling, as if being watched by demons.

In the center of the high platform, a young man in his twenties with a stern face and white hair sat cross-legged. Around him were inscriptions of many eerie patterns and runes.

At this moment, within these runic patterns, dark red blood lines flowed, constantly converging towards the young man with white hair at the center.

The white-haired young man was filled with pain, his fists clenched, veins bulging, blood vessels pulsating, and cold sweat dripping from his body.

But the young man with white hair just clenched his teeth tightly and endured it silently.

After who knows how long, the demon patterns on the flags around the high platform seem to come alive.

Suddenly, crimson eyes open, looking at the young man with white hair, causing the entire high platform to be enveloped in a lot of blood-colored light.

Under this blood-colored light, the young man with white hair groaned suddenly.

Blood flowed from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, veins and blood vessels bulged from his body like earthworms, almost bursting.

“Boom!”

At this moment, the young man with white hair, covered in blood, suddenly bursts out a thin membrane as crimson as blood.

This thin membrane flows slowly on the surface of his body like undried blood, slowly turning into a strange blood-colored armor.

Causing dark red demonic patterns to appear on the young man’s face and skin.

“Not bad, in less than a year’s time, you’ve cultivated the Demonic Art.”

Just then, a young man dressed in a black robe, exceptionally handsome, walked out of the void.

He looked at the young man with white hair and showed a satisfied smile.

Then, with a wave of his hand, he disappeared from the high platform with the young man with white hair.

Four days after Qu Zhenzhen gave birth, Lu Miaoge also returned to Qingzhu Mountain.

And she made an appointment with Lu Changsheng to return to Jiulong Market three days later.

During these days, Lu Changsheng discussed with his wives and concubines, and ultimately decided to let them stay at Qingzhu Mountain.

It’s not only inconvenient to come and go.

There are also so many children at home who need care, and it’s really hard to leave.

During this month at home, Lu Changsheng did not slack off. Through his efforts, he got two of his wives pregnant.

Counting these two children, he now has thirty-four children.

But thinking about his twenty-ninth and thirtieth children, who are still about three months away from being born, Lu Changsheng couldn’t help but sigh.

He felt that he had been a bit negligent during that time, to have such a long gap.

Three days later.

Lu Changsheng rode a steel-feathered eagle and set off for Jiulong Market with Lu Miaoge.

Before leaving, the fourth elder gave him three talismans for protection.

Two Lightning Inducing Talismans and one Lightning Flash Talisman.

Because Lu Changsheng had previously told the fourth elder that he used these two talismans when he encountered rogue cultivators.

Although Lu Changsheng now had nine high-grade talismans in his storage bag.

But he naturally accepted the kind intentions of the fourth elder with joy and gratitude.

The two of them traveled to Jiulong Market smoothly without any unexpected situations.

This made Lu Changsheng couldn’t help but ask Lu Miaoge if she had encountered any accidents or rogue cultivators during her travels to and from Jiulong Market over the years.

Lu Miaoge said that she had encountered rogue cultivators only once in three years.

Upon hearing this, Lu Changsheng couldn’t help but shake his head, wondering if he was just unlucky or looked like an easy target.

After returning to their residence, Lu Changsheng learned from Xiao Qing that the family next door on the left had moved out about half a month after he returned to Qingzhu Mountain.

This made Lu Changsheng couldn’t help but secretly wonder if the attack he suffered was related to this neighbor.

After all, according to the previous speculation of the lure demon incense, the two rogue cultivators who intercepted him in Jiulong Market must have accomplices.

And when he visited this neighbor before, he felt a murderous aura from the other party, making it difficult to approach.

Moreover, the fact that the neighbor moved out half a month after he left was too much of a coincidence.

However, whether the neighbor was related or not, Lu Changsheng couldn’t be sure, so he just became a bit more cautious.

Later, Lu Changsheng carefully sold off some of the stolen goods through disguises.

He kept the medium-grade talisman shield and a flying talisman for himself, and sold all the other seven low-grade talismans, four medium-grade talismans, and one flying talisman.

These talismans were sold for a total of nine hundred and eight spirit stones.

The robes and shoes were somewhat damaged, and their value was greatly reduced. Plus, they were sold to a recycling shop, so the price was low.

Otherwise, if he had set up a stall to sell them himself, he could have earned dozens more spirit stones.

As for the miscellaneous items such as pills and talismans from the two rogue cultivators, it was not easy to recover.

Lu Changsheng just used what he could use himself and left the rest.

Previously, he had harvested three hundred and sixty-two spirit stones from the two rogue cultivators.

With a shield artifact and a flying artifact in hand, as well as earning nine hundred and eight spirit stones, Lu Changsheng was extremely satisfied with this windfall.

He didn’t find the two robbers so detestable anymore.

While selling the artifacts, he also casually sold more than a hundred low-grade talismans.

He made a profit of two hundred and eleven spirit stones.

Looking at the huge sum of spirit stones on him, Lu Changsheng directly spent a large sum, spending six hundred and thirty-four spirit stones to purchase a high-grade armor artifact.

This armor artifact had seven major effects: adjustable size, spell immunity, invisibility, spring-like effect, dust resistance, evil resistance, and protection.

What Lu Changsheng liked most were naturally the spell immunity and protection effects.

This spell immunity was naturally not true immunity but could basically ignore most spells from the early stages of Qi Refining.

For mid-stage Qi Refining spells, it could also reduce and mitigate damage.

As for the protection effect, there was no need for further explanation.

In the face of danger, it could passively trigger a protection spell that could withstand a blow from a Qi Refining Stage Nine cultivator.

It was precisely for these two effects that Lu Changsheng was willing to spend so many spirit stones to purchase this artifact.

After that, he spent two hundred and nineteen spirit stones to buy a medium-grade belt artifact.

This belt artifact mainly had two effects: storage and protection.

What Lu Changsheng mainly valued was the protection.

After all, the previous wave of ambushes made Lu Changsheng have a special liking for this kind of magic weapon with self-defense. 

With talismans and treasures on him, his output was already maximized, so now all he needed was good armor.

After purchasing two magic weapons, Lu Changsheng had to take precautions against the robbers’ accomplices. 

He spent another five hundred spirit stones to purchase a set of formation tools and set them up in his own yard.

This was a set of first-order medium-grade formations, a small five-element formation, with the effects of attack, defense, and trapping enemies all in one.

It was no problem dealing with mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

It also had some effect against late-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

After buying things, Lu Changsheng couldn’t help but shake his head and sigh. He was indeed someone who used as many spirit stones as he had.

He simply couldn’t save spirit stones.

But this was also the situation for most cultivators.

Most cultivators had the mentality of “stockpile resources and I’ll stockpile weapons; your wealth is my granary” mentality.

If you have spirit stones but don’t use them to improve your strength, you may end up giving them away to others, so not many people will save money and resources. 

In the days that followed, Lu Changsheng’s daily routine was cultivation, making talismans, going to work, and coming home to make babies.

After nearly half a month of effort, Guan Xin, who was the focus of Lu Changsheng’s attention and had a Spirit Root, successfully became pregnant.

After Guan Xin became pregnant, Lu Changsheng was actually quite casual about the remaining nine maids.

Whether they got pregnant or not didn’t matter to him.

But as long as such things happened once or twice when there was nothing else going on, getting pregnant was just a matter of time.

A month later, Lu Changsheng’s maids, Night Lotus and Blue Orchid, became pregnant.

“Haitang and Baihe were arranged by me to be housekeepers, so they have chores to do usually, so I will try not to get them pregnant.”

“But at this rate, with only five maids left, won’t it be that within two or three months, most of them will also get pregnant?”

“By then, do I have to buy another batch of maids? What am I becoming? A pig breeder?”

Lu Changsheng sighed deeply.

Deep down, he still felt a bit uneasy about this, carrying some psychological burden.

He felt that he was born purely for the sake of giving birth, without any emotional lubrication, and seemed too much like a stud, which was not good. 

“No, the women in the White Jade Tower are already unfortunate souls. What I’m doing is to rescue them from suffering, it’s like building a seven-tier pagoda!”

“And besides, I’m doing this for cultivation, for immortality, for the Dao. So whether it’s breeding or not, even if others don’t understand, as long as I have a clear conscience, it’s fine!”

Lu Changsheng took a deep breath, his eyes showing determination towards cultivation.

Another month passed.

The maids Hongmian, Zimei, and Xueshao became pregnant.

Lu Changsheng planned that when the remaining two maids got pregnant, he would go to the White Jade Tower again.

By then, he would have saved up some spare money.

He wanted to see if there were any unfortunate souls with Spirit Roots.

One day, when Lu Changsheng came to the spiritual talisman shop, Lu Miaoge said to him, “Changsheng, by now you’re familiar with the shop here, so you can handle it by yourself.”

“I’m planning to stay in the Eastern District after this month ends and won’t come here often.”

“If you have anything, you can send a message or come over to find me.”

Lu Miaoge said this.

She had mentioned this to Lu Changsheng before, that once he got familiar and adapted, she wouldn’t come over.

“Alright, Sister Miaoge, you can rest assured, I’ll take care of the shop.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Changsheng nodded.

He had been in the spiritual talisman shop for more than half a year.

During this half year, he had completely understood and mastered the situation of the spiritual talisman shop.

There were no problems managing it.

Moreover, in the first two months, Lu Miaoge had completely delegated authority and didn’t interfere at all.

She only came here to help Lu Changsheng if he had any questions.

So last month, Lu Changsheng also found a partner.

He directly bought more than 100 low-grade talismans and 30 medium-grade talismans from the store every month. 

As for the price, Lu Changsheng didn’t take advantage of him and gave a discount of thirty percent.

This was mainly to save the trouble and risk of going out to sell them frequently.

As for high-grade talismans and top-grade talismans, Lu Changsheng hadn’t put them up for sale in the shop yet.

He planned to consider putting a few high-grade talismans in the shop for sale after a while.

Two days later.

The shopkeeper Zhang Shan handed over the goods and the list to Lu Changsheng for inspection.

Now without Lu Miaoge, Lu Changsheng spent a full three days inspecting all the goods.

“It feels like relying solely on me to inspect is really consuming too much time and energy.”

Lu Changsheng took a deep breath, feeling a bit dizzy. When Lu Miaoge was around before, it was okay, working together made things easier.

But now, being alone here to inspect the quality of goods, it’s just too tedious and too annoying.

“Gao He is also a medium-grade talisman, what if I ask him to come over and help every month?”

Suddenly, Lu Changsheng remembered his neighbor, Gao He.

Normally, Gao He would come over to chat with him when he had nothing to do, inviting him over for tea.

After so long, Lu Changsheng felt that Gao He was a pretty decent person.

So he thought, why not ask Gao He to come over and help out for a few days every month.

Of course, he wouldn’t let Gao He work for nothing, he could consider it as asking if Gao He would like to earn some extra money.

“Tonight, after I get back home, I’ll go ask Gao He.”

Lu Changsheng made up his mind and planned to ask later.

There’s nothing to be embarrassed about in doing such a thing.

Night fell.

Lu Changsheng returned home, had dinner, did some exercise, then knocked on the door of Gao He’s house next door.

Gao He was teaching his daughter Gao Xiaoya how to make talismans. His usually kind and wealthy face was a little distorted at this moment. 

“Uncle Lu!”

“Dad, Uncle Lu is here, you guys talk, I’ll go make tea for you!”

Gao Xiaoya’s eyes lit up when she saw Lu Changsheng, and she immediately showed a look of relief and got up to make tea. 

She had no interest in making talismans at all, nor did she have any talent for it.

But Gao He wanted his daughter to master this skill, even if she had no talent, he was willing to spend money on it.

“Brother Lu, is there something you need?”

Gao He could only smile helplessly at his daughter’s behavior and asked aloud.

Usually, it was he who invited Lu Changsheng, and Lu Changsheng rarely took the initiative to come over and chat with him.

So when he saw Lu Changsheng coming over, he guessed there must be something going on.

“It’s nothing major.”

Lu Changsheng immediately explained his business and offered to pay ten spirit stones for a day’s work.

For a medium-grade talisman maker, this price was already quite good.

“Since Brother Lu trusts me, I’m more than willing to help out with this kind of thing.”

Gao He patted his chest at the words and smiled warmly.

“Alright, I’ll trouble Brother Gao when the time comes.”

After Lu Changsheng finished speaking, he chatted with Gao He for a while before preparing to leave.

Gao Xiaoya, who had brewed the tea, saw Lu Changsheng was about to leave.

She immediately called out, “Uncle Lu, why don’t you stay for a while longer, have a cup of tea before you go?”

“No, I have something else to do.”

Lu Changsheng waved his hand and left.

He wasn’t interested in getting involved in the affairs between father and daughter.

Just as Lu Changsheng stepped out the door, he heard Gao Xiaoya screaming and shouting, prompting him to shake his head and smile wryly.

In the blink of an eye, another half month had passed.

The remaining two maids, Qinghe and Shuixian, were also pregnant.

Haitang and Baihe, the other two maids, were assigned daily tasks by Lu Changsheng.

The other seven maids, within a little over four months, were all pregnant.

This was despite Lu Changsheng not returning to Qingzhu Mountain for over a month.

Just as Lu Changsheng was planning to visit White Jade Tower one day, a system notification suddenly rang in his mind.

 【Congratulations to the host for reaching a total of thirty offspring, gaining one chance to draw a prize!】