Establish A Long-Lived Family From The Son-In-Law

Chapter 38: The Second Spirit Root Child!

Time flew by like a white steed, and in the blink of an eye, half a year had passed.

During this half year, Lu Changsheng's fifteenth and sixteenth children were born.

None of them had spiritual roots, which made Lu Changsheng even more hopeful for the child in Qu Zhenzhen's belly.

At the same time, thanks to Lu Changsheng's efforts in the past half year, he had impregnated five of his concubines.

Except for Qu Zhenzhen, who was still on her first pregnancy, his previous three wives and six concubines were all on their second pregnancies.

The two sisters, Lu Zier and Lu Qing'er, had already started their third pregnancies.

On this day, after completing his daily meditation and cultivation in the training room, Lu Changsheng went to the study to draw talismans.

These two activities had become his daily routine.

With his cultivation at the third level of Qi Refinement, middle-grade talismans posed no difficulty for Lu Changsheng.

He could easily draw them with a flick of his hand.

As for high-grade talismans, due to his limited spiritual power and the slightly inferior quality of his brush and ink, as well as the average quality of the talisman paper and ink, they presented some difficulties.

He could only risk failure and forcefully draw some relatively simple high-grade talismans.

Therefore, he had only used a small portion of the advanced talisman paper and ink he had purchased from Niutou Mountain as a precaution.

He planned to wait until his cultivation advanced further, buy a good brush, and then draw the talismans.

Anyway, there was no way he could sell the talismans he had drawn now, so it was enough for his own emergencies.

After drawing two middle-grade talismans, Lu Changsheng put down his brush and prepared to relax with his wives and concubines.

Just as he was about to leave the study, a servant handed him a letter.

It was a letter from Hong Yi.

In the letter, Hong Yi talked about some old things and mentioned that he had been performing well recently. His father, Hou Ruyi, had entrusted him with some family affairs.

He then inquired about Lu Changsheng's recent situation.

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

It was the third letter since he returned to Qingzhu Mountain, and Lu Changsheng naturally knew why Hong Yi was writing to him.

"Now I have some spare talismans to sell. Even if the Lu family finds out, they won't blame me," Lu Changsheng thought to himself.

He had been withholding the sale of talismans to Hong Yi for a simple reason.

He was worried that if news of his private transactions with Hong Yi regarding talismans got out, the Lu family would find out.

If the Lu family found out and saw that he had a large number of talismans for sale, it would not be good.

But after so long, he had already been a middle-grade talisman master for over a year. With the proficiency he showed in his daily life, it was normal for him to have some extra talismans to sell.

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

He also inquired about the method of the transaction.

Naturally, he couldn't leave Qingzhu Mountain just to sell a talisman, so he asked Hong Yi to figure it out.

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

There was a post station in the Lu family where letters could be sent to the secular world, but it was relatively slow.

It would probably take a month or even longer for a letter like this to reach Hong Yi.

If there was an urgent matter, he could only use communication talismans.

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

This had also become part of his daily routine.

Seeing Qu Zhenzhen's big belly, Lu Changsheng also thought of her brother.

He went to Qingzhu Mountain to inquire about Li Feiyu and the Red Whale Gang, whether there was any news about Qu Zhenzhen's brother, Qu Changge.

However, Li Feiyu said that there was still no news about Qu Changge from the Red Whale Gang.

It had been over half a year, and there was still no news about Qu Zhenzhen's brother, which made Lu Changsheng even think that something might have happened to his cheap eldest uncle.

After all, according to what Qu Zhenzhen said, her brother was just an ordinary scholar.

The journey to the capital for the imperial examination was a journey of thousands of miles. If he encountered any danger on the way, it was not impossible for him to be lost.

Lu Changsheng planned that if there was still no news after a while, he would ask Hong Yi to help investigate.

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

Meanwhile, at the border between Jiangguo's Qingzhou and Jizhou, there was a steep and rugged cliff.

The cliff was surrounded by dense mist, making it difficult to see the other side. The valley between the cliffs, shrouded in mist, was so deep that one couldn't see the bottom, causing a sense of unease when one approached.

At this moment, in the boundless and bottomless valley.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—"

"Woo, woo, woo—"

Grey mist filled the air, and the howling wind sounded like ghosts and wolves.

But in the center of the valley, there is a blood-red lake about ten square meters in size.

Around the lake, there are piles of white bones, which are extremely eerie. And this blood-red lake is even more terrifying.

The blood water is deep and dark, filled with an indescribable evil and demonic nature, bubbling with blood bubbles.

Every time a blood bubble bursts, it is accompanied by a faint and eerie howling sound.

In this blood lake, there is also a thin cocoon that emits a crystal-clear blood light.

The cocoon undulates in the blood lake, as if still breathing. The flickering blood light is enchanting and eerie.

If you look closely, you can vaguely see that the cocoon wraps a man inside.

At this moment, the man seems to be about to open his eyes, but in the next moment, a blood-red lotus flower appears on his forehead like a crescent moon, causing his eyes that were about to open to tightly shut again, falling into a deep sleep.

Three months later.

"Peak of the Qi Refining Third Layer!"

"But I don't know how long it will take to break through to the Qi Refining Fourth Layer."

In the training room, Lu Changsheng, who was sitting cross-legged, opened his eyes, exhaled a breath of turbidity, and muttered to himself.

It took one year and four months to break through from the Qi Refining Second Layer to the peak of the Qi Refining Third Layer.

But this time, he could clearly feel that the transition from the Qi Refining Third Layer to the Qi Refining Fourth Layer was different from before.

There was a bottleneck.

He couldn't break through without any obstacles, and it would take a long time to overcome it.

Lu Changsheng didn't pay too much attention to it either.

After all, with his mediocre aptitude, being able to cultivate to the peak of the Qi Refining Third Layer at such a fast speed was already quite good.

He had a clear understanding of his own position.

Late bloomer!

When the children grow up, things will get better.

"Zhenzhen should be giving birth soon."

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

Eleven days later.

Zhenzhen gave birth.

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

It was the stirring of spiritual roots.

He knew that his child had spiritual roots.

This made Lu Changsheng very excited.

He felt that he hadn't waited in vain for the past half year.

"It seems that I have to have children with women who have spiritual roots."

"Otherwise, if I'm the only one with spiritual roots, the probability of our children having spiritual roots would be too low."

"Previously, Xiaosi had spiritual roots purely by luck."

Lu Changsheng took a deep breath, extremely happy and excited.

Seeing Lu Changsheng's attitude, the several wives beside him couldn't help but feel a hint of jealousy.

Even though they were virtuous and gentle, they still felt that Lu Changsheng favored Zhenzhen a bit more.

Not only did he show more care for Zhenzhen on a daily basis, but now he was also much happier than when their children were born.

But they also knew the reason.

Zhenzhen had spiritual roots and could cultivate immortality. The children she gave birth to with Lu Changsheng would also have a high probability of having spiritual roots.

Naturally, Lu Changsheng would favor them more.

"When Xiaosi was born, the system gave a gift."

"If I have ten children with spiritual roots, the system should also give a gift."

Lu Changsheng didn't notice the expressions of his wives and immersed himself in the joy of the child's birth.

When Xiaosi, his first child, was born, he received a reward because it was the first time he had a child with spiritual roots. He speculated that the reward should be related to the number of children, and there would be a reward when he reached a certain number.

Soon, the midwife walked out of the delivery room holding the baby.

It was a boy.

Lu Changsheng carried the child and walked into the delivery room to visit Zhenzhen.

Although Zhenzhen had the ability to cultivate immortality, she had only recently started practicing and became pregnant.

So she had not yet completed the process of absorbing Qi into her body, and her body was still very weak.

Moreover, the first few layers of Qi Refining did not have much effect on improving physical fitness.

Seeing Zhenzhen weakly, Lu Changsheng put her to sleep, handed the child to the wet nurse, and went to the training room to cultivate.

He couldn't see the child's spiritual roots, nor could he see the changes in his own spiritual roots in detail.

He could only judge the improvement of his own spiritual roots and estimate the grade of the child's spiritual roots through this simple and practical method of cultivation.

(End of this chapter)