Chapter 85: The Tao should not be so small, and the Taoist companions should not be so few!
“Hmm, thirty offspring!?”
“Jiu’er and Shui’er have given birth!?”
Lu Changsheng’s spirits lifted upon hearing the sudden system notification, and a look of joy appeared on his face.
He immediately knew that Jiu’er and Shui’er, the two women at Green Bamboo Mountain, had given birth to their children.
The absence of any throbbing sensation indicated that neither child possessed spiritual roots.
“I wonder what color hair and eyes the children have.”
Lu Changsheng mused.
He had always been quite curious about this matter.
He had even searched for information on the subject before.
However, books did not provide a clear answer, only stating that it mostly depended on the bloodline of both parents.
Without dwelling on it further, Lu Changsheng took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and silently chanted, “System, I want to draw a prize!”
Immediately, a light red virtual lottery wheel appeared.
“I wonder what I’ll get this time.”
Lu Changsheng murmured to himself as he looked at the lottery wheel, then directly said, “Start the draw!”
With a thought, a golden light burst forth from the light red wheel, and it began to spin.
Five seconds later, the golden light gradually slowed down, rotating step by step, and finally, it stopped on the Magic Treasure prize.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host, for obtaining the Magic Treasure: Black Dragon Orb!]
[The reward has been issued to the system space; the Host can check it at any time.]
An image of a treasure pearl shimmering with dark light, with a looming flood dragon within, emerged from the lottery wheel, accompanied by a system notification.
“Magic Treasure!?”
“Great, finally something I wanted!”
Lu Changsheng’s eyes lit up when he saw the reward he had drawn, and his face showed excitement and joy.
The magical artifacts used by cultivators are divided into: Magical Artifacts, Spiritual Artifacts, Magic Treasures, Spiritual Treasures, and Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasures, from low to high.
These correspond to the magical artifacts used at different stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, and Spirit Transformation.
Magic Treasures, for example, can only be controlled and used by Core Formation True Persons.
Lu Changsheng naturally cannot control or use a Magic Treasure.
However, the Hundred Refinements Treasure Body Art he cultivates allows him to refine Magic Treasures into his body to accelerate cultivation.
Before, even a fragment of a Magic Treasure that was more broken than broken allowed his Hundred Refinements Treasure Body Art to progress rapidly.
Now that he has a complete Magic Treasure, wouldn’t that be amazing?
Lu Changsheng immediately looked into the system space.
He wanted to see what grade the Magic Treasure he had drawn was and what effects it had.
[Magic Treasure: Black Dragon Orb]
[Grade: Middle-Grade Magic Treasure]
[Description: Made by using Profound Yin Treasure Pearl as a container and combining it with the soul of a Rank Three Evil Flood Dragon. When initially activated, it emits a dark light that can suppress the physical body and defile the divine soul. When pushed to the extreme, it can control the Evil Flood Dragon’s soul within the orb to attack enemies. The longer the time, the more ferocious the Evil Dragon becomes, and the more difficult it is to control.]
“Black Dragon Orb, Middle-Grade Magic Treasure!”
“It can emit dark light, suppress the physical body, defile the divine soul, and control the Evil Flood Dragon’s soul to attack.”
Lu Changsheng was very satisfied after seeing the description of this Magic Treasure’s grade.
He felt that a Middle-Grade Magic Treasure was already very good.
Judging from the description of the Magic Treasure’s effects, he also knew that this was a Magic Treasure that leaned towards attack.
In fact, Lu Changsheng didn’t care too much about the Magic Treasure’s effects.
He had always looked forward to drawing a Magic Treasure solely for cultivating the Hundred Refinements Treasure Body Art.
As for the functions and effects, he felt that it didn’t matter, as long as it was passable.
“However, it’s also a good thing that this Magic Treasure has offensive capabilities.”
“After all, the Treasure Bone Art in the Hundred Refinements Treasure Body Art uses Magic Treasures to nurture the Treasure Bones, allowing the Treasure Bones to exert some of the Magic Treasure’s power.”
“When my Treasure Bones are formed, I might even be able to control the Flood Dragon’s soul within to kill enemies!”
Lu Changsheng licked his lips, still looking forward to the effects of the Treasure Bones nurtured by this Magic Treasure.
He imagined that once the Treasure Bones were formed, he could activate the Black Dragon Orb when encountering danger, controlling a Flood Dragon’s soul to attack the enemy.
Anyone who saw a Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment cultivator using such a means of attack would be caught off guard and completely dumbfounded, right?
Immediately.
Lu Changsheng moved his thoughts and extracted the Black Dragon Orb from the system space.
A treasure pearl the size of an adult’s fist landed in Lu Changsheng’s hand.
The pearl was very heavy, estimated to weigh several hundred pounds.
It felt slightly cool in his hand, but not cold.
The surface of the pearl was very pure, without any impurities, only a faint dark light flowing.
Inside the pearl, one could clearly see a miniature ink-colored flood dragon coiled up.
“So this is a Magic Treasure.”
Lu Changsheng curiously examined the Black Dragon Orb in his hand.
This was the first time he had seen a Magic Treasure.
However, after looking at it for a few times, he didn’t see anything special, and felt that it was just like that.
Lu Changsheng went to the lounge on the third floor, preparing to start refining this Black Dragon Orb.
He couldn’t wait to refine it into his body to cultivate the Hundred Refinements Treasure Body Art and nurture the Treasure Bones.
After all, not long ago, the successful entry into the Hundred Refinements Treasure Body Art allowed Lu Changsheng to clearly experience the benefits of body refinement and a strong physique.
Although his original body was already very good and very healthy.
However, it was completely different from this kind of body refinement, full of strength, and the feeling of being able to sleep with ten women a night.
“Chī!”
Lu Changsheng circulated the Hundred Refinements Treasure Body Art, using his mind and spiritual power to begin refining the Black Dragon Orb in front of him.
Under the refinement of his mind and spiritual power, a trace of dark black aura swirled out from the Black Dragon Orb, rising and lingering.
The Evil Dragon’s soul coiled inside also moved at this moment, lifelike, as if it were about to break out of the pearl.
Lu Changsheng remained calm, knowing that this was the state of the Magic Treasure being activated, and continued to refine it with his mind and magic power.
Just like that, time passed little by little.
After a long time, Lu Changsheng opened his eyes, revealing a bitter smile and saying, “I didn’t expect that refining this Black Dragon Magic Treasure and refining it into my body wouldn’t be easy.”
“With my current cultivation at the peak of the sixth level of Qi Refining, I’m afraid it will take two or three months to completely refine this pearl.”
From the previous experience of refining the black iron block, he knew that it would not be easy to refine the Magic Treasure he obtained.
But he didn’t expect it to be so difficult.
“Two or three months is two or three months, after all, it’s a Magic Treasure, it’s normal to take some time.”
Lu Changsheng exhaled lightly and put away the Black Dragon Orb.
He took out a spiritual stone, sat down to cultivate, and recover his spiritual power.
He hasn’t drawn talismans yet today.
After his spiritual power recovered almost completely, Lu Changsheng took out his talisman-making tools again and drew two middle-grade talismans and two high-grade talismans in the talisman room.
Now that his cultivation was sufficient, he didn’t need to use top-grade talisman paper and top-grade spiritual ink to draw high-grade talismans.
Ordinary high-grade talismans can be drawn with high-level talisman paper and spiritual ink, which can also save a lot of costs.
After all, if he keeps using top-grade talisman paper and spiritual ink to draw talismans, but the talismans cannot be immediately exchanged for spiritual stones, the cost is still not small.
After making the talismans, he saw that it was almost dark, and Lu Changsheng thought that it was better to go to the White Jade Tower to take a look earlier than later.
Now that he has saved more than 300 spiritual stones, he can also take in and help a few more women who are suffering.
He also wanted to see if there were any unfortunate people with spiritual roots.
After all, if he really wants to have more children with spiritual roots, he still has to rely on women with spiritual roots.
He now has thirty children, but only four of them have spiritual roots.
Among the four, Qu Zhenzhen and Lu Miaoyun each accounted for one.
His other wives and concubines have given birth to so many, but only two children have spiritual roots.
This also inevitably made Lu Changsheng have some expectations for the children in Shao Yuyao, Xiaoqing, and Guan Xin’s wombs.
After telling the shopkeeper Zhang Shan, Lu Changsheng went out and walked towards the White Jade Tower.
“Brother Lu, where are you going?”
When passing by the Jade Cuisine Pavilion, the owner Yu Maocheng saw Lu Changsheng and greeted him.
Because the two lived across the street and the shops were next to each other, they would usually greet each other and chat for a while when they met.
Especially during a chat some time ago, Yu Maocheng learned that Lu Changsheng was not a member of the Lu family, but a son-in-law of the Lu family, and he felt like he had found a confidant.
He complained to Lu Changsheng about his marriage, saying that he regretted marrying a woman from a cultivating family.
Although it is good to have a big tree to lean on, it is also easy to be henpecked after marriage.
As a spiritual chef, he is busy every day, and only has ten spiritual stones of pocket money a month.
Lu Changsheng naturally didn’t have any resonance with such words.
But he didn’t say much, just responded with a few words, saying that it was not easy, and said that his wife was okay in this regard.
At that time, Yu Maocheng did not notice Lu Changsheng’s tone, and would come to Lu Changsheng for drinks and chats when he had nothing to do.
It wasn’t until not long after that Yu Maocheng saw Lu Changsheng’s courtyard full of beauties, and his whole body went numb and silent.
At that moment, the look in his eyes at Lu Changsheng changed.
Of course, he wouldn’t become estranged because of such a thing.
Usually, he would still greet him when he saw him, ask him how he was doing, and invite him to the Jade Cuisine Pavilion for a meal or something.
But he no longer asked Lu Changsheng to drink and complain about his married life.
He knew that complaining to someone like Lu Changsheng was completely talking to a brick wall.
The latter could not understand his pain at all, and there was no resonance.
“I feel that there are too few maids at home, so I’m going to the White Jade Tower to take a look.”
Lu Changsheng replied with a smile.
Then he enthusiastically invited, “Brother Yu, would you like to go together? Let me tell you, this White Jade Tower . . .”
“Get out! Get out! Get out!”
Yu Maocheng’s face darkened immediately upon hearing this, and he quickly waved his hand.
“Brother Yu, as the saying goes, the Great Path should not be so small, and Dao companions should not be so few, so the more Dao companions, the more firm the Great Path in your heart!”
Lu Changsheng joked, taking steps to seek the Great Path, and walked towards the White Jade Tower.
Yu Maocheng looked at Lu Changsheng’s back, sighed slightly, and couldn’t help but reveal a hint of envy in his eyes.
He knew that Lu Changsheng had more than a dozen maids at home, and now he was actually going to the White Jade Tower again.
Thinking of himself, he sighed slightly.
At this moment, a beautiful woman in her thirties came to Yu Maocheng’s side and said, “Husband, are you envious of this Lu Changsheng? Do you also want to take a few concubines?”
Hearing this, Yu Maocheng shuddered, not expecting his wife to be beside him.
He immediately said with a serious face, “No, no, absolutely not!”
Although he had the heart, he absolutely couldn’t admit it.
However, before he could explain, the woman sighed and said quietly, “Husband, I have been married to you for twenty years.”
“In these twenty years, I have only given you Feng’er, Yun’er, Yu’er, and Xue’er. Only Xue’er has spiritual roots and can cultivate immortality. Why don’t you marry a few more concubines?”
“That’s not good, is it?”
Yu Maocheng said sheepishly upon hearing this.
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“It’s okay, husband. What kind do you like? I’ll help you choose.”
The woman smiled gently and said, “How many do you want? Three, five, or ten?”
“No need, no need, one is enough, one is enough.”
Yu Maocheng said with a smile on his face.
“Good, Yu Maocheng! I, an innocent maiden, married you back then, not only to take over this restaurant for you but also to give you four children. Now you嫌 I’m old, and you want to take a concubine, is that right!”
The woman’s face, which was full of smiles a moment ago, suddenly turned cold. She snorted coldly and turned away.
Upon seeing this, Yu Maocheng sighed to the sky, knowing that he had been tricked again.
He immediately chased after her to coax her: “Madam, madam, listen to my explanation. My heart for you is as clear as the sun and the moon. How could I have such thoughts? I was just joking…”
When Lu Changsheng arrived at the White Jade Tower, the red-skirted woman who greeted him already remembered him.
She immediately stepped forward with a smile and invited him to the room on the second floor.
“Young Master Lu, long time no see. Jiu Niang really misses you so much ~”
Inside the room, Feng Jiu Niang, dressed in a black phoenix-patterned misty gauze long dress, exuding charm and allure, smiled enchantingly when she saw Lu Changsheng.
“Hehe, Steward Feng, I’m here this time to buy a few more maids.”
“I wonder if the White Jade Tower currently has maids with spiritual roots, preferably priced within three hundred spirit stones.”
Lu Changsheng’s eyes subconsciously swept over the fullness of her neckline and the plump thighs under her skirt before speaking.
Every time he came to this White Jade Tower and saw this Feng Jiu Niang, he couldn’t help but sigh, this woman was truly charming to the bone.
This made him think that this was just a steward of the White Jade Tower in Nine Dragons Bazaar.
If it were a steward of some immortal city, or the headquarters, or a high-level executive, how alluring would that be?
“Young Master Lu, please have some tea. This humble servant will go and see if there are any suitable candidates for you.”
Feng Jiu Niang smiled charmingly, not minding Lu Changsheng’s gaze.
After pouring tea for Lu Changsheng while bending her slender waist, she walked out of the room ‘da da da’.
After a while, Feng Jiu Niang returned and placed two jade slips on the table, saying, “This humble servant just took a look, and currently, there are only two people who meet Young Master Lu’s requirements. Young Master Lu can see if you are interested.”
“Okay.”
Lu Changsheng nodded, picked up a jade slip, and placed it between his eyebrows, sensing it with his mind.
He immediately saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl with a beautiful face and a petite and lovely figure.
Her lovely face carried grievance and unwillingness.
Without even thinking, he knew that this must be the same as Shao Yuyao, who had fallen into the White Jade Tower due to various circumstances.
It was precisely for this reason that he wanted to rescue them.
Lu Changsheng picked up the second jade slip.
Inside was a twenty-seven or twenty-eight-year-old woman with a beautiful face and a plump figure, but she looked a little delicate, with a hint of numbness in her eyes.
“What are the situations of these two maids? What are their prices?”
Having had the experience of the previous two times, Lu Changsheng could be considered an old driver and asked directly.
“This woman has a Qi Refining Stage 2 cultivation level and possesses a Grade 9 spiritual root. The price is two hundred and ten spirit stones.”
“This woman possesses a Grade 7 spiritual root but has no cultivation level. The price is three hundred spirit stones.”
Feng Jiu Niang pointed to the two jade slips and introduced them.
“Why does she have a Grade 7 spiritual root but no cultivation level? Moreover, a Grade 7 spiritual root shouldn’t be this price, right?”
Lu Changsheng raised an eyebrow upon hearing this and asked.
He also roughly knew the White Jade Tower’s pricing for maids.
A maid with a Grade 7 spiritual root would cost at least five or six hundred spirit stones.
“This woman originally had a Qi Refining Stage 5 cultivation level, but her Qi Sea Dantian was damaged, causing her cultivation to be completely destroyed, so she no longer has any cultivation.”
“It is precisely because of this that she possesses a Grade 7 spiritual root but only costs three hundred spirit stones.”
Feng Jiu Niang explained.
“I see.”
Lu Changsheng nodded slightly upon hearing this.
No wonder he felt that she looked a little delicate when he saw her appearance in the jade slip just now.
It seemed that her body had just recovered and was still a little weak.
In that case, this young woman must have suffered much more than the girl.
Since that was the case, he would choose to save this young woman.
Immediately, Lu Changsheng said, “Please, Steward Feng, show me her detailed information.”
Feng Jiu Niang took out the maid’s information.
Lu Changsheng carefully checked it.
The woman’s name was Xiao Yueru, and she was thirty years old this year. Like Shao Yuyao, she was a woman from a small Qi Refining family.
Because her family was destroyed, she ended up in the White Jade Tower.
Her body was injured in battle, damaging her Qi Sea Dantian, causing her cultivation to be completely scattered, and she could no longer cultivate.
There were no other sequelae, and she could still bear children.
However, she was not a virgin and had given birth to a child before.
This should also be one aspect of the White Jade Tower’s price assessment.
“Alright, it’s her.”
Lu Changsheng said directly after reading it.
He was already buying maids with a purpose, and he didn’t have too many psychological obsessions.
Moreover, this could be considered a good family woman.
It wasn’t like the immortal courtesans of Drunken Immortal Tower and Spring Abundant Tower, with lips tasted by thousands of people.
As for cultivation, Lu Changsheng didn’t care at all.
What he valued was this young woman’s Grade 7 spiritual root.
If this young woman’s Dantian Qi Sea hadn’t been damaged, according to the previous prices of the White Jade Tower, a woman with a Grade 7 spiritual root would normally cost at least five or six hundred spirit stones.
In Lu Changsheng’s opinion, this was a small bargain for him this time.
Immediately, Lu Changsheng paid a deposit of sixty spirit stones and waited for the person to be sent over.
He also spent fifty spirit stones to buy four ordinary maids without spiritual roots.
Lu Changsheng asked the White Jade Tower to send these four maids to his residence later, as he didn’t want to take them back himself.
Otherwise, it would easily attract attention on the street.
Feng Jiu Niang naturally agreed to this small request directly, saying that there was no problem.
Just as he was about to leave the White Jade Tower, Lu Changsheng thought of something.
He asked Feng Jiu Niang, “Steward Feng, does your White Jade Tower have any women with special constitutions?”
Regarding special constitutions, he had only seen a few words in books before.
It was because of the matter with the colorful-skirted woman that he suddenly thought of this.
Thinking that the White Jade Tower had such wide connections, he wondered if there would be any women with special constitutions.
Feng Jiu Niang was also slightly stunned upon hearing this.
Then, she smiled charmingly and said, “Of course, there are.”
“Hmm! ?”
Lu Changsheng was a little surprised upon hearing this.
He didn’t expect that there would actually be women with special constitutions in the White Jade Tower.
It seemed that the White Jade Tower was much more powerful than he had imagined.
Seeing Lu Changsheng’s surprised expression, Feng Jiu Niang chuckled and continued, “However, people with special constitutions are very rare, one in ten thousand. Even our White Jade Tower doesn’t see many of them.”
“Moreover, even if there are any, they basically want to find a Daoist partner and marry a good husband through our White Jade Tower.”
“If Young Master Lu wants to spend spirit stones to buy a maid, I’m afraid you will be disappointed.”
“Even our White Jade Tower doesn’t have many of these maids with special constitutions, and many people are booking them in advance with us.”
“If Young Master Lu has any intention in this regard, you can pay a deposit first, and when our White Jade Tower finds someone with a special constitution, we will notify you.”
Feng Jiu Niang said unhurriedly with a charming smile on her face.
“I was just asking casually.”
Hearing this, Lu Changsheng wasn’t disappointed. He felt that this was normal.
Otherwise, if the White Jade Tower casually sold even women with special constitutions, then the force would be a bit terrifying.
He didn’t ask any more questions.
Now, women with special constitutions were still a bit far from him and not something he could think about at this stage.
If he encountered one, that would naturally be great.
But asking him to spend money to buy a special constitution maid from the White Jade Tower was still out of the question.
With that money, it would be better to buy a few maids with middle-grade spiritual roots.
After all, the grade of parents’ spiritual roots directly affects the upper limit of their children’s spiritual roots.
If both parents have low-grade spiritual roots, it is difficult to give birth to a child with a middle-grade spiritual root.
If one of the parents has a middle-grade spiritual root, then the probability of the child having a middle-grade spiritual root will be much higher.
Immediately, under Feng Jiu Niang’s farewell, Lu Changsheng walked out of the White Jade Tower.
“Hmm?”
Just as Lu Changsheng was walking on the way back, he heard a noisy sound coming from a store next to him. He turned his head and saw a familiar figure.
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