Immortal Martial Arts: Marry a Wife and Live a Long Life

Chapter 14: Breakthrough, Vital Spirit Realm

In the blink of an eye, another five years had passed.

Under Han Li's encouragement to procreate, the number of descendants in the Han family had been growing at a visible rate.

During these five years, Han Li had been as steady as a rock, never venturing out, even when his descendants with eighth-grade aptitude reached the age of eight. He would only send them with recommendation letters to Tianxuan Mountain.

Since his last visit to Tianxuan Mountain, Han Li had established good relationships with his fellow disciples. With the recommendation letters, his descendants only needed to go through the process to successfully join Tianxuan Mountain.

With all of them having eighth-grade aptitude, who wouldn't want to recruit them? It was also a good face-saving measure for Han Li.

Of course, if the descendants who joined Tianxuan Mountain didn't strive for progress and failed to reach the Innate stage by the age of fifty, they would be expelled from the mountain.

This freed up disciple spots, reduced the consumption of cultivation resources, and made it easier to recruit more promising disciples, thus maintaining the vitality of the sect.

Tianxuan Mountain was not the only sect with this rule; almost all sects had similar requirements, albeit with different standards.

As an inner disciple, Han Li had been accumulating his share of resources for eight years, but he had never claimed them.

He didn't need them for the time being, and his family's descendants didn't urgently require them either. To avoid unnecessary trouble, Han Li rarely left his home and focused on procreation.

Although he didn't venture out, he still took concubines. How else could he benefit his descendants?

In the past five years, he had taken two concubines, two at once on one occasion, and three at once on another occasion, totaling five. That averaged to one per year.

Through his efforts, he had achieved quite impressive results. The number of his offspring had experienced a surge.

In five years, he had added eighty-nine more, bringing the total number of Han Li's descendants to two hundred and forty-two, including sixteen new descendants with aptitude. It was only four more than the previous time, and most of them were born to Han Li's concubines.

Han Li was not surprised by this situation. The descendants in Lingjun City didn't have aptitude, and the wives he married mostly lacked aptitude as well. It was already good enough if he occasionally had a descendant with cultivation aptitude.

Every time Han Li took a concubine, he would choose a female cultivator who possessed both beauty and aptitude. Although it was difficult for him to marry a female cultivator with aptitude, it was relatively easy to marry a beautiful woman. This resulted in the Han family's descendants having good looks.

Recently, there was even a rumor in Lingjun City that in another twenty years, the Han family would continue to marry and take concubines at the same standard and speed, and all the beautiful women in Lingjun City would be married off to the Han family.

Ordinary people treated it as a joke, a topic for idle gossip. However, the small families and forces in Lingjun City were quite worried.

Twenty years might not be enough to marry off all the beautiful women in Lingjun City, but what about fifty years, or even a hundred years?

Their descendants from these small families and forces would probably never be able to marry beautiful women again. This troubled them, but there was no solution.

The Han family was the number one family in Lingjun City, with the presence of their ancestor. When those beautiful women wanted to get married, they mostly chose Han family descendants.

The Han family descendants were good-looking, and the Han family was also the wealthiest in Lingjun City. Marrying into the family meant enjoying a life of luxury and gaining a certain status, helping their natal families turn their lives around. Why wouldn't they do it?

Moreover, the Han family had a good family tradition. Incidents of domestic violence were almost nonexistent, and the status of wives and concubines was not low. This was Han Li's requirement. He treated every wife and concubine well, after all, his descendants came from them.

The Han family descendants treated their wives and concubines well, trying their best to please them. They wanted to obtain the family's generous rewards for procreation, and they relied on their own wives and concubines. If the wives and concubines were unwilling, they wouldn't dare to force them.

In the backyard.

Han Li ate a grape fed to him by Qiuyue Yao and kissed her, saying with a smile, "So sweet~"

Qiuyue Yao immediately handed him another grape and sweetly said, "Since it's sweet, husband should have another one."

"In my mouth, what's sweet is Qiuyue, not the grape," Han Li shook his head and said with a smile.

Qiuyue Yao's pretty face immediately blushed, looking charming and irresistible. Han Li couldn't help but want to kiss her, so he did.

Over the years, Qiuyue Yao had been well-protected by him and had long forgotten the sadness of losing her parents. She still maintained her pure and flawless nature.

Not only her, but the other concubines were the same. With a large amount of resources and Han Li's guidance, their cultivation had made rapid progress.

Especially Autumn Moon Yao, with her seventh-grade aptitude, she married Han Li only seven years ago. Her cultivation has already advanced from the ninth level of the Blood Exchange stage to the sixth level of the Innate stage, crossing nearly two major realms.

Firstly, her aptitude is indeed excellent. Secondly, Han Li provides her with abundant resources: techniques, martial skills, elixirs, spirit stones, and so on. Thirdly, Han Li has been guiding her.

Han Li is a cultivator in the Vital Spirit Realm. His cultivation has been achieved through hard work, so he naturally knows various cultivation experiences.

Yes, Han Li is already a cultivator in the Vital Spirit Realm, but no one knows about it.

The sudden increase in the number of descendants has extended his lifespan by nearly two hundred years. Now his lifespan limit has been raised to nearly seven hundred years, which is comparable to that of a Grandmaster of the Empty Void.

Among the sixteen descendants, one is a seventh-grade descendant born to Autumn Moon Yao, and there is also an eighth-grade descendant. This officially raises Han Li's aptitude to the seventh grade.

However, in order to reach the sixth-grade aptitude, he still needs to work hard. The effect of improving his aptitude is reduced to 4% for the eighth-grade descendant and 2% for the ninth-grade descendant, while the seventh-grade descendant remains at one-tenth.

With the birth of the first seventh-grade descendant, Han Li gained twenty years of cultivation and obtained the Profound Grade middle-grade technique, "Heart of the Saint."

With the breakthrough of the number of aptitude descendants reaching forty, Han Li gained twenty years of cultivation, a seventh-grade longevity pill, and thirty years of alchemy experience.

There are also other things such as eighty-nine years of cultivation, lifespan, a large number of techniques and martial skills, and a large number of beauty-preserving pills, and so on.

Adding up the previous thirty-six years of cultivation, Han Li has a total of one hundred and sixty-five years of cultivation. After consuming a hundred years of cultivation to break through to the first level of the Vital Spirit Realm, Han Li temporarily did not receive the remaining sixty-five years of cultivation.

After reaching the seventh-grade aptitude, in order to cultivate to the peak of the ninth level of the Vital Spirit Realm, he needs even more cultivation, at least one hundred and fifty years.

This may seem outrageous, but it is actually normal. It takes about one hundred and fifty years to cultivate from a seventh-grade aptitude to the ninth level of the Vital Spirit Realm, and their lifespan limit is four hundred years, providing ample time for cultivation.

His accumulated cultivation is still not enough, and Han Li does not go out to fight and kill. Breaking through a few small realms is of little use.

Now Han Li has also changed his technique to the "Heart of the Saint." This Profound Grade middle-grade technique can be cultivated all the way to the ninth level of the Vital Spirit Realm.

Although there are techniques in the Vital Spirit Realm at Tianxuan Mountain, and even higher-level techniques, Han Li has no reason to obtain them.

The major sects strictly limit access to techniques. Only when one is about to break through can they receive the subsequent techniques of the next realm. This is aimed at those with sufficient aptitude to break through to higher realms.

For example, when Han Li had an eighth-grade aptitude, it was almost impossible for him to cultivate to the Vital Spirit Realm. It was not possible for him to receive the subsequent techniques of the Vital Spirit Realm in advance. Only if he truly broke through by chance could he receive them.

The "Heart of the Saint" has also become the best inheritance technique of the Han family. The Han family's scripture repository also contains hundreds of Royal Grade top-grade techniques, martial skills, secret arts, and more miscellaneous books, all collected by Han Li. He reads them in his spare time to broaden his horizons.

He has also gradually given away the hundreds of beauty-preserving pills in his hands, giving a small portion to his newly accepted concubines and the majority to the wives and concubines of his descendants. He now has only about ten to twenty left.

In addition to cultivation, techniques, and lifespan, what Han Li is most concerned about is the thirty years of alchemy experience.

This is the first time he has received such a reward.

The alchemy experience rewarded by the system can also be understood as alchemy cultivation, equivalent to Han Li learning thirty years of alchemy experience, which saves him a lot of time.

After all, a cultivator's energy is limited, and the time spent on learning alchemy, Qi Refining, and other secondary professions is reduced.

Generally, only cultivators who cannot break through to higher realms will study alchemy and refining tools. Improving cultivation realm is the most important.

"Not bad, not bad."

After absorbing thirty years of alchemy experience, a pleased expression appeared on Han Li's face.

At this moment, he is an experienced alchemist, understanding many alchemy techniques and having his own unique understanding of alchemy. As long as he looks at the prescription, he can refine it with a little contemplation.

If he had to classify it, Han Li would now be considered an eighth-grade alchemist.

Alchemy and refining tools are divided into ten grades, from tenth grade to first grade. A tenth-grade alchemist can only refine some elixirs and weapons below the Innate stage.

A ninth-grade alchemist can refine Innate stage elixirs, an eighth-grade alchemist can refine Sea Opening Realm elixirs, and a seventh-grade alchemist can refine Vital Spirit Realm elixirs.

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