Longevity: Starting From Getting Down The Mountain And Marrying A Wife

There are a total of six maids and one servant in the mansion, making it lively all of a sudden.

During their free time, the maids often giggled like silver bells and took care of and played with the young master together with their mistress, Jiang Ping.

Especially Xiao Huan, although she is not the oldest, she has been in the mansion for a longer time. She is clever and smart, and with Jiang Ping's careful guidance and training, she has already become a capable maid. Together with Jiang Ping, they have arranged all the affairs in the mansion in an orderly manner.

On this afternoon, Zhong Yan was busy but found time to teach Jiang Ping some "martial arts skills" through words and actions.

Yan San Dao came over and, seeing the situation, lowered her head and stepped back, saying, "I apologize for interrupting you, my lord and sister."

Since the day she entered the mansion, the three of them had never studied together.

Zhong Yan smiled and said, "Dao'er, you came at the right time. I have a set of spear techniques to teach you!"

Jiang Ping smiled and went forward to pull her over.

After a while, Zhong Yan discovered a blind spot.

[Insight into martial arts +1, experience in talismanic arts +4, progress in cultivation +1]

[Insight into martial arts +1, experience in talismanic arts +3, progress in cultivation +1]

Jiang Ping's contribution to the experience in talismanic arts reached 4 for the first time, surpassing Yan San Dao's 3!

Zhong Yan blinked and looked at his wife on the left. So you're interested in this?

He had specifically tested it before. Normally, Yan San Dao's increase in experience in talismanic arts was 3, but when they were outside, it would increase to 4.

Now, it was obvious how Jiang Ping's experience in talismanic arts was changing.

With this hidden attribute, it seemed that they would have to study and exchange together in the future!

Zhong Yan was very satisfied.

"Dao'er came to find me earlier. What's the matter?"

Yan San Dao's face was still flushed, her bright eyes filled with water. She was still muttering to herself, "Sister is even braver than me." Those words of "good person" made her heart flutter.

Upon hearing the question, she came back to her senses and said, "Oh, on my way back, I saw the second young master of the Li Mansion. He came out of the 'Da Tong Gambling House' with a dejected look. I guess he lost a lot of money."

"Didn't my husband say he would take care of the Li family? Should we go and give him some advice?"

Zhong Yan frowned and said, "When Li He Nian comes to visit, you can say a few words to her."

After Li He Nian left, Li Yang Shi would come over every few days to maintain their relationship and seek help when needed.

After a pause, Zhong Yan continued, "Remember, from now on, the children of the Zhong family, no matter who they are, if they dare not study well, breaking their legs would be the least of their worries!"

Jiang and Yan both felt a sense of unease in their hearts and responded, "We understand."

Speaking of children, images of the little ones involuntarily appeared in Zhong Yan's mind.

They were still young now, and he wondered if they would bring about new changes to the system as they grew up and learned knowledge and martial arts.

As for cultivating immortality, they would have to wait until they were three years old to test their spiritual roots.

However, Zhong Yan didn't hold much hope. The birth of children with spiritual roots from the union of mortals relied entirely on luck.

When two individuals with spiritual roots come together, there is a certain chance of giving birth to a child with spiritual roots. But his own aptitude was so poor, and the other party was still a mortal.

The only way was to have more children, and with enough numbers, one or two might have spiritual roots.

The best way was to marry a woman with spiritual roots, and the purer the spiritual roots, the better.

For example, if it was a heavenly spiritual root, the probability would be much higher. If one didn't work, having a dozen or so would be enough.

However, heavenly spiritual roots were very rare.

As far as Zhong Yan knew, apart from the one Li He Nian had brought, there were only two heavenly spiritual roots in the entire Yan Kingdom, one belonging to a senior elder in the Fire Cloud Sect and the other to a core disciple named Dongfang Tuo. He had never seen either of them.

He didn't expect to find one in a short period of time. It would be a great joy to marry someone with dual attributes.

"Ah..." Jiang Ping asked softly, "Why are you sighing, my lord?"

Zhong Yan shook his head and envied Li He Nian, "Dao'er, go to the Marriage Pavilion tomorrow and remind them."

"Yes, my lord."

Jiang Ping suggested, "My lord, why don't my sister and I help you find someone? I heard from the sisters-in-law that there are many noble young ladies in the city who have reached the age of marriage. With my lord's status, it shouldn't be a problem."

Zhong Yan decisively refused, "No need."

He already had a plan in mind. In the future, he would marry more and more women, and it would be impossible to invest as much emotion as he did in Jiang Ping and Yan San Dao.

To put it bluntly, besides female cultivators, marrying mortal concubines would basically be for procreation.

Before becoming powerful enough, he wouldn't marry those noble young ladies from the mansions. It might cause trouble or become a burden.

Although the Marriage Pavilion was expensive, it was the best choice.

And as for female cultivators, Zhong Yan also has his own requirements.

Do not exceed two levels higher than oneself in cultivation.

Do not accept promiscuous female cultivators with loose morals.

Do not accept female cultivators with a family background.

It is best if they are alone.

Obedient and sensible.

As for appearance?

As long as they have spiritual roots... kill the ugly ones!

Suffer a little, turn off the lights, and cover with a quilt, it's all the same.

But speaking of which, unless their facial features are particularly uncoordinated, female cultivators generally won't be ugly. At least their skin and figure are excellent, better than most mortal women.

Three people in a passionate embrace.

Zhong Yan got up and went to the cultivation room, starting to make talismans to earn money to support his family.

Unconsciously, aside from the one hundred talismans he lent to Li He Nian, he had accumulated a fortune of seven hundred and twenty-six low-grade spirit stones, but more than half of it was obtained from killing Chen Lianping.

For ordinary Independent Cultivators, this is a huge wealth.

But for the future, it is just a drop in the bucket.

Originally, Zhong Yan planned to buy elixirs to break through his cultivation realm, but he temporarily put it aside because he was still far from the ninety thousand point level.

He planned to first buy materials and learn more types of talismans, breakthrough to the high-grade level in talisman Dao, and then find a way to improve his cultivation realm.

[Occupation: Talisman Maker (First Rank, Intermediate Grade 4759/10000)]

With daily experience gains and accumulated self-practice, he would be able to reach the high-grade level in about a year.

"I hope the experience required for the next level won't increase too much!"

But even if it does, it shouldn't be more than what the cultivation realm requires.

If the cultivation realm doesn't reach the later stage of Qi Refining, the spiritual energy won't keep up, and the talisman Dao won't be able to break through to the second rank.

...

Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

After being urged by Yan Sandao, Lin Xuelan brought six young girls tonight.

They were all sixteen or seventeen years old.

Standing in a row, they were beautiful and had different temperaments, each with their own charm.

Jiang Ping and Yan Sandao exchanged a glance, both secretly wondering in their hearts: the husband wants to marry so many at once! Did we not serve him and his sister (older sister) well enough?

Without needing the matchmaker to say more, Zhong Yan glanced at them and said, "Those who have learned martial arts, step forward."

Only one of them had just stepped into the threshold of a martial artist, at the second stage of Body Tempering.

"Those who can read, step forward."

The rest all stepped forward, and Lin Xuelan smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhong, those who have been trained by our Matchmaking Pavilion naturally know how to read. This one in the middle has attended a private school before and is quite talented in arithmetic."

Zhong Yan nodded and pointed at four of them, directly paying for them.

After Lin Xuelan happily led the two remaining girls away, he didn't ask for their names and arranged them one by one.

"From left to right, you will be called Chunyu, Xiahe, Qiuxiang, and Dongcao from now on."

Keep it simple, easy to remember.

"Ping'er, take them down and teach them the rules. Take good care of their training in the future, we won't hold a wedding banquet."

"Yes, Master."

That night.

The battle lasted until dawn, and Zhong Yan was exhausted.

When he woke up, his waist was sore.

For the first time, Zhong Yan couldn't muster any interest in matters between men and women, and spent the whole day hiding in the cultivation room.

But looking at the panel, he couldn't help but reveal a satisfied smile, with a feeling of both pain and pleasure:

"Only through hardship can one become superior!"

"If you want to seek the Dao and achieve immortality, it's not that easy!"

"No, I have to quickly save money to buy a special cultivation technique!"

Otherwise.

Before seeing the shadow of immortality, one would be withered and depleted, their essence and blood dried up.

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