Chapter 18
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Chapter 18: The Reason for Taking a Son-in-Law
This time, the three sisters bore Zhou Luo four children—three boys and one girl. Among them, Lin Yi Yi gave birth to dragon-phoenix twins.
As the children multiplied, naming them became an enormous headache.
Yet Zhou Luo had his own method.
He decided to use a generational naming system from his previous life for the descendants.
For this first generation of boys, \"Chang\" from \"Changsheng\" would be the generational character.
Thus, they were named Zhou Chang Ping, Zhou Chang Shu, and Zhou Chang Rong.
For the girl, \"Shi\" would serve as the generational character.
Lin Yi Yi\’s daughter was named Zhou Shi Yi.
This efficiently resolved much of the naming anxiety.
Seizing the auspicious moment of these births to invite good fortune, Zhou Luo specifically washed his face before activating the system\’s lottery function.
He had deliberately saved his last lottery draw from when Lin Lan conceived, intending to use it today.
The white spinning wheel remained unchanged.
But resentment swelled within Zhou Luo.
The previous lottery had left him with an exceptionally bitter memory.
This time, he merely hoped to draw something not utterly useless.
His mind focused, and a brilliant golden sphere of light materialized, spinning wildly.
Gradually, before his eyes, the sphere slowed until it settled on the \"spiritual potion\" section.
Seeing this area,
Zhou Luo, who had been tense, instantly exhaled in relief.
A spiritual potion couldn’t be too terrible, surely.
[Congratulations, Host! You have obtained a Second Level Low-Grade Spiritual Potion!]
[Your reward has been automatically deposited into your backpack. Please check!]
As expected, this reward was distinctly superior.
A Second Level spiritual potion was equivalent to Foundation Establishment stage pills.
Though only a Low-Grade, for Zhou Luo, who was merely at Qi Refinement Level One, it was still excellent.
With that thought, he promptly opened his backpack to inspect the potion’s information.
[Explosive Spirit Potion]
[Grade: Second Level Low-Grade]
[Effect: Bestows several times the usual power for ten minutes. The degree of enhancement varies by cultivation stage.]
[Note: If consumed by a Qi Refinement Level One cultivator, immediate combat prowess matching Qi Refinement seventh level is granted.]
Clearly, this was a single-use spiritual potion.
However, the effect was remarkably potent.
Especially for him, it could completely serve as a life-saving trump card.
After all, only upon reaching the fifth layer of Qi Refinement could one be considered combat-capable.
He was merely at Qi Refinement Level One. If he encountered trouble during this outing, he’d easily end up dead in the wilderness.
With this life-saving trump card, he could finally set his mind at ease.
Zhou Luo temporarily stored this Explosive Spirit Potion in his backpack.
Since the backpack had nine slots anyway, he could simply retrieve it whenever needed later.
Because the child had just been born, he temporarily refrained from cultivating within the spiritual vein.
With his elevated status now, access time to the spiritual vein would be calculated based on actual cultivation hours anyway, so he wouldn’t waste allocated time by not being there.
Seizing this chance, Zhou Luo planned to head to Shouchun Garden to express his gratitude to Lin Zhi Shou.
But he was informed that Lin Zhi Shou had entered Closed-Door Training.
Having no other option, Zhou Luo returned home for the time being.
\"What’s wrong? Grandpa Shou wasn’t in?\" Seeing Zhou Luo return so quickly, Lin Qing Han, holding their child, inquired.
Though the family had dedicated caretakers for infants, Lin Qing Han still enjoyed taking daily walks while carrying the baby.
\"Mhm, seems he’s gone into Closed-Door Training,\" Zhou Luo replied truthfully.
Hearing these words, Lin Qing Han looked thoughtful: \"It appears Grandpa Shou is aware time is tight and is focusing on breaking through.\"
\"Time is tight?\" Zhou Luo voiced his confusion.
Lin Qing Han then explained.
Three years ago, the Lin Family had discovered a spiritual mine east of Maple Leaf City.
Just as they were preparing to occupy and mine it, news leaked and reached the Lu Family.
The Lu Family was also a long-life family and had been archenemies of the Lin Family for centuries.
As this spiritual mine was closer to the Lu Family-controlled Qingtian City, they naturally wouldn’t let slip a chance to seize it.
This naturally provoked the Lin Family’s resentment.
Currently, most spiritual mines across Huoyun Country were exhausted. Encountering an unclaimed one was rare—the Lin Family certainly wouldn’t yield it.
Thus, intense clashes erupted as both sides fought over the mine.
During these three years, both families had clashed countless times—an unknown number of times.
The Lin Family, bogged down by this conflict, suffered heavy losses among their ranks at this spiritual mine, leading to them lacking younger members at this time.
This was precisely why, one year ago, the Lin Family had resorted to tricking failed candidates like Zhou Luo into becoming family husbands.
Hearing this, Zhou Luo finally understood.
According to Lin Qing Han, the Lu Family had grown restless again recently, and the entire Lin Family was preparing for battle.
Hence, Lin Zhi Shou chose to enter Closed-Door Training for a breakthrough at this critical moment.
As the family’s only top-level first-level Pill Master, once he broke through, his speed at concocting pills would soar dramatically.
With this layer of security, members of the Lin Family could suffer fewer casualties.
After hearing this, Zhou Luo finally realized.
The Lin Family wasn\’t as peaceful on the surface as it seemed.
Come to think of it, in the world of cultivation, everything had to be contested; not contending meant having nothing at all.
Such things were probably very common across the entire world.
It seemed that the Qinyuan Sect deliberately let them do this.
Because only this way could they maximize the potential of the major long-life families.
All of this was too distant for Zhou Luo right now.
But he keenly noticed one point.
That he could perhaps use this timing to buy large amounts of ingredients for refining top-level first-level potions.
As it happened, Lin Zhi Shou wasn\’t at the Herb Hall, and other family members were likely too busy to pay attention to him.
Seizing this chance, he decided to refine some more himself.
Then at the Spiritual Pill Conference, he could find a way to sell them off and make a hefty profit.
These days, wealth, partners, techniques, and land were all indispensable.
As the first among them, wealth\’s importance was self-evident.
If he didn\’t take this chance to go to the Spiritual Pill Conference, he didn\’t know when he could next show off his top-level first-level strength.
With this thought, Zhou Luo turned and headed straight for the Herb Hall.
Just as he expected, only a few clerks were at the Herb Hall.
Not even Lin Nian was in the shop.
Those clerks merely did their work; they didn\’t know what kind of potions the ingredients could specifically refine, and as they knew Zhou Luo.
So when Zhou Luo placed a large pile of ingredients on the counter.
They didn\’t ask many questions, calculated the price, and let him take them away.
Having gotten the ingredients, Zhou Luo was extremely excited.
In the following days, he even stopped cultivating, planning to use this period to refine lots of high-quality potions.
Since his status had risen, several women, including Lin Qing Han, showed a clear change in attitude toward him.
This change wasn\’t about romantic fondness, but rather in their daily treatment of him.
If their usual way of treating Zhou Luo was casual, there was now an added trace of respect.
So he no longer needed to worry about anyone disturbing his cultivation practice.
Until one day, Xu Changsheng suddenly came calling.