Chapter 22
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Chapter 22: Upgrade, New System Features
A week later, He Qingqing brought ten thousand spirit stones to Li Xiaojun.
After spending more than an hour, Li Xiaojun leisurely absorbed all ten thousand spirit stones.
Once he absorbed the ten thousand spirit stones, his energy value finally broke through to a hundred thousand.
[System Notification: Energy value has exceeded one hundred thousand, upgrade is available. Would you like to upgrade?]
“Upgrade!”
Li Xiaojun chose to upgrade without hesitation.
He hoped this system upgrade would enable him to cultivate.
As long as he could cultivate, he would not have to be controlled by others once he became powerful.
[System Notification: Upgrading in progress, estimated time 200 hours…]
Two hundred hours is roughly a little over eight days.
Li Xiaojun wondered if he could still trigger the enhancement of offspring during the system’s upgrade while engaging with women.
He recalled that after his wife Wang Qiuyu gave birth to their seventh child, they hadn’t been intimate for more than a month.
“Hubby, it’s still daylight, isn’t it inappropriate?”
“What’s inappropriate? I want it.”
“But the baby hasn’t been fed yet.”
“Feed the baby later.”
An hour later, Li Xiaojun, feeling a bit disappointed, pulled up his pants.
He realized that during the system’s slumber, he could not enhance the offspring at all.
Eight days passed in the blink of an eye.
[System Notification: System upgrade successful, next upgrade requires one billion energy value?]
“What the heck!”
Hearing the system’s voice, Li Xiaojun almost jumped up.
The first upgrade only required a hundred thousand; now the second upgrade needed a billion. Who can withstand that?
One billion means he would need to sell spirit stones over two hundred thousand times, even if it was ten thousand spirit stones each time, after deducting costs.
“Heavenly Lord, how am I supposed to do this?”
However, Li Xiaojun didn’t have time to worry about how much energy value was needed for the next upgrade.
He turned his attention to the new features available after the system upgrade, hoping they might help him with his cultivation issue.
However, after reviewing this time’s system upgrade features, Li Xiaojun felt somewhat disappointed.
This upgrade only added three functions.
The first function: the system space.
The system space, as the name suggests, is an inbuilt space that can hold anything that has no soul.
The system space measures about one hundred meters in length, width, and height, totaling around one million cubic meters.
The second function after the system upgrade is the immortality feature.
This feature is very extraordinary; with it, Li Xiaojun can ensure his survival. Even if someone kills him, his soul can enter the system space and gradually condense a physical body to be resurrected.
The third function after the system upgrade is the enhanced version of offspring enhancement.
This function allows him to enhance the talents of already born offspring.
If the offspring has ordinary top-grade spirit roots, Li Xiaojun only needs to consume ten thousand energy value to upgrade them to earth spirit roots.
By consuming a hundred thousand energy value, he can enhance them to heavenly spirit roots.
Consuming a million energy value allows him to upgrade them to Yin spirit roots.
Consuming ten million energy value means he can elevate them to Yang spirit roots.
For one hundred million energy value, he can even enhance them to Immortal spirit roots.
In this case, as long as Li Xiaojun has enough energy value, he can completely enhance the soul talents of his daughters who possess talent comparable to spirit roots.
For example, for the sisters Li Yuqing and Li Yufei, whose talent is only top-grade spirit roots, he can spend energy value to forcibly upgrade their spirit roots.
However, enhancing spirit root talent also requires a terrifying amount of spirit stones. For instance, upgrading to Immortal spirit roots requires over one hundred million spirit stones, a staggering number for Li Xiaojun.
Moreover, this function not only enhances the talents of already born offspring but also allows him to view information about future offspring.
For example, Li Xiaojun can check the information of his daughter Li Yuting, which displays Li Yuting’s character panel.
[Character: Li Yuting.
Gender: Female.
Age: 18 years.
Talent: Top-grade wood spirit root.
Cultivation Level: Foundation Establishment Early Stage.]
The character panel is quite simple, containing only the name, gender, age, and cultivation level, with nothing else.
Of course, Li Xiaojun also checked the information of some of his other daughters.
For example, his first daughter born out of wedlock:
Qin Xue, Female, 2 years old, Exceptional water spirit root.
Then he looked at the second child after Qin Xue:
Luo Lanying, Female, 2 years old, Exceptional Golden spirit root.
Next is the third child, who is also one of his best-talented children.
[Character: Yan Qingwu.
Gender: Female.
Age: 2 years.
Talent: Fire-type Yin spirit roots.
Cultivation Level: None…]
Apart from Yan Qingwu, there is another child named Yan Qingling, who is only six months old and possesses water-type Yin spirit roots.
In addition, there are more than a dozen children, most of whom only have top-grade spirit roots.
These children have various last names: some are surnamed Qin, some Luo, some Yan, some Luo again, some Li, some Liu, and some Shangguan, and so on…
Additionally, Li Xiaojun also checked his own panel.
His panel contains his name, gender, age, talent, and cultivation level.
However, it has one more category than his daughters: lifespan.
[Name: Li Xiaojun.
Gender: Male.
Age: 37 years.
Talent: None.
Cultivation Level: None.
Lifespan: 3598 years.]
His lifespan of over a thousand years is due to Li Xiaojun recharging it for emergencies.
Besides the character panel, he found another feature that delighted him: he could control whether or not to have children.
In the past, every time he had relations with a woman, the system forced him to have children.
Now, he could completely control not having children.
This way, he and his wife could enjoy their lives without worrying about having too many kids.
Wang Qiuyu had given birth to seven daughters over the years, which had taken a toll on her health.
Now, with this newfound control, he didn’t have to worry about unexpected pregnancies.
"Alas! But I still can’t cultivate!"
After reviewing the features updated in the system, Li Xiaojun sighed.
The new features are all great, but they are not what he wanted.
What he truly desired was the ability to cultivate.
However, he quickly accepted the situation.
He had no choice; he couldn’t control what features the system would introduce.
The good thing is, with the system’s immortality feature, he no longer feared life-threatening conditions.
Even if he got killed, he could be resurrected.
With the ability to exchange energy value for lifespan, as long as he acquired enough spirit stones, he could achieve immortality.
Time quickly passed to the moment of completing his task.
One day, Li Xiaojun discovered that the woman assigned by the Immortal Gate had top-grade spirit root talent again.
Without hesitation, Li Xiaojun recharged once more and then consumed 5000 years of lifespan to conceive offspring.
"Qingqing, please tell the Ninth Elder that this time it’s still ten thousand spirit stones.”
After finishing, Li Xiaojun said to He Qingqing.
"Okay," He Qingqing nodded.
A week later, He Qingqing delivered ten thousand spirit stones to Li Xiaojun.
After deducting the cost of five thousand spirit stones, Li Xiaojun earned an additional five thousand spirit stones.
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
One day,
[System Notification: Detected target as an earth spirit root talent.
1. You may choose to consume 10 years of lifespan to enhance your offspring.
2. You may choose to consume 50 years of lifespan to enhance your offspring.
3. You may choose to consume 250 years of lifespan to enhance your offspring.
4. You may choose to consume 1000 years of lifespan to enhance your offspring.
5. You may choose to consume 5000 years of lifespan to enhance your offspring.
6. You may choose to consume 25000 years of lifespan to enhance your offspring.]
"What?"
Hearing the system notification, Li Xiaojun was stunned.
He didn’t expect that the counterpart was an earth spirit root cultivator.
"What’s wrong?" A woman beside him immediately inquired upon hearing Li Xiaojun’s words.
