Chapter 9
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Chapter 9: People Under the Eaves
“Mr. Li, this is the situation. I wonder what your thoughts are?”
One day, the Ninth Elder of Biyun Sect personally sought out Li Xiaojun to introduce a few concubines to him.
His words carried a hint of threat, both openly and subtly.
Upon hearing the Ninth Elder’s words, Li Xiaojun felt a bit displeased; he thought Biyun Xianzong was treating him like a breeding stallion.
“Ninth Elder, I love my wife very much. Besides her, I do not want to marry any other woman,” Li Xiaojun replied to the Ninth Elder.
He knew that even if he refused, Biyun Xianzong would not punish him, so he rejected the offer directly.
He could not believe Biyun Xianzong would dare to kill him.
“Mr. Li, it is normal for a man to have a few concubines. I believe your wife would not mind.”
“And don’t worry, the concubines we find for you will all be beautiful women…”
“Ninth Elder, I still do not want concubines…”
“Mr. Li, are you sure you don’t want any? Think carefully about where you are now. If you disagree, your wife may not have a long life…”
Hearing this, Li Xiaojun’s gaze suddenly sharpened, his eyes fixed intensely on the other man.
“Ninth Elder, if my wife dies, I will also take my own life to be with her.”
“Are you threatening me?”
“It was you who threatened me first.”
Li Xiaojun refused to back down.
“Sorry, I may have spoken a bit too harshly, but I advise you to consider this carefully. You know, with our capabilities, even if you disagree, we can still achieve our goals forcefully, such as controlling your mind and so on,” the Ninth Elder said lightly to Li Xiaojun.
Upon hearing the Ninth Elder’s words, Li Xiaojun felt furious, yet he had no way to counter it.
He thought for a moment and then softly replied, “Ninth Elder, this matter is too sudden; can I have a few days to think it over?”
“Sure, I hope you can give me a response within three days,” the Ninth Elder nodded.
After the Ninth Elder left the cave, Wang Qiuyu stepped out of a room.
“Husband, just agree to them,” Wang Qiuyu said to Li Xiaojun.
“This… my dear, I…”
“Husband, please agree to them. I can’t give you a son; perhaps if you have a few concubines, you can have children with spirit roots.” Wang Qiuyu said to Li Xiaojun.
“My dear, rest assured, I will not take any other wives besides you. Even if you kill me, I won’t marry another!" Li Xiaojun said firmly to Wang Qiuyu.
“They just want to find women to help them have children with spirit roots, right? I can agree to that, but I will not take concubines.”
“Husband, you are so good to me.” Hearing Li Xiaojun’s words, Wang Qiuyu was deeply moved.
Three days later, the Ninth Elder visited Li Xiaojun again!
“Mr. Li, how have you considered it?” the Ninth Elder asked Li Xiaojun.
“Ninth Elder, I will not agree to taking concubines,” Li Xiaojun said.
“Are you saying you will not cooperate?”
“Wait, Ninth Elder, let me explain.”
Li Xiaojun spoke to the Ninth Elder, “The Immortal Sect is looking for women for me because they want me to have more children, right? I can agree to have children with some women, but I do not agree to marry them.”
Upon hearing Li Xiaojun’s words, the Ninth Elder’s expression softened, and he even showed a hint of a smile.
“I understand what you mean. That’s fine; as long as you can help the Immortal Sect have more children, it works for me,” the Ninth Elder nodded.
“Ninth Elder, I can help the Immortal Sect have children, but I have one condition,” Li Xiaojun said to the Ninth Elder.
“What condition?”
“For each child I have, I need the Immortal Sect to compensate me with ten thousand spirit stones,” Li Xiaojun stated.
“You don’t have spirit roots and cannot cultivate. What do you need that many spirit stones for?” the Ninth Elder asked Li Xiaojun.
“Because having children consumes my energy, and spirit stones can replenish that energy. Otherwise, Ninth Elder, do you think I can have so many children with spirit roots? It is because I am exchanging my life for it. If my daughter didn’t send me spirit stones every year, I wouldn’t have been able to have five daughters with spirit roots,” Li Xiaojun explained to the Ninth Elder.
The reason he told the Ninth Elder this was a well-thought-out decision.
By revealing that having children requires spirit stones, he could ask the Immortal Sect for spirit stones openly in the future.
His system was still at the initial stage, and upgrading it required energy value of one hundred thousand.
If he didn’t find a way to get spirit stones, who knows how long it would take to upgrade his system.
Moreover, Li Xiaojun also anticipated that upgrading his system might resolve his inability to cultivate.
Right now, he was just an ordinary person, and many things were beyond his control; if someone wanted to harm him, he could only let them do as they please.
Therefore, he desperately longed for cultivation.
He had no spirit roots, so he could only place his hopes on the system upgrade.
He hoped that after the upgrade, it would solve his inability to cultivate.
Hearing Li Xiaojun’s explanation, the Ninth Elder looked somewhat skeptical.
“How can you prove that?” the Ninth Elder asked Li Xiaojun.
In response to the Ninth Elder’s question, Li Xiaojun said directly, “I wonder if the Ninth Elder has any spirit stones on him?”
“I do.”
“Then, can the Ninth Elder give me one hundred spirit stones? I can prove it to you,” Li Xiaojun replied.
“Fine.” The Ninth Elder nodded and waved his hand, causing a pile of spirit stones to appear on the table, amounting to no fewer than a hundred pieces.
“Ninth Elder, watch closely,” Li Xiaojun reminded the Ninth Elder, placing his hand on the pile of spirit stones.
As soon as Li Xiaojun’s hand touched the spirit stones, the system prompted him whether to absorb them.
Li Xiaojun naturally chose to absorb them.
Minutes later, the more than one hundred spirit stones turned into over one hundred points of energy value.
The spirit stones the Ninth Elder had taken out had now become worthless.
Li Xiaojun gently squeezed his hand, and the spirit stones turned to dust.
The Ninth Elder was taken aback at this sight.
He hadn’t expected that Li Xiaojun could actually absorb spirit stones.
In the next moment, he quickly grabbed Li Xiaojun’s hand and used his true essence and spiritual awareness to probe into Li Xiaojun’s body.
After checking, the Ninth Elder discovered that there was absolutely no spiritual energy in Li Xiaojun’s body; he was completely like an ordinary person.
If he hadn’t seen Li Xiaojun quickly absorb over one hundred spirit stones with his own eyes, he wouldn’t have believed it was true.
“Ninth Elder, I didn’t lie,” Li Xiaojun said to the Ninth Elder.
Upon hearing Li Xiaojun’s words, the Ninth Elder thought for a moment and said, “You likely possess some strange constitution that cannot cultivate but can produce excellent offspring!”
“Constitution?” Li Xiaojun asked in surprise.
“Yes, it’s probably a type of constitution that has never been discovered before. It’s a pity, though; you cannot cultivate with this constitution. If you could, you would live a longer life. As long as you live long enough, your offspring might fill the entire cultivation world,” the Ninth Elder said with a smile to Li Xiaojun.
“……”
Li Xiaojun felt speechless; he didn’t want to tell the Ninth Elder that as long as he had spirit stones, he could nearly attain immortality.
“Ninth Elder, may I ask if the Immortal Gate can accept my condition?” Li Xiaojun inquired of the Ninth Elder.
His condition was, of course, the one where he would receive ten thousand spirit stones for each child.
“Ten thousand spirit stones is too much. We heard that Li Yuting only gives you one hundred spirit stones each year, and that’s enough for you to have one child. Therefore, we could only give you a maximum of one thousand spirit stones for each child,” the Ninth Elder told Li Xiaojun.
“One thousand spirit stones is too little…”
“Only one thousand at most; there’s no room for bargaining. If you disagree, we will have to take other measures,” the Ninth Elder said sternly.
“Alright then!”
Li Xiaojun nodded; one thousand would have to do, as it was better than nothing.
