Chapter 771: Whispers from the Womb

Land of Eternal Night.

Under the boundless, pitch-black night, Lu Changsheng and Yun Wanshang quietly waited for the Three-Colored Flower to mature.

“Heavenly Light pierces through the night sky sporadically, while Earthly Light is far more common. Many spiritual objects you see are formed by absorbing Earthly Light.”

The pair sat shoulder to shoulder as Yun Wanshang continued to educate Lu Changsheng, explaining the intricacies of the Land of Eternal Night.

Not far away, Qian Zhuyan, tall and sturdy with a chilling metallic sheen, watched the pair who looked every bit like lovers, the soul fire in her eyes burning eerily.

For some reason, seeing her master with one woman after another stirred an inexplicable displeasure within her usually emotionless soul.

“Bang!”

Any mutated beast or strange creature that dared to approach was instantly annihilated by Qian Zhuyan and her puppet in a flash of lightning, without the three Golden-Armored Guards even needing to lift a finger.

Although Lu Changsheng noticed Qian Zhuyan’s increased activity, he attributed it to the oppressive environment of the Land of Eternal Night and didn’t think too much of it.

Time slipped by, and before they knew it, over half a month had passed.

That day, the Three-Colored Flower suddenly bloomed at a visible rate, swaying and scattering a brilliant, crystalline rain of petals, as if countless tiny stars were erupting and falling, filling the air with a sweet fragrance.

“The Three-Colored Flower is fully mature!”

Seeing the Three-Colored Flower in full bloom, Yun Wanshang’s beautiful eyes lit up with joy. She quickly circulated her magical energy, covering her fair, jade-like palm, and carefully dug out the entire plant.

From its leaves to its roots, the Three-Colored Flower shimmered with a dreamlike, colorful glow, like a delicate glasswork, crystal clear and exquisite.

“Lu Changsheng, this is your first time consuming such a spiritual object, so you may experience some discomfort. Let’s return to Azure Cloud City first, then you can consume it in peace.”

Yun Wanshang placed the Three-Colored Flower into a jade box she had prepared beforehand and handed it to Lu Changsheng with a smile.

She was in high spirits, knowing that each rare spiritual object brought her one step closer to returning home.

“Thank you, True Lord.”

Infected by Yun Wanshang’s joy, Lu Changsheng happily accepted the jade box.

If he wasn’t worried about his wives, concubines, and children at home, he wouldn’t have minded spending more time with Caiyun Zhenren in the Land of Eternal Night.

After spending this month together, he had a better understanding of the Caiyun Zhenren before him, and she slowly began to resemble the master he had seen in his soul dreams.

Soon after, the group set off towards Azure Cloud City, where Yun Wanshang was based.

The journey to Azure Cloud City was very long. Although Yun Wanshang kept several Night Hawks, she dared not use them lightly in these perilous deep mountains and could only use them once they were out of the mountains.

Otherwise, they would be in great danger if they encountered any mutated beasts or strange creatures.

Seven days later, a system notification suddenly sounded in Lu Changsheng’s mind.

[Congratulations to the host, your descendants have birthed 10,000 offspring, reward: one advanced lottery draw.]

“Huh!? An advanced lottery draw?”

Lu Changsheng paused inwardly. He hadn’t expected the system to give out advanced gifts once his descendants reached ten thousand.

If this continued, wouldn’t he receive an advanced lottery draw every few years?” He suddenly thought of something. Seeing Yun Wanshang looking at him, Lu Changsheng explained softly, and then the group continued on their way.

Half a month later.

“Azure Cloud City is just ahead.”

On the Night Hawk, Yun Wanshang stood side by side with Lu Changsheng, only a few feet apart.

Lu Changsheng could clearly smell the rich fragrance, like a proud, snow-resistant plum blossom, yet fresh and elegant.

To him, with his fourth-rank physique, the current Caiyun Zhenren was virtually defenseless.

If he had malicious intentions, she would be no match for him, even if she had recovered much of her magical energy.

However, Lu Changsheng sensed an invisible trust from these details.

Or rather, a trust had quietly formed between them from the moment they met and reunited.

“Mm.” Without Yun Wanshang needing to say more, Lu Changsheng had already seen the bright, dazzling city under the night sky, as bright as day.

Half an hour later, the Night Hawk fell from the sky like a black shooting star.

“Greetings, City Lord!”

The armored guards on the city wall bowed respectfully when they saw Yun Wanshang, filled with surprise and respect for Lu Changsheng, who walked down from the Night Hawk.

After all, how could someone who could ride alongside their City Lord be ordinary? Especially with Lu Changsheng’s outstanding appearance and temperament, it was clear that he was no ordinary person!

The two entered the city together.

Although Azure Cloud City was called a city, it was far from comparable to the Immortal Cities of the cultivation world. Even the Immortal City of Damengze could easily crush Azure Cloud City by several levels.

The city walls were built entirely of blue stone, and although many array patterns were engraved and arranged, they were very crude.

Lu Changsheng knew that these formations were arranged with the help of beast crystals and were far less sophisticated than the formations of the cultivation world.

After the two arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion, Yun Wanshang arranged a residence for Lu Changsheng and said, “Lu Changsheng, rest for a few days first. I’ll help you protect the Dharma when you refine the Three-Colored Flower later.”

“As for your spirit pet, once you awaken some magical energy, you can use the Water Mirror Technique to project its appearance. Then I’ll instruct people to search and inquire about it.”

Yun Wanshang, dressed in a colorful palace robe, was tall and elegant, but her words and actions were gentle and quiet, like a kind elder.

“Okay.” Lu Changsheng replied with a smile, his expression natural and casual.

Three days later.

Inside a cultivation quiet room in the City Lord’s Mansion.

Under Yun Wanshang’s protection, Lu Changsheng gently opened the jade box and plucked a shimmering, iridescent petal from the Three-Colored Flower, placing it in his mouth.

The Three-Colored Flower was highly valued by Yun Wanshang for good reason. Its medicinal properties were extremely potent.

The moment the petal entered his mouth, it felt like being burned by raging flames.

As he chewed and swallowed, a strong Heavenly Light bloomed within his body, like a blazing sun rising and burning his internal organs.

However, Lu Changsheng possessed the Chaos Body, a fourth-rank physique, and the Kidney Divine Treasure. His body was like an impregnable Immortal City, remaining unmoved no matter how the medicinal power impacted it!

Realizing that the Three-Colored Flower’s medicinal power was stimulating his physical Qi Sea Dantian, thus awakening his dormant Qi and blood, magical energy, and divine sense, Lu Changsheng directly stuffed the remaining petals and even the entire Three-Colored Flower into his mouth.

“Lu Changsheng!?”

Yun Wanshang’s expression instantly changed when she saw this, wanting to stop him.

She had previously told Lu Changsheng that such a spiritual object like the Three-Colored Flower was extremely overbearing, and the Heavenly Light it contained might damage his physical meridians, so it had to be consumed slowly.

“I’m fine.”

Lu Changsheng grinned, revealing a set of crystal-white teeth.

Although he felt pain, it was bearable.

“Buzz buzz buzz!!!”

As the Heavenly Light of the Three-Colored Flower stimulated him, the dormant Qi and blood magical energy within Lu Changsheng’s body began to surge, as if to revive.

Time flowed by, minute by minute, and his body began to glow.

After about a quarter of an hour, the medicinal power of the Three-Colored Flower reached its peak in his body, like a thunderclap, surging wildly, washing and purifying his Qi Sea Dantian, internal organs, and limbs.

However, Lu Changsheng looked at his Qi Sea Dantian, which only had some slight ripples, and was completely dumbfounded.

That’s it? That’s all there is to the Three-Colored Flower?

Lu Changsheng was dumbfounded, filled with doubt.

He knew that the Three-Colored Flower could only help him awaken some of his dormant Qi and blood magical energy.

But he never expected that the awakened Qi and blood magical energy would be less than one percent!

At this rate, wouldn’t he have to find hundreds of Three-Colored Flowers to completely awaken his dormant Qi and blood magical energy?

“Lu Changsheng, how are you?”

Yun Wanshang looked at Lu Changsheng as he woke up, her beautiful eyes full of concern.

She had been frightened when the latter had directly consumed the entire Three-Colored Flower.

“Could his body refinement have reached Quasi-Fourth Order?”

Yun Wanshang saw that Lu Changsheng was unharmed and couldn’t help but wonder, secretly guessing.

When she saw Lu Changsheng’s strength before, she suspected that his body refinement had reached the peak of the Third Order.

Now that she saw him consume a Three-Colored Flower as if nothing had happened, she suspected that his body refinement was more than just the peak of the Third Order and might have reached Quasi-Fourth Order! As for Fourth Order body refinement, she didn’t dare to guess in that direction.

After all, it was too absurd.

“I’m fine, it’s just that I feel like the Three-Colored Flower only helped me awaken less than one percent of my magical energy.”

Lu Changsheng looked at the beautiful Caiyun Zhenren before him, feeling puzzled and wanting to know if this was his problem or if the Three-Colored Flower’s effect was only this much.

“Less than one percent?”

Yun Wanshang frowned slightly, feeling that it shouldn’t be like this.

She pondered for a moment and then asked Lu Changsheng about the situation just now, finally arriving at a conclusion.

Lu Changsheng’s physique, magical energy, and divine soul were too strong, causing the Three-Colored Flower’s stimulation to be insufficient.

“This-”

After drawing this conclusion, Yun Wanshang was dumbfounded.

She knew that she had consumed a Three-Colored Flower in her early years, and its effect was far better than Lu Changsheng’s.

But how could there be such a big gap when both were Core Formation Stage cultivators?

Moreover, she had Dual Cultivation with Lu Changsheng in her early years, using Yin-Yang energy to nourish her Psychic energy, and her Golden Core had already been upgraded to the Immortal Golden Core level.

Could Lu Changsheng’s magical energy be stronger than the Immortal Golden Core? Yun Wanshang looked at Lu Changsheng with a surprised expression, as if she were looking at a monster.

“Is it related to my foundation?”

Lu Changsheng pondered, hearing this.

Under the stimulation of the Three-Colored Flower, he felt that he had awakened some dormant Qi and blood power in addition to his Qi Sea Dantian.

So this was the reason why the Three-Colored Flower had limited effects on him? “It may be because you cultivate both body and magic.”

Yun Wanshang said aloud.

This was the only possibility she could think of.

After all, aside from the fact that she was far inferior to Lu Changsheng in body refinement, how much worse could she be in other aspects?

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“True Lord, if that’s the case, how long will it take to find hundreds of spiritual objects like the Three-Colored Flower?”

Lu Changsheng couldn’t help but ask.

“Spiritual objects like the Three-Colored Flower are almost impossible to find except when Heavenly Light descends and Earthly Light surges.”

Yun Wanshang knew what Lu Changsheng was thinking and said softly.

The other party had only cultivated for over a hundred years and had wives, concubines, and children at home. Being trapped here for decades would undoubtedly be a huge torment.

“Almost impossible to find.”

Lu Changsheng clenched his fists tightly, knowing that it was almost impossible for him to leave the Land of Eternal Night in a short time.

“Lu Changsheng, you are extraordinary in strength and possess a fourth-rank puppet. Later, we can go to some restricted areas to explore. Perhaps we can harvest more spiritual objects.”

Yun Wanshang comforted softly. Her clear voice, like pearls falling on a silver plate, was gentle and delicate, as if to soothe the haze in others’ hearts.

The two had had intimate contact.

But when they first met, Lu Changsheng was just a Qi Refining junior cultivator, and later he fell in love with her disciple, Xiao Xiyue, causing her to always see Lu Changsheng with a bit of a feeling of looking at a junior.

“Thank you, True Lord.”

Lu Changsheng took a deep breath and slowly exhaled.

If he wasn’t anxious to go home, he wouldn’t have minded spending time with this Caiyun Zhenren in this world and increasing their feelings for each other.

After all, men always have special feelings for certain women.

Just like Lu Miaoge, the first fairy he saw when he first entered the cultivation world;

And like Yun Wanshang before him. Since he was here, he might as well settle down.

Knowing that he couldn’t leave the Land of Eternal Night in a short time, some thoughts couldn’t help but emerge in Lu Changsheng’s mind.

He felt that he could take this opportunity to properly cultivate his relationship with Caiyun Zhenren.

The relationship between Yun Wanshang, Xiao Xiyue, and Chu Qingyi, the three masters and disciples, had always given him a headache.

Especially Chu Qingyi and Yun Wanshang.

After all, with Xiyue’s personality, as long as he coaxed her well and bedded Caiyun Zhenren, he didn’t think Xiyue would be too resistant.

But Chu Qingyi’s character might not be able to tolerate her master and her lover together, with the master and disciple sharing a husband.

Yun Wanshang was the same, fearing that she would be difficult to accept the master and disciple sharing a husband.

But letting him give up Yun Wanshang was absolutely impossible.

Although Lu Ancestor usually had a refined and easygoing personality, he still had a strong sense of machismo and possessiveness in his bones.

It was only these days that he was focused on leaving the Land of Eternal Night, so he didn’t have too many thoughts about men and women.

“If-”

A thought suddenly emerged in Lu Changsheng’s mind.

If he brought a child back with Yun Wanshang, would this matter be settled?

After all, his child with Chu Qingyi had already been born. After Yun Wanshang went back, could she break up the two of them again? Besides, she said before that she would host the wedding for him and Xiao Xiyue, but she left instead. It wouldn’t be too much to change it to Chu Qingyi at this time, right? And she had a child with him. After going back, even if she was resistant, she couldn’t say anything else, right?

With Chu Qingyi’s submissive nature, seeing that her lover and her master already had a child, she would probably just accept it silently, right? “Alas, Lu Changsheng, you are truly shameless to use a woman’s feelings and a child as a bargaining chip.”

As soon as this thought emerged, Lu Changsheng couldn’t help but scold himself in his heart.

“Give me the appearance of your spirit pet.”

Yun Wanshang saw Lu Changsheng suddenly staring blankly at her and paused, pretending to say nonchalantly.

Although the two had been polite and respectful to each other for more than a month and hadn’t mentioned any emotional topics, they were still ambiguous.

Now that this little thief knew that he couldn’t leave the Land of Eternal Night in a short time, he was probably thinking about her after all. This little thief dared to boldly declare in front of her back then, “Step on the peak of Azure Cloud and embrace Caiyun in his arms.”

Unless he had changed his nature, she didn’t believe that Lu Changsheng before her had no thoughts in this regard.

However, thinking of the other party’s previous bold words, Yun Wanshang had to admit at this moment that this was not an empty statement.

With the other party’s growth over the past hundred years, Yun Wanshang believed that as long as he left the Land of Eternal Night, Lu Changsheng would be able to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm in just a few years.

“Okay.”

Lu Changsheng suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his heart and used the little magical energy he had awakened to cast the Water Mirror Technique, clearly projecting the appearance of the Golden-Winged Roc.

“Rest well first. If you have time, you can study the Celestial Light Force. It might be helpful to you.”

Yun Wanshang stood up, her colorful palace robe swaying gently as she left gracefully.

“Sigh.”

After seeing Yun Wanshang leave, Lu Changsheng felt a burst of irritability, thinking that it might take several years or even ten or twenty years to fully recover his magical energy and leave this world.

By the time he went back, Chu Qingyi and Yiren’s children would probably have grown up and wouldn’t recognize him as their father.

Although he had many children at home and found it difficult to take care of them, he knew that children still needed to see and be with their parents during their childhood.

“System.”

After a long time, Lu Changsheng muttered in his heart and opened the family interface, wanting to see the appearance of the two children through this method.

However, at this moment, he was stunned to find that he had an unborn child.

What the hell?

He had been in the Starry Sea all these years. Where had he made a baby? He was already somewhat confused when Chu Qingyi suddenly gave birth to a child. How could another one come now?

Shen Baishuang? Shen Yiren? Or the Six Paths Demon Concubine!? Lu Changsheng’s heart tightened, and he immediately thought of the three women he had recently had relations with.

At that time, under the effect of [Tears of the Fairy], he and the three women fully released their primal urges, so it was highly likely that the three women were pregnant. But for these wives and concubines without formal marriage, Lu Changsheng could only see who the mother was after the child was born.

So now, Lu Changsheng didn’t even know who the mother of this unborn child was.

“It should be Yiren, right?” Lu Changsheng guessed secretly in his heart.

After all, the Second Palace Master, Shen Baishuang, had a wild and domineering personality and was a married woman. If she sensed fetal movement, with her personality, she would probably erase the fetus at the first opportunity.

But thinking that this Second Palace Master had been married for a hundred years and was still a virgin, Lu Changsheng felt that the other party might want a child.

“Could it be that Yuan Wei True Monarch is impotent, so she has always been a virgin and even wants to borrow seed from me this time?”

Although Nascent Soul True Lords had no problem with seizing and reincarnating, there was almost no such thing as “impotence.”

But there were many mystical abilities and spells in the cultivation world. Maybe there was some kind of mystical secret technique that could cause this situation? For example, Ah Youduo was always a young girl and couldn’t get pregnant because she cultivated incomplete secret techniques.

Moreover, apart from “impotence,” Lu Changsheng couldn’t understand at all how a man could not be moved or act in the face of a beautiful wife like Shen Baishuang, who was like a ripe peach.

Thinking this way, Lu Changsheng felt that the Six Paths Demon Concubine’s probability of being pregnant was not small either.

First, the Six Paths Demon Concubine was the one he had watered the most at the time; second, the latter seemed to have entered the Land of Eternal Night like him; after entering, the cultivators’ mystical abilities and magical power were dormant, so even if she sensed pregnancy, she couldn’t erase the fetus as usual.

“Sigh.”

If this child was Shen Yiren, Lu Changsheng would still know how to solve it. He could go to the Divine Maiden Palace in the future and marry her home.

If this child was conceived by Shen Baishuang or the Six Paths Demon Concubine, Lu Changsheng would be a little unsure how to handle it.

Especially the Six Paths Demon Concubine.

Not only was she a married woman, the wife of the number one demonic cultivator in the Starry Sea, but she also refined the White Bone Demon Palace, such a vicious magic treasure.

The Land of Eternal Night and the child’s matter caused Lu Changsheng to be in a mess for a while.

He took a deep breath and forcibly discarded the distracting thoughts in his mind, deciding to let nature take its course.

“System, lottery draw.”

Thinking that he had obtained a lottery draw when his descendants reached 10,000, Lu Changsheng muttered in his heart.

“Be strong.”

Lu Changsheng prayed in his heart, hoping that the system could come up with some elixir or related spirit treasure to help him recover his magical power.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining: Huaying Pill!]

[The reward has been issued to the system space. The host can check it at any time.]

A pill pattern emerged from the roulette, accompanied by a system prompt.