Innate Wife-Acquiring Divine Body

Although his foundation had been crippled, he still retained his cultivation at the Foundation Establishment realm. Because of this, he wasn't truly destitute in Tianyun City.

Upon his return to Tianyun City, the residents still hailed him as an outstanding young talent.

However, having witnessed the wonders of the outside world, he could hardly care about such hollow fame. He spent his days in melancholy.

This continued until his elderly parents begged him to take a concubine to carry on their family bloodline.

Reluctantly, Chen Changsheng agreed to their pleas. He offered a generous betrothal gift to a minor Qi Condensation family in Tianyun City and selected an exceptionally beautiful woman.

The woman's name was Han Xue. She only possessed a low-grade spiritual root. While she wasn't entirely neglected within her family, even with the utmost effort, breaking through to the late stages of Qi Condensation would require a stroke of heavenly luck.

Chen Changsheng only intended to take a wife and sire an heir to put his aging parents' minds at ease.

Yet, to his surprise, this marriage revealed something highly unusual.

On their wedding night, Chen Changsheng's long-dormant heart suddenly flared back to life.

This was because, after consummating his marriage with Han Xue, his previously shattered foundation had miraculously mended by a significant margin.

Many Children, Many Blessings!?

That was Chen Changsheng's initial thought. Unfortunately, even after he and Han Xue had consummated their marriage over a dozen times, he never heard the chime of any so-called system.

However, every time he slept with Han Xue, his foundation would heal just a little bit more.

Upon confirming this phenomenon, Chen Changsheng realized that he likely possessed one of those legendary, one-in-a-billion special physiques.

Since he did not know the exact nature of his unique constitution, he dubbed it the Innate Wife-Marrying Holy Physique.

Over the past century or so, Chen Changsheng had successively married seven wives.

It was not that he did not want to marry more; rather, his Innate Wife-Marrying Holy Physique provided very little benefit when he slept with women of poor aptitude. For instance, even after sleeping with Han Xue hundreds of times, the effect on repairing his foundation was minimal.

Publicly, he was merely a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Women with exceptional aptitude would never choose to marry him.

Thus, Chen Changsheng had to rack his brains for alternatives. He focused on developing the Chen family while simultaneously sending his clan members out to search for women with outstanding talent.

It was not until over a century ago, after taking his fourth wife, that his foundation was finally fully restored through his tireless efforts.

In the years that followed, he truly began to experience the formidable power of his Innate Wife-Marrying Holy Physique.

Although his wives mostly possessed low-grade spiritual roots, the benefits accumulated over time. In just over twenty years, he broke through to the Golden Core realm at the age of one hundred.

However, Chen Changsheng dared not show the slightest hint of his breakthrough. After all, he had no idea if anyone from the Profound Jade Sect was still keeping an eye on him.

If word of his advancement to the Golden Core realm got out, he genuinely feared that the grandson of that Nascent Soul expert would track him down, cripple him once again, or simply kill him outright.

Therefore, Chen Changsheng bided his time for a century. While quietly utilizing his Innate Wife-Marrying Holy Physique to marry wives and raise his cultivation, he constantly gathered intelligence on the Profound Jade Sect.

It was only recently, after breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm and gaining a great deal of confidence, that he finally dared to publicly reveal his cultivation at the Golden Core realm. This revelation vastly increased his influence over Tianyun City and the surrounding areas.

However, now that he had reached the Nascent Soul realm, women with ordinary aptitude provided negligible benefits to his cultivation.

Chen Changsheng was just planning to use his public breakthrough to the Golden Core realm as an excuse to seek out women of superior talent, when the Lu family practically delivered Lu Ling'er to his doorstep.

Reaching the fourth level of Qi Condensation at the tender age of eighteen—and in a small, resource-poor place like Tianyun City no less—immediately piqued Chen Changsheng's interest.

After personally inspecting her, he found that Lu Ling'er's aptitude was indeed no weaker than his own had once been. This meant she had a great chance of reaching the Golden Core realm, and her odds of achieving the Nascent Soul realm were not as impossibly slim as they were for others.

Truthfully, this was an immense temptation for Chen Changsheng. After all, supreme-grade spiritual roots were a once-in-a-century rarity in the cultivation worlds of the surrounding nations, and those with high-grade spiritual roots were already highly valued disciples in major sects.

Thus, Chen Changsheng decisively offered a betrothal gift.

Lu Shanhe, who was only twenty-some years younger than Chen Changsheng, was a shameless old fox. The moment he saw Chen Changsheng arrive with the proposal, he agreed to marry Lu Ling'er off to him without even glancing at the betrothal gifts.

Indeed, although Lu Ling'er was only eighteen, her father, Lu Shanhe, was of the same generation as Chen Changsheng. In fact, Lu Shanhe had grown up listening to tales of Chen Changsheng's genius.

Perhaps influenced by Chen Changsheng, the Foundation Establishment cultivators of his generation in Tianyun City had all developed a keen interest in taking wives and concubines.

However, as cultivators, their birth rates were notoriously low. Despite having taken no fewer than ten concubines, Lu Shanhe had only managed to father two sons and a single daughter. Lu Ling'er was that only daughter.

Chen Changsheng's situation was even more extreme. Over a century had passed, and he had yet to sire a single direct descendant.

It was a good thing he didn't actually possess a Many Children, Many Blessings cheat, or he would likely have died from sheer frustration by now.

Because he lacked such a cheat, and because he had kept his true cultivation completely hidden, Chen Changsheng currently had only two surviving wives.

The rest of his wives had mostly passed away from old age.

After all, it was incredibly difficult for those with low-grade spiritual roots to reach the Foundation Establishment realm. Even though his Innate Wife-Marrying Holy Physique could aid his women in their cultivation, it could not shatter the inherent shackles of their poor aptitude.

And a Foundation Establishment cultivation base only grants a lifespan of two hundred years anyway.

Chen Changsheng had grieved over this in the past.

However, life-extending elixirs were inherently difficult to find. Even when he secretly traveled through the surrounding nations with his Golden Core cultivation, he could only procure a few pills that extended lifespans by less than ten years.

In contrast, appearance-retaining pills were not in short supply.

Unfortunately, those were of little real help to his wives.

Thus, after his fifth wife passed away from old age, Chen Changsheng remained solitary for a long period, taking no new wives.

After all, women with low-grade spiritual roots provided no benefit to him now that he was at the Golden Core realm. Furthermore, even with the aid of his special physique, it was still fraught with difficulties for them to break through to Foundation Establishment, ultimately leading to nothing but added sorrow.

His current two wives were a pair of twins he had met thirty years ago. Not only did they both possess mid-grade spiritual roots, but they were also exceptionally beautiful.

Being born of the same mother, they even shared a telepathic connection.

It was with the help of these two women that he had managed to soar from the third level of the Golden Core realm all the way to his current first level of the Nascent Soul realm in a mere thirty years.

Under his tireless efforts over those same thirty years, the two sisters had also successfully reached the Foundation Establishment realm together.

If mid-grade spiritual roots were already this potent, just how extraordinary would a high-grade spiritual root be?

Chen Changsheng continued to ponder this thought until the modest wedding concluded. After all the guests had enjoyed themselves and departed, he made his way to the bridal chamber.

Inside the bridal chamber, Chen Changsheng reached out and lifted the red veil from the bride's head, revealing Lu Ling'er's peerless beauty.

Looking at Lu Ling'er's stunning face, Chen Changsheng sighed in his heart.

Although he was nearly two hundred years old, it seemed true that what men loved most were eighteen-year-old maidens in the prime of their youth.

Ling'er, it's time to consummate our marriage.

Hearing his words, Lu Ling'er slowly opened her tightly shut eyes.

Upon seeing that the Chen Changsheng before her was actually a young man as handsome as a banished immortal, the last trace of nervousness and confusion in her heart quietly dissipated. She said shyly, "I leave everything up to you, Husband."

The spirit lamp in the bridal chamber was quietly extinguished. Truly, a moment of the spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold.