TO ACHIEVE IMMORTALITY, I CULTIVATE USING QI LUCK

Chapter 953: Chapter 397 The Grown-Up Children_3 Chapter 953: Chapter 397 The Grown-Up Children_3 Therefore, to avoid wasting resources, as early as the year the cultivators of the Nine Provinces ascended, once he noticed the fluctuations in Spiritual Energy, Lu Yuan issued orders within the country to execute the more than a hundred Divine Blood Variants bred by the court and collect their Spiritual Blood and spiritual materials.

Just that wave alone allowed the depleted elixir storehouses of Chu State to become instantly wealthy.

After that within the territory of Chu State, Lu Yuan had local officials purchase the Divine Blood Variants from the Jianghu sects.

He also sent Messengers to vassal states, demanding that those vassals contribute their own Divine Blood Variants.

Through a combination of threats and inducements, he secured nearly another hundred Divine Blood Variants both domestically and internationally.

Once he had brought Ning Country to heel, the two-thousand-year foundations of the Coastal Aristocratic Family were looted by Lu Yuan in one fell swoop, obtaining over two hundred Divine Blood Variants.

The total of more than four hundred Divine Blood Variants were all killed for their blood and materials, producing over eleven thousand three hundred elixirs for Chu State.

These elixirs, in addition to the little existing stockpile of Chu State, were sufficient to cultivate twenty-three Inborn individuals for Great Chu.

Such a vast treasure, Lu Yuan naturally wouldn’t give to outsiders; it was taken for granted that it all went to cultivating his own children.

After all, in these tumultuous times, it goes without saying that one’s own family is the most reliable and trustworthy.

So among the remaining twelve children, each one without exception was set on the path of the Inborn, prepared to be trained into Martial Arts Grandmasters.

Moreover, with Chu State needing to recuperate for another thirty or forty years, there was ample time to wait for these children to grow up.

It was not a matter of reluctantly holding onto the elixirs without use, leading to the waste of Chu State’s potential top-tier combat power.

However, even so, there were still eleven unused slots from the accumulated elixirs, left over.

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Fortunately, Lu Yuan’s harem had plenty of concubines, with no shortage of women willing to bear him children, so there was no concern over the elixirs going unused.

The only somewhat problematic issue was that in recent years, as his own cultivation rose and his body gradually transformed towards that of an Immortal’s, the women of his harem remained mortal.

Due to the inherent difference between immortals and mortals, creating a difficulty for immortals and mortals to come together, it has become a bit more challenging for him to have offspring than before.

Moreover, this difficulty continued to climb as time passed.

He estimated that perhaps once he achieved the Four Qi Condensation, with both Ice Flesh and Jade Bone, and his Immortal Body fully developed, he would then be unable to procreate with mortals.

In such a situation, Lu Yuan didn’t know whether he would be able to fill the remaining slots with offspring before he completely lost the capability to have children with mortal women.

But even if he couldn’t fill them all, it wouldn’t matter, at worst, he could designate the remaining elixirs as part of the family legacy, ensuring that in the coming hundreds of years, aside from himself, the Lu family would have generation after generation of Inborn.

Alternatively, using the excess elixirs as rewards to honor his loyal subjects wouldn’t be a bad idea either.

This precious treasure was, after all, not likely to be squandered on his own watch.

After spending a few days with his children, Lu Yuan withdrew from the concerns of supervising his children’s education, which was the role of a worried parent.

It wasn’t that he was tired of being tormented and wanted to slack off.

Frankly speaking, his children were all very diligent and studious, and took their martial arts training seriously.

Their regular studies were overseen by their mothers and the literary and martial tutors of the royal palace, sparing Lu Yuan the need for excessive concern.

His time ostensibly spent teaching his children was actually mostly playing with them, to allow these poor souls, oppressed by their studies, to relax a little.

This was also a way of compensating them, as their father.

Thus, Lu Yuan actually didn’t mind spending more time with his children.

However, he was indeed the emperor, and there were major matters of state that required his attention.

Therefore, when the news came from the North that Zhao Country had launched the Southern Expedition and commenced hostilities with Liang Country,

and after messengers Lu Yuan had sent to Yu State Zheng Country returned half a year later,

faced with these two major issues, he had no choice but to step away from familial joys to deal with the events that would surely affect the power dynamics of the entire Nine Provinces.

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Zhao Country’s desire to invade Liang Country was not a secret and was, in fact, an open piece of news throughout the Nine Provinces.

Starting several years ago, Zhao Country began stationing troops on the border with Liang Country and would constantly send out small-scale forces to harass and penetrate Liang Country.

Liang Country countered strongly.

They also stationed a large number of troops at the border and took a policy of no quarter against any Zhao soldiers bold enough to cross the territory.

Over the years, the two countries have had countless small-scale clashes along the border, and tensions have been at a boiling point.

This immense pressure even prompted Liang Country to temporarily set aside the threat of Chu Country, instead turning to purchase grains from Chu to prepare for the looming war.

Now, after several years of probing, Zhao Country could no longer hold back.

In the middle of last month, which was the thirteenth day of the eighth month of the twenty-fifth year of Shenwu, one hundred twenty thousand troops were mobilized, including twenty Inborn, boldly invading the eastern region of Liang Country.

On the side of Liang Country, the eastern region had originally been stocked with three hundred thousand soldiers and ten Inborn as commanders, who now held strong in their city fortifications, managing to hold the line temporarily.

Moreover, upon receiving the news, Liang Country had already begun to dispatch a steady stream of reinforcements to the eastern region to support it.

Based on the estimates made by the Imperial City’s spies in Liang Country, within a month, Liang Country would be able to muster five hundred thousand soldiers and twenty Inborn in the eastern region.

In three months’ time, it could amass an army of one million, with no fewer than thirty Inborn.

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If Zhao Country couldn’t make a breakthrough before this time frame, once Liang Country fully gathered its forces and responded, it is likely that they would be driven back across the river.

However, even if they managed to secure a foothold in the eastern region, considering Liang Country’s strength, Zhao Country alone would likely struggle to hold its ground.

Therefore, regardless of whether a breakthrough occurs or not, the key to victory in this newly erupted northern conflict does not lie with Zhao Country, but with its neighbor Xu State.

Zhao Xu, the two countries, have, in recent years, already entered into an alliance.

At this point, with Zhao Country making a move, Xu State will surely follow soon.

Only with Zhao Xu This precious treasure was, after all, not likely to be squandered on his own watch.

joining forces, combining the might of two dominions, could they hope to contend with Liang Country.

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