Immortal after a Hundred Reincarnations

’That woman, Zhou Ya, actually possesses such skill!’

The Emperor was utterly shocked when he received the report. ’To think she could actually assassinate King Ning!’

He had no idea that Xu Lei was behind Zhou Ya, continuously supplying her with his Power.

This was because Xu Lei himself had not appeared to meet with the Emperor.

「Another month passed in the blink of an eye.」

The Emperor announced the evidence to the world.

King Ning had plotted rebellion, and the evidence was irrefutable!

The Court dispatched its army to suppress the insurgency!

With King Ning’s sudden death, his followers were left leaderless.

They were swiftly taken down by the Court’s grand army, offering little in the way of proper resistance.

When the other Vassal Princes learned of the bizarre and terrifying assassination King Ning had suffered, they were all filled with trepidation.

They had no idea what kind of methods the Emperor had employed.

For a time, the realm actually became much more peaceful because of this.

The Vassal Princes grew somewhat more respectful toward the Royal Family.

However, the Emperor didn’t dare to make a move against the other Vassal Princes rashly.

The conflict between the Vassal Princes and the Royal Family continued.

The Zhou Family’s name was cleared.

Father Zhou was even hailed as a paragon of loyalty.

The Royal Family, sympathetic to the fact that only one member of the Zhou Family remained, went so far as to have the Empress Dowager adopt Zhou Ya as her goddaughter.

This granted Zhou Ya the noble title of Commandery Princess.

In addition, she was granted a fief of nearly a thousand acres.

Within this fief was a saltpeter mine.

This was, of course, a condition that Xu Lei had Zhou Ya propose.

Based on some articles Xu Lei had read back on Earth, he recalled the general locations of certain saltpeter mines.

Then, by analyzing the geography of this world, he was able to roughly deduce the mine’s location.

After all, as a woman, Zhou Ya had no way of entering the civil service to become an official.

And Xu Lei, being a man of religion, couldn’t be bothered to be an official either.

So, they had directly asked for this kind of benefit.

「Another three months passed in the blink of an eye.」

Zhou Ya was already pregnant with Xu Lei’s child.

It was a girl.

Meanwhile, on the fief she had been granted, tenant farmers had already been hired to cultivate the land.

Xu Lei also put on a Human Skin Mask and married Zhou Ya.

Although Xu Lei himself looked like a mortal man in his sixties, after putting on the Human Skin Mask, it was as if he had a beauty filter on.

The wrinkles on his skin vanished.

So, to outsiders, there was no problem at all.

After all, Zhou Ya lived in the secular world and needed to maintain a certain public image.

The child she would give birth to also needed a proper identity.

Originally, the Emperor and Empress Dowager had wanted to arrange a marriage for Zhou Ya with a scion from an Official Family.

But of course, Zhou Ya could no longer be married off.

She was already pregnant with Xu Lei’s child.

So she told them that she only wanted to be with the person she loved.

She only wanted to take a live-in husband.

She didn’t want to become the daughter-in-law of an Official Family; she just wanted to live a quiet life.

She was frightened by the treacherous and unpredictable nature of officialdom, with its hidden dangers and murderous intent.

The Emperor and Empress Dowager agreed and promised they would protect her so she could live in safety.

Of course, the Emperor still wanted to inquire about the methods used to eliminate King Ning and the identity of the person who had truly been behind it.

But Zhou Ya wouldn’t say.

Later, the Emperor stopped asking.

In any case, the matter came to a close just like that.

Xu Lei had no interest in getting involved in the subsequent struggles between the Royal Family and the Vassal Princes.

This time, he had acted merely to help Zhou Ya get her revenge.

After all, killing a single King Ning was nothing to someone like Xu Lei.

Doing something for his woman was no problem at all.

However, because Zhou Ya had settled down and was also pregnant, Xu Lei stopped traveling around.

He settled down directly on Zhou Ya’s fief.

He lived together with Zhou Ya.

His days were spent in Cultivation, continuing his research on explosives, and bestowing Charitable Giving upon Zhou Ya’s lips.

This was because the saltpeter from the mine had to undergo a certain process before it could be turned into a material suitable for making Gunpowder.

But Xu Lei hadn’t memorized the specific steps back then.

He only had a general idea and a vague impression.

Therefore, he could only experiment over and over again.

「Another year and a half passed in the blink of an eye.」

Zhou Ya had given birth to a daughter for Xu Lei.

The daughter was very healthy and adorable.

Zhou Ya’s body had also recovered well.

And Xu Lei had finally finished processing the ore from the saltpeter mine.

He successfully refined it with charcoal, sulfur, and other ingredients to create Explosive Firepowder.

On this day, after her body had fully recovered and she had been fiercely bestowed with Xu Lei’s Charitable Giving for several months...

"Immortal, let’s have another child, shall we?"

Zhou Ya said suddenly, "Having only a daughter isn’t ideal, after all.

It’s better to have a son.

Let’s have a son, okay?"

By now, she was quite satisfied with Xu Lei.

Although Xu Lei was actually much older than her, when it came to the matter of Charitable Giving, Xu Lei could still satisfy her.

Besides, although Xu Lei had said at the beginning that their relationship was a transaction and she was like a Maid, he had actually given her a great deal.

Now, he had even married her in the secular world.

And she was his only woman.

He hadn’t taken on any other Maids.

"Alright, let’s have another one then."

Xu Lei nodded. "It is better to have a son."

In this lifetime, Xu Lei had actually fathered quite a few children.

This included the children he had previously arranged to enter the Daoist and Buddhist Sects, who had now achieved a certain level of Cultivation.

Although many of them had no chance of successfully attaining the Dao, there were still quite a few who had cultivated to the point of possessing Magical Power, extending their lifespans, and being able to have children of their own.

So now, as for whether he had more children or not, he didn’t actually care that much.

But since he could still have more, there was no harm in having a few more.

Besides, Zhou Ya had to live in the secular world.

In this world, a woman without a son of her own would indeed be subjected to the private gossip and pointing fingers of some mortals.

Therefore, after he finished speaking, Xu Lei simply embraced Zhou Ya’s delicate body and began to fiercely bestow his Charitable Giving.