Immortal after a Hundred Reincarnations

He eventually lost track of the Fourteenth Prince.

So he climbed to a high vantage point and observed with the Telescope Xu Lei had given him.

To his surprise, he saw the pregnant Demon Consort in the middle of the forest—a place she had no business being.

She even killed several of the Fourteenth Prince’s Personal Guards who had entered the woods!

She even revealed her ferocious true form.

And devoured the Personal Guards’ hearts!

When the bodies of those Personal Guards were finally discovered,

only mangled corpses and shattered bones remained.

Young Master Zhao was naturally horrified, his heart nearly stopping from the shock.

Afterward, he didn’t even dare to return to the Fourteenth Prince’s evening feast where they were to cook their game.

He just shouted from a distance that he had suddenly received a message by carrier pigeon and had to return home to handle an urgent family matter, and with that, he left.

And that brought them to the present, with Xu Lei now accompanying him.

After a simple announcement,

the Fourteenth Prince soon appeared.

"Hahaha, Old Zhao, you’re done handling your family affairs?"

He laughed. "That game from last time was truly delicious.

Too bad you missed out!

By the way, it wasn’t because you caught too little game last time, was it?

You weren’t just being a sore loser and trying to weasel out of it, so you ran off, right?"

"Absolutely not! There really was a family matter to attend to!"

Young Master Zhao added, "Your Highness, as you know, I manage many of the Zhao Family’s businesses.

Sometimes, there are things that I absolutely must handle in person!

Oh, right, let me introduce you. This is a good friend of mine from the business world..."

"A pleasure to meet you, Fourteenth Prince."

Xu Lei also smiled. "I’ve long heard Brother Zhao say the Fourteenth Prince is a dashing and extraordinary man. Seeing you today, I see he wasn’t exaggerating at all!"

Although the Fourteenth Prince was a little surprised by Xu Lei’s arrival,

not expecting Young Master Zhao to have made such a new friend,

he naturally welcomed him all the same.

After all, although he was a Prince,

he didn’t actually hold any real power.

"Your Highness, who’s here?"

Just then, a charming young woman with a noticeably swollen belly appeared from within the residence. She said, "Oh, it’s Young Master Zhao!"

"Sister-in-law!"

Young Master Zhao said, "I had to leave suddenly due to a family matter before.

I felt bad about it, so I came today specifically to apologize.

I hope you don’t find my visit to be an imposition."

"Greetings, Princess Consort."

Xu Lei added, "Your Highness is truly blessed. Looking at her belly, she must be five or six months along, right?

And judging by the Princess Consort’s healthy complexion, I’m sure it will be a son!"

The Fourteenth Prince’s smile was radiant.

He was clearly overjoyed about having a child.

「Two hours later.」

Xu Lei and Young Master Zhao were seated at the banquet hosted by the Fourteenth Prince in his residence.

During the banquet, Young Master Zhao glanced casually at Xu Lei.

Xu Lei shook his head.

Young Master Zhao immediately sighed softly.

He had been holding onto a sliver of hope that the baby in the Consort’s belly was real.

But now, after two hours of careful observation, knowing that the Consort was a Demon,

Xu Lei had determined that the baby in her womb was most likely fake.

Perhaps she knew the Fourteenth Prince was childless and faked it to toy with him.

Or perhaps she genuinely liked the Fourteenth Prince and was using the pregnancy to win his heart.

As for how to handle the actual birth later?

She could just snatch a newborn from a common family.

As long as the Fourteenth Prince never found out, it would be fine!

"So?"

Young Master Zhao then asked, "Brother Xu, are you planning to stay the night here?"

"I have a meeting with a Shopkeeper in the city."

Xu Lei said, "I’m afraid I can’t stay long. I need to go back and close that business deal."

"Since you’re returning to the city, Brother Xu,"

Young Master Zhao breathed a sigh of relief and nodded. "and since I was the one who brought you here, it’s only right that I accompany you back."

This was because it showed that Xu Lei had no intention of making a move on the Demon Consort right now.

After all, based on his recent observation, Xu Lei wasn’t sure what kind of Demon this was, nor could he gauge the Demon’s strength. So naturally, he didn’t dare to act rashly. He planned to find an expert and then they would act together.

As for what to do if the Demon Consort sensed something was wrong and fled in the meantime?

They would just have to accept it.

After all, even though Xu Lei had already fathered many children and was guaranteed to be reborn as a male if he were to reincarnate now, he was still in the prime of his life.

Furthermore, he had previously married women like Su Chun and Yan’er in the mortal world under an alias.

If he failed to capture the Demon and got killed instead, Xu Lei would have to use one of his lives to resurrect.

He couldn’t bear to leave Yan’er and the others behind to live out their days as widows.

Although Xu Lei wasn’t with them at the moment,

leaving them to carry their pregnancies at home,

he would definitely go back to them eventually.

Therefore, Xu Lei didn’t want to risk his life for a single Demon Core.

A life was far more useful than one Demon Core.

With Xu Lei’s current Cultivation, his lifespan had already been extended by fifty or sixty years.

Adding that to his natural lifespan, he could live to be over a hundred no matter what.

The results he could achieve by using that long life for Cultivation

were far greater than the benefits of refining a single Demon Core!

Thus, taking a risk now was not worth it for Xu Lei.

Of course, Xu Lei and Young Master Zhao didn’t take their leave immediately.

After all, they couldn’t act unnaturally.

Since the Demon Consort hadn’t harmed Young Master Zhao before, it meant she probably had no intention of attacking him, the Fourteenth Prince, or the others just yet.

She was only eating some ordinary servants.

So, as long as Xu Lei and Young Master Zhao acted normally,

they should be fine.

They would just attend the banquet as normal.

They could go back later and return with experts.

Of course, even though Xu Lei was a Cultivator,

he was still, in fact, a normal person.

After all, he was practicing Cultivation, not evolving into a non-human creature.

The character for Immortal is composed of the ’person’ radical next to the character for ’mountain’.

It means a person who is as mighty and great as a mountain.

Becoming an Immortal absolutely does not mean losing one’s humanity.

Those stories about the Immortal Families severing all emotional ties and cutting off their humanity

are all just about Cultivators in the early and middle stages of their Cultivation, forbidding themselves this and that in order to advance on the path to longevity.

This led to rumors spreading among the common folk, making mortals believe that Immortals have no humanity.

But that’s not actually the case.

A few minutes later, after they had been at the banquet for some time,

Xu Lei felt the call of nature.

So he excused himself and got up to go to the latrine.

After leaving the banquet hall,

Xu Lei didn’t go sneaking around the mountain villa.

He wasn’t about to cause any trouble.

He just obediently went and took a dump.

After he was done,

Xu Lei leisurely strolled back to the banquet hall.

BAM!

But unexpectedly, just as Xu Lei was rounding a corner,

a woman, trailing a faint, fresh fragrance, suddenly charged toward him from the opposite direction.

At this moment, because Xu Lei knew there was a Demon in the villa,

and he didn’t want the Demon to realize he was a Cultivator,

he was naturally suppressing himself, not using an ounce of his Magical Power.

Without using his Magical Power, Xu Lei was just an ordinary adult man.

Therefore, Xu Lei let the woman crash right into his arms.

The impact even forced Xu Lei to take a step back.

The woman in his arms was also stunned.

She probably hadn’t expected to run into anyone.

At this point, with both of them off balance,

Xu Lei didn’t fall, as he was in decent shape with strong legs.

But the woman nearly did, so she subconsciously grabbed Xu Lei’s waist with her delicate, jade-like hands,

making it look as if she were hugging him.

Of course, just as Xu Lei was enjoying the soft and gentle feel of her body,

she instantly regained her footing.

Her pretty face blushing slightly, she ended the transfer of body heat through their clothes.

Only then did Xu Lei get a clear look at the woman’s face.

She was about eighteen or nineteen, with fair skin, cherry-like lips, and delicate features—a charming classical beauty.

Of course, Xu Lei noticed that her hair was tied up.

This indicated that she was already married.

Although she looked like a high school girl from Earth,

her hairstyle showed that she was, in fact, a married woman.

Moreover, at this moment, her beautiful eyes were brimming with tears.

And now those tears were spilling over, streaming down her fair cheeks.

She had been rushing headlong with tears in her eyes, which is why she had crashed into Xu Lei as he suddenly appeared from around the corner.

Now, the impact made her delicate shoulder ache.

The physical pain, combined with the grievance in her heart, made the tears unstoppable.

Of course, she said nothing to Xu Lei.

She just wiped the tears from her cheeks,

lifted her skirt slightly,

and jogged past him,

leaving behind only a refreshing, pleasant, and unique fragrance.

Xu Lei looked back.

He watched her graceful figure,

his attention drawn involuntarily to her full, swaying hips.

Just as Xu Lei was wondering about her identity,

"Princess Consort, Princess Consort!"

A handmaiden came chasing after her from inside. "Wait for me!"

Hearing this, Xu Lei instantly understood. The delicate young woman who looked like a high school girl must be the Fourteenth Prince’s principal wife, the Princess Consort.

Apparently, while Xu Lei was in the latrine,

she had also arrived at the estate.

And for some unknown reason, she had a conversation with the Fourteenth Prince

that left her feeling wronged and tearfully running away,

and she just happened to run right into Xu Lei.