Chapter 192 - 109: Harvest and Appearance
Xu Lei cultivated for a full day.
Just as he’d finished digesting a tiny bit of the Demon Core,
Shi Yi came once again to request Charitable Giving.
She and the Fourteenth Prince wanted to have another child.
Without any hesitation, Xu Lei followed procedure and led her to the Almsgiving Room.
It was another round of frenzied Charitable Giving.
These days, no women suitable for Xu Lei’s Charitable Giving were coming to the Bu Zhong Hall.
Occasionally, some female Devotees would arrive.
But they weren’t exactly suitable for Xu Lei’s Charitable Giving.
Besides, Xu Lei had already fathered quite a few children.
Three of his bloodlines had even made their way into the Royal Family.
When it came to fathering children, Xu Lei had become quite laid-back.
From now on, it was best to let nature take its course.
Xu Lei’s days fell into a routine: daily Cultivation, some light management of the Bu Zhong Hall, and frenzied sessions of Charitable Giving with Shi Yi.
「One month later.」
Shi Yi became pregnant and left the mountain.
Then, unexpectedly, just over ten days later,
the Princess herself came again to ask for a child.
Without hesitation, Xu Lei took her hand and led her into the Almsgiving Room.
What followed, naturally, was another frenzied round of Charitable Giving.
It took about another month.
She, too, became pregnant again and departed the mountain.
The Crown Princess Consort, however, did not come again for a child.
This was because Xu Lei had completely cured her of her blocked fallopian tubes in a single session.
After all, it was rather dangerous for her, the Crown Princess Consort, to secretly seek a child behind the Crown Prince’s back.
That was why Xu Lei hadn’t treated her the same way he treated the Princess,
insisting she had to be the one to seek him out for Charitable Giving.
「Three more years passed in the blink of an eye.」
On this day, three years later, inside a Cultivation Room at Celestial Zen Temple, Xu Lei opened his eyes and let out a long sigh of relief.
A slight smile touched his lips.
Because today, he had finally advanced another Small Realm,
reaching the Late-stage Bodhisattva Tree Realm.
Through Introspection, he could see the tree within his Lower Dantian had grown even taller and larger.
"Lotus Hand!"
When Xu Lei now channeled his Magical Power, the seven Lotus Treasure Fragments could form a shape resembling a clawed hand.
Its offensive power would be far more ferocious.
After a brief test, Xu Lei withdrew the power.
’I can actually activate more Lotus Treasure Fragments now!’
Xu Lei muttered to himself. ’It’s a shame I only have seven!
I have no idea where to get more of these!
And it seems like a huge pain to refine them myself!’
「Another day passed in the blink of an eye.」
After arranging the affairs of the Bu Zhong Hall at Celestial Zen Temple, Xu Lei descended the mountain.
He was going back to see Su Chun, Yan’er, and the others.
As he was leaving Celestial Capital City,
Xu Lei paid a visit to the Zhao Family’s tavern.
However, he saw that the signal lantern had not been hung out.
This meant the Zhao Family had not discovered any trace of Hui Cheng, nor of any of the eleven remaining Enchantresses that walked the Mortal World.
So Xu Lei didn’t think much more about it.
And set off on his journey.
Of course, Xu Lei never expected that the affairs of the Mortal World could be so unpredictable.
He had been using the Zhao Family’s influence to search for Hui Cheng for years without success.
Yet, to his surprise, he discovered a trace of Hui Cheng the moment he returned to the vicinity of Guangyuan Temple.
He was in the city, walking down a street, when he suddenly recognized him as they brushed past each other.
Hui Cheng no longer had a shaved, bald head.
Instead, he had grown a full head of white hair.
He was dressed like any other ordinary old man.
Even the scar on his face had been concealed by some unknown means.
As for the eye Xu Lei had blinded, it was impossible to tell if it had been healed
or replaced with a remarkably seamless-looking fake.
Either way, he didn’t look blind at all.
Furthermore, he was much chubbier than before.
He had turned into a portly old man.
’No wonder the Zhao Family has been unable to find him all these years.’
Xu Lei thought to himself. ’Hui Cheng has managed to erase every single identifying feature I gave the Zhao Family.’
’Even if a member of the Zhao Family came face-to-face with him,’
’they probably wouldn’t realize he was the man I’m looking for.’
Even Xu Lei himself might not have recognized Hui Cheng just by looking at his plumper face.
It was the man’s silhouette from behind, along with his gait, that made Xu Lei’s heart skip a beat.
Only then did he take a closer look at the man’s eyes and brows.
And that’s when he confirmed it: this man was Hui Cheng.
Xu Lei then began to tail Hui Cheng discreetly,
looking for an opportunity to capture him.
After all, it was difficult to make a move in the city with so many prying eyes around.
But what was even more shocking was that he then saw Hui Cheng arrive right outside the home of Xu Yan’er and Xu Shan!
’What’s going on?’
Xu Lei was stunned. ’Did he find out I was the one who set him up back then?
And does he know I married Yan’er in my secular life?’
But after a moment’s thought,
Xu Lei dismissed the idea.
After all, he had been extremely careful back then.
His marriage to Xu Yan’er, for instance, had only been arranged after her mother proposed it.
It was completely disconnected from the identity he had used when he moved against Hui Cheng’s Dao Companion and son.
Xu Lei didn’t believe Hui Cheng could possibly trace such a convoluted chain of cause and effect.
Xu Lei kept his composure.
He first returned home in his identity as Xu Lei.
Yan’er had now blossomed into a voluptuous woman.
She no longer had the pure innocence of her youth,
but she possessed a unique charm all her own.
Of course, she had also given birth not long ago.
So Xu Lei didn’t get intimate with her.
Instead, he simply held her gently.
"Brother Xu Lei!"
Seeing him, she hugged him back and said, "An old gentleman came to visit! He’s also a wielder of Divine Power and Magical Ability!
He even showed me his Divine Power and Magical Ability!
He said that my newborn son has excellent talent for Cultivation!