1: Chapter 1 The Golden Finger That Arrived Sixty Years Late

Thunder rumbled outside the window.

A beam of purple light pierced through the roof tiles, struck directly into the bridal chamber, and submerged into the space between Jiang Feng's eyebrows.

A sharp pain traveled through his Meridians.

Immediately after, a mechanical prompt exploded in his mind.

"System detected that the host has completed Yin and Yang communion (becoming Dao Companions), meeting the activation conditions. The Multi-Children, Multi-Fortune System is officially bound."

"Host: Jiang Feng"

"Cultivation: Level 5 Qi Refining (Qi and blood are decaying)"

"Offspring: 0"

"System Rules: For every offspring the host successfully conceives, corresponding rewards will be issued. The cultivation talent of all descendants will be permanently returned to the host at a 1% ratio."

"Initial Task: Successfully conceive the first child to unlock the Newcomer Gift Pack."

The room was so quiet that the dropping of a needle could be heard.

Jiang Feng sat on the edge of the bed, motionless for a long time.

Sixty years had passed.

As someone who had undergone Transmigration, he had originally thought he could live a long life in this world of Cultivation, but reality had dealt him a harsh blow.

Inferior Five Elements mixed Spiritual Root.

For the past sixty years, he had not dared to be the least bit lazy, Cultivating day and night, desperately fighting for those meager Cultivation resources.

Even so, his Cultivation remained stuck at Level 5 Qi Refining.

It was an iron rule of the Cultivation world: if one did not reach the Late Stage of Qi Refining by sixty, the path to immortality was completely severed.

His Qi and blood were decaying, his Meridians were withering, and his Dantian was drying up.

He had already resigned himself to his fate.

Fortunately, he had undergone Transmigration into the Jiang Family, one of the three major Families in Jiangyuan City, which was relatively harmonious internally.

The current head of the Family, Jiang Nan, was his elder brother, who had reached Level 8 Qi Refining.

If it hadn't been for his elder brother secretly subsidizing him with Spirit Stones and Medicinal Pills, and blocking the gossip within the Family for him, he would never have been able to Cultivate peacefully until the age of sixty.

Upon learning that he had given up on immortality and planned to marry and have children, his elder brother sighed for a whole night before personally arranging the marriage.

It was just that although Jiang Feng had high seniority, he was old, frail, and had low Cultivation, so the daughters of other Cultivator Families in the city avoided him.

In order not to make things difficult for his elder brother and not to let the Family be humiliated, he took the initiative to propose marrying Su Wan, a widow who was famous in the city.

Su Wan had a hard life and was known throughout the city as a "jinx."

Her previous husband had died suddenly on horseback on the day of the wedding; they hadn't even bowed in the main hall before she was branded as a husband-killer and driven out of the house.

Jiang Feng didn't care about these things.

He was already half-buried, so what was there to fear about a husband-killer?

He had thought he would just waste away his life in the side courtyard.

Who would have thought that the System would activate on his wedding night.

"I can become stronger by having children, and the talent and Cultivation of my descendants can be returned to me by a percentage."

Jiang Feng clenched his fists tightly.

"Husband... what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell somewhere?"

A soft voice came from beside him.

Jiang Feng turned his head to look.

Su Wan was wearing a wide red wedding dress, sitting on the edge of the bed with a graceful figure.

She was very beautiful, but at this moment, her face was full of fear.

Carrying the stigma of being a husband-killer and suffering endless bullying, she had thought that marrying into the Jiang Family would finally give her a place to stay.

Seeing Jiang Feng's body trembling just now, she assumed her jinx fate had caused trouble again.

"If husband dislikes that Wan'er has a hard fate..."

Su Wan bit her lower lip, her eyes turning red.

"Wan'er can sleep on the floor tonight and will never touch husband's bed."

She stretched out her onion-white fingers and gently pulled on Jiang Feng's sleeve.

Looking at the pitiful woman in front of him, only one thought remained in Jiang Feng's mind.

Verify the System.

He needed to test his hand.

"Wan'er, it's nothing."

Jiang Feng grabbed Su Wan's hand with an iron grip.

Su Wan's body trembled, and she looked up in astonishment.

The eyes staring at her shone with a burning light, not at all like those of a dying old man.

"From now on, you are my lawfully wedded wife."

Jiang Feng's voice was low.

"Whatever jinx, whatever cursed fate, it's all bullshit to me!"

Large tears rolled down Su Wan's cheeks.

In this world, someone finally treated her like a human being.

Before she could even open her mouth to thank him, Jiang Feng's next sentence made her cheeks and neck flush red.

"Now, help me have a child."

Without waiting for Su Wan to speak, Jiang Feng leaned over and pulled her into his arms.

"Husband, no! Your body cannot... cannot take it."

Su Wan panted and tried to push him away, fearing that she would truly kill this man who was kind to her.

"It's fine."

Jiang Feng chuckled and flicked a strand of Qi.

The red candle went out, and the red curtains fell.

The morning light dawned.

Jiang Feng leaned against the soft pillow on the head of the bed and let out a long breath.

A sixty-year-old body was indeed not as good as it used to be, but fortunately, he had the foundation of Level 5 Qi Refining.

After circulating his Qi through his body once, the weakness of his back pain faded by more than half.

He had no sleepiness and stared straight into the Void Realm.

It was extremely difficult for Cultivators to conceive offspring, and it also took time for Mortals to conceive.

But he was gambling, gambling on the uniqueness of the System.

When the first ray of sunlight hit the bed, the mechanical voice arrived as promised.

"Ding! Detected that offspring conception was successful. The first child has entered the gestation state."

"First child mission achieved."

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Newcomer First Child Gift Pack; the reward has been issued to the System space."

"Obtained reward: spirit gathering pill × 100."

"Obtained Ultimate reward: mortal shedding pill × 3."

It worked.

Jiang Feng clenched his fists tightly, his nails digging into his palms.

This was not an illusion.

He probed his Divine Sense into the System space, where one hundred spirit gathering pills were neatly arranged in the corner.

These were the most needed Medicinal Pills for Cultivators at the Qi Refining stage.

After sixty years of bitter Cultivation in the Jiang Family, he could only receive a few Low-Grade Spirit Stones every month, and he couldn't afford a single spirit gathering pill all year round.

With these one hundred Medicinal Pills, a Breakthrough to Level 6 or even Level 7 Qi Refining was just around the corner.

But what really caught his eye were the three snow-white Medicinal Pills in the center of the space.

Just by sweeping his Divine Sense over them, the fragrance of the pills caused the withered Qi and blood in his body to stir faintly.

"mortal shedding pill: Can allow Mortals born without Spiritual Roots to awaken Spiritual Roots and step onto the path of immortality."

Jiang Feng stared at this line of text, his breathing heavy.

It was an iron rule of the Cultivation world: those without Spiritual Roots were all Mortals, turning into dust after a hundred years.

Yet this Medicinal Pill could defy the Heavens and change fate, allowing people to grow Spiritual Roots out of thin air.

Even if it were only the worst mixed Spiritual Root, once the news leaked, it would be enough to trigger a bloody storm across the entire Jiangyuan City and even the Cultivation world.

With this pill, even if he gave birth to offspring without Spiritual Roots in the future, they would still be able to step onto the path of immortality.

Withdrawing his Divine Sense, Jiang Feng turned his head to look beside him.

Su Wan had fallen into a deep sleep.

Her brows were filled with exhaustion, tear stains still hung at the corners of her eyes, and her hands were subconsciously protecting her flat lower abdomen.

Looking at his wife beside him, Jiang Feng's gaze gradually became sharp.

The frustration and mediocrity of the past sixty years ended here.

"Wan'er, sleep well."

He tucked the quilt in for Su Wan.

"You have bestowed upon me a stroke of fortune, and I will return to you a lifetime of glory."

Jiang Feng flipped his hand to take out a spirit gathering pill and swallowed it.

He would reclaim the path of immortality and expand his Family.

He would make the Bloodline of the Jiang Family an immortal Family that would last for ten thousand years in the Thirteen Provinces of the Spirit Realm.