401: Chapter 402 Top-Tier Spiritual Body!

As soon as these words were spoken, the Mortals below the stage immediately erupted into an uproar.

Applause and cheers rang out once again.

Ye Changge watched the faces below the stage—some excited, some expectant, some grateful—and felt secretly satisfied in his heart.

His policy of "encouraging eugenics" appeared to be an act of charity, but in reality, it was paving the way for the future of the Family.

Longmai Mountain was neither large nor small, governing over a dozen Mortal towns with a population of tens of thousands.

If he could screen three or five children with Spiritual Roots from them each year, after ten years of accumulation, it would be a considerable batch of fresh Bloodline.

These children, raised by the Family from a young age, would naturally be loyal upon growing up, serving as the most stable cornerstone of the Family.

As for those rewards... for him now, they were merely a drop in the ocean. But in the eyes of the Mortals, they were a heaven-sent gift capable of changing the fate of a Family.

He turned his head slightly and whispered to Lu Shiyin beside him: "Have the accounting office draft a plan later, finalize the reward details, and post them in each town. Distribute them monthly, and do not delay."

Lu Shiyin nodded gently: "I have noted it."

The ceremony concluded completely at dusk.

The Mortal commoners dispersed in twos and threes, filled with joy and anticipation. The clansmen of the Family also began to tidy up the venue and take inventory of supplies.

Ye Changge chatted and laughed with a few children for a while before everyone dispersed to rest.

Days slipped by quietly in this calm yet busy rhythm.

In the blink of an eye, a month had passed.

This morning, Ye Changge was sitting in the Talisman room, lifting his brush to outline the final stroke of a second-rank Medium Grade "golden sword talisman".

The spiritual ink moved with the tip of the brush, leaving a smooth golden pattern on the Talisman paper, the spiritual light flashing and then fading away.

He satisfiedly put down the Talisman brush and was just about to take out the next piece of blank Talisman paper when suddenly—a rush of hurried footsteps came from outside the courtyard gate.

"Husband! Husband!"

The door was pushed open violently, and the figure of Zhao Qingli appeared at the entrance. She was wearing a light cyan dress; her lower abdomen was still flat, but her entire being exuded an unusual radiance.

Her cheeks were flushed with a faint rosy hue, and her brows and eyes carried an irrepressible joy.

Ye Changge put down the Talisman brush and stood up to welcome her: "What is it? Why are you in such a rush?"

Zhao Qingli walked quickly to him, grabbed his hand, and said with a slightly trembling voice: "Husband... I, I think I am with child."

Ye Changge was stunned: "With child?"

Zhao Qingli nodded vigorously, her eyes slightly red: "I have been feeling lethargic these past few days, and I felt nauseous this morning, so I asked Physician Liu from the medicine hall to come and take a look. Physician Liu said... said it is a happy pulse, and it has already been over a month."

Upon hearing this, Ye Changge was first stunned, then a joyful smile appeared on his face. He reached out and gently put his arm around Zhao Qingli's waist, brought her to a chair nearby to sit down, and said warmly: "Really? This is a heaven-sent good news!"

Zhao Qingli sat beside him, her cheeks flushed.

"The sooner the better," Ye Changge laughed, placing his palm on her lower abdomen, slowly channeling a trace of gentle spiritual power to feel the faint rhythm of life.

"You possess the Spirit Nurturing Body, which is naturally fated for bearing offspring. This child will definitely be extraordinary."

Zhao Qingli's face turned even redder from his blunt words, and she gently pushed him: "Husband, don't talk nonsense... What if, what if it is just an ordinary child..."

"Whether ordinary or extraordinary, they are both your and my flesh and blood."

Ye Changge held her hand, his eyes serious, but if the other party could give birth to an offspring with a Fourth Grade Spirit Root, he would probably be able to become a High Grade Spiritual Root himself.

He sighed and sat back down in front of the Talisman desk, picking up his brush.

"Still have to earn money..."

In the following days, Ye Changge spent almost all his time soaking in the Talisman room, drawing batches of second-rank talismans.

He was now a third-rank entry-level Talisman Master, and he almost never failed when drawing Medium Grade Talismans.

A portion of these Talismans was kept as Family inventory, while another portion was sent to the Family's Talisman shop in White Bird Market to be sold.

After the news spread, several nearby Cultivation Families indeed acted upon hearing the wind.

Over the next few days, representatives from three more families arrived one after another.

Some were Foundation Establishment Loose Cultivators, others were stewards from nearby small families, all of them respectful.

Ye Changge received them one by one, registered them in the ledger, and scheduled them in order. In less than five days, the waiting list had already been scheduled until June of next year.

Ye Changge looked at the long string of names in the ledger and smiled helplessly.

"How long will I have to draw..."

However, complaints aside, he still honestly returned to the Talisman room and continued to pick up his brush to outline.

On the afternoon of this day, Ye Changge was in the quiet room outlining the key nodes of a "Tiangang Talisman".

This Talisman was far more complex than ordinary second-rank talismans, with patterns as intricate as a spider web; every stroke had to be precise and error-free, as the slightest deviation would result in failure.

He focused his mind and calmed his Qi, his brush tip hovering above a key turning point, the spiritual ink flowing slowly along the tip...

Suddenly—!

A strange feeling rose from deep within his body!

Ye Changge's wrist trembled, and the spiritual ink on the brush tip nearly went astray. He stopped abruptly, his mind instantly sinking into his body.

That feeling was extremely profound, as if an invisible connection had been suddenly opened, linking his Divine Soul to some distant place.

That connection was warm and majestic, carrying a vast aura of life, like a tender sprout breaking through the soil in spring, and like a rushing torrent of a great river!

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Ye Changge stood up abruptly, completely unaware that the Talisman brush in his hand had fallen to the ground.

His head buzzed, filled with both shock and joy.

Then where did this offspring come from?!

Ye Changge stood in place, his expression instantly becoming extremely colorful.

"...No way, right?"

Meanwhile. Thousands of miles away, in the Yu Kingdom. Five Gu Sect, Heaven Spider Peak.

"Iya, iya!"

Inside the Immortal Cave, the crisp cry of an infant echoed between the stone walls.

A porcelain-like infant was lying in a cradle covered with soft spirit silk, neither crying nor fussing, staring with a pair of large, watery eyes at the stunningly beautiful woman before her, her two chubby little hands flapping happily.

Nangong Zili gently picked up the infant from the swaddling clothes, her fingertips carefully brushing across that delicate little face.

The infant's skin was as white and tender as jade, faintly revealing a lustrous glow, and her body was permeated with a faint, exotic fragrance—sweet and gentle, making one feel at peace upon smelling it.

"My daughter! ... Is this really the daughter of me, Nangong Zili?"

She murmured in a low voice, her charming and bewitching face filled with the soft radiance of a new mother at this moment.

She had been pregnant for two full years. She had thought that it would be a great fortune for this child to be born safely, but she had not expected that upon birth, she would carry strange phenomena.

Skin like jade, body with an exotic fragrance—such innate strange phenomena were by no means ordinary in the Cultivation World. The purity of the Spiritual Root within this baby girl far exceeded the expectations of her mother.