474: Eight Diagrams

Seeing Mary so resolute, Qin Shilei found it hard to insist.

"Can I hold our daughter?"

Mary didn't refuse this small request.

As Qin Shilei took his daughter, he also pulled Mary into his embrace.

Mary struggled lightly for a moment, then rested her head on Qin Shilei's shoulder.

"Mary, have you named our daughter?"

"No."

"Our daughter has an Eastern face, how about Qin Banxia?"

"Good."

"Mary, find a secret room. I want to set up a teleportation array here. If anything happens, you can go to Great Xia to find me through the teleportation array at any time. I will also come often to be with you and our daughter."

"Mm!" Mary softly assented, but showed no intention of taking Qin Shilei to find a secret room. Instead, her hands slowly wrapped around Qin Shilei's waist.

After a long while, Mary suddenly broke free from Qin Shilei's embrace and turned to walk out through a side door of the main hall.

Qin Shilei quickly followed, and set up a teleportation array in the secret room she chose.

Mary, holding her daughter, said indifferently, "You should go."

"Mm." Qin Shilei thought for a moment and then said again, "I will arrange for some of my subordinates to come and help you protect our daughter. I hope you won't refuse."

"Mm." Mary's gaze remained fixed on the daughter in her arms.

Qin Shilei stepped forward again, refreshing and fixing several entries for Mary and his daughter.

"I'm leaving."

With that, he turned and left the secret room.

Only then did Mary look up, watching Qin Shilei until he disappeared from sight.

Half a day after leaving Calvia, Qin Shilei returned to Mary's palace.

This time, he brought Han Hongyu, Xu Ruihong, and one hundred members of the Dark Night.

Han Hongyu and the others were all Platinum Experts, and they also possessed Platinum Realm pets.

Coupled with Mary, who had a Snow Spirit Horse, the protective measures for Qin Banxia could be said to be impregnable within two years.

After Qin Shilei finished all this, he was kept confined by An Qian and the other two women for three full days.

"Three wives, may your husband rest?"

"Hmph, if you don't make us successfully pregnant, you won't get out of bed."

"Why is it that we've been together for over a year and our bellies haven't shown any movement, but you only spent one day with Mary and she got pregnant? Did you do something?"

"I think he worked harder on that woman."

"I'm wronged! When did I not satisfy you all?"

"Could it be a problem with the three of us? We'll go see Sister Xiaoxuan tomorrow."

An Qian and the two other women considered themselves still young, so they had never cared that they hadn't gotten pregnant for over a year.

Now, seeing that their husband actually had a daughter, they suddenly panicked.

Early the next morning, An Qian and the two other women sent for Su Xiaoxuan.

Consultation, pulse diagnosis, and finally, even various Western medical examinations were performed.

"Three younger sisters, there is nothing wrong with your bodies at all," Su Xiaoxuan said with certainty.

"Then why haven't we gotten pregnant?" Zhang Xiaoli asked with concern.

"Perhaps the timing of your previous intimacies wasn't quite right, or perhaps your strength is too great, making it not so easy to conceive."

Su Xiaoxuan explained methodically.

"That's not right. Mary was also Golden Six-Star when she got pregnant, so how did she manage it?" Zhang Xiaoli retorted.

"Mary and Qin An King?" Su Xiaoxuan's eyes immediately lit up with gossip.

"Ah, it's good that you know, just don't spread it around." Zhang Xiaoli thought for a moment, but there was nothing to hide.

"Hmph, how can a foreign woman monopolize this honor?"

Su Xiaoxuan said indignantly, "Three younger sisters, don't worry, I will definitely use all my special skills to help you. I will make sure you get pregnant as soon as possible."

From then on, Qin Shilei's miserable life began.

Two large bowls of traditional Chinese medicine soup daily, and half an hour of acupuncture once.

Qin Shilei initially refused firmly, "Our bodies are all very healthy, there's no need to go through all this trouble. As long as we try more, you will definitely get pregnant."

However, no sooner had he finished speaking than An Qian and the others immediately started crying, "Are you trying to prevent us from having your children? You won't even drink a little Chinese medicine, and we're drinking it with you."

Qin Shilei had no choice but to obediently accept the treatment.

Every other day, he would spend one or two hours, using the teleportation array to go to Calvia to accompany his daughter.

Fortunately, the Qin An Royal Mansion had vast resources, otherwise, the nearly 100,000 crystals for each teleportation would not be affordable for ordinary people.

Now, the time until Platinum Realm experts from the Other World could enter Blue Star was less than a month.

For this, the Qin An Royal Mansion held several meetings to discuss defensive issues.

Not only the defense within Great Xia, but also the territories opened up in recent months needed to be defended.

The shortage of high-end power meant that it was impossible to take care of every city.

Excluding the forces of the Demonic Sect and the Zhengqi Alliance, Qin Shilei now had nearly four hundred Platinum Experts under him, and over a hundred Golden Experts who possessed Platinum pets.

These people were divided into groups of thirty-two, with a two-thousand-kilometer area as a defensive unit.

Before sending these people out, Qin Shilei had a great weapon to teach them.

Eight Trigrams Formation (Orange): A formation diagram refined by the formation master Zhuge Xuanji. Once activated, it instantly deploys the Eight Trigrams Formation, with the effect of trapping and killing enemies.

Qin Shilei, however, refreshed and fixed an excellent entry for this Eight Trigrams Formation.

Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram (Orange): The Eight Trigrams Formation can be freely converted between a formation diagram and a diagrammatic manual. When converted to a diagrammatic manual, it can be used for people to learn the methods of deploying the Eight Trigrams Formation.

Originally just an orange-grade item, the Eight Trigrams Formation, after fixing the entry, became a secret formation manual.

Qin Shilei immediately organized his many subordinates to study this secret formation manual.

As an orange-grade secret formation manual, the Eight Trigrams Formation would be impossible to master proficiently without extremely high talent and a long period of study and exploration.

But with the support of a massive amount of Enlightenment Tea, none of this was a problem.

In one day, Evolutionaries above the Platinum Realm proficiently mastered the basic formations obtained from the Demonic Sect and the Zhengqi Alliance.

After another ten days, they also comprehended the Eight Trigrams Formation.

Next, they formed groups of eight, quickly deploying the Eight Trigrams Formation and skillfully manipulating the formation changes.

At this time, five hundred simple formation plates were also refined simultaneously.

Outside Hope City.

Zhang Qiang, Xie Haimei, Xia Yunyan, and five others stood in eight different directions.

As they channeled vital energy into the formation plates in their hands, a mist suddenly appeared out of thin air around the eight people, quickly enveloping an area of several kilometers.

"I'm coming."

Qin Shilei flashed and entered the mist.

As soon as he stepped into the mist, a sword qi slashed towards him from the front.

Qin Shilei raised his sword and also swung out a sword qi, shattering the incoming sword qi.

At this moment, several attacks, both from behind and from the sides, came crashing towards him.

There were sharp arrows, saber qis, sword qis, and even ice cones and fireballs.

The Giant Que Sword in Qin Shilei's hand transformed into streaks of phantoms, deflecting each of these attacks.

Then, he focused on one direction and flew rapidly, but he couldn't fly out of the misty area.

He also tried to unleash area-of-effect attacks like Devouring Thunder. Although the mist weakened, it did not dissipate completely.

Qin Shilei, suppressing his cultivation, experimented in this formation for a full half an hour before emerging from the life gate.