198: Chapter 197 Cultivation Level Soars

The Hao Family — Ever since Xiao Ye destroyed the God of War of the Lei Family, he had begun his grand enterprise of taking concubines.

It must be said that Central Province is truly the center of the continent; the quality of beautiful women here is indeed a cut above the rest.

Any Young Miss from a noble family could be treated as a Saintess if placed in the East Sea Region.

Not only are they beautiful, but their talent is also outrageously strong; many are already in the Void Refinement Realm just past the age of a hundred, making them Prodigies who could walk sideways in the East Sea Region.

Xiao Ye turned no one away. As long as they were beautiful and the System rating was high enough, he took them all into his harem.

In two months, he had taken over thirty concubines. The speed and frequency of this left some noble families in Central Province dumbfounded.

"Damn! What is going on with this guy? How come he still hasn't stopped?" A head of a noble family held a teacup, his hand trembling.

"Explosive news! Someone went to the East Sea Region to inquire about Emperor Xiao. It is said that he is also a concubine-taking maniac there, having taken no fewer than two hundred concubines in the last thirty years!"

"Damn! Is this something a Cultivator does? Doesn't he need to Cultivate? Taking concubines every day, and his cultivation level can still rise?"

Some bored Cultivators from Central Province specifically ran to the East Sea Region to inquire about Xiao Ye's background, and they were never the same after they returned.

News about Xiao Ye spread among the major noble families of Central Province as if it had grown wings. The more people heard, the more shocked they became, and the more outrageous they found it.

Xiao Ye, Emperor of the Daqian Empire in the East Sea Region. He only started to Cultivate at sixty, yet he had already reached a Breakthrough to the He-Ti Realm in less than forty years.

During this time, he took nearly two hundred concubines and had over four hundred descendants.

He once used his Nascent Soul cultivation to kill a Saint of the Soul Transformation Realm, and used his Soul Transformation cultivation to shake the Mahayana Realm head-on. He possessed countless Divine Artifacts, and his hidden cards were unfathomably deep.

Even more terrifying was that this man's speed of Cultivation was incredibly fast; a single closed-door session could even result in a Breakthrough of several Realms.

"A He-Ti Realm Cultivator under a hundred years old?" An Old Ancestor of the Mahayana Realm from an established noble family gasped, nearly sucking his beard into his mouth. "This is faster than the Saintess of the Sun and Moon!"

The Saintess of the Sun and Moon was the pride of the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, one of the six Holy Lands of Central Province. Legend had it that she was an Immortal in her Reincarnation, having reached the Mahayana Realm at one hundred years old, and was hailed as a Genius rarely seen in ten thousand years in Central Province.

But Xiao Ye was even more outrageous. The Saintess of the Sun and Moon was an Immortal in her Reincarnation, a natural Immortal embryo, so it was only natural for her Cultivation speed to be fast.

What about Xiao Ye? He didn't even have a Spiritual Root before the age of sixty; he was a pure Mortal. In forty years, going from a Mortal to the He-Ti Realm — this speed was simply terrifying.

"Terrifying. Even an Immortal in their Reincarnation wouldn't be this fast, right?" Some Cultivators were so shocked that their scalps went numb, and cold sweat broke out on their backs layer after layer.

Many Cultivators were too shocked to imagine it, because even for an Immortal in their Reincarnation, this would be very difficult to achieve.

Although the talent of an Immortal is strong, the Spiritual Qi in the Lower Realm is thin, and the speed of Cultivation is far inferior to that of the Immortal Realm.

With the same talent, the Lower Realm and the Immortal Realm are completely different concepts.

Yet Xiao Ye, a Mortal with no Immortal Root, no background, and who relied purely on the System, had forcefully carved out a path unprecedented in history.

"This person... how on earth did he do it?"

No one could answer this question. But everyone knew that the sky over Central Province was about to change.

When the news reached the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, the Saintess of the Sun and Moon was in closed-door cultivation.

She opened her eyes, her brows slightly furrowed, and murmured to herself: "A He-Ti Realm Cultivator under a hundred years old? A bit interesting."

She shook her head, closed her eyes again, and continued her Cultivation.

A He-Ti Realm Cultivator under a hundred years old was nothing in her eyes.

She reached the Mahayana Realm at one hundred years old; that was a true Prodigy. As for Xiao Ye? At best, he was just an upstart.

But what she didn't know was that Xiao Ye's path of Cultivation had only just begun.

And she would soon witness what was called an "unreasonable Breakthrough."

For the next half year, Xiao Ye was so busy he couldn't stop moving.

During the day, he plowed new paddy fields, and at night, he still had to flip the name tags. He wished he could split one day into three.

The concubines went into labor one after another, and the System's reward notification sound rang every day or two. Every time he saw the cultivation numbers pop up on the panel, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but stretch to his ears.

Among this wave of newly taken concubines, the one Xiao Ye was most looking forward to was Bunny Baby.

She had been pregnant for two years, and her belly was as big as a small hill. She lay in the courtyard all day sunbathing, while A-Diao squatted beside her, tilting its head to listen to the movements inside, chirping "Jiji ji" non-stop.

On the day of the birth, the midwife ran out in a panic, her face deathly pale: "Master! My Lady, she... she..."

"What happened to her?" Xiao Ye stood up with a start.

"She gave birth to seven! Sevenplets!"

Xiao Ye froze for a moment, then looked up and laughed: "Seven? Hahaha! My Bunny Baby is truly capable of giving birth! Even the Calabash Brothers couldn't give birth like her!"

In the delivery room, Bunny Baby leaned weakly against the head of the bed, holding seven wrinkled little babies in her arms, her face filled with despair.

She had Cultivated for a thousand years and had seen all kinds of storms, but she truly hadn't expected to give birth to seven at once.

Xiao Ye rushed in, kissed each of them, and then kissed Bunny Baby, laughing like a two-hundred-pound child.

All seven babies were Top-grade Spiritual Roots. The System rewarded him with a full 105 years of cultivation on the spot, and Xiao Ye almost jumped up on the spot.

This was just the beginning.

Over the next three months, the concubines went into labor one after another, and the delivery room was never empty.

Zhang Waner gave birth to twins, Liu Qianqian gave birth to triplets, Bai Susu gave birth to quadruplets, Palace Master Mosha gave birth to a pair of twins (a boy and a girl), Hu Meier gave birth to quintuplets, and even several new concubines who had just entered the palace gave birth to descendants.

Full-month banquets were held one after another. Li Fu was so busy he couldn't stop moving and lost ten jin, but the smile on his face became brighter and brighter — he had made a fortune, so it was worth it to lose a little weight.

In three months, seventy-two babies were born.

The midwives were so tired their hands cramped, the palace maids were so tired their legs went weak, and even A-Diao was so tired it lost weight — it was responsible for announcing the good news at the door of the delivery room, chirping once for every birth, until its throat went hoarse.

"Ding — Congratulations to the Host for the birth of a descendant with a Mutated Spiritual Root, reward: 18 years of cultivation, 100,000 Spirit Stones..."

"Ding — Congratulations to the Host for the birth of a descendant with a Top-grade Spiritual Root, reward: 15 years of cultivation, 3 spirit ascension pills..."

"Ding — Ding — Ding —"

The System's notification sound rang for three full months, and Xiao Ye was almost hallucinating from the "Dings."

He added up all the rewarded cultivation — eight hundred and twenty-six years. Eight hundred and twenty-six years.

Xiao Ye looked at this number, his hands trembling. He went into closed-door cultivation for seven days and refined all eight hundred and twenty-six years of cultivation.

His cultivation level soared like a rocket — He-Ti Realm 6th layer, 7th layer, 8th layer... Mahayana Realm 1st layer, 2nd layer, 3rd layer... It rushed all the way to the Mahayana Realm 5th layer before it barely stopped.

The stone door of the secret chamber opened with a bang, and Xiao Ye walked out, his robes fluttering, his long hair flying, his body exuding the terrifying aura of the Mahayana Realm 5th layer.

He stood on the steps, took a deep breath, feeling the surging, sea-like Spiritual Qi within his body, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.

"Congratulations, Master! Congratulations, Master!" Li Fu knelt on the ground, tears streaming down his face.

The concubines stood in the courtyard, looking at that spirited man, their eyes full of pride and adoration.

Bunny Baby held the seven children, leaning against the door frame, the corners of her mouth slightly raised.

A-Diao flew down from the eaves, landed beside him, chirped, and spat out a string of sparks, as if to say: Big Daddy, your cultivation is growing faster than my feathers.

Xiao Ye patted its head and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go see my seventy-two babies. By the way — let's think about what to name the next batch."