153: Many blessings

Chen Jun's thoughts were like a frozen star river, locked tightly onto those three options.

The raging tide in his heart formed an extreme contrast with his calm exterior.

[Longevity Multiplier] enhanced tenfold?

Every biological child provides 10 days of lifespan per day?

It sounded wonderful, but his lifespan was currently increasing by eleven years every year. Even with a tenfold enhancement, he would gain 120 years of lifespan annually. Subtracting one year for natural consumption, that would be a net increase of 119 years per year.

In the current situation, it didn't seem very useful.

Under his daughters' supervision, he couldn't have children, and without any consumption, he was already a long-lived species!

Purely useless! PASS!

[Multiple Benefits] enhanced tenfold?

The total quantity and quality of inheritance benefits increased tenfold?

It was indeed tempting, but upon closer thought, it was still useless!

As long as his descendants awakened an Acquired Martial Body, he could use resources to smash his descendants within eighteen generations up to the Planetary Level.

The Planetary Level had a maximum lifespan of ten thousand years. Dying of old age would take over nine thousand years... How long would he have to wait to inherit?

Moreover, with the Dragonborn Empire as an infinite resource pack and his daughter Yun Qinglan, an Innate Radiant Body, holding down the fort, resources would only increase in the future.

In the future, let alone the Planetary Level, as long as a descendant's Aptitude reached the Acquired Martial Body level, it wouldn't be impossible for him to stack all descendants within eighteen generations to the Stellar Level Peak... He couldn't exactly kill his own descendants on purpose, could he?

Besides, with the [Kin Source] effect, all descendants were naturally close to him. If one died an unnatural death, it would be like poking a hornet's nest!

Analyzing it this way, the [Multiple Benefits] function was also a Late Stage passive; it wasn't much use in the short term.

Its appeal plummeted. PASS!

Then, there was only one answer!

"I choose to... awaken a new function!" Chen Jun muttered in his heart, with a hint of expectation and trepidation, like a gambler opening a treasure chest.

[Instruction confirmed. Consuming 1 Skill Point.]

[Randomly Awakening a new function for the host...]

[Function Awakening in progress...]

[Congratulations to the host for Awakening a brand-new core function—[Multifortune]!]

[Multifortune]: Lasting blessings, protecting descendants. All of the host's direct descendants (children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren... infinite generations) who produce a new generation will have their birth Aptitude guaranteed by the System. Current effect: Guaranteed Aptitude is [Martial Body (Rank 1)].

[Skill Point Enhancement: For every 1 skill point invested in this function, the guaranteed Aptitude increases by 1 Major Rank.]

[Rule: This guarantee effect ignores the Aptitude of both parents and takes effect forcefully. If the descendant's Innate Aptitude already exceeds the guarantee line, the 'higher takes precedence' principle is followed.]

Chen Jun: "!!!"

He felt as if his thoughts had been struck by an invisible cosmic singularity bomb!

His mind went blank, leaving only those few lines of System text flashing and booming repeatedly!

[Guaranteed Aptitude: Innate Martial Body!]

[Skill Point Enhancement: Each point increases it by one Major Rank!]

[Ignores parents' Aptitude, takes effect forcefully!]

This... this is... Chen Jun suddenly bounced up from his lounge chair!

He really bounced up!

It was no longer that lazy squirming, but as if springs were installed under his butt!

His eyes bulged, and his mouth hung open wide enough to fit a dragon egg!

His original excitement over the System upgrade was now replaced by a much stronger, more primal, and more world-shattering shock!

"Produc... producing Innate Martial Bodies with zero consumption?!" he murmured to himself, his voice trembling slightly. "This... this...?!"

What was the concept of an Innate Martial Body?

In the previous Level 2.0 Civilization of the Human Federation, a single Innate Martial Body was enough for the entire civilization to focus all its efforts on cultivating; they were a future Planetary Level Peak, a cornerstone of the civilization! There was even a slight possibility of breaking through to the Stellar Level and becoming a pillar of support!

And now... the Federation was no longer the Level 2.0 Civilization of the past. An Innate Martial Body didn't just have a slight chance of becoming a Stellar Level; the probability was many times higher!

His System was telling him that from now on, any kid from the Chen Family would start as an Innate Martial Body as soon as they were born?!

He didn't need to consume lifespan to activate [Absolute Guarantee]!

He didn't need the parents to have any extraordinary Aptitude!

He might not even need many cultivation resources, because an Innate Martial Body itself represented a terrifying cultivation speed and weakened Bottlenecks!

What did this mean?

This meant that from now on, his Family would completely transform into a... terrifying ethnic group where everyone possessed an Innate Martial Body!

Imagine this:

With ten thousand descendants now, any children born in the future would be guaranteed to have an Innate Martial Body! In reality, it might be even higher! Because it followed the 'higher takes precedence' rule!

Those great-grandson-in-laws and great-great-grandson-in-laws with ordinary Aptitude would all give birth to children who were guaranteed to have an Innate Martial Body!

The great-great-grandsons of great-great-grandsons... and their great-great-grandsons would all be guaranteed Innate Martial Bodies!

This wasn't even cheating anymore!

This was practically grabbing the cosmic rules by the neck, pinning them to the ground, and forcibly rewriting the fundamental laws of Bloodline inheritance!!!

What if he added another skill point to guarantee an Innate Star Body?

Add two skill points to guarantee an Innate Moon Body?

Add three skill points to guarantee an Innate Sun Body?

... "Hiss—"

Chen Jun sucked in a breath of cold air... it felt as if the air quality of the entire Pillar of Leaders had turned cold because of his inhalation!!!

He slumped back into his chair, his eyes glazed over, but a thought storm that swept through the sea of stars had already erupted in his mind!

"Incredible... simply incredible..." he muttered unconsciously. "This [Multifortune]... it's simply... it's..."

He couldn't find the right adjective... If [Longevity Multiplier] gave him eternal fuel and [Multiple Benefits] provided a guarantee for rapidly increasing his strength in the future.

Then [Multifortune] gave him a... super fertile field that would automatically upgrade forever!

As long as he planted something, even the worst seeds would yield golden wheat ears that started at the Innate Martial Body level!

As for time?

The thing Chen Jun lacked least was time!

What he needed to do now was to let the Family continue to branch out and have kids like crazy!

The more they had, the more high-end combat power there would be in the future!

The higher the quality of the [Multiple Benefits] returns!

The more terrifying the Family's overall strength would become!

The faster the System would upgrade!

This was a perfect, self-consistent, exponentially exploding super positive cycle!!!

"Hahaha! Hahahaha!" Chen Jun finally couldn't help it and let out a frantic laugh in his heart. "My Family will be a walking manufacturer of Innate talent! No! An Innate talent wholesaler! Large quantities and fully satisfied!"

Excitement and exhilaration surged through his body like lava.

However, a few minutes later, this frenzy gradually subsided. Chen Jun slumped back into that lazy posture and even let out a yawn... "Hmm, thinking carefully..." He rubbed his chin, his eyes returning to that "seen-it-all" indifference. "This function doesn't seem to have any immediate effect on improving my personal strength for now."

"If I can't Cultivate, I still can't Cultivate."

"If I'm supposed to win by lying down, I still have to win by lying down."

"It's just that the kids at home will have a higher starting point, grow a bit faster, and have a more promising future..."

He shrugged in a humblebragging way.

"Well, time is my best friend. No rush, no rush."

"I just need to win by lying down!"

"Win by lying down even better!!!"

...The aftershocks of the System's promotion to Level 2 rippled in Chen Jun's heart for a full... three minutes!!!

Three minutes later, he completely returned to that classic "don't disturb my lying down even if the Universe explodes" posture.

"Hmm, Level 2, not bad, not bad." He smacked his lips, as if savoring a Star Pastry that had just entered his mouth.

"Wait? It seems I celebrated too early!"

"The next level is... One Trillion? One Trillion? The total descendant population is only ten thousand now; you're increasing it by a hundred million times?"

"System, are you messing with me?"

He looked internally at the System interface:

[Rank]: Level 2 (Descendants required for next level: One Trillion)

One Trillion.

For a Mortal, this number was a vague concept beyond the reach of imagination.

But for a long-lived being whose lifespan was steadily growing and whose Family was expanding at an exponential rate... Chen Jun rubbed his chin, his eyes glazed over as he began a "rigorous" yet "lazy" deduction.

"Hmm... I currently have... five thousand male great-grandsons?" He recalled the recent Family population growth briefing reported by Chu Yueyao, which he had been too lazy to look at closely. "Yeah, roughly that number."

"Every great-grandson with a 'handle' can theoretically become a new 'Seeding Core'. According to the Family's core values... no, according to their own 'initiative', if each person has two hundred children, and one hundred are male, that's not too much, right? After all, there's the [Kin Source] effect, father-son harmony is guaranteed, at most the wives might fight... but it won't affect anything."

Scenes of his great-grandsons surrounded by beauties, looking proud of 'contributing to the Family', flashed in his mind, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

"Calculating it this way, five thousand times one hundred is five hundred thousand great-great-grandsons. That's the next generation."

"The generation after that, five hundred thousand times one hundred is fifty million..."

"The generation after that, fifty million times one hundred is five billion..."

Chen Jun muttered while gesturing in the void. Although his math was taught by a gym teacher, he could still handle this kind of simple exponential calculation... "Five billion times one hundred is five hundred billion..."

"Five hundred billion times one hundred... Hehe, it's over a trillion?! Fifty trillion!!!"

His eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands: "Done! From five thousand to fifty trillion, needs... let me count... 5,000 to 500,000 (1st gen), 500,000 to 50,000,000 (2nd gen), 50,000,000 to 5,000,000,000 (3rd gen), 5,000,000,000 to 500,000,000,000 (4th gen), 500,000,000,000 to 50,000,000,000,000 (5th gen). Five generations in total!"

"Calculating twenty years per generation... five times twenty equals one hundred years!"

"In other words, in a hundred years at most, maybe even eighty, I can lie back and win my way to System Level 3?! This far exceeded his imagination!!!"

Calculating this result, Chen Jun himself was stunned for a moment.

"Eighty years?"

For him, who used to be a short-lived species, it was a long time, almost a lifetime.

But for him now, holding longevity and his lifespan steadily increasing every second... is eighty years even considered time?

Compared to the 'hard years' when he started from zero, painstakingly having daughters, waiting for grandsons, and hoping for System upgrades... it's as easy as floating in the sea of stars!

"And!" Chen Jun's thoughts opened up, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt the future was bright. "This doesn't even count the kids born after my countless great-granddaughters and great-great-granddaughters marry out! Although they take the mother's surname and their reproductive capacity isn't strong, the System recognizes Bloodlines! As long as they have the blood of my Chen Family, it counts! These female descendants will also have sons!"

"This way, the time will be shortened! Maybe not even eighty years? Even shorter?"

"Jie jie jie!" Chen Jun let out a villainous laugh in his heart:

"How is this the System messing with me? I wronged the System! This is clearly the System giving it away for free!!!"

He seemed to see the beautiful future eighty years later, or even sooner, when the System level increases to 3, another skill point is added, more Heaven-Defying functions are unlocked, or the [Multifortune] guarantee is increased to skyrocket Aptitude again!

"In the future, the guarantee will be Innate Star Body? Or even Innate Moon Body?"

"Then the Chen Family will truly be 'geniuses for everyone, Star Arm Level is like a dog, Stellar Level everywhere'!"

"Stable! Completely stable!" Chen Jun slumped back comfortably in his chair, feeling the path to longevity was a smooth road without any challenges.

"Just need to lie flat peacefully and watch these little brats spread their branches and leaves to win big."

"Effort, struggle, crisis... in the Face of absolute Bloodline expansion, they are all floating clouds!"

"I, Chen Jun, am destined to go further and further on the path of lying down and winning, until I am invincible and eternal!"

His mindset was more relaxed than ever, even more so than before.

"If before it was 'lying down with no fear', now it's 'lying down with the overall situation decided'!"

"Clear goals, clear path, and the process... is extremely comfortable!"

He happily picked up the new tea offered by Li Qingshan and Zhou Zhenshan after their 'competition' and blew on the steam.

"Hmm, this taste of lying down and winning, the more you taste it, the more mellow it becomes..."

...Mindset adjustment complete, Chen Jun felt his thoughts were clear and he was refreshed.

He happily refocused his attention on the game 'The Lonely Fisherman', as if the person who just got so excited he almost jumped out of his chair wasn't him.

"Hmm, why hasn't this fish taken the bait yet?" He controlled the character, changing to a more comfortable slumped position. "Seems I need to use some ultimate moves."

With a thought, he directly invoked 'Ancestor Chen Permissions', quietly adding a few zeros behind the 'luck value' parameter of this character in the virtual universe backend.

The float sank instantly!

"[Ding! You have caught the 'Silent Star Lake' legendary fish king — 'Star Core Koi'! Obtained achievement 'The Aloof King of Luck'!]"

Chen Jun nodded with satisfaction: "That's more like it."

"...While Chen Jun was immersed in the fun of 'lonely' fishing, the chain reaction of the envoys' audience was reshaping the layout of the entire Sagittarius Arm at a speed exceeding light."

"'Dragonborn tribute of 70% of the national treasury's source marrow?'"

"'Her Highness Qinglan, Star Arm Level Peak?'"

"'Ancestor Chen, Galaxy Level or above?'"

"...The spread of this news was followed by even more frantic... fawning and attachment!"

"Dragonborn Empire, Ancestral Dragon Court."

Yan Wuhuo looked at the state letter from the 'Deep Space Crystal Cluster Collective' in his hand. It not only promised to become a vassal state of the Dragonborn but also offered 50% of the nation's annual revenue, just to get a name on the Human Federation's 'friendly civilization' list.

"'Your Majesty, this is already the 173rd such state letter received this week,' the Chamberlain reported respectfully, his Face carrying an uncontrollable joy."

Yan Wuhuo put down the letter, a hint of emotion flashing in his dragon eyes.

"Once upon a time, although the Dragonborn Empire was powerful, which of these surrounding Level 2.4 civilizations didn't have ulterior motives and secret greed?"

"When had they ever scrambled to offer tribute and claim vassalage like this?"

"All of this stemmed from Ancestor Chen's words, and Her Highness Qinglan's earth-shaking battle!"

"'Accept them all and register them,' Yan Wuhuo ordered. 'In addition, in the name of both myself and Ancestor Chen, reply to them: Coexist peacefully, non-aggression. If anyone offends our Alliance again, they will end up like this star!'"

He casually crushed a core star representing a long-extinct civilization into cosmic dust.

"'Yes! Your Majesty!'"

"Human Federation, outskirts of the Pillar of Leaders."

"If finding the Dragonborn Empire to get close to the Federation was a workaround, those finding the Federation directly were even more... The once empty void was now filled with temporary and permanent diplomatic embassy districts."

"Various styles of Star Halls and space stations popped up like bamboo shoots after rain. Their technological content and luxury often represented the strength and 'sincerity' of the civilization behind them."

"These embassies had only one core mission — try every possible way to curry favor with the Human Federation, especially with that mysterious Ancestor Chen, to establish even the slightest connection!"

"And Federation officials, especially the high-level ones, were experiencing 'painful happiness'."

"In Chu Yueyao's office, gifts were piled up like mountains, almost drowning her."

"She rubbed her brow, looking at another diplomatic note worded so humbly it was almost fawning, and said helplessly to Mo Heng beside her:"

"'Dean Mo, if this continues, I won't have to do anything else as Consul but unwrap gifts.'"

"Mo Heng pushed his glasses, complex data streams reflecting on the lenses:"

"'From a sociological and energetic perspective, this "tribute" behavior will greatly enhance the Federation's resources and international status in the short term, but in the long term, we need to establish a complete screening, utilization, and feedback mechanism to avoid civilization dependence and resource waste. I suggest establishing an "Interstellar Relations and Resource Coordination Department".'"

"'Agreed.' Shi Yue's voice came from the communicator. He was leading the Federation fleet on a 'friendly visit' to a civilization that previously had an ambiguous attitude:"

"'These guys used to have their noses in the air, now they're like quails! Perfect, let's "borrow" their most advanced technologies for reference!'"

"Li Qingshan was more direct. He held his sword, guarding the outskirts of Chen Jun Manor. Any envoy trying to approach without permission would feel a Sword Intent that seemed to freeze the Soul and return in disappointment."

"Zhou Zhenshan fully utilized his specialty as a 'service specialist', moving between embassies, accepting gifts with a smile, then saying in official jargon:"

"'Ancestor Chen is already aware of your intentions, just wait for the good news...' earning plenty of Face and benefits."

"The entire Federation, because of Chen Jun's existence, entered a state of high-speed expansion and confident 'lying-win development'."

"Lying and winning really is contagious!"

"..."