148: One hundred children, two top prizes

If there's something to say, make it long; if there's nothing, make it short.

Another half year passed.

“Na na na…”

“Little rascals, dinner time!”

Liu Miao clapped her hands and shouted loudly at the children playing in the courtyard.

Hearing Liu Miao's voice, the little ones gathered from all directions and corners.

They lined up in two long queues, stretching their necks to peek ahead, eager to see what Aunt Miao had prepared today.

“Pfft~”

Bai Zhiwei, who was in charge of distributing food nearby, laughed out loud, “Sister Miao, are you calling piglets?”

Liu Miao handed the packed food to a four or five-year-old boy in front of her, then looked at the long queue that almost extended outside the courtyard, and said grumpily:

“Aren't they piglets? Each one eats more than a piglet!”

“Hmph~”

“I'm not a piglet! Daddy said the more you eat, the taller you grow!”

The little guy was very displeased and wanted to say more, but was shoved aside by a taller child behind him.

“It's my turn!”

The Fledgling Eagle Courtyard had over seventy children aged two and above. They usually studied, practiced martial arts, and ate together, making it incredibly lively.

Having Cultivated the Green Wood Body Sculpting Art, the children all had large appetites. Just for food, two to three hundred catties had to be prepared daily.

As the director of Liu's kindergarten, Liu Miao worried herself sick over these children every day.

She had to oversee their meals, mediate their conflicts, and ensure their safety… Especially since some of the children's mothers were engrossed in Cultivation and rarely looked after their children, completely entrusting them to Liu Miao's care.

Fortunately, Liu Miao wasn't doing all this alone. She had a group of servants under her, as well as a few close girlfriends. Although it was taxing, it wasn't overly exhausting.

“Sister Miao, how many children are there on the island now? There are so many, I can't keep track.”

Bai Zhiwei also needed to Cultivate and learn to draw talismans, so she had little time to look after the children. Apart from a few favorites, she didn't know many of the other children.

“It seems…,” Liu Miao thought for a moment, “ninety-nine!”

“No!”

“A female cultivator on the East Courtyard side is about to give birth, which will make it exactly one hundred!”

“One hundred!”

Bai Zhiwei was stunned.

She knew Liu Xuan had many children, but she was still surprised when she heard the number one hundred.

One hundred! Many small Families, after decades of development, didn't even have one hundred direct descendants.

Liu Xuan, by himself, had accomplished in less than ten years what a Family would take decades or even a century to achieve!

It was simply… simply… she didn't know what words to use to describe it.

Liu Miao was also stunned by the number.

One hundred children! A single room couldn't hold them all. Even smaller Dao Academy schools didn't have that many people!

What kind of stimulation did her younger brother receive? Why was he so obsessed with having children?

One hundred was clearly not Liu Xuan's goal. Not long ago, ten young female cultivators came from the Sect. It was said they were Concubines chosen from a Sect beauty pageant, and they were expected to start getting pregnant soon.

With one hundred children and nearly one hundred Dao Companions and Concubines, the Fledgling Eagle Courtyard was already full. Some nearby small courtyards had been taken over by Liu Xuan using his authority.

During times of peace, Liu Xuan used his Concubines, as Outer Sect Disciples, to fill the quota for Sect Enforcement Team Disciples.

As for the original Law Enforcement Team members, some who were willing to leave were dismissed and sent back to the Sect. Those unwilling to leave were bought out and returned to the Sect. If they refused to be bought out, they were forced to voluntarily return to the Sect.

The White Crane Lake Law Enforcement Team had a total of one thousand members. Liu Xuan only replaced one hundred people, and not many were forced to leave, so it didn't cause much of a stir.

‘Forget it!’

‘Having many children isn't a bad thing. The more children there are, the more prosperous the Liu Family will be in the future.’

Liu Miao shook her head and didn't think much about it. Her younger brother, Liu Xuan, was no longer the child who needed her care for everything. He had his own opinions… [Ding! Congratulations to the Host for the birth of his hundredth descendant, a ninth-grade Spiritual Root, earning 500 Low-Grade Spirit Stones.]

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for achieving the ‘Family Prosperity’ achievement, earning the innate Divine Ability: Eye of Delusion Breaking.]

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for reaching thirty descendants with Spiritual Roots, achieving the ‘Immortal Clan Cornerstone’ achievement, earning the special fourth-tier Spirit Treasure: illusory god treasure robe.]

It really just so happened that two achievements were completed simultaneously! Life is truly full of coincidences.

Nothing much happened in the past year, and coupled with the stimulating rewards from the System when Yang Xiaoyun gave birth, Liu Xuan worked a little—just a tiny bit—too hard… Toiling day and night, sometimes attending to several Junior Sisters at once, and not neglecting the Concubines from various Families in Yongning, giving them the most fervent care.

Effort brings reward, and hard work yields results. Now was the time for Liu Xuan to reap his harvest.

Liu Xuan quickly checked the two new grand prizes. A golden eye pupil phantom and an ‘all-colors,’ or rather, an indescribable color, treasure garment phantom quietly appeared in his Sea of Consciousness.

[Eye of Delusion Breaking: Innate Divine Ability. It can see through the essence of all things in the world, unfooled by illusions, deceptions, disguises… All disguises not exceeding one major Realm above its own cannot hide, and even disguises at a level higher than one major Realm can be detected as abnormal.]

“Awesome!”

Liu Xuan swallowed, almost unable to suppress the excitement in his heart.

Divine Ability! This was something only Golden Core True Persons could access, and innate Divine Abilities were things only top-tier races or Immortal Masters in Reincarnation could possess.

Eye of Delusion Breaking! Seeing through the essence of all things in the world, unfooled by various illusions. Although it was an auxiliary Divine Ability, it was more valuable than most combat-oriented Divine Abilities.

There are many methods in the Cultivation world. What's terrifying isn't being unable to defeat others, but not even recognizing the enemy, and still helping them count money after being tricked.

Having a Divine Ability that can see through illusions and deceptions can often help avoid danger in advance, keeping one in a safe state at all times.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Liu Xuan checked the other grand prize.

[illusory god treasure robe: Fourth-tier Low Grade Spirit Treasure, a special Spirit Treasure with no Cultivation usage restrictions. It can perfectly simulate the aura and Divine Soul of any living being below the Nascent Soul Realm. It cannot be directly seen through by Divine Abilities at the Immortal Master level and above.]

Finally, a treasure that can disguise Cultivation has arrived!

A fourth-tier Spirit Treasure, it can not only disguise lower-Realm Cultivation but also higher-Realm Cultivation. It can not only pretend to be a pig to eat the tiger but also pretend to be a tiger to eat a pig. It's truly a good item for killing, plundering, and traveling!

Treasures of this level could no longer be measured by Spirit Stones, or rather, simply having Spirit Stones wouldn't allow one to buy them. One also needed corresponding Cultivation or background.

If you weren't at that level, even if you got lucky and made a small fortune, you wouldn't be able to buy things of that level.

Obtaining two top-tier grand prizes simultaneously—one that could see through disguises and one that allowed him to disguise himself—was simply perfect!

A question suddenly arose in Liu Xuan's mind: If the Eye of Delusion Breaking could see through illusions, could it see through the disguise of the illusory god treasure robe?