395: Sister, you deserve the best.

Red Pine Sect.

"Buzz~"

A golden light lit up the sky, like a beam of sunlight shooting from the south. The light slowly dimmed, and a great sun flying boat stopped above the mountaintop.

Liu Xuan was accompanied by a cute girl with a delicate oval face, a long and fair neck, and a little girl of five or six years old.

The girl was the crane Yun Yao. Hearing that Liu Xuan was returning to the Red Pine Sect, she insisted on coming along to play.

The little girl was Xin Ci. Her mother Zi Ling was busy with Alchemy and couldn't take care of her, and no one else could be trusted, so Liu Xuan brought her along.

Liu Xuan's Divine Sense swept over the mountaintop. Yue Li was in seclusion in the Red Pine Sect's Secret Realm. His sister Liu Miao was playing with a group of children under the phoenix tree in the South Courtyard, and Lin Xue'er was handling Family affairs in the West Courtyard.

Most of the restless Cultivators within the Red Pine Sect had gone to the Peach Blossom Sect battlefield. Through the Merchant Alliance, the Liu Family had strong control over various regions. Now, the Red Pine Sect territory was even more stable than thirty years ago, with basically no incidents.

Some internal suppression from the Heavenly Sword Sect was handled through communication from Great Sun City. Lin Xue'er and Liu Miao mainly dealt with internal Family affairs.

Liu Xuan first went to the West Courtyard to see Lin Xue'er, telling her he was back. Then he took Yun Yao and his daughter Xin Ci to the South Courtyard to check on the little ones.

"Little Xuan, tell me honestly, how many children are you going to have?"

She pointed at the surrounding crowd of over a hundred children, ranging from two or three to fourteen or fifteen years old. "Look at how many there are! I thought you'd slow down eventually, but instead you're having even more!"

"It's almost five hundred now, a full five hundred!! I can't even remember all their names."

Liu Miao and Lin Xue'er were responsible for keeping the Liu Family genealogy records. They knew each child better than Liu Xuan, their father. She also knew that Liu Xuan's offspring were about to exceed five hundred.

Previously, Liu Xuan had an average of ten children per year. But since obtaining the true dragon essence blood a few years ago, the number jumped to thirty to forty per year.

The main issue was that Liu Xuan himself had gone to the Peach Blossom Sect, leaving all the kids with her. Now, every day she dreamed of being surrounded by children calling her Aunt Miao.

Currently, nearly two hundred children under sixteen lived in the Red Pine Sect, and the number was increasing by dozens each year.

Liu Miao had a strong sense of responsibility. She couldn't bear to leave the children entirely to the maids and insisted on personally checking on every child daily.

Fortunately, there were also the sisters Lingxiu and Ling Yun, as well as some children who disliked conflict and preferred to help the Family with tasks under Aunt Miao, otherwise she would really be overwhelmed.

"Sister, we need to broaden our horizons. The Liu Family is destined to become a super immortal clan. The more offspring, the better!"

Liu Xuan took out a jade box and pressed it into her hand. "Sister, you've worked hard. This is a foundation establishment pill. Keep it; you'll need it later."

Then he took out several jade bottles and stuffed them into her hand. "These are the most suitable Medicinal Pills for your cultivation, top-grade first-rank Runyuan Pills. Eat as many as you want. Tell me when you run out."

Before his sister could speak, he took out a black wooden box and said with a slightly serious expression, "This is a top-grade second-rank Heaven And Earth Treasure, the Heaven Mending Ganoderma. It has the miraculous effect of improving a Cultivator's Spiritual Root Aptitude. You must consume it quickly to avoid attracting covetous attention."

The top-grade second-rank Heaven And Earth Treasure, Heaven Mending Ganoderma, was more precious than many ordinary third-rank Spirit Medicines. It was usually used as a medicinal lead to refine third-rank pills, and few would use it to enhance a Qi Refining Cultivator's Spiritual Root.

The higher the Spiritual Root, the harder it was to improve. The Heaven Mending Ganoderma could at most upgrade a lower-third-grade Spiritual Root by one level. Its effect diminished for middle-third-grade Spiritual Root Cultivators and was negligible for upper-third-grade ones.

It had little effect on Geniuses and was a waste for lower-third-grade Spiritual Root Cultivators.

"This is too precious. It would be wasted on me. Better save it for the children!" Hearing it was a Heaven And Earth Treasure, Liu Miao instinctively refused.

"Sister!" Liu Xuan forced the box into her hand. "How is it wasted if you eat it? You are the pillar of our Liu Family. You deserve the best!"

Although Liu Xuan couldn't stack his cultivation through his sister Liu Miao, her improved cultivation would allow her to better care for the children and help many of them grow better.

Giving it to one child would only slightly increase that child's talent. Giving it to Sister Liu Miao would enhance the growth and education of countless children. Liu Xuan could do that math.

"Stop trying to sweet-talk me. I'm not falling for it!"

Liu Miao said she wouldn't fall for it, but the slight curl of her lips revealed her true feelings.

Without being polite to Liu Xuan, she put away everything. Her expression turned reminiscent as she sighed, "Thinking back forty years, when we siblings left the village, we couldn't even eat our fill. Back then, my biggest dream was to buy a house in the city so we could live normally. I never imagined we'd have today."

Every time Liu Miao was with her brother, she liked to reminisce. But Liu Xuan's memories of that time were vague, and he didn't care much, so he could only go along with her words and fake it.

According to Liu Miao, their parents hadn't died either. The kidnappers, seeing that Liu Xuan didn't take the bait, initially treated them well with food and drink. Later, they beat them daily to vent their anger, but never killed them.

By the time Liu Xuan had fully risen to power in Yongning, they didn't dare to kill them anymore. They kept them under house arrest in White Horse Town.

By the time the Liu Family became the new power in the Red Pine Sect, the underlings didn't even dare to keep them under house arrest. They quickly handed them over to the Merchant Alliance.

Liu Xuan didn't bother with this matter, but Liu Miao was kind-hearted. She had been sending people to 'take care' of them in White Horse Town. She heard that the old couple had reformed.

"Husband!"

"Your Concubine pays respects to Husband!"

"Wah wah wah~"

"Wah wah wah~"

...

While Liu Xuan and his sister were chatting, several of his Concubines who had recently given birth came to pay respects, holding their babies.

About forty children were born each year. Although these children had good Aptitude, they couldn't walk until they were at least half a year old.

Children under half a year old, unless in special circumstances, were generally cared for by their mothers.

If all children were sent to Liu Miao right after birth, she really wouldn't be able to handle it.

Babies who couldn't even walk were the most troublesome to care for. They couldn't be left alone for a moment, crying and fussing, and soiling themselves.

Liu Xuan took a five-month-old little one into his arms.

With a chubby little face and cheeks puffed up like two small buns, it looked soft and squishy.

A pair of big eyes like black grapes stared at Liu Xuan curiously. Its adorable look melted hearts.

Liu Xuan leaned in and took a sniff. A unique milky scent made him want to take a bite.

"Little one, I'm your dad. Call me daddy!"

It looked at Liu Xuan, then turned to its mother, pouted, and said, "Mom!"

"Mom!!"

"Wah wah wah~"

Its little hands reached out desperately toward its mother, crying heartbreakingly.

"Here, take it!"

Liu Xuan tried to soothe it for a while but couldn't, so he handed the child back to its mother.