Starting with a Family System to Become an Immortal Official-Chapter 80: Family Progress

Two years later.

Li Qingmu was still counting spirit rice.

Ten thousand bags.

Grain by painstaking grain.

He had never finished.

Not even close.

Every time he came within a hair’s breadth of making real progress, life would interrupt.

His three wives were partly to blame.

Chen Yuling, Zhen Rou, and Chen Yuxuan seemed to treat his private counting chamber as an open invitation.

The moment he sat down with fresh resolve and a tall stack of empty bowls, one (or two, or all three) would appear at the doorway wearing thin silk robes that were in all the right places and display their rosy nipples.

Their eyes were always so full of lust.

These women are too perverted!

They will act like ladies with dignity on the outside but they were actually shameless.

They treated him like some cheap courtesan.

It’s like every night they want sex.

"Husband... you’ve been working so hard..."

"Come rest with us for a little while..."

"My special place is very warm for you tonight."

He never had the heart to refuse them.

And each time he satisfied his wives and finished in them until their legs were trembling.

"Husband’s cream is shooo good~"

"Tch. Whatever!"

Then he would stumble back to his mat only to stare at the bowls in confusion.

What number was I on?

Four million something?

Seven hundred thousand?

He started begging them to remember the last few digits he called out before dragging them to bed.

"Please, just hold the number in your mind. Eight hundred forty-three thousand, nine hundred... repeat it back to me."

They would nod obediently and promise to guard the sacred digits with their lives.

That same night he would pound them so hard and so long that by morning they could barely remember their own names let alone a string of numbers.

"Sorry, husband... it was... um..."

"Something with an eight?"

"Ahhh! Sixty-nine! It was sixty-nine!"

Li Qingmu could only pinch the bridge of his nose and start over.

His children were no better.

Especially the twin boys, Li Ah and Li Bei.

They had recently decided that their younger sister Li Zimo was public enemy number one.

Whenever Li Qingmu retreated to count in peace.

DUM! DUM! DUM!

He’d hear pounding footsteps, shrieks, and then—

DUUUUUM!

The door would burst open.

Li Zimo would dart behind him and clutch his robe.

"Father! Protect me!"

She would snuggle closer to him and use her charms.

"They’re going to pull your angel’s hair again!"

The twins would skid to a halt and point accusing fingers as their faces turned red.

"You’re always taking her side, Father!"

"It’s not fair!"

"You’re treating Zimo special!"

Li Qingmu’s eye would twitch.

He would reach for the cane hanging on the wall and march the whole trio outside.

What followed was impartial justice.

Whap. Whap. Whap.

Two boys yelping and hopping.

Then a giggling Li Zimo earned her own three stinging swats for good measure.

By the time he herded them back inside and returned to his bowls...

The number was gone again.

Completely erased.

And then there was Patriarch Zhen Guang.

"That jobless, old fart!"

He must have developed a sixth sense for whenever Li Qingmu approached the halfway mark.

The old man would appear as he liked... usually through a side window or over the garden wall and grin like a fox who had nothing better to do.

One joyful flick of the wrist and rice grains would scatter like startled snowflakes.

"Oops."

Li Qingmu would grit his teeth.

"Patriarch, don’t you have sect affairs to attend to?"

Before Zhen Guang could do worse, Zhen Rou’s voice would ring out fiercely.

"Father!"

The old patriarch would freeze up.

Zhen Rou would storm in with two elders.

Flame Cauldron and Silver Cloud.

"Go home. NOW."

Zhen Guang would blink innocently.

"But Rou’er... your sweet father only came to—"

"Out."

Flame Cauldron and Silver Cloud would each reluctantly take an arm.

The old man would allow himself to be marched away as he painfully muttered something about ungrateful daughters and heartless sons-in-law.

Despite everything... Li Qingmu was content.

More than content.

He had three pretty wives who loved him fiercely.

Children who filled the palace with noise and warmth.

And a clan that grew stronger by the day.

Chen Yuling had given birth to their first son.

Li Yuan.

He was now approaching his first birthday.

[Ding! You’ve obtained 4000 Family Points!]

[Ding! You’ve obtained an Imperial level medicine known as the Golden Leaf Sacred Fruit!]

‣ It can cure clan-ending plagues.

When the boy was three months old, Li Qingmu happily spent three thousand family points to help Chen Yuling form an Earth-Dao Golden Core.

He still remembered how she wept when the core finally condensed in her dantian.

She was convinced her sacred body physique would trap her at Foundation Establishment forever.

Now she was a Core Formation elder.

Zhen Rou had given birth to Li Yuantian first.

Then conceived again almost immediately after the naming ceremony.

Two years later she delivered their second son.

Li Nie.

[Ding! You’ve obtained 2000 Family Points!]

[Ding! You’ve obtained the Purple Crow Soft Armor!]

‣ A special piece of treasure armor with the soul of a Purple Crow sealed inside it. Because of that soul, the armor can protect its wearer from deadly, life-ending attacks up to three times.

The Stage 3 Peach Blossom Immortal Pill had worked miracles on her.

Her natural charm had deepened.

Now Zhen Rou was being mentioned in the same ranks as national-level beauties like Su Liyue and Chen Yuling who were among the sect’s top beauties!

Li Qingmu believed that once she took the Stage 4 pill she would easily stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Big Sis Song and Madam Chen Yuxuan provided their cultivation didn’t increase before then.

The pill had also awakened her dormant Peach Blossom Immortal Bloodline.

Her lifespan stretched an additional 400 years.

[Ding! You’ve obtained a special peach fruit!]

Then he ate it and his own lifespan casually jumped from 830 to 1030 years!

Zhen Rou’s awakening also granted her a blue-grade wood spiritual root.

So Li Qingmu’s yellow wood root upgraded to green.

Su Liyue and Chen Yuling had both offered to teach him the Flora Weaponization Arts of Fragrant Flower Peak that was perfect for his new root.

He always refused.

"Too much reading!"

Then they’d ask again.

Chen Yuling was so eager to teach her husband that she even promised to be naked during classes.

But it was still the same response.

"I’ve spent my life with my nose in books. Being clan chief is enough work."

Back to sweet Zhen Rou.

Her bloodline was so rare that they kept it a secret until its full potential became clear.

She still had not formed a Golden Core... her evolving body and bloodline demanded far more spiritual energy than most cultivators needed.

It made her sad sometimes.

Li Qingmu would simply pull her into his arms and give her lots of affectionate kisses.

"Soon. You’ll break through soon. I swear it."

Chen Yuxuan had given birth to their most astonishing child yet.

[Ding! You’ve obtained 10,000 Family Points!]

[You’ve obtained Nascent Soul Experience Card!]

‣ A special single-use card that allows him to access the power of Nascent Soul realm.

The moment Li Shuming was conceived, a golden rift tore open in the sky above the sect.

The entire mountain range trembled.

The boy was born with an innate golden core.

Many peak elders had already begun petitioning to take him as a personal disciple.

However, Song Yan had quietly informed Li Qingmu that the child would eventually be sent to a powerful sect in the Lower Heaven Realm.

There was no need to worry about his future.

Chen Yuxuan herself had not advanced in cultivation but the system had other plans.

If she cultivated her Heavenly Yin Fertility Constitution to the Deva Body Realm she would awaken another one of the 3000 Heavenly Physiques!

The Chaotic Origin Mother Constitution.

"Woah! I need 100,000 family points to level up her fleshly cultivation to Deva Body Realm!?"

For now he only had 60,000 family points.

Even if he had a 100,000 family points he couldn’t bear to waste it so foolishly.

"I think I’ll just be patient. Hmm."

He stroked his chin with squinted eyes.

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Presently.

Li Qingmu sat alone in his chamber and stared at a fresh bowl as he twirled his chopsticks.

"Twelve million, eight hundred and..."

Soft footsteps.

From the left, Chen Yuling slipped in and wrapped her arms around his left bicep.

From the right, Rou’er did the same with his right arm.

Both pressed warm, fragrant bodies against him.

"Husband ♥️ come with us?"

Chen Yuling murmured in her sweet voice.

Zhen Rou pouted up at him.

"It’s not fair that you stay locked in here all day..."

Li Qingmu sighed like a dramatic old man.

"I’m very busy. The rice won’t count itself."

Chen Yuling sighed in return, mock-sad.

"Husband is always so negative."

"Fine, fine. I’ll come."

Both wives giggled in delight.

Li Qingmu let them pull him up and lead him out of the chamber and down the corridor.

The main dining hall.

He stopped dead in the doorway.

A long table stretched before him and groaned under platters of Chen family delicacies.

Every mouthwatering dish steamed gently.

Chen Yuxuan stood at the far end where she set down one final tray.

She wore a simple cooking apron that strained heroically across her motherly chest.

She tugged at the fabric and laughed softly.

"These breasts of mine... they’re making the apron far too tight lately."

Chen Yuling immediately darted forward.

"Let me help, Mother."

She reached behind Yuxuan and loosened the ties.

The moment the pressure released and Chen Yuxuan sweetly exhaled in relief.

Her magnificent breasts surged forward and threatened to spill free of the thin apron entirely.

Zhen Rou and Chen Yuling both went slightly pale.

They had grown even bigger in the last two years.

Li Qingmu clapped his hands once.

"Let’s eat!"

His three wives burst into delighted laughter.

They guided him to the head of the table and settled him into the master’s chair.

Then they started serving him the choicest pieces.

"Get the biggest meat for husband!"

"And also the biggest rice too!"

"Yeah! Before Zhen Rou eats it all!"

"HEEYYYY!"

The three wives laughed cheerfully.

Li Qingmu just smiled at them.

End of Book 1