Chapter 247: Chapter 41: Romantic Cultivation (Part 2)
By using Pei Yuqing’s name, Fang Cheng naturally attracted people willing to be his followers, who bustled about arranging all sorts of matters for him.
Coupled with several great families from the Yuan Country who were eager to curry favor, he was able to meet several beautiful Loose Cultivators from the Register of Beauties who lacked powerful backing.
After a campaign of seduction and persuasion, he took three more beauties from the Register of Beauties as his concubines.
During this time, someone trying to curry favor with him even gifted him a Magical Artifact: a magnificent, oversized bed carved from beautiful jade. The bed was inscribed with an Array originating from an Ancient Dual Cultivation Secret Scripture.
Besides its wondrous aphrodisiac effects, the bed could also make any woman on it fall deeply in love, becoming infatuated with and undyingly loyal to the Magical Artifact’s owner.
Initially, those beautiful Loose Cultivators, proud of their looks and harboring a degree of reserve and arrogance, had looked down on Fang Cheng’s Dream Spirit body. They only compromised after facing various threats and enticements.
Later, seeing that Fang Cheng was actually quite handsome, they began to feel more at ease.
And after waking up in that bed, they secretly developed threads of affection for him, and their previous negative impressions gradually faded away.
Day by day, they gradually fell in love, unable to pull themselves free.
「A year passed in the blink of an eye.」
Fang Cheng’s children were born one after another, and the statue of the Divine King bestowed five divine boons upon him.
They were: two Celestial Spirit Pills to boost his Cultivation, one suit of Tier Two Magical Artifact Armor, and two forms from the Nine Divine King Seals—Opening the Heavens and Transcending Calamity.
Fang Cheng consumed the Celestial Spirit Pills, and his Magical Power surged. Within a few months, he broke through to the Late Sensing Stage and then reached the peak of the Sensing Realm.
He deliberately concealed his Cultivation. On a daily basis, he lived a carefree life, single-mindedly pursuing pleasure and fathering children. He put all his effort into expanding the Fang Family’s lineage, which caused many people’s impression of him to change drastically. They gradually began to classify him as mediocre and harmless.
Several more years passed, and Fang Cheng’s collection of wives and concubines grew even larger.
He built a luxurious palace estate specifically to house his beautiful wives and concubines. The palace was named Mengle Palace, and it quickly became famous throughout the Yuan Country.
This was because Fang Cheng exclusively targeted Female Cultivators from the Register of Beauties. By now, Mengle Palace housed ten such beauties, arousing the envy of countless male Cultivators in the Yuan Country.
Pei Yuqing simply turned a blind eye to all this. ’At least this nephew of mine isn’t causing me trouble like he used to,’ she thought. ’It’s given me a great deal of peace and quiet.’
Although Fang Cheng had long been capable of breaking through to the Life Talisman Realm, he had yet to take that final step.
He was searching for a precious elixir similar to the Myriad Manifestations Celestial Dew, wanting to reforge his Dao Foundation and lay the groundwork for the Life Soul Realm in one fell swoop.
That year, an Elder from the Baihua Sect, the number one sect in the Yuan Country, had a falling out with the sect’s upper echelons. In a fit of anger, she left with her seven disciples, found a Spirit Vein, and established her own place to cultivate.
The Baihua Sect was a sect of Female Cultivators; all its members were women, and its inherited Cultivation Techniques were special ones suited to the female physique.
Among the Elder’s seven disciples, three were on the Register of Beauties. The seventh disciple, Purple Bamboo, was particularly noteworthy, ranking fifth on the list. Not only was she incredibly beautiful, but she was also skilled in the Celestial Immortal’s Wondrous Dance. It was rumored that when she became engrossed in her dance, she could stir the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism, causing ethereal flowers within a ten-zhang radius to bloom in an instant, their fragrance spreading for a hundred li.
The Baihua Sect Elder had a strong and unyielding personality and had offended her fair share of Cultivators in her younger years. However, she always had the Baihua Sect as her backer, so nothing major ever came of it.
Not long after she left the sect, she was targeted by her old enemies. In just a few short months, she had faced no fewer than six or seven incidents, ranging from open duels and sparring matches to covert ambushes and assassinations.
Ultimately, the Baihua Sect Elder was outnumbered and outmatched. Furthermore, her disciples were all still in the Sensing Realm and couldn’t be of much help. Before long, she was grievously injured and fled with her disciples to her good friend, Pei Yuqing of the Thousand Talisman Sect, for refuge.
Pei Yuqing was in secluded cultivation, attempting to break through to the next realm, so they were unable to meet her.
The other Elders of the Thousand Talisman Sect had an ambiguous attitude. They shirked responsibility, passing the buck amongst themselves until the problem was finally kicked over to Fang Cheng.
Fang Cheng, on the other hand, decisively took in the master and her seven disciples, letting them move into Mengle Palace.
From then on, whenever someone came to issue a challenge, the Baihua Sect Elder refused them all.
As for any assassination attempts or ambushes, they were blocked by the Thousand Talisman Sect’s Grand Array.
Fang Cheng was very attentive, making the Baihua Sect contingent extremely comfortable. The Elder, grateful for his kindness and seeing that he had designs on her disciples, intended to betroth her seventh disciple, Purple Bamboo, to him.
Unexpectedly, Purple Bamboo’s heart already belonged to another. She had secretly pledged her life to a genius disciple from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, one of the three major sects of the Yuan Country, and was just waiting for him to break through to the Life Talisman Realm before he came to marry her.
Instead, it was the Third Senior Sister who fell in love with Fang Cheng at first sight and took the initiative to offer herself in marriage to him.
Although the Third Senior Sister was not on the Register of Beauties, her looks and figure were excellent. She also had an elegant, gentle temperament and was both tactful and witty. Despite being newly married, she was full of charm in the bedroom, making her utterly lovable.
Their affection for each other grew daily. Gradually, through the Third Senior Sister’s intentional arrangements and matchmaking, the First Senior Sister, Second Senior Sister, Fourth Junior Sister, and Fifth Junior Sister all ended up sleeping with Fang Cheng and becoming pregnant with his children.
The Baihua Sect Elder’s grievous injuries never healed, and she eventually passed away at the Thousand Talisman Sect.
Of the seven remaining, flower-like disciples, five had already become Fang Cheng’s wives and concubines. The Sixth Junior Sister, in her grief, was gently comforted by Fang Cheng on several occasions, and she too ended up joining his large family.
Seeing how things were developing, the Seventh Junior Sister, Purple Bamboo, secretly sent a message to her lover from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, asking him to come and take her away.
When Fang Cheng’s sycophants heard about this, they hatched a plot to curry favor with him. They started spreading rumors that after the Seven Beauties of the Baihua Sect entered Mengle Palace, all the sister-disciples had fallen head over heels for Fang Cheng, a story that became a sensational tale in the Cultivation Realm.
The story was a hot topic, and the street-side gossip grew increasingly outrageous and salacious, with all sorts of wild tales being told.
