Southern Xuan Divine Continent
Spirit Domain
Han Qin Empire, within the Gu Family.
Gu Changqing looked at the bustling Gu family courtyard. People moved in groups of three or five, most of them from the younger generation. In contrast, he stood alone leaning against a wall pillar, looking somewhat out of place.
It had been exactly seventeen years since Gu Changqing transmigrated to the Tianxuan Continent.
And now, Gu Changqing was seventeen years old.
Body Tempering, True Spirit, Tribulation, King Realm, Emperor, Venerable, Imperial Realm…
That was the cultivation system of the Tianxuan Continent. There were levels even higher than the Imperial Realm, but Gu Changqing had no access to those.
In the Han Qin Empire, reaching the Tribulation Realm was enough to be considered a strong cultivator. Elders of major sects were generally at this level.
As for the King Realm, that was the realm of the ancestors of powerful sects and noble families!
Gu Changqing had started cultivating at the age of five, and he had never slacked off. Among his peers, he worked harder than anyone else.
Now at seventeen, he had reached the First Stage of the True Spirit Realm, making him unmatched among the younger generation of the Gu family.
But looking at the entire Han Qin Empire, or even the Spirit Domain as a whole, he was like a drop in the ocean, a speck of dust—completely unremarkable and insignificant.
“I’ve embarrassed the seniors who transmigrated before me…”
Other transmigrators were born with Supreme Bones or Chaotic Bodies. Some had an old grandpa mentor tagging along, others had cheat-like systems.
And him? He had nothing.
No system, no cheats—not even a shadow of one.
“Forget it. Maybe living an ordinary, peaceful life isn’t so bad.”
He said it with his mouth, but his tone betrayed a hint of unwillingness.
But no matter how unwilling he felt, it was useless. He could only accept his fate.
“Young Master, someone from the Jiang family is here. The Patriarch asks you to come.”
A servant appeared beside Gu Changqing and said with a bow.
“Jiang family?” Gu Changqing was momentarily stunned.
Oh, right—he had almost forgotten. He wasn’t entirely without assets. At least… he had a wife.
Jiang Family—Jiang Baiwei.
Unlike the Gu family, which was just a small family on the border of the Han Qin Empire, the Jiang family was one of the Three Great Clans of the empire. They had no fewer than five King Realm cultivators. Among them, the Jiang family ancestor was a legendary figure known throughout the empire—King Jiang Tian!
He stood at the peak of the Heavenly King Realm, with one foot already into the Divine King level.
The King Realm was divided into three stages: Mystic King, Heavenly King, Divine King.
A Heavenly King-level expert was already at the very top of the Han Qin Empire’s power pyramid.
On one side was one of the empire’s three great families.
On the other, a small border-town clan whose strongest member was Gu Changqing’s father, Gu Yuan—at the Sixth Tribulation of the Tribulation Realm.
Two families that seemed to have nothing in common… yet shared an extraordinary connection.
The Gu family once had a glorious past. Back then, their powerhouses were countless. They were one of the Holy Clans of the Spirit Domain, with Divine Emperors and Celestial Lords rising one after another.
Back then, the Jiang family was merely one of the many vassal forces under the Gu family.
But that was tens of thousands of years ago.
As time passed and circumstances changed, around eight thousand years ago, the Gu family suffered a great catastrophe. Their top experts perished, most of their cultivation techniques and treasures were destroyed, and the remnants that survived were incomplete or damaged.
From that point on, the Gu family began a long decline.
Since then, no cultivator above the Emperor Realm had emerged from the Gu family. The power of their bloodline continued to weaken with each generation—one generation worse than the last. By now, the Gu family’s bloodline had grown so faint it was nearly undetectable—on the verge of vanishing entirely.
There was only one way to rekindle the bloodline power:
Someone in the Gu family had to break through to the Emperor Realm.
But… for a family that had already declined so far, how difficult would that be?
It wasn’t that their ancestors hadn’t tried. Over three thousand years ago, the Gu family staked everything they had in an attempt to cultivate an Emperor.
Unfortunately, they failed…
Once a dominant clan of the Spirit Domain, the Gu family had now completely fallen into obscurity—gradually forgotten by the world.
Today, the Gu family was merely a small-town clan on the border of the Han Qin Empire, surviving only by relying on Gu Changqing’s father, Gu Yuan, a Sixth Tribulation Realm cultivator—barely holding things together. A truly lamentable state.
Ironically, the Jiang family, once a vassal of the Gu clan, had flourished over the past few centuries. Talents emerged one after another, and a hundred years ago, the birth of King Jiang Tian brought them to their peak!
Now, Jiang Tian was just one step away from the Divine King Realm. If he broke through, even the royal family of the Han Qin Empire would have to show the Jiang family deference.
Since the fall of the last King Realm cultivator from the Gu family, the relationship between the two families had gradually faded.
No matter how glorious the Gu family once was—that was all in the past.
Now, they were merely a small clan without a single King Realm expert.
It was only natural that the now-powerful Jiang family looked down on them.
The reason Jiang Baiwei, the daughter of the Jiang patriarch, was still willing to marry Gu Changqing was not out of any lingering sentiment from the past—but because the Jiang family owed the Gu family.
It was a favor that had lasted several centuries.
For hundreds of years, the Gu family had never brought it up or tried to use it.
Until recently, when it became clear that among the Gu family’s descendants across four generations, not one had the potential to reach the Tribulation Realm.
Seeing this, Gu Changqing’s father, Gu Yuan, finally became desperate.
If things continued like this, forget about revival—in a few more generations, the Gu family might not even exist anymore.
At present, the only Tribulation Realm cultivator in the Gu family was Gu Yuan. Among the third generation, Gu Changqing’s talent was considered decent, but only just that. He might reach the peak of the True Spirit Realm in the future, but as for breaking into the Tribulation Realm…
It would be extremely difficult.
And that—was how this marriage came to be.
“Son, the future of the Gu family rests on your shoulders.”
“Your father found you a great wife—the daughter of the Jiang family patriarch!”
“For her, I cashed in a favor the Jiang family owed our Gu family from their ancestors.”
“Now go! Have kids—lots of kids! Dozens of them!”
—That was exactly what Gu Changqing’s father had said at the time.
Dozens of kids? Good grief—did he think his son was some kind of breeding livestock?
After hearing the servant’s message, Gu Changqing stood up, preparing to head to the guest hall.
But just as he got up, a sudden, sharp pain pierced his mind.
“Ding! Congratulations, Host—‘Many Children, Much Blessing’ system has awakened.”
Gu Changqing: ??
That beautiful “ding”—the chime he had longed to hear since childhood, had finally arrived.
He had wished for it year after year, but it never came.
And now? It actually rang?
Gu Changqing felt like he was dreaming—was this even real?
“Damn, my system finally showed up!”
It wasn’t easy, that’s for sure!
But seriously—why now? Why so late?
He was already seventeen. He had lived seventeen years in this world!
“But what exactly is this ‘Many Children, Much Blessing’ system?”
Curious, Gu Changqing looked through the system’s features—and suddenly, it all made sense.
The system had only one purpose:
Make babies.
The more children he had—and the more talented they were—the better the rewards Gu Changqing would receive!
On top of that, there was an achievement system:
Have ten children, a hundred, a thousand… each milestone unlocked new rewards.
Now Gu Changqing finally understood why the system hadn’t appeared earlier. Not too soon, not too late—it showed up right as he was about to get married and have kids.
If he’d known this was how things worked, he would’ve told his father he wanted to get married and have children at ten.
(Well… maybe not ten—fifteen would’ve been more realistic.)
“Hey system, don’t other systems usually give starter gift packs? Do you… have any?”
“Yes.”
That one simple word instantly lit up Gu Changqing’s face with joy.
“Detected: Host has 3 unopened beginner’s random gift packs. Open now?”
“Open them!”
P.S. Realm Classification:
- Body Tempering (1st–9th level)
- True Spirit (1st–9th level)
- Tribulation Realm (1st–9th level)
- King Realm (Mystic King → Heavenly King → Divine King)
- Emperor (Mystic Emperor → Heavenly Emperor → Divine Emperor → Sacred Emperor)
- Venerable (Mystic Venerable → Heavenly Venerable → Sacred Venerable → Dao Venerable)
- Great Emperor (Mystic Emperor → Heavenly Emperor → Sacred Emperor → Imperial Lord)
- Saint
…and beyond.