A Lifetime as a Prince

Myriad Lives Tome: First Life

Host: Chen Sheng

Age: 78

Spirit Root: None

Talent: None

Identity: Prince of Yan of Great Jing

Cultivation Method: Taiyi Longevity Method

Martial Realm: Xiantian

Skills: Bedroom Secret Arts (Peak Perfection), Five Luo Light-Smoke Palm (Mastery), Taiyi Light-Splitting Sword (Beginner), Cloud Crane Carefree Journey (Beginner)

Achievement: Hundred Sons and Thousand Grandsons

Great Jing, Yan Land, Prince of Yan's Mansion.

Old Prince of Yan Chen Sheng, nearly eighty years old, lay on his sickbed, barely breathing.

Though he was a Xiantian grandmaster,

years of exhausting his body had severely damaged his vitality.

At this moment, he had only his last breath left.

At this moment,

the room was filled with kneeling children and grandchildren, a dense sea of heads.

Even more of them filled the courtyard outside—too many to count!

Watching them all weep and sob,

Chen Sheng felt somewhat displeased.

He was not dead yet.

However, when he glanced at the achievement on the panel—"Hundred Sons and Thousand Grandsons"—

a trace of comfort flashed through Chen Sheng's eyes.

"This life wasn't lived in vain after all!"

Memories of the past flashed rapidly through his mind.

Sixty years ago,

Chen Sheng, heir to Yan, had fallen into the water.

Chen Sheng from Earth had transmigrated here and inherited everything from the other man.

From the original owner's memories,

Chen Sheng quickly learned

that this was a cultivation world, where one could cultivate for immortality, fly on swords, move mountains, and fill seas...

All of it was deeply enticing!

The Chen Clan were merely nobles in the mortal world, in a "Spirit-Poor Land."

Of course,

in such a cultivation world,

those in power could face a cultivator's sword light or spell at any time.

That the Chen Clan could establish a kingdom in the mortal world, rule over the people of a region, and enjoy wealth and honor in peace

naturally meant they had powerful backing.

The Chen Clan's Ancestor was a mighty expert at the False Core Realm in a cultivation sect.

The Ancestor had many bloodline descendants,

but not everyone possessed a Spirit Root.

What was worse,

several generations in a row might fail to produce even a single Immortal Seedling with a Spirit Root.

Thus,

under the Ancestor's arrangements,

the Chen Clan gradually split into two branches.

The main branch occupied a Spirit Vein Training Ground in the Cultivation World and cultivated in peace.

The collateral branch consisted mostly of Descendants without Spirit Roots.

These people were sent to the mortal world

to enjoy a lifetime of wealth and honor.

They would also continue the family line in the mortal world, providing the clan with descendants and Immortal Seedlings who possessed Spirit Roots.

Descendants like Chen Sheng, born in the mortal world,

would, every few years,

be tested by people sent from the main branch in the Cultivation World to assess their Spirit Root aptitude.

Those with Spirit Roots would be sent to the main branch to cultivate.

Chen Sheng had his Spirit Root tested at the age of seven and had none.

Therefore, he could only obediently serve as the heir to the Prince of Yan, inherit his fief,

and live out his life without worry in the lap of luxury.

After transmigrating, Chen Sheng had felt quite helpless once he learned everything.

Wealth and honor were nice,

but he wanted cultivation too.

Why could he not have both?

Unfortunately, he had no Spirit Root.

What could he do about it!

Just as Chen Sheng thought he could only live an unremarkable life and enjoy a century of empty wealth and honor,

he had not expected

that something else had transmigrated with him.

A supreme treasure—the "Myriad Lives Tome."

As its name implied,

this treasure could allow him to reincarnate through a hundred lives among his bloodline descendants.

As long as his bloodline continued, his true spirit would not fall.

Chen Sheng was overjoyed.

He instantly grasped the core of this treasure.

To reincarnate through a hundred lives within his bloodline,

he had to continue that bloodline!

Thus,

he began enthusiastically answering the Royal Family's call.

Have children, have more children!

Have more children, and have better children!

In just a few years,

he married dozens of wives and concubines.

Among them were quite a few famous "widows," "mature women," and "married women" from Yan Land.

They possessed abundant experience in childbirth.

With the help of his many wives and concubines,

Chen Sheng soon had multiple children.

When the senior elders of the Royal Family learned of this,

they were also quite pleased.

They specially sent him all kinds of precious tonics, secret arts, and more.

The old emperor even issued an edict for this reason.

—Yan Land would be exempt from taxes for three years!

This action

further stirred Chen Sheng's fighting spirit!

For the people of Yan Land,

Chen Sheng began tirelessly cultivating the Bedroom Secret Arts through sleepless nights, devoting himself to researching its mysteries.

Through practical application,

he refined his skills ever further!

Chen Sheng became increasingly proficient in this path!

Two years later,

he brought about another baby boom.

Even after every wife and concubine in the mansion had become pregnant,

Chen Sheng did not stop.

This era did not impose strict restrictions on feudal princes.

He could leave his fief whenever he wished.

Thus,

Chen Sheng began his journey of seven trips through Jiangnan.

He was of noble birth, lavish with money, handsome and heroic, and elegant in bearing.

Along the way,

young ladies from scholarly families, heroines from Jianghu sects...

Who knew how many romantic affairs he left behind.

Chen Sheng was promiscuous, yet also deeply affectionate, making people unable to forget him.

Over the following decades,

every year, children he had left outside came to the Prince's Mansion to acknowledge their kinship.

So long as they could pass the Royal Family's bloodline test,

Chen Sheng welcomed them all.

He acknowledged every one of them!

And so,

Chen Sheng became the man with the most relatives in the entire Jing Kingdom.

The families his children married into, the families of his wives and concubines...

Throughout Yan Land,

all one million people were related to him in one way or another.

As the saying went, one reaped what one sowed.

After sowing so diligently,

Chen Sheng's rewards were equally abundant.

Over fifty years,

Chen Sheng's branch

successively produced more than eighty Immortal Seedlings with Spirit Roots.

These Immortal Seedlings were sent to the main branch to cultivate, where they would leave behind even more descendants in the Cultivation World.

Such an achievement

not only brought endless annual rewards from the Royal Family,

but even moved the main branch in the Cultivation World with his great undertaking!

They specially sent him Xiantian Pills, Dragon Essence Pills...

allowing him to become a Xiantian grandmaster.

They instructed him to take good care of his body.

A healthy body meant better sowing!

When he was forty-nine,

the Myriad Lives Tome quietly lit up an achievement—"Hundred Sons and Thousand Grandsons."

However,

by Chen Sheng's estimate,

he had already had a hundred children by around the age of twenty-seven.

The problem was that the thousand grandsons had been slow to arrive!

Those unfilial brats were far too disappointing!

At this moment,

Chen Sheng rapidly reviewed his past.

One familiar figure after another flashed through his mind.

They were precisely his beloved women.

At this moment,

their youngest and most beautiful appearances emerged in his heart.

Chen Sheng calmly closed his eyes and drifted into peaceful sleep.

There were no regrets left in this life.

Before long.

The crying within the prince's residence grew ever more intense.

The entire residence was draped in white mourning cloth.

As news of the Prince of Yan's passing spread.

The people of Yan Land, who had not paid taxes for more than fifty years, wept in every household.

The funeral procession numbered in the hundreds of thousands.

Most of them shared at least some blood relation with Chen Sheng.

Amidst the chaos.

Chen Sheng's consciousness awakened.

Before him was an ancient tome—the Myriad Lives Tome.

Images appeared across its first page.

A dashing, wealthy young noble.

Surrounded by a bevy of beautiful women.

He indulged in pleasure and fathered Hundred Sons and Thousand Grandsons.

In the final image.

It froze on Chen Sheng lying on his sickbed.

The page silently turned.

A brand-new blank page appeared.

Immediately after.

Several lines of text lit up.

The first life had ended.

The host achieved "Hundred Sons and Thousand Grandsons" in this life and may obtain one talent!

The words instantly vanished, transforming into countless streams of brilliant light.

Every stream of light.

Was a brand-new talent.

Chen Sheng watched expectantly.

In the end.

A pale azure glow slipped into the tome.

Talent acquired—Low-grade Spiritual Root

Chen Sheng was overjoyed.

"I have a Spirit Root too. I can cultivate immortality too."