[Ding! Congratulations, Host! Madam Yun Ling has safely given birth to a child with an Ordinary Bone Root!] [Congratulations, Host! You have gained ten years of life. Your remaining lifespan is now seventy-one years.] [Congratulations, Host! Your strength has increased by one hundred, reaching the level of a four-star Azure Radiance martial artist.] [Congratulations, Host! You have obtained a Second-grade Enlightenment Pill!] [Congratulations, Host! You have obtained four second-grade spirit fowl—the Cloud Ying Chicken!]
"Cloud Ying... Chicken?" A bold idea suddenly popped into Xian He's mind.
"System, could this Cloud Ying Chicken transform into Yun Ying from Honor of Kings someday?"
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[That possibility cannot be ruled out.]
[However, by the time the Cloud Ying hen can transform, who knows how many times the Cloud Ying rooster will have had his way with her? She'll have taken on the Cloud Ying rooster's shape. Are you sure you want one?]
"Uh... never mind, never mind." Xian He cleared his throat and quickly abandoned the idea. Even if transformation wasn't an option, he still had other ways to get Yun Ying.
Among the system's many rewards was an item called the Inscribed Pattern Summoning Scroll, which could randomly summon beautiful women from countless worlds.
Regardless of their personalities, the women summoned would recognize him as their master, remain absolutely loyal to him, and never defy him.
However, the Inscribed Pattern Summoning Scroll prioritized summoning beautiful women from Demon God Record, and the chance of summoning one from another world was very low.
"Congratulations, Master! It's another little young master!" Ziyan carried the swaddled baby and excitedly ran into the courtyard to show Xian He.
For the past two years, Ziyan had been looking after Yun Ling and Xian Dabao in the old Siheyuan. She had become quite adept at caring for babies.
Xian He didn't hold the child. He simply stood to one side and quietly looked him over.
"From now on, this child will be called Xian Erbao!"
He didn't avoid holding the baby because he disliked him, but because he was afraid the calluses on his hands would hurt the infant's delicate skin.
After two years of practicing the Thirteen Grand Protectors Horizontal Training Technique, his entire body was covered in dense scars, except for his face. His hands had also grown thick calluses from constantly plunging them into iron sand.
His efforts hadn't been in vain. He had trained the Thirteen Grand Protectors Horizontal Training Technique to the fifth level—mastery. His strength had increased by fifty jin, and his cumulative damage reduction cap had risen to fifty percent.
For someone with an Ordinary Bone Root, reaching the fifth level was already the limit. Reaching the sixth would take at least ten years.
Ten years was enough time for him to have five children. Every time one of his offspring was born, the system would reward him with an Enlightenment Pill.
He could easily use Enlightenment Pills to train the Thirteen Grand Protectors Horizontal Training Technique to perfection. There was no need to keep training on his own.
He went inside to visit Yun Ling.
After giving birth to Xian Erbao, she was utterly exhausted and had fallen into a deep sleep.
Xian He leaned down and kissed her forehead, damp with perspiration, murmuring, "My dear, thank you for all your hard work!"
He sat by the bed and kept Yun Ling company for a while. Then, as if suddenly remembering something, he got up and left.
After crossing to the other side of the river, Xian He opened his system inventory and tapped to activate the Chicken Coop.
"Whoosh!"
The Chicken Coop transformed into a streak of white light and landed in the empty lot.
The Chicken Coop was a building shaped like a matchbox, with a pyramid-shaped roof covered in loosely laid thatch.
A bamboo fence surrounded the coop, about ten meters in radius and five meters tall.
The fence gate faced north, toward the Siheyuan, while the coop door faced south, away from it.
Several chickens wandered inside: one big red rooster and three hens—one red, one white, and one black.
Though they were called Cloud Ying Chickens, which sounded rather impressive, they looked no different from ordinary chickens.
Once the Chicken Coop was built, Xian He found himself inside its bounds as well, standing in the fenced yard.
The moment the big red rooster saw Xian He, it stretched out its brilliantly feathered neck and crowed provocatively.
After crowing, it scrutinized Xian He with its beady little eyes, waiting to see how he would react.
"What're you looking at?" Xian He put his hands on his hips, glared at the big red rooster, and asked in a hostile tone.
The three hens stepped between the big red rooster and Xian He. They tilted their heads, glancing first at the rooster and then at Xian He, looking as if they couldn't wait to see what would happen.
Unwilling to lose face in front of the hens he loved, the big red rooster puffed up the vivid red feathers on its neck and lunged at Xian He.
"Smack!"
Xian He gave the big red rooster a hard slap across the face.
He was now a four-star Azure Radiance martial artist, and with the Thirteen Grand Protectors Horizontal Training Technique to boot, he had four hundred and fifty jin of strength in one arm. If he went all out, one slap could kill the big red rooster.
However, he needed the rooster to breed more chickens, so he used only a fraction of his strength to teach it a quick lesson and show it who was boss in the Chicken Coop.
The big red rooster staggered up from the grass, completely stunned.
"Do you submit?" Xian He pounced on it like a hungry tiger and pinned it to the ground so it couldn't get up.
The big red rooster struggled desperately, but the gap in strength was simply too great.
In the end, the big red rooster gave up struggling, and Xian He successfully subdued it.
After the fight, Xian He used his replication ability to make a copy of the Chicken Coop.
The old coop was west of the bridge, and Xian He placed the new Chicken Coop east of it.
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