Marriage and Children

[In the same year, after your cultivation reached the late Organ Refining Realm, your Mountain Shaking Fist advanced to the Perfection Realm of Perfected Mastery. Like the Mayfly Step Slash, its subsequent progress became extremely slow. Upon learning that the Ye Family Third Ancestor was refining Bone Strengthening Root Growing Treasure Pills, your parents began seeking out girls of outstanding qualifications and talent for you.]

[Two months later, perhaps because the family had obtained the Fengyuan Small Blessed Land and acquired Precious Herbs that had previously been difficult to obtain, Third Ancestor refined even more Mysterious Grade Treasure Pills, his alchemy techniques growing ever more proficient. This pill refinement encountered no mishaps, and he successfully refined the Bone Strengthening Root Growing Treasure Pill. Moreover, due to the improvement in his Alchemy Skill, it was completed more than a month ahead of schedule.]

[You soon received this Profound Grade Top Quality Treasure Pill from your father. Having experience with taking such pills, you quickly adjusted your body to its optimal state. Once everything was prepared, you swallowed the Bone Strengthening Root Growing Treasure Pill and guided its medicinal power to the utmost. Before long, a small amount of impurities was expelled from your body. This did not surprise you at all, because before taking the pill, your Bone Structure had already reached Yellow Grade Low-Rank. Furthermore, because of how you guided the medicinal power, you perfectly absorbed the pill. This time, your Bone Structure rose to Yellow Grade High Rank. It was almost exactly as you had expected. With the talent of an Innate Medicinal Heart, even someone with a Profound Grade High Rank Bone Structure like your father, Lin Changming, would likely cultivate no faster than you. With the enhancement of the core inner region of the Fengyuan Small Blessed Land, you could already rival those with Earth Grade Bone Structures who lacked the support of a Blessed Land.]

[After your Bone Structure improved, your parents came to find you regarding the engagement they had previously discussed with you. This time, the girl they had chosen was a Hakka disciple of the Ye Family named Li Furong. Her Bone Structure aptitude had reached Mysterious Grade Middle Rank, making her the most outstanding among the Hakka disciples of your generation. You were mildly surprised that a descendant of a Hakka family affiliated with the Ye Family could possess a Mysterious Grade Middle Rank Bone Structure. Even among the Direct Lineages of the Four Great Families, disciples with Mysterious Grade Bone Structures did not appear easily. For one to appear among Ordinary People was no different from winning the grand prize.]

[You did not directly agree to your parents' suggestion. You said you were willing to spend time with the girl and would consider the matter if they got along well. Seeing that you had not outright rejected the engagement, Ye Changming and his wife breathed a sigh of relief. They had been worried that you were an ascetic cultivator, most afraid that you disliked women or had problems in that regard. Having received your response, the couple finally felt a great weight lift from their hearts. After all, your father Ye Changming himself had married late. Having you had already felt somewhat like winning a prize, and it was practically impossible for him to have any more children in his remaining years. If you were unwilling to produce descendants, then he could conclude that this generation would end his line.]

[In the thirty-seventh year, after nearly two years of getting along with Li Furong, your relationship had been quite harmonious, and you were fairly satisfied with her personality. Li Furong was thirteen years older than you, but because her cultivation had reached the early Organ Refining Realm, she looked no different from an eighteen-year-old. The reason the two of you got along so well was that although Li Furong was not as diligent in cultivation as you, she was also one of the rare few willing to devote a great deal of time to it. She usually had little contact with others and was rather pure-hearted. Her father had died early, and she had depended on her mother since childhood. Before her Bone Structure was tested, she had endured some hardships as a child, so despite possessing excellent Bone Structure, she was not arrogant. When you were with Li Furong, you seemed more mature instead, like her older brother.]

[Because you had broken through to the Organ Refining Realm early on, your figure and appearance were both exceptionally fine. Coupled with the refinement of decades spent Painting, your whole bearing was sunny and elegant. In all of Fengyuan City, if appearances alone were ranked, you might not necessarily make the top ten. Yet with your temperament added in, your charm could be called among the top three.]

[With the advantage of your looks, Li Furong had not the slightest resistance to associating with you. Furthermore, because your outlook differed somewhat from that of this world, you showed women great respect. Over these two years of interaction, Li Furong had already developed considerable affection for you.]

[In the thirty-eighth year, you married Li Furong. On the day of the wedding, because your realm and strength had already become unmatched among the Ye Family members of your generation, many people sought to befriend you. Many members of the Ye Family's Direct Lineage came that day to offer their congratulations. Looking at the scene before the hall, your thoughts drifted. Without realizing it, you had already come to this world for thirty-eight years. Only then did you come back to your senses, a wave of realization rising in your heart. It was a long while before you calmed yourself somewhat and exchanged toasts of Spiritual Wine with your family and friends.]

[The hall was filled with laughter and cheerful voices, save for one person—your disciple, Ye Qianqian. Ye Qianqian was already twenty-eight this year. She had inherited some of her father Ye Mingyue's talent and possessed a Profound Grade Low Rank Bone Structure. Long ago, Ye Mingyue and his wife, along with the Ye Family, had urged her to become engaged, but Ye Qianqian had rejected them all. No one knew the reason, and even Ye Mingyue, her father, had noticed nothing amiss. At this moment, as Ye Qianqian watched you exchanging toasts with the guests, she drank alone in gloomy, heavy gulps. Since she never drank ordinarily and could not hold her liquor, she was soon drunk on Spiritual Wine. Afterward, Ye Mingyue brought her home.]

[After years together, you had guessed something about Ye Qianqian's situation. But you did not dare lay it bare. Ye Qianqian was a child you had watched grow up, and she was also your good brother's daughter. You felt only familial affection for her, the affection one had for a child. Seeing the drunken Ye Qianqian, you sighed inwardly. Once the guests had all enjoyed themselves, you returned to your room and gave your first time to Li Furong...

That night, you were so delighted that you forgot where you were. To you, the sensation could even compare to Painting.]

[Early the next morning, you looked at Li Furong still sleeping beside you, gently stroked her hair, and revealed a heartfelt smile. You soon rose. Drawing on that fleeting realization from the hall the night before, you spent two days creating your first Yellow Grade High Rank painting. You inscribed it with the title The Last Supper of Love.]

[This painting neither trapped enemies like a landscape painting nor possessed the ability of a beast imitation painting to summon Pseudo Beasts to aid in battle. It possessed a protective ability, capable of blocking enemy attacks when its holder was harmed. Because you had painted it personally, you judged that ordinary cultivators below the Essence Gathering Realm would be unable to break its defense even after several hours, while attacks from Martial Artists at the early Essence Gathering Realm could also be blocked several times. You gave The Last Supper of Love to Li Furong for her protection.]

[In the same year, because of you, Li Furong gained the qualification to enter the outer region of the Fengyuan Small Blessed Land for cultivation after swearing an oath.]

[In the forty-fifth year, Li Furong gave birth to a son for you. You named him Ye Ping'an, wishing for the child to live a peaceful and safe life. Ye Ping'an possessed a Profound Grade Low Rank Bone Structure. A Profound Grade Low Rank Bone Structure was considered quite exceptional even among the Ye Family's Direct Lineage. As your son, he also gained the qualification to enter the outer region of the Fengyuan Small Blessed Land.]