"A-Xin, with a great battle upon us, let's have a child first."
Lianshan Xin lost his composure outright when he heard Qi Shiyun say that.
Maitreya was so furious that he crawled out of the little black box again. "A great battle is upon us, and you two want to have a child?"
How the fuck did that make sense?
Qi Shiyun spoke with complete conviction. "What else? In the short term, other than having children and eating claypot rice, there's no faster way to improve our strength." Lianshan Xin found that reasonable. "Meticulous logic, utterly unassailable. I think it'll work."
He couldn't think of a faster way to improve their strength either.
Seeing Maitreya's look of bitter anguish, Lianshan Xin comforted him. "My son, with great ability comes great responsibility. Who told you to be so capable? Just do a little more."
Maitreya trembled with rage.
Being capable meant having to do more?
Wasn't this bullying an honest Buddha?
"Why don't you two recruit disciples?" Even in his fury, Maitreya still tried to save the country by a roundabout route. "Put your Dragon Subduers Immortal Art to work. Used properly, it'll improve your strength faster than having children."
Qi Shiyun shook her head. "I've already recruited ninety-one Chosen Ones of Heaven. Master said our numbers mustn't reach a hundred. Once they do, all those converging karmic ties will be beyond my control. I take the benefits from these Chosen Ones of Heaven, but I also share some of their calamities. This is already the limit of what I can bear. In fact, after recruiting A-Xin, I've taken quite a few risks with him. Without that bond, I wouldn't have come to Western Capital City with him."
Lianshan Xin raised his eyebrows slightly. So there was that consideration too.
But