You Won't Even Call Me Dear Husband

Sure enough, the four Soul Beast lords of the Land of Extreme Flame had guessed correctly!

The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape had been assigned the important duty of guarding the gate after all.

"Lord Flame Emperor, we brothers are no slouches... Why are you sending us to guard the gate?"

The Sky Azure Bull Python complained gloomily.

"What? Do you think guarding the gate doesn't require strength? It's difficult! Guarding a gate is skilled work, and it'll save you twenty years of taking the long way around! You'll get an early chance to temper your mindset. Isn't that great?"

Yan Buhui smiled easily and reassured the two brothers, the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape. "Do a good job! I won't treat you brothers unfairly."

Yes.

Even Yan Buhui himself remembered how his boss used to dangle promises before employees and pump them up at work.

Whether those promises would ever come true was another matter, but employee efficiency and enthusiasm had increased by at least twenty percent!

Pumping up subordinates was an ultimate move among divine skills.

Of course, it couldn't be used too often.

If it was, they would curse their boss for breaking his word.

You had to give them a date and a slap.

Only when rewards and punishments were clearly distinguished could a team enjoy lasting peace and stability, working together with one heart and purpose, united hearts forming a fortress as they moved forward.

"Yes... Lord Flame Emperor."

The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape flushed red and ran off in shame.

Watching the two beasts leave,

Yan Buhui was quite moved.

If he had been captured, he would probably have ended up guarding someone's gate too.

Damn it... The thought made Yan Buhui want to go wild making babies and growing stronger!

Only by working hard to have children could Yan Buhui's strength keep growing, reaching the next level and advancing at a tremendous pace!

If he couldn't beat them, he would use the power of his long, thrusting great phoenix bird to force a path through.

In that case,

Once he had fathered a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand children,

All the gods and buddhas of the heavens and the myriad worlds would have to kneel and kowtow, begging for mercy and admitting their mistakes.

As the saying went, "Having children makes you strong; many children, many blessings. An eternal truth."

What was more, each generation of his descendants would be stronger than the last.

In the future, Yan Buhui could joke, "What? You're a dignified Immortal Emperor, a mighty Saint, and now you can't even beat my son??"

Those words would make him look unbelievably cool.

Yao Zi and Mu Yunteng were dumbstruck again.

The two Soul Beast overlords of the Star Dou Great Forest were true powerhouses, both with cultivation ages of over a hundred thousand years!

And now they were being sent to serve as the old men guarding the Land of Extreme Flame's gate. Surely that was a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

At the same time, however, Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and the others were also astonished.

They still remembered the two enormous beasts.

They had heard their fathers' and grandfathers' generation mention the Sky Azure Bull Python, the forest emperor of the Star Dou Great Forest, and the Titan Giant Ape, a Soul Beast overlord.

Now both had become Yan Buhui's watchdogs.

They had lost all semblance of humanity, and no longer had the bearing of beast kings either. Instead, they were now living as faithful dogs guarding a home and courtyard.

It was hard not to feel a pang of regret...

The Three-Headed Hellhound, Flame Martial Wild Boar King, Earth Fire Lizard Lord, and Flame Bird, however, thought nothing of it.

They believed that although the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape were stronger than they were, they far surpassed the two brothers in status, seniority, and loyalty to Yan Buhui in the Land of Extreme Flame.

So it was good enough that outsider Soul Beasts like the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape could secure a gatekeeping job.

There was no place for the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape among the clan and family Soul Beast settlements of the Land of Extreme Flame, either.

Yan Buhui smiled.

He paid no attention to the idle chatter.

This was something Tang San had never expected.

His two brothers-in-law were undergoing such hardship...

Meanwhile, he was still busy with his pure and chaste mission, entangled in a frenzy of push and pull and flirtation with Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong.

Unlike Yan Buhui, who openly and honorably married wives and took concubines, displaying an emperor's style.

However,

Yan Buhui once again gave instructions to the four Soul Beast lord guardians:

"Thank you all for your hard work during this time."

"Consider these fire lotus seeds your reward."

With that,

Yan Buhui drew four fire lotus seeds from the Green Lotus Core Flame and handed them to the Three-Headed Hellhound, Flame Bird, Earth Fire Lizard Lord, and Flame Martial Wild Boar King.

They were a reward for protecting his eight wives during this time.

"Thank you, Your Imperial Majesty."

The Soul Beasts replied in thanks.

Yan Buhui then added, "These fire lotus seeds contain powerful residual Fire Energy from the Green Lotus Core Flame. It's extremely violent and turbulent, so while you absorb it, you'd best gather the power within your bodies and circulate it. That way, you can bring out the full might of the Fire Energy and fully absorb the fire lotus seeds."

"We will heed Your Imperial Majesty's teachings!!"

The Three-Headed Hellhound, Flame Bird, Flame Martial Wild Boar King, and Earth Fire Lizard Lord could clearly feel that their strength had multiplied over the past few days, and their cultivation had become noticeably faster!

It was even faster than when they had simply stayed at the foot of Phoenix Emperor Mountain absorbing Fire Energy!

The whole of Phoenix Emperor Mountain, an active volcano, contained less Fire Energy than Yan Buhui alone.

Clearly, Yan Buhui possessed more than one ability to control flames!

Besides his own Ultimate Phoenix Fire, Hellfire, and Nirvana Fire,

He also possessed "eight Heavenly Flames: the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, Red Lotus Karmic Fire, Three Thousand Starry Sky Burning Flame, Bone Chilling Flame, Fallen Heart Flame, Sea Heart Flame, and Green Lotus Core Flame!"

It could be said that

Yan Buhui had hardly used any of his own strength at all

To defeat numerous powerful Soul Beasts.

The powerhouses of a region and Heavenly Emperors of the ten directions could only pale in comparison.

After Yan Buhui finished distributing the rewards,

He led his ten wives flying toward Phoenix Emperor Mountain.

That familiar voice rang out in his mind.

"Ding! Congratulations, Host, on completing the side quest: Unlock the Beautiful Girl Alliance achievement by having ten wives and concubines!"

Yan Buhui's heart sank.

Was that the voice of the Many Children, Many Blessings Bestowal System?

He had unwittingly completed a side quest. What the heck was the Beautiful Girl Alliance?

Soon, they ought to be called the "Beautiful Young Wives Alliance."

The reward would probably be a little more generous than the last one for the Eight Beauties Painting...

Yan Buhui smacked his lips and thought with a chuckle.