On the wedding night.
Ye Kaishan lifted the bride's red veil, revealing a beautiful, almost perfect face.
After some dressing up, eighteen-year-old Su Mei appeared even more radiant, exuding the aura of a youthful maiden.
"It's getting late; time to rest."
Ye Kaishan directly moved, slowly pushing the woman down.
Su Mei's heart was filled with trepidation, like a startled fawn.
For some reason, she felt that Ye Kaishan at this moment was much younger, emanating the scent of male hormones.
The lights went out.
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[Ding! Congratulations, Host, your bone structure has improved, reaching High Grade Mortal Rank!]
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Hearing this notification, Ye Kaishan's body trembled, and he worked even harder.
After a night.
Ye Kaishan walked out of the bridal chamber, content. Under the effects of the Tiger Yang Golden Core, his combat power was no weaker than his Peak period.
Even without sleep for a night, he didn't feel tired.
Most importantly, the bone structure that had troubled him for a long time had also improved. Although it was still of the Mortal Rank, isn't it true that many small gains add up?
The only thing that worried him was whether he, at such an old age, still had fertility.
To verify this idea.
Over the next month, Ye Kaishan cultivated while also engaging in physical activity and consuming nourishing foods. Things like tiger penis and deer antlers were eaten like regular meals.
After all, his Ye Family had considerable wealth, so they could afford such common items.
Finally, after a month, Su Mei successfully became pregnant.
Only then did Ye Kaishan feel relieved.
Su Mei herself was dumbfounded by this; she had never expected that Ye Kaishan not only had the ability but was also very potent.
After becoming pregnant, Su Mei gradually accepted Ye Kaishan. Although he still looked very old, not handsome, nor dashing, an older man knew how to cherish someone.
Moreover, as the Ye Family Head's wife, she enjoyed treatment she had never experienced before—being waited on hand and foot, buying whatever she wanted.
Suddenly, Su Mei felt that this was quite good. If Ye Kaishan were a bit younger and more handsome, it would be even more perfect.
On this day, Su Mei's parents, Su Changgui and Li Chunhua, arrived at the Ye Family.
"Meimei, how is that old fellow doing? Is he almost..."
Su Changgui's objective was clear; he immediately got straight to the point. They were waiting for Ye Kaishan to kick the bucket and drop his wealth, so they could move into the Ye Family through their daughter's connection.
Hearing this, Su Mei frowned and said coldly, "Watch your words. That's my husband, the Ye family Master. If he hears you, do you not want to live?"
"Mm-hmm, we know, we know..."
Su Changgui and Li Chunhua seemed not to have noticed their daughter's abnormality, still thinking she was concerned about them.
"Your father means, how is the Ye Family Head's health recently?" Li Chunhua continued to ask, hinting wildly.
Su Mei was expressionless, a hint of disgust flashing in her eyes.
"My husband is very well. I am already pregnant now."
"Pregnant?"
Su Changgui and Li Chunhua were utterly stunned, then tentatively asked.
"Whose?"
"Nonsense, of course, it's Ye Kaishan's." At this, a hint of shyness flashed in Su Mei's eyes.
Dumbfounded.
The two were instantly dumbfounded. The matchmaker Hua Gu had said that Ye Kaishan would be in the ground in three months at most, so how could he make Su Mei pregnant?
It's all messed up!
Everything is messed up!
The original plan was suddenly all wrong.
"Meimei, how could you be so careless?" Li Chunhua stomped her foot in anger, then her expression suddenly changed again, and she smiled.
"This is good too. Your position in the Ye Family will be even more stable in the future. Once Ye Kaishan dies..."
"Enough!" Su Mei snapped coldly, interrupting her, then pulled two hundred taels of silver from her embrace.
"Take this money and leave the Ye Family. I don't want you to appear in the Ye Family again!"
"I'm afraid my husband will misunderstand!"
At these words, the two's expressions changed instantly, looking at Su Mei in disbelief.
"What do you mean? You ungrateful wretch, now that your wings are hard, you want to abandon your own parents?" Li Chunhua scolded.
"Heh heh, you still know you're my parents. Being ungrateful is what you forced me to be. Take this money and leave quickly."
Su Mei said in a deep voice.
"You're rebelling..." Su Changgui raised his hand as if to strike.
"Hit me, hit me here. What I'm carrying in my belly is the Ye Family Bloodline. If anything happens...heh heh."
Su Mei pointed to her belly, her brows filled with stubbornness.
Su Changgui was startled, quickly withdrew his hand, gritted his teeth, snatched the silver, and fled as if escaping, pulling Li Chunhua with him.
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On the other side, after a month of Cultivation, Ye Kaishan's cultivation finally broke through to Martial Artist Ninth Stage.
Twenty years had passed since his last Breakthrough.
The long-awaited Realm Breakthrough made him quite emotional.
With High Grade Mortal Rank bone structure, his Cultivation was indeed much faster than before. Coupled with the Medicinal Pills rewarded by the System, even though he was old, he still broke through the Realm.
However, Ye Kaishan was not content with this and began to consider taking another concubine.
The Martial Artist Realm does not significantly increase lifespan. Instead, by pursuing power and overdrawing potential, the body accumulates various hidden injuries and ailments over time.
Only by breaking through the threshold of the immortal path, the Qi Refinement Stage, and strengthening the Physical Body from within, changing the essence of life, will there be a qualitative Breakthrough.
A Cultivator at the Qi Refinement Stage can easily live for one hundred to one hundred and twenty years, with a maximum lifespan of two hundred.
After Foundation Establishment, lifespan further increases, allowing one to live for two to three hundred years.
Next, Ye Kaishan began to arrange for his clansmen to find him concubines, making taking concubines the Family's primary strategic goal.
Although Ye Kaishan was old, and in the eyes of outsiders, he was a man close to death, the Ye Family was wealthy and a prominent Family in Qingyun Town.
As soon as the news was released, matchmakers began to arrange things.
Two months later.
Hua Gu, with her skilled business ability, quickly knocked on the Ye Family's door.
This time, she introduced Ye Kaishan to a hunter's daughter named Wu Nanchun, who was nineteen years old.
Having followed her father hunting since childhood, Wu Nanchun had developed excellent skills and already possessed a cultivation of Martial Artist Fourth Stage.
Ye Kaishan immediately became interested upon hearing this.
"Ye Family Head, Hunter Wu said that for five hundred taels, he would marry his daughter to you. I've already brought her; would you like to see her?"
Hua Gu said ingratiatingly, her face full of flattery.
"Bring her in for me to see." Ye Kaishan sat in his recliner and waved his hand.
Soon after, Hua Gu returned, followed by a very tall and well-built woman with long legs that seemed capable of crushing a person's waist.
At first glance, she resembled a female leopard, exuding a wild aura.
Ye Kaishan sat up straight and secretly used the System to examine her carefully.
Immediately, a yellow light beam soared from the woman's body.
"Yellow... not bad."
Ye Kaishan secretly nodded. Wu Nanchun's appearance was not as good as Su Mei's, only scoring eighty points, but her martial arts talent was excellent, her physique was superb, and her bone structure even reached High Grade Mortal Rank.
"Good! I'll take this concubine. Go tell Hunter Wu that five hundred taels will be sent immediately."
Ye Kaishan slapped his thigh and said loudly.