Longevity Clan Starts with the Patriarch's Marriage

The rewards for talented descendants and the total number of descendants reaching the same stage differ significantly, with the former’s rewards being much higher but also harder to achieve.

Now, even though the total number of his descendants has exceeded 4,600, there were just over 2,000 talented descendants, a ratio of 2.3 to 1, and this ratio was shrinking.

Han Li believed that in another ten years, this ratio would shrink further to within the range of 1.8 to 1, or even 1.5 to 1.

The Life-Prolonging Furnace could perform its rite three hundred times a year; in ten years, that would be three thousand times, and the Han Mansion’s eligible descendants would have long completed their rites, with their talents reaching First Grade.

Afterward, the standards could be adjusted to allow more people from the Han Mansion to benefit, improving many people’s talents by one or even several grades.

Before then, the Rebirth Pill would enhance all the talented descendants in the Han Mansion to Fourth Grade, including Han Li’s children, their consorts, descendants, and sons-in-law who married into the family.

When the least talented of the descendants all have Fourth Grade talents, it becomes very difficult to produce descendants without talent, thereby purifying the Han Mansion’s gene pool.

If within these ten years a treasure that could bestow talents were acquired, thus granting talents to those descendants currently without, then the ratio would reach 1 to 1. From then on, the Han Mansion would have no descendants without talent.

Exhaling deeply, Han Li claimed the five hundred years of Artifact Refining expertise, and countless Artifact Refining experiences flooded into his sea of consciousness, all absorbed and digested by his grand Primordial Spirit.

In just a few moments, Han Li’s achievements in Artifact Refining surged dramatically, transforming from a top Fourth Grade Artifact Refiner to a Second Grade Artifact Refiner, even ranking high within this grade.

“It’s truly troublesome how fast strength can increase,” Han Li couldn’t help but quip.

Now, his Four Arts of Cultivation were lagging far behind his strength, incapable of refining items that could be useful to himself—the highest for Alchemy and Artifact Refining were Second Grade, Formation was approaching Second Grade, and Talisman Making was only at an ordinary Fourth Grade level.

Luckily, he had a vast family; the pills he refined, weapons, Array Plates, and talismans were crucial treasures for the descendants of the Han Mansion and most of his favored consorts and concubines, enhancing the Han Mansion’s foundation.

Next, Han Li claimed the “Heavenly Shaking Fist,” a Divine Rank Lower Grade martial art, spending eight breaths of time absorbing and digesting it.

Following the absorption, even Han Li’s aura shifted subtly, and his martial intent gained additional depth.

The “Heavenly Shaking Fist” required unwavering resolve and courage to master, embodying the determination to shake the heavens with a single punch, daring to strike even in the face of gods and Heavenly Immortals.

“Now I have one more method to counter enemies.”

A smile appeared on Han Li’s face, his strength steadily growing; he now had several techniques capable of unleashing the combat power of the Tongxuan Realm’s Sixth Heaven.

After stretching his limbs, Han Li finally looked towards his personal panel.

With the number of talented descendants reaching two thousand, he obtained another eight hundred years of cultivation, further increasing his accumulated cultivation, which now reached 3,792 years.

He was only about a thousand years away from the cultivation needed to reach the peak of the Tongxuan Realm.

Han Li glanced at the descendant panel and saw the feedback of his cultivation had increased again, from 261 years to 278 years.

With this, his total accumulated cultivation reached a staggering 4,070 years, and he still needed… wait a minute!

Han Li suddenly froze as he realized he might have forgotten something. Looking back and forth at his personal panel, he finally remembered what it was.

He had forgotten that he had ascended to First Grade talent!

Before, his calculation of needing 4,800 years to advance from the Divine Yuan Realm’s Fifth Heaven to its peak was based on him having Second Grade talent.

Because the personal panel didn’t display how many years of cultivation were needed to advance levels, only showing how many years he had, Han Li momentarily forgot.

“The patriarch has been too diligent, too capable, forgetting such a crucial matter,” Han Li said reproachfully, yet his tone was filled with excitement.

Upon remembering this, Han Li realized that all the crises were no longer concerns!

Lately, he had been worried about the Special Envoy from Empress Huang Yue finding him; then, there was also the issue with Empress Yuanchu. With his current level of cultivation, he might not be able to deal with them.

Moreover, the Sacred Lands of the Qianyuan Divine Province all had Immortal Weapons. Although Han Li had three Supreme Grade Emperor Weapons, he was still inferior when facing Immortal Weapons.

To truly dominate the Qianyuan Divine Province and effortlessly take down people sent by Empress Huang Yue and Empress Yuanchu, he must possess an Immortal Weapon.

To acquire an Immortal Weapon, there was only one way he knew of, and that was opening treasure chests.

Han Li needed to ascend to the Tongxuan Realm to have a chance of obtaining Immortal Weapons from treasure chests.

Han Li had always thought this would take a long time, as ascending to the peak of the Divine Yuan Realm alone would require 4,800 years of cultivation, and to ascend from there to the Tongxuan Realm would require many more years, neither of which he had yet accumulated enough for.

But now, the patriarch realized that everything was possible.

He had ascended to First Grade talent several months earlier when his first child with Long Yue, Han Yonglong, was born—a child of First Grade talent, who contributed a tenth of this talent back to him.

With First Grade talent, advancing to the peak of the Divine Yuan Realm only required around 2,400 years, a full 2,400 years less in cultivation.

Now possessing 4,070 years of cultivation, even after ascending to the peak of the Divine Yuan Realm, he would still have 1,670 years of cultivation left. Han Li felt that should be enough to advance to the Tongxuan Realm, and if not, it wouldn’t be far off.

After all, the difficulty of ascending to the Tongxuan Realm as a First Grade talent is much lower than as a Second Grade talent, and the system’s cultivation consumption would be halved.