Many children, many blessings: Stealing the offspring of powerful figures to cultivate immortality.

Those bandits who usually killed without blinking an eye were now like they had seen a ghost. They dropped their weapons and scrambled out of the shop.

"Young Master Jiang is mighty!"

"Long live the Jiang family!"

Someone shouted something, and the hall erupted in deafening cheers.

In this dog-eat-dog world, strength is the only truth.

The Jiang family demonstrated enough power to protect them, which was enough to make them completely devoted to them.

upstairs.

Jiang Yining watched this scene, a satisfied smile curving her lips.

"Now, Jiang Cheng's reputation has been established."

She turned back to the table, picked up a pen, and wrote a few words on a new contract.

Preliminary Plan for the Merger of Black Wind Village and its Affiliated Territories.

"Since you've messed with me, don't blame me for taking everything down with you."

A cold glint flashed in Jiang Yining's eyes. "You can use the Black Wind Stronghold's treasury to pay for Erbao's milk powder."

Late at night.

The nights in the Wanyao Mountains are always filled with dangerous roars of beasts.

But in the core area of ​​Jiangcheng, it was brightly lit.

Countless refugees worked through the night under the light of the talisman lamps.

The massive city wall is already taking shape, covered with patterns of defensive formations.

Jiang Yining stood on the city wall, feeling the faint "luck" gathering from all directions.

Although it's still very thin, the baby in my belly is clearly enjoying it.

Just then.

A shooting star suddenly streaked across the sky.

No, that wasn't a shooting star.

Jiang Yining squinted her eyes.

That was a message talisman.

Moreover, it was an extremely high-level "urgent dispatch."

The message talisman did not fly towards Jiangcheng, but instead landed at the Zhenyaoguan Garrison Commander's Office, hundreds of miles away.

Jiang Yining's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

A feeling of being targeted by a venomous snake arises spontaneously.

"Mother?"

Jiang Lei appeared beside her at some point, his hand tightly gripping the black iron sword, his face serious.

"fine."

Jiang Yining took a deep breath to suppress her unease.

She patted her son's head and looked up at the deep night sky.

"It seems our business has grown too big, and some people are getting jealous."

or……

That man, the man who controls the world in the capital, has finally turned his attention here?

"Da Bao".

Jiang Yining's voice was a little tense, "Starting tomorrow, you will be going into seclusion."

"I want you to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage within ten days."

Jiang Lei suddenly looked up, a look of shock flashing in his eyes.

Foundation building at three years old?

This was something unheard of in the entire cultivation world.

But he didn't ask why.

He simply nodded emphatically.

"it is good."

Because he could feel it; his mother's hands were trembling.

That was an instinctive reaction he only had when facing high-level demonic beasts.

That was... the fear of death.

"Boom—!"

The once clear sky suddenly became covered with dark clouds.

But these dark clouds were not the usual black; instead, they had an eerie purplish-blue hue, so thick they seemed to be about to crush the entire mountain range.

Within the clouds, lightning danced wildly, and thunder roared like a dense drumbeat, shaking the very soul.

"What is this? Is a powerful being undergoing tribulation here?"

"Something's not right! This pressure... it feels even more terrifying than the Golden Core Tribulation?"

The cultivators inside and outside the Demon Suppression Pass stopped what they were doing and looked in shock towards Jiang Cheng's direction.

At this moment, Jiang Cheng was already shrouded in a thick array of light.

In the backyard of the city lord's mansion, in a temporarily erected spirit-gathering array.

Jiang Lei sat cross-legged.

A violent purple lightning crackled around its small body.

The heavy black iron sword hovered above his head, emitting an excited buzzing sound.

His eyes were tightly closed, his face was flushed red, and the veins on his forehead were bulging, clearly indicating that he was enduring great pain.

"Hang in there, Da Bao."

Jiang Yining stood outside the formation, her hands gripping the railing tightly, her knuckles turning white.

She has poured all the top-grade spirit stones she has earned in the past few months into the spirit-gathering array.

Even the little bit of primordial spiritual liquid accumulated by the Myriad Spirit Divine Tree was fed to Jiang Lei.

Establishing a foundation at the age of three is defying the heavens.

But she didn't have time.

The feeling of being spied on grew stronger, as if an invisible net was tightening around them.

Only if Da Bao breaks through can the Jiang family have more leverage to protect themselves in this chaotic world.

"Mother...it hurts..."

Jiang Lei squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth, his bones cracking and popping.

This is a process of cleansing the marrow and reshaping the body's core.

"If it hurts, just yell it out! Don't hold it in!"

Jiang Yining's eyes reddened, wishing she could suffer this pain in her son's place.

Just then.

"Buzz—"

Jiang Yining's stomach suddenly shuddered violently.

A solemn, vast, and noble purple aura suddenly burst forth from her abdomen!

This purple aura wasn't heading towards Jiang Yining, but rather directly towards Jiang Lei within the formation.

Erbao has made his move!

It seemed to sense its brother's crisis and actually took the initiative to separate a wisp of its most precious primordial purple energy to help its brother suppress the turbulent spiritual power within its body.

Purple energy enters the body.

Jiang Lei's pained expression instantly eased.

That purple aura was like the arrival of a king, instantly controlling the chaotic thunderous power within his body and guiding it to repeatedly wash over his meridians and bones.

"roar--!"

Meanwhile, deep within the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains.

As if sensing something, countless demonic beasts knelt down in the direction of Jiang Cheng, emitting low whimpers.

That is when all beasts pay homage to the heavens.

It is the deep-seated submission to the birth of an emperor.

Above Jiangcheng, purple clouds stretched 30,000 miles eastward, faintly forming a blurry golden dragon phantom that hovered beneath the thunderclouds.

"A celestial phenomenon has occurred! This signifies the birth of a great treasure!"

"It's in Jiangcheng! Go and rob it!"

The cultivators at Zhenyao Pass went mad.

In this borderland, morality is utter nonsense; only treasures can move people's hearts.

In an instant, dozens of streaks of light shot into the sky, rushing toward Jiang City.

Among them were many powerful Golden Core cultivators, and even a few terrifying Nascent Soul cultivators!

"Oh no! The city's defensive formation can't withstand such a large attack!"

Wang Mazi, who was directing the refugees to reinforce the city walls, was pale-faced. Looking at the dense streaks of light in the sky, his calves were cramping.

"Anyone who dares to touch a single blade of grass or tree belonging to the Jiang family will be killed without mercy!"

Jiang Yining suddenly turned around, clutching a thick bundle of talismans in her hand.

That was the "Nine Heavens Thunder Talisman" she had worked on overnight.

Although she is physically weak now, she can transform into a demon for the sake of her child.

"boom!"

The first wave of attacks landed on the city's defensive formation.

The light screen trembled violently, cracking open with fissures.

"Hahaha! There really is a treasure! This extraordinary phenomenon must be the birth of a divine artifact!"

An old man in a red robe rushed to the front. He was the notorious evil cultivator in the area, known as "Bloodhand Butcher," with a cultivation level of late Golden Core stage.

He immediately noticed the strange phenomenon in the courtyard, his greedy eyes fixed on Jiang Lei in the spirit-gathering array... and the pregnant woman next to him radiating an alluring purple aura.

"That pregnant woman's belly is strange too! Capture her and take her back to refine elixirs!"

The old man in red robes let out a strange laugh, and summoned a skull banner in his hand, which transformed into a giant ghostly claw, fiercely grabbing at the crumbling formation.

"court death!"

Jiang Yining's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and she was about to unleash a talisman to fight to the death.

Sudden.

"Snap!"

A crisp cracking sound rang out.

It's not that the great formation shattered.

The thunderclouds in the sky... have split open.

A thick, purplish-gold lightning bolt, as thick as a water bucket, carrying an aura of world-destroying destruction, crashed straight down!

But the target of this tribulation was not Jiang Lei.

Or rather, Jiang Lei doesn't intend to passively take the blows.

Suddenly, Jiang Lei, who was inside the formation, opened his eyes.

Two bolts of lightning seemed to shoot out from those purplish-gold vertical pupils.

His small body soared into the air, and the heavy black iron sword in his hand actually took the initiative to meet the lightning tribulation!

"cut!"

A childish yet domineering shout resounded throughout the heavens and earth.

He's actually devouring the lightning tribulation!

The terrifying lightning bolt was drawn in by the Xuan Tie Sword and instantly poured into his body.

Not only did it not shatter him, it actually caused his aura to rise steadily!

Qi Refining Great Perfection... Half-Step Foundation Establishment...

boom!

A powerful shockwave erupted.

Early stage of Foundation Building!

Become!

But Jiang Lei did not stop.

He hovered in mid-air, his body wrapped in purple-gold thunder dragons, like a young thunder god.

He lowered his head, looking at the red-robed old man who was attacking the formation, and the group of greedy cultivators behind him.

"You... you want to harm my mother?"

The sound wasn't loud, but it resounded like muffled thunder in everyone's ears.

The old man in the red robe felt a sudden jolt of fear, an unprecedented sense of crisis washing over him.

"You pretentious brat! You dare to be so arrogant after just reaching the Foundation Establishment stage? This old man will..."