Chapter 492: Trying to Get Pregnant

Winter goes and spring comes, and ten months pass slowly.

While Ying Zheng was working at a high intensity, the Qin State was running at full speed.

Apart from occasionally showing up in the morning dew and reporting for duty, Cheng Jiao was directing Gongshu Jia and Mo Jia to produce large quantities of large agricultural machinery and tools to help most of the farmers in Xianyang and within a radius of 300 miles of Xianyang grow food.

The rest was to reclaim a large amount of wasteland and, using the river water drained by the Zhengguo Canal, cultivate land suitable for farming.

As for war machines, they were far less useful to him than harvesting more food.

After nearly ten months of practicing dual cultivation with the women every night, his strength has improved by leaps and bounds. His strength has increased by at least three times and reached the limit of a god.

If Donghuang Taiyi were to be resurrected now, he could kill him with one sword even without using thunder magic.

As his strength increased, he discovered something strange.

The panel was oddly blurred.

Apart from the attribute points, only his realm and the bond value with the girls are displayed, nothing else. The same goes for the panels of the other girls.

The only good thing is that the lottery function is still there.

This made him a little confused, thinking that the way he opened the panel was wrong.

After upgrading other people’s panels, their functions became much more numerous, but after upgrading his panel, not only did the functions become fewer, but they were also gradually disappearing.

He wasn't sure whether this was good for him or not.

To the extent that he was a little afraid to upgrade the panel easily, in case the panel suddenly disappeared.

Cheng Jiao decided to upgrade the panel after he broke through the Foundation Establishment Heavenly Man Realm and achieved the Golden Elixir Immortal God Realm.

He had a vague feeling that the panel did not encourage him to rely on it to improve his cultivation.

Moreover, the stronger he becomes through his own efforts, the better he seems to integrate with the panel.

He didn't know if this was his illusion, but it didn't stop him from trying to keep his balance.

"Son."

Yan Fei folded her hands in front of her belly and came over with her junior sister Yue Shen.

Cheng Jiao came back to his senses and said with a smile, "You guys are here."

Yan Fei hesitated for a moment, "Master, I heard from my junior sister that you are preparing to go on another expedition?"

Cheng Jiao nodded and said, "Yes, this matter has been decided at the morning court today. General Wang Jian will help me, so you don't have to worry."

Because he destroyed the Kingdom of Han and was the Marquis of Chang'an, his influence in the army is now higher than that of Wang Jian. Naturally, there are people with ulterior motives who want to praise him to death.

This is also one of the reasons why he keeps a low profile. Although he is powerful, it is impossible for him to kill everyone. So he just plays with the girls in the mansion without any shame.

Yan Fei said somewhat sadly: "Then you must come back soon."

The Moon Goddess smiled softly: "Senior Sister, you just got pregnant, and you're already so sentimental."

Cheng Jiao had a smile on his face. There were many women in the mansion, but with his help, only Yan Fei became pregnant.

He already knew from Nian Duan that this was because he had too much Yang energy in his body. If the woman was weak, it would be difficult for her to get pregnant. Only if she was of similar strength to him would it be possible for her to get pregnant.

And in the entire mansion, the only one who could keep up with his cultivation speed was Yan Fei, who had condensed the Dharma image of a celestial being and was only slightly away from his celestial limit.

Yan Fei rolled her eyes at her junior sister and said, "If you get pregnant, you won't be much better than me."

The Moon Goddess sighed softly. With Cheng Jiao's help, she also broke through the Heavenly Man Realm, but she had not yet become pregnant.

Master Nian Duan said that if one wants to conceive Cheng Jiao’s child in a short period of time, one must at least condense the power of the celestial being.

Otherwise, even if she broke through the heavenly realm, she would have to slowly get along with Cheng Jiao and wait for the prize. Unless Cheng Jiao looked for her to output every day, but this was obviously impossible.

Not to mention the Yin-Yang family, there are also those from Zi Nu, the Bai Jia, and the Seven Kingdoms.

She considered it frequent if she could communicate with Cheng Jiao two or three times a month.

Yan Fei touched her belly which had not yet bulged, with a happy look on her face, and then said with some anticipation: "I don't know if it's a boy or a girl."

The Moon Goddess joked, "Maybe they are twins, a boy and a girl."

"I just came from Master Nian Duan. Master Nian Duan said that there is only one. And..." Yan Fei pursed her red lips slightly, "She said that I might be different from ordinary women. It will take at least twelve to fifteen months for me to give birth."

The Moon Goddess was slightly stunned: "Fifteen months? That long?"

Cheng Jiao smiled faintly and said, "Yan Fei and I are both quite powerful, and Yan Fei's bloodline power seems to have been stimulated, which is why it takes longer to conceive offspring."

He was not surprised by this result.

Don’t you see, Nezha was born three years later.

He guessed in his heart that perhaps Yan Fei had awakened the bloodline of an ancient immortal god, and this ancient immortal god was most likely the long-deceased Huangdi.

The Moon Goddess frowned slightly: "I see."

With Cheng Jiao's help, she broke through the realm of heaven and man. She vaguely felt a different kind of power in her body, which she thought was the blood power that Cheng Jiao mentioned.

Yan Fei said: "My lord, when you go to lead the army this time, you must bring a few sisters with you."

"Who do you think I should take with me?" Cheng Jiao asked casually.

Having learned from his experience in Korea, he also planned to bring a beauty with him to kill time on the road.

Yan Fei took the Moon Goddess's hand and said, "Of course it's Junior Sister. Junior Sister is proficient in divination and will be of great use to you, young master."

Cheng Jiao looked at the blindfolded Moon Goddess, and her pretty face actually turned red. Could this be something she had discussed with Yan Fei?

"Alright."

He thought about it and felt that it was indeed useful to have the Moon Goddess with him.

Seeing Cheng Jiao agreed, Yan Fei continued, "Young Master, take Da Siming with you. She is efficient and would be a good runner."

"Right……"

Cheng Jiao quickly said, "Okay, that's it."

He saw that Yan Fei was about to continue the introduction. If he brought the female elder of Yin Yang Sect with him, people who didn't know would think he was the new leader of Yin Yang Sect.

Besides, he is leading an army, and as a commander, it would have a bad influence if he had too many women.

Yan Fei felt a little embarrassed. If she hadn't been pregnant, she would have wanted to go with Cheng Jiao in person.

Now that I cannot go myself, out of selfish motives, I really want to send all the female elders of the Yin-Yang family over there to go with Cheng Jiao.

The Moon Goddess was speechless beside Yan Fei. She didn't expect that she would be sold out by her senior sister like this.

However, she was very excited. While there were not many women around Cheng Jiao, she would try hard to get pregnant. Maybe, she could give birth to a child for Cheng Jiao before her senior sister.

……

Five days later, Cheng Jiao arrived at the Qin-Zhao border in a low-key manner with the Moon God and the Great God of Destiny in a small entourage.

Qin army camp.

Wang Jian was discussing with his generals how to attack Zhao.

Cheng Jiao walked slowly into the military camp. All the generals' eyes immediately focused on Cheng Jiao, as well as the Moon God and the Great God of Destiny behind Cheng Jiao, and they began to whisper.

Although the Qin army had no clear rules, it was generally not allowed to bring women into the army, even relatives of generals. Wang Jian opened his tiger eyes and shouted to the generals: "Quiet!"

He immediately stood up and said, "Marquis Chang'an, you are finally here."

At the same time, he looked at the Moon Goddess, as if explaining to the generals: "I guess this is the Yin-Yang School, Master Moon Goddess who is proficient in astrology and divination. Master Moon Goddess has worked hard on this march."

At this moment, all the generals realized who the woman with the veil following Cheng Jiao was. She was actually the mysterious Moon Goddess in Xianyang, whose divination skills won the King of Qin's praise.

There has always been a tradition of bringing fortune-tellers with you when you march into battle, but this tradition gradually declined after the Zhou Dynasty conquered the Shang Dynasty.

The reason is that when King Wu of Zhou led his army to attack King Zhou, when the moment of decisive battle came, he consulted divination to predict good or bad luck out of caution.

As a result, the fortune teller concluded that it was a bad omen.

At the critical moment, Jiang Ziya, the imperial teacher, crushed the tortoise shell and threw away the yarrow. On the grounds that "with dead bones and grass, how can one tell good or bad luck", he insisted on sending troops to fight a decisive battle in Muye and won a great victory.

Afterwards, Jiang Ziya strongly advocated abolishing the fortune-tellers and establishing the astronomical office based on the Qi Men Dun Jia, the Five Elements, Yin and Yang, and the principles of astrology, which later became the Imperial Observatory.

The fortune tellers gradually disappeared, and the astrologers gradually rose.

However, hundreds of years later, the astrologers learned from the strengths of the fortune tellers and absorbed the essence of the fortune tellers to develop astrology divination, which was even more trusted by emperors.

Cheng Jiao said, "General Wang, I've been waiting for a long time."

Wang Jian welcomed Cheng Jiao to take the seat.

Although he had seniority and was old, the commander this time was Cheng Jiao. The reason given by the King of Qin was sufficient, as Cheng Jiao had just destroyed the Kingdom of Han.

Some people in the army supported this, some were indignant, and some realized that the Qin royal family wanted to take control of the Qin military power themselves.

As a member of the Wang family, a powerful family in the army, Wang Jian naturally understood the reason.

In addition, Lu Buwei suddenly changed sides and the situation in Qin State became clear. Naturally, he would no longer be a fence-sitter and would directly side with the Qin King's faction.

He will not treat Cheng Jiao badly.

Cheng Jiao glanced at the generals in the tent and asked, "Who is leading the army of Zhao this time?"

Wang Jian said slowly: "Zhao Cong, a member of the Zhao royal family, and Yan Ju, a member of the Yan family."

Cheng Jiao asked again: "How does he compare to Li Mu?"

The generals in the tent laughed loudly: "What kind of onion is Zhao Cong? How can he be compared with General Li Mu?"

They were stationed at the Qin-Zhao border all year round, sometimes facing Pang Nuan, sometimes dealing with Li Mu. Although they hated Li Mu, as soldiers, they naturally recognized Li Mu's strength.

Cheng Jiao smiled and said, "That's good. Reorganize the army and march straight to Handan!"

The tent became quiet.

Wang Jian frowned and said, "Although Zhao State has lost Li Mu and Zhao Cong is not capable enough, we should not be careless."

"General Wang is right. It is not difficult to break into Zhao, but Handan is hundreds of miles away from the border between Qin and Zhao. Zhao is adjacent to Wei. If we follow the principle of "lips and teeth are cold", there is no guarantee that Wei will not take action and imitate Sun Bin's attack to save Zhao."

Cheng Jiao smiled faintly and said, "Qin is not Wei, and Wei does not have Sun Bin. As long as we are fast enough and take Handan, even if Wei realizes it, it will be too late to regret."

Wang Jian said in a deep voice: "I wonder where the confidence of the Marquis of Chang'an comes from? This concerns the lives of 100,000 soldiers, so we cannot act rashly!"

He knew that the reason why Cheng Jiao was able to conquer Korea in a very short time was because the female marquis of Korea was Cheng Jiao's woman, and Korea was controlled by the female marquis. It was no wonder that Cheng Jiao could easily conquer Korea.

Cheng Jiao pondered and asked, "General, do you know where Li Mu is now?"

Wang Jian shook his head and said, "Li Mu has been missing for more than a year. According to rumors, he was framed in the Zhao Palace by Zhao Wangqian and Guo Kai. The matter has not yet been determined."

Cheng Jiao said again: "General, do you know why the king would easily start a war to destroy Han, Zhao and the six kingdoms?"

Wang Jian's heart moved and his expression changed slightly.

This matter was indeed strange. Anyone with a sense of the overall situation in the Qin State could see that although the Qin State at this moment had the potential to unify the seven countries, it was not yet at the point of swallowing up the world.

If the war to destroy the six kingdoms was launched at this time and encountered setbacks, such as being unable to conquer the six kingdoms for a long time, the losses to Qin would be almost immeasurable. At the very least, it would take many more years to unify the seven kingdoms.

Cheng Jiao looked around the tent and said, "I can tell you that General Li Mu is not dead yet. He is in the dungeon of the Xianyang Palace."

All the generals were shocked, even Wang Jian was surprised.

"how come……"

Cheng Jiao laughed and said, "Why not? Zhao has been infiltrated, and Li Mu is the result."

Wang Jian lowered his voice and asked, "May I ask who it is?"

Cheng Jiao moved his lips slightly and mentioned a person that surprised Wang Jian a little but also seemed very normal.

After a moment's hesitation, Wang Jian slowly nodded: "Since the Marquis has made preparations, I will obey your orders."

Seeing that the general in the tent was still suspicious, he snorted coldly: "Don't you even listen to me?"

Faced with Wang Jian's bloody aura of many years of killing, the generals were still frightened and felt deeply pressured, even though many of them had crawled out of piles of dead bodies.

After all the generals left the main tent, Wang Jian calmed down.

"My Lord, may I ask whether Guo Kai was bribed or controlled?"

The two have different meanings. Being bribed may lead to a loss of trust, but being controlled means that Guo Kai can only surrender to the Qin State unless he is desperate.

Based on his understanding of Guo Kai, he did not think that Guo Kai was the kind of noble man who would sacrifice his life for justice.

Regarding the army's expedition, Cheng Jiao was unambiguous, "I have controlled them, and there are people in the Zhao palace who are under my control, which is enough to influence the Zhao king to move. With both methods, the Zhao State is hopeless."

Now the Zhao State is corrupt internally and has incompetent people outside. He doesn't believe that the Zhao State can still summon gods automatically.

Wang Jian nodded slightly and said: "In this case, I am relieved. From now on, we will start attacking Zhao State."

Cheng Jiao smiled and said, "That's the best."

After a pause, Cheng Jiao made the arrangements directly: "General Wang will lead the soldiers of Shangdi to attack Jingxing. Let Yang Duanhe and General Qiang Wei lead the soldiers of Henei to attack Zhao at the same time. I will lead an army alone and go straight to Handan City."

Wang Jian said in surprise: "My Lord, you can't do that. If you go too deep into the hinterland, one mistake might lead to..."

Cheng Jiao raised his hand and said, "Don't worry. You have tied up most of the Zhao army. I only need to deal with the defenders in Handan City. Moreover, with Guo Kai as an insider, I don't need to attack the city. If we take over Handan City, the generals won't have to go through a hard battle. We can win without fighting and save more soldiers and strength. General Wang should know the reasoning better than me."

Wang Jian said in a deep voice: "My Lord, how many soldiers are you going to take with you?"

Cheng Jiao said calmly: "In ancient times, three thousand soldiers of Yue could conquer Wu. I can just bring three thousand elite soldiers."

His strength now alone is enough to defeat ten thousand troops.

If he shamelessly fights guerrilla warfare, he can kill even an army of 100,000.

If it weren't for the need to keep a low profile and control the capital of Zhao, he would have rushed directly to Handan City with the Moon Goddess and the Great God of Destiny to bring justice from heaven.

Wang Jian frowned and said, "My Lord, according to intelligence, there are at least 10,000 soldiers guarding Handan City, and several thousand imperial guards. Three thousand is a little too few, isn't it?"

Cheng Jiao laughed and said, "There are quite a few, but they are just a mob."

Wang Jian wanted to say more, but when he thought of the rumors that Cheng Jiao was already a peerless master in the realm of heaven and man, he stopped talking.

After Wang Jian left, Cheng Jiao took the Moon Goddess and the Great God of Life to his tent.

After entering the tent which was no smaller than the house, Cheng Jiao smiled and said, "Let's go, we should also seize the time and rest early."

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(End of this chapter)