Liang Kingdom, Ganzhou.

  The New Year celebrations had just passed when a major event occurred in the Jianghu of Ganzhou.

  Within Nanyang City of Ganzhou, the Zhao Family's Old Master suddenly announced his retirement, handing over the entire family to his eldest grandson, Zhao Mingcheng.

  As this matter spread like wildfire, a rumor also began to circute in secret. Although Old Master Zhao was already an Innate Grandmaster, he was born a tenant farmer. In his youth, he was too eager for quick success, which damaged his foundation, limiting his lifespan to only eighty years. Now, his days were numbered.

  Therefore, Old Master Zhao's so-called retirement was actually a cover for his death.

  The Zhao Family naturally vehemently denied and refuted this, but no matter how outsiders specuted, the Old Master Zhao never showed his face.

  Thus, it was clear that the rumor was likely true, and the Zhao Family's repeated denials were obviously ughable.

  [Name: Zhao Sheng]

  [Lifespan: 79/79]

  [Physique: Robust (Unranked)]

  [Talent: Dynamic Vision (Mortal Grade)]

  [Skills: Floating Light Swordpy (Mastery), Wind Chasing Archery (Transcendent), Azure Sea Tide Rising Art (Great Accomplishment), Cloud Dragon Three Transformations (Mastery)]

  [ "Second life ended, calcuting..."]

  ["Calcution complete, final rating: C+"]

  ["Rating reward: Choose one item from physique, skill, or talent to inherit. Please choose?"]

  Hmm, choose to inherit the talent "Dynamic Vision."

  [Talent inherited.]

  ["Congratutions on achieving two life achievements: 1. Innate Grandmaster; 2. Abundant Offspring (10/10)"]

  ["Achievement reward: Obtain two random rewards. Draw from physique, skill, or talent, or choose to upgrade talent level. Please choose?"]

  Choose physique, draw twice consecutively.

  ["Drawing... Congratutions, you have drawn the Mortal Grade physique 'Hundred Longevity Body'. Congratutions, you have drawn the Mortal Grade physique 'Light as a Swallow'."]

  Inside the Zhao Family mansion, in a bedroom, Zhao Sheng suddenly sat up from the bed, his mind fshing with information, causing him to look disappointed as he slowly exhaled.

  Compared to his first life, the final rating of his second life had improved, not only two levels higher than the "C-" of his first life, but he had also achieved two life achievements.

  Unfortunately, he still hadn't drawn a spiritual root physique.

  "Counting it, this is already my third life in this world..." Zhao Sheng sighed, surveying his surroundings, and found the room elegantly decorated with exquisite furniture.

  It seemed his family was doing well, at least not as impoverished as in his second life.

  More than two hundred years ago, Zhao Sheng first came to this world, reincarnating into an ordinary family. After adulthood, he used his knowledge and experience from his previous life to quickly become wealthy, becoming the richest man in the city in just over a decade.

  In the second half of his life, he enjoyed all the wealth and luxury of the world, not only having many wives and concubines but also a house full of children and grandchildren.

  At the age of eighty, he contracted a terminal illness. Before his death, he learned from a divine doctor that cultivators existed, and he felt extremely regretful.

  Unfortunately, it was too te. After barely holding on for a day, Zhao Sheng passed away.

  Who knew that after death, he would be pleasantly surprised to discover that he possessed the treasure, the Hundred Lifetimes Book, allowing him to be reborn continuously in his bloodline descendants. As long as the bloodline was not extinguished, the soul would not perish.

  Zhao Sheng was overjoyed. After drawing the "Dynamic Vision" talent, he hurriedly began his second life.

  When he woke up in his second life, he discovered that he had become the son of a tenant farmer.

  After inquiring carefully, he learned that nearly a hundred years had passed since his death in his first life.

  The Zhao Family was also wiped out by a band of brigands five years after his death. Fortunately, one of his sons was studying abroad at the time, and thus escaped the disaster.

  Since the family fortune declined, the Zhao Family had deteriorated generation after generation, and had been reduced to tenant farmers by the time of his father's generation.

  However, Zhao Sheng was not worried at all. In this life, he would not only revive the family business, but also practice martial arts, cultivate immortality, and seek longevity.

  Ten years ter, he once again established a rge family business, and his martial arts also improved rapidly with the blessing of the "Dynamic Vision" talent, successfully growing into a second-rate expert.

  However, in those ten years, he had never heard any news about cultivators.

  After careful consideration, he resolutely abandoned his wife, children, and family business, and began to wander the world.

  This wandering sted for twenty years.

  At the age of fifty-five, Zhao Sheng barely advanced to the Innate realm with the help of elixirs, becoming a top Grandmaster in Ganzhou.

  His level had improved. He naturally came into contact with cultivators.

  Half a year ter, Zhao Sheng learned from a cultivator that only those with spiritual roots could cultivate immortality.

  However, Zhao Sheng did not have spiritual roots, and unfortunately, less than one in ten thousand people in the secur world possessed spiritual roots.

  Fortunately, he also obtained a crucial piece of information. That was, the probability of spiritual roots appearing in the descendants of cultivators was higher.

  Half a year ter, Zhao Sheng returned to Nanyang City and began to look for marriage partners for his descendants, naturally targeting the children of cultivation families.

  However, this goal was simply too difficult.

  The cultivation world was closed, conservative, and extremely xenophobic. In order to increase the probability of spiritual roots being born, cultivators often only married other cultivators, and cultivation families only intermarried with other cultivation families.

  For a mortal family to marry the children of a cultivation family was simply wishful thinking.

  Zhao Sheng exhausted all his efforts, not only offering up most of his family property, but also voluntarily signing a twenty-year indenture. Only then did he persuade the Chen Family, a cultivation family, to agree to send a colteral, concubine-born daughter to marry his eldest grandson, Zhao Mingcheng.

  "Cultivating immortality is difficult, more difficult than ascending to the heavens... In my previous life, I went to great lengths and only barely saw a glimmer of hope for cultivating immortality. In this life... can I get my wish?"

  Thinking of the difficulties of his previous life, Zhao Sheng could not help but sigh softly. Fortunately, he still had the treasure, the Hundred Lifetimes Book. If one life didn't work, he would just try another! At this thought, Zhao Sheng's consciousness sank into the depths of his sea of consciousness, where a jade-colored book was shining brightly.

  The words "Hundred Lifetimes" were written on the cover of the book. The book slowly opened, and the remaining ninety-seven pages were still bnk, with only the first three pages containing text.

  Zhao Sheng was already extremely familiar with the records on the first two pages, and his gaze fell on the third page.

  [Name: Zhao Zhiqin (Zhao Sheng)]

  [Lifespan: 15/120]

  [Physique: Hundred Longevity Body (Mortal Grade), Light as a Swallow (Mortal Grade)]

  [Talent: Dynamic Vision (Mortal Grade)]

  [Skills: Floating Light Swordpy (Proficient), Cloud Dragon Three Transformations (Entry Level), Azure Sea Tide Rising Art (Entry Level)]

  "The Zhi generation?" Zhao Sheng muttered to himself, his thoughts slowly drifting away.

  In his previous life, he established the generational names for the Zhao Family: Feng, Xian, Ming, Ren, Zong, Quan, Zhen, Du, Tai, He. Zhi, Cheng, Xuan, Yu, Dian, Zhong, Zheng, Chang, Jin, Ke. Chong, Xuan, Tong, Han, Yun, Gao, Hong, Ding, Da, Luo, Dao, De, Yan, Qing, Hua, Xiu, Xian, Gui, Chang, Sheng.

  The Zhi generation was already the eleventh.

  Going through this body's memories, Zhao Sheng discovered that more than one hundred and sixty years had passed.

  This time, the Zhao Family not only didn't decline but had grown into a rge family with over a thousand members. The family's businesses were all over Ganzhou, and they were a well-known martial arts family in Ganzhou, with connections in both the underworld and the official world.

  Zhao Sheng's identity in this life wasn't low. Although his parents were dead, he was still considered a direct descendant of the Zhao Family's third branch.