Chen Wentian decided to involve Wu Qianyu in the rescue operation as she was already quite reliable and it would be good for her to see the wider world of immortals. They left Black Rock City after breakfast and headed for distant lands, following the leads that Jasmine provided for the three immortals. After several teleportation hops and using the maximum speed of Turtle Can Fly, they arrived at the first location which was a dusty border town at the edge of a vast desert.
The town was called Death Town. Wu Qianyu frowned when hearing that but Chen Wentian explained that there were certain groups of cultivators that tended to be quite morbid. The immortal they were looking for was called Immortal Dust Scorpion and he specialized in poisons. The guy was born in this town and it was a good lead to start out.
Chen Wentian instructed Wu Qianyu to observe from the carriage and flew down to the town, with his immortal spiritual aura on full blast. He had five days before the escape operation and he didn't have time to sneak around. If the immortal wanted to hide, there wasn't much he could do.
He rocketed down and landed in front of the town hall. As expected, the mayor had rushed out to greet him.
"Sir immortal!" The nondescript middle-aged man bowed in fear when he approached.
"Rise, I am Immortal Blue Dragon Chen Wentian. I am looking for another immortal, have you heard of Immortal Dust Scorpion?"
"Yes, sir immortal. Immortal Dust Scorpion is the hero of Death Town. But he is not here, I don't know when he will return."
"But he will return at some point?"
"Certainly, this is his home. I'm also his descendant." The mayor had a hint of pride in his voice.
Chen Wentian pulled out a sealed letter and handed it to the mayor, "That's good, give this letter to him if he returns within four days. If not, destroy it. Understood?"
"Yes!"
"Good, farewell!"
Chen Wentian didn't delay and left the town, leaving a bewildered mayor behind. The letter had Jasmine's spiritual signature and instructed her adopted father's subordinates to answer her call. An immortal out on errands could be anywhere in the world and finding a family member was good enough.
He apologized to Wu Qianyu for the boring trip and headed towards the second location. He made it up to her by helping her stabilize the gains in her spiritual sea.
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The second one was called Immortal Sleeping Tortoise. For this guy, Jasmine didn't have a whole lot of information as he was a total sloth and simply liked to eat and sleep. He didn't even like to do any sect work or take disciples and had the least number of followers of all the immortals in Beast God Sanctum. There was also a special aspect of his lazy turtle secret art that gave him a longer lifespan than ordinary Spirit Lords. Apparently, he was more than three hundred years old. Depending on who was asked, the rumor was that he was either close to dying of old age or close to breaking through to the next realm.
Chen Wentian led Wu Qianyu and visited numerous provinces that had a mild climate and plenty of vegetation, ideal places for a lazy turtle, but there was no sign of the guy. Chen Wentian was running out of patience as they had wasted two whole days searching with nothing to show for it. He wondered if the old fellow simply kicked the bucket from all the stress of the Snake Lord's death.
"Really master?"
"Maybe?"
Wu Qianyu laughed, "So bad, how can a venerable immortal die like that? Wouldn't he want go out in a blaze of battle and glory?"
He could only shrug. They might be immortals but they were still humans in the end and everyone was scared of death.
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Chen Wentian and Wu Qianyu discussed the last one while they flew towards a peculiar establishment. Immortal Embracing Python as she was called really liked to live up to her name. She had an infamous habit of collecting more husbands than could be counted and she also had more male lovers over her lifetime than the leaves on a tree. She was truly an insatiable woman!
It was quite sad that all of her lovers might have been killed in the purge and Jasmine guessed she would most likely drown out her sorrows at a certain type of brothel that catered to female clients. There were only a few establishments on the subcontinent with male entertainers good enough to satisfy an immortal and they were currently headed to the most likely one.
Wu Qianyu looked at him in disbelief, "Are you being serious? Women can be like that?"
"Hmm, like what?"
"... Like a man." She finally blurted out, though she quickly turned away, blushing and not daring to look at him. She hoped he wouldn't get offended.
"Haha, it's okay Qianyu, you make a good point."
Chen Wentian scratched his head and smiled wryly. It was actually not as rare as one would think for female immortals to take advantage of their power to make a male harem. Nobody was going to stop them from doing so but people would certainly look down upon them behind their backs. This was quite unfair, perhaps? Wu Qianyu was right and it was a great hypocrisy that powerful men could and were expected to have multiple wives but the contrary was not true for women.
"I guess if it’s purely for lust and pleasure, I can't really judge her..." Chen Wentian muttered, "But, if we consider building stable relationships and families... it might be a bit unfair but it's basic human biology."
"If a woman has multiple husbands and male lovers, she can only be pregnant with one child at a time and there would only be one father. Out of the crowd of men, only a few of them would get the chance to have a child with her. It seems unfair to the ones that would miss out on the chance. But a man can form a family with multiple wives because all the women can get pregnant with his child. They are bonded through the children and it’s a more or less stable relationship..."
"Master, that was very profound and mature. Perhaps you've had some experience in this aspect?" Wu Qianyu teased.
"No... what? Of course, not... I was merely thinking out loud."
Chen Wentian's cheeks reddened ever so slightly and he quickly changed the subject. He couldn't tell his girls about He Xingping's child yet...
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It's quite interesting your point of view on that subject because women lynch you if you say something like that to her. It's pretty realistic, even the dynasties were only a couple of children, but the concubines were hundreds. But that is not the case for the emperor unless he is incapable, all the concubines waited for his son and that is why culture stories of the "Reborn Son of ***", "Dragon's Rise" come out, etc.
Well she is simple slut. Dont like people like that.
Well, they have a very long lifespan, and i think its natural that they would get bored of whats considered correct after a while
What a f*cking loser you are
I'm sorry, what. So it's unfair to so many dudes that one woman with several can only be pregnant by one man at any given time? So men are entitled to their sexual partner's bodies having to carry their offspring??? So now the chance to impregnate a partner is something men deserve, and not the woman's choice what to do with her own body?? It's not like they're the ones carrying the baby, is it? If they want a child that badly they can find other partners o_o
If anything, it's unfair to the woman that she couldn't bear as obscenely large a number of children as a man potentially could, if she would even want to do that(would she want to suffer labour that many times?). But it's unfair to the MEN?
No mentioning how unfair it is that so many women all have to go through pregnancy and labor all just so one man can have his 'large stable family'? I feel like women are getting the short end of the stick here, and I'm questioning why Qianyu would just accept his words at face value. It's almost dismissive on his part.
I'm just talking about having children in a reverse harem. Like i said in the chap, a woman is free to have many male lovers and sleep around. I am not judging that at all.
I am simply saying, if the ancient family structure is reversed, for example if an Empress had many many husbands (like over 10s or 100s), then the woman who has all the power is not going to spend every waking moment of her life being pregnant and popping out children for all those husbands.
1. She could be selective with which ones she has children with, and leave out the rest
2. She can say no more after a certain number, like 5 and leave out the rest.
3. Even if she does spend every waking moment popping out children, if the reverse harem grows large enough, it is simply physically impossible for her to have children with every husband.
@berrybrunne Someone is confusing evolution with morality. It is two separate things, males are evolved to spread their genes and have greater possibility of producing continued descendants. Women on the are evolved to look for males who are strong and resourceful because such genes will ensure that her child inherits the strongest genes. Women can also look for multiple partners, according to a scientific study a female is less likely to conceive from the same male in succession. Societal behaviours such as cheating on your partner, having multiple partners is all by-products of evolution. Morality is all about ensuring such promiscuous behaviour is curtailed. Just like food, clothing and water, s*x is also a resource. Men will try to gain more, women will try to gain better. This is just a story, just enjoy the ride.
I think denying the possibility of having children to your lover is kind of selfish, and ppl in a harem are more likely to be happy than those in a reverse one by nature