Peach Blossom Mountain Liu Jiaxiu's Biography

Chapter 1561 Twelve Crimson Lotus Immortal-Slaying Swords
Back at Yunxiao Mountain, after spending nearly a month of happy time with his wife Huang Yuyao, Huang Yuqiang, Huang Yuwei, Gao Xin, Murong Xue, and Murong Yue, Liu Changxu gathered them together for a small meeting.

At this meeting, Liu Changxu aimed to resolve the increasingly complex internal problems within his family.

After marrying Huang Yuyao and her two daughters, along with the two hundred maids they brought with them, Liu Changxu now had six wives and more than five hundred concubines and maids.

Besides his six wives, including Huang Yuyao, and a few concubines with official titles such as Rushi, Ruhua, Zhiyin, and Zhihua, the nearly 500 maids were also considered his women.

With such a large harem, without strict rules and regulations, the household would inevitably descend into chaos. The reason Liu Changxu convened this small meeting was to address this issue.

At the meeting, Liu Changxu and his wives first discussed the status and position of the women in the family.

The status of Huang Yuyao and the other six wives was quite simple. Liu Changxu immediately declared that he would make them all his principal wives, and the six women were all quite satisfied with this.

However, Huang Yuyao and her women disagreed on how to determine the status of concubines and maids.

Finally, after considering the opinions of his six wives, Liu Changxu decided to divide the remaining 500-plus women into five tiers:
Twelve women, including Ru Shi, Ru Hua, Zhi Yin, and Zhi Hua, will be named as secondary consorts.

Thirty-six maids with cultivation levels of Nascent Soul stage or above were conferred the title of Lady.

One hundred maids with cultivation levels at the Nascent Soul stage were appointed as talented women.

The remaining maids, whose cultivation was at the Golden Core stage, were all appointed as concubines.

After determining the positions of the women in the family, Liu Changxu and his wives revised and improved the existing family rules and systems.

After a heated discussion, it was decided to establish a clan head and an elders' council as the highest authority of the Liu family.

The clan leader is Liu Changxu himself, and the elders are six women: Huang Yuyao, Huang Yuqiang, Huang Yuwei, Gao Xin, Murong Xue, and Murong Yue. Among them, Huang Yuyao serves as the Grand Elder.

Next, the halls were reorganized, and the following halls were established: Law Enforcement Hall, Skill Transmission Hall, External Affairs Hall, General Affairs Hall, Martial Arts Hall, Alchemy Hall, Weapon Hall, Array Hall, Beast Hall, Array Hall, Talisman Hall, Planting Hall, Scripture Hall, and Treasure Vault.

I. Enforcement Hall: Responsible for enforcing clan rules and maintaining internal stability. Has the power to judge and punish clan members who violate the rules. Subordinate departments include: the Court of Criminal Justice, the Clan Prison, and the Mountain Patrol Team. The Hall Master is Huang Yuyao.

II. Transmission Hall: Responsible for instructing and guiding clansmen in cultivation, and assessing their aptitude and cultivation level. It comprises: the Education Institute and the Examination Department. The Hall Master is Huang Yuwei.

III. General Affairs Hall: Responsible for managing family registers, weddings and funerals, rituals and sacrifices, task assignments, evaluating merits, distributing rewards, and allocating family contribution points. Subordinate departments include: Household Registration Office, Ceremonial Hall, and Task Hall. The Hall Master is Gao Xin.

IV. Foreign Affairs Department: Responsible for managing external liaison, trade, intelligence, negotiations, and transactions. Subordinate departments include: Protocol Department, Commerce Department, and Intelligence Department. The head of the department is Murong Yue.

V. Martial Hall: Responsible for managing the family's external wars and protecting the family's safety. Subordinate to: Cloud Guard. The Hall Master is Huang Yuqiang.

VI. Pill Hall: Responsible for planting spiritual herbs, refining pills, developing pill formulas, and managing pills. The Hall Master is concurrently held by Huang Yuwei.

VII. Weapon Hall: Responsible for mining, refining magical artifacts, magical treasures, and array weapons. The Hall Master is concurrently held by Liu Changxu. VIII. Talisman Hall: Responsible for making talisman paper and drawing talismans. The Hall Master is concurrently held by Huang Yuyao.

9. Array Hall: Responsible for the maintenance and crafting of the family's array formations.

10. Planting Hall: Responsible for the management of the family's mountains, forests, spiritual fields, and spiritual orchards. The Hall Master is concurrently held by Huang Yuwei.

11. Beast Hall: Responsible for the breeding and taming of the family's spirit beasts. The Hall Master is Murong Xue.

12. The Sutra Repository: Responsible for the safekeeping and organization of classic texts and jade slips concerning cultivation techniques, secret arts, and various skills of immortality. It is jointly managed by Ru Shi, Zhi Yin, and the other three women.

Thirteenth, the Treasury: Responsible for storing all spiritual stones, elixirs, magical treasures, spiritual materials, and other spiritual items belonging to the family. It is jointly managed by the five women, including Ruhua and Zhihua.

After adjusting and improving the family rules and regulations with his wives, and reshuffling the main personnel of each hall, Liu Changxu gathered everyone together and announced the new family rules and regulations, as well as the main personnel arrangements for each hall.

At the same time, women are encouraged to freely choose which hall to join based on their own preferences and strengths.

Regarding the women's concerns about their status, Liu Changxu stated on the spot that as long as they bore him children, made significant progress in their cultivation, or made great contributions to their families, they could all improve their status.

As expected, Liu Changxu's statement and the new rules and regulations greatly motivated the women, and internal family conflicts decreased significantly. They eagerly signed up to join their desired departments, showcasing their talents and contributing to the development of the Liu family.

Of course, some women focused on how to please Liu Changxu, hoping to gain his favor in order to acquire resources for their cultivation.

However, Liu Changxu's improved and adjusted system of serving women in bed, aimed at reducing internal family conflicts, thwarted these women's hopes.

For these women of lower status, whether they could get the opportunity to serve a man in bed depended on their luck in drawing lots, and had little to do with their beauty or ability to please men.

However, in order to win the hearts of these women, Liu Changxu spent nearly three months after returning home, sleeping with all five hundred-plus women and making them all his true women.

As a result, although Liu Changxu himself had a hard time, his harem became much more stable.

After settling down at home, Liu Changxu went to the Weapon Hall to prepare to refine a few more innate spiritual treasures in order to further enhance his strength.

After much deliberation, Liu Changxu decided to forge a set of twelve Crimson Lotus Immortal-Slaying Swords for himself. The reason for twelve, rather than thirty-six, was that twelve would be enough for him for the time being, and he wouldn't need that many.

In order to reduce the difficulty of forging, Liu Changxu forged the Crimson Lotus Immortal-Slaying Sword this time, which was basically based on the design of the Crimson Lotus Immortal Sword, greatly speeding up the forging process.

In just one year and two months, Liu Changxu completed the forging of all twelve ninth-grade top-quality Crimson Lotus Immortal-Slaying Swords.

There, the twelve Crimson Lotus Immortal-Slaying Swords resembled twelve slender fire dragons swirling and dancing above the blazing Ruyi Lotus Cauldron, like joyful sprites. This scene made Liu Changxu recall the thirty-six Crimson Lotus Immortal Swords that had all been destroyed.

Then, Liu Changxu opened his mouth and spat out twelve drops of essence blood, which flew one by one onto the blades of the twelve Crimson Lotus Immortal-Slaying Swords, and began the work of refining the spiritual treasures.