The next morning, Paul came down to the dining room only to find all the ladies were depressed after losing Fei Fei.
Even usually cheerful Nataly was quiet and had red eyes from crying.
The worst part was that he had no clue how to deal with it, since it was Fei Fei who usually dealt with it if anyone was sad or depressed.
With no better idea, he took out the rings she left for her sisters.
-Fei Fei asked me to give these to you all.
Paul said, giving each of them a ring with a piece of paper with their name attached.
-Do you know what's inside?
Irine asked.
-No, I haven't looked.
He shook his head.
Natalie was already making a connection with her ring and soon opened it.
She didn't tell anyone what she had found inside, but she did take out a letter.
The other ladies soon followed, and they all had letters from Fei Fei.
Soon, all of them were smiling despite tears flowing from their eyes.
They didn't tell him what was in the letters, and he didn't ask, but the gloomy atmosphere in the house disappeared the moment the ladies opened up their letters.
It didn't take a genius to figure out that she predicted this might happen and dealt with it even though she was no longer there.
Paul didn't linger as he had to go to his uncle to inform him about the situation.
The moment he arrived, the province's lord and the city lord's families were waiting for him.
-What happened out there?
Where is Fei Fei?
Jing Su was the first to speak, and she was near panic.
Paul told them everything.
It took a while, but when he ended, all the men were beyond pissed, and the ladies were near tears.
Then he distributed the rings Fei Fei had prepared for each of them, and just like the ladies in his mansion, everyone had a letter addressed to them.
-Thank you, Paul, for bringing these to us.
Jing Su said, while wiping tears from her eyes.
-If you bring me the ingredients, I'll make the potions and pills you need.
She might not have mentioned it to you, but I'm an alchemist, and Fei Fei included the recipes for what you need.
She said, with a sad smile.
Paul only nodded in surprise.
He was wondering where to find a trustworthy alchemist, but it seemed that Fei Fei had already arranged things for him.
Without batting an eye, he took out all the ingredients and passed them to Jing Su.
-Thank you, this will help us a lot.
-You don't need to thank me, just bring my big sister back.
Besides, I owe her so much that this is not even worth mentioning.
The woman smiled, despite the sadness she felt.
The others also finished reading their letters, and it seemed that their contents managed to calm them all down quite a bit.
-I'll send the Pure maiden pills to your mansion tomorrow, as for the rest, it will take at least three days to prepare them.
Jing Su said before getting up to leave, followed by her husband.
Paul also didn't stay much longer and excused himself a moment later, after informing everyone that he would be entering seclusion for a while to break into the third stage of cultivation.
Everyone understood, and Xiao Han even promised to send some soldiers to guard his mansion, so he would not be disturbed by anyone until he was done.
He thanked his uncle before leaving.
Back at the mansion, he found all the ladies cultivating, so he didn't bother them, going back to his room.
-Hey, are you there?
Paul said to the empty room.
-I am here, do you need something?
His reincarnation soul answered.
-Yes, I need to know, how long will it take for me to get to the eleventh realm?
-At the pace you are going, it should not take you too long.
A few years at most.
Of course, if you wish to increase your cultivation faster, then all you need to do is get more women as cultivation partners.
But I would recommend waiting until you are in a higher realm, since women there are stronger than here, so your cultivation will progress much faster.
Not to mention that the Qi and Mana there are much purer and denser than here, but you know that already.
-Alright, then tell me more about the higher realms and the cultivation stages, absolve the first ten.
Paul said while taking a seat at the bed.
-There is no point in doing so right now.
You will get this knowledge as the merger process progresses, and there is no value for you to learn about it at the moment anyway, since it will take you a few months at the very least to reach the peak of the tenth stage.
The soul said.
-If you want my advice, then you should use the knowledge you already possess and become a healer, or rather, you should stop hiding the fact that you are one.
It will not only help you in establishing connections, but will also help protect you and the ladies as well.
Furthermore, it will allow you to amass the wealth you will need further down the line.
-That might be true, but it will also bring me a lot of trouble I don't need.
Paul said, while shaking his head.
He wanted to avoid trouble as much as possible if he could, or at least until he was powerful enough to make everyone else reconsider pissing him off.
As for the money and resources, these were always good to have, and he was not stupid enough to believe that the fortune he had now was enough to provide for him and his ladies forever.
-The only trouble you may face is some people trying to recruit you into their families, which is way too easy to avoid if you think about it.
-What do you mean?
Paul asked, surprised.
As far as he knew, there was no way to deter people from trying to recruit every desirable person they found, other than rejecting them, which was mostly seen as offending a family who tried to recruit you.
The only thing preventing his mansion from being swarmed is that Xiao Han kept the fact that it was he who healed Xiao Su a secret, while pinning the achievement on a traveling healer he met by accident.
-If you want to get rid of any potential recruiters, then just establish your own family.
As the last descendant of the Marshal family, you are essentially its patriarch, so if you buy a residence, like this mansion, for instance.
All that will be left is to register the family as residing in this city, which, with your connections to the city lord and province lord, won't be a problem.
With that done, you will become a true patriarch, and as such, everyone will back off.
-This is something that I need to think about carefully.
Paul said after hearing the soul out.
The idea of becoming a patriarch of his own family was tempting, but it was not a decision that he wanted to make lightly.