I am a fox in the prehistoric times

In order to ensure that the title of Marquis of Xibo had an heir, a virtuous and talented child was selected from a collateral branch and adopted into Ji Chang's family!

However, less than a week after this adopted son became Ji Chang's son, he suddenly fell seriously ill and died! Subsequently, Ji Chang's parents adopted another son for him, who also died of illness in less than a week!

This went on for four or five times, and each time the heir could hardly survive a week. Gradually, the collateral branches were no longer willing to risk their sons' lives for a vague title that they didn't know when they would be able to inherit!

Ji Chang's parents were also helpless in this regard. In the end, they could only decide to make Ji Chang make an oath to designate an heir before his death, so as to ensure the orderly succession of Xiqi and avoid the problem of a power vacuum without a designated heir!

As a great human genius who evolved the Later Heaven Bagua of Fuxi into the Sixty-Four Hexagrams, Ji Chang was naturally very confident in his divination skills. It was precisely this self-confidence that made Ji Chang not at all worried about having no successor even in his old age!

It wasn't until Ji Chang was 72 years old that he had his eldest son, Boyi Kao. Three months after the birth of his eldest son, Boyi Kao, his wife, Tai Si, became pregnant again and gave birth to their second son, Ji Fa!

After Bo Yikao and Ji Fa were born, it was as if some kind of mechanism had been turned on in Ji Chang's backyard. Children were born one after another, and 99% of them were boys, with very few girls!

If Ji Chang hadn't been the Marquis of Xibo, given the rate at which his offspring were being born, he probably wouldn't have been able to support them all! To find out exactly how many children he had, Ji Chang specifically used divination to calculate it!

Knowing he would have a hundred sons and that his great undertaking was within reach, Ji Chang accelerated the process of fathering offspring. By the time Bo Yikao was ten years old, which was Ji Chang's 82nd year, Ji Chang had already fathered 99 sons.

However, from then on, no more good news came from Ji Chang's backyard. In order to find out why he could not give birth to his last child and complete the preliminary task of the great prosperity of Xiqi!

Therefore, when Ji Chang was nearly 82 years old, he consulted the oracle again, and the divination result showed that his last son was about to be born!

As Ji Chang was about to turn 83, he suddenly had a surge of emotion. After some deduction, Ji Chang realized that his last son was not his biological son, but his adopted son!

If he wanted to find his last son, he needed to head towards Chaoge! Ji Chang did not hesitate and immediately led a group of servants towards the direction from Xiqi to Chaoge!

When they passed through Yanshan, a heavy rain and thunderstorms began, and after the thunderstorms, Ji Chang, the Marquis of Xibo, heard the cries of an infant!

Upon hearing the crying, Ji Chang smiled and immediately ordered his servants to search for the child. However, after searching for a long time, they found no trace of the child.

For a moment, Ji Chang felt a void in his heart, as if he had lost a tremendous opportunity! But what could Ji Chang, a mere mortal, do if he couldn't find it?

As for Lei Zhenzi, the hundredth son of Ji Chang in the original trajectory, Bai Zhen had someone intercept him in advance. However, Bai Zhen did not intend to let Lei Fa and the others teach him. Instead, he directly threw him to Hong Yun, who was part of Yun Zhongzi in the original trajectory.

Bai Zhen's act of sending people to intercept Lei Zhenzi was not because he valued Lei Zhenzi that much, but because he wanted to annoy Ji Chang, the Marquis of Xibo, and see how Heaven would fulfill Ji Chang's goal of having a hundred sons without Lei Zhenzi as his adopted son!

As for why Bai Zhen didn't care about Lei Zhenzi, it's quite simple. Although Lei Zhenzi's talent is good, that's only in terms of external factors. In Qingqiu, geniuses of Lei Zhenzi's caliber are a dime a dozen, so there's nothing special about him!

Bai Zhen harbors such great malice towards Xiqi entirely because he despises Xiqi's betrayal of racial interests in the original timeline. Especially since Bai Zhen was a clan leader in his life, he naturally despises Xiqi's actions even more!