"What's with you two, all smiles and no seriousness?"
Seeing this, Gu Youxian had to bring out his authority as a father to deter his children.
If it were in the past, Gu Qingcheng and Gu Zhicheng, this pair of siblings, would definitely be intimidated by Gu Youxian's authority, after all, the most senior member of the Gu family used to be their father, but now it's different. Not to mention the great-grandfather, even the grandfather who recently returned to the family is older than their father.
Speaking of which, the great-grandfather instructed the family not to talk about the grandfather's matter, hehe, their father must still be in the dark, not knowing that grandfather has already returned, and even less knowing that grandmother has also been reincarnated.
Now that they have the support of their great-grandfather and grandfather, they are naturally not afraid.
"Father, you're just pretending to be serious. If you didn't like Senior Murong, why did you bring her home?" Gu Zhicheng said with a smile.
"You brat, if you talk nonsense again, be careful I'll spank you!" Gu Youxian was furious. As for how this brat knew Murong's name, it was no longer important. After all, they could even say things like 'find us a mother,' so they must have learned everything from grandfather.
"If you spank me, Father, I'll go to Great-Grandfather and tell him bad things about you!" Gu Zhicheng was so scared that he quickly hid behind his sister Gu Qingcheng. With this appearance, no one would believe he was a quasi-Supreme peak expert.
But this is bloodline suppression!
Just like when Gu Youxian heard Gu Zhicheng say he was going to tell Gu Changsheng bad things about him, he could only smile bitterly.
He knew that his grandfather loved his grandchildren, and the more distant, the more love he showed. If he really spanked this brat, he would be spanked back by his grandfather before long.
"It's not that I brought Fellow Daoist Murong home, but that she wanted to come herself," Gu Youxian had to explain.
"So that means she has feelings for you, Father?" Gu Qingcheng, who was standing in front of Gu Zhicheng, changed her wording, but the core issue remained the same, always revolving around Gu Youxian and Murong.
"Alright, stop joking around. Fellow Daoist Murong and I only have a casual acquaintance, it hasn't reached that stage yet," Gu Youxian wanted to change the subject.
But Gu Zhicheng, who was behind Gu Qingcheng, rolled his eyes after hearing this, and then muttered, "It hasn't reached that stage yet, which means it will reach that stage in the future. As expected, Father is just pretending to be serious. Isn't it just finding a mother for me and my sister? It's not a big deal, we don't disagree, why hide it, really."
"Ouch!"
As soon as Gu Zhicheng finished muttering, Gu Youxian flashed, using Shrinking the Earth to an Inch to bypass Gu Qingcheng and appear behind Gu Zhicheng, then grabbing Gu Zhicheng's ear.
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts..."
Gu Zhicheng was being 'admonished by the ear' by Gu Youxian, and cried out in pain.
"You brat, it's been hundreds of thousands of years since I spanked you, have you forgotten how I used to spank you when you were a kid? Today, even if you complain to your great-grandfather, I will still give you a good spanking." Gu Youxian held a bamboo stick that appeared out of nowhere. This bamboo stick exuded an ancient aura, emitting a faint golden light, obviously not an ordinary object.
Seeing this, Gu Zhicheng's pupils shrank. He had too many memories of this bamboo stick. When he was young, he often had close contact with this bamboo stick. At that time, his mother was still around and could protect him, but now that his mother was gone, who could protect him?
It is said that the eldest sister is like a mother, Gu Zhicheng quickly turned to Gu Qingcheng for help, "Sister, save me!"
Gu Qingcheng took three steps back and said softly, "That's what you get for being so outspoken!"
"..." Gu Zhicheng.
What eldest sister is like a mother? That's all a lie.
"Father, hurry up and hit him! If you don't hit him, I'll do it, anyway, Great-Grandfather definitely won't spank me," Gu Qingcheng said with a smile.
"..." Gu Youxian.
"Sister, when did I offend you?" Gu Zhicheng wanted to cry but had no tears. He asked himself that he had always respected his sister since he was a child and had never neglected her in the slightest.
"No!" Gu Qingcheng shook her head.
"Then why do you still want to hit me?" Gu Zhicheng was even more speechless. There was no old grudge or recent animosity, why did she want to hit him?
"There is a saying circulating in the secular world, that is, you have to hit your younger brother early, to give your younger brother a complete childhood, I think I can make up for it now," Gu Qingcheng said with a chuckle.
"I think my childhood is very complete, I don't need you to make up for it," Gu Zhicheng said cautiously.
And Gu Youxian saw them singing a duet, but he didn't really spank Gu Zhicheng. He put away the golden bamboo stick and said, "Alright, alright, I won't spank him."
"Thank you, Father, for your kindness!"
Gu Zhicheng thanked him quickly, and Gu Qingcheng also showed a gentle smile on her face.
Gu Youxian rolled his eyes at them. How could he not see that they were acting, but their acting skills were superb and flawless. If he wasn't too familiar with them, he would really be deceived by them.
"How is Little Tang now?" Gu Youxian asked Gu Zhicheng.
Hearing this, Gu Zhicheng immediately put away the playful smile on his face, and a touch of tenderness appeared in his eyes. He replied, "She is currently in seclusion, trying to break through to the Great Saint realm."
"She has worked hard!" Gu Youxian said with emotion, then he took out a storage ring and handed it to Gu Zhicheng.
Gu Zhicheng took the storage ring and asked in confusion, "Father, what is this?"
"Little Tang injured her foundation for the sake of our Gu family's prosperity. Although she has recovered now, I can't show no gratitude. Inside are some heavenly materials and earthly treasures that are very suitable for Little Tang, all of which I have collected specifically over the years," Gu Youxian explained softly about the contents of the storage ring.
"This child thanks Father on behalf of Little Tang!" Gu Zhicheng was a little excited, not because of the heavenly materials and earthly treasures in the storage ring, but because his father still remembered Little Tang's contributions.
In the Gu family, there are three people who have contributed the most.
The first is Gu Changsheng, who founded the Gu family lineage, as the ancestor, like the creation of the world.
The second is Gu Sheng, who raised the Gu family's prestige to its peak in the ancient era, like expanding territory.
And the third is not Gu Youxian, but a woman who married into the Gu family. Her appearance laid the most solid foundation for the Gu family's branching out.
Little Tang, whose full name is Tang Luoyao, is Gu Zhicheng's wife and was also the Holy Maiden of Yaochi back then. Their marriage originally had a bit of a marriage alliance meaning, but after Tang Luoyao married Gu Zhicheng, she not only恪守 (kè shǒu - adhered to) her duty as a wife, but also made enormous contributions to the Gu family's branching out.
She gave birth to six sons and four daughters for Gu Zhicheng in less than a hundred years after marrying him, which happened to conform to the perfect meaning of 'ten perfections'. However, the birth of a cultivator is not as simple as just giving birth to a child. Each birth will damage the cultivator's vitality.
Gu Zhicheng had tried to stop Tang Luoyao back then, but Tang Luoyao was a woman full of a sense of mission. She was able to follow the orders of her sect and marry Gu Zhicheng, whom she had only met a few times, and she was also able to shoulder the mission of developing the family. It was such a woman who laid the most solid foundation for the Gu family's prosperity.
Tang Luoyao also consumed too much vitality because of this, which caused her cultivation to stagnate at the Saint King realm. Fortunately, Gu Youxian sealed her in the divine source, which allowed her to live until now.
For this reason, Gu Youxian also added a family rule to the Gu family that women of the Gu family cannot have more than two births within a hundred years and no more than five births within a thousand years. Because of this rule, the Gu family has developed for hundreds of thousands of years, and the population has not expanded too exaggeratedly.
Other ancient families, such as the Qin family in Qinling, have a population of hundreds of millions, almost ten thousand times that of the Gu family.
After Gu Changsheng returned, he did not forget this woman who had given everything for the Gu family. He not only personally healed Tang Luoyao's body, but also created a customized cultivation method for her. Such an honor was not even possessed by Gu Sheng and Gu Youxian, which shows how good Gu Changsheng was to Tang Luoyao.
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