Just as Gu Youxian and Gu Zhicheng were talking about Tang Luoyao, Gu Qingcheng was tiptoeing away, trying to sneak off.
"Qingcheng, where are you going?"
Gu Youxian looked at Gu Qingcheng with a smile.
"Um, Father... I wanted to check on my sister-in-law!" Gu Qingcheng said with an awkward smile.
"Zhicheng is taking care of Little Tang, so you don't need to worry," Gu Youxian said, still smiling.
Gu Zhicheng, standing aside, was secretly chuckling. As someone who had been through it, he naturally knew what his older sister was about to face.
The Gu family was a relatively traditional family. Although it wasn't as strict as 'parents' words and matchmaker's orders,' the idea that men should marry and women should be wed was deeply ingrained.
The urging to marry would still happen.
Gu Qingcheng knew that her father would turn his attention to her next, so she wanted to slip away, but she was still seen through.
"Father, I..."
"Don't use your grandfather as an example again," Gu Youxian said with a chuckle. In the past, Gu Qingcheng always used his father, Gu Sheng, as the standard to deal with his urging to marry, but no one in the world could compare to his father. Not to mention compare, even half as good was rare.
"It's fine for me to marry, but I want to marry an invincible man like my great-grandfather," Gu Qingcheng's lips curled up slightly, forming a beautiful arc. She smiled triumphantly, 'You won't let me use grandfather as the standard, then I'll use great-grandfather. See what you can do to me.'
"You..."
Gu Youxian wanted to be angry and laugh at the same time. Marrying a man like her great-grandfather? Not even if you searched the myriad realms could you find one. This girl was determined to stay single for life.
Oh well, as long as she's happy. It's not like they can't afford to support her.
"If you have nothing to do, go out more. Look, your brother's cultivation has surpassed yours," Gu Youxian said to Gu Qingcheng. Gu Qingcheng's cultivation had always been one step ahead of Gu Zhicheng's, but since Gu Zhicheng traveled the universe, his cultivation had reached the peak of the Return to One Realm, while Gu Qingcheng was still at the eighth level of the Return to One Realm, still some distance from the peak.
"Closing yourself off isn't good after all!" Gu Youxian reminded her again.
"Father, I understand," Gu Qingcheng nodded. She wouldn't be ambiguous about cultivation.
"Well, it's good that you know!" Gu Youxian didn't say much. His daughter was so old, she should understand. If he said too much, he would be considered a nagging old man.
A Supreme over ten thousand years old was no different from an eighteen-year-old young man in the myriad realms. He wouldn't think of himself as an old man.
"Don't spread the word about Fellow Daoist Murong's matter," Gu Youxian said.
"Uh..."
The two were immediately stunned.
"What? Does everyone else know?" Gu Youxian was shocked. If the Gu family knew, he really wouldn't be able to clear his name even if he jumped into the endless sea.
"No, they don't!"
Gu Qingcheng shook her head.
"That's good!" Gu Youxian breathed a sigh of relief, then asked, "Who knows? Tell them not to spread it."
"This... it's Uncle-Grandmaster Tuoba Beier!" The siblings exchanged glances and said in unison.
"What?"
Gu Youxian was horrified. Tuoba Beier was a disciple of Granny Houtu. According to seniority, she was his junior, that is, Qingcheng and Zhicheng's grand-aunt. Of course, seniority wasn't important.
What was important was... if Tuoba Beier knew, it was almost the same as everyone in the Gu family knowing.
Tuoba Beier, as the Saintess of the Holy Emperor Palace, could walk freely in all areas of the Gu family. Because her love for alcohol was no less than Gu Changsheng's, but she didn't have the strength to quickly dissipate the alcohol in her body, she was almost always drunk when they met her in the Gu family. And Tuoba Beier always liked to grab someone to chat with when she was drunk, talking about everything under the sun. Some unimportant secrets could be learned from her mouth.
"When did she find out?" Gu Youxian looked at the two. If Tuoba Beier knew later, there was still hope for salvation.
But Gu Qingcheng's words made Gu Youxian completely despair.
"It's been a few days."
"Boom!"
Gu Youxian's heart was like a bolt from the blue. He couldn't help but take two steps back. Seeing this, the siblings couldn't help but ask, "Father, are you okay?"
"I'm fine!" Gu Youxian waved his hand.
Gu Qingcheng and Gu Zhicheng looked at their father's expression. He didn't look fine at all. They were both thinking, should they tell their father that Grandpa had already returned to make him happy?
No, no, Great-Grandfather said that Grandpa was at the most critical moment and shouldn't be too excited. Let's wait until he breaks through.
The siblings tacitly decided not to tell Gu Youxian that Gu Sheng had returned.
"No one knows I'm back, right?" Gu Youxian asked again.
"Not many people know yet," Gu Qingcheng said.
"What about Aunt Beier?" Gu Youxian asked cautiously. He wasn't worried about others, he was most worried about Tuoba Beier.
"I don't know," Gu Qingcheng shook her head.
"That's good. I'm going into seclusion. Don't spread the news that I'm back," Gu Youxian said seriously, looking at them.
The siblings nodded, but muttered in their hearts, 'When Grandpa came back, Great-Grandfather also told them not to tell Father. Now that Father is back, he's telling them not to tell others.'
No one would believe it if it wasn't a lineage inheritance!
"Father, you must win. My sister and I don't want to change our surname!" Gu Zhicheng said.
"What..."
Gu Youxian was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted. Then he glared at him and said, "Shut up!"
Gu Zhicheng shrank his head, revealing an awkward but polite smile.
"You two, go do what you need to do!"
After Gu Youxian finished speaking, he turned and left.
Seeing their father leave, the siblings didn't leave immediately, but stood there muttering something.
"Sister, do you think Senior Murong has a good personality? Will she mind that Father is a second-married man?" Gu Zhicheng asked.
"Are you stupid? Even Grandma Yun Wuyue and Grandma Houtu don't mind Great-Grandfather's second marriage. Father is Great-Grandfather's grandson, with pure blood and good roots. How could Senior Murong mind?" Gu Qingcheng said confidently and with good reason.
"That's right. Senior Murong has been appraised by Great-Grandfather's eyes. I'm thinking too much," Gu Zhicheng nodded, thinking that Gu Qingcheng was right.
Gu Youxian, who hadn't gone far, heard their loud whispers, and his face darkened. He turned around and shouted angrily, "Gu Zhicheng, if you say another word, I'll really hit you!"
Gu Zhicheng was startled, then muttered, "Sister also said it, why only hit me?"
"Dare to talk back?" Gu Youxian's eyes narrowed.
Gu Zhicheng immediately covered his mouth with both hands, indicating that he wouldn't say any more.
Seeing this, Gu Youxian snorted, then glared at Gu Qingcheng, and finally his figure flickered and disappeared.
He was afraid that if he was a few steps slower, he really wouldn't be able to help but take out the golden bamboo and hit someone.
But at this time, Gu Youxian did flash a thought that caught him off guard.
That was, would Murong mind that he was a second-married man!
"Stinky brat, messing with my Dao heart!"
After entering his own special retreat, Gu Youxian cursed Gu Zhicheng, then held his breath and focused, abandoning all distracting thoughts and entering a state of retreat.
Since the hearty battle with Murong, he was confident that he could take that step.
And he believed that Murong also had this feeling. Murong's entry into the inheritance hall of the Wood God Jumang this time meant that she probably wouldn't be a Supreme when she came out.
No matter what the bet was, Gu Youxian didn't want to lose!
At this moment, in a certain area of the Gu family, a drunken figure was chatting with a group of young men.
"You are lucky today. This Saintess will tell you a big thing... uh... your Ancestor Youxian is getting married soon... uh..."
"Your Highness Saintess, you said this three days ago. We want to hear something new," the young men said.
"Did I say that? It seems so. Well, today this Saintess will tell you how my master and your ancestor went from acquaintance to knowing each other to..."
"This girl, she talks nonsense when she drinks."
In the Virtual God Realm, Gu Changsheng said speechlessly.
"I think she's saying it well."
And sitting in front of Gu Changsheng was not Yun Wuyue, but Houtu!
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