After Gu Youxian returned to his secluded cultivation chamber, he wanted to enter his optimal training state as soon as possible, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't achieve it. It was like having insomnia, tossing and turning, feeling very uncomfortable.
"What's going on?" Gu Youxian opened his eyes, his heart filled with doubt. It was the first time he had encountered a problem where he couldn't enter a state of cultivation. This matter could be big or small, and if he didn't figure it out, it could have serious consequences for him.
Gu Youxian thought about it again and again, but he still couldn't understand it. In the end, he decided to leave his secluded cultivation chamber and go out for a walk.
Since he couldn't figure it out, he decided to let nature take its course and go out for a walk. Perhaps he would have unexpected gains.
Gu Youxian walked in the enormous Gu family estate. Every Gu family member who saw him would stop and respectfully call him Ancestor Youxian.
Gu Youxian would respond with a smile, not having the imposing manner of an ancestor, giving people a kind and amiable feeling.
Gu Youxian walked among the family's various buildings. To be honest, although he was the Gu family's ancestor, he had always sealed himself in the Divine Source and had never left the Gu family. However, apart from some core areas, he was less familiar with the Gu family environment than even the Gu family's children.
Since he couldn't enter the optimal cultivation state, he might as well take a good look around his home. Otherwise, if word got out that so-and-so from the Gu family wasn't even familiar with their own home, it would be truly embarrassing.
The Gu family did not divide its members into main or branch lines. No matter who you are, as long as you show enough excellence, you have the opportunity to become the Gu family's head. Of course, there are some restrictions. Only those with Gu family blood flowing through their veins have the opportunity to compete for the position of family head.
Otherwise, if so many of the Gu family's sons-in-law were allowed to take the position of family head, would the Gu family still be the Gu family?
The fact that Gu Xichao was judged to be an uncultivable waste body but was not abandoned shows what the Gu family's style is like.
The Gu family has been able to reign supreme among the immortal forces not only because its foundation is unmatched, but also because of its family style of treating its own people equally. In the Gu family, even if you are a born waste body that cannot be cultivated, you will not be discriminated against, and you will still receive the treatment you deserve.
Therefore, the Gu family does not have a strict division between core areas and the periphery. People who live in the center of the Gu family do not necessarily have a higher family status than those who live on the edge.
Gu Youxian seemed to be strolling, but after stopping in one area for a while, he would step out and arrive in the next area.
The Gu family is very large, and if you want to walk around it on foot, it would take many years.
"You clap one, I clap one..."
"You clap two, I clap two..."
Just as Gu Youxian passed by a courtyard with its gate open, he heard childish voices coming from inside. Gu Youxian found it interesting to hear them clapping and decided to go in.
At this time, two Gu family children were sitting on the bluestone floor, concentrating on clapping and singing the corresponding nursery rhyme. They didn't notice Gu Youxian coming in.
However, the mother of these children, who looked like siblings, noticed Gu Youxian immediately. She was about to salute and say hello, but Gu Youxian waved his hand to signal her not to disturb them.
Although the children's mother was a daughter-in-law who had married into the Gu family, the fact that she could marry into the Gu family meant that her identity was not simple. Although the Gu family was not so particular about matching social status, the Gu family could not just randomly find a partner. The stories of poor students being appreciated by celestial maidens and Cinderella marrying into a wealthy family are still just stories after all.
She had seen big scenes before, and although she was very excited to see Ancestor Youxian so closely for the first time, she knew how to control her emotions.
The two children were concentrating on clapping and singing nursery rhymes that had been passed down since who knows when. Gu Youxian was also watching them intently, and unconsciously his fingers were moving with their rhythm, a smile on his face, and he sang along with them.
"Oops, wrong!" When counting to a certain beat, the girl accidentally sang the wrong note, singing the next verse in advance, and was very frustrated.
"Oh oh oh, finally won, half of the candy in your room is mine!" The boy jumped up excitedly, leaping three feet high, not at all like a child of only three or four years old.
Well, in the Gu family, three-year-old children have to start contacting medicinal baths to lay a solid foundation for future cultivation. The powerful medicinal power makes their roots extraordinary, and jumping three feet high is naturally easy.
"Mother, I won against my sister, you have to testify for me!" The boy turned to look at his mother, perhaps because his heart was filled with the desire for candy, he still didn't notice Gu Youxian on the side.
The woman gave Gu Youxian an apologetic look, but Gu Youxian gently shook his head. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but think of when he was a child, crying and asking for candied hawthorns. His father was very strict with him, and every time he gave him fierce beast meat, and it was still raw, and he had to roast it himself, claiming that he had to learn to be self-reliant!
But he was less than four years old at that time!
Fortunately, his mother loved him very much and always secretly brought him candied hawthorns from outside. One day, he was unfortunately seen by his father. Originally, he thought he would implicate his mother in being scolded, but he didn't expect his father to say to his mother with a smile, "Why didn't you ask me to buy it? Are you tired? Let me massage your shoulders."
Seeing this scene at that time, his mother became the most powerful person in his heart, because his father was already a famous powerhouse in the universe at that time, but when facing his mother, he was really "obedient to her words."
But as he grew older, he knew that it was not that his mother's strength was stronger than his father's, but that his father loved his mother very much and was afraid that she would suffer a little bit of fatigue.
Gu Youxian watched the boy pounce into the woman's arms, his face full of happy smiles because he could get candy, and he was also very happy in his heart.
These adults work so hard to cultivate and want to become stronger, in addition to pursuing the great path, isn't it just to give future generations an era where they can smile anytime, anywhere?
Although the little girl had a little regret on her face, she didn't act shamelessly, because this was one of the few times she had lost to her younger brother. In the past, she had won a lot of candy from her younger brother. This time, she would just return some of it.
The little girl patted the dust off her butt, but found Gu Youxian standing in the yard.
She glanced at her mother and younger brother, then ran to her room. After a while, she came out, but she was holding a fruit plate with fruit snacks.
"That..." The little girl put the fruit plate on the table, but didn't know how to address Gu Youxian. She had never met Gu Youxian, but as a member of the Gu family, she knew that seniority could not be measured by age. Her father looked like a middle-aged man in his thirties, but he was already hundreds of years old, and her great-grandfather was even more amazing, looking like he was only in his twenties, younger than his father, but he was already thousands of years old.
So she was immediately in trouble.
At this time, the woman came to Gu Youxian with the boy in her arms and said respectfully, "He Shi has met Ancestor Youxian!"
The little girl's eyes lit up, and she followed suit, respectfully saluting Gu Youxian and said in a crisp voice, "Gu Xiaoxiao has met Ancestor Youxian!"
Sure enough, the person in front of her who looked younger than her father was an ancestor-level existence. Fortunately, she didn't call him randomly.
"Gu Xingyu has met Ancestor Youxian!" The little boy also came down from his mother's arms and bowed with a milky voice.
"You may all rise!" Gu Youxian said with a smile as he looked at them.
"Ancestor, I don't know when you personally came here?" The woman asked, even though she had seen the world, she was a little nervous, because usually this person was someone you couldn't even see if you wanted to.
Gu Youxian smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, I just happened to hear them clapping and found it interesting, so I came in to take a look. If I made you nervous because of me, then I would feel guilty."
The woman was relieved to hear this.
"Hehe, I'll leave first." Gu Youxian smiled, then took a spiritual fruit from the fruit plate that the little girl had brought out. Since it was prepared by the little girl for him, he naturally had to eat a little.
Sure enough, when the little girl saw Gu Youxian take a spiritual fruit, her eyes lit up, as if they were dotted with stars.
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