Chapter 212: Gu Mingyue's Great Dream!

I fear no one would have imagined that the former guardian of the Human Race, after the passage of time, would now transform into such a destroyer of Heaven and Earth.

Perhaps if others heard this, they would mostly just sigh at the impermanence of the world.

Yet, Gu Jiangming was completely unaware at this moment that the mastermind behind this upheaval in Heaven and Earth was his own son.

At this moment, Gu Jiangming stood upon Wanglin Mountain, which should have long since vanished into the currents of time and space; before him was Gu Mingyue, her face full of sorrow.

This scene was as if time and space had reversed, turning back to the end of the Heavenly Human Era.

Just as in the past, Gu Mingyue, relying on being favored, had caused some trouble while out and about, and was now unwillingly coming to her father to be punished.

And Gu Jiangming in this scene seemed to be the once-invincible Red Lotus Demon Venerable again; just by pulling a stern face, he made people's hearts tremble.

Looking at Gu Mingyue, who seemed to have committed a wrong, Gu Jiangming in this scene broke off a branch and struck Gu Mingyue's palm ten times, neither heavily nor lightly.

When the punishment ended, the sorrow on Gu Mingyue's face vanished in the blink of an eye.

Even within the illusion constructed by the Inner Scene, Gu Mingyue remembered—she remembered that her father could not bear to punish her.

But if one committed a wrong, one had to be punished; this was the family rule of the Gu household, and even the most favored Gu Mingyue could not escape it in the slightest.

The only difference was perhaps that, apart from Jiu Jiu, no one else in the family could bear to punish Gu Mingyue excessively, right? This scene had been repeated countless times in the illusion of the Inner Scene, but today, the Inner Scene illusion seemed to have something different about it? The Gu Jiangming, who had previously appeared slightly sluggish, suddenly had a change in his expression.

He looked at the daughter before him, then at the branch in his own hand, the complexity on his face fully revealed at this moment.

"Mingyue, do you blame me?"

After a good while, Gu Mingyue saw her father's complex expression and only looked down, seemingly not daring to face the Gu Jiangming before her, or perhaps there was some other wrong she had committed that made her feel guilty.

After a long moment, before Gu Mingyue could sneak a look at Gu Jiangming's expression, she heard this string of words from Gu Jiangming that seemed as if they should not have appeared.

"Blame Father for what?"

"Father said that if one makes a mistake, one must accept punishment, and Father didn't even use any force, so why would Mingyue blame Father?"

Gu Mingyue in the illusory Inner Scene looked up at the Gu Jiangming before her with a blank face, seemingly completely unable to understand Gu Jiangming's words.

"Blame me for being headstrong, blame me for acting without considering the consequences."

"Blame me for letting your brother wander outside, and for your mother and aunts meeting their deaths!"

Gu Jiangming stared fixedly at Gu Mingyue before him; the Gu Mingyue in front of him was only at the Transformation Realm, yet, strangely, Gu Jiangming could feel that this body of his possessed the great power of the Heavenly Human Realm.

This meant that even in the illusory dream of the Inner Scene, Gu Mingyue regarded him, her father, as the number one person in the world! Gu Jiangming and Liu Moxuan had already been working for more than half a year to help Gu Mingyue break free from the Inner Scene illusion; at first, Gu Jiangming could only act and speak according to the original evolution of Gu Mingyue's Inner Scene.

It was not until shortly before that Gu Jiangming's control over the Qilin Grotto-Heaven had grown stronger, finally allowing him to break free from the procedural dialogue of this roleplay.

This was a dream of Gu Mingyue's, a dream that belonged only to her, dreamt after she had been alone for who knows how many years in infinite loneliness.

In the dream, Gu Mingyue had everything, and in the dream, Gu Mingyue was still the little princess of the Gu family.

But Gu Jiangming had to do a cruel thing at this moment: he had to wake Gu Mingyue from this dream.

Though the dream was good, it was all but a delusion; if he could, how could Gu Jiangming bear to let his daughter remain immersed in such a fantasy?

"Father, are you joking?"

"Aren't Mother and the aunts over at Niankong Villa?" "Aunt Liu had a big argument with Mother not long ago and turned several mountain peaks in the north into rubble."

"Although Second Brother is very busy, he always comes home to stay for a few days every month; the last time he came back, he was talking about casting a great bell, saying that if the Human Race ever ran into trouble, ringing that bell would let all the experts of the Human Race hear it, and then they could go hold a meeting."

"Um, I didn't want to ring that bell; it was Second Brother who asked me to try it..."

Gu Mingyue did not look at Gu Jiangming's face; for some reason, Gu Mingyue was suddenly a little afraid to see Gu Jiangming's face, as if, as if something bad would happen after she looked at Gu Jiangming's face.

Gu Mingyue just gave a dry laugh, and in her panic, even took the initiative to blurt out that she couldn't help but try to ring the future supreme treasure of the Human Race, the Human Emperor Bell, which Gu Shengxi had not yet finished casting.

But a voice in Gu Mingyue's heart was telling her to try hard to change the subject, to do her best to change the subject.

"By the way, Father, Big Brother also came back a few days ago, and Big Brother said he found something very strange in the Northern Wilderness."

"Even though the Northern Wilderness is completely barren, Big Brother brought me back a withered flower."

"Father, do you think the Northern Wilderness was full of life before?"

"Or did someone follow the same route as Big Brother, and someone dropped a flower in the Northern Wilderness?"

Gu Mingyue did not wait for Gu Jiangming to speak, but just kept her head down and spoke to herself.

It was just that even Gu Mingyue herself did not notice that she was clearly emphasizing, emphasizing that Big Brother had returned, and Second Brother had also returned.

Even in her words, Liu Moxuan and Jiu Jiu had just had a fight not long ago.

"And also, also, Father, Third Aunt promised me yesterday!"

"Third Aunt said that as long as I cultivate well, cultivate with heart, once I break through to the Heaven and Earth Enlightenment realm, Second Aunt will take me to play at the Dragon Palace."

"Third Aunt said there are many, many treasures in the Dragon Palace, and when the time comes, I can choose whatever I take a fancy to."

"And Second Aunt, Second Aunt asked me if I have a man I like?"

"I suspect Second Aunt wants to marry me off; she keeps saying that I'm the one holding Second Brother back, saying that since Second Brother has a younger sister as pretty as me, he's not interested in those women outside!"

"Can I be blamed for that?"

"It's clearly Second Brother who has his own ideas; Second Aunt doesn't go find trouble with Second Brother, she has to pick on me!"

"I don't want to get married at all; the men outside can't even compare to Big Brother and Second Brother, so why should I marry them?"

"Father, find some time to persuade Second Aunt!"

"I highly suspect Second Aunt is picking on a soft target; whenever she mentions Second Brother, he runs away, and he even says that since Big Brother isn't married yet, what is he in such a rush for."

"I clearly used this method too, saying that since Big Brother and Second Brother aren't married, what am I in such a rush for?"

"But Second Aunt won't listen; she just treats me like a soft target!"

Gu Mingyue tried hard to suppress her panic, complaining to Gu Jiangming about the little dissatisfactions in her life one after another; although they were words of complaint, Gu Jiangming felt his heart was incredibly stifled as he listened.

(End of chapter)