Chapter 213: Gu Mingyue Awakening Plan: Kind Father, Strict Mother!

Gu Mingyue is truly the little princess of the family! Yet this little princess, who was cherished by the Gu family, the Human Race, and even the myriad races, stayed all alone in the desolate Qilin Grotto-Heaven for a full 140,000 years.

Just how unbearable those 140,000 years were, perhaps only Gu Mingyue herself knows.

She is the Gu Mingyue who could treat a few casual jokes from Wang Qinghe as great troubles in life, yet she is the one who suffered such hardship.

At this moment, Gu Jiangming understood more and more the meaning behind what Mie Changsheng said to him at the end: that his actions and deeds would leave him with immense regret.

He is the Red Lotus Demon Venerable who smashed through the heavens in the eyes of the world, but in the end, he is still an irresponsible father.

"Your big brother will come back; he will be back very soon."

"I will find your second brother, even if I have to scour time and space and reverse the years, I will find your second brother, alright?"

Gu Jiangming gently stroked Gu Mingyue's head; only he himself knew best just how much he owed Gu Mingyue at this moment.

As Gu Mingyue had her head stroked by Gu Jiangming like this, the sorrow in her heart seemed to break through a dam.

Even though Gu Mingyue remembered nothing at this time, she only felt her heart filled with endless grief and boundless sorrow.

Even Gu Mingyue herself did not know why she was shedding tears, but at this moment, she simply could not help it.

Being able to cultivate to the Heavenly Human realm, even with the blessings of Heaven and Earth and innate talent, Gu Mingyue was, after all, intelligent.

At this moment, Gu Mingyue vaguely sensed something; she simply let her tears fall and let Gu Jiangming stroke her head.

"Your mother is waiting for you, and your eldest aunt is waiting for you too."

"Didn't you always want those two Dragon God Pearls from the Dragon Palace? Shall I take you to snatch those two Dragon God Pearls back?"

"Your second aunt won't scold you anymore; she didn't really want to marry you off. If you weren't at home, the one who would be most sad would be your second aunt. She tries every way to cook delicious food for you every day; if you were married off, how sad she would be!"

"We are all fine, and I know where your big brother is; the only regret is that I haven't found any trace of your second brother yet."

"However, we will find him eventually!"

"You have suffered these years; it is I, as a father, who was irresponsible. The rule of the family is that if you make a mistake, you are punished."

"Now that I have made a mistake, Mingyue should think carefully about how to punish me, instead of hiding away alone, alright?"

Gu Jiangming let Gu Mingyue weep silently in his arms, his gaze filled with melancholy. As for Gu Mingyue, as Gu Jiangming continued to speak, the tears in her eyes flowed like an endless river.

Fragments of memories she did not want to recall began to surface in Gu Mingyue's mind. Gu Mingyue dared not face those memories; she only craved this fleeting moment of fatherly love after 140,000 years.

Even though Gu Mingyue knew in her heart that the father before her was real, she still dared not face it—face her own memories.

"Rest well for a while!"

"There is no rush for now; I promise you, no matter what happens in the future, our family will definitely always be together!"

Gu Jiangming lovingly rubbed Gu Mingyue's head; he also saw that Gu Mingyue still dared not face her memories at this moment, nor did she want to accept the reality after 140,000 years.

But what could Gu Jiangming do?

One's own daughter, of course, must be pampered by oneself! In the days that followed, everything seemed unchanged, yet everything seemed to have changed. Gu Mingyue did not return to the illusory Niankong Villa in her Inner Scene; she instinctively stayed on Wanglin Mountain, by her father's side.

Thus, Gu Jiangming told Gu Mingyue stories of the Shushan Dao Venerable and the Guhuoniao, of a silly dragon girl in the Dragon Palace who disregarded everything for her Believers, and of Liu Moxuan who, in a chaotic world, wanted to inherit her senior brother's ambition to pacify the chaotic world and achieve Great Harmony for the world.

Gu Mingyue's eyes grew brighter and brighter. Although she felt she had never heard these stories, for some reason, Gu Mingyue just happened to know some things.

She cried and laughed along with Gu Jiangming's stories, feeling sorrow and joy for the characters in Gu Jiangming's stories.

She seemed to have faced her memories, and yet seemed not to have faced them, but Liu Moxuan could see clearly that this dream Gu Mingyue had conjured was, in the end, constantly dissipating.

Only Niankong Villa and Wanglin Mountain, as if they were originally part of the Qilin Grotto-Heaven, still stood within this Qilin Grotto-Heaven.

"Sigh..."

Finally, one day, a third sigh sounded once again on this seemingly unchanging Wanglin Mountain.

When this sigh sounded, Gu Mingyue instinctively shrank behind Gu Jiangming.

If one were to ask who Gu Mingyue feared most at home, it was undoubtedly Jiu Jiu.

After all, Jiu Jiu was Gu Mingyue's own mother, and the others in the family were too busy pampering Gu Mingyue to ever bear to scold her loudly.

Only Jiu Jiu was different; she had seen it long ago that counting on Gu Jiangming to discipline his daughter Gu Mingyue was impossible.

Since the father was unwilling to be a strict father, Jiu Jiu, as the mother, had to be a strict mother!

When Gu Mingyue did not cultivate diligently, Jiu Jiu would truly beat her until she cried for her father and brothers, but those two useless brothers of Gu Mingyue also feared Jiu Jiu, so they could only hide on the side and secretly worry for Gu Mingyue.

When Gu Mingyue caused trouble outside, Gu Nianmo and Gu Shengxi would cover it up if they could; if they couldn't, they would clean up the mess, and if they still couldn't, they would have to obediently hand Gu Mingyue over to Jiu Jiu.

Admitting mistakes proactively would result in less of a beating...

This also fostered Gu Mingyue's feeling of both love and fear toward her mother, Jiu Jiu...

And the third voice that appeared on Wanglin Mountain at this moment, whose voice could it be if not Jiu Jiu's? As Gu Jiangming's strength grew, his mastery over the Qilin Grotto-Heaven continuously increased, and with Liu Moxuan's assistance, while pulling Jiu Jiu into the Qilin Grotto-Heaven was still difficult, bringing just Jiu Jiu's consciousness into the Qilin Grotto-Heaven was finally achievable.

"These years, you have suffered..."

With this sigh, Jiu Jiu's figure also appeared on Wanglin Mountain.

Just like Gu Jiangming, who occupied the body of Gu Jiangming within Gu Mingyue's illusory Inner Scene, this consciousness of Jiu Jiu also replaced the original illusory version of herself that acted like a fixed program.

The Jiu Jiu who appeared on Wanglin Mountain at this moment, judging solely by her appearance, was no different from the way she was 140,000 years ago.

"However, this is not a reason for you to keep hiding here, not even daring to face it!"

"How did I teach you before?"

"No one goes through life smoothly; no matter who it is, one will always encounter setbacks in life."

"When encountering setbacks, what we must do is face them, but look at what you are doing now?"

(End of chapter)