Chapter 214: Gu Mingyue, Near to Immortality!

Jiu Jiu's words were extremely stern, so stern that Gu Mingyue, like a startled little beast, only dared to keep shrinking back behind Gu Jiangming.

But this time, Gu Jiangming was no longer protecting Gu Mingyue as he had countless times before the passage of time.

Gu Jiangming also turned to look at his daughter before him, his brow filled with heartache, and even more so, encouragement.

He had been lingering in Gu Mingyue's Inner Scene World, and even now, Jiu Jiu had also entered Gu Mingyue's Inner Scene World; was it not all in the hope that she could take the initiative to walk out on her own? With Gu Jiangming's efforts over this period, coupled with Jiu Jiu's arrival, Gu Mingyue was not far from a true awakening.

At such a juncture, whether it was Gu Jiangming or Jiu Jiu, even if their hearts ached, they could only harden them.

As for Gu Mingyue, hearing these familiar yet strange reprimands, the segments of memory she had sealed away in her mind could no longer be held back; those memories, painful to Gu Mingyue, began to surge out at this moment as if a floodgate had been opened.

Inside the Qilin Grotto-Heaven, Wanglin Mountain, which had stood for who knows how many years, began to collapse, and in the distance, Niankong Villa was slowly dissipating, as if a painting were being wiped away by something.

Yet Gu Mingyue simply stood there, the aura on her body surging and sublimating incessantly.

In contrast, the auras of Gu Jiangming and Jiu Jiu were waning; everything within the Inner Scene World was originally constructed by Gu Mingyue's power, and the power within Gu Jiangming and Jiu Jiu was the same.

When Gu Mingyue recovered her memories, the power attached to Jiu Jiu and Gu Jiangming naturally returned to Gu Mingyue.

Time slipped away bit by bit, and Liu Moxuan, standing outside this piece of the Inner Scene World, watched the scene of mountains collapsing and all things perishing with a hint of gratification in her eyes.

When the Inner Scene World collapses, it means Gu Mingyue is about to wake up!

The mountains were disintegrating, and the great sun in the sky was sinking, but replacing them was the increasingly ethereal aura on Gu Mingyue's body.

After a full day had passed, when Gu Mingyue opened her eyes once more, she was no longer the quirky young girl in Gu Jiangming's memories; she was draped in divine robes formed from moonlight, and a full moon was evolving through its phases between her brows.

At this moment, Gu Mingyue did not need to do anything; she merely stood there, and the impression she gave was that of a goddess from the Moon Palace descending into the mortal world! And she truly was that goddess of the Moon Palace.

Having slept for hundreds of thousands of years in the Qilin Grotto-Heaven, and given that Gu Mingyue was born the Taiyin Star Lord.

The Qilin Grotto-Heaven originally had no Taiyin Star, but when Gu Mingyue came to this Grotto-Heaven, it evolved and gave birth to the Taiyin Star; had the Qilin Grotto-Heaven been a true Heaven and Earth world rather than just a Grotto-Heaven, Gu Mingyue would have become a true Innate Sacred, the Taiyin Star Lord.

When the great sun in the sky dispersed, above the forty-million-mile diameter Qilin Grotto-Heaven, only a bright moon remained to govern that universal radiance.

Yet, after waking from the Inner Scene World, Gu Mingyue did not open her eyes for a long time.

Gu Jiangming and Jiu Jiu could see it clearly; they could see their daughter's brows trembling.

Even at such a time, Gu Mingyue was panicked and afraid in her heart; she was afraid that the Gu Jiangming and Jiu Jiu she saw were only a dream within a dream, merely an illusory reflection in a mirror or a moon in the water.

"Open your eyes!"

"Your mother and I will not disappear; we will never disappear again!"

Gu Jiangming looked at his daughter's appearance, his brow once again crossing with heartache, and he could only soothe Gu Mingyue with the gentlest voice he could muster.

When Gu Mingyue heard the familiar voice by her ear, tears could no longer be restrained and slid from her tightly closed eyes.

After more than a hundred thousand years, Gu Mingyue had finally waited; she had waited for the return of her father and mother. At this moment, Gu Mingyue was no longer a high and mighty goddess; she was just a daughter, and she let the tears of grievance in her eyes pour out.

And when Gu Mingyue opened her eyes, looking at the real, unmistakable Gu Jiangming before her, and then at the Jiu Jiu on the other side, whose phantom was constructed from a single thought, Gu Mingyue cried and cried, yet could not help but laugh out loud.

"Father, Mother, you have become weaker!"

It was unclear what Gu Mingyue was laughing about, but as soon as she spoke, it made Jiu Jiu on the other side unable to help but darken her face.

Jiu Jiu did not indulge her own daughter; even though it was only a thought-form, she still kept a dark face and gave Gu Mingyue two light, non-heavy thumps on the back.

"Having returned from the tribulations, the time has been short, so my cultivation naturally has not yet been restored."

"But Mingyue has good promise; in fourteen thousand years, Mingyue's strength is already about to touch the Three Tribulations!"

Gu Jiangming did not care about his own strength; when he saw that Gu Mingyue still had the leisure to joke with him, Gu Jiangming knew that these fourteen thousand years had not worn away Gu Mingyue's personality.

Perhaps it was because she had been lost in a dream, or perhaps her heart still lived in the time before those fourteen thousand years; although time had flowed on, Gu Mingyue had not changed much.

"Mother's strength isn't even at the Quasi-Supreme level anymore!"

"In the future, if Mother wants to beat me again, I have plenty of ways to escape!"

Gu Mingyue did not mind the two light pats from Jiu Jiu; after Gu Mingyue scattered a ring of radiance, this thought-form of Jiu Jiu quickly solidified again.

In a short span of time, Jiu Jiu, who had entered the Qilin Grotto-Heaven as only a thought, had actually transformed into a body of flesh and blood! And Gu Mingyue, hugging the Jiu Jiu before her, could not help but nuzzle into Jiu Jiu's embrace, while saying rebellious things with a giggle.

This time, Jiu Jiu did not give Gu Mingyue a hard time; she only rubbed Gu Mingyue's head, her eyes filled with nothing but tenderness.

"The matters of that year... it was my lack of consideration..."

Watching the motherly love and filial piety there, and seeing Gu Mingyue turn the Inner Scene into an Outer Scene with a wave of her hand, a flash of shock also flickered in Gu Jiangming's eyes.

He could only sense that his daughter's strength was already near the level of the Three Tribulations, but when Gu Mingyue performed such casual creation, Gu Jiangming felt he had still underestimated Gu Mingyue.

If not for being within the Qilin Grotto-Heaven, Gu Mingyue would have done more than just touch the level of the Three Tribulations; she would likely have been able to attempt to transcend the tribulation and ascend to immortality.

"I already heard Father's apology earlier!"

"In the years I spent sleeping, I actually already recovered some of the memories I had once forgotten."

"Father and Mother both have the means to undergo life-after-life tribulations; your views on the life and death of a single lifetime are naturally somewhat different from ours!"

Gu Mingyue showed a smile to Gu Jiangming, but Gu Jiangming could still hear that Gu Mingyue still held a trace of resentment in her heart regarding himself and Jiu Jiu's actions back then.

Fortunately, this resentment seemed more like a childish temperament, and Gu Jiangming and Jiu Jiu were both confident they could resolve the resentment in Gu Mingyue's heart.

(End of chapter)