Chapter 237: Gu Jiangming's Promise, Shadows!

"This..."

Even for Gu Nianmo, hearing Gu Jiangming's words at this moment could not help but stir him.

Having spent over a hundred thousand years drifting in the Great Wilderness, Gu Nianmo had heard of many practitioners, and even Heavenly Venerables, who would treat their own offspring as resources just to ascend to immortality, or even to advance further.

Even regarding Gu Nianmo's own cheap master, Gu Nianmo knew that his third, seventh, and ninth sons had all been turned into nourishment for him.

Yet what was he hearing now? Gu Jiangming was actually willing to just give away the opportunity for immortality to Gu Mingyue like this? Gu Nianmo could tell—he could tell that there was not a shred of hypocrisy in Gu Jiangming's words; he truly thought this way.

Gu Nianmo even had a vague premonition in his heart that even if he himself could not ascend, his father, Gu Jiangming, would likely move heaven and earth to help him ascend!

This thought came without any reason, yet Gu Nianmo knew it was true!

Ordinary people only want to ascend to immortality themselves, but his father wanted to help all his children ascend! At this very moment, the resentment that had been lingering in Gu Nianmo's heart, faint as it was, suddenly dissipated by more than half. Although Gu Nianmo still had some knots in his heart, he felt much more relieved.

He thought, perhaps his father, Gu Jiangming, had no other choice back then?

"This is what I owe Mingyue..."

"Not just what I owe Mingyue, but also what I owe you and Sheng Xi..."

"Sheng Xi has walked into the void; I cannot think of a way to bring him back for the time being."

"But whether it is you or Mingyue, I hope you can both ascend to immortality and live freely!"

"As for the past, I acted entirely according to my own heart. Your mother and aunt were focused solely on me and did not think too much of it. Plus, we each had our own opportunities, always thinking that there would be a time to meet again in the future, and that it would be nothing more than a brief separation at most."

"Mingyue slept in the Qilin Grotto-Heaven for one hundred and forty thousand years, spending those one hundred and forty thousand years in a hundred-year dream."

"Although she herself does not feel there is anything wrong with it, and to outsiders, she even grasped the Dharma Aspect of 'flowers in the mirror and moon in the water' through the Internal Scene Manifesting External World, when I saw Mingyue in that state, I knew clearly that my heart ached for her."

"It just so happens that the Qilin Grotto-Heaven also contains Mingyue's imprint, and Mingyue is currently the only light source in the Qilin Grotto-Heaven."

"Handing the Qilin Grotto-Heaven over to Mingyue and letting her forge it into the Mingyue Heaven and Earth can be considered a small compensation from me to her!"

Gu Jiangming stopped Gu Nianmo from saying anything more. These past few days, he had let Mingyue pester him, even to the point where he let her do whatever she wanted, and even helped her.

When it came down to it, Gu Jiangming still felt a measure of guilt toward Gu Mingyue! "It is settled then!"

"In a while, you go and teach Mingyue the Void-Extinguishing Array, and then teach her how to refine the Qilin Grotto-Heaven into her own Grotto-Heaven Realm."

"If Mingyue cannot succeed, you shall teach her to open up a Small Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land relying on the Qilin Grotto-Heaven, and then bit by bit infuse the Heaven and Earth origin of the Qilin Grotto-Heaven into Mingyue's Grotto-Heaven!"

Gu Jiangming looked at Gu Nianmo before him, and as he shook his head, his words carried an unquestionable tone.

"As for Sheng Xi..."

"I also promise you that I will find a way to bring Sheng Xi back!"

"No matter what method it takes, I will definitely bring Sheng Xi back!" "This is my guarantee to you, and a promise from a father to his son!"

Gu Jiangming looked into Gu Nianmo's eyes; all that could be seen in his gaze was frankness and sincerity.

Hearing Gu Jiangming's words, Gu Nianmo was silent at first—a long, drawn-out silence. After a good long while, Gu Nianmo looked at the Gu Jiangming before him and nodded gently.

At this moment, the fourteen thousand years of resentment between father and son suddenly dissipated.

Gu Nianmo knew that his father would definitely bring his younger brother, Gu Shengxi, back. Even as time passed and the seas turned into mulberry fields, his father remained the upright man in his memory who had never let him down! As father and son looked at each other, both could see that the knots in the other's heart had vanished.

In this lifeless Qilin Grotto-Heaven, for a time, only two figures could be seen walking through the desolate land, talking about how the Mingyue Heaven and Earth should be arranged.

Elsewhere, Liu Moxuan watched the father and son standing side by side again, and a smile traced the corners of her eyes.

She was Gu Nianmo's mother, and of course, she could perceive that although Gu Nianmo had returned, there was always a faint barrier between him and Gu Jiangming.

But at this moment, Liu Moxuan saw clearly that the barrier between the father and son had completely dissipated.

While Gu Jiangming and Gu Nianmo were still discussing how to shape the Mingyue Heaven and Earth, Gu Mingyue knew nothing of it, and at the Northern Front, there were developments.

"Finally, found it!"

After the Old Gan Emperor committed a massacre at the Northern Front, many factions of the Human Race sent inquiries to the Great Gan Kingdom.

After all, those who were able to enter the Northern Front later were basically the seeds of various sects and factions, and they were all wiped out by the Old Gan Emperor simply because they saw him make a fool of himself. How could those factions be willing to let it go?

But the Gan Emperor's reply was that the Old Gan Emperor had entered a death-seclusion of 'transforming into the Dao' ever since his return.

With the addition of the Gan Kingdom offering apologies to those factions, the matter passed just like that.

But only the Gan Emperor himself knew that his ancestor had never returned at all, and even the Gan Emperor did not know where the Old Gan Emperor had gone.

I am afraid no one could have imagined that the Old Gan Emperor, having left the Northern Front in full view of everyone, had disguised himself as a Spirit Transformation expert and snuck back into the Northern Front.

The Old Gan Emperor was, after all, unwilling to just perish by transforming into the Dao like this.

Just as he had said himself, he was already a Two-Step Quasi-Supreme, and with the Supreme Realm within reach, how could he be willing to transform into the Dao and perish like this?

Yet that Saint Princess would not even spare him a second glance, and even inadvertently caused the Old Gan Emperor to lose face.

This left the Old Gan Emperor not only unwilling but filled with even more resentment. After leaving the North, the Old Gan Emperor thought of it—he thought of the cultivation method that had turned Ye Ming into a demonic monster.

With the death of the Ye Ming monster and the purging and hunting of demons within the Human Race's territory, the Old Gan Emperor naturally learned of the existence of the Transformation Magic.

And what the Old Gan Emperor wanted to find upon returning to the Northern Front was precisely the brain tissue of Ye Ming! This guy, this guy was prepared to cross-reference Ye Ming's brain tissue with the Transformation Magic he had extorted over this period of time, and then cultivate the Demon Dao! For the Old Gan Emperor, hard work pays off; after wandering around the North for dozens of days, he finally completed the Transformation Magic that Gu Nianmo had once taught Ye Ming!

(End of chapter)