359: Chapter 359 Your mercy will only become a knife piercing your heart!

Under the threat of death, Patriarch Gu Changfeng's desire to survive was maxed out.

He dropped to his knees without hesitation, shuffling over to Cao Kun's feet on his knees, and played the Family card.

"Good son-in-law! Good son-in-law!"

"This is all a misunderstanding! A huge misunderstanding!"

"I was just joking with you earlier, testing your strength."

"Seeing that you are so strong, I, as your father-in-law, am very happy!"

Cao Kun didn't even bother to look at him properly.

He had seen shameless people before, but someone shameless to this Realm was truly rare.

Just a moment ago, he was shouting about killing and draining his daughter's Bloodline for Alchemy, and now he was calling him a good son-in-law every other word.

Seeing that Cao Kun remained unmoved, Patriarch Gu Changfeng hurriedly turned his head to look at Gu Xiyao, who was being held in Cao Kun's arms, and wailed with tears streaming down his face.

"Xiyao! My good daughter!"

"Dad was just confused for a moment, bewitched by that old thief Elder Li Er!"

"Dad was only pretending to go along with them to preserve the lives of the thousands of people in the Gu Family!"

"Your mother left early, and I watched you grow up; how could I ever really kill you?"

"Hurry and beg Young Master Cao to spare your own father's life! As long as you don't kill me, I will immediately give you the position of the head of the Gu Family!"

Facing the biological father she once revered and who stood high above, he was now wagging his tail and begging for pity like a stray dog with a broken spine.

A complex expression flashed in Gu Xiyao's eyes.

She hated this Family and hated this father who traded her like merchandise.

However, the instinct that blood is thicker than water still made her jade-like hand tremble slightly.

She was a woman after all, and the remnant of Family affection deep in her heart made her feel somewhat unable to bear it.

Sensing the emotional fluctuation of the beauty in his arms, Cao Kun lowered his head, leaned close to Gu Xiyao's ear, and whispered.

"Soft-hearted?"

Gu Xiyao bit her red lips, her eyes slightly red, but she did not speak.

"Xiyao, do you believe that if it were me lying on the ground today..."

"He would absolutely, without hesitation, strip you bare and send you to that Young Sect Master's bed, without even blinking an eye."

Hearing this, Patriarch Gu Changfeng was scared to the point of Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, desperately kowtowing to defend himself:

"No, no, no! Young Master Cao, please see clearly! I would absolutely never do such a thing! Xiyao is my own flesh and blood!"

Cao Kun ignored him and continued to stare into Gu Xiyao's eyes, speaking calmly.

"Remember."

"The reason he is crying so miserably right now is not because he knows he was wrong."

"But because he knows he is about to die."

"If you cut the grass without removing the roots, the spring breeze will make it grow again."

"If you let him go today, he will surely sell you out completely again in the future to curry favor with the Tianxuan Immortal Sect."

"Your mercy will only become the blade that stabs your heart."

These words were like a thunderclap, directly splitting through the last mist of hypocrisy in Gu Xiyao's heart.

That's right.

He didn't know he was wrong; he was just afraid of dying.

If Cao Kun didn't possess this power to crush everything, she would have already been drained of her Profound Yin Origin by this good father and refined into a Blood Pill to curry favor with the Tianxuan Immortal Sect.

Gu Xiyao broke free from Cao Kun's arms and walked step by step to Patriarch Gu Changfeng.

Looking down at the man who gave birth to and raised her, her eyes gradually turned cold.

"Xiyao... good daughter... you forgive Dad, right?"

Patriarch Gu Changfeng watched Gu Xiyao approach, thinking his bitter meat scheme had worked.

"You just said you are my father?"

Gu Xiyao's voice was as cold as ice, without a trace of warmth.

Patriarch Gu Changfeng nodded repeatedly: "Yes! Blood is thicker than water; this is something that cannot be cut!"

"However..."

"From the moment you announced in public that you were severing our father-daughter relationship."

"I have no more connection with the Gu Family, or with you."

The wild joy on Patriarch Gu Changfeng's face froze, and his eyes widened in terror: "Xiyao, you... what are you doing?!"

"I am just doing what you wanted to do to me earlier."

Before the words fell, Gu Xiyao raised her jade hand, and the spiritual power of the Mahayana Middle Stage condensed into a sharp ice blade in her palm.

"Puchi!"

The ice blade accurately pierced through Patriarch Gu Changfeng's heart meridian.

Blood splattered, and a few drops of warm blood splashed onto Gu Xiyao's cold, beautiful face, like blooming red plum blossoms.

Patriarch Gu Changfeng stared fixedly at the ice blade piercing his chest, the light in his eyes rapidly fading.

He opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to say something, but in the end, he could only make a "clucking" gasping sound, his body went limp, and he collapsed completely into a pool of blood.

Having killed her father with her own hands, Gu Xiyao walked back to Cao Kun's side.

She did not cry; instead, she felt that the shackles that had weighed on her heart for over twenty years were completely shattered at this moment.

From now on, she was no longer anyone's marriage bargaining chip, no longer a tool for the Family.

She was just herself.

And... Cao Kun's woman.

She took the initiative to throw herself into Cao Kun's arms, hugging his waist tightly, her voice trembling with a hint of relief.

"Husband, I don't have a father anymore."

Cao Kun put his arm around her slender waist, wiped the blood from her cheek, and chuckled:

"It's okay, from now on, Husband will dote on you. However much fatherly love you want, I will slowly make it up to you tonight."

Gu Xiyao was still immersed in the murderous mood, but being teased by this extremely shameless dirty joke, her cheeks flushed red, and she shot him a coquettish glare, but did not refute.

Cao Kun was very satisfied with this result.

He just wanted to take this opportunity to help Gu Xiyao sever this last Heart Demon.

Only by completely abandoning those hypocritical bonds could she truly become that Jade Beast in the imperial palace of ultimate bliss who could stand on her own.

Cao Kun patted her pert buttocks, then reached out and beckoned.

The Storage Rings of the four Tribulation Transcendence Stage old monsters who had just died, as well as those of Patriarch Gu Changfeng and several Gu Family Elders, all turned into streams of light and flew into his palm.

These were the lifelong savings of four Tribulation Transcendence Stage powerhouses and one Mahayana Stage head of the Family.

Even without looking, he knew that inside was definitely a massive fortune that would make any top-tier orthodoxy green with envy.

After erasing the remaining Soul imprints on them, Cao Kun threw them into the Demon Suppressing Tower.

Then, holding Gu Xiyao, he scanned the thousands of Gu Family disciples and surviving Elders kneeling on the ground with a condescending gaze.

These people had just witnessed the entire process of their Old Ancestor being slaughtered and their head of the Family being killed by his daughter.

At this moment, they were all terrified, afraid that this ferocious star would kill until his eyes turned red and silence them all as well.

"Everyone, perk up your ears and listen well to this Young Master."

Cao Kun's voice, mixed with spiritual power, clearly spread to every corner of the Gu Family.

"From today on, the Gu Family will be under the command of my wife, Gu Xiyao."

"Her words are the Heavenly Law."

"Who approves? Who opposes?"

The entire Gu Family courtyard was silent.

At this point, who would dare to say a word of opposition?

Moreover, Gu Xiyao was the eldest Young Miss of the Gu Family, so it was legitimate!

After a brief pause, an Elder at the Mahayana Stage who was quick-witted was the first to react.

"This subordinate approves! Greetings, Family Head!"

With someone taking the lead, the remaining Gu Family disciples woke up like from a dream and knelt to the ground one after another.

"We pay our respects to the Family Head!"

"We swear to be loyal to the Family Head! Loyal to the Young Master!"