114: Chapter 114 A Generation of Geniuses Emerges, Their Fame Spreads Far and Wide

The Gu Family has added another Qilin child with a Xuan Grade Spirit Root!

Although Gu Yan issued the strictest gag order on this news, forbidding it from being spread outside.

Yet, in this world, there is ultimately no wall that doesn't let the wind through.

Especially within Baifeng City, a massive immortal city where dragons and snakes intermingle and various forces are deeply intertwined.

Whether it was from the mouth of some gossiping servant, or from some bribed guard.

This "secret news," enough to drive any Cultivator Family crazy, ultimately became like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, silently rippling out circles of "shock" and "covetousness."

...

Inside "Yuelai Inn," the largest teahouse in the East Market of Baifeng City.

The storyteller's vivid and descriptive voice was echoing endlessly within the main hall.

"...Speaking of that Gu Family Old Ancestor, the Immortal Gu! On the North City Wall, facing that Iron-Armored Earth Dragon comparable to the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment, he didn't change his expression, nor did his heart skip a beat! I saw him leap down from the city wall, chanting true words, forming hand seals, and from afar, he struck a palm towards that Yao Beast!"

"That palm strike, oh my goodness! It truly changed the winds and clouds, shocking both ghosts and gods! A monstrous sea of fire appeared out of thin air, instantly burning that Iron-Armored Earth Dragon to... clean, with not even bones remaining!"

The storyteller slapped his awakening wood, picked up his teacup, and moistened his throat.

Below the stage, those Cultivators and Mortals who were listening in a trance immediately erupted into a tsunami-like cheer!

"Good!"

"Immortal Gu truly is... invincible in Divine Might!"

Meanwhile, in the corner of the teahouse, a few Loose Cultivators with extraordinary auras curled their lips in disdain.

"Hmph, all that talk about burning the sky and boiling the sea is just the storyteller adding oil and vinegar."

A scar-faced Cultivator lowered his voice and said sourly to his companion, "If you ask me, what's truly formidable about the Gu Family is not Gu Yan himself."

"Oh? How so?" the companion asked curiously.

"You guys don't know yet, right?" The scar-faced Cultivator had a mysterious smile on his face, as if telling some incredible secret, "I have a distant nephew who works at the City Lord's Mansion. According to what he secretly revealed, that Gu Family... is extremely bizarre!"

"The women in their Family, their bellies are just like hens that lay golden eggs! They give birth litter after litter, and what's more, the ones born are all... Geniuses with a Spiritual Root!"

"Hiss—! Is that true?!"

"Absolutely true! Just think about it, when that Immortal Gu's daughter was born, the heaven and earth phenomenon it triggered! That was definitely... the kind of grand display only a legendary Earth-Grade Spiritual Root would have!"

"Not only that! I heard that recently, two more of his wives gave birth! One was Huang Grade! The other... it is said, was another Xuan Grade!"

"My god! One Family... one Earth-Grade, two Xuan-Grade, two Huang-Grade?! This... this doesn't let people live?!"

"Who's to say it isn't? You tell me, what kind of dog-shit luck did this Gu Family have? Could it be that their ancestral grave is buried on a Dragon vein?"

"In my opinion, the problem definitely isn't with the ancestral grave. It's with... Gu Yan himself!"

A sleazy-looking goat-bearded Cultivator chuckled, "Think about it, he himself has regained his youth. The sons he begets are all Geniuses. What does this mean? It means he must have mastered some kind of... supreme secret technique that can change Bloodline and Heaven-Defyingly alter fate!"

"Hiss..."

The few people around, upon hearing this, all gasped, and in their eyes, a scorching light called "greed" simultaneously erupted!

This was not an isolated case.

Similar conversations and similar speculations were constantly playing out in all the major taverns, major chambers of commerce, and secret rooms of major forces throughout Baifeng City.

The Gu Family.

This entity, which had only taken less than a year to leap from an unknown outsider into a behemoth within Baifeng City capable of standing on equal footing with the three great families.

Its rise was too rapid!

And too... mysterious!

Countless pairs of eyes, filled with goodwill and... even more malice, all began to focus, coincidentally, on this massive mansion, which appeared calm but was actually already at the center of the storm!

Everyone knew.

The current calm was only temporary.

A massive storm surrounding the "Heaven-Defying secret" on the Gu Family was quietly gathering and taking shape.

Just waiting for a suitable opportunity, it would... erupt thunderously!

...

However, these people at the center of the storm did not know.

The name Gu Family had long since ceased to only stir up waves within Baifeng City.

It was as if it had been fitted with wings, passing through certain special channels, crossing thousands of mountains and rivers, and finally, reaching...

A place that no one could have expected.

And it also reached the ears of someone... who was extremely sensitive to the name "Leng Yuechan."

Yunlan Sect, Heavenly Sword Peak.

At the summit of a magnificent mountain peak, shrouded in clouds and mist all year round and filled with a solemn, murderous Qi.

A young man in white, handsome and elegant in demeanor, stood quietly at the edge of the cliff, overlooking the churning sea of clouds below.

In his hand, he held a... sound-transmitting Jade Slip that had just been crushed.

"Gu Family... Gu Yan..."

He whispered the name, chewing on it, and on that face that was originally quite handsome, a sinister sneer slowly emerged.

"After hiding your head and showing your tail for so long, have you finally... revealed your fox tail?"

"Leng Yuechan..."

He turned slowly, and in those narrow, long eyes, there flashed a bone-deep hatred, and... a greedy determination to succeed!

"My good Junior Sister."

"This time..."

"I'll see where you can run to!"