68: Chapter 67: Cut off all karma and see the true self, why fear the past

Chapter 67: Severing All Karma to See My True Self, What Fear Have I of Old Shackles?

Gu Shengge held the blood-stained baseball bat, listening to Gu Chen's unconscious wails. His gaze swept over the Gu Family members, sensing Gu Tianhao's man-eating glare, and the corner of his mouth curved into a playful smile.

"What, you want to kill this Lord? Come on! Let this Lord see if you have the ability."

Facing Gu Shengge's provocation, Gu Tianhao, whose reason had been consumed by rage, glared with wide eyes and roared at the bodyguards,

"All of you, get him! Kill this unfilial son!"

What kind of desperado? Gu Tianhao didn't believe Gu Shengge could fight more than ten people!

However, the bodyguards remained motionless, as if they hadn't heard Gu Tianhao at all.

Seeing them not move, Gu Tianhao's heart panicked. He turned and roared at them, loudly ordering the bodyguards.

"Why aren't you moving! Didn't you hear what I said! All of you, get him!"

But no matter how he howled, the bodyguards just stood there, unmoving.

Gu Tianhao grew anxious, walking up to a bodyguard, pulling and pushing him, but the bodyguard merely gave him a cold glance.

That gaze was exactly like Gu Shengge's.

Gu Tianhao felt a sudden fright and retreated repeatedly, accidentally stumbling and falling to the ground.

He raised his hand, pointing at the bodyguards, his eyes filled with terror, his voice trembling, almost unable to speak.

"You, you…"

"Don't waste your breath, they won't listen to you."

Gu Shengge appeared behind Gu Tianhao, looking down at his father from his previous life. A hint of killing intent flickered in his eyes, and then he slowly raised the baseball bat.

This scene terrified Gu Tianhao. He scrambled on all fours, trying to escape Gu Shengge, while also roaring, outwardly fierce but inwardly weak,

"What are you going to do! Gu Shengge, I am your father! Are you going to commit patricide?!"

"Patricide? Heh~ This Lord has been without father, mother, relatives, or friends since he could remember in this life. How can there be talk of patricide? This Lord is merely avenging the abandonment from back then."

Gu Shengge looked coldly at Gu Tianhao, his chilling voice like ten thousand years of profound ice, recounting the grievances of his previous life.

Under the insight of his Innate spiritual light, Gu Shengge followed the Karma lines and saw the full story of his abandonment in his previous life.

What business war retaliation, what nanny abandonment, were all Gu Tianhao's excuses.

The real reason was that Gu Tianhao, for the sake of his son with his 'white moonlight,' deliberately had someone bribe the nanny to abandon Gu Shengge, and then framed his business rivals.

Afterward, he let Yu Meilin, who was driven mad by the loss of her son, use the Family's power to strike at the business rivals, and then proposed adopting an "orphan" to replace Gu Shengge.

Gu Tianhao never expected his dirty deeds to be exposed, but he remained unrepentant.

"Even if I abandoned you back then, so what! I am your father! If you dare to kill me, you will be committing a great sin, and you will be struck by five bolts of thunder from Heaven!"

"What!"

Hearing that it was their father who abandoned Gu Shengge, the Gu Family Sisters were incredibly shocked.

How could this be? It must be fake! Father must be so angry that he's speaking nonsense!

Gu Qingqiu didn't have time to think. She endured the pain in her body and shouted at Gu Shengge,

"Even if Father abandoned you, so what? There are no parents in the world who are in the wrong. Putting aside the facts, don't you have any fault at all?!"

"That's right, if there wasn't something wrong with you, how could Dad have abandoned you? You should reflect on yourself more!"

"Why are you still standing there, quickly stop him! If anything happens to my dad, I'll fire all of you!"

Listening to the Gu Family Sisters' curses, Gu Shengge didn't even glance at them. He would settle accounts with them after dealing with Gu Tianhao.

"Struck by five bolts of thunder from Heaven? So what? If Heaven wants to punish this Lord for such a minor matter, then this Lord shall act Heaven-Defying!"

As soon as the words fell, Gu Shengge raised the baseball bat high and swung it fiercely towards Gu Tianhao's head!

The whistling sound of the bat echoed in Gu Tianhao's ears. He was so frightened that his eyes were about to burst, and he cursed angrily.

"You beast, you're serious…"

With a bang, before Gu Tianhao could finish his sentence, his head exploded like a watermelon. Red and white matter splattered everywhere, and a lot of it stained the Gu Family Sisters, scaring them pale and making them shriek.

"Ah ah ah ah ah…!"

Gu Tianhao's headless corpse fell to the ground, blood flowing everywhere.

And at this instant, Gu Shengge also felt an unprecedented sense of ease; all the Karma lines entwining him completely broke.

Suddenly, Gu Shengge understood.

The source of all Karma was not the Gu Family Sisters, nor Gu Chen, but this Gu Tianhao, who for his own selfish reasons, deceived his wife, abandoned his son, and was unworthy of being a husband and father.

His abandonment of Gu Shengge for the sake of his son with his 'white moonlight' was the cause.

Today, Gu Shengge's killing of him, for the grievance of being abandoned back then and the hatred of his wandering life, was the effect.

Severing all Karma from his previous life, shedding the shackles of the past, Gu Shengge felt a great sense of relief at this moment.

In a trance, a flash of inspiration appeared in his mind. He had an epiphany and chanted aloud:

"Hiding from Heaven's will, avoiding Karma, all sorts of shackles trap my true self."

"Following Heaven's will, bearing Karma, only today do I know who I am."

"Severing all Karma to see my true self, what fear have I of old shackles."

"Worldly shackles are but a dream, without cause, without effect, and without self."

At the same time, the Karma line connecting to the Azure Expanse lit up.

The Legacy Tower's trial was over.

As long as he followed the Karma line connecting to the Azure Expanse, Gu Shengge could return.

However, before that, he still had some matters to attend to.

Gu Shengge looked at the Gu Family Sisters, and a ray of spiritual light appeared in his eyes, transforming into a sharp sword that pierced directly into them.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah…!"

The Gu Family Sisters' minds were instantly extinguished by him. Their eyes lost their luster, and they all became vegetative.

As for Gu Chen, one of his arms and one of his legs were broken, and his 'root of offspring' was also crippled. Living was far more painful than dying.

Gu Shengge walked to the unconscious Yu Meilin, looking down at his mother from his previous life, a hint of complexity on his face.

She was also a pitiful woman, deceived by her husband, raising an illegitimate son for so many years. If she were to wake up and learn the whole truth, she would probably be unable to bear the blow and go mad.

Alas~ Gu Shengge sighed lightly. He held no resentment towards Yu Meilin and could sense the genuine emotion she showed when she saw him.

However, there was ultimately no mother-son bond between them.

Gu Shengge raised his hand and lightly touched Yu Meilin's forehead, pouring spiritual power into her mind, erasing everything she had experienced in the Gu Family.

In her new memories, she was not Gu Tianhao's wife, nor the mother of the Gu Family Sisters and Gu Chen. She was just a wealthy woman who had a failed relationship and had been single for many years.

When she woke up, she would not be sad for the deceased Gu Tianhao, nor would she remember the Gu Family Sisters and Gu Chen.

She would happily live out the rest of her life, perhaps meeting someone she liked and growing old together.

Yu Meilin accepted the new memories, her eyelids twitched slightly, and a drop of turbid tear slid from the corner of her eye, vanishing like old memories.

After reshaping her memories, Gu Shengge gave the bodyguards a final command: take Yu Meilin away from here, protect her, and let her live out her life peacefully.

Feeling the call of the Azure Expanse growing stronger, Gu Shengge took one last look at Yu Meilin and whispered softly.

"Farewell, my fated mother…"

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PS: It's over, the Earth storyline. To be honest, I originally wanted to write it longer, but I was afraid it would affect the book's overall feel, so I could only end it hastily for now. However, I will return to it later.