Gu Weiting inserted the incense sticks and, after raising his head, was shocked to find that the environnt around him had changed.
He had arrived at a scene that was unfamiliar to him, yet sohow very intimate.
After looking around, he saw the familiar back garden and the pavilion.
"Is this... the ancestral ho on Earth?" Gu Weiting was astonished, rubbing his eyes, wondering how he had gotten there.
Or was it a hallucination?
"Big brother? How did you get here?"
Soone called out to Gu Weiting from behind.
Gu Weiting turned around to see his younger brother, Gu Weimin, jogging over.
"Second brother, what’s going on?" Gu Weiting gripped Gu Weimin’s arm tightly, wanting to confirm whether it was a hallucination: "How did I suddenly end up here? I was just offering incense to the Ancestor, and when I looked up, I found myself here. This isn’t an illusion, right? How are you guys doing? I heard that you had a fight with the Murong Jue family."
"It’s not an illusion," Gu Weimin smiled. "It might be that our Ancestor has brought you here. We are fine; thanks to the Ancestor’s intervention, Murong Jue is dead, and all the top experts of the Murong Family have been exterminated by the Ancestor. Now, we have taken control of the ancestral ho and the Earth."
Gu Weiting was staggered: "The Ancestor?"
Gu Weimin nodded, pointing towards the pavilion.
Following Gu Weimin’s gaze, Gu Weiting looked at the pavilion, where a figure was faintly visible. This made Gu Weiting’s eyes shine brighter as his breathing beca hurried and tense.
He slowly walked towards the pavilion and upon seeing Gu Feng, whom he had never t, his lips trembled uncertainly as he asked, "Are you, you are?"
It had been nearly 20,000 years; the only ones who had seen Gu Feng back then were his son, Gu Jinnian, and Gu Qingxue.
Because there were no sculptures or portraits of the Taoist Ancestor anywhere in the world, the Taoist Ancestor Gu Feng existed more as a concept to the people of the present.
Even his appearance was vague and indistinct for everyone.
Why were there no images or statues of Gu Feng?
Because the Taoist Ancestor was synonymous with the Heavenly Dao itself, and to attempt to recreate his likeness would be akin to sculpting the Mystical aning of the Heavenly Dao.
Who in the world had the moral clarity and strength that could co close to the Taoist Ancestor?
Thus, it wasn’t that nobody had tried to draw or sculpt such images; it’s that they couldn’t capture it.
The closer your imitation, the more you were subjected to the backlash of the Mystical aning of the Heavenly Dao. If you could withstand it, then you would have the opportunity to comprehend the Ancestor’s insights.
Even one percent of that understanding could make you a dominant force in your own right.
But over the centuries, even powerful cultivators attempted to comprehend the natural Laws through imitation of the Ancestor’s portraits, only to be killed by heavenly tribulations.
Since then, nobody in the Cultivation World had attempted to create images of the Ancestor.
"Big brother, this is the Taoist Ancestor, our very own Ancestor Gu Feng!" said Gu Weimin, seeing Gu Weiting standing there, stupefied, and hurriedly reminded him.
Gu Weiting, nudged by his brother, subconsciously knelt down.
Still, he kept examining Gu Feng, trying to confirm if this was indeed real!
After all, it was hard for him to accept that the Ancestor of the Gu Family, far more ancient than Ancestor Qingxue, was still alive.
Gu Feng stretched out his hand and placed it on the head of the kneeling Gu Weiting.
The scene returned to the Ancestor Hall of the Gu Family.
After coming to his senses, Gu Weiting realized that he had indeed experienced a hallucination.
But the hand that was placed on his head was still there, and at that mont, Gu Feng said, "That was no illusion; your younger brothers are all very safe now."
Gu Weiting, upon seeing the person in the pavilion also inside the Ancestor Hall, exclaid in astonishnt, "You, you truly are our Gu Family Ancestor?"
Gu Feng didn’t know how to answer this question and could only turn his head to look at his ancestral tablet.
He reached out, and the tablet flew into the palm of his hand.
The next second, the tablet gradually dissolved and vanished.
Yet, Gu Feng showed no signs of backlash from the Heavenly Dao whatsoever.
Gu Weiting, without any hesitation, fiercely kowtowed on the ground and said resolutely, "Gu Weiting of the fourth generation of the Gu Family greets his great-great-grandfather!"
At this mont, Gu Weihuan walked into the Ancestor Hall and froze upon seeing this scene.
"Big brother? He is?"
Gu Weiting hurriedly, with excitent, said to him, "Go inform all mbers of the Gu Family, quickly, to the back mountain Ancestor Hall. The Ancestor has returned, quickly have them co to pay their respects."
Gu Weihuan was at a loss, but seeing how excited his big brother was, he too was overwheld by the words "The Ancestor has returned," causing his head to buzz with excitent.
Without further ado, he turned and flew towards the front courtyard.
Along the way, he summoned all mbers of the Gu Family to head towards the back mountain.
In no ti, whether old, adult, or young, all swiftly flew over.
Then they proceeded towards the Ancestor Hall’s main hall.
In the past, won were not allowed to enter the Ancestor Hall, but today, the clan leader Gu Weiting was so overjoyed that he hurriedly gestured for all mbers of the Gu Family, including daughters-in-law, to co in and greet the Ancestor.
Gu Feng sat on the Taishi Chair that Gu Weiting usually occupied. Gu Weiting had already poured him so tea, then voluntarily stood aside, signaling the clan mbers to line up and kowtow to the Ancestor in sequence.
Gu Feng didn’t recognize any of these descendants.
But that didn’t matter; Gu Weiting beside him would introduce everyone.
Seeing those with higher family status, like Gu Weihuan and the fifth-generation elders, all had to go over and kowtow.
The surrounding Gu family mbers were curiously whispering among themselves.
Especially the four male mbers of the sixth generation leading their wives, and nearly twelve children, all lined up and craned their necks trying to see which of the Gu Family’s Ancestors it was?
Hearing the murmurs, the Gu family mbers who were already grandparents among the fifth generation imdiately scolded in a low voice, "Stand properly, this is our Gu Family Ancestor Gu Feng!"
Before Gu Feng had initiated the era of cultivation, when he had a powerful corporate achievent capability for the country and the people, putting him in an absolute position of authority within Dragon Nation, his clan’s genealogy had already dedicated a page to him.
Therefore, in theory, he was the Ancestor of the Gu Family.
"Gu Feng, the Ancestor?" Although the youngsters had never t the Ancestors, they knew of an Ancestor nad ’Gu Feng’ who also held the status of a Taoist Ancestor.
"Isn’t that the Taoist Ancestor?"
The surrounding daughters-in-law were originally guessing which Ancestor of the family Gu Feng was.
In this era of competition for family background and heritage, if there was an Ancestor-level powerhouse presiding over the clan, that could bring about hope for the family’s survival.
But hearing the youngsters speak unguardedly of Gu Feng’s identity, these daughters-in-law trembled with excitent, their eyes spinning with fervor, their anticipation growing even stronger.
"Ancestor, this is the male descendant of our family’s fifth generation ’Zhantao’ generation, ranked sixth, Gu Zhantao."
After Gu Weiting introduced him, the fifth-generation male descendant kneeling in front excitedly kowtowed to Gu Feng, "Zhantao pays his respects to the Ancestor."
Gu Feng nodded, asking him, "Do you have a wife and children?"
Gu Zhantao nodded, "Yes, Ancestor, I do."
"Good," Gu Feng said with satisfaction as he took out a secret technique to give him, "Take this; from now on, this secret technique will be the inheritance of your branch of the family."
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