Chapter 153: Wu Yong
"First supreme elder—!"
Outside the curtain, Wu clan's supreme elders cried out with sorrow.
Cries filled this small house without any owner.
Wu Yong cried quietly, he knelt on the ground, lowering his head and not moving, like a statue.
Long after, he slowly raised his head, he no longer cried, his expression was as firm as steel.
He stood up.
Next, he looked at the Wu clan supreme elders through the curtain, they were sprawling on the ground, crying painfully without any of their usual demeanor.
"Everyone, hold in your sadness. Mother is gone, but we have to continue enveloping Southern Border with Wu clan's glory!" Wu Yong's plain tone carried extraordinary authority.
The supreme elders gradually stopped crying.
Wu Yong pulled the curtain aside, walking out.
The supreme elders had already stood up, they realized something.
The atmosphere had become heavy, these Gu Immortal elders paid their respects towards Wu Yong, they said together: "We pay respects to first supreme elder!"
Seven days later.
Wu clan held a grand funeral on Divine Wind Mountain.
All the righteous path forces, as well as many lone immortal experts, even certain special demonic path Gu Immortals were invited for the funeral.
In front of everyone's eyes, Wu Yong suddenly erupted: "Men, take down this traitor of the clan!"
"What?!" Xu Tuo was shocked, he wanted to resist but it was too late.
"Master, what are you doing?! I am your most loyal and dedicated servant!" Xu Tuo screamed loudly.
"Hehe." Wu Yong chuckled, he pointed at Xu Tuo as he shouted: "You are a loyal and dedicated servant indeed, Xu Tuo! To think I trusted you so deeply, yet you harmed me, leaking the travel route of my brother, and causing countless fiends to attack him. My poor brother, I have not even met him, but he was already killed by you bunch of evil fiends!"
Saying this, Wu Yong sighed at the sky, tears flowing down his face.
"Today, I will win everything!" Wu Yong laughed in his mind, but he pointed at Xu Tuo, ordering: "Drag him away!"
The righteous path representatives were uneasy, even those demonic path and lone immortals showed shock on their faces.
Wu Yong looked around, feeling extremely satisfied.
But just as he was about to speak, Qiao clan's first supreme elder stood up: "I have good news for Lord Wu Yong. Your brother Wu Yi Hai did not die, not only did he survive, he has arrived here with the help of my Qiao clan."
"What?"
Wu Yi Hai took large strides, walking out of the group of Qiao clan Gu Immortals.
Wu Yi Hai instantly became the center of attention.
When Wu Yi Hai stepped into the limelight, he bowed deeply towards Wu Yong: "Wu Yi Hai pays respects to elder brother."
Wu Yong had an agitated but hesitant expression: "Are you really my brother Yi Hai? Alike, you really look like mother, except that your eyes are blue, we don't usually have that eye color in Southern Border."
Wu Yi Hai answered solemnly: "Reporting to brother, I had black eyes before, but some accidents occurred when I cultivated transformation path. Right now, I returned due to mother's arrangement. Unfortunately, I met with many attacks along the way, Uncle Zhang and Brother Leng, who traveled with me, died on the battlefield while protecting me as I escaped."
"Both Zhang and Leng were simply attendants of my mother, but they made great contributions to Wu clan. Pass my orders, we will give them a grand burial, according to the rules of how we treat external supreme elders. Their descendants will also be taken care of, and be treated as equals in our Wu clan." Wu Yong instructed.
Wu Yi Hai bowed as he said: "I hope brother can allow me to pay respects to our mother!"
Wu Yong's brows tightened.
He was about to speak when suddenly, a supreme elder of Wu clan said: "Pardon me, but is everyone forgetting to confirm second young master Wu Yi Hai's identity. I am not suspecting him, or suspecting anyone from Qiao clan, but for him to come back to the clan, that is a necessary procedure!"
Wu Yong heard this and his brows tightened again.
He looked at the Wu clan Gu Immortal who spoke deeply, it was Wu clan's third supreme elder, Wu Qiao.
Wu Yong spoke: "Alright, we will hold the acknowledgement of my brother's heritage here at my mother's funeral. I am sure that my mother would be very glad to see this happen."
"All of the immortals here can bear witness to it, bring the Immortal Gu!" Third supreme elder Wu Qiao stood up, he needed to be the host of this event, to prevent Wu Yong and the rest from tampering with it.
Soon, Wu clan brought the Immortal Gu.
Wu Qiao stood before Wu Yi Hai, holding an Immortal Gu in his hand, saying: "This is a rank seven blood path Immortal Gu, Bloodline, my Wu clan obtained it from killing a blood path demonic immortal, it is our trophy of victory, it can be used to certify second young master's identity."
"Second young master, please provide a drop of blood!" Wu Qiao said.
Under everyone's supervision, Wu Yi Hai followed what he said and squeezed out a drop of blood to Wu Qiao.
Wu Qiao used the Immortal Gu and aimed towards the blood in his hand, as a dark red light shone.
There were no issues.
But this was not all.
Next, Wu Qiao asked Wu Yi Hai many crucial questions.
Hundreds of questions were asked, Wu Qiao was still expressionless.
But the other Wu clan supreme elders nodded, some of them were smiling, looking at Wu Yi Hai, showing that he had already passed the test.
"Actually, we also had to inspect your soul and bones, but Lady Wu Du Xiu has passed away, we will skip that." Wu Qiao said.
Next, Wu Qiao reported his findings to Wu Yong.
Needless to say, everyone had already seen the result.
Wu Yong nodded, while the other Wu clan supreme elders also agreed.
Thus, Wu Qiao took out life tablet Gu and soul lantern Gu, asking Wu Yi Hai to refine them. These Gu worms would be left in Wu clan's ancestral hall, they were the symbol of Wu Yi Hai's acknowledgement into the clan.
After paying respects to Wu Du Xiu, Wu Yi Hai cried profusely, showing off a fantastic performance with incredible acting.
Seven days later, the funeral ended, Wu Yi Hai stood beside the Wu clan Gu Immortals, sending off the guests who came, like he was an important part of the clan.
Three days later.
Wu Yi Hai was standing on the peak of Bear Mountain, quietly looking at the beautiful sunrise.
After the acknowledgement of his heritage, he was assigned by Wu clan to live on this Bear Mountain.
This was not within the blessed land serving as Wu clan's base, Wu Yi Hai claimed that he wanted to live outside as well. Bear Mountain was a well known place, there were large numbers of wild beasts on this mountain, all sorts of bears were living here.
Wu clan directly gave this mountain to Wu Yi Hai, from now on, this was Wu Yi Hai's territory.
But Wu clan did not assign Wu Yi Hai any relevant roles.
Wu Yi Hai was seeing the sunrise, when an information path Immortal Gu flew towards him, bringing Wu Yong's summons.
Wu Yi Hai followed the instructions of the information path Immortal Gu and met with Wu Yong in a hall.
Wu Yong said: "You are my younger brother, you have just returned to the clan. According to our clan rules, every newly advanced rank six Gu Immortal may pick a rank six Immortal Gu. After becoming rank seven, they may pick a rank seven Immortal Gu. Bring along this information path Immortal Gu with you and go to the clan's treasury to choose your two Immortal Gu."
Hearing that his 'brother' was arranging for him to claim Immortal Gu from the treasury, Wu Yi Hai smiled.
Facing Wu Yong, he said calmly: "I do not need to go to the treasury, I know what I want."
"Oh?" Wu Yong was surprised.
Next, Wu Yi Hai said the names of two Immortal Gu, one was rank six, the other was rank seven.
Wu Yong was even more surprised now, he looked at Wu Yi Hai deeply, having understood what he wanted. But he still pretended to be unaware: "These two Immortal Gu are part of the super Gu formation, they have been used already to encircle that giant dream realm. Are you sure you want them?"
Wu Yi Hai nodded without any hesitation, showing that he had made his decision.
Wu Yi Hai continued to speak earnestly: "Brother, you have been in the clan since your were born, you have the support of Southern Border's strongest super force. But I am different, I grew up in Eastern Sea without anyone's help. I am a lone cultivator, you have never been a lone cultivator, you will not know our pain."
"Therefore, this time, I thought of coming to Southern Border, to join Wu clan, I do not want to go back to Eastern Sea anymore."
"I admit that I have my ambitions, but which Gu Immortal has no ambition?"
"Brother, I will speak the truth. You are a rank eight Gu Immortal, you have rank eight Immortal Gu, you are the first supreme elder of Wu clan, you live freely in Wu clan. As for me, I came from Eastern Sea, I only have rank seven cultivation level, I have some transformation path methods, but how can I compete against you? I have never thought of fighting with you."
"I merely want my cultivation journey to continue. Qiao clan has an alliance agreement with me, therefore they supported me to come here. I was forced to, without Qiao clan's help, I could not even attend mother's funeral."
"But I am still a Wu clansman, Wu clan's bloodline flows within me. My mother might have left me when I was a baby, but she had asked me to return in her final days. No matter what she thinks, she is still my birth mother all along."
"These last few days, I have been thinking, the dream realm's location is where I want to go. I am willing to leave Wu clan and cultivate there forever. All I want is some support from the clan, so that I would not be without cultivation resources. That way, I will be satisfied."
Wu Yi Hai spoke sincerely, it was a moving speech.
Towards the end, his eyes even turned red, he bowed deeply to Wu Yong.
Wu Yong was moved.
He left his seat, going towards Wu Yi Hai and grabbing his shoulders.
"My brother!" He spoke, his voice was trembling, his expression was agitated.
"You are my younger brother, we have the same mother."
"I understand your intentions. I understand your hardships, and I am glad that you understand my difficulties."
"Since that is so, I will agree to your request. Do not forget what you said today!"
"Elder brother!" Wu Yi Hai choked, tears falling down from the corners of his eyes: "I will not forget today's words! Brother is granting my wish, I will support you fully. In the future, unless brother agrees, I will not act on my own and step into Wu clan's headquarters at all. I will also not interact with Wu clan's Gu Immortals excessively."
Wu Yong grabbed Wu Yi Hai's hands, patting the back of his hands: "You will not let me down, and I will not let you down!"
A moment later, Wu Yi Hai left the hall.
Wu Yong sat down on his seat, having a deep gaze in his eyes.
"My younger brother knows what's best for him, he is clear of the current situation. Not bad, not bad indeed."
"He did not mention the Immortal Gu inheritance at all, and even volunteered to leave Wu clan's headquarters. With his absence, I will be able to control the clan as rapidly as possible."
"The dream realm is also very useless. Current methods cannot excavate this mountain of treasures. As long as he guards the super Gu formation quietly, and cultivate in peace, without trying to gain authority in Wu clan, so what if I have to give him many more times the cultivation resources he is asking for?"
"The dream realm is like this now, but the future is not certain. After all, this is a prophecy regarding Great Dream Immortal Venerable… Hehe, speaking of which, my younger brother's ambitions are not small."
"However, just as he said, who has no ambitions? It is not scary to have ambitions, it is scary if your ambitions are so big you cannot recognize your own limits, and do something stupid beyond your abilities. For example, Qiao clan… hmph!"