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Gu Changge’s indifferent words thoroughly provoked and enraged every one of them.
They did not care any longer for what was the moral thing to do. As young geniuses, not only they were proud and arrogant, they were also full of youthful vigor. It was no surprise that listening to Gu Changge’s words had sent them into a fury.
Soon after, they all joined hands and attacked him from all sides with their powerful techniques. In their opinion, all of them were Gu Family members who were brought up together and saw each other often. How could they bear Gu Changge bullying one of them to such an extent?
Just now, he kicked one of their brothers unconscious after telling him that he did not need to apologize, making his father almost pass out from anger. If family head Gu Lintian was absent on this day, Gu Changge would have absolutely been taught a painful lesson by the uncles here. They would have made him taste the feeling of being bullied by a stronger person without any care for the punishment they would have received later.
*Buzz!* All sorts of spells and techniques manifested on the mountain peak. Runes interweaved and filled the whole place with a sense of magnificence as they transformed into various kinds of powerful moves – a powerful magic avatar, an invincible and divine fist, a diamond indestructible body, and so on.
The scene was incredibly dazzling as more and more attacks were unleashed against Gu Channge. A long whip swiftly made its way towards him, swords rained down on him, saber light swept across him, many terrifying ferocious beats emerged and pounced on him. Even the mighty experts of the Honored King Realm could not help but change their expression when they witnessed the fearsome power brought about by these moves.
As the young geniuses of the Gu Family, they naturally were not some ordinary people. Not only more than a few of them had already stepped into the Honored Lord Realm, each of them was well-known on the outside as well. Now that they had been enraged and had decided to deal with Gu Changge together, they naturally intended to use extremely powerful attacks in order to suppress and humble him.
They were being a bit too optimistic, but it was just as Gu Changge wished. Ripples appeared in the void, and together with a buzzing sound the scene before them grew blurry all of a sudden.
Gu Changge still had an indifferent expression on his face but his figure instantly disappeared from the place. It happened so fast as if he had disappeared into thin air. No sign of runes interweaving could be seen, either.
There was no doubt that the power of the void was extremely powerful and mysterious. Unless one had a divine talent that allowed them to move at extremely fast speeds, or they had a hidden technique to move extremely fast, it was basically impossible to catch up to Gu Changge.
Therefore, all young geniuses could not help but feel their attack missing the target when Gu Changge disappeared.
Gu Changge was not an idiot. He had no intention to face their combined attack head-on. He had restrained his cultivation to the Honored Lord Realm after all, and it was naturally better to use a more convenient way to deal with the attacks.
Next moment, his figure suddenly appeared behind all of them. Terrifying ripples transmitted across the void as extremely dazzling light burst forth behind him and a golden palm manifested in the sky above. The golden palm grew larger and larger, the lines on the palm became clear, and it truly seemed just like a real palm, as if it was a hand print of heaven itself.
Heavy and vast waves emerged from inside the palm! It was Gu Family’s spell, Heaven’s Print.
“Descend.” The golden palm fiercely made its way down as soon as Gu Changge uttered the word, bringing along an incomparably terrifying power. It seemed as if it wanted to destroy the entire world!
“Oh shit. Get out of its way!”
The geniuses reacted very fast. They knew how powerful Heaven’s Print was and had no intention to face it head-on. All of them started to move back one after another.
But Gu Changge already knew what they would choose to do. He still had a faint smile as he said, “Seal the Heaven and Earth!”
*Buzz!* Immediately, a terrifying confining power transmitted across the void. The geniuses felt as if every inch of space in front of them had become immeasurably heavy.
Of course, it was an application of the Void Talent.
*Puff!*
Seeing the gigantic golden palm smashing down at them, the geniuses had an incredulous look and they immediately tried to resist it. However, all of them spit out blood and got injured after taking direct damage from the palm.
Although it was not possible to permanently confine all the land and sky of the place, managing to do so for a breath of time was enough to prevent the geniuses from running far away.
Having suffered a defeat in just a breath of time, they looked pale for a while. They could not raise their heads due to the dejection and depression they were experiencing at the moment.
It was to be noted that this was the outcome even after Gu Changge had restrained his cultivation to the Honored Lord Realm so as to avoid the situation of him just overpowering them with the difference in their cultivation realms. But they were still not his opponent even when facing him together.
They were fully aware that a difference of strength existed between them and Gu Changge, but they never expected the difference to be so great. They were very unwilling to accept the defeat and had experienced a blow to their pride.
Gu Changge was obviously not going to let them off easily. He walked over to each one of them and kicked them around in a very simple and rough manner.
He shook his head as he said with pity, “I gave you the opportunity to attack me first, but you didn’t cherish it at all. You guys really aren’t fit to be entrusted with a heavy responsibility after all. How do you still have the nerve to fight over the position of the family head with me?”
His words were like a knife piercing through their chest, making their faces turn red and feel burning hot. They were fiercely angry and wanted to refute what he said.
Even together they were not a match for him, so what else was left for them to say here? If their ability is inferior to him, they could not blame him for their current situation, right?
At this moment, all the family members that were watching the fight could not help but draw in a breath in utter shock.
There was no need to have any doubts about the strength of Gu Changge as the young master. He was already the face of the Gu Family outside after all. But his performance on this day made them realize that they had greatly underestimated him.
If he was so strong after restraining his cultivation to the Honored Lord Realm, just how strong would he be if he showed his full strength?
There were numerous geniuses among the younger generation of the Beyond, shining brightly like the stars. But it was indubitable that Gu Change was certainly the brightest one of them all.
The whole place had fallen silent!
On the mountain peak, everyone was simply watching Gu Changge as he walked around beating the young geniuses of the Gu Family to the ground.
The corner of the elders’ mouth twitched and their complexion turned totally dark. They had no idea what to say in this situation. Everything happened too fast for them to take it all in.
More importantly, they got to take a very good look at the cruel and ruthless nature of Gu Changge. It was not only their grandsons that suffered at his hands, as their young and beautiful granddaughters who looked like goddesses were also holding tears in their eyes after being trampled upon by him.
But despite doing all this, he still seemed totally unbothered. They were burning with anger at his ruthlessness, mercilessness, and extremely overbearing nature!
“Changge’s strength seems to have increased a lot once again.”
Gu Lintian did not find anything wrong with Gu Changge’s actions. Instead, it made him quite happy to see his son overpowering his opponents in such a manner. After all, Gu Changge had always been like this with others, save for his parents. Once the matter of the next family head is settled, it would also resolve a lot of troubles for him.
“Elders. Do you still have something to say?” Gu Changge’s expression remained unchanged as he glanced over at the elders and slowly questioned them.
He was confident that they would not dare to bring up the matter of the next family head in the future after him thoroughly beating the geniuses of other lineages in front of the countless family members. Regardless of how shameless the elders could be, they would not dare to delay the decision on the matter any more as it would only hurt their own reputation after the performance he had shown.
At once, some of the elders that were relatively closer to the lineage Gu Changge belonged to stepped forward and spoke with a laughter, “Considering Changge’s strength, we never had any objection to him becoming the next family head. After all, Changge is the face of our Gu Family.”
“The stronger he’s when he goes out in the world, the more prestige we would gain. In the Beyond of the present time, every major faction and inheritance have a successor. If the young master of my Gu Family doesn’t even have the title of the next family head, wouldn’t we be mocked by other Cults of Immortality?”
“This old man thinks that we don’t have a better candidate than Changge. I’ll be angry with you if you still don’t let him be the next family head…” Another elder said as if he wanted to uphold justice.
“That’s not what you said before…” Some other elders said with a dark look on their faces. They were seriously scared by the shamelessness of the old bastard.
However, every one of them was a wise and sly person. They knew very well that they could no longer stop Gu Changge from becoming the next family head.
They sighed internally as they wondered about the future of Gu Family in Gu Changge’s hands. After all, the relationship between all the lineages in the Gu Family had always been very harmonious and peaceful since ancient times. The occasional minor conflicts would result into people hurling insults at each other, at the most, and after a while they would return to their usual behavior.
The incident that happened ten-odd years ago really hurt them significantly. Although it didn’t damage the strength of the family too much, who could tell what would happen to the Gu Family later if things go on like this?
If a family wanted to survive for even longer, if it wanted to remain strong and immortal no matter how much time passed, the first thing it needed was to absolutely not allow any infighting.
“Forget it, this old man will be in seclusion. You guys can take care of… what happens to the Gu Family from here on…”
“Lintian, the Gu Family is in your hands right now and you’re at the peak of your life too, so don’t retire from your position without a good reason just so you can go and cultivate in seclusion.”
Many elders were downhearted and lost their interest in family matters. Rather than Gu Changge having the control over everything after becoming the family head, they still hoped Gu Lintian would continue to hold the position.
Gu Changge lightly shook his head upon listening to these words. It seemed as if they believed that Gu Family would be ruined once it fell in his hands?
But it was a legit concern when considering the nature he previously had. All the elders were only thinking about the welfare of the Gu Family.
In any case, Gu Changge could not explain to them anything about his change of heart at the moment. He was not a fool and he was also the young master of the Gu Family, so he would certainly think of ways to make the future of the family even more glorious. There would definitely be something wrong with his head if he did anything that would ruin the family. His actions on this day were only meant to force the elders to make the decision.
Looking at the scene before them, many among the family members that had surrounded the mountain peak became very emotional. The matter that happened on this day had made them feel admiration in their heart. Gu Changge had displayed such power that even the elders could not prevent him from obtaining what he wanted any longer. Gu Changge has now become a genuine young master of family. The title might sound the same a s before the authority he would have now would be on a completely different level compared to before.
It was at this time that some of the downhearted elders suddenly stopped in their tracks after they heard an information that was transmitted to their ears by their informers. The information was related to the Xiling State in the Outer Region.
It was natural that the movements of Old Ming could not be concealed from them. As the elders of an immortal family with unimaginable power and influence, their informants were present everywhere in the Beyond. Even if they stay in the Gu Family, they are actually very well-aware of many things happening outside.
“Changge, you plan on bringing back the people from that lineage?” Immediately, one of the elders asked in disbelief as he stood still in the place.
Since that incident happened, they had been worried about Gu Changge killing off all the members of that lineage down to the last person. Therefore, they had always kept an eye on them and his activities. But they did not think that there would come a day when Gu Changge would send someone to bring them back. They were so taken aback that they felt as if their prodigal son had turned over a new leaf.
“Elders, you don’t need to care about it. Changge was young and ignorant back then when he did what he did, but Changge will do his best to take the responsibility and resolve the grievances between us. It doesn’t concern any other person of the Gu Family.” Hearing the elder’s question, Gu Changge wore a more serious look and answered after a little pause.
The elders were surprised to see his serious expression that made it seem as if he was reflecting on himself. They wondered if the sun rose in the west.
“Changge, are you speaking the truth? I hope you’re not doing all this just to deceive us.” A few other elders stopped in their tracks and turned around to look at him. Their eyes were full of expectation.
Gu Changge nodded in response, “Changge is well aware of the situation and knows what to do.”
“Good, very good…”
“Of course, we believe you, Changge.”
The elders openly expressed their delight upon hearing Gu Changge answer with such a rare expression on his face. If he truly had turned over a new leaf, if the next family head they were worried about really had a change of heart, it may be a fortunate thing.
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