Chapter 565 - 178: [Brother 135]
Chapter 178 [One Hundred Thirty-Five Brothers] (7000)
Gu Family’s Seventeenth Generation...
These few words, Chen Yan said: I’m familiar!!
The previous Nether Marriage, officiating the ceremony, and the marriage contract were all written by me in person!
Gu Qingyi, Seventeenth Generation of the Gu Family’s Legitimate Daughter!!
Goodness, this Gu Jinjia in front of me, Gu Family’s Seventeenth Generation... and the legitimate eldest son?!
He’s the eldest brother of Gu Qingyi!
Chen Yan’s expression was peculiar, staring at Gu Jinjia’s face.
Hold on a second!
Gu Qingyi is my Consort Mother.
So, Gu Jinjia...
Damn, he’s my uncle?!
What the hell!
Calling him brother for so many days, and now he’s my uncle?!
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Seeing Chen Yan fall silent, Gu Jinjia misunderstood and clasped his hands with a smile: "Brother, are you blaming me? Not mentioning this before was absolutely not meant to look down on you..."
Saying this, he leaned over, put an arm around his shoulder, and laughed, "I’m not like those other noble family kids who act all superior, looking down on lower-tier loose cultivators—I didn’t tell you before because I intentionally wanted to hide it..."
At this point, Gu Jinjia slapped the water, laughing: "Today I’m being open with you, tonight it’s on me, and let’s have a nice drink! Spending these days together with you, facing dangers together, we truly hit it off! If you don’t mind, how about we become sworn brothers today?"
Sworn... brothers?
Chen Yan opened his mouth.
Swearing brotherhood with an uncle?
Then how do I relate to Gu Qingyi?
Hmm, I’m sworn brothers with your brother, and you call me brother.
You and my dad are a couple, and I call you mom?
What the hell!
Seeing Chen Yan still not speaking, Gu Jinjia became a little anxious: "Brother, your silence, are you still blaming me?"
"... Uh, not really," Chen Yan snapped out of it, cleared his throat, and intentionally gave a wry smile, "I just didn’t expect a fellow cultivator of yours to have such impressive credentials, being the Gu Family’s legitimate eldest son."
Pausing, Chen Yan deliberately asked, "A dignified legitimate eldest son of the Gu Family, does he also come to places like this to take on such dangerous tasks?"
Infiltrating the enemy-occupied area of Evil Land Mountain, infiltrating the renegade Fierce Race region to investigate information related to the ’Evil transformation’—Gu Jinjia had mentioned this on the road, it’s a task with a very high mortality rate, extremely dangerous. Over the years, the Immortal Platform has sent countless people, many of whom are elite who have been injured or killed.
Gu Jinjia sighed, his tone also becoming a bit complicated: "You don’t know, brother, this is where I differ from those other pampered noble kids. To me, those guys are just decaying bones in the tomb, parasites sucking the family’s blood.
The Gu Family stands through combat techniques, generations serving as War Generals on the Immortal Platform. While children of other families drink celestial brews and eat delicacies, the offspring of the Gu Family, from a young age, are honed by consuming the blood and flesh of enemy chiefs and tasting the bitterness and cold of the battlefield!
When the others in those families come of age, generally they are sent to third-line passes to gain some credentials and gold-plate their Golden Body. But acts like these are considered a massive disgrace to the children of my family!
I, as the eldest son of the family, would’ve initially gone to one of the three platforms, but the Immortal Platform has rules that the three platforms may only have one person per noble family.
In my family, well... there are those more skilled than I, so I couldn’t compete for the qualifications to go to the three platforms. But letting me rot in the sixteen towns is something I wasn’t willing to do, so I sharpened my head and chose Snow Cliff Pass, a second-line pass. Although the hazards of infiltrating the territories of the Fierce Race are not necessarily less than those of the three platforms!
In the future, achieving enough merit here, returning to face my other siblings, I can stand upright, showing that I, Gu Jinjia, am not someone who is a parasitic wastrel or living idly!"
After hearing this, Chen Yan looked at Gu Jinjia, feeling a bit of admiration.
This guy, although sly and ruthless, his ambition is good. As one of a noble family, refusing to live off indulgences, but willing to hone himself, enduring hardships in this desolate place. Enduring ice and climbing snow, risking his life to earn merit—just for this, Gu Jinjia is a man!
The two of them had a comfortable bath in the bathhouse, Chen Yan, curious, even went over to experience the ’puppet bathing’ sensation, and it ended up being much more comfortable than anticipated.
Both had been surviving in the wild for a while, especially Gu Jinjia—when they first met, it was during Chen Yan’s previous visit to the Domain Realm, and Chen Yan later at least went back once, staying a long time in the real world.
Gu Jinjia, on the other hand, had been infiltrating and lurking around the Forest Monster near Evil Land Mountain for months.
After the bath, they almost scrubbed off pounds of dirt, and only after rinsing thoroughly with hot water did they come out with red skin.
After changing into clean clothes, Gu Jinjia waved his hand and someone took Chen Yan’s dirty clothes away to be washed and then returned to his room.
Subsequently, Chen Yan followed Gu Jinjia to the inn’s dining hall in the front, where a charming woman named Ruyi had already prepared a meal at a corner of the hall.
Gu Jinjia evidently had quite a social presence here; along the way, many people greeted him, some calling him ’Eldest Young Master Gu,’ others calling him ’Brother Jin Jia.’
Gu Jinjia showed none of the airs of a noble kid, using foul words, exchanging vulgarities warmly with these people.
"These are all loose cultivators here for the reward order, coming to Snow Cliff Pass to earn battle merits and bounties." Gu Jinjia sighed, "They are considered your fellow peers. I’ve been here at Snow Cliff Pass for almost three years, so I’m familiar with them. Some of them have encountered me in the wilderness, and we share quite a bit of camaraderie."