Chapter 389 - 280: Dragon King’s Demise (Part 3)
This day, snow began to fall in Canglan City.
Gu Zhan sat in his study reading through the reports, and suddenly saw the swirling snowflakes outside the window. He was unexpectedly filled with emotion,
It turns out, it’s snowing again,
Without realizing it, it has already been three years since coming to this world,
When I first arrived in this world,
It was during the first snowfall of the winter of the fourth year of Qingli in Linjiang City,
Today is the first snowfall of the seventh year of Qingli,
However, the first snow I see this year is in Canglan City, not Linjiang City.
For a moment, he was uncharacteristically filled with some nostalgia.
His mind conjured memories of the past three years,
Then, reminiscing,
The smile on his face froze,
For the entire three years, his memories were nothing but killing or on the way to kill,
The people who came to mind,
Most of them were those cut down under his blade.
"Why all these emotional triggers are so damn unnecessary! It’s all because I’ve got too much free time!"
Gu Zhan grumbled a couple of phrases, looked at the snowflakes outside again, suddenly found them distasteful, and picked up the reports to read.
Just then,
A series of footsteps sounded from outside the door, and the person who entered was Tian Yu.
Tian Yu has successfully broken through the Fifth Realm. According to the plan, he intended to directly break through to Grandmaster, but at the critical moment, a fear arose in his heart and he stopped in time, leaving his realm at the Fifth Realm Peak.
However, missing this opportunity, to break through to Grandmaster next time, it would require great fortune. But Tian Yu is quite satisfied; without Gu Zhan’s Sword Intent, he wouldn’t even know how many years it would take to break through the Fifth Realm.
"Gang Leader." Tian Yu greeted, "The patient in the rear courtyard has woken up."
Gu Zhan raised his eyebrows,
The patient Tian Yu referred to is Sword One.
Due to the identities of Sword One and Nangong Weiyang, they couldn’t be exposed for the time being, so they had been arranged in Gu Zhan’s rear courtyard. Only a handful of people knew, and for daily communications, they referred to them as patients.
This description of the patient was quite apt.
Nangong Weiyang’s legs hadn’t recovered, and Sword One was in a Fallen Demon state, lacking consciousness, calling them patients was a gentler term.
However, just as Gu Zhan prepared to get up and head to the rear courtyard,
Urgent footsteps sounded from outside,
It was Tan Lang and Gu Mo.
"Gang Leader, you need to go to the City Lord’s Mansion quickly, the Dragon King... he’s not going to make it!"
Gu Zhan paused slightly, immediately tapped his foot, and flew towards the City Lord’s Mansion.
Perhaps during this period, seeing Gu Zhan ascend and suppress Beidou Bang from top to bottom smoothly, Mo Jingzhou’s suspended heart had eased, letting him live longer than expected.
But everyone actually knew,
Mo Jingzhou was already running on fumes, ready to depart this world at any moment, now living day by day.
Gu Zhan was clear about this,
So he was mentally prepared and didn’t feel surprised by this news, nor did he have much emotion about it,
However, after all, he had been with Mo Jingzhou for quite a while,
As the saying goes, a dying man’s words are kind,
Gu Zhan and Mo Jingzhou met just before Mo Jingzhou’s imminent death,
During this period, Mo Jingzhou put aside fame and fortune, the past, and interacted with Gu Zhan like a common old man, like a senior, imparting a lot of experience to Gu Zhan.
Between the two, there was a hint of a friendship transcending age.
In Great Desert City, the wind and snow howled,
The dense snowflakes danced across the sky,
Gu Zhan stepped through the falling snow into Canglan City, heading straight to the East Courtyard.
At this time, outside Mo Jingzhou’s courtyard, many people gathered,
Now, the direct lineage of the Mo Family, Canglan Dao’s first Noble Family, as well as Beidou Bang’s top brass, and Mo Jingzhou’s sons’ family members, etc. Those two sons placed outside earlier have also returned to Canglan City during this period.
Upon seeing Gu Zhan appear, everyone saluted.
"What’s the situation now?" Gu Zhan asked.
A young lady with a graceful appearance stepped forward, bowed, and spoke softly, "Brother, father-in-law called Beiyan inside. Currently, only Beiyan is in the room."
This young lady was Mo Beiyan’s rightful wife, the current Patriarch of the Mo Family, named Gu Yu, and also the legitimate daughter of the flourishing Pingyang Gu Family.
This Gu Yu was chosen by the Gu Family to be married into the Mo Family.
Originally, even with a marriage alliance, according to hierarchy, the Gu Family didn’t qualify to have their daughter as the rightful wife of the Mo Family Patriarch. However, the Mo Family elders considered Gu Zhan’s potential at the time and directly decided on Gu Yu as Mo Beiyan’s rightful wife.
Later, not long after,
Gu Zhan became famous after the battle in Bright Moon Gorge, now taking over Beidou Bang, making the Mo Family elders repeatedly grateful for their decision, even though they knew Gu Zhan never returned to the Gu Family, but the familial bond was there, even putting that aside, the Gu Family was the first Noble Family to rely on Gu Zhan. Now with Gu Zhan rising, the Gu Family greatly benefits.
Now, in just a few months,
The Gu Family used its resources to nurture more than ten Great Cultivators, and there were more than ten Martial World wanderers attracted by Gu Zhan who joined the Gu Family,
The most obvious sign was, among Beidou Bang’s mid-level, now many were from the Gu Family, if not for the insufficient depth and lack of capable leaders, the upper echelons definitely wouldn’t be few.
This didn’t need any deliberate arrangement by Gu Zhan,
Others would proactively pave the way for the Gu Family.
And this Gu Yu married into the Mo Family, also deeply felt it,