Chapter 114: The Ancient Savage World, Long Aotian
Even if Gu Lingnan cried her heart out, she was just a little baby who couldn't speak, and babies had no decision-making power. Her cruel parents still resolutely abandoned their child and fled to the Shiwan Mountains.
Fortunately, they were too young, and the servants in charge of their care would not easily take them out, so the probability of encountering the time traveler was low.
"younger sister……"
The silly little fat boy stretched out his two chubby hands to ask his sister for a hug, but Gu Lingnan turned his head and faced him with the back of his head.
But Baby was persistent. He crawled on the blanket made of the fur of the three-eyed white tiger with his limbs nimbly. With a determined goal, he accurately pounced on the cold and aloof sister, grinning foolishly, and his saliva covered his sister's face.
Gu Lingnan resisted and tried to push the fat boy away, but the fat boy was young but surprisingly strong, so she couldn't move him at all. She could only let her stupid brother torment her helplessly.
"So clingy..." Gu Lingnan complained to the system, her only chat partner. "Are all kids this clingy?"
Her brother would look for her as soon as he opened his eyes every day. If he couldn't find her, he would cry and make a fuss. Similarly, if he didn't stay close to her at night, he would not be able to sleep peacefully. The maids had no choice but to take care of the two little masters together.
The system remained suspiciously silent, baffled by the human cub's strange behavior.
"Young Master, Young Miss, it's time for your daily medicinal bath."
The beautiful maid leaned over gently and spoke to the two young masters. She was the steward of this small courtyard. A powerful figure in the Dao Palace realm of the Six Cave Heavens, even outside the imperial city, she would be considered a noble. Yet, within this ancient clan with a profound heritage, she was merely a maid to two children.
Gu Lingnan nodded reservedly, indicating that she understood, and opened her arms, allowing the maid to pick her up.
The direct descendants of the ancient clan began to refine their bodies with medicinal baths when they were three months old in order to build the foundation of Taoism.
As the highly anticipated prodigies of the clan, the scale of the medicinal bath for the brother and sister was unprecedented.
Above the blazing fire, in an ancient cauldron engraved with the dazzling divine light of the stars, sun and moon, rare treasures and herbs, dragon bones and phoenix marrow... were put in one by one.
From time to time, the shadowy figures of the Golden Peng and the True Hound would appear in the seething, inky, viscous liquid. Their voices shook the heavens, their power and ferocity unleashed. However, they were shattered by a palm strike from a powerful elder, transforming into golden blood that merged into the cauldron.
Gu Lingnan watched all this without changing her expression. During the first medicinal bath, she suspected that the elders were going to boil the child, so she cried and struggled desperately. She was thrown into the cauldron without mercy, but found that it was not as painful as she had imagined. It even felt as sour and refreshing as a massage.
The first time is unfamiliar, the second time is familiar.
Now, she could calmly sit in this pot of black potion that looked like it had no good in it, quietly enduring the itching that bubbled up from the cracks in her bones. True blood and the essence of the divine medicine seeped through her skin, transforming her constitution and nourishing her body.
In Gu Lingnan's pupils, complex runes appeared and disappeared, and it seemed that the universe was collapsing and reappearing.
The elder looked at her calm demeanor and nodded with satisfaction.
Gu Lingnan's posture was already quite relaxed, but Gu Jingyao was even more extraordinary. He fell asleep directly in the medicinal bath, surprisingly not feeling the pain or pressure at all.
Even with his tantrums and deafening cries, he couldn't prevent his separation from his sister. Gu Jingyao lost interest in the medicinal baths and would always go to bed early to wait out the bath time. If the elders hadn't been surprised to discover that the boy's body absorbed the medicinal power faster when asleep, they would have woken him up despite his raging cries.
"Is this the power of the Supreme Bone?" The old man guarding Gu Jingyao stroked his beard and exclaimed in admiration.
A few months passed like this, and Gu Lingnan and Gu Jingyao were almost one year old. They could run and jump, and their range of activities had expanded from the small courtyard to the entire clan territory, but Gu Jingyao was still very attached to his sister.
"Sister!" The little baby, who had just woken up, looked around but couldn't see any familiar figure. He pouted and tears as big as beans were about to fall from his big eyes. He was about to make a fuss.
“Don’t cry!”
Gu Lingnan's face flushed red. After hurrying back, she finally made it back before the little ancestor could throw a tantrum. She put her hands on her hips, her eyebrows raised, "I've told you so many times, don't wake up and cry if you don't see me!"
She was so disappointed with him: As the future Long Aotian, he just kept crying for his sister all day long. With a powerful enemy nearby, what can he do if he has no sense of crisis?
However, the innocent Gu Jingyao did not understand the worries in his sister's heart. When he saw his sister, he burst into tears and laughed. Without waiting for the maid to put shoes and socks on him, he jumped off the bed with his bare feet and threw himself on his sister's small body.
So heavy!
Gu Lingnan's face twisted for a moment, "Brother, do you still think you are a little kid weighing five or six pounds? Wake up, you can now lift a boulder weighing thousands of pounds with one arm."
Like a small firecracker.
Gu Lingnan pulled the hand of the chubby boy, who was slightly shorter than her, away, ordered him to stand up straight, and asked seriously, "Do you remember our rules?"
The little girl raised her hand and said crisply, "Remember, sister, don't talk to strangers, don't go with people you haven't met, even if they are your brothers."
"Sister, why can't my brothers be allowed to do that?" The little girl's clear eyes showed confusion. "Didn't Grandpa say that brothers and sisters from the same clan are also one family with us? Isn't it also not allowed among family members?"
Well...
Gu Lingnan looked at her brother, who was as blank as a sheet of paper, feeling a dilemma. Ultimately, she didn't try to put her younger brother off with any words. Instead, she said seriously, "Because people are very complicated. In short, you have to understand that you have a very powerful treasure inside you. Many people want it, so you have to learn to protect yourself."
Although he didn't understand why, the little guy still preferred to listen to his favorite sister. He solemnly made a pinky promise with his sister and patted his chest to promise that he would remember it clearly.
Gu Lingnan stayed in a position where Gu Jingyao could see her as soon as he turned his head. She supported her head and watched her silly brother and maid sister playing the childish grass-fighting game, and she couldn't help but sigh deeply.
While her brother was asleep, she secretly went to meet the "time traveler" cousin.
Her double pupils were too obvious. As she grew older, she could no longer hide from her relatives. She might as well take the initiative and see this "time traveler" with her own eyes.
In the past few months, Gu Yuanming has become famous in the ancient clan.
With the help of the power of the [System] and the influence of his parents, he used the ancient recipe rewarded for completing the task. Under the nourishment of the medicinal bath tailored for himself, the blood and energy surging in his tendons and veins became even more astonishing. With a swing of his arm, he had a strength of ten thousand pounds, and his strength far exceeded that of his peers.
But that’s not enough!
Gu Yuanming is now four years old. According to the [System], in order to reach the supreme realm, one must have a physical strength of 100,000 kilograms before breaking through the Blood Moving Realm to lay the foundation for the extreme realm. However, if one cannot reach the Blood Moving Realm at the age of six, his future potential will be greatly reduced.
In other words, there is not much time left for Gu Yuanming.
As he exhaled, the radiant glow on his jade-like skin gradually faded. Gu Yuanming opened his eyes, and a flash of lightning flashed in his eyes. His tender little face was now full of gloom.
"Not enough, not enough at all!"
Even if he handed over some of the precious prescriptions rewarded by the [System] to the clan in exchange for more resources, it would still be far from enough. This was not a problem of resources, but a problem of his physical talent.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break free from the shackles of his body.
Thinking of the famous genius with double pupils in his clan, a vague idea emerged in Gu Yuanming's mind. He called out, "System..."
"I remember you said before that you can take away other people's talents, including double pupils." His eyes were dark and deep.
The cold voice of the [System] came: "That's right, host." Its voice was like a devil tempting one to fall from the abyss. "As long as you complete the mission and earn enough points, I can do anything."
But Gu Yuanming was too late, so he stepped into the trap of the [System] step by step: "System, can I borrow points to obtain other people's talents first?"
He needs strength!
There seemed to be a cold smile in his ears, and Gu Yuanming only heard the voice of the [System] as flat as ever: "Of course, host."
"Hey, little miss!"
A clear female voice interrupted the communication between Gu Yuanming and the [System]. The moment he looked up, his sinister expression instantly became extremely friendly.
A delicate little girl came bounding over, followed by a string of guards and maids. She cutely greeted them, "Hello, Fifth Brother."
Gu Yuanming's eyes were fixed on her special pupils and he couldn't move them away. He immediately realized who this little girl was. She was the daughter of Uncle Jiu, the pride of the ancient clan - a person with double pupils.
His expression became increasingly gentle, and he spoke with the concern of a true brother, "It's Ninth Sister, right?" He looked disapprovingly at the maid behind Gu Lingnan, "Ninth Sister is still young, and there are many ferocious beasts raised in Long Garden. What if something happens to Ninth Sister?"
Before the maid could apologize to Gu Yuanmingfu, Gu Lingnan said in a baby voice, "Fifth brother, it was me who insisted on coming to Longyuan to see the Five-Colored Deer."
Gu Yuanming just said it casually, he smiled slightly and said: "Then the ninth sister has seen the five-colored deer."
Gu Lingnan pretended to be innocent and nodded: "Yes, the five-colored deer is really beautiful, I like it."
"It's good to see you. Longyuan is quite far from the courtyard where Ninth Sister lives. Why not let Fifth Brother send Ninth Sister off?"
"No need, Fifth Brother. I have my maid to accompany me."
After saying that, Gu Lingnan reached out her hands to the maid to be hugged. She politely said goodbye to her fifth brother and signaled the maid to take her back.
The maid bowed slightly to the Fifth Young Master, then led the large group of people behind her away.
Gu Lingnan leaned in the fragrant arms of her beautiful sister, and her heart sank.
With her double pupils, she had excellent eyesight. Of course, she noticed Gu Yuanming's covetous gaze, which he had no time to hide.
This is bad.
She sighed softly. She had originally thought that perhaps this "traveller" could resolve the issue through peaceful communication. But now, after meeting this person in person, she completely gave up that unrealistic fantasy.
This guy has already thought about attacking them first, so he can no longer be our friend!
She asked the system: "System, you said that the 'traveler' also used another system to seize Long Aotian's luck. Do you have any way to deal with that [system]?"
Not to mention getting rid of it, being able to suppress its strength would be good too.
The system hesitated, "Host... well... you understand, the other party is not a true system, but a fragment of the almighty. As a formal system, we are not allowed to directly interfere with the people and things in the world."
It means you are helpless, right?
Gu Lingnan knew that she shouldn't have undue expectations of the system. She had been disappointed countless times!
【Author’s words】
The good thing is the system, the bad thing is [the system]
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