I Know You All Envy Me for Having a Good Father — So It Was the Void Talent
I Know You All Envy Me for Having a Good Father — So It Was the Void Talent
Atop the main peak, you could hear a pin drop!
Everyone was stunned.
That included Gu Changge’s father, the current head of the Gu Family, Gu Lintian. He never imagined Gu Changge would say something so outrageous.
This was no longer mere arrogance.
This was contempt, disdain, looking down from on high.
He simply did not regard the other young prodigies of the Gu Family as worth his notice.
Gu Changge’s expression remained as casual as ever.
Combined with the words he had spoken, it perfectly demonstrated to everyone what it meant to look down on others with contempt.
Gu Changge’s thinking was simple and direct.
Weren’t the Gu Family’s young prodigies just afraid of him?
Afraid to fight him?
Afraid of being beaten flat by him and losing their qualification to compete for the position of future family head?
So he might as well be straightforward about it and directly provoke and mock everyone present.
Unless he beat them into understanding who the true leader of the Gu Family’s current generation was, they would never yield easily.
“Gu Changge, don’t get too full of yourself. Aren’t you just lucky to have a good father?”
At that, a tall, martial-looking young man could hold back no longer. He stepped forward, his face flushed red, and spoke with a rather ugly expression.
His frame was burly, a layer of golden radiance flowing over his skin like Immortal Divine Gold—the mark of an extremely fearsome body-refining art.
In the outside world, he was a young figure renowned across the land, with few rivals to be found.
Gu Changge swept a glance at him, his expression unchanged. “Fourth Uncle’s son—you’re called Gu Chenxing, right? Do you dare say that sentence one more time?”
The young man named Gu Chenxing froze for a moment.
Then he flew into a rage.
They were both direct-line disciples of the Gu Family—it was just one sentence, what was there not to dare?
“What’s there to be afraid of? Gu Changge, don’t get cocky. Aren’t you just lucky to have a good father who happens to be the family head?” Gu Chenxing couldn’t help but roar.
Without a father who was the family head, given everything Gu Changge had done, would he still be standing here in one piece? He would have been exiled to who-knows-where long ago.
Gu Changge smiled. “I like that sentence of yours. I know you all envy me for having a good father. But can you blame me for that?”
Those words once again left everyone dumbfounded.
Gu Chenxing, in particular, wore a completely dazed expression.
The various clan elders were also somewhat stupefied.
They had seen shameless people before, but never someone who could phrase shamelessness in such an elegant, refined manner.
No wonder he was capable of doing such utterly heartless things.
“Changge...”
Gu Lintian coughed lightly. Although hearing those words from Gu Changge made him feel quite pleased inside,
saying it in front of so many clan members made him, as family head, look unjust—as if he were deliberately playing favorites with Gu Changge.
“Same as before—the position of family head is mine. I’m not discussing it with you elders; I’m informing you.”
“Now, either all you dear cousins attack me together and prove your worth, or from now on, whenever you see me, take a detour three li around me. How about it? If you’re scared, then scram.”
“The position of Gu Family head is not something trash like you can lay your filthy hands on.”
The expression on Gu Changge’s face remained breezy and unconcerned throughout.
“Grandfather...”
“Let us fight him! I can’t take it anymore. Gu Changge, stop bullying people so much. Who’s afraid of you!”
“This guy has gone too far!” Even some of the female cousins who had previously viewed Gu Changge quite favorably were so angry their pretty faces flushed red.
How could someone deliver the most arrogant words in such a casual, offhand manner?
Gu Changge’s demeanor was the perfect illustration.
If his attitude had been openly arrogant and wild, perhaps they wouldn’t have been so furious.
But no—he had to act all natural, like it was nothing at all.
It made their livers ache with rage, their fury surging upward in waves.
They were all young prodigies of the Gu Family, hot-blooded youths. Without even having fought, who would admit they were inferior to someone else?
So Gu Changge was strong—so what? They had always yielded to him in every way before.
But now he had provoked them right to their faces.
Were they supposed to shrink back again? Then what was the point of cultivating their Dao Hearts at all?
Watching this scene, many clan members could only smile bitterly in helplessness.
Ordinarily, the clan elders counseled them a hundred times over not to clash with Gu Changge, precisely because they feared a fight would break out—especially with the position of future family head still undecided.
After all, the clan rules were thus: the future family head would be chosen from among the strongest of this generation.
Gu Changge’s strength was naturally beyond question. Since childhood, he had displayed all manner of terrifying talents and broken no small number of records.
Titles like Heaven-Sent Prodigy, Avatar of True Immortal, Gifted One, and so on were too many to count—and from them one could see how highly everyone regarded Gu Changge.
By all reason, with such talent, the Gu Family should have been overjoyed.
But the events of over a decade ago had drastically diminished the Gu Family higher-ups’ impression of Gu Changge.
At such a tender age, his heart had been ruthless and merciless—not the best choice for family head.
Unless there was no other option, they were unwilling to let a Gu Changge of such temperament take the position of future family head.
He would provoke internal strife within the family and lacked any sense of the bigger picture—on this point alone, they held no good opinion of him.
The true clansmen of a Family of Immortals, together with all the great and small powers attached to it, numbered far beyond what mere hundreds of millions could describe.
If a person of such temperament took control of the Family of Immortals, what would happen?
They simply dared not imagine it.
Although, across the entire Inner Domain of the Beyond, Gu Changge was among the most outstanding of Young Prodigies, renowned in every direction—
when the young figures of other immortal powers and Supreme Dao Lineages spoke of the immortal Gu Family, the first name that came to mind was the current young master, Gu Changge—
that external image was maintained for him by the family.
After all, when he walked the outside world, he represented the face of the immortal Gu Family.
Now, being provoked and scorned by Gu Changge like this, the veins on the foreheads of the great clan elders bulged and throbbed.
Especially given Gu Changge’s utterly indifferent demeanor.
This was tantamount to saying that the other branches feared Gu Changge and therefore dared not let their juniors fight him.
Of course, such things were fine as long as everyone understood them in their hearts—saying them out loud was rather like tearing off all pretenses.
As clan elders, their every move could determine the winds and clouds of the outside world.
And right now, countless Gu Family clansmen were watching them.
Swallow this insult?
Never mind that they couldn’t afford to lose such face—the juniors behind them would also suffer a heavy blow.
If it left a flaw in their Dao Hearts, the loss would outweigh any gain.
“Such methods from Changge—this is a first. If he didn’t come up with it himself, then the family head must have been coaching him from behind...”
“But looking at the family head’s expression, he seems stunned as well, completely caught off guard. It seems Changge is not as indifferent to clan affairs as he appears on the surface—he’s been hiding his depths all along...”
“It seems today’s contest is unavoidable.”
“Still, that’s for the best. We can take this chance to learn what Gu Changge’s own Divine Talent actually is. Although he has always presented his Daoist Bone to the outside world, that was nothing more than a cover...”
Quite a few clan elders gazed at Gu Changge, speculating thus.
They were also deeply curious.
What exactly was Gu Changge’s Divine Talent?
And why had no one known all these years?
So they harbored vague, ominous suspicions in their hearts—another reason they had never agreed to Gu Changge becoming the future family head.
“Since Changge has put it that way, you all may spar with him.”
At once, one clan elder spoke with a slightly darkened expression, staring at Gu Changge as if he wanted to devour him whole.
“Changge, you are all blood kin—when you strike, you’d better know your limits...”
“If anything happens to my grandson, this old man will definitely run to the Ancestral Hall and lodge a complaint against you and your father before the Ancestors...”
Even more clan elders wore warning expressions, afraid Gu Changge would strike without mercy and gravely injure their juniors.
After all, all of this was proceeding within the clan rules, so they couldn’t say much more.
But in single combat, no one of Gu Changge’s generation in the Gu Family was his match.
His strength was beyond doubt.
A Honoured King Realm expert in his twenties?
Thinking about it, Gu Changge seemed to be the only one known to have broken through to that realm.
Among the successors of the other Dao lineages and great sects, no such news had been heard—though of course, it was possible it simply hadn’t spread and was being concealed.
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“Elders, rest assured—Changge knows his limits. It’s just that you’ve all been blocking me from becoming the future family head, and that matter has left me...”
“in a bit of a difficult spot.”
Gu Changge shook his head with faint regret.
Those words instantly froze the expressions of all the clan elders, who cursed inwardly—this little bastard was clearly planning to take revenge under the pretext of the spar.
“I won’t bully you either. All of you, come at me together. I’ll suppress my cultivation to the Honoured Lord Realm—if that really doesn’t work, the Honoured Noble Realm is fine too.”
Gu Changge still wore that breezy, unconcerned look as he gazed at the crowd of exasperated, fuming cousins before him.
Of course, suppressed to the Honoured Noble Realm, without exposing too many of his trump cards, defeating them would actually be somewhat troublesome.
After all, as the genius figures of their respective branches, each was a renowned prodigy in the outside world—not a single one of them was easy to deal with.
He said this, naturally, to infuriate them.
Sure enough, the moment they heard those words,
they nearly exploded with rage. Even several of the female cousins who prided themselves on their refined grace, their ethereal bearing like fairies of the Nine Heavens, were so angry they ground their teeth, itching to bite someone.
“You bully people too far! Gu Changge, today I will definitely teach you a lesson!”
One young prodigy roared in fury and charged straight forward, a resplendent divine ring manifesting behind him.
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Sword-like brows, star-bright eyes, an imposing bearing.
Gu Changge recognized him—Sixth Uncle’s son, at the peak of the Honoured Noble Realm, possessing an extremely powerful innate secret art that could multiply his strength several times over.
The next instant, Gu Changge stood with his hands clasped behind his back, his figure unmoving, and kicked out. Ripples spread through the void before him.
With a pu sound!
The charging prodigy’s knees buckled, and he fell flat on his face in a dog-eating-mud posture, instantly dumbfounded where he lay.
“How is that possible...”
His mind was still a complete blank. Gu Changge had been so far away from him—how had he kicked him to the ground?
Even if the gap between them was enormous, it shouldn’t be like this.
And everyone on the mountain peak froze in unison, falling into silence.
“That fluctuation just now—there’s no mistake.”
“That’s the Void Talent...”
“So this is the talent Changge has been hiding all along.”
At this moment, the many clan elders were also stunned, monstrous waves surging in their hearts.
The Void Talent—like the Time Talent, it was an extremely terrifying Divine Talent. In the countless years of the Beyond’s existence, few cultivators had ever been seen to possess either.
After all, these two powers were simply heaven-defying.
They never imagined that the talent Gu Changge had been hiding all this time was this.
No, wait—he hadn’t hidden it.
It was just that such a talent could not be sensed unless witnessed with one’s own eyes.
After all, before this, none of them had ever seen Gu Changge make a move.
For a moment, the expressions of several clan elders grew complicated. They had previously suspected that Gu Changge possessed a Demonic Heart, and that was why he used the Daoist Bone as a cover.
That suspicion had now clearly collapsed on its own.
“It seems Changge has had other fortuitous encounters.” Gu Lintian smiled faintly, somewhat delighted.
After all, Gu Changge’s Demonic Heart had always been a hidden danger.
And now he already had another terrifying talent to serve as his cover.
This put his mind considerably at ease.
Meanwhile, Gu Changge finally took his time sweeping a glance down at the cousin at his feet.
“It’s just a spar—why would cousin perform such a grand bow? Even if you’re apologizing, there’s no need for this. I won’t accept it, you know.”
With that, he kicked out.
That cousin’s eyes bulged wide; with a muffled grunt, he flew backward and landed unconscious off to the side.
He wouldn’t be seriously injured, but lying in bed for a while was guaranteed.
The veins on several clan elders’ foreheads throbbed violently—this kind of move, only Gu Changge could pull off.
“All of you, come at me together. Don’t waste any more time—I don’t want to beat you up one by one either.”
“I already told you: the position of future family head—you can’t take it from me.”
And seeing that his goal had been achieved,
Gu Changge turned to look at the remaining genius figures, the faint smile on his face never once changing.