61 Chapter 61: Tea gathering 1

"Brother Lan Tian, it's been a while", Gu Lin Fang finally spoke after some thoughts, he patted the man on his shoulder with a sigh.

Gu Lan Tian simply bent his waist slightly without saying a word. He has always been a quiet man, although he was a bit surprised at Gu Lin Fang's sudden friendliness, he didn't find it too strange.

Gu Lin Fang on the other hand looked at Qin Feng, "where are the others?".

Earlier he had received a notification on the task progress and was aware that the rest were judged dead by the system, but he still asked anyway, because he was curious about how Qin Feng would describe their situation.

"I don't know" that was all he could come up with after a while of thinking.

Unperturbed, Gu Lin Fang decided to give out his intended reward for the task.

He wasn't too surprised to find that Gu Qin Feng didn't choose to level up at least before leaving, what surprised him was him being able to come back alive!.

"What's your talent?" Suddenly curious, he decided to ask in order to confirm his earlier guess, that players could recieve [Traits] and [Personality].

He looked into Gu Qin Feng's eyes while waiting for his answer, 'if yes, how many?'.

Qin Feng's expression became serious as well, 'Maybe I can get something to match this useless trait... but what if I'm despised instead?, Won't everything I struggled for go to waste?'.

His mauled over his thoughts for a few seconds before saying, "I have some talent in music?".

Gu Lin Fang's expression didn't change much but he wasn't satisfied with the answer, 'no worries, there are other ways to confirm'.

Thinking of Qin Nan, whom he fought with the earlier with the shadow guard and the musical technique he found on him, he already knew what to do.

'let's find you a cultivation method first, I'll mould you into something good later...

it seems this [interfering] personality makes me enjoy interfering with this kind of things as well.

Like playing Sims?'.

Gu Lan Tian looked at the two parties in the herbal hall calmly, seeing that no one was speaking, he said "I would like some people to assist me here with herb picking and some other things".

This suddenly gave Gu Lin Fang an idea, 'this...I remember the system said I could generate quests to counter the main quest Sima Yan made for my capture, just how much editing can I do?'.

Although he had such thoughts, he simply gave a curt reply, "I'll look into it".

"Follow me" This time he spoke to the injured Qin Feng.

Qin Feng quickly tried to move and was ambush with some notifications.

[Ding! Heavily injured state remaining : 2 hours 8 minutes]

[Are you sure you want to move? Healing might take longer and might affect certain stats permanently!!]

'yes' Gu Qin Feng quickly urged before he was finally able to move, in his head, he was sure that whatever Gu Lin Fang needed him for would surpass this things.

Gu Lan Tian spoke with a frown, "Lord Patriarch, he shouldn't be moving yet...it might cause some complications".

"Oh right..." Gu Lin Fang, who was suddenly reminded of Qin Feng's injuries, tossed him a pill.

Qin Feng quickly swallowed it after expressing his thanks, 'I knew it would work out fine'.

His injuries were slowly healing as he limped after Gu Lin Fang, this time the physician didn't say anything.

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Heading to the martial arts Hall where the Xu clan placed majority of the Clan's martial arts, they ran into Gu Lin Ju.

"Father, look!" She suddenly exclaims while handing him a letter, Wei Fan wasn't to far behind, it was obvious they were both searching for him earlier.

Upon reading through the letter, he found out it was an invitation to a tea house by members of the younger generation.

His red eyes scanned the paper with a smile, the one organizing the event is someone from the Bai family.

"Go and call me your uncle Ji Wan, Wei Fan, send a finger to the golden horse estate... it's way passed noon right?"

"Yes father"

"As you command"

Gu Qin Feng saw all this and he was sure this could be a story plot of some sort.

Some minutes later, Gu Lin Ju returned with the now younger version of Gu Ji Wan. He was someone that looked like he was around 30-35 years old, pale skin and his eyes still closed with the ever present smile.

Dressed in his black brocade robe with a golden 'Gu' written on his sleeves, he gave a scholarly vibe.

After the awakening of his bloodline, he was able to break directly into the Nascent soul realm and so it took sometime to stabilize his cultivation.

Unfortunately, due to obvious reasons, he was weaker than Ji Hung who was practicing a Wudang sect sword skill.

"Ji Wan greets Patriarch" Even after breaking into the Nascent soul realm, he was still very much afraid of Gu Lin Fang, he always feels a natural suppression in front of him.

Gu Lin Fang smiled lightly while repeatedly saying 'good'.

"You will follow, Ju er to this gathering and you will be in charge of her safety, I don't care about anything else you want to do".

Immediately, Ji Wan's smile became more amicable as he finally opened his eyes, exposing the red coloured pupil that looked just like Gu Lin Fang's own, albeit with a slight mutation, his left eye had two slots instead of the single one.

Although Gu Lin Fang and Gu Ji Wan still have no idea what this mutation might bring or the reason for it, they were sure it would exposed with time.

"As you command" Gu Ji Wan cups his fist while closing his eyes again.

Qin Feng on the other hand was still in shock before thinking of Gu Ji Hung from earlier, ' another unfathomable blue NPc was present in this clan, that's making it two!'.

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Taiping Road, South gate, Wu Camp.

The Wu family, one of the many third- first rank families in the imperial era, who suffered many losses due to blindly following the Royal family.

A hundred years ago, they lived like kings as members of the loyalist faction, just like the Gu clan.

But everything changed when the Royal guards secretly betrayed the Emperor.

Wu Lao yang, the ninth-generation patriarch of the Wu family, with high attainments in Taoism and martial prowess fell and for ten years after his death, The clan barely escaped from the central plains just like the others.

Now after so long, they finally produced a Nascent soul expert!, It's time for them to go up the {Sun desert faction's} ladder with the help of their new Allies!.

Especially now that he was already in the mid stage of the Nascent soul realm, This forced summon is also a perfect chance to do so!, but the heavens are really unfair...

By helping their ally, the Lu family, to attack the Gu clan, they had created a mortal enemy.

News of said mortal enemy creating havoc in the capital city of the faction reached them a few days ago, that he had broken through to become a Nascent soul expert and that he was really powerful, even having a powerful bloodline to further set him apart from his peers.

As soon as Wu Luo yang, the present patriarch, received this news, he hurriedly called a meeting,

"I know you all heard the news, I feel like the Lu family have infected us with their bad luck!, F*ck!"

Wu Chen Yan was a bit confused and hesitated, and after some time, he said, "why are we so worried, we and the Lu clan have two Nascent soul experts, I don't believe he would go all out after the truce the city lord ordered".

"Don't you know this gathering was called just for him?, Don't you think the city lord could have just sent him a warning or something?.

He's obviously worried about something!" Wu Luo yang roared.

Everyone within his tent suddenly wore solemn expressions.

It was at this time, Wu Liao Long spoke "why don't we look for people who are enemies with him and have them do the assassination?"

"How many can we find by tomorrow?".

Wu Luo Yang also calmed down and says with a sigh of relief, "as many as we can find, we'll do it before he gets to the city lord estate".

"""Yes!!"""