He walked to the bedside in a few steps, stretched out a large, fat hand, and unceremoniously touched Gu Tang's face: "Oh dear, this little face is so pale, it's heartbreaking to see..."
With a sharp "slap," Gu Tang slapped away the groping hand that was about to touch his face.
He braced himself against the bed frame with one hand and got out of bed despite the pain.
The obedient Gu Nuo quickly reached out to support him.
Gu Tang looked down and smiled at him.
Zheng Minghui's appearance helped him recover from the shock of suddenly becoming a father.
Judging from the information provided by the system that claimed to help him accumulate merit points and successfully overcome tribulations, Gu Nuo, his son, should be the protagonist of this world's story.
As the protagonist, Gu Nuo will naturally become the first person in this world after growing up, breaking through the void and ascending smoothly, through a series of coincidences.
but!
His childhood was unhappy.
He had no mother, and his only father, who died very early.
Therefore, he lacked love from childhood and was bullied by others as he grew up.
This caused him to miss out on his lover, even though he later became the number one cultivator in the cultivation world, and he was indeed very strong.
But he was always alone, and his heart was filled with an inescapable emptiness, loneliness and coldness!
Her mission is to protect the protagonist as he grows up and ensure that he doesn't miss out on his lover.
May he have his beloved by his side on his long journey of spiritual practice...
Um?
Gu Tang frowned slightly. Why did he feel that this plot was a little strange?
Isn't spiritual practice fun?!
Isn't it fun to learn all sorts of endless martial arts techniques?!
In addition to cultivation, there are also alchemy, talisman arrays, and many other rich and varied auxiliary skills to learn.
Even if you really get bored, you can always collect a few exotic beasts as pets.
...
How could the number one cultivator in the cultivation world possibly feel empty, lonely, and cold?!
Gu Tang looked down at Gu Nuo again.
The child was standing obediently beside him, looking up at him with his little head tilted back.
Even her long, thick eyelashes couldn't hide the light in Gu Nuo's eyes; her face was filled with longing and affection for her father.
Gu Tang felt he understood!
In the original story of this world, Gu Nuo lost his parents at a very young age and had no one to guide him properly.
So he went astray!
And his mission was to bring him back to the right path.
Make him understand that not all spiritual practice requires sexual intercourse.
Although I tried it before, it was entirely driven by my thirst for knowledge and my curiosity about that somewhat special cultivation method.
As it turned out, there was nothing special about it.
Gu Tang understood his mission.
He is indeed not as powerful as before; he is now just a cultivator at the very bottom level who has barely passed the Foundation Establishment stage.
No wonder someone like Zheng Minghui dared to bully him.
But it doesn't matter, he still has all his past memories, and he has as many powerful cultivation techniques as he wants.
With his millennia of cultivation experience, he would never suffer a loss again, no matter what.
"What are you looking at?!" Zheng Minghui felt a chill run down his spine from Gu Tang's cold gaze.
He felt that this guy seemed a little different after he got sick.
Could it be that Gu Tang's extraordinary talent for cultivation has returned?
No! That's absolutely impossible!
"Hurry up and loosen the soil and fertilize!" Zheng Minghui opened his mouth, but in the end he just spat angrily, "Those medicines are for Senior Brother Ning Wan. If you mess up his business, you can forget about staying in Danxin Pavilion any longer."
"Oh," Gu Tang replied indifferently.
Ning Wan, whom Zheng Minghui mentioned, was once his junior brother.
However, he has now been expelled from the inner sect, while Ning Wan has replaced him as the most sought-after rising star in the inner sect.
They also became the new targets for Zheng Minghui and his ilk to curry favor with.
"Nuo'er, come with your father."
Gu Tang took Gu Nuo's hand, ignoring Zheng Minghui's dark expression, and slowly walked to the herb field he was in charge of.
The medicinal fields that Danxin Pavilion provides to its outer disciples are very ordinary, and the medicinal herbs are all common varieties.
However, Zheng Minghui assigned him several medicinal fields. Gu Tang casually estimated that with his current abilities, it would be difficult to take care of these fields from morning till night.
Gu Tang released Gu Nuo's hand and picked a few medicinal herbs.
Although they were just ordinary herbs, they still possessed some spiritual energy, and combined with his prescription, they were passable for treating his son's injuries.
Well, it can also help Gu Nuo recover.
Thinking this, Gu Tang picked several more medicinal plants.
"What are you doing?!" Gu Tang had just straightened up when Zheng Minghui's shrill voice came from behind him, "These are all the herbs that Senior Brother Ning Wan wanted, and you actually picked them without permission!"
Zheng Minghui shouted and ran angrily to the side of the medicinal herb field.
He glanced at the handful of herbs in Gu Tang's hand, then at the cold, stern man who had become somewhat unfamiliar since waking up, and said resentfully, "You just wait!"
After saying that, Zheng Minghui turned around and ran towards Danxin Peak, where the inner sect was located.
"Father..." Gu Nuo carefully tugged at Gu Tang's sleeve, looking up at him worriedly, "Is he going to tell on me?"
"It should be."
"Huh?" Gu Nuo's face immediately fell. "If that happens, will they punish Daddy again?"
"Don't worry." Gu Tang pinched his son's soft little face. "Daddy won't be punished, and he won't let anyone bully you anymore."
He led Gu Nuo back to his simple wooden house and pulled out a small iron pot from a corner of the room.
The iron pot looks quite old, but it's very clean.
Even his bare wooden hut was very tidy, showing that Gu Tang was a clean person in the past.
Gu Tang is currently just a Foundation Establishment cultivator. He honestly used a tinderbox to start a fire, then set up an iron pot to boil water, and threw in the herbs he had gathered.
A roaring flame ignited, and after waiting a moment, Gu Tang pulled out a piece of firewood with one end charred black and drew a small talisman array next to it.
The rune array flashed and then disappeared without a trace, seemingly unchanged.
But soon, a faint medicinal fragrance began to permeate the simple wooden cabin.
Gu Nuo watched all of this with great curiosity, her big eyes wide open.
However, he was so obedient that he didn't ask anything, only occasionally glancing up at his father.
He always felt that his father, who had been in a coma for a day and a night, seemed somewhat different when he woke up.
"That's enough." After a moment, Gu Tang poured out the remaining medicine from the pot.
The herbs in the water had long since dissolved, leaving only a small bowl of bluish-green soup with a strong medicinal aroma.
"Come on, Nuo'er." Gu Tang gestured for Gu Nuo to drink the bowl of medicine.
This will not only treat his external injuries, but also make him stronger.
Gu Nuoming is already six years old, but he looks as thin and small as a four or five-year-old child, which is really heartbreaking.
Gu Nuo obediently picked up the medicine and was about to drink it when the door of the wooden house was kicked open again with a "bang".
"Senior Brother Ning, Elder Zhu! It was Gu Tang who stole the medicine just now." The one who spoke was Zheng Minghui, who had just run to report it.
After bowing and scraping to Ning Wan, he glanced sideways at Gu Tang.
He took a deep breath, his murky eyes flashing with malice: "He even brewed the sect's medicine himself, intending to drink it."
After Zheng Minghui finished speaking, he strode into the room, snatched the small wooden bowl containing the medicine from Gu Nuo's hand, and handed it to Ning Wan, the most valued disciple in the inner sect, as if to claim credit: "Senior Brother Ning, look, these are the herbs you urgently need, and Gu Tang has ruined them!"
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Chapter 3 The Son's Father is the Demon Lord (3)
Ning Wan looked at Gu Tang with a cold face.
Gu Tang was also looking at him.
Speaking of which, Ning Wan is also his junior brother.
Nine years ago, Gu Tang was the most talented disciple in the inner sect.
Ning Wan, on the other hand, was the junior brother who liked to follow him around the most.
At that time, this junior brother was quite handsome. He always wore a light blue robe and was rather likable.
Of course, later on, as Gu Tang's skill level declined, he even fell to the Foundation Establishment stage, becoming the bottom of the pack, not even as good as most outer disciples.
Ning Wan never looked at him properly again.
"Senior Brother Ning, Elder Zhu," Zheng Minghui coughed lightly and said obsequiously, "This Gu Tang is always lazy. He slept all day yesterday and didn't go to work in the medicinal herb field he's in charge of. I only said a few words to him today, and he went to pick some herbs to boil water!"
Zheng Minghui's thick eyebrows furrowed as he looked at the wooden bowl in his hand with heartache: "And then it's just been wasted like this."