Chapter 91

Chapter 91

“A keepsake?” Granny Li said in a trembling voice. “Your mother… is already gone?”

Ye Piaoling nodded. “She unfortunately passed away in childbirth.”

Granny Li’s fingers shook. Slowly, she stroked the multicolored cord in her hands, tears pouring down her face.

Gu Liuxian asked nervously, “Ali, what’s wrong?”

Granny Li choked for a long while before she finally sobbed, “This is the cord I braided for my daughter…”

In an instant, both Gu Liuxian and Ye Piaoling’s eyes widened.

Gu Liuxian was stunned. “You’re sure?”

Granny Li said, “I made it with my own hands. I could never mistake it…”

Ye Piaoling froze.

So the original owner’s mother was Gu Liuxian and Granny Li’s lost daughter?!

Gu Liuxian looked at Ye Piaoling, his eyes wide. “Then that means you’re our…”

Gu Liuxian could hardly believe it. “You’re our granddaughter?”

Ye Piaoling asked in confusion, “But she-my mother-came from General Wei’s Mansion!”

Gu Liuxian narrowed his eyes, searching his memory. “Back then, when the Heavenly Fiend Rebellion broke out in the Western Continent, General Wei happened to be there. Could he have found our daughter and taken her in?”

Granny Li said, “Yes! That must be it!”

Ye Piaoling’s gaze darkened in thought. The Wei family had been loyal unto death, and Old General Wei had long since sacrificed himself for the country. There was no way to verify it with him now.

After a moment, she suggested, “How about we try a kinship test?”

Gu Liuxian paused, then immediately nodded again and again. “Right, right. I know a spirit technique to verify kinship. We’ll know once we try it!”

Granny Li immediately fetched a bowl of water. Gu Liuxian and Ye Piaoling cut their fingers and dripped their blood into it, then Gu Liuxian infused a trace of spiritual energy into the water.

“If you truly carry my bloodline, these two drops of blood will merge…”

Gu Liuxian’s voice trembled as he spoke.

He was shaking from sheer nerves.

The moment his words fell, the blood in the water had already fused together.

Ye Piaoling’s pupils contracted sharply.

“So that means… this grandpa is actually my real grandpa?!”

Gu Liuxian was stunned too.

He looked at the blood in the water, then at Ye Piaoling. A moment later, he suddenly burst into tears.

“Waaah-”

Ye Piaoling: “…”

Was her grandmaster happy?

Why did he look like he was grieving? After all, he’d always had a bias against her…

Gu Liuxian bawled like a child. “I have a granddaughter! I have a granddaughter…”

He suddenly grabbed Ye Piaoling. “My precious granddaughter, you saw it, right? I really am your grandfather!”

Only then did Ye Piaoling confirm that Gu Liuxian was happy.

Ye Piaoling smiled. “I saw it. I never thought you really were my grandpa.”

“Yes!” Gu Liuxian was so excited he could hardly speak coherently. “Grandpa! You are my very own grandpa!”

Ye Piaoling: “…”

Ye Piaoling corrected him with a smile. “No, you’re my grandpa.”

Gu Liuxian burst into laughter.

Granny Li also smiled through her tears.

Their daughter was gone, but by sheer chance, they had found their granddaughter…

Gu Liuxian and Granny Li each held one of Ye Piaoling’s hands, reluctant to let go as they looked her over. One moment they cried, the next they laughed.

Ye Piaoling’s nose began to sting too.

The three of them, grandparents and granddaughter, cried and laughed as they talked through the entire night.

Gu Liuxian told Granny Li, “Ali, you don’t know this, but the first time I saw our Ling’er, I thought she was especially clever and capable! Back then, she was fighting at the entrance of Tianwen Sect. All by herself, she beat ten people flat… Good heavens, she was incredible!”

Ye Piaoling: ?

Grandpa, that was not what you said at the time!
You Seem to Have Given Me a Thorough Scolding…

Gu Liuxian said, “From then on, my impression of our Ling’er became especially good. She is simply the most outstanding disciple I have ever seen!”

Ye Piaoling: ??

Weren’t you the one who scolded me for never learning my lesson and punished me by making me sweep the library?

Granny Li also smiled. “Our granddaughter is naturally the best.”

Gu Liuxian nodded firmly in agreement. “Ali, I once said I would leave Tianwen Sect and grow old together with you, but now that Ling’er is in Tianwen Sect, I’ve decided to stay on as Sect Leader for another three years! Just thinking about being in the same sect as my precious granddaughter makes me excited.”

Granny Li nodded. “Yes. With you in Tianwen Sect, you can look after her more.”

Gu Liuxian said, “But I am, after all, the Sect Leader of Tianwen Sect. I cannot show favoritism because of personal family ties.”

His expression turned serious as he said to Ye Piaoling, “Ling’er, Tianwen Sect has many other disciples. For the sake of the sect’s atmosphere, our relationship still needs to be kept secret. You understand what your grandfather means, don’t you?”

Ye Piaoling nodded. “I understand. I won’t tell the other disciples.”

Gu Liuxian said solemnly, “In the future, I will still handle all matters within the sect, big and small, impartially. I absolutely will not favor you. You won’t blame your grandfather, will you?”

Ye Piaoling smiled. “Of course not!”

As long as you don’t have a huge problem with me, I’m already more than satisfied.

Granny Li then said, “Oh, right. Ling’er just said she has a husband, and if you don’t pay, he won’t let you get on-”

“No, no!”

Ye Piaoling hurriedly cut her off and laughed awkwardly. “Grandmother, I was just joking and making things up. I’m not married yet!”

Only then did Granny Li let out a sigh of relief.

“That’s good… If your future husband really dares to bully you, have your grandfather deal with him!”

Gu Liuxian said, “That’s right. Just watch how I deal with him!”

Ye Piaoling chuckled dryly.

I’m afraid you might not be able to beat the Regent King…

Ah, wait.

Why am I automatically thinking of that guy as my husband?

Ye Piaoling shook her head hard. How absurd!

…

Starting the next day, everyone in Tianwen Sect felt that the Ancestral Master had changed. He had become strange somehow.

Whenever the disciples were cultivating, he would always secretly stand at a distance and peek at them, though no one knew what he was investigating.

One elder could not help asking, “Grandmaster, why have you suddenly started paying so much attention to this batch of disciples?”

Gu Liuxian looked deeply gratified and praised, “This is truly the most outstanding class I have ever taught…”

The elder: ???

Previously, hadn’t you repeatedly complained that they were the worst class you had ever seen…

How did they suddenly become the most outstanding?

It was simply unbelievable.

After the day’s cultivation ended, the theory class elder stormed over to find Gu Liuxian.

“Sect Leader, I can’t teach her anymore!”

“Who?”

“Ye Piaoling!”

The elder placed two assignments on the table. “Sect Leader, please look. I had the disciples go back and copy out the cultivation principles. This one is Hua Wuhuang’s, and this one is Ye Piaoling’s!”

Gu Liuxian took a look. The handwriting on these two assignments could not be called very similar. It could only be called exactly the same.

The theory class elder said angrily, “I only discovered today that Ye Piaoling has never done her assignments. Not once, not a single word! Hua Wuhuang wrote all of them for her!”

“Sect Leader, you have no idea how cunning that girl is. Every time she turned in assignments, she deliberately submitted hers separately from Hua Wuhuang’s, so I never noticed… If the assignments hadn’t been scattered today and I hadn’t happened to see them, I would still be in the dark!”

Seeing this, Gu Liuxian furrowed his brows.