54. My Daughter’s Resolve
Gong Muzhi remained petrified for a long time.
She remembered her purpose for coming here.
First, find the inheritor of the Cloud Rainbow Sect and either eliminate or imprison them.
Second, find a way to lure out the Immortal Master behind them and feed them to the pigs.
And now, the inheritor of the Cloud Rainbow Sect was her precious daughter’s maid, and the Immortal Master was her precious daughter.
How could the Immortal Master be her precious daughter? Could she be her precious daughter? Was she her precious daughter? Her precious daughter…
Oh, her precious daughter was right beside her! No!
What was she thinking…? The key wasn’t where her precious daughter was, but where she got this ridiculously righteous cultivation technique!
“Um…” Yan Chuyue nudged Gong Yiling’s shoulder and gestured with her eyes at the dazed Gong Muzhi. “Is Auntie alright?”
“I think so?” Gong Yiling touched her nose awkwardly. “Maybe… she’ll be fine in a bit?”
“Are you sure? She looks like she’s in shock. Don’t let her have a heart attack.”
“A heart attack? I don’t think so…”
Having a daughter like her might cause some stress, but her mother was a powerful figure.
She should be able to handle this.
But before she could reassure herself, Gong Muzhi’s eyes reddened, and tears welled up.
Her youthful appearance, barely looking over twenty, made her look incredibly pitiful and cute with those teary eyes.
“Mom, why are you crying?” Gong Yiling’s head was spinning.
“Yuan’er… Yuan’er… doesn’t want me anymore.”
“Why would I not want you?”
This was getting too dramatic. Gong Yiling quickly pulled her mother upstairs, leaving Yan Chuyue to handle the others.
“Otherwise… why would Yuan’er have a Daoist cultivation technique?”
Gong Yiling cupped her mother’s face and touched her forehead with her own, smiling. “Mom, if I said I picked it up, would you believe me?”
“Picked it up?”
Picking up the ultimate secret technique of the Great One Engineering Sect on a casual outing? That was too absurd.
“Yes, picked it up.”
Knowing that if she didn’t explain clearly, her mother’s peculiar mind would conjure up all sorts of strange scenarios…
Gong Yiling told her everything, from meeting Yan Chuyue to encountering the Nine-Colored Deer.
Hearing about the Nine-Colored Deer, Gong Muzhi’s expression changed, and she worriedly examined Gong Yiling.
“That thing is not to be trusted!”
Seeing her mother’s concern, Gong Yiling felt a wave of warmth and guilt.
She shouldn’t have made her worry for so many months.
And then, upon learning that the Heavenly Saint Technique of the Myriad Paths was a gift from the Nine-Colored Deer, Gong Muzhi’s tears finally stopped.
“It wants you to be the Sect Master of that… Great One Engineering Sect?” Gong Muzhi sneered. “Why? My daughter will inherit my legacy. What is that old thing?”
“Mom, about that…”
Gong Yiling said seriously, “I was going to tell you later, but since you brought it up…”
Gong Muzhi seemed to sense something and asked, “Ling’er, you’re not actually planning to be the Sect Master of the Great One Engineering Sect, are you?”
“Strictly speaking, I’m the only member of the Great One Engineering Sect now.” Gong Yiling shrugged. “Even with Qiu Shui, Chun Lian, and Xinyao, there are only four of us.”
“Indeed…” Gong Muzhi began to think. “Even if Ling’er becomes the Sect Master, it’s just a title.”
This title had its limitations, but also its advantages.
At least these days, while many hated the Five Demonic Abysses, few would bother the Sect Master of the Great One Engineering Sect.
“What do you plan to do with this title?”
“In this position, I have my duties.” Gong Yiling said, “I want to investigate why the Great One Engineering Sect fell, and there are some things only I can stop. But besides that…”
“No one said the old sect had to follow the Daoist path. If I am its master, then I decide its future. I… mmmph!”
Before she could finish, her head was flicked lightly.
Although it was light, it still made Miss Gong let out a manly yelp. She clutched her head, pouting at Gong Muzhi.
“What was that for?”
“I was just thinking…” Gong Muzhi chuckled softly. “My dear daughter is so amazing. She’s grown up so much in just a few months.”
Her words, and the aura of a ruler that emanated from her, were not accidental.
In fact, it was just like herself back then. As expected of her daughter.
“It’s all because of Mom’s good teaching.” Gong Yiling squeezed her mother’s hand. “Mom is the best mom in the world.”
“You have a sweet mouth.” Gong Muzhi bumped her forehead against hers, then said seriously, “Ling’er, have you decided to deal with the Mingjue Sect?”
“Yes.”
“I only want you to be safe, but if you’re determined, then I’m not afraid to go crazy with you again.” Gong Muzhi said.
“I know what I’m doing, Mom… wait.” Gong Yiling suddenly noticed a strange word in her mother’s sentence.
“Why did you say… ‘again’?”
“Ah…?” Gong Muzhi realized, then chuckled sheepishly, scratching the back of her head.
“I don’t think I’ve ever told you. I was pregnant with Ling’er here, and my identity was exposed here, which led to me being chased for thousands of miles.”
“Huh?”
This was a part of the story the book never revealed.
Over a decade ago, Gong Muzhi, in the prime of her youth and already the Palace Master of the Pear Blossom Blood Orchid Palace, met her fated one here.
And because of that, ten months later, heavily pregnant, she fought against three cultivators of the same realm, with over a dozen others of a lower realm attacking her from the sidelines.
It was a legendary battle.
Long hair flowing, wild and arrogant, Gong Muzhi’s name became known throughout the continent after that battle.
