Gu Changqing swept the sect’s grounds for forty years. At sixty, with his cultivation stalled, he was thrown out.
Disheartened, he returned to the mortal marketplace, married a destitute woman nobody wanted, and prepared to eat, sleep, and wait for death, letting his life run its course.
The fellow disciples who had once mocked him all said, “Gu Changqing’s life is over.”
But ten years later, while the geniuses of their generation were fighting to the death over a single Foundation Establishment Pill, Gu Changqing’s eldest son had already cleaved through three thousand armored foes with one sword, making a name for himself across the land.
A hundred years later, when the sect master knelt and begged the patriarch to emerge from seclusion, he discovered that even the guards at the Gu family’s gates were Golden Core experts.
No one knew what had happened on that wedding night.
All the world knew was that the seemingly ordinary patriarch of the Gu family appeared to have mastered some secret for stealing from the Heavenly Dao...
“Is cultivation really that hard? Why not go home and marry a few more wives...”
Good-looking, quite good-looking