
Gu Yan easily killed all the demon beasts guarding the two God Lakes and obtained the demon beast blood he wanted.
What surprised him was the number of Spiritual Stones already in the lake.
There are tens of millions in each of these two!
Gu Yan quickly understood why there were so many Spiritual Stones within the two God Lakes.
{Well, that means no one strong enough managed to find it, and they collected the stones for tens or even hundreds of years}
With Gu Long still in the lead, he went to look for the next target.
Gu Yan learned from Gu Long that other than Eighth Clan Elder Gu Bai and Ninth Clan Elder Gu Feng, there were eight more elders who were on Gu Heng's side.
They also had a middle-class God Lake each, with eight hundred Heavenly Stars and two hundred Heavenly Axis subordinates, it seemed like it was a common arrangement for every elder.
Their subordinates were also deceived by Gu Yan and he immediately had ten thousand other subordinates.
Nearly a hundred of them became Dragon Dao Cultivators.
After giving them a new cultivation technique, he took out half of the new Dragon Dao experts to guard the two high-grade God Lakes.
Gu Long and the others were told to act as if nothing had happened.
Back at the institute, Gu Yan did not bother trying to trick the eleven elders he had just taken his subordinates and directly entered their home to make them faint before they could even detect his presence.
With his current cultivation, he could easily conceal his actions from the sect master who was a Stage-5 Martial Ancestor.
After all, his cultivation technique was much stronger.
He started with Gu Yu, putting the writing on his body for him to experience a slow and painful death.
Now, he would not be able to use his Heavenly Energy and would feel a soul-wrenching pain.
If he could hold it for three years, then one of the inscriptions would be active to kill him.
As for the other elders, he simply stuck a soul seal on them.
Gu Yan told all his subordinates that Gu Long would be his right hand and listened to him.
He proposed to them the same deal as he did with Xiao Yan.
Every three days, Gu Long would come with hundreds of thousands of Spiritual Stones from other subordinates to purchase the Heavenly Note Dew, Spiritual Stone Essence, or Golden Spiritual Stone Essence.
Gu Yan only took ten percent of his profits, because he wanted them to become stronger.
Those ten Elders were Stage 9 Dragon Dao experts, yet could not become Martial Ancestors yet.
Even with the new cultivation technique and the Gold Spiritual Stone Essence they bought from Gu Yan, they would still take months or years to make a breakthrough!
The Elders thought it was because Gu Heng offended them when they came to the institute, so it was Gu Heng who bore all his faults.
They knew that they would lose the Stage 9 Dragon Dao but they could only grit their teeth and accept their defeat.
After all, they did not want to offend Hierarch Ming Fei!
One night, Gu Lan announced to Gu Yan that she was pregnant.
He happily kissed her and asked if she wanted to get married.
They had a small wedding with only their close friends and family.
It was known that she was healed by her husband and the Patriarch of the Gu Clan came with a group of elders to propose her to become the clan elder.
He revealed the cultivation of the Stage 3 Martial Ancestor and said that he did not care about the matters of the clan.
While most of the people within the Gu Clan were celebrating that the seventh Martial Ancestor of the sect was from their clan, their elders knew the bitter truth.
With his cultivation, it was possible that he was the one who poisoned Gu Yu to take revenge on him.
They thought he was waiting for Gu Heng to become a Dragon Dao expert before punishing him as well.
Even if they knew what was going to happen, they could only grimly accept it.
He was now one of the pillars of the sect, he had the right to take revenge on the person who poisoned him, whoever it was!
Moreover, they should still be thankful that he did not reveal the truth to the public.
If people knew what Gu Heng did to the Martial Ancestor in the future and how he was not punished, they would be the most hated person in the sect!
With all the Spiritual Stones gathered in the two high-grade God Lakes, he managed to exchange enough Gold Spiritual Stone Essences to reach the peak of the Stage-9 Martial Ancestor.
Since Gu Bei was his brother-in-law, he decided to help him.
He personally trained her, just like Long Yan did with Long Yuyin but this time with a sword.
While thinking about the future, Gu Yan knew that the three low-level God Lakes controlled by Gu Heng were not enough for the successors of the Gu Clan.
He decides to capture some of the unmanned creatures and give them to his brother-in-law when their enemy is completely destroyed.
Based on the location of the God Lake owned by Li Xingyun, Gu Yan managed to pinpoint the middle-class God Lake where Nie Li took the God Root from within the story.
After defeating the demonic beasts and taking the Spiritual Stones gathered in the lake, he had Gu Long send some troops to guard his new lake.
When Gu Yan told Gu Long to form several teams of Heavenly Shaft experts to explore the outside world in order to find unexplored ruins or unmanned God Lake, the, Gu Long told him that he already knew about the middle-class lake.
Apparently, before meeting Gu Yan, he was waiting for his breakthrough to the Dragon Dao Realm to form his own power and take the unmanned God Lake for himself.