When Jiang Ruolin, also known as Lin Yue, slowly emerged from the back courtyard, the waiting Gu Family members outside the courtyard felt that the Ancestor Grandmother’s spirit and that unique quality had changed.
Before this, Jiang Ruolin hailed from a family background of ordinary cultivation, and due to the trauma experienced in her childhood, her nature was cautious and her exposure to society was shallow, hence she did not possess the composed aura of someone from an affluent upbringing.
This was also why, even when Gu Feng backed her, she remained humbly cautious in front of great personages from cultivation families above the 10th level.
A demeanor formed from childhood does not change easily in a short time.
But Lin Yue was different, born into a merchant family before the era of cultivation civilization took off, and was immersed in business management from a young age, with an iron-fisted style of her own.
After knowing Gu Feng, as his woman, her stature in the official circles also rose correspondingly.
During the period of cultivation civilization, she also carried the mantle of Taoist Ancestor’s Wife, once the most influential woman with a global reach.
Even during the two thousand years following the Taoist Ancestor’s disappearance, Lin Yue was the woman who governed the Gu family and the world’s Qi Fortune!
As Lin Yue’s past life memories awoke, this queenly demeanor overshadowed almost entirely the weak memories of Jiang Ruolin’s life.
It could be said that Jiang Ruolin at this moment was completely dominated by the memories of Lin Yue.
The maid Cui Lan felt most directly the complete change in Jiang Ruolin’s aura and demeanor.
As someone who had always been by her mistress’s side during this time, Cui Lan now felt that the Miss Jiang who walked out was both familiar and foreign.
But she heard the Gu Family Patriarch and others all kneeling down: "We warmly welcome the return of the Ancestor Grandmother."
Cui Lan was perplexed but immediately went forward to greet Lin Yue and proactively offered her arm for support.
Lin Yue naturally placed her hand on Cui Lan’s arm, her steps steady and confident as she faced the people of the Gu family, her eyes devoid of the former strangeness and caution, filled more with the affinity of an Ancestor Grandmother and the terrifying control of seniority.
"Stand up, all of you," Lin Yue indicated with a smile for the Gu family descendants to rise, her face showing joy and happiness at being able to see her own posterity again.
Through the memories of Jiang Ruolin, she was acutely aware of the Gu family’s hardship over the past 20,000 years, and said with emotion: "You have worked hard, all come closer for the Ancestor Grandmother to have a look."
The Gu family members were overjoyed at this gentle change in tone, convinced that the Ancestor Grandmother’s past life memory had returned.
Gu Weiting was the first to rush up and passionately kowtow to Lin Yue.
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The three of them, as well as the late fourth brother and their descendants, all lined up orderly and kowtowed to Lin Yue before introducing themselves with their family names and positions.
In the past, Lin Yue might not have had the time to remember her descendants four generations removed, as she had spent most of her latter life busily searching for traces of her husband, Gu Feng.
But now, she was grateful that she could return, so she treasured this moment of seeing her descendants safe and sound all the more.
"Good, good, good, you are all very well," Lin Yue gently stroked one descendant’s head after another, smiling kindly, feeling very happy herself: "I remember having held some of you."
She looked at Gu Weiting.
Although Gu Weiting appeared as an old man with white hair, upon hearing Lin Yue say this, his eyes reddened immediately, unable to contain his emotions.
"You, you still remember!"
This news has thoroughly excited several old-timers of the fourth generation.
They were indeed once held in the arms of the Ancestor Grandmother Lin Yue.
After Gu Feng’s fall, Lin Yue was still in power for two thousand years. When Gu Weiting and his brothers were born, Lin Yue truly held them.
However, Lin Yue spent most of her time not dealing with family affairs. The fourth generation like Gu Weiting rarely even saw Qingxue, let alone easily met the Ancestor Grandmother.
Their memories of the Ancestor Grandmother all came from the family group photos, where the Ancestor Grandmother was holding them as infants.
Later on, with the changes in the Gu Family, these photos were destroyed, and the image in their minds also blurred, but they remembered that they were indeed once held by the Ancestor Grandmother when they were young, and they took pride in this, walking on thin ice to persist for the survival and unextinction of the Gu Family.
"Have the other children come over for me to see," Lin Yue hastily gestured for the fifth and sixth generations to gather around.
The Gu family compared the affability of the Ancestor Grandmother with that of Ancestor Gu Feng and felt that the maternal elder was more amiable.
Although the Ancestor Grandmother also had the crushing strength of the Thirty Layers of Heaven, they felt that she was especially friendly and lacked the oppressive aura of the Ancestor.
Thus, several children of the seventh and eighth generations, along with Gu Yuanqi’s generation, also dared to greet Lin Yue in their childlike voices.
"From now on, with me and your Ancestor here, no one will be able to let the Gu Family suffer all that it has gone through in the past," Lin Yue said to the descendants, "However, you must also remember that your Ancestor and I will only provide you with a safety net, and if you wish to prove yourself on the path of Cultivation, you must rely on yourselves."
The Gu family members all bowed respectfully: "We will heed Ancestor Grandmother’s teachings."
After Lin Yue finished meeting with the children, she turned and walked towards the courtyard.
Cui Lan quickly followed and assisted her, clearly feeling that the Miss in front of her was no longer the same Miss Jiang she knew before.
Whether it was her strength or the aura of a superior exuding from her bones, she was in no way lesser than the Great Emperors Cui Lan had encountered before!
Cui Lan lost the composure she had in front of Jiang Ruolin and was filled with more reverence and cautiousness.
Assisting Cui Lan, she dared not even breathe heavily, with every step feeling like an eternity. Cui Lan wasn’t sure if Lin Yue was deliberately exuding some sort of aura that made it increasingly difficult for her to breathe.
When it was about time, the oppressive feeling was withdrawn by Lin Yue, who calmly said, "My husband has promised you and will not go back on his word. Once a thousand years have passed, it will be the time for you and the Cui Family to give birth to an Emperor-Sealing!"
With Lin Yue’s current strength, even without Gu Feng taking action, she could grant a minor Emperor-Sealing on her own!
Because after the 29th Layer of Heaven, the Immortal Emperor is a watershed!
Cui Lan, hearing Lin Yue’s words and thinking of the Dharma Image of the Thirty Layers of Heaven released by Lin Yue just now, could no longer hold back her excitement and knelt down to give a deep bow, "Please rest assured, madam, this servant will surely take care of all duties."
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Lin Yue came to the courtyard again and saw Gu Feng sitting there, playing Go. She said with a soft laugh, "Wait for me for some time, I will return after I visit one place."
Gu Feng nodded his head.
He knew where Lin Yue was going.
Although the decline of the Gu Family back then made the Cold Moon Sect appear powerless for self-preservation, the current decline of the Cold Moon Sect was something she, the Founder, couldn’t bear to watch.
So, Lin Yue might make a visit to the Cold Moon Sect.
Whether this generation of disciples is worth her support once more, that would depend on the vision of the current Sect Leader.