Suddenly Having an Extra Daughter

"Hmm?"

Gu Changyuan's eyes narrowed. Without a moment's hesitation, the spell seals in his hands changed.

"Buzz—!!!"

The light of the small array formation enveloping the room suddenly surged! Countless intricate and profound runes appeared out of thin air, overlapping layer upon layer.

A powerful force of protection and stabilization acted as the sturdiest of dams, forcefully suppressing the rampaging energy within the girl's body and guarding her crumbling Sea of Consciousness.

However, the storm deep within her Sea of Consciousness originated from a clash between her soul origin and her memory brands. Relying solely on external force to suppress it would only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.

If he could not channel and resolve it from the inside, even if he successfully awakened her physique, it would leave behind massive hidden dangers, perhaps even resulting in a split personality.

"Troublesome."

Gu Changyuan gave a light snort and hesitated no longer.

With a flash of light at the center of his brow, an incredibly condensed spiritual avatar radiating a soft silver glow instantly left his body. It plunged into the little girl's forehead without the slightest resistance, entering the world of her Sea of Consciousness.

...

Within the Sea of Consciousness, it was not clear and orderly like that of an ordinary cultivator, but rather a chaotic and shattered landscape.

It looked as if it had just suffered an apocalyptic storm. Fragments of memories, turbulent currents of emotion, and dark vortexes condensed from fear were everywhere.

Seven-colored starlight of chaos and a soft white light representing rebirth were struggling to navigate and merge amidst this chaos, attempting to restore order.

At the very core of the Sea of Consciousness, two bright but fundamentally different clusters of light were acting like two stars that both attracted and repelled each other—constantly approaching, colliding, separating, and approaching again...

One of the light clusters was dim and emitted a weak aura. The other was much brighter and purer, radiating the ignorant blankness of new life; like a blank sheet of paper, it instinctively wanted to absorb and merge with the dim light.

However, because the interior of the other cluster was too chaotic and berserk, it was repeatedly thwarted, and its own form became unstable from the impacts.

It was exactly the clash between these two soul origins and their inability to smoothly merge that had caused the storm in the Sea of Consciousness.

Gu Changyuan's spiritual avatar hovered in the center of the Sea of Consciousness, its silver glow illuminating the surrounding chaos.

His gaze was like lightning, instantly seeing through to the crux of the problem.

He reached out his hands, pointing a finger at each of the two light clusters.

The finger pointing at the dim light cluster surged with a silvery-white radiance, beginning to sort through those chaotic memory fragments and smooth out the violent emotional vortexes.

The finger pointing at the bright, newborn soul surged with wisps of Chaos Qi and the Dao rhythm of the stars, rapidly stabilizing this newly born, relatively blank soul. It also injected a basic sense of existence and a preliminary perception of the outside world into it.

Another hour passed.

Under Gu Changyuan's guidance, the two began to blend in a gentler, more orderly manner.

The storm in the Sea of Consciousness gradually subsided.

The chaotic landscape began to reshape itself. Although some scars of memory and dark corners could still be seen, the whole had stabilized. In the central region, a brand-new soul star that combined the traits of the old and the new, radiating both chaotic starlight and pure white light, was slowly taking shape and rotating steadily.

Seeing this, Gu Changyuan's spiritual avatar nodded slightly and quietly withdrew.

...

Another hour after Gu Changyuan's divine sense returned to his body.

The aura of the little girl in the bathing tub underwent an earth-shaking transformation.

The previous weakness, terror, and pain had completely vanished. Taking their place was a newborn, pure, yet incredibly vigorous life force that contained the profound aura of chaos and the vastness of the stars.

During the process of her physique's awakening, her cultivation base had actually been forcefully pushed to the peak of the Qi Condensation realm, just a hair's breadth away from Foundation Establishment.

"Boom—!!"

Right at this moment, an indescribably majestic aura erupted from the little girl and soared into the sky.

A magnificent pillar of light, mixing the colors of chaos with dazzling starlight, shot out from the Baihui acupoint at the crown of her head without any warning, piercing straight into the clouds.

Within the pillar of light, grand phantoms of stars being born and destroyed, and of primal chaos being split open, faintly appeared.

When a Sacred Body awakens, it resonates with heaven and earth, naturally giving rise to anomalies.

If this commotion were to spread, it would inevitably attract the prying eyes of experts from the entire Fengling City, and perhaps even places further away.

Gu Changyuan frowned slightly and gave a light harrumph.

"Scatter."

Without him making any visible movement, the magnificent pillar of light that was about to break through the roof and alarm the surrounding area was suddenly intercepted and crushed from the middle, as if gripped by an invisible giant hand.

All the overflowing aura of chaos and stars was also firmly locked within the confines of the Listening Bamboo Pavilion by an even more powerful and secretive force, without a single trace leaking out.

He did not want to attract unnecessary interruptions because of this Innate Sacred Body; he found it troublesome.

Only after doing all this did Gu Changyuan deactivate the large-scale array formation covering the room, leaving behind only a small restriction to maintain the effects of the spiritual liquid in the tub.

He sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes to regulate his breathing, and waited quietly.

The time it takes to drink a cup of tea passed.

As for why it was the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, it was because Gu Changyuan had just finished brewing a cup.

In the tub, the little girl who had been sleeping with her eyes closed fluttered her long eyelashes a few times and slowly opened her eyes.

They were a pair of extremely beautiful eyes. At first, her gaze carried a trace of the bewilderment of someone who had just woken up.

But soon, it focused on Gu Changyuan, who was sitting cross-legged not far away, quietly watching her.

All the injuries on her body had long since completely healed during the baptism of her Sacred Body's awakening. Her skin was white as jade, glowing with a healthy luster.

Her originally thin and frail body now looked much more well-proportioned, containing an astonishing vitality.

Noticing that the girl had woken up, Gu Changyuan casually waved his right hand.

A well-fitting, brand-new light purple dress instantly covered the girl's body.

At the same time, the seven-colored spiritual liquid in the tub quickly vanished, leaving the inside of the tub dry and clean.

Gu Changyuan picked up the freshly brewed, still warm spirit tea from the small table beside him, took a sip, and then looked at the girl, asking in a gentle tone:

"How do you feel?"

The girl blinked those starry eyes of hers, seemingly digesting the information before her and the changes within her body.

She slowly stood up from the empty tub. Her movements were still a bit stiff, but exceptionally steady.

Then, facing Gu Changyuan, she opened her delicate, fair little arms. A completely reliant, incredibly intimate, and pure, innocent smile bloomed on her face. In a tender, crisp, and slightly soft voice typical of someone who had just woken up, she sweetly called out:

"Papa!"

"Pfft—!!!"

Gu Changyuan reacted extremely fast. The moment the tea was about to spray from his mouth, he violently jerked his head to the side, spitting out a mouthful of spirit tea onto the empty floor next to him.

His eyes widened as he turned his head back in disbelief, looking at the little girl who was holding her arms wide open, gazing at him with a face full of expectation. Even his voice changed pitch:

"Huh? What did you just call me?!"

"Papa!"

The girl did not hesitate at all, calling out crisply and loudly once more. Her smile grew even more radiant, and she took a small step forward, looking as if she wanted to pounce on him.

Gu Changyuan was completely stunned. The hand holding the teacup froze in mid-air. Looking at this "daughter" who had suddenly popped out of nowhere, his mind went blank for a moment.