Chapter 97: Accepting the Ancestor (1) (1/2)

“This matter is impossible…” This news was too shocking. To the elders, they didn’t dare to believe it. Elder Wu stood up and said: “The Patriarch never married his whole life, how could he have descendants?”

Elder Qian couldn’t help but exclaim: “Yes, this can’t be a possibility. The sect’s official record had never mentioned the Patriarch’s future descendants!”

“This truth is absolute.” Tu Buyu, who was standing behind Su Yonghuang, said: “Under the trust of the elders, I left the sect in order to find the Patriarch’s descendants. Although the sect’s official record never wrote it down, within a few anecdotes and writings, certain clues were still left behind.”

Here, Tu Buyu looked at Elder Gu and continued: “Elder Gu, around one thousand six hundred years ago, do you remember having the chance to meet Grandpa Liu? At that moment, you came with the previous sect master. At that time, it was not just Grandpa Liu, I was also present.”

Gu Tieshou stared at Tu Buyu. After a while, he suddenly stood up and emotionally exclaimed: “Yo-you were the teen that year that helped Grandpa Liu stand up!”

“Elder Gu still didn’t forget.” Tu Buyu nodded his head and said: “Correct, I was an honorary disciple of Grandpa Liu. At that moment, I carried a great responsibility so my name was not recorded amongst the listings of the sect’s disciples.”

“Grandpa Liu, which Grandpa Liu?” The elders were all shaking because inside the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect, there was only one person called Grandpa Liu.

Gu Tieshou gently sighed. He finally sat down and said: “Grandpa Liu was the number one Bulwark of our Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect, Ancestor Liu San Jian.”

“Ancestor Liu San Jian!” These words uttered from the mouth of Gu Tieshou greatly shook the expressions of the nearby elders.

After Mu Shaodi, Liu San Jian was the most famous in the sect as the number one Bulwark. That year when the Heavenly G.o.d Sect fought against the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect, Liu San Jian was the one in power.

“Ancestor Liu is still alive?” This news was incredibly shocking to the seated elders. Elder Qian was at a loss for words because if Ancestor Liu was still alive, this meant that the sect still had a character that could compete with the Heavenly G.o.d Sect’s ancestor.

“That was the last time I saw Grandpa Liu.” Gu Tieshou shook his head and said: “At that moment, I didn’t know that Grandpa Liu was indeed Ancestor Liu. I was still young back then and had never seen Grandpa Liu before. At that time, I followed master to visit Respectable Grandpa. However, at that moment, Grandpa Liu’s situation was not very optimistic. His old wound was troubling him and needed help to even sit or stand. After that one time, I never met Grandpa Liu again.”

At this point, all of the elders were looking at Tu Buyu. Tu Buyu was a disciple of Liu San Jian; even though he was just an honorary one, his status at the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect was still higher than the group of Elder Gu.

“The truth is, that was also the last time I had met Master. After that, I never saw Respectable Grandpa again.” Hearing this, the elders became dejected. Without a doubt, Ancestor Liu San Jian was no longer in this world.

Tu Buyu spoke: “The fight thirty thousand years ago, we suffered extremely heavy losses. Inadvertently, Grandpa Liu found out that the Patriarch did have some descendants. I just so happened to become the disciple of Grandpa Liu and under his grim situation, he ordered me to find the Patriarch’s descendants. Because the clues were extremely limited, I had always wandered outside. Due to my responsibility, I never spoke to anyone about this matter and was not in the disciple’s listings, I only directly contacted the previous sect master. Elder Gu must have met me a couple of times.”

Gu Tieshou nodded his head. He thought that Tu Buyu was a messenger disciple, responsible for liaison with the outside. Also, because Tu Buyu was very young back then when he came back to the sect, he only knew Tu Buyu was a disciple but he was not aware of Tu Buyu’s particular responsibilities.

Tu Buyu said to all of the elders present: “In order to find the descendants of the Patriarch, I traveled outside as a nomad for more than one thousand years. Time did not betray a sincere heart; in the end, I finally found the Patriarch’s descendant.”

The elders looked at each other as Elder Zhou finally asked: “This… how do we prove that the sect master is the descendant of the Patriarch?”

Tu Buyu’s ident.i.ty was not a problem, but how could they prove that Su Yonghuang was a descendant of the Patriarch? This matter was the most important thing, after all.

“The descendant of the Ancestor and the acceptance of ancestry, I was told by the Patriarch in my dreams.” Finally, Li Qiye said: “Which is why I requested for the elders to bring the portrait of the Patriarch.”

The elders glanced at each other and finally, First Elder Gu Tieshou, very solemnly, took out an ancient crumbling wooden box. With both of his hands, he respectfully carried this wooden box.

“The Empress was the G.o.dly General Su who had followed the Patriarch her whole life. Her contributions towards the establishment of the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect and the Cleansing Incense Ancient Kingdom was inerasable. After the Patriarch shouldered the Heaven’s Will, because she didn’t want to hinder his step towards the apex and aspiration for immortality, the Empress brought the descendants of the Patriarch to a secluded location and left the Patriarch.”

At this moment, Li Qiye respectfully said: “The world remained oblivious to this matter, and so did the sect. It was until last night when the Patriarch told me in my dreams.”