Fake Husband of the Glamorous CEO-Chapter 534: Current Situation of the Gu Family

Gu Family’s ancestral planet was not solely inhabited by the Gu family members.

There were also some Loose Cultivators who had sworn their allegiance to the Gu Family and faced life and death alongside them, serving in various managerial roles within the Gu Family’s administrative system.

Those who held managerial positions within the family typically had cultivation levels around the Seventh or Eighth Heavenly Realm.

Even their descendants had surpassed the Fourth Layer Heaven.

The Cultivation World was inherently a place where the strong preyed on the weak, and Loose Cultivators looking to grow and thrive had to pledge loyalty to major clans.

Which clan could claim their path had always been smooth? Long-term development inevitably led to clan wars over resources! 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

Unfortunately, the Gu Family had become the losers.

These dedicated Loose Cultivators acknowledged this reality.

This was simply a part of choosing to align with a faction.

The Gu Family had once been a vast clan, and in their days of glory, they had sheltered these individuals, so they had no regrets following the Gu Family to this point.

These people also had their families and descendants.

Including these, the population now residing on the Gu Family’s Cultivation Planet was close to a thousand.

The entire Gu Family’s planet was pervaded with an air of melancholy.

If it were only for a short period, it might have been bearable, but they had been hiding for over a thousand years, and some of the Gu family women had reached their limits.

Particularly the women who had returned to their family after being married off and sent back by their in-laws.

Since the Gu Family had been targeted by other major families, the entire clan had gone into hiding.

The in-laws, fearing involvement, had no choice but to send the wives of the Gu Family back to their original clan.

This resulted in these women, separated from their husbands and children for a thousand years, washing their faces with tears daily.

Of course, they understood the reasons behind their in-laws’ actions.

But to be unable to meet one’s own children for such a long time saddened anyone.

Aside from the women of the Gu Family, the wives who had married into it suffered more. The men of Gu Family, not wanting their wives to undergo hardship, had wished to send them back to their own families.

However, their families also feared involvement and advocated the idea that "Once a woman is married, she belongs to her husband’s family."

So, there was no need to send them back.

This outraged the wives, so much so that they no longer wished to return home and were willing to die with their husband’s family!

"Fourth Elder, our spirit stone reserves are running low, and I’m afraid they can only maintain our needs for one or two more years,"

reported the person in charge of the spirit stone warehouse to Gu Weimin’s younger brother.

"I understand," Gu Weihuan responded, nodding as he watched the grandchildren playing in the courtyard.

Spirit stones!

In the past, the Gu Family had as many as they needed.

Now, like a dog that has lost its home, they could only consume what they had, and it was almost depleted.

They had hoped that the recent trip to Earth by the second and third brothers would bring some hope.

Instead, what awaited them was the news of war breaking out with the Murong Family.

Now, the family did not dare to expose themselves at all and had completely shut the barrier channels.

With the family’s average cultivation level above the Fourth Layer Heaven, the daily consumption of spirit stones was in the tens of thousands!

Just Group Leader Gu Weiting, with his strength at the peak of Ten-layered Heaven, consumed 10,000 spirit stones a day!

Now you see why Loose Cultivators seek to join major clans, as maintaining forces is a huge expense.

So, there are gains and losses, and one must be prepared to sacrifice for clan wars—that is the way of survival in the Cultivation World.

Gu Weiting, watching the children, felt worried for his family members on Earth but was also relieved that his own children were born with a cultivation level above the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Therefore, they weren’t sent to Earth, sparing them the pain of separation.

"I’ll go visit elder brother."

Gu Weiting had said a word to his wife before he rose to go to the Ancestor Hall on the back mountain.

On the way, he passed through the courtyards of other branches and could hear conversations from other branches.

A bitter complaint from a fifth-generation niece, "Second brother, my husband and child, through the Recording Magical Treasure, said they want to see me, but the Clan Leader uncle won’t let me disclose any planetary coordinates. Can you take me to see them? My son said he’s getting married and wants to bring his wife to meet me, wuu wuu wuu."

As he passed another courtyard, he heard his fifth-generation nephew comforting his wife, "Wife, don’t be sad, it will all pass, this is also Sanbao’s fate."

Gu Weiting sighed.

His nephew’s wife had given birth to a child recently, but because the child did not reach the Foundation Establishment Stage, it died young.

There wasn’t even a chance to send it to another planet for fostering.

Usually, even if you can’t survive on a 10-layer Cultivation Planet, as long as you reach the Foundation Establishment stage, you can at least survive in the universe.

But if you can’t even reach the Foundation Establishment Stage, you will perish soon after birth.

It was a helpless matter.

It was all because the Gu family couldn’t go out and expose themselves; otherwise, the wife of the fifth nephew could have gone to Earth to give birth to the child.

But given the Gu family’s current situation, how would have going to Earth and giving birth there changed anything?

Just like Gu Yuanqi’s lineage, they could only isolate themselves from the sect planet and live in hiding.

Gu Weihuan arrived at the Ancestor Hall on the back hill and saw his elder brother Gu Weiting kneeling in front of the ancestors, meditating in silence.

But in reality, Gu Weiting, the Clan Leader knew about the daily agonies of the clan, didn’t he?

It was his initiated planet. He could hear and see everything that the people here said and did.

Yet, what could he do about it?

He could only blame himself for lacking strength.

In the Ten-Layer Heaven, when encountering those top elite families, probably even their dogs could crush him!

Sometimes he really wanted to go out and fight gloriously!

But then, the clan would be left with only the Ninth Layer Heaven, and once their lifespan neared its end without a breakthrough, it would drop to the Eighth Layer Heaven!

Eventually, the family would gradually decline.

Because this was how the previous Clan Leaders of the Gu family had fallen.

The pride deep in the bones of past Gu family members couldn’t endure this slight; they had to fight if they refused to submit.

The result was death followed by more death!

In fact, when Ancestor Qingxue fell, the family still had many Fifteen Layer Heaven experts.

Eventually, they died in the battle, leading to a loss of voice in the Cold Moon Sect.

After the previous Clan Leaders with positions in the sect as Elders died, the Clan’s role declined to that of Hall Master.

Then downgraded to managing internal affairs.

Eventually, after being eyed by the great sect families, they were completely ousted from the entire system by Cold Moon Sect.

Helplessly, the sect needed to survive too; after Sect Leader Qingxue fell, his successor’s cultivation was at Eighteen Layer Heaven.

After this Sect Leader fell, the fourth-generation Sect Leader had only Fifteen Layer Heaven.

By that time, the Gu family had offended families with Emperor-sealing power, and the Cold Moon Sect, for its own preservation, had to sever ties with the Gu family.

Later on, Gu Weiting and his brothers could only cultivate the half-roll secret technique given to the Cold Moon Sect by the Ancestor Grandmother, so their power remained at the current Ten Layers of Heaven.

People of the family also wanted to go to the "Original World" to look for other high-level secret techniques that could replace those of the sect.

But they couldn’t leave, over two thousand teleportation arrays in the Galaxy were owned in part by the great families, they’d detect you as soon as you used one.

"Ancestors, please protect my second brother and the third brother from harm."

Gu Weiting bowed towards the Ancestor Hall.

Then he lit incense.

On the highest spot of the ancestral plaques, one was carved with: Plaque of the Gu Family Ancestor Gu Feng.

After he placed an incense stick, with the drifting smoke, it coalesced into the figure of Gu Feng.