Gu Qingmo: "It's Been Three Days and Three Nights. Isn't Our Third Sister Going to Be in Trouble...?"

Gu Family Main Hall.

First Family Head Gu Qingxue was still dressed in a long snow-white gown, her icy white hair resembling a silver moon. She sat cross-legged without moving, like an ice sculpture atop a ten-thousand-year glacier.

No, the words "like" should have been removed, because snow and ice had already piled up around her body, gradually condensing into a layer of frost.

"I say, Big Sister!"

Second Family Head Gu Qingmo sneezed, her brows twitching slightly. "It's already been three days and three nights over at Third Sister's place. Aren't you going to do anything?"

Gu Qingxue's brows quivered faintly, but she remained unmoved, as though she had not heard a thing.

"Three days and three nights... If this keeps up, I feel like... something might happen to Third Sister..."

Gu Qingmo looked at the motionless Gu Qingxue before her and sighed. "Fine, I'll be blunt... Big Sister, go to Third Sister's room and make the two of them calm down. At this rate, I feel like Third Sister might get into trouble before she even gives birth..."

The moment her words fell, Gu Qingxue, who had been seated on the ice bed, vanished in the blink of an eye. From the looks of it, she seemed to have left directly through the window?

Gu Qingmo looked at the lingering white trail of snowflakes in the air and shook her head helplessly. "After all these years, Big Sister is still cold on the outside and warm on the inside... Maybe it's because of her Martial Soul?"

The Gu Family's Inherited Martial Soul was not actually as simple as Gu Qingbo had described—a pure "ice" Martial Soul.

The Martial Souls of the Gu Family's two ancestors had been Extreme Ice and Extreme Snow respectively. However, because Extreme Snow had barely been passed down, calling their Inherited Martial Soul ice was not exactly wrong.

It was just that...

After more than a thousand years of continuous intermarriage and inheritance within the Gu Family, the Martial Souls passed down by their ancestors had become exceedingly scarce. By Gu Qingbo's generation, even related attributes had basically disappeared.

At present, the only people in the entire Gu Family with any connection to the Inherited Martial Soul were the three Family Heads. No one else even came close. Therefore, after discussing it, the three of them unanimously decided to bring in husbands through marriage. The Inherited Martial Soul had to be passed on, or the Gu Family really would be finished.

After all!

There was competition among nobles as well, and Soul Masters followed the law of the strong devouring the weak—especially in a remote place like Skywater City, where the mountains were high and the emperor was far away, and practically no one kept watch over it.

Once the Gu Family lost the advantage of its Inherited Martial Soul, they might no longer have a place in Heavenly Water Academy. They might even be driven out of Skywater City.

That was the cruelty of reality.

"Hm?"

Just as this thought flashed through Gu Qingmo's mind, she suddenly heard undisguised footsteps stop outside the residence gates. Then Chen Yue's voice rang out. "Big Sister, Second Sister, what did you need your brother-in-law for?"

Gu Qingmo, "..."

This brat really didn't hold back when he spoke, did he?

Gu Qingmo rubbed her forehead helplessly. Just as she was about to open the door, a thought suddenly struck her. Wait, judging by how quickly Big Sister left... Chen Yue must have finished before Big Sister arrived and then left to come here. So Big Sister...

Ordinary people might first listen for any sounds before deciding whether to intervene.

But First Family Head Gu Qingxue was not an ordinary person!

For all she knew, she might really use a single soul skill and freeze the entire residence beneath piles of snow!

Thinking of this, she hurriedly opened the gates, intending to stop First Family Head Gu Qingxue.

But the instant she opened the door, a powerful wave of Soul Power erupted from the residence of her Third Sister, Gu Qinghan. Her raised foot froze in midair!

Gu Qingmo, "..."

Chen Yue, "???"