A Five-Star Dou Di Encounters a Heavenly Flame...

"Yiya!"

"..."

"Yiya yiya!"

"..."

"Yiii~ yaaa~"

"..."

Ahem, first of all, what you were seeing was not gibberish. Second, I was not padding the word count. Third... fine, I was padding!

(Stop! Don't attack yet! Let me finish writing this chapter first!)

The truth was, Gu Dao had agreed to certain requests from Gu Yuan. So they were currently in a strange inheritance space. As for the other one, naturally, it was Gu Yuan's daughter, Gu Xun'er.

After considering many factors, Gu Yuan had ultimately decided to let Gu Xia enter the Gu Clan's inheritance ground together with Xun'er. It was where the fire source of the Golden Emperor Burning Sky Flame was located...

Logically speaking, Gu Xia should not have been able to enter without the Gu Clan's Dou Di bloodline. Gu Yuan had initially only intended to give it a try, placing Xun'er and Gu Xia together on the teleportation array leading to the inheritance ground...

What surprised Gu Yuan was that little Gu Xia had also gained the recognition of the Golden Emperor Burning Sky Flame and was teleported inside alongside Xun'er!

Since they were still infants, they would not directly obtain the Golden Emperor Burning Sky Flame. They would only gain its recognition; only those it recognized could obtain the fire source. Once the recognized person reached a certain level of strength, it could then be subdued...

So this was merely a test. As for why that baffling exchange at the beginning had occurred, that had to be explained from the moment the two little ones entered the inheritance space...

Time returned to when Gu Xia and Xun'er had just entered the inheritance space. Both little ones had been sent in while asleep, and Xun'er, at least, slept quietly.

Little Gu Xia, however, woke up as soon as he entered. He curiously looked around the golden space. Confusion flickered in his bright, watery eyes as he kept staring at the space before him, as if something were there...

After staring for over ten seconds, he finally could not restrain his curiosity any longer. He reached his tiny hand toward that patch of apparently empty space...

That chubby little hand seemed to grasp something in midair. The little fellow drew his hand back and sat down on the ground. When he opened his tiny palm, there was actually a small golden flame resting inside!

Little Gu Xia adorably tilted his head, watching the flame constantly dance in his hand.

The flame seemed to possess intelligence, moving along with the little fellow's gaze. Gu Xia blinked, and the flame swayed as well. One child and one flame interacted in this strange fashion for several minutes!

Until the golden flame, as if having made up its mind, tried to fly into the little fellow's body. But little Gu Xia swatted it away with a chubby little palm!

The golden flame seemed unwilling to admit defeat and charged over again, only to be swatted away once more...

Again, and away it flew again...

After repeating this several times, the flame finally gave up. It merely circled slowly around little Gu Xia, as though begging for his consent. But Gu Xia began babbling, roughly expressing his refusal of the flame's idea.

The flame did not give up and continued circling little Gu Xia. Gu Xia's attitude remained extremely resolute, and thus the scene from the beginning appeared...

"Yi! Ya!"

Finally, after being rejected by little Gu Xia yet again, the flame had no choice but to fly toward little Xun'er, who was still sleeping nearby. This time, the fusion went extremely smoothly. Little Xun'er showed no resistance at all and continued sweetly dreaming...

"Yaa..."

Perhaps tired from playing, little Gu Xia lazily babbled before lying down again. He gave a tiny yawn and continued on his journey through dreamland...

Time slowly passed. Half an hour later, the two little ones were sent back. Gu Yuan and the other two, who had been waiting outside, reacted immediately and quickly picked up their little treasures.

"The Golden Emperor Burning Sky Flame recognized Xun'er..."

The instant Gu Yuan picked up little Xun'er, he examined his daughter's condition. After discovering the aura of a Heavenly Flame within her body, he informed the other two elders.

"Mm, it seems your little girl has excellent talent and bloodline, Xiao Yuan. She gained the Heavenly Flame's recognition in less than half an hour. Her future achievements will surely be extraordinary..."

Gu Dao, who held little Gu Xia, showed no jealousy. At their level, such things were no longer that important. Besides, they had only let little Gu Xia enter together with Xun'er as a test. It would have been wonderful if he gained something, but it did not matter if he did not.

"Xun'er truly possesses the strongest bloodline among our Gu Clan's younger generation in recent years. Yet that is precisely what worries me. I fear..."

"What must come will come sooner or later. All we elders can do is provide these little ones with as safe an environment as possible to grow up in..."

"Yes, the world will inevitably belong to these little ones in the future. We are old now..."

"Ah, who can know what the future holds..."

For a moment, the three of them became rather sentimental. Only the two little ones knew nothing, still sleeping deeply...

Time was the most dutiful thing. Whether you were happy or sad, it would keep moving forward and never pause...

Half a year had passed since the two little ones entered the inheritance ground.

After six months of growth, little Gu Xia was no longer as sleepy as he had been as an infant. The time he spent awake gradually increased. The little fellow had learned to walk on his two short legs, but he seemed to prefer using all four limbs instead.

Thus, the Ancient Realm gained a little thing that loved crawling everywhere. Though the little fellow was extremely adorable, no one dared provoke him. Because anyone who did got to personally experience the feeling of "truly being buried in the ground"!

No matter who it was, as long as they made the little fellow unhappy, one chubby little palm would teach them how to behave—utterly merciless! Even the famous supreme commander of the Black Annihilation Army had once been dominated by that chubby little hand...

Gu Lie still remembered that sunny morning. As usual, he had gone to the training grounds to inspect his soldiers' training.

When he arrived at the training grounds, he discovered his officers gathered together, apparently discussing something. They had not even noticed his arrival.

So he quietly came up behind them and deliberately gave a low cough. His officers promptly scattered in a fluster, revealing a little fellow in the middle.

Before Gu Lie could wonder why this little fellow was here, he noticed a serious problem! That little fellow seemed to be scribbling all over the Three Thousand Styles of Black Annihilation Army Posturing that he had painstakingly compiled...

His head overheated, and he completely forgot what had happened in the meeting room that day. He hurriedly snatched the book—no, the painting—no, the historical record—from the little fellow's hands.

Just as he was about to destroy the evidence, he felt an irresistible and tremendous force blast him away!

The book-painting scroll seemed not to notice that no one was holding it. It actually hovered in midair for several seconds before returning to the little thing's hands, allowing him to continue his grand artistic undertaking!

As for Gu Lie, he had already been pasted onto the wall so firmly that he could not even pull himself free. Just as he was at a complete loss and utterly helpless, he suddenly heard Gu Qingyang's voice from nearby...

"Uh... well, Commander, don't look at me like that. That little thing threw me over here too! I really don't know anything..."

Gu Qingyang looked at Gu Lie. He had originally planned to take advantage of the commander's absence to help the soldiers with their morning drills. It was then that he discovered little Gu Xia, who had somehow slipped in here. And in his hands was their commander's training plan!

So our student Gu Qingyang had wanted to directly snatch the Three Thousand Styles of Black Annihilation Army Posturing away, and then there was no then.