Gu Long didn't tell Gu Yu about the Deity Lake he discovered and kept his mouth shut because he knew he could take it with his new force as the strongest of the demon beasts guarding it was only in the first stages of the Dao of Dragon Realm.
Gu Yan thought that maybe some of his other underlings were like Gu Long.
He asked all of them if they knew of unmanned Deity Lakes and in the end, sixty-five responded yes.
Some were already known by their fellow underlings, so it ended up to thirty-six low-grade and seven middle-grade Deity Lakes.
{Damn, there were so many traitors within the ranks of these elders}
{I guess someone greedy can only have greedy underlings…}
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After taking all of the new ones, Gu Yan now had fifty-eight Deity Lakes.
Thirty-six low-grades, twenty middle-grades and two high-grades.
He told Gu Long to have at least one Dao of Dragon expert to guard each of them.
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Over the months, there were less and less missions requiring medicinal and cultivation knowledge before finally all of them were done.
The elders who were at the Dao of Dragon Realm before the arrival of the youngsters from the Tiny World and also having trouble to make a breakthrough within that cultivation realm already issued a mission each and have gotten their help long ago.
They were just around fifty so that was really fast.
Gu Yan didn't bother himself with the other missions, as they were far slower to complete for even less reward.
Instead, he chose to spend more time flirting with his wife or teaching swordsmanship to his brother-in-law.
Gu Bei was a 3-Axis Heavenly Axis.
He didn't cultivate any further because he wanted to beat Gu Heng with a lower cultivation.
As for Gu Yu, he finally committed suicide after five months of suffering.
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When the elders held a meeting after Gu Heng's crushing defeat from Gu Bei, Gu Yan concentrated on the soul seal of an elder to know what they were going to say.
Since Gu Yan already had a soul seal on the elders supporting Gu Heng, nobody tried to make things difficult for Gu Bei.
Concerning the other elders, they either didn't like Gu Heng or didn't care about these matters.
But they all remembered too clearly Gu Yu's ending.
They thought that it was Gu Lan's doing and that she would do the same to them if they dare harm her little brother.
Gu Ya, the first elder, concluded, "I say, since Gu Lan trained Gu Bei to become the next Patriarch, let's see what he can do in the outside world. We all already know that Gu Heng would end up like Gu Yu and never become the Patriarch, there's no point in keeping him as the first-in-line successor"
To them, making Gu Bei the first-in-line successor was to warn Gu Heng and also to try mending their relationship with Gu Lan.
Gu Yan didn't even need to step in with the elders under his control as the others took the decision by themselves.
The Patriarch and all of the elders agreed to Gu Ya and the meeting quickly came to an end.
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After Xiao Yan destroyed Gu Heng's God Level Growth Rate demon spirit, the latter started to contact the elders who he thought were under his control and told them to punish Gu Bei.
Gu Yan ordered them to act as if they agreed to use this chance to expel Gu Bei from the clan.
Gu Bei didn't know that those elders had soul seals from Gu Yan on them, so he also visited them.
He gave each of them dozens of Spiritual Stone Essences to bribe them.
Gu Yan didn't want to spoil his good intentions so he told the concerned elders to accept his brother-in-law's request.
It was also a good training for him to understand the motives of the elders of the clan of which he would become the Patriarch.
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Two weeks later, the Patriarch and the elders gathered to discuss about Gu Heng's destroyed demon spirit.
Hearing the latter, it was Gu Bei who did everything, "Was there a need to go that far? I already lost my Blood Moon League, why did he have to destroy my demon spirit and weaken the clan?"
Gu Bei didn't even bother to defend himself.
Right now he was in the same situation as Gu Heng when the latter poisoned his sister.
Even if a few elders had some resentments, they would still have to accept him because they didn't have the choice.
Just like low Gu Heng didn't get punished for what he did to Gu Lan, he also won't get punished.
The elders didn't believe that it was Gu Bei who did it.
As they never heard of any technique capable of destroying demon spirits, they thought that it was Gu Lan herself who acted.
If they punished Gu Bei, they feared that they would end up like Gu Yu.
When they were lost in thoughts, Gu Yan told one of the elders to speak up.
At first, Gu Heng's eyes shone with happiness, but he soon became gloomy again as the elder said, "We had to put up with that despicable scumbag because we didn't have any other powerful demon spirit for the younger generation. Now that he doesn't have it anymore, I propose we do what we should have done years ago: to expel Gu Heng from the clan for poisoning Hierarch Gu Lan back then"
Everyone was shocked from his words, specially the normal members of the clan because they didn't know of it.
After a few seconds, the elders thought that it made sense.
Sooner or later, the truth would be known, and they better let it out now and use it to build a good image for Gu Bei.
Even if the clan's prestige would be hurt a little, in the long run it was the right thing to do.
After all, if people thought that Gu Bei destroyed the demon spirits of all of his enemies, he might have trouble into taking charge of the clan.
It was better to let themselves be the bad guys who left Gu Heng unpunished for such a long time.
Gu Bei would be the courageous warrior who brought justice to his sister!
Gu Heng was so shocked from his expulsion that he lost consciousness.
He was then thrown outside like a bag of trash.
As if it wasn't enough, he was even expelled from the sect when some of the elders learned of this.