I died young at the start, but I'm reincarnated with unlimited skill points!

"Back when you were building your foundation without any core, and your meridians were on the verge of collapse."

"When I was outside the secret chamber, I wasn't pointing a sword at my own son's neck like you are now."

Although the voice sounded like that of a one-month-old baby.

But that familiar tone, tinged with a hint of mockery and authority, clearly reached Su Yuan's ears.

Su Yuan's brain seemed to completely stop functioning at that moment.

"Huh? Dad?!"

After a full dozen breaths, Su Yuan managed to squeeze out two words with great difficulty.

"You...you're not dead?"

"Pah, pah, pah."

"Father, you've... been reincarnated?!"

Although the world of cultivation is vast, the concept of reincarnation only exists in those ethereal myths and legends.

His Adam's apple bobbed as he stared intently into Su Yu's eyes.

"Back then... how did Su Hao, that pseudo-Foundation Establishment cultivator, die?"

This is the final verification.

Su Yu lay in her swaddling clothes, not angry at the test.

On the contrary, he was very satisfied.

"Cheng'er used the assassins of Dingyuan Trading Company to extract blood from a collateral branch of the Su family and mixed it with the Bone-Corroding Powder from Medicine King Valley."

With a childlike, childlike voice, Su Yu calmly recounted the cruel scheme of that year.

"I used the second-tier Gengjin Remnant Array, and finally suppressed my spiritual power, severing the meridian of his Shaohai acupoint on his left side with a single sword strike."

The last word fell.

The room was completely silent.

Su Yuan's eyes instantly filled with blood, and two lines of tears welled up without warning.

There were no superfluous words, nor any semblance of decorum befitting a high-ranking cultivator.

With a "plop".

The high and mighty patriarch of the Su family knelt upright before the cradle.

He reached out his trembling hands, wanting to hold the baby in front of him, but afraid of hurting the baby, he could only bury his head deeply in the edge of the stone bed.

"father……"

Su Yuan's voice choked with emotion, and his shoulders trembled violently.

For the past sixty years, he has single-handedly supported the entire family.

Externally, we must deter those covetous cultivation families in the surrounding area.

Internally, it is necessary to maintain the rules for the hundreds of cultivators and tens of thousands of ordinary people.

He dared not show the slightest weakness, dared not shut himself away in seclusion, and dared not even relax for a moment.

Because there was no one behind him.

The man who could sit steadily in his armchair no matter what dire straits he faced, using the most ruthless calculations to protect his family, is long gone, buried in the snow and wind of the back mountain.

Now, this pillar of strength has actually returned.

Su Yu looked at Su Yuan, who was crying like a child, and said nothing.

A full incense stick's time had passed.

Su Yuan calmed himself down, wiped away his tears, and stood up from the ground.

The burden that had weighed on my heart for sixty years was suddenly lifted by more than half the moment I confirmed my father's return.

I felt much more relaxed.

He looked at the pink and tender Su Yu in the cradle, and recalled the dazzling pure white light in the Internal Affairs Hall just now.

"A third-grade spiritual root... Father, your aptitude in this life surpasses that of all the previous generations of the Su family combined."

Su Yuan's facial muscles trembled slightly with excitement.

"Given enough resources, you will definitely be able to attempt to reach the Golden Core stage in your lifetime."

"You don't need to worry about resources. Even if I drained all the spiritual veins of Qingmufang City, I would still provide them for you."

Su Yu nodded slightly.

With a capable eldest son at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage as head of the household, there's no need to toil away in the spirit fields for the rest of your life.

Just as Su Yu was about to give some instructions on the next steps.

Su Yuan seemed to have suddenly thought of something extremely important.

His eyes suddenly lit up, and he stared intently at Su Yu.

"father."

Su Yuan rubbed his hands together, his tone filled with an absurd excitement.

"Since you were able to be reincarnated and reborn into our own family."

"Is it possible that my older brother might come back?"

Su Yu was slightly taken aback. Looking at Su Yuan's blank stare, a sense of foreboding suddenly arose in his heart.

as predicted.

Su Yuan slapped his thigh, so excited that he even paced back and forth in the secret room.

"My elder brother didn't have any spiritual roots back then. He spent his whole life as the manager of the family and suffered so much."

"Now that you're back, Father, we can't leave our eldest brother alone down there!"

Su Yuan became more and more excited as he spoke, and turned to look at Su Yu.

"Father, please rest in the secret room first."

"I'm going back to my room now to have a three-hundred-round battle with your mother in this life, Lady Liu."

"I'll try my best this year to give birth to my eldest son as well, then the three of us, father and sons, can be reunited in the Su family of Qianlong!"

These outrageous remarks echoed in the secluded room.

Su Yu lay in the swaddling clothes, her whole body numb.

He looked at the 160-year-old Foundation Establishment Ancestor in front of him, who was solemnly planning how to give birth to his elder brother.

Even this ancient monster, who had lived for two hundred years, felt his temples throbbing.

If he weren't a newborn baby.

If he had that Qingfeng sword in his hand right now.

He would not hesitate to slap this rebellious son across the face with his sword sheath.

"roll!"

Su Yu let out a low, gritting growl in a childish voice.

"Do you think reincarnation is about giving birth?"

"You'd better give up on that idea right now! I haven't even grown all my teeth yet, so be serious!"

Su Yuan shrank back after being scolded and gave a dry laugh.

"Father, don't be angry. I'm just too happy."

He walked back to the cradle, his expression gradually becoming solemn.

"Father, there are too many people in the Internal Affairs Hall today. We can't hide the fact that you have a third-grade spiritual root."

"The rest is up to Father to decide."

Su Yuan knew very well that the emergence of a Golden Core seed in the family was both a great blessing and a great crisis.

Su Yu looked at the isolation array patterns on the ceiling of the secret chamber.

"There's no need to hide it."

You can hide it for a while, but not forever.

Although Su Yu's voice was still young, his shrewd and composed demeanor remained undiminished.

"Announce it directly to the public, and establish me as the successor of the Su family."

"You've kept your family safe and sound for the past sixty years. This is a good opportunity to see just how many eyes are secretly watching our master of Qingmufang City."

Hearing this familiar scheme and calculation, Su Yuan lowered his head knowingly.

"I understand."

He straightened up and straightened his purple robe, which was slightly wrinkled from kneeling.

But soon, an extremely strange and conflicted expression appeared on his face.

"father……"

Su Yuan rubbed his hands together, looked at Su Yu in the swaddling clothes, and hesitated to speak.

"Now that we're announcing your identity to the public, how should we address you in public?"

This is indeed an extremely tricky and messed-up problem.

In name, he was the patriarch of the Su family of Qianlong, and Su Yu was his youngest son, born when he was 160 years old.

But deep down, the one-month-old baby in front of him is his biological father, the true founder of the entire Qianlong Su family.

Su Yu was also taken aback by the question.

He lived for two hundred years, schemed against cultivators, and slaughtered Foundation Establishment cultivators, but he had never dealt with such an ethically subversive family relationship.

"Behave yourself in front of outsiders."

Su Yu frowned slightly and gave the safest answer.

"You are now the ancestor, and this body of mine is your offspring. We must not let anyone see through this."

Su Yuan listened and nodded in deep agreement, but then he sighed, looking rather troubled.

"Father, I understand what you're saying."

"But if you were to call me 'Father' to my face... I simply couldn't bear it; it would shorten my lifespan."

Su Yuan's words were sincere.

In the world of cultivation, although strength is paramount, the suppression of bloodline is ingrained in families with extremely strict clan systems.

Moreover, he was raised by Su Yu and only succeeded in establishing his foundation thanks to the insights Su Yu gained by risking his life.

If his father were to actually call him "Dad," he was afraid he would be so frightened by his own dreams that he would wake up in the middle of the night.

Su Yu rolled her eyes at Su Yuan's conflicted expression while still in her swaddling clothes.

"So what do you want?"

Su Yuan immediately stepped forward, lowered his voice, and showed an extremely serious expression on his face.

"Father, I have come up with a compromise."

"From now on, when we are alone in the secret chamber of Zufeng, I will still call you Father obediently, just like before."

"But when we're outside, for the sake of the family's reputation and rules, I'll have to act like an elder... At that time, Father, you'll have to put up with a little hardship and call me 'Father'!"