The Final Stop Before Dou Zun

Yang Shan had never expected the dignified Black Submerging Army Great Commander to be working as a "courier" now! But that was enough to show just how precious the spiritual item Xiao Xun'er had prepared was.

Gu Zhen was also a character who had appeared in the original novel.

Compared to the other Black Submerging Army commanders who had appeared, Gu Zhen was indeed reasonable. He had even taken the initiative to invite the original protagonist, Xiao Yan, for tea, hoping only to reason with him and persuade him not to be so fixated on being with Xiao Xun'er.

Even after Xiao Yan rejected him, Gu Zhen showed no anger. Instead, he explained the inheritance of ancient bloodlines to Xiao Yan and how much importance they placed on those bloodlines.

However, compared to the original novel, Tian Yao Company seemed to have strengthened the connections within the setting of the Ancient Eight Clans considerably.

In the original novel, each of the Ancient Eight Clans possessed an independent plane known as a "realm," where they developed separately, and marriages were generally arranged within their own clans.

But judging from the profile descriptions of these Ancient Eight Clans' Heaven's Chosen, the Ancient Eight Clans in the game did not seem particularly intent on obstructing marriages with other ancient races.

Take Gu Zhen, for example. Gu Yan, one of the Ancient Clan's Four Commanders, was not a character who had appeared in the original novel.

Yet because of Gu Yan, Gu Zhen and Yao Xingji of the Yao Clan had become enemies.

As everyone knew, aside from blood feuds, romantic grudges counted among the more serious kinds of enmity.

Xiao Kuang and Lei Che had a romantic grudge, and so did Gu Zhen and Yao Xingji.

And these Heaven's Chosen of the Ancient