After Gu Yuan led these Ancient Clan experts away, he gathered all the Ancient Clan members and secretly dispersed them through the passage leading out of the Ancient Realm. To prevent any miscalculation—such as Gu He purging the Ancient Clan members after killing their experts—he scattered them across remote corners of the continent. Every outstanding Ancient Clan bloodline was also separated rather than kept together. It could be said that unless Gu He spent several hundred years meticulously searching the entire continent, there was no way the Ancient Clan bloodline could truly be exterminated.
These Ancient Clan experts were willing to remain in the Ancient Realm and face death alongside Gu Yuan precisely because they accepted his reasoning.
As the Ancient Clan experts spent the final stretch of their lives reflecting on the gains and losses of their past, a massive rift suddenly appeared in the Ancient Realm's space. A figure almost forcibly squeezed into the Ancient Realm.
The figure appeared no larger than an ordinary human, yet it gave off the sense that the entire Ancient Realm could not contain him. The Ancient Realm's spatial barrier groaned violently as cracks spread throughout its space. The once peaceful and tranquil Ancient Realm instantly seemed as though the apocalypse had descended because of Gu He's arrival.
As Gu He arrived, a terrifying aura that made heaven and earth submit erupted from his body, forcing the Ancient Clan experts hundreds of miles away to kneel. Even Gu Yuan's knees slowly began to bend.
"Ancient Emperor Mirror!" Unwilling to endure such humiliation, Gu Yuan roared.
Hearing Gu Yuan's shout, the Ancient Clan experts roared in unison. Vast Dou Qi surged from their bodies before converging around Gu Yuan.
With the support of all the Ancient Clan experts' Dou Qi, an enormous energy mirror