As for Gu Nian, when she saw a century-old giant serpent as thick as a dragon in Free and Easy Valley, no one knew what inspiration it sparked in her, but she attained enlightenment and broke through.
And just like that, when fortune came knocking, it could not be stopped. Zhang Junbao, Guo Xiang, Yang Guo, and the others had all seen it many times without breaking through, yet she broke through directly—and at an even younger age than Zhang Junbao.
For a time, entering the Innate realm became the threshold for being considered truly peerless in the martial world.
And all of them were inextricably connected to Gu Hui.
His family alone had five Innate masters. Together with Zhang Junbao, now known as Zhang Sanfeng, and Guo Xiang, seven Innate masters existed at once.
However, these Innate masters had mostly withdrawn from the world and rarely appeared in the martial world, so supreme masters still reigned there.
Over the past century, apart from Gu Nian, the Gu Clan had produced no further Innate masters. As for how many generations the clan had grown through, even Gu Hui did not know. He said they could only consult the genealogy.
Though no new Innate masters had emerged in the clan, their uniquely favorable seclusion overseas allowed the Gu Clan to develop rapidly. They had become a great clan numbering in the millions.
However, many Gu Manlou establishments suffered attacks from Mongol Yuan, causing the Gu Clan grievous losses.
In the end, many Gu Manlou establishments under the Gu Clan joined forces, dispatching several hundred supreme assassins. Quite a few building masters personally went to Dadu and signed another treaty with the Mongol Yuan emperor, finally putting the matter to rest.
Over the past century, Gu Hui had often taken Mu Nianci,