Having lived so long, he had long since grown indifferent to the monotonous martial world.
Even the life and death of the Gu Clan no longer mattered much to Gu Hui.
He did not concern himself with the rise and fall of Free and Easy Manor either. In the vast manor now, only he and Mu Nianci lived there, with Gu Nian returning occasionally.
Only the three of them knew that the Gu Clan and the Zhu Ming imperial family were related through marriage.
Yet they were all hands-off figures, so they had always turned a blind eye to the struggle between the Gu Clan and the imperial family.
Gu Nian, on the other hand, often secretly nurtured outstanding members of the imperial family. As a result, the succession of Great Ming emperors had long since become chaotic, no longer matching those in Gu Hui's memories.
This caused the Ming dynasty to rise and fall. Though it occasionally declined, order was always restored, and its national strength remained formidable.
Even at the very end, when his lifespan was nearly exhausted and the Ming dynasty was at its weakest, he personally witnessed Great Ming and Great Qing standing divided and confronting one another.
For at the end of the Ming dynasty, another heroic ruler emerged and turned the tide. Though he failed to recover all the lost territory, Great Qing no longer had the strength to continue southward, and a north-south division took shape.
At five hundred and forty years old, when his life came to its natural end, he took one final gamble and passed away in meditation at Free and Easy Manor, leaving behind Mu Nianci and Gu Nian, mother and daughter.
Not long afterward, Mu Nianci also passed away in meditation. Logically speaking, she had been more than