Chapter 361: Gu Clan Meeting, Decision, Gu Clan Arrivals
The Ancient Clan was not monolithic.
To put it even more extremely, the internal divisions within the Ancient Clan were vast indeed.
There were very great divergences on many matters.
For instance, the tomb of Xiao Xuan within the Heavenly Tomb-should they go in and dig it open?
Some elders were in favor; after all, he was a peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng, and digging up the tomb might yield a good deal of resources.
Yet at the same time, a batch of elders was opposed. After all, the Ancient Clan had formerly been on good terms with the Xiao Clan, and to go dig up the grave of the other clan's patriarch now would be far too shameless.
Similarly, there was the matter of how to handle the Xiao Clan: should they offer protection?
There was the allocation of certain resources, and the marriage questions of certain clansmen.
It could be said that if not for Gu Yuan, the patriarch, continually maintaining an ambiguous attitude, a civil war might well have broken out within the Ancient Clan.
Yet even so, the Ancient Clan had always maintained an unwritten rule.
That was that the true upper echelons of the Ancient Clan at the Dou Sheng level were not permitted to meddle.
Those Ancient Clan elders at the Semi-Saint level formed the upper limit.
The majority of Ancient Clan affairs were debated and decided upon by those Dou Venerate elders.
Yet Gu Yang was the Ancestral Hall Second Elder, a late Five-Star Dou Sheng, held in high esteem and possessed of formidable strength throughout the entire Ancient Clan.
Why would such an entity suddenly express a desire to take action regarding the matter of bringing Xun'er back to the Ancient Clan?
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