Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Ancient Clan (古族) |
| Alias(es) | Gu Clan |
| Affiliation | One of the Eight Ancient Clans 7 |
| Leader | Gu Yuan |
| Headquarters | Ancient Realm |
| Status | Severely depleted and displaced: the Ancient Realm was destroyed during Gu Yuan's battle with the Bloodthirsty Sharp-Horn Clan's Great Elder, after earlier casualties, captures, and treasury losses 64 65 69 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 3 |
History
Pact with the Xiao Clan
A thousand years before the main events, Xiao Xuan entrusted the declining Xiao Clan to Gu Yuan before his fall. In exchange for the Ancient Clan's protection, Xiao Xuan provided high-level Dou Skills and cultivation methods. The clan honored the agreement for roughly a century before losing interest as the Xiao Clan failed to produce exceptional successors. It eventually expelled the Xiao Clan from the Ancient Realm, leaving it to wander and decline from a Dou Saint-led clan into a third-rate family whose leader was only a Dou Grandmaster. 4
The Ancient Clan also focused on acquiring the Xiao Clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade. Gu Yuan placed his daughter, Gu Xun'er, with the Xiao Clan under the temporary surname Xiao, intending for her to obtain the jade. 4
Xiao Xuan's return
Xiao Xuan returned to the Ancient Realm in soul form during an Ancient Clan coming-of-age ceremony. His soul pressure subdued its members, including a peak Dou Zun elder, and he sent Supreme Elder Gu Dao—then a late-stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng—flying with a single soul-powered strike. 3
After recognizing Xiao Xuan, Gu Lie admitted the clan's failure to protect the Xiao Clan. Xiao Xuan demanded reparations, and Gu Yuan later transferred the promised compensation and additional treasures to him. 3 7
During this encounter, Xiao Xuan exposed Gu Yang, an Ancient Clan ancestral-shrine guard who had secretly served the Hun Clan for more than a century. Gu Yuan responded by ordering a broad internal investigation. 6 7
War with the Soul Hall and Hun Clan
While possessing Elder Gu Shan's body, Xiao Xuan fabricated a Soul Hall attack on the Ancient Clan's Mystic-Grade Warehouse. The apparent deaths of Gu Qian and Gu Xu, combined with the theft of the warehouse, enraged the Elder Council. 34 35
Tong Xuan was initially reluctant to provoke a larger conflict, but Xiao Xuan manipulated the council into dispatching more than twenty Dou Venerables against Soul Hall branch halls in the Central Plains. The Grand Heavenly Venerable slaughtered the deployed force, intensifying the younger generation's demands for retaliation. 35 36 37
The clan later sealed the Ancient Realm's passage amid mounting losses and escalating tension with the Hun Clan. 48
Fall of the Ancient Realm
An unknown attacker blasted open the Ancient Realm's entrance, causing extensive destruction and over ten thousand casualties among its descendants before the breach could be contained. Gu Yuan could not locate the intruder. 63
Hun Tiandi then invaded with the Hun Clan's elite, seeking the clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade. The Ancient Clan was largely suppressed; Gu Yuan fled with remaining members after throwing the jade into a spatial rift, while many who remained were captured by the Hun Clan. 63 64
Xiao Xuan subsequently emptied the Ancient Clan's Heaven-Grade Treasury. Its holdings included treasures and techniques from the Xiao Clan, Spirit Clan, and Shi Clan, as well as treasures associated with other clans. 65
When Gu Yuan later fought the Great Elder of the Bloodthirsty Sharp-Horn Clan, their clash completely destroyed the already unstable Ancient Realm. Gu Yuan escaped after Hun Tiandi entered the battle and killed the Great Elder. 68 69
Organization and Holdings
- Ancient Realm — the clan's home realm, later sealed amid external pressure and ultimately destroyed in battle. 48 69
- Elder Council — governing body that directed the response to the warehouse robbery and authorized the campaign against the Soul Hall. 35
- Three Immortals of the Gu Clan — senior combatants that included Gu Dao; the other two were reportedly nearing Eight-Star Dou Sheng breakthroughs during the early conflict. 3 22
- Black Annihilation Army — the clan's armed force, mobilized alongside its Dou Saint experts to defend the Ancient Realm against the Hun Clan invasion. 63
- Clan warehouses — holdings were divided into Mystic-, Earth-, and Heaven-Grade treasuries. The Earth-Grade Warehouse contained numerous Earth-tier techniques, Dou Skills, and heavenly treasures; the Heaven-Grade Treasury held the clan's most extensive collection. 25 35 65
- Bloodline ceremony — Ancient Clan members undergo bloodline assessment and receive clan marks, including Silver-patterned Clan Marks for documented Rank Five and Rank Six bloodlines. 3
Relationships
- Xiao Clan — former protected clan. The Ancient Clan accepted Xiao Xuan's techniques as payment for its protection but later abandoned and expelled the Xiao Clan. 4
- Xiao Xuan — aggrieved former ally and principal adversary. He forced reparations, infiltrated the Ancient Realm repeatedly, plundered its treasuries, and manipulated its elders into war with the Soul Hall and Hun Clan. 7 35 65
- Gu Yuan — patriarch of the Ancient Clan. His failure to uphold the agreement with Xiao Xuan precipitated the clan's conflict with the restored Xiao Clan patriarch. 4 67
- Gu Xun'er — Gu Yuan's daughter and the clan's young miss. She was fostered with the Xiao Clan under the surname Xiao and remained unaware of the full extent of the Ancient Clan's conflict with Xiao Xuan. 4 68
- Hun Clan — longstanding rival that escalated from covert infiltration and Soul Hall clashes to a full invasion of the Ancient Realm. 7 63
- Soul Hall — hostile Hun Clan subordinate organization. Its branch halls became targets of the Ancient Clan's retaliatory deployment, which ended in the slaughter of the dispatched Dou Venerables. 35 36
- Bloodthirsty Sharp-Horn Clan — hostile Dark Clan faction whose Great Elder attacked Gu Yuan for the Tou She Ancient God Jade; their battle destroyed the Ancient Realm. 68 69