He had learned that this great calamity befalling the Ancient Saint Clan had been jointly decreed by the boundless Strongest Myriad Races. They had even trapped every Immortal of that clan on the Extraterritorial Battlefield before crushing their Great World strongholds one by one.
Immortals were even more incapable of bearing children. The clan would only slowly decline into ruin.
Yet precisely because of this, the Boundless Myriad Races had clearly taken an enormous interest in the Chaos Ancient Road. They wanted to force the Ancient Saint Clan to open the Chaos Ancient Road and seek a way to survive.
Perhaps in Gu Yuexi's eyes, so long as a Chaos Crystal remained in his hands, even after he passed away, the Five Aggregates Sect's Dao lineage could be preserved without extinction.
After all, those there were not living beings of the Ancient Saint Clan, but juniors of the Human Sovereign Ancestral Domain. The myriad races had no need to slaughter them all.
Had Gu Yuexi used this method herself, not a single one of them would likely have escaped. They would surely have been forcibly kept in the void. Leaving it to the Five-Elements Dao Ancestor seemed to be the best outcome.
As an Immortal of the Ancient Saint Clan, how could she not know what the myriad race Immortals intended for Chen Xun's immortal corpse and the Five-Elements Dao Lineage?
Leaving the Chaos Crystal to Chen Xun was to repay his great favor, and likewise to ensure her own clan could continue its legacy in peace—a life-preserving talisman left behind.
Even Chen Xun had not expected that behind Gu Yuexi's simple gesture lay so many schemes. She had even calculated his affairs after death and the Five Aggregates Sect into it...
At this moment, Chen Xun smiled and nodded