"Many thanks."
Though Gu Qingyan's words were gentle and calm, her heart churned like rivers and seas in a storm.
Her eldest brother actually had a descendant—and that descendant was still alive in this present age. Her reaction was exactly the same as when she had first heard Futian's name.
Only, in the official histories, Sui had seized Ouyang Boxiao's body back then and directly shielded him from calamity. Thus, there had been no Gu Family marriage pact, nor any claim that Gu Qingyan's fate had been tied to Futian's to ward off disaster for him.
After all, Sui had been forthright with the Fushi Cult back then. The Gu Family could not possibly have done something so absurd as marrying their youngest daughter to a Heavenly Saint like Sui. Forget whether the Gu Family would agree—even Sui would probably have been the first to suffer qi deviation upon hearing it. The order of heaven and earth would have been turned upside down!
Although Gu Qingyan and Futian had known each other, the latter had truly entered the world only on the day Sui perished. That was during the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, when Gu Shenyu had been preparing to wipe out the Fortune Clan.
By then, Futian had also already been caught up in the flames of war, and had only met Gu Qingyan once.
Because of the interweaving of all sorts of major events during the Ancient Era, even Gu Lisheng had not been familiar with Futian. Instead, he had been exceptionally close with Gu Shenyu and the others—the complete opposite of Chen Xun.
Chen Xun had come from the beginning with the mindset of settling down for retirement, whereas the real Ouyang Boxiao had been unable to stop. He could only follow Gu Shenyu and the others in