Gu Clan

Biodata

Background / History

Ancient Dominance

The Gu Clan has endured for hundreds of millions of years and produced numerous figures who ascended to the Immortal Realm. Its greatest period of dominance in the Xuanhuan Great World came during the Desolate Ancient Epoch, when it waged wars throughout the universe, overran countless worlds, and plundered vast quantities of resources. Some affected ancient stars and star domains had still not fully recovered by Gu Xuanjin’s era 31 40.

Although initially described as a clan that had never declined, the Xuanhuan Branch had suffered a concealed loss of strength and providence. Its continued supremacy in the lower world concealed the scale of that setback 1 26 43.

The Xuanhuan Branch’s Decline

A native of a newly discovered world possessed a Gu Clan junior from the Xuanhuan Branch and entered the wider clan’s territory. He slaughtered younger clan members and destroyed several connected great worlds before multiple Gu Clan Immortal Emperors returned and killed him 43.

The other branches blamed the Xuanhuan Branch and demanded that it supply eighty percent of the people and providence required for reconstruction. An old ancestor negotiated this down to fifty percent, but the settlement still severely weakened the branch. After reaching its historical peak, the Xuanhuan Gu Clan withdrew from prominence to recuperate 43.

Despite this loss, earlier ascendants and exceptionally talented later divine sons kept the Xuanhuan Branch among the strongest five of the wider clan’s forty-three branches. The ancestor associated with Abyssal Blowing Snow regarded Gu Xuanjin’s emergence as evidence that the branch had almost fully recovered 42 43.

Organization & Leadership

• Ancestral oversight: Senior ancestors usually reside in the ancestral shrine and deliberate on threats, the protection of younger members, and major military action 26 31.
• Divine Son’s authority: Gu Xuanjin can command the Divine Martial Guard and direct clan deployments. During his parents’ absence, the ancestors explicitly recognize that he has the final say in clan affairs 2 26 32.
• Protection of younger generations: Before attacking the Myriad Demon Divine Court, the clan recalled its prodigies from the Heavenly Demon Dao Domain to prevent retaliatory killings 26 31.
• Preserved ancient talents: The clan sheltered two dormant prodigies dating from the Desolate Ancient Era and the Primordial Era, both retrieved before the war 26 31.

Notable Members

Military Strength

The force sent against the Myriad Demon Divine Court represents a documented deployment, not the clan’s total strength 32.

• Troop quality: The weakest members of the deployed elite army are at the Divine Bridge Realm. They overwhelm the much larger demon armies, whose ranks include many ordinary lesser demons 36.
• Transport: Ancient, battle-scarred warships carry the soldiers, while senior experts open spatial wormholes for cross-domain deployment 32 34.
• Divine Son’s procession: Gu Xuanjin travels in a white-jade palace drawn by nine black dragons, each comparable to a Quasi-Emperor 2 34.

Territory & Facilities

• Divine mountains: The clan grounds contain rows of divine mountains, flying divine beasts, abundant immortal radiance, and recurring sounds of the Dao 2.
• Dao Evolution Hall: Gu Xuanjin’s cultivation residence on the forbidden divine mountain at the rear of the clan grounds 1 31.
• Ancestral shrine: A self-contained world where senior ancestors usually reside 26 31.
• Cross-domain teleportation array: A large array within the divine mountains used for travel beyond the Northern Nether Dao Domain 2.
• Sword tomb: A back-mountain repository established by a Primordial Era ancestor. Its summit holds dozens of imperial swords and three immortal swords 41 42.
• Edge Refining Hall: The clan’s artifact-production and reforging facility, managed by Gu Qingming. Other artifact-refining ancestors, including the Ninth Ancestor, assist with major projects 44 45.

Weapons & Treasures

• Primordial Heaven Supreme Simplicity Diagram and Book: The clan’s immortal weapon. It encompasses a world-like space and grants control over powers including earth, fire, wind, and lightning. Fully unsealed using immortal Dao origin, it suppresses three enemy immortal weapons and contains their detonation. It sustains slight damage, subsequently repaired by Gu Qingming 35 40 45.
• Abyssal Blowing Snow: An immortal sword housing the divine sense of its former master, the sword-tomb founder. The ancestor warns that its power exceeds what Gu Xuanjin can ordinarily use, then tests and approves him as its wielder 42 43 44.
• Purgatory Blood Slaughter: An immortal sword in the sword tomb whose artifact spirit resists Gu Xuanjin. He erases the spirit and commissions its reforging for Dugu Yunyan 41 42 45.
• Sword-tomb arsenal: Includes imperial weapons, extreme Dao imperial weapons, and three immortal swords; the third immortal sword is not identified in the provided chapters 41.

Story Role / Major Arcs

External Relations

• Xiao Clan — A childhood betrothal to Gu Xiaoya initially provided indirect protection: neighboring enemies hesitated to attack because they feared the Gu Clan. The broken engagement ends with the Xiao Clan’s destruction 2 4 5.
• Myriad Demon Divine Court — Destroyed enemy. Its founding Demon Emperor had established a rule forbidding provocation of the Gu Clan after the Supreme Purity Palace predicted that such a conflict would bring extermination 33 40.
• Supreme Purity Palace — Fellow top power. Its experts challenge the destruction caused by Gu Xuanjin’s immortal Dao clash, but abandon compensation demands after the Gu ancestor refuses responsibility 30.
• Qin Clan — Connected through Gu Xuanjin’s maternal family. Qin Wusheng later invokes the Gu Clan’s backing to persuade his ancestors to suppress Qin Lingkong’s branch 32 47.
• Other ancient stars and star domains — Many fear renewed Gu expansion because their territories remain impoverished by its Desolate Ancient Epoch conquests 40.