He had already learned that this great calamity befalling the Ancient Sacred Clan had been jointly instigated by the Strongest Myriad Races of Boundless. They had even lured all of the clan's immortals into the Extraterritorial Battlefield before crushing the clan's strongholds across the Great Age one by one.
Immortals could not bear children, so this clan would only slowly decline.
Yet precisely because of this, the Boundless Myriad Races had clearly shown immense interest in the Chaos Ancient Road. They wanted to force the Ancient Sacred Clan to open the Chaos Ancient Road and seek a way to survive.
Perhaps in Gu Yuexi's eyes, as long as a Chaos Crystal remained in his hands, even after he entered sitting meditation, he could ensure that the Five Elements Sect's lineage would endure without extinction.
After all, they were not beings of the Ancient Sacred Clan, but descendants of the Human Emperor Ancestral Domain. There was no need for the Ten Thousand Clans 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 like the best possible destination.
As an immortal of the Ancient Sacred Clan, how could she not know what the Myriad Race Immortals had in mind regarding Chen Xun's immortal corpse and the Five Elements Dao Lineage?
Leaving the Chaos Crystal to Chen Xun was to repay his great kindness, but also to allow her own clan to pass on safely—to leave behind a protective talisman that could save their lives.
Even Chen Xun had not expected that behind Gu Yuexi's simple action lay so many calculations. She had even factored in his affairs after death and the