Gu Family

Biodata

Organization

Known Personnel

Wealth and Resources

• Estate: Occupies hundreds of mu in downtown Linhai City and contains a luxurious council hall and gardens 18.
• Mining interests: Operates a contaminated mine and seeks control of a newly discovered C-rank resource mine. The latter takes priority over an open conflict with Chen Tianxing 1 18.
• Cultivation investment: Spends over ten million on high-grade spirit liquid before Gu Chengfeng’s awakening; Gu Qingshan describes the total resources invested in him as tens of millions 1 18.
• Military equipment: Gu Chengfeng’s father supplies second-tier enchanted weapons before the Divine War, reportedly doubling his berserkers’ combat power 5.
• God-Sealing Lock: A custom-made device supplied to the Mist Canyon infiltrators, intended to seal Su Bai’s Divine Kingdom passage once its coordinates are located 40.
• Transport: Uses psionic airships bearing the family emblem 48.

History

Awakening-Day Conflict

The family’s conflict with Su Bai begins when Gu Chengfeng mocks his tiny, contaminated Divine Kingdom and offers him a labor contract for the Gu Family’s mine. He presents the work as a way to keep Su Bai’s sick mother alive while warning that Su Bai himself would not survive more than three years. Su Bai tears up the contract, and Qin Wan prevents Gu Chengfeng from attacking him on school grounds 1 2.

Gu Chengfeng subsequently challenges Su Bai to a full-connection Divine War. Unlike a restricted mock battle, this format allows unrestricted movement between the participants’ Divine Kingdoms and can kill or mentally incapacitate the owner if their core is destroyed 2 5.

Gu Chengfeng’s Defeat

Despite receiving enchanted weapons from his father, Gu Chengfeng loses his entire berserker force to Hongdou, possession-induced infighting, and the contaminated school building’s maze. His Berserk Blood Boiling temporarily counters fear and mental control, but cannot protect the troops from contamination 5 7 8.

Su Bai then drains the origin of Gu Chengfeng’s Divine Kingdom, stopping before killing him because he is not yet strong enough to confront the whole family. More than sixty percent of the kingdom’s origin is lost, and Gu Chengfeng falls to C-rank. Gu Dehai believes that even the family’s best resources will not restore his prospects of becoming a True God 9 10 18.

Gu Dehai attempts to kill Su Bai in retaliation. Qin Wan blocks him, and Chen Tianxing orders him and the family’s bodyguards off school grounds 10.

Assassination Campaign

Gu Qingshan rejects an open attack because it would directly challenge Chen Tianxing and distract from the family’s resource-mine acquisition. Instead, he commissions a covert killing through the Shadow Guild and orders an investigation into Su Bai’s rule-based abilities, hoping to obtain them for the family 18.

The first documented assassin, Venomous Bee, dies alongside fifty shadow-assassin followers inside the Thirteenth Step. His records lead Su Bai to identify Gu Canghai as the likely employer behind the contract 22 23.

Su Bai later ambushes Gu Ming and four Shadow Guild assassins at their meeting place. After killing them, he uses an assassin’s communications watch to lure additional assassins and Gu Family deathsworn into his trap. Their resentful souls become materials for his Midnight School Bus 27 28.

Benevolent Heart Hospital Scheme

The family also pursues Su Bai through official channels. Gu Canghai brings lawyers and education-bureau safety specialists to the school, arguing that Su Bai’s heavily contaminated Divine Kingdom warrants expulsion and forced severance 24.

Working with the family’s lawyer, Wang Hai offers a deadly alternative: Su Bai must enter Benevolent Heart Hospital alone and recover a streamer’s corpse and a second-tier Anomaly sample within forty-eight hours. Su Bai signs the waiver despite Qin Wan’s objections 25.

The family expects him to die and prepares to claim his body and Divine Kingdom core under the pretext of destroying them. Its actual objective is to study his rule-based powers. Instead, Su Bai destroys the hospital’s forbidden zone, returns alive, and presents the City Appearance Bureau’s highest-level safety certification, defeating the severance attempt 34 35.

Mist Canyon Operation

After the hospital scheme fails, Gu Qingshan orders agents within the school to arrange Su Bai’s death during the placement assessment. Fear of retaliation leaves Su Bai unable to recruit a full team; only Lin Que and Shen Yueli accompany him 35 37.

The operation deploys thirty Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps experts of second tier or above, using high-grade disguise scrolls to infiltrate the assessment. Wang Hai coordinates with Gu Qingshan, while the infiltrators carry the God-Sealing Lock to prevent Su Bai from summoning his followers 40.

The mercenaries kill students and use captives in a blood-sacrifice operation intended to awaken the Mist Lord. Su Bai identifies the plan as an attempt to disguise his murder within a mass-casualty “accident.” He kills Wang Meng and his accompanying mercenaries, then hunts the remaining infiltrators with his companions 38 39 40 41 42.

When the realm seals and monitoring fails, Chen Tianxing leads the teachers to force it open. Gu Qingshan remains confident that the Mist Lord will leave no survivors capable of exposing the family 44.

Compensation and Exposure

Su Bai survives and presents Blood Wolf tokens and spatial rings as evidence of the mercenaries’ involvement. Gu Qingshan denies responsibility, but Chen Tianxing forces him to his knees and prepares to cripple him. Su Bai intervenes to demand compensation instead 48.

Under threat of a City Appearance Bureau investigation and testimony from rescued students, Gu Qingshan accepts the settlement 49.

Gu Qingshan withdraws while threatening to remember the debt. Chen Tianxing also orders Wang Hai to resign from the Education Bureau. Nearly a tenth of the assessment’s students are reported dead or injured after the infiltration and beast rampage 49.

Appeal to the Eye of the Abyss

Gu Canghai subsequently sends a secret envoy to seek aid from the Eye of the Abyss. The envoy acknowledges that the family established the Mist Canyon diversion array and reports its suspicion that Su Bai possesses the secret to controlling dark matter 50.

The Eye’s representative connects Su Bai to Su Qingshan’s theft of Pollution Source Zero twelve years earlier. Rather than simply offering assistance, the representative instructs the envoy to tell Gu Canghai that the Eye is “taking over” the matter 50.

External Relations

• Su Bai — Enemy and research target. The family seeks both revenge for Gu Chengfeng and access to Su Bai’s rule-based powers 18 35.
• Wang Hai — Education Bureau ally who helps apply regulatory pressure and coordinate the Mist Canyon operation; loses his position after its exposure 25 40 49.
• Shadow Guild — Contracted assassination organization used to pursue Su Bai outside the family’s public operations 18 27.
• Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps — Hired force deployed inside Mist Canyon; its members are defeated during the assessment 40 48.
• Chen Tianxing — Principal and True God-level obstacle to direct retaliation. Protects Su Bai at school and confronts Gu Qingshan over the sacrificed students 10 48.
• Bai Lan and the City Appearance Bureau — Su Bai’s consultant status and safety certification restrict the family’s options. The threat of a formal Bureau investigation forces Gu Qingshan to pay compensation 18 34 49.
• Eye of the Abyss — Organization approached for assistance after Mist Canyon; claims control of the pursuit of Su Bai 50.