Chapter 853 - 68: The Gu Clan Retreats from the World, A Road of Thorns

Even if these elders have already linked the issue to the survival of the Gu Clan.

——To hear the Dao in the morning and die in the evening is enough!

He now truly understands the realm within this phrase.

Of course, this does not mean Gu Hui doesn’t care about the survival of the Gu Clan.

But as a descendant of the Gu Clan.

When he decided to truly take this step, his choice was already destined!

He never intended to drag the Gu Clan into danger.

Even if doing this might add many variables to his journey, he was not shaken at all!

Before anyone else could speak.

At the very moment Gu Hui’s words fell, he slowly kneeled towards Gu Xiuyuan, deeply uttering a sentence: "Hui is willing to follow the old example of Lord Quan."

"No regrets in death!"

——The old deeds of Lord Quan!

Gu Quan disfigured himself to assist Li Shimin, preserving the family while following his heart.

This is not a secret in the current world.

With various clues and the bits of information slowly leaked out by the Gu Clan over the years, this matter is quite clear in the minds of the scholars today.

And consequently, this event has been thoroughly transmitted as a kind of "spirit" now!

Gu Hui now spoke these words to express his determination!

For a moment, the entire hall fell silent.

Almost all the elders looked at Gu Hui with complex expressions, especially Gu Xiuyuan.

He had high hopes for Gu Hui.

Yet he did not expect the situation to develop to this point.

Gu Yi also quietly watched all of this, and honestly, he was not surprised at all by Gu Hui’s choice.

Although he felt that this move might be somewhat unnecessary.

After all, times have changed.

The current scale of the Gu Clan is far from easy to annihilate, but there was nothing he could do.

Whether it’s Gu Hui; or Gu Xiuyuan and other elders.

Gu Yi couldn’t say that what they did was wrong.

Both sides simply have different ideas, but their heart for the world and for the whole family is true.

He could, of course, intervene using the Spirit Communication Jade, and although doing this would definitely consume many achievement points, it could give Gu Hui more support.

But Gu Yi could not do this.

It was not about hesitating or being reluctant to spend achievement points.

It was just that what Gu Hui wants to do now is far too difficult, so difficult that even for the current Gu Clan, it cannot provide him much help.

This path, he must walk by himself.

And it still requires the right time, geographical advantage, and human harmony!

Any one of these cannot be absent!

He quietly watched all of this, ultimately not intervening, silently watching Gu Hui salute the elders, and then slowly walk out of the ancestral hall.

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——The entire world is constantly in turmoil.

The outside disturbances have never blown towards Julu.

The whole of Julu seems to always be the same, ever since the Gu Clan took root in Julu, it seems everything has never changed, remaining the sacred land of all Kyushu and even the entire world.

But this time, Julu stirred without wind.

After the conversation in the ancestral hall that day, Gu Xiuyuan and a group of Gu Clan elders had many talks with Gu Hui, but still, nothing changed.

Neither side would easily persuade the other.

And in the end, there’s only one outcome for this matter.

That was Gu Hui leaving Julu.

And Gu Xiuyuan, the current patriarch of the Gu Clan, declared to the entire world that the Gu Clan would retreat from the world.

This matter was undoubtedly a bombshell for the current Kyushu.

Over the years, the concept that once the Gu Clan fully retreats from the world, there will be another prolonged chaos in the world has formed in all of Kyushu.

Not only the noble scholars know this.

Even the ordinary people have some concept of this.

As the news spread continuously.

The uproar in the world at this moment intensified suddenly, rumors kept rising from all directions, followed by an escalation in turmoil.

——The attitude of the Great Song royal family towards this matter was also very attentive.

Although they did not want to see the Gu Clan in power again, they also did not want to see the Gu Clan retreat from the world like this.

Even if this didn’t affect their daily life.

But the political consequences in this matter were just too significant.

For a time, emissaries from Yingtian Prefecture poured into Julu like a tide, but from start to finish, Gu Xiuyuan’s answer was only one.

He was ill!

The descendants of the Gu Clan are not capable enough to bear the burden of Great Liang.

The Gu Clan will continue to cultivate deeply in Julu as before.

This response from Gu Xiuyuan immensely exasperated the Great Song royal family.

In truth, this is why these people abhor the Gu Clan.

Fundamentally, it’s because they can’t do anything to the Gu Clan.

Dealing with a family like the Gu Clan that has both fame and learning, ancestral laws, and achievements, as long as they come out, the royal interests are bound to be affected.

How could they not loathe them?

Unfortunately, no matter how furious they might be, in the current situation, it is impossible to take action against the Gu Clan!

Gu Yi did not pay too much attention to these matters, as now his focus was almost entirely on Gu Hui.

He wishes to see what someone with Gu Hui’s capabilities will do next.