On the far western reaches of the Origin Continent stood an ancient and powerful nation—Tianmu Kingdom.
Tianmu Kingdom possessed its kingdom-protecting beast, the World Beast, and was incomparably powerful. Few dared provoke it.
Except for the Top Power, Mingxian Archipelago.
That time, in order to deal with Mingxian Archipelago, the World Beast had secretly acted once, causing one of Mingxian Archipelago's God Kings to fall. Because it had been too covert, Mingxian Archipelago had been unwilling to let others learn of it and sealed off the news internally. Thus, the outside world never received word. Only a few Peak Powers with well-informed intelligence networks knew anything about it. Ordinary God Kings such as Mountaineer Guest had not even received the news and had always believed that Tianmu Kingdom's kingdom-protecting World Beast had never acted throughout the endless ages.
The war between Tianmu Kingdom and Mingxian Archipelago was usually limited to those below Chaos Masters and took the form of covert संघर्ष.
For example, assassinating the other side's geniuses, joining forces with other factions to pressure the other side's forces, seizing the other side's resources, or even placing bounties in Wujian Tower for the lives of the other side's experts—every sort of scheme was employed.
After all, colossal factions like Mingxian Archipelago and Tianmu Kingdom would not normally erupt into all-out war unless it was a life-and-death showdown.
The capital of Tianmu Kingdom was a colossal city built and stationed by a God King. Such cities were generally called Universe Cities or God King Cities. Boundless and magnificent, they were home to countless living beings.
Above the city floated ninety-nine enormous "suns," each thousands or tens of thousands of times larger than a True God's Small Universe. Their ancient light shone upon the old buildings below.
In truth, these ninety-nine "suns"