Nagano's Hierarchy

Gu Shen looked somewhat startled. His first thought was, Could this be something the King of the Underworld had created?

The Golden Grain Flower was only around a hundred meters tall.

How had this moth grown so enormous?

"Three years ago, the Highest Seat passed the experimental application for the Awakening Act and selected Sang Continent Grotto as the testing site..." Chu Ling said slowly. "On the day the application was approved, Sang Continent Grotto was completely sealed off."

She brought up a map of the Southern Continent.

The southern coast of the Southern Continent was surrounded by the Ice Sea. Sang Continent Grotto was an isolated island at its southernmost edge, much like Gubu Fortress, which jutted out along the borderlands of the Northern Continent. Sang Continent Grotto was roughly the bottommost point of the Five Continents.

Further south lay the Sea of Source Matter Destruction, marked as an extremely high-risk zone on maps for transcendents.

"Sang Continent Grotto."

Gu Shen's expression immediately turned grave.

He recalled the things Bai Zhu had told him.

A ruin had appeared in the depths of the Ice Sea.

After the Seven Divine Apostles spent a year investigating it without success, the Storm God's Throne had personally headed south.

"Sang Continent Grotto has been completely sealed for three years. Its Awakening experiment's progress has never been publicly disclosed... According to the act, the Holy City researchers placed Sang Continent Grotto under absolute 'sealing,' while Deep Sea was responsible for supervision and submitted regular reports to the Five Continents Council in the form of logs."

Chu Ling said calmly, "But last night, the Holy City Research Institute submitted a request for help to the Five Continents Council."

"A request for help?"

Gu Shen frowned. "What did the Holy City Research Institute ask for?"

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