The Kunwu Supreme Saint, Jiang Guan.
He had left the Kunwu Continent a million years ago, heading for an unknown region.
At the time, the Kunwu Continent had already been nearing the end of the age of True Lords and Sages.
The cultivation resources of the Kunwu Continent could scarcely sustain the emergence of any more Immortal Cultivators in the Immortal Above Realm.
And after the Void Return Realm cultivators of the Kunwu Continent fell one after another, the continent entered a new age.
An age in which disaster and opportunity coexisted.
Braving the risk of karmic backlash from Immortal Above Realm Great Experts and the collapse it could bring, Immortal Cultivators built one Super Sect after another upon the legacies the Void Return Realm True Lords had left behind in the world.
Soon, these Super Sects ruled the Kunwu Continent.
Then the cultivation resources of the Kunwu Continent grew even scarcer.
The Super Sects founded upon the "legacies" of those Void Return Realm True Lords gradually diminished their presence, ultimately becoming Hidden Sects.
At the same time, the present configuration of the Kunwu Continent formally took shape.
This was the order Mei Gaoge spoke of.
"The Kunwu Continent needs to keep functioning, preserving the state it was in when Sage Jiang left as closely as possible."
Mei Gaoge replied:
"We cannot let Chen Yan turn the Kunwu Continent into a complete mess."
"Is that so? From what you're saying, True Lord Mei, the order of the Kunwu Continent is Sage Jiang's order. But as for what that order actually looked like in Sage Jiang's time, surely you're only guessing yourself..."
Jun Duzhao paused briefly as he spoke.
"After all, whether among the Nine Great Hidden Sects of today or all the Hidden Sects altogether, not a single Immortal Cultivator