Tiantou City.
This ancient city, which had endured the rise and fall of generations of dynasties, still retained a strong, old-fashioned charm. The streets were sparsely populated, and the atmosphere was oppressive. After the Sun Moon Federation unified the continent, the glory of the old city-states had long since faded, leaving silence and desolation everywhere.
Long Yeyue led Shrek's remaining forces quietly into the territory of Tiantou City. No one knew that this battered group was the remnant strength of Shrek Academy, which had once swept across the continent with no one daring to provoke it. Everyone deliberately restrained their auras, concealed their movements, avoided the Federation patrols, and advanced all the way toward the heart of Tiantou City.
Most outsiders believed the Tang Sect headquarters was located in Shrek City, unaware that it was only a symbolic outpost displayed to the public to represent their cooperation. The Tang Sect's true core foundation had always been hidden five hundred meters beneath Tiantou City.
This underground domain had been expanded and refined generation after generation over a full three thousand years by Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect.
The two top-tier powers had worked together on its construction, almost hollowing out the entire underground space beneath Tiantou City, relying on countless incomparably thick alloy pillars to support the surface and stabilize the underground structure of the whole city.
Successive Sea God Pavilion masters and Tang Sect masters had long anticipated the possibility of their powers rising and falling, and had specially built this underground base.
Its purpose was to guard against sudden upheaval. If either Shrek Academy or the Tang Sect encountered a crisis of decline like the one ten thousand years ago, the other side could rely on this place to provide vast resources, military support, and a place of