Elder Kru Ash and all the elders in the Council Hall looked toward Lei Mo.
"Uh—I was just guessing, okay? Just guessing!"
For the first time, Lei Mo felt the pressure. He wanted to slap himself across the face.
Why'd you have to show off? Now think of how you're going to explain this.
Lei Mo cursed himself for running his mouth. He could have put it more tactfully.
"With so many Saint Realm experts unable to make any progress for countless years, it's only reasonable to suspect that there are higher-level continents beyond our own, right?"
He wiped at his brow, though there wasn't actually any sweat there. With Franklin around, Lei Mo wasn't afraid. Believe it or not—Lei Mo believed it anyway.
"There is no Supreme Plane or Divine Plane or anything like that. The eight ancestors simply searched around the continent for places suited to their cultivation."
Boom—
Lei Mo's mind seemed to explode!
He'd had his suspicions before, but they'd always been vague. No one had ever clearly told him whether a Supreme Plane or Divine Plane existed.
The certainty in Elder Kru Ash's words left Lei Mo both shocked and overjoyed!
"Hahaha! There's no Supreme Plane, no Divine Plane! Hahaha!"
In the end, excitement won out over shock. He couldn't laugh out loud, and nearly choked to death holding it in.
His emotions had swung wildly, leaving him a little dazed, while the elder continued speaking.
"The ancestor who cultivated fire settled at a volcano's crater. The ancestor who cultivated Lightning Law found a mountaintop that attracted lightning like nothing else. The eight ancestors all went their separate ways."
Elder Kru Ash paid no attention to Lei Mo's ever-changing expression and continued speaking as if to himself.
"The ancestor said that Queen Seraph had simply