Hidden Truths

After examining them, Gu Xuan withdrew his gaze.

"I am Gu Xuan, a fourth-rank general of the Heavenly Court's Southern Legion. By order, I have come to reclaim the fragment. Give your full cooperation, and you will not be denied your benefits."

Gu Xuan revealed his identity, his tone calm, utterly disregarding everyone present.

If not for the Hongmeng fragment, the people of the Origin Continent would not even have been qualified to meet him.

At those words, the people of the Origin Continent were shaken.

They had previously learned the general situation of the Heavenly Court from Du Yuanlang and the others.

The Heavenly Court had five Heavenly Emperors who suppressed the cosmic river of stars, each governing one region, with five great legions beneath them.

Heavenly Court officials were ranked from first to ninth grade. To serve as a fourth-rank general, one's cultivation had to reach the Late-Heavenly Human Realm; one also needed to have rendered illustrious military achievements and have someone backing them.

The Primordial Realm commanded hundreds of millions of star systems, which together formed the Hongmeng Star Realm.

Before the Hongmeng Star Realm, the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms were no more than a single grain of sand from the Ganges.

There were countless experts throughout the Primordial Realm. Innumerable people smashed their heads bloody trying to enter the Heavenly Court, yet could not find a way in.

The Heavenly Court was the sole ruler of the Hongmeng Star Realm. Even a ninth-rank Heavenly official had to be treated courteously by other factions, who did not dare offend them.

A fourth-rank general was already part of the Heavenly Court's middle ranks. Even some great powers of the Dao-Integration Realm did not dare provoke one lightly.

That was precisely why Gu Xuan and the others