Once she finished speaking, the bubbles dissipated completely.
Little Whale spread her fins. "What happened afterward was fairly simple. We successfully met up with Hold Up the Heavens, and things developed into what they are today."
Everyone looked at one another without a word. There was only silence.
The people from the End of the World kept glancing at Hold Up the Heavens. Wang Jianshe slapped his thigh.
"Well, I'll be! You're the director of the Construction Engineering Institute!"
Su Wuwei looked helpless. "Give it a rest, Old Wang. All we did was take the blueprints you developed and build everything once. If anyone deserves to be called the creators, it's the researchers who worked tirelessly for over five hundred years."
Kou Ying nodded. "Exactly. We were just the delivery crew."
After everyone had spent a few minutes digesting this, Wan Lan decided it was about time and spoke up.
"Shall I go next, then?"
[Fear] nodded. "I've more or less got the picture. Let me hear your side."
Wan Lan curled a finger and tapped the back of her hand.
"Let me think. I really should start with the Gaokao, with the founding of Hold Up the Heavens."
The End of the World: ...
That far back?
"The Gaokao-a term everyone knows well. That year, our cohort got a complete newcomer, who encountered Wind-Thunder during the exam trial, the successor to [Tempest Fiend]. Later, six of us formed a team and named it Hold Up the Heavens.
"Not long after we formed the team, we entered the Withered Glory Theatre and learned that Mu Bingge was connected to [Abyssal Erosion]. After that, we took part in the River of Forgetfulness Reform and discovered that Lou Guanshan was connected to [Earthshaker].
"Only later did we learn that we'd been set