Tianxuan Continent, deep within the inner sea.
More than a month had passed.
The Four Great Experts and Gu Chenfeng had all recovered from their injuries.
Then the Dragon Emperor used a secret art, making the dragon-bone flying boat expand into a gigantic fortress that sank to the bottom of the waters.
Taiching Daoist laid down layer upon layer of restrictions with the Star Chart's formation patterns, sealing off the fortress.
The Four Great Experts entered seclusion together, formally attempting to break through to Saint Level.
This process might take months, years, or perhaps even longer.
Meanwhile, Gu Chenfeng appeared before the ruins of the Sea God Hall.
He gazed at these ruins, which had sunk underwater and endured long ages.
A trace of anticipation filled Gu Chenfeng's eyes as he hoped to find, within this destroyed civilization, a spark that could sustain the civilization of the Seven Star Continent.
Finally, his figure flashed through the Sea God Hall's mountain gate. He entered the ruins and began his exploration.
As Gu Chenfeng uncovered one dust-sealed trace after another in the Sea God Hall's ruins and broke through ancient restrictions,
a once-brilliant and mighty civilization slowly unfolded before his eyes.
The wealth of precious information and ancient texts within required him to pause and carefully contemplate and understand them.
And so he explored, one steady step at a time.
Time slipped away, the years flying like a weaver's shuttle.
Within the Time Wheel Space, ten years passed in the snap of a finger.
At that moment, Gu Chenfeng sat cross-legged deep within the Sea God Hall, before a towering divine stele a hundred thousand feet tall.
According to the Sea God Hall's records, this divine stele had existed since the hall's founding.
It symbolized the Sea God Hall's supreme authority