As time passed, in the blink of an eye, the powerhouses had already been on the Gu Lan Continent for a month.
During this month, Ye Chen had essentially completely integrated into this ancient world. The Saints of the Heavenly Gate had not displayed their world-shaking saintly might, instead transforming into slightly more powerful cultivators and beginning to gather intelligence from all sides, seeking to understand the whereabouts of the September Great Power's legacy and the origin of the alien race Great Sage.
The September Great Power's legacy, in particular, was the top priority.
Ye Chen had originally thought that by relying on the True King divine crown left behind by the September Great Power, he could directly search for the legacy and use the True King divine crown to inherit it.
But he was mistaken. The September Great Power's legacy was not something that could be obtained so simply. At least on the Gu Lan Continent, after its initial tremor, his True King divine crown had returned to calmness, and no matter how he urged it, it would not respond.
Regarding this, Ye Chen could only feel helpless. He had no choice but to rely on his own abilities to search for it.
Naturally, the Gu Lan Continent was far too vast and immense. Even though he was as powerful as he was, not inferior to an Ancient Saint, trying to search for it alone was undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The human race had flourished for over a hundred thousand years—this was one of the key pieces of intelligence Ye Chen had obtained, as the September Great Power had passed away a hundred thousand years ago, which aligned perfectly.
On the Gu Lan Continent, there were countless factions, and the competition between them was equally fierce. Almost every day, some factions declined and perished, while new factions rose to prominence. However, no matter what, there were several factions that could be called overlords, which had endured in the mortal world for a hundred thousand years.
The Gu Lan Holy Church, and the two great empires: the Ancient Kingdom and the Lan Kingdom.
One was the truly undisputed ruling power of the Gu Lan Continent, a peerless Holy Church that reigned supreme over the world, to which all major factions bowed their heads in submission, and which all people under heaven believed in.
Although the other two great empires could not compare to the Gu Lan Holy Church, they were still extraordinary. Having lasted for so many years without truly declining, and continuing to grow stronger, they were among the overlords of the Gu Lan Continent second only to the Gu Lan Holy Church, which said it all.
Moreover, they were factions that had appeared from the very beginning of the human race's flourishing, enduring for a hundred thousand years without perishing.
Ye Chen had reason to believe that the September Great Power's legacy was most likely within one of these three major powers, with the Gu Lan Holy Church having the greatest chance. Otherwise, without corresponding power, it would have been impossible for it to hold the reins of the world for a hundred thousand years and dominate for so long.
Naturally, not everyone was like Ye Chen and the other Heavenly Gate Saints, who blended into the mortal world without disturbing the secular realm to collect intelligence and understand the Gu Lan Continent.
During this period, the entire Gu Lan Continent had been completely thrown into an uproar—a single stone stirred up a thousand waves.
Because a considerable number of radical powerhouses from the myriad realms, believing themselves sufficiently powerful, directly descended upon a certain sect or kingdom, suppressed it with overwhelming means, took its place, and had those factions and kingdoms offer tribute to them, obey their commands, and investigate the whereabouts of the alien race Great Sage's origin and the September Great Power's legacy. This resulted in fierce resistance.
However, their resistance directly angered those powerhouses from the myriad realms. Aside from the young talents, basically every one of them hailed from Immortal Forces and held high positions and great authority. They usually walked the world with arrogance, their majesty not tolerating the provocation and resistance of others.
Therefore, in their anger, they directly massacred a major faction, shocking the world.
Originally, the massacre of a single faction, while its impact was significant, was still within the vast territory of the Gu Lan Continent. The law of the jungle prevailed; every day, factions declined and rose. Major factions basically had their own enemies, and enemies coming to their door to massacre them was commonplace, nothing out of the ordinary.
But in the short span of just ten days that followed, more than ten factions were completely massacred, their entire lineages wiped out. The methods were basically the same, which thoroughly alarmed the entire Gu Lan Continent, drawing the attention of all under heaven, and even startling the Gu Lan Holy Church and the two Immortal Empires.
To this end, the Gu Lan Holy Church dispatched a truly powerful Emissary to investigate—a Super Divine Transformation cultivator.
Such a figure was already sufficiently powerful on the Gu Lan Continent, and with the status of a Gu Lan Holy Church Emissary, even a Demi-Saint would treat him politely upon meeting him, not daring to offend the Gu Lan Holy Church behind him.
However, while the powerhouses of the Gu Lan Continent revered the Gu Lan Holy Church, the powerhouses from the myriad realms were unafraid, even looking down upon it, merely viewing it as a faction that had never seen the wider world.
Faced with this Gu Lan Holy Church Emissary's demand for accountability, in their anger, they directly flipped their hand and killed that Emissary, thoroughly alarming the Gu Lan Holy Church and shaking the world.
For over so many years, no one had dared to provoke the majesty of the Gu Lan Holy Church. Even Saint-realm existences faced this Gu Lan Holy Church, which had ruled the Gu Lan Continent for countless years, with immense reverence, not daring to offend it.
With the Gu Lan Holy Church's majesty provoked, it naturally grew angry. An even more powerful Emissary appeared to pursue and kill the perpetrator—a super powerhouse at the peak of the ninth heaven of Divine Transformation.
But the result once again shook the world. That super powerhouse of the Gu Lan Holy Church was still killed, his blood staining the heavens.
Not long after, a Demi-Saint-level Holy Church Elder led ten Super Divine Transformation cultivators to pursue and kill, as the Holy Church had issued a kill order.
They had thought that no matter how powerful that person was, it would be useless, as he could not possibly be a match for the Holy Church's law enforcers.
Unfortunately, the result shook the world again and again.
The Holy Church's law enforcers were completely annihilated, with not a single survivor.
Not long after, the powerhouses of the Gu Lan Continent suddenly discovered that many strange and extremely powerful super figures had appeared in this world. Each one was astonishingly powerful; even those from the younger generation were ridiculously strong, being at least young supreme powerhouses who dominated the Divine Transformation realm. This thoroughly shook the Gu Lan Continent.
When had such a group of powerful figures appeared on the Gu Lan Continent? Why had they never shown themselves before?
If there were only a few, it would be one thing, but their numbers were far too many—at least over a hundred.
This shocked many, and even the three Immortal Forces—the Gu Lan Holy Church, the Ancient Kingdom, and the Lan Kingdom—were astonished.
Because even with their powerful intelligence networks spread across the world, they could not discover the origins of these strange super powerhouses. It was as if they had appeared out of thin air.
This was fundamentally impossible. Generally, no matter how these people hid, they would always reveal some traces, but they seemed to have truly appeared out of nowhere.
Finally, after a Myriad Domains Saint slaughtered the Holy Church's law enforcers, he arrogantly and frankly declared that they were not beings of the Gu Lan Continent, but came from a broader outer world. This seemingly vast Gu Lan Continent was merely a continent sealed within an inner world.
A single stone stirred up a thousand waves!