Chapter 1321: Brewing Unrest
In the southern region of the Middle Earth Immortal Region was a continent called the Southern Gaze Continent, stretching along the southern coastline of which was a mountain range that was hundreds of thousands of kilometers in length, and in the mountain range were ninety-eight volcanos, all of which were active.
Every century or so, one or two of these volcanoes would erupt, and on each occasion, countless vagrant cultivators and cultivators from the immortal sects on the Southern Gaze Continent would arrive to marvel at the spectacle.
Of course, they didn't come here purely for sightseeing purposes. Instead, they came to try their luck to see if they could find a spirit material called Fire Refinement Stone from the magma that erupted out of the volcanoes.
In the past, the Heavenly Court had always turned a blind eye to this, allowing the cultivators to try their luck to secure what they could, but things were different this year.
It had been predicted that seventeen volcanoes would erupt at once this year, but right as they were about to erupt, the immortal envoys of the Heaven Guard Pavilion had intervened, guiding the fire veins into the western sea to prevent the eruptions.
None of the cultivators on the continent raised any complaints about this as they knew that this had been done in preparation for the Bodhi Banquet.
In this mountain range was a structure known as the Heaven Answer Gate, which was a very important structure to the Heavenly Court.
The Heaven Answer Gate was the southern gate through which cultivators of other immortal regions entered the Middle Earth Immortal Region, so it was often also referred to as the Southern Heavenly Gate.
To put it more accurately, it was actually a giant teleportation array with tens of thousands of teleportation arrays of different sizes constructed within it, connected to thirty-five other large immortal regions and capable of teleporting hundreds of thousands of people at a time.
With the gate opened, a spatial passageway leading to the other thirty-five large immortal regions could be established, allowing cultivators through from both sides, and there were three more Heaven Answer Gates just like this one.
As the core of the True Immortal Realm, the Middle Earth Immortal Region had a total of nine continents and four seas, all of which were incredibly vast.