"The Red Sea staff carry a certain inexplicable arrogance, a sense of pride, mingled with deep respect for Hao Qi's status as a Martial Artist of the Inner Force Realm," the staff member said with a smile. "Control of the Red Queen Base was initially secured by thirteen martial groups. After all, back in that era, exploring ruins and successfully completing those missions was essentially the domain of bigwigs in the Inner Force Realm. But human hearts are selfish; some of those martial groups tried to monopolize the Red Queen, while others perished when their missions failed. In the end, only seven martial groups survived. Moreover, the tasks set by the Red Queen often required massive amounts of manpower and material resources—far beyond the capacity of just one or two martial groups. Later on, under the leadership of the Rising Red Sun, a super martial group established by Lord Pan Liuhai, who was one of the Nine Martial Kings, the remaining six groups expanded aggressively, transforming from martial groups into conglomerates. Aside from the Rising Red Sun Super Martial Group, which chose to remain a martial group, the other six groups evolved over the next century into the Six Major Conglomerates. Eventually, the Rising Red Sun Martial Group and the Six Major Conglomerates came to jointly control the allocation of access to the Red Queen Base."
"After that, the technology retrieved from the Red Queen Base began to spread through the efforts of the Six Major Conglomerates,…
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