After accepting the ancestral root, he spoke with Luo Tianxian, Meng Hai, and the others for a while. Then Zhou Tong left their side and came to the land he had claimed.
"So this is my territory. But the dark contamination in this area seems rather severe!" The moment Zhou Tong arrived, he frowned. The essence of heaven and earth here was exceptionally abundant, containing powerful substances enough to send a cultivator's cultivation soaring.
Yet amid that abundant essence and those beneficial substances lurked large amounts of weirdness, ominousness, and deathly qi.
There must have been some great battle or catastrophic extinction here.
With a thought, Zhou Tong casually pointed, sweeping aside a vast patch of grass to reveal rubble lying beneath the soil, along with cold ruins and remains amid those ruins.
This was High Heaven after its defeat and destruction. Great extinctions had occurred in many places.
"Come to think of it, Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai didn't completely save all of High Heaven. At least, they abandoned this region. Or was this area invaded by weirdness and ominousness long ago? Or did they abandon it because no Dao Ancestor-level being was born here?" Countless thoughts surfaced in Zhou Tong's mind.
But he did not pursue them further, because such matters were no longer important.
Zhou Tong stood in the void, his entire body blooming with boundless light as endless flames poured forth from him.
These flames were formless and intangible. After spreading out, they did not ignite a single blade of grass or tree. Instead, all the weirdness, ominousness, and deathly qi in the void were purified.
At that instant, Zhou Tong was like a sun, releasing endless light and heat, completely burning away the darkness and deathly qi that had shrouded this place for several eras.