Director One said.
Lin Feng frowned.
"What do you mean?"
Director One struggled to sit up.
He leaned against the wall of the crater.
"Why do you think,"
he said,
"the Consortium wants to rule the Great Thousand World?"
"Why does it capture people from the Sandbox Universe?"
Director One looked at Lin Feng.
"Do you think"
"we do it just out of greed?"
Lin Feng tightened his grip on the Heaven-Opening Axe.
"What else?"
Director One shook his head.
"You're wrong."
He said.
"You have no idea"
"what the truth of this world is."
Director One's body
was crumbling continuously.
The remnants of the Power of Creation
were eating away at his vitality.
But he paid no attention.
He only stared fixedly at Lin Feng.
"Beyond the Great Thousand World,"
Director One said,
"there is an even more terrifying place."
"We call it... the Abyss."
Lin Feng listened.
He said nothing.
"The Abyss,"
Director One continued,
"is filled with the dark tide."
"It is a calamity that can devour every universe."
"Countless epochs ago,"
Director One said,
"the Abyss Dark Tide erupted."
"It nearly destroyed the entire Great Thousand World."
"It was the original seven directors,"
Director One said,
"who exhausted their lives"
"in the Interstitial Space"
"to establish a seal."
"That seal is this Eternal Fortress."
Director One pointed around him.
"Beneath this fortress,"
he said,
"the entrance to the Abyss is held sealed."
Lin Feng's gaze changed.
"Holding the Abyss sealed?"
"Yes."
Director One said.
"But the seal needs energy."
"An enormous amount of energy."
"The energy of the Great Thousand World,"
Director One said,
"is nowhere near enough to sustain the seal."
"So,"
Director One looked at Lin Feng,
"we created the Sandbox Universe."
"The humans there,"
Director One said,
"we used as batteries to supply