But...

The severity of the situation needed no further elaboration.

In truth, the seeds of disaster for this battle had been sown long ago. The construction of the Magic Net in the East had been far too hasty, and the great families in power had never reached an agreement. They were all ancient clans that had endured for ages. No one could tolerate a single family suddenly growing powerful, then lording it over the others.

Since that was the case, whoever had the bigger fist got to speak.

Yet to guard against precisely such a situation, the powerful experts of every family had held back and had not truly started fighting anyone. They wanted to determine a victor, but also wanted to prevent others from reaping the benefits, while wanting to be the ones reaping those benefits themselves. Wanting too much while giving too little was never realistic.

In fact, the Zhu Family had done the most among all these families.

More precisely, Zhu Sha had.

It was Zhu Sha who had obtained the legitimacy for the East to construct the Magic Net from the World Will. Otherwise, they could never have created a divine artifact like the Wind Wheel.

This sort of divine artifact that governed matter was fundamentally different from White Jade Capital.

Put plainly, White Jade Capital was merely a reserve weapon stored within the Azure Deep Sea.

It was not used often.

And every use consumed an enormous amount of power.

But the Magic Net was different. This thing was itself the prototype of a world controller.

Without an absolute reason, the world itself would never permit such a thing to be controlled by a single race, much less by only a portion of that race.

Zhu Sha had spent a great deal of time, along with