The Core Stone Chamber at the heart of the Immortal-Burying Abyss.
The heavy stone door crashed down, shutting out all the noise outside.
Zhou Xuan sat squarely at the head of the table, tapping his fingers rhythmically against its surface.
Old Ancestor Cangwu and Ji Chen stood on either side, traces of the ashen aura they had brought back from the Bottomless Abyss still clinging to them.
Below them, Emperor Jiang Wu, Old Ancestor Xuanming, and the Origin Return Alliance Leader had been waiting for some time.
"I called you here to inform you of something."
Zhou Xuan stopped tapping his fingers and got straight to the point.
Emperor Jiang Wu leaned forward slightly, all ears.
"I'm going to turn the whole of Central Province into a farm."
Zhou Xuan's tone was calm.
The stone chamber fell silent for a moment.
The Origin Return Alliance Leader froze, unable to grasp what that word meant.
"A farm?" Old Ancestor Xuanming blinked, his face full of confusion.
Zhou Xuan leaned back in his chair and clasped his hands.
"There's a World Seed beneath the Bottomless Abyss."
"That thing is nearly dead. It needs a vast amount of energy to feed it."
"And its favorite nourishment is turbid qi waste processed by the Purifier."
Looking at the three men below him, Zhou Xuan briefly recounted what he had seen in the Bottomless Abyss.
After hearing him out, Emperor Jiang Wu sucked in a breath of cold air, his normally composed face filled with horror.
The Origin Return Alliance Leader's mouth fell open, and he could not close it for a long while.
Using the corrupted waste of all Central Province to feed a World Seed capable of creating heaven and earth?
Such a mad undertaking, one that could reshape heaven and earth, lay