As Zhou Xuan's words fell, the Black-Gold Mark on his Right Arm shuddered violently.
The Earth Vein Instrument erupted with Dark Gold light at the same instant.
Across the boundary between flesh and consciousness, the two powers achieved an unprecedented resonance.
The panorama of the crumbling world rapidly drew closer.
The Central Province, the Endless Sea, and the Distant Continent all became dense networks of laws, laid out before Zhou Xuan.
These networks were severely fractured.
Pitch-black Turbid Qi had already occupied more than half their expanse.
Zhou Xuan raised his right hand.
The Black-Gold Mark slowly rotated, and the Immortal Court Inscription inside the Earth Vein Instrument unfolded in response.
Those inscriptions neither formed a formation nor released any defensive power. Instead, they continuously dismantled the world's networks before him.
Mountains.
Rivers.
Spirit veins.
Laws.
Even the Heaven and Earth Will itself was included in the dismantling.
Zhou Xuan stared at the Immortal Court Inscription. Everything he had failed to understand before now had an answer.
The Earth Vein Instrument could devour relics.
It could dismantle laws.
It could absorb earth veins.
It could even compress utterly conflicting powers into pure origin source.
This thing had never been meant to patch up a world on the brink of destruction.
Nor had the Supreme One Immortal Court left these legacies behind so that others could cling to the old world and slowly rot.
They had left behind the Earth Vein Instrument, which devoured existing laws.
They had left behind the Supreme One Token, which held the highest authority.
They had left behind the Immortal Court Prison Ship, which could traverse unknown regions.
Put together, these things pointed to a single answer.
Recreation.
The Immortal Court had long since discovered that the old world was beyond saving.
The contingency they had