At this moment, the Underworld was embedded within the Present World, like mother and child—a world within the world.
Time was absurdly dislocated, yet space was joined with utmost closeness.
Only at the moment when the Yellow Dragon pierced the sea and entered the Underworld, and Jingli dripped water into the Heavenly River, were Jingli's time and the Underworld's time brought into unity.
The Underworld, still in the midst of ascension, was being drenched in the unreserved killing intent of the Great Qi Emperor.
The emperor's wrath that crashed down with that Fang Tian Ghost God Halberd seemed more surging than the Heavenly Sea, more vast and mighty than the Heavenly River.
It did not merely howl through the Underworld; it affected the entire East Sea.
Not only did the Heavenly River bow like a White Dragon, but an expanse of sea stretching tens of thousands of miles lay still as a mirror!
Every ripple was pressed flat.
All things with their differing edges and corners were made docile. Heavenly Scripture and Earth Weft—the halberd's edge itself was law!
Ksitigarbha could not understand. He had treated others kindly, remained humble in manner, yielded benefits, and pitied all living beings. Why had he drawn such fierce killing intent... Why was Jiang Shu so resolute!
He desperately needed Jiang Shu's support. For the East Sea of today already belonged to Qi. If the Underworld born here could obtain the recognition of the Qi State's emperor, it would greatly advance the Underworld's growth. Like an unborn child in its mother's womb, also sheltered by its father, it would naturally thrive.
The Present World was the mother, while the responsibility of the realm was the father's burden.
By borrowing the Present World to gestate the Underworld as a fetus, he did not merely seek