"What happened?"
Profound Lord Danyang looked toward the valley, his eyes blood-red.
"Profound Lord, the earth vein qi has been cut off! We can't draw on it!" Su Dian shouted in panic.
"Impossible!"
Not a trace of Profound Lord Danyang's usual calm composure remained on his face. There was only the savage contortion of furious rage.
"The Mystic Zenith Array is founded on the entire earth vein. It has never suffered a mishap in tens of thousands of years. How could the earth vein qi suddenly be cut off?"
"We don't know either. The array is clearly intact, but the earth vein qi won't respond at all."
Su Dian's face was pale as he kept trying to activate the array. Yet although it operated just as before, no earth vein qi surged upward.
"Hahaha..."
Li Hunsheng's sinister laughter rang out from high above.
"Profound Lord Danyang, you deliberately stalled earlier so you could activate the great array's offensive functions. Little did you know that I was stalling too. More than twenty years ago, I ordered someone to secretly bury a Primordial Chaos Qi Embryo in the earth vein deep beneath Azure Purity City. Earlier, I was waiting for the Primordial Chaos Qi Embryo to release its origin qi and contaminate the earth vein! Now, only origin qi remains within it, without a trace of earth vein qi. How could you possibly draw on it? Hahaha..."
Li Hunsheng's laughter was triumphant and unrestrained.
Profound Lord Danyang's expression, however, grew increasingly dark.
"Absolutely impossible! If that Primordial Chaos Qi Embryo had truly been buried more than twenty years ago, it would have contaminated half the earth vein long ago. How could Azure Purity City have seen no trace of origin qi to this day?"
"Because the great Void Race bestowed a supreme