Yue Zibin and the others had gone pale because the Heavenly Net and the Spirit Nest were the very foundations of the Land Alliance. It could be said that the Land Alliance's stable rule depended entirely upon these two things.
If anything went wrong with them, the Land Alliance would no longer be able to suppress the restless monsters within, nor the cultivators dissatisfied with them. The order built over countless years would collapse in an instant.
Now Chong An had aimed directly at these two things. It was impossible not to suspect his intentions.
Yue Zibin struggled to steady himself and said in as calm a tone as possible, "Then may I ask, True Person, what exactly is wrong with these two things?"
Chong An did not answer directly. "You two must know of the changes in heaven and earth some time ago, correct?"
Naturally, he was not referring to his own attainment of the Primordial Spirit, but to the connection of heaven and earth and the breach of the Upper Layer's boundary. The Land Alliance's Heavenly Net had also reacted abnormally because of that event.
Yue Zibin asked, "Is this related to the matter?"
Chong An said, "My teacher told me that there is a kind of strange insect that came from beyond heaven. It had already lurked within this world before we living beings appeared, yet it had shown no unusual movements all this time. Now that heaven and earth have connected, however, it may awaken.
"These things reproduce with terrifying strength. If left unattended, once they spread unchecked, they would be enough to destroy this entire world. By then, not only the Land Alliance, but every living being in this world would be unable to escape this calamity."
Hearing him speak so gravely, Yue Zibin instructed