Wang Shi patted him on the shoulder.
"It's time I showed you my big treasure. Come on, let's take a trip to the Underworld."
"Why do I loathe all the current systems in the Primordial World? Because they're too backward. The Primordial World is powerful, but it's also backward. Its strength makes it disdain change, and that has kept it on the back foot all this time."
"If it doesn't take the initiative to change, sooner or later the Primordial World will be left behind. That's a historical inevitability."
"You wouldn't want the Primordial World to be destroyed one day, would you? Even if the darkness doesn't erode it, other worlds will leave it behind."
Human Emperor Xuanyuan frowned. He did not quite understand what Wang Shi was saying.
After all, he had no concept of what it meant for an entire world to be left behind.
Besides, the people of the Primordial World cultivated the Great Dao and lived forever. How could other worlds possibly leave it behind? And why would that happen?
Before long, the two arrived in the Underworld.
Xuanyuan looked at all the strange tools in the Underworld, including metal vehicles with four wheels or six.
There were Underworld staff members dressed in uniforms.
There were dedicated cultivation rooms where ghosts could cultivate, as well as specialized training classes conducting all sorts of instruction.
The entire Underworld looked very unfamiliar to him.
In his memory, the Underworld had not been like this. Back then, the place had been desolate, without so many towering buildings.
Soon, they found their way to the top level.
It was in the office building where Houtu worked.
The sign read, "Office Building of August Heaven and Sovereign Earth, Ruler of the Underworld."
What a strange name.
Soon, they took the elevator