"You will." The World Will, taking the form of the Flame Emperor, gave him a long, searching look. "Otherwise, I wouldn't have appeared before you."
"You make it sound like you know me so well. How can you be so certain I will?" Xiao Yan sneered. "Don't you know that what I hate most is playing the savior?"
"Of course I know your temperament. But haven't you heard the saying-when the nest is overturned, how can any egg remain intact? If you ignore this, then when that calamity arrives, you and everyone you care about will face an unprecedented disaster. With your temperament, wouldn't you strangle such a potentially devastating future in its cradle?"
"Tch..." Xiao Yan silently turned his face away. Being seen through like this felt utterly unpleasant. Soon, however, a question occurred to him, and he asked, "Since you have a will of your own, and your power is clearly greater than that of Heavenly Sovereigns and the like, why don't you face this calamity yourself?"
"Because my power sustains the workings of the entire Great Thousand World. If I truly used that power to confront the calamity, I could certainly resolve it, but the entire Great Thousand World would also turn to ash and smoke." The World Will sighed softly. "So this task can only be left to others."
"This calamity you mentioned... what exactly is it?" Xiao Yan couldn't help asking.
"The Extraterritorial Evil Clan."
"And what is the Extraterritorial Evil Clan?" The unfamiliar name left him momentarily startled before he continued his questions.
"A race from beyond the Great Thousand World. They arrived tens of thousands of years ago and attempted to seize this place. In the end, through the efforts of the Immortal Emperor and others, they were finally driven back, though only