As Giant Axe Founder listened to Hu Yanbo explain the World Beasts and their world-destroying threat, turmoil surged through his heart. Instinctively, he resisted believing it.
But looking into Hu Yanbo's eyes, which held not the slightest trace of a joke, he swallowed. "Then how should we respond?"
"It's fine." Hu Yanbo smiled. "You still have me, don't you?"
As he spoke, a hazy, warm, multicolored glow rippled around Hu Yanbo without warning.
The light was not dazzling, yet it seemed to contain the universe's most primordial vitality and order.
Standing within its glow, Giant Axe Founder felt an incomparably majestic, invisible pressure, as though he were facing the vast will of the entire universe.
What shook him even more was that, within the rhythm of the shifting colors, he seemed to catch an almost imperceptible emotional fluctuation resembling delight.
The colored light vanished in a flash, as though it had never appeared, but the atmosphere within the Divine Hall had already changed.
Giant Axe Founder's expression grew rather strange. He looked at Hu Yanbo, hesitating to speak.
Seemingly noticing his confusion, Hu Yanbo asked, "What is it, Giant Axe? Is there something else you want to ask?"
Giant Axe Founder asked gravely, "Wanxiang, I've actually wanted to ask this for a long time. Since you have a special connection with the Origin Will of the Original Universe..."
"Could you... could you ask the origin will to release Original Ancestor?"
"Our Human Race would be endlessly grateful."
For a long time, the Human Race had held little goodwill toward the Origin Will of the Original Universe, which had suppressed Original Ancestor.
Yet Hu Yanbo's rise also had an extraordinary connection to the origin will.
And the Human Race had developed by leaps and bounds under Hu Yanbo's leadership. Especially just