THUMP... THUMP... THUMP-THUMP!
Fifty miles beneath the Dry-Well Heaven-Pillar Tower, inside the unplugged Planetary Core Chamber, the golden magma sea was no longer sluggish or half-frozen.
For ten thousand years, the Upper Realm’s Planetary Spirit-Draining Nail had acted like a giant iron tourniquet around Planet Canglan’s heart, choking off its blood vessels and sucking away ninety-nine percent of its vitality.
Now, not only had Pei Xuan yanked the Nail completely out of the earth, he had also pumped ninety-nine years of stolen Liquid World-Origin Qi back into the core and linked all four corners of the world into a single, seamless circulation loop: - To the North, the Continental Floor-Heating Grid carried warm core-fire across 3,000 miles of the Ice Wastes; - To the South, the Ten-Thousand-Mile Night Market Wall and Steppe Highways channeled spirit-heat through the Demon Lands; - To the East, the Undersea Glass Train Tunnels circulated pure Sweet-Spring essence into the deepest ocean trenches; - And in the Center, the ten-mile-tall Heaven-Pillar Tower acted as the planet’s giant lung, breathing in raw Cosmic Star-Light Qi from outer space on the 10,000th floor and pumping it straight down into the planetary veins!
Standing on the 500th-floor Floating Jade Cloud Island beside the original Sweet-Spring Well, Pei Xuan closed his eyes.
