He remembered his own shock, his own visceral revulsion, when Ye Cangtian had first shown him the blueprint in the crystalline cave. He had felt betrayed, angered. But Ye Cangtian… Ye Cangtian had been the architect. The betrayal he felt must have been a thousand times worse, a self-inflicted wound of cosmic proportions.
"He tried to warn them, didn't he?" Xiaochen asked, his gaze fixed on the image of the young emperor, now desperately trying to decipher ancient runes, searching for a solution.
"He tried. Oh, how he tried," Ye Cangtian confirmed, a dark, hollow chuckle echoing in Xiaochen's mind. "He went to his fellow emperors, his allies, the very ones he had convinced to support the construction of the Pillars. He showed them the data. He revealed the parasitic nature of the Qi Surga
