A Thousand Miles of Sinking Earth, Closing in on the Prefectural City

In Northern Xuan Prefecture, several cities near the core of the plague outbreak gradually met the fate of total human extinction.

After that plague, which had come ferociously and vanished abruptly, a new disaster descended.

One day, deep beneath Chongguang City, the temperature suddenly soared. The underground space, warm in winter and cool in summer, became unbearably scorching like a steamer, with steam rising from the crust in every direction.

It was as though a million hectares of magma were brewing underground, poised on the brink of erupting at any moment.

During this period, the witchfolk army blocked the entrances leading to the surface. They released Gu Worms and venomous insects into the city, spreading deadly poison, dragging down and biting living people, while witch beasts dug through the earth and burrowed into the city.

As a unique underground city, Chongguang City extended in all directions. Unlike surface cities, ordinary methods of attack were ineffective against it.

Despite attacking for a long time, the witchfolk had never managed to shake it in the slightest.

Only when this sudden mutation occurred today did the great Lineages and various forces within the city realize that their enemy had been planning this very upheaval all along.

"An abnormal fault and displacement are coming from the crust. The temperature is rising far too quickly, beyond the normal range."

One of Chongguang City's patriarchs from the Craftsmen Guilds pointed out that a great calamity was brewing underground.

"Is there enough time to escape?"

A powerful martial cultivator of the Xi Family demanded sharply.

Boom!

The next instant, surging steam, firelight, and magma swallowed the entire area.

A faint golden light glimmered over the Xi Family martial cultivator's body. With a slight tremor, he sent flying molten lava hot enough to melt gold and iron. In