The chain reaction triggered by the collapse of the Stone Pillar was far more explosive than Meng Chao had imagined.
Not only did the Stone Pillar itself smash into the ground with an earth-shaking, deafening crash.
The vast amounts of dust and trace crystal elements contained within the Stone Pillar also underwent a violent reaction no less intense than a dust explosion under the extreme-speed friction, igniting clusters of multicolored flames in midair.
The flames vanished in a flash, yet transformed into vast quantities of acrid smoke that ravaged the surroundings like visible shockwaves.
The entire stone forest was instantly engulfed in smoke and dust so thick one could not see one's own hand.
Because the trace crystal components had released all their Spiritual Energy in an instant.
The Spiritual Energy ripples drifting through the air escalated into Stormy Waves.
Whether they were White Bone Battalion elites, High Priests, Origin Warriors, or Meng Chao and Ice Storm, everyone's senses and Totem Power were severely disrupted, turning them into headless flies that had fallen into boiling porridge.
The upside was that nearly every Stone Pillar serving as an "antenna" had been blasted apart by Meng Chao.
The Great Horned Rat God Statues erected atop them, along with the High Priests seated cross-legged and burning their brains to amplify brainwave signals, all fell into the billowing smoke and dust, their fates unknown.
Naturally, whether it was "Jackal" Kanus or some other mysterious presence attempting to transmit nightmare visions and killing commands deep into the stone forest from afar.
Its scheme had been cut off by removing the firewood from under the pot.
Of the nine Origin Warriors receiving killing commands.
Only about half had completed the command transmission and become "Jackal" Kanus's assassins.
The other half remained indiscriminate killing machines.
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