Rumble...
The cliff collapsed, and the enormous, muffled sound traveled an unknown distance along the main body of the Sleeping Mountains.
But judging by the distance, the area where Lu Xin and the others were now was still too far away to hear the explosion.
What was more, they had all been dragged into the abyss, separated from reality..
Even so, when that muffled and terrifying explosion rang out in the direction of the Underground Palace Energy Matrix near the Sleeping Mountains, they still felt an immense force shaking everything. Every conscious life-form—even the Tyrant Legion, which had remained in a state of complete frenzy—abruptly stopped what it was doing. They had sensed the violent bombardment and tremors brought about by spiritual power.
"Zzzzt..."
Beside the jeep, the controls beneath the fingers of the first-generation chief researcher in a white coat suddenly burst into a string of sparks.
Startled, he yanked his fingers away from the control panel.
Then he saw the screen turn into a tangled mass of ripples. Immediately afterward, the illusory power he had been doing everything he could to draw over, attempting to repair the abyss and counter the grievous damage inflicted on it by the Eclipse Research Institute, suddenly collapsed. Like a flood bursting through a dam, it instantly revealed its ferocious nature and became entangled with the Eclipse Research Institute's bombardment.
The two forces that should have opposed each other instead formed an even more violent impact.
Creak...
The abyss itself, originally woven from spiritual power rather than physical matter, actually gave off the heavy sound of something solid buckling under unbearable strain.
In the next moment, everyone suddenly felt themselves plummeting rapidly.
The third layer of the abyss, already collapsing under the Eclipse Research Institute's bombardment, suddenly began to disintegrate even faster beneath