Fortunately, the demonic scourge had yet to be completely quelled. Many people remained in the North Sea to complete the tasks on the Demon Purge Ranking and earn resources.
Thus, although the Central Lands were in chaos, there were not actually that many cultivators there. Things had not truly descended into an irretrievable mess.
Of course, this so-called chaos was relative.
For compared to the turmoil in the Central Lands, an even greater trouble now loomed.
It should be known that aside from the Northern Plains and the North Sea, the Central Lands' eight daos were likewise places from which no earth veins had been extracted.
Logically speaking, before the Central Lands were completely devoured by the Ruins of the Underworld, problems should not have arisen in the various domains.
But the problem was that huge numbers of earth veins had been extracted from every domain, and what remained could only barely maintain the stability of the landmasses.
The gathering of such an enormous number of earth veins showed just how difficult it was to forge a Half-step Dao Artifact. In particular, the Five Divine Peaks were five Half-step Dao Artifacts, making their refinement at least several times more difficult.
Of course, that was not the key point.
The key point was that the distribution of earth veins throughout the Taichang Realm was now wildly uneven, with immense differences between the domains.
For example, among the Five Domains, the ring-shaped Central Lands and the Northern Plains were more solid because their earth veins remained. Yet the surrounding Eastern Domain, Western Desert, and Southern Wilderness were exceedingly loose.
Under ordinary circumstances, this might not have had any effect.
But the emergence of the heavenly phenomenon and the eruption of the Ruins of the Underworld had brought new changes.
Naturally, the