Following Ye Fan's gaze, they saw a blazing white beam tear through space like a sharp sword cleaving the sky, crashing into a mountain range roughly a thousand miles ahead.
After a pause so brief it was nearly instantaneous, brilliant light erupted in the next second.
The mountain range for a hundred miles around was swallowed by the white light, as though a terrifying beast had opened its blood-soaked maw and forcibly bitten off a chunk of the vast East Wasteland.
And this was only the beginning.
After the white light erupted, an indescribably violent tremor surged wildly toward them from afar.
Along its path, flowers, grass, and trees were uprooted. The foundations of countless peaks loosened, roaring and shaking before finally collapsing beneath the wildly spreading force of the shockwave.
Dust and smoke billowed into the air, shooting straight into the heavens.
Ye Fan jolted awake and hurriedly circulated his divine power, taking Ji Ziyue into the sky and away from the ground.
The instant he flew into the air, violent rumbling erupted from the ground below. Dark cracks spread rapidly like lightning, frantically devouring everything on the surface.
Fortunately, the beam had struck a thousand miles away from here.
After the cracks spread for a thousand miles, they gradually weakened and finally stopped several miles behind Ye Fan.
Even so, the force capable of tearing apart the earth continued spreading outward. The energy it contained was no longer enough to rip apart rock layers, but it could still let living beings thousands of miles away feel the tremors.
Thus, the tremors stretched for ten thousand miles, reaching Wei State and alerting many of its citizens.
Everyone still within Wei State was filled with uncertainty, especially the great clans, sacred lands, and cultivators of every faction. They thought some