Heavenly Way Alliance headquarters, command center.
Yun He stared grimly at the projected screens and shouted, "Quick, contact every level of the Yin Ruins and have them report their situation immediately! Contact the six Nascent Soul Tribulation Realm cultivators. I need to know how much of their missions they've completed!"
"Report! On the first level, all twelve black crystals have been extracted and successfully sealed. None erupted!"
"Report! On the second level, all twelve black crystals have also been extracted and successfully sealed. None erupted!"
As Yun He listened to the reports, his lips remained tightly pressed together, and his clenched fists did not relax in the slightest. That was only two levels. The intelligence Tian Luo had sent was extremely grave.
"Report! Word from the sixth level: one crystal erupted, and the corrosive gray mist is spreading. It has already spread a thousand li!"
Just then, another report came in. Static flickered across one of the screens before the image lit up.
Gasps rang through the hall. On the screen, gray mist billowed onward. Wherever it passed, trees, mutant beasts, and warriors too slow to escape rapidly crumbled into decay.
"Report! Word from the third level: eleven black crystals have been extracted, but one could not be removed in time!"
Following the communications officer's report, static flickered across another screen before the image cleared. The same rolling gray mist appeared, and the personnel handling communications were still fleeing desperately.
"Hall Master Yun He, please send reinforcements quickly! We can't hold it back! The gray mist devours all vitality, and it's spreading fast!"
A terrified, frantic shout came from the screen.
The hall fell deathly silent. Everyone watching the screen turned pale. That gray mist seemed like a demonic fog, with countless devils shrieking within it. Nothing survived its passage;