Zhen Yuanzi's self-explosion swept outward, leveling all of Mount Wanshou and collapsing the surrounding mountain ranges along with it.
Mountain rocks shattered, the ground caved in, and turbulent spiritual energy scattered in every direction.
Countless living beings were caught in the blast. Before they could understand what had happened, they perished in the tremors, their souls returning to the Underworld.
The earth split apart, dust and sand blotted out the sky, and not a blade of grass remained.
Fortunately, due to the erosion of the Sea of Blood Great Array, Zhen Yuanzi had failed to fully link the Spiritual Veins and could not replicate Luo Hou's feat from back then.
The Reincarnation Compass's constant interference had also prevented Zhen Yuanzi from mobilizing all his origin power for the self-explosion.
The incomplete self-explosion of a Quasi-Saint Peak had not destroyed the Spiritual Veins around Mount Wanshou.
They were merely damaged, and could still gradually repair themselves through the power of Heaven and Earth in the Primordial Wilderness.
Given enough time, this place could flourish with life once more.
However, the terrain had changed.
According to Jieyin and Zhunti, there was only the divide between East and West.
Now, a vast empty expanse had suddenly appeared at the border between the Eastern Continent and the West.
Zhen Yuanzi had traditionally been considered a great power of the Eastern Continent. He had also been the strongest rogue cultivator closest to the West.
Mount Wanshou stood along the main route connecting East and West.
For the moment, the Buffer Zone tacitly acknowledged by the various teachings in the conflict between East and West had vanished.
All along, the Three Pure Ones and the Three Religions had not crossed Mount Wanshou, treating it as a buffer and leaving the barren lands of the West to