The explosion took only an instant, but clearing the battlefield took a full two days.
In fact, when Graystone Ridge exploded, even Linqiu County felt it.
Soon afterward, word spread that immortals had appeared here.
Quite a few people knew the background of the Dong family estate, and they could not help speculating: How had the Miracle Hands Pavilion offended the immortals?
No matter what, such a major incident caused many factions to send people over to gather information.
In the enormous Dong family estate, there were only two people clearing the battlefield.
Just searching the bodies of the dead was enough to exhaust the two of them, let alone the massive amount of rubble created by the explosion.
Feng Jun and the other two would not personally handle such trivial work. Their job was to protect the two laborers—though the explosion had been tremendously powerful, there were surely still survivors lurking about.
Shangguan Yunjin handled external negotiations and kept watch, while Pan Renjie was tasked with protecting the two mortals and being ready to support his junior sister.
Feng Jun wandered around the estate, occasionally slashing east or west with his blade.
At first, everyone thought he was acting at random. But before long, the two cultivators from Carefree Platform discovered that whenever he slashed at broken bricks and rubble, dark red blood would usually seep out not long afterward.
The two watched in amazement. Does he have some method for detecting survivors?
In truth, very few people in the vast estate had survived. Most had not been killed by the blast itself, but shaken to death alive—the power of a conscience-less cannon was something everyone understood.
Such a massive eastern branch headquarters surely had secret chambers and the like. However, the incident had occurred at dawn, without any