The Four Great Mandates divided the two western provinces among themselves and transferred large numbers of West Province residents to Tang Province to replace its losses.
Tang Province was rich in resources, so many people from West Province were willing to move there.
The result was that West Province became even more vast and sparsely populated!
The small city below the mountain where the rift lay had fewer than a hundred thousand residents!
On the loess plateau, a terrifying change was taking place.
Sorghum and other crops began to mutate into grotesque forms!
Their roots and stalks grew wildly, tangling together!
Every small creature in the sorghum fields—snakes, insects, rats, and ants—began to mutate.
They devoured one another, and in mere moments, Disaster-level Anomalies appeared.
Worse still, the contaminating force continued to radiate outward.
Centered on the spatial rift, everything within a hundred li was enveloped by the Sky Ghost's Underlying Logic.
The city below was no exception!
Endless dark clouds covered the sky, and lightning and torrential rain crashed down!
Countless people in the city went mad as demons. Some suffered grotesque mutations, while others frantically gnawed on the people beside them.
In just a few breaths, the city became a living hell.
An air of madness, despair, terror, and chaos filled its streets!
The power of the Underlying Logic gathered in one person in the city!
His strength surged wildly, and in moments he became a terrifying monster.
He stood ten zhang tall, his body bristling with countless bone spikes. Blue flames burned in his eyes, and he looked like a giant made entirely of bones!
Endless vital essence from a hundred li around converged on him!
Wave after wave of distorted halos spread from his body, radiating outward like a source of contamination.
And every Anomaly within