Rumble.
A colossal surge of energy spread directly hundreds of kilometers outward. Heaven and earth overturned, as though the world were ending. Whatever the energy wave touched vanished at once. The massive wave shoved outward, the ground collapsing and splintering as streams of energy raced along the earth in every direction. The land trembled and compressed, swiftly forming an enormous crater hundreds of kilometers across.
The ground was pushed aside, and the surrounding land was squeezed inward. Before long, the terrain had been utterly transformed.
As the energy wave swept over, Sorov's expression changed. With a wave of his hand, he fled outward with his five clansmen. Though the explosion had been caused by his own power combined with Dole's, taking it head-on was hardly a sensible choice.
The thunderous roar and the sound of the earth shaking continued for a full minute.
This stretch of the Southwest Plateau had been forcibly blasted into a gigantic valley basin.
When the energy fluctuations subsided, a deep crater roughly three hundred kilometers in diameter appeared where they had stood. All around it, tens of thousands of mountains and valleys, large and small, had formed. The earth was covered in cracks, looking as though it had suffered countless wounds.
Mountains and rivers shattered, the land withered—nothing more than this.
As the energy dispersed and heaven and earth around them settled, the Level Nines watching from afar were left speechless. They had exchanged only one move, though it had taken a while. If they fought for any longer, wouldn't the surrounding area turn into an ocean?
At this moment, Dole's figure appeared in the distance—but one of his clones had vanished.
At the sight, everyone's eyes narrowed.
Where had that clone gone? It could not have simply disappeared into thin air. They had all