The sight before them was truly jaw-dropping. The trees that should have been lush and green had all been destroyed by the explosion's shock wave.
What had once been a perfectly healthy stretch of woodland had become a strange wasteland. Black smoke still rose from the earth scorched by the intense heat, and the Soul Beasts that had lived near the center of the explosion had not even left corpses behind.
At first glance, anyone would have taken this place for a wasteland. If not for the lush trees in the distance, no one could have imagined that such an enormous explosion had suddenly occurred within a forest.
At the center of the explosion, layers of dark Blue Silver Grass twisted eerily. Strictly speaking, they no longer resembled normal Blue Silver Grass, but individual black vines.
Only at the bases of these vines, where they emerged from the soil, could one see traces of the blue that belonged to Blue Silver Grass. But because this was special Dark Blue Silver Grass, even that blue was an eerie, dark shade.
The Blue Silver Grass slowly writhed, peeling away layer by layer until it revealed two figures inside. Both wore black cloaks. The woman was attractive, but her face was expressionless, like a puppet controlled by someone else.
The other figure kept his face tightly concealed beneath his cloak, refusing to expose his true appearance. Though his identity remained hidden, the woman before them was unmistakably Tang Ya.
At that moment, Ning Tian and Wu Feng, who had parted ways with Jiang Yue and the others not long ago, sat on the ground in a bedraggled state. The explosion had left their clothes filthy. From their appearance alone, no one could possibly have guessed that these two came from the Nine Treasure