"Rumble..."
A thunderous sound came from deep underground. If an expert capable of seeing the Earth Veins had been present, they would have seen a vast, mysterious nexus of the Earth Veins suddenly erupt, altering the course of the Earth Veins for dozens, perhaps hundreds, of miles around.
The upheaval changed the shape of the Mountains and rivers. Fragile sections of the vast cave system could hold on no longer and collapsed.
The Wizards who had been fighting the Rock-Piercing Stockade felt the violent tremor in the Earth Veins.
Terrified, they abandoned their rampage through the Rock-Piercing Stockade and tried to flee.
But as Earth Qi erupted, banks of mist rose throughout the caves. One Wizard after another stumbled into them and vanished without a trace, as though swallowed whole.
With the Ancestral God's body destroyed, the entire Cave Abode shook violently, as if something had punched through it.
Tang Changsheng felt himself falling, as though all the ground beneath his feet had split open...
Then he realized the fall was not real, at least not in the physical world.
The sensation lasted about half a minute before it faded. He found himself on a Mountain, with Wizards from various factions scattered around him.
They all looked dazed, as though only just recovering from a dizzy spell, and were peering about.
They were no longer inside the Ancestral Cave. They stood among Mountains beneath low-hanging dark clouds. Gloom lay everywhere, yet in the distance, a vast expanse of white light stretched across heaven and earth.
Strangely, the light spread no closer. Though it was not far away, it seemed to belong to an entirely different world.
"What happened? Where are we..." many cried in alarm.
"This looks like the Netherworld. How did we fall into the Netherworld..."
Cries of every