Chapter 500 (1/2)
The site of Dragonspine Ridge, the remnants of the Blood Lake, or the Great Basin of Beinz—no matter what it was called, these names indicated the tremendous changes after that earth-shattering catastrophe. Now more than two months later, the witnesses who caused these changes had returned. They were expecting to be shocked by the great changes there.
As the halo of teleportation faded, Hao Ren and the others appeared on the mountains of Dragonspine Ridge. The MDT had recorded the coordinates from when they last left the Plane of Dreams, so they were sent directly back to the same spot. Nangong Sanba felt a little dizzy after the teleportation, but soon after, he looked at the surrounding mountains curiously. “Oh, this is a good place. You explored this place the last time?”
Surprised, Hao Ren glanced at the half-baked demon hunter. “Yeah, you recovered pretty quickly, eh! Didn’t you feel a bit dizzy from the long-distance teleportation?”
Nangong Sanba smiled proudly. “I’ve been trained since young.”
Hao Ren thought Nangong Sanba meant that he had been practicing the teleportation skills of a demon hunter from an early age. But Nangong Sanba glanced at Nangong Wuyue and said, “My sister liked to swing me around with her tail when I was a child, like a fan spinning at the highest speed…”
Nangong Wuyue’s face darkened like the underside of a wok. “Brother, you must miss the ‘Big Windmill’?”
At this time, Lily suddenly shouted not too far away, “Wow! Look at that, Landlord!”
Hao Ren quickly ran over to check it out and his jaw dropped to the ground.
There was a massive pit in front of him. The entire land that used to be surrounded by Dragonspine Ridge had become a bottomless crater. The region where Beinz Blood Lake and the Gnarled Grove used to be had disappeared. They could not recognize any traces of the previous landscape from the crater. On the steep cliffs surrounding the crater, there were cracks in the rocks, which were still spewing with hot air. There were large black crystals hanging from the mountain on the west side of Dragonspine Ridge. They formed out of a kind of glass substance, which had melted, then solidified. And in the lower part of the huge crater, in the smoky haze, there was a large, overgrown piece of light-blue crystal, which seemed like a newly-formed crystal jungle.
The entire Beinz region had become a super giant basin. The former sacred lake and the Gnarled Grove had all disappeared. It was now covered with sprawling crystal jungles as well as volcanic glass, and dotted with steam vents and geothermal springs. There had been a geological change.
“The First Born’s activity had hollowed out the rock formations in the Beinz area. The Petrachelys’ cannon had blow the land into a crater,” the MDT so analysed how the landscape formed. “The crystal jungle below must be the by-product of psionic shelling. Psionic energy hit directly at the source that could fundamentally change the structure of matter and even laws within a certain range. Those crystals don’t naturally occur in the universe. They are normal rocks that have been metamorphosed.
“Is it psionic crystal?” Hao Ren asked, worriedly. “If it is, then it’s highly radiative.”
“Relax, unless it’s a specialized radiative weapon, ordinary psionic artillery has no radiative residues, and radiation in the vicinity of the point of bombardment will fall to a safe level within a fraction of a second after the bombardment,” replied the MDT as it observed the crystal jungle below. “After all, it is a hassle to clean up the battlefield. The apostle of Xi Ling disciples don’t do thing sloppily.”
“It seems something is moving underneath,” Lily had sharp vision. She had spotted some shadows and a few man-made objects. “There are houses too?”
“Someone must be mining the crystal,” the MDT had already discovered the movements below earlier, but it thought it was no big deal. “There was not much radiation. Let them be. The locals might have found some uses for the crystals. Though this sort of thing isn’t that common, it does happen. Psionic energy could react with conventional materials, and change them into a variety of bizarre products. Depending on the laws of each world and the specific properties of the materials, occasionally it would produce some weird and strange things. So every time the Emperial army finished a war, there will be a bunch of insterstellar porivateers sending in their mining ships to mine in the battlefield, sometimes fight will break out just to secure some pits. Fortunately, since the establishment of the provisions for the past two years, the situation has become better.”