After the metal dust outbreak, the altitude of Duozhi Mountain ceased to climb, yet the environmental deterioration grew increasingly severe.
Looking around, the vegetation withered, and the surface of the rivers was littered with the corpses of fish and shrimp.
The surrounding villages were abandoned, refugees fleeing to towns far from Duozhi Mountain, with blackened remains occasionally seen along the roadside.
Boom...
Another tremor shook the land.
Duozhi Mountain once again spewed an overwhelmingly dense cloud of metal dust, shrouding the world in a suffocating, pale-yellow mist.
The Mountain and Sea Market became desolate, most shops shielded by Arrays to ward off the toxic air.
Within mere days, the Beast Cultivators of Rong Town had left one after another, deeply wary of the sudden anomaly.
The once-coveted Medicine Fields now lay abandoned en masse, with only a few Puppet Cultivators resolutely holding their ground.
