Yang Bolin's information plunged the entire Fire Camp into temporary silence.

Not to mention the unusual bodies of those demon beasts, just the news that Demon Fortress was nearly overrun was enough to raise the temperature in the command center by 2.6 degrees Celsius.

At some point when everyone was completely unaware, the core defense line of the Damo Realm had suffered the strongest impact ever recorded!

If at that moment Demon Fortress had been breached.....

The fate of the entire Damo Realm would be nearly comparable to when the Tatars invaded, or even more severe.

After all, although the corruption brought by the Tatars was deep, we managed to stand up again after three to four hundred years, didn't we?

But once the demon beasts breach the realm, then the vast majority of the human race in Damo Realm would face only one outcome:

Extinction.

Furthermore, the ones invading the Damo Realm would definitely include Tier Four, equivalent to the Nascent Soul Realm, demon beasts.

Given the current capabilities of the rabbits, confronting a Tier Four demon beast would undoubtedly require a great sacrifice.

In an extreme case, perhaps a neutron bomb might be used to settle it once and for all, but the development of the Damo Realm would then be out of the question.

Therefore, to be honest.

This kind of secret, revealed only afterwards, is indeed quite terrifying, easily provoking a cold sweat from those in retrospect.

Situations like this don't only exist in the Damo Realm; similar events have occurred on our native land as well.

For example, the meteor strike event in our neighboring Chelyabinsk State on February 15, 2013.

This is currently recognized, aside from October 27, 1962, as the closest event to extinction in modern human history.

The cause was quite simple: a meteor entered Earth.

Due to its small size, the meteor was not detected when it entered Earth's orbit and was only discovered by surveillance satellites after it struck the atmosphere.

According to satellite data, the meteor had a diameter of about 17 meters, weighed an astonishing 7,000~10,000 tons, and traveled at a speed of approximately 18 kilometers/second.

If it maintained this speed downward, theoretically it would only take a few seconds for it to strike the ground.

By calculating the speed and trajectory of the meteor, scientists found that its final landing point would be in the Chelyabinsk State region.

Not only was there a massive nuclear power plant there, but also a base storing nuclear weapons and manufacturing materials — this is not a fabricated hype but rather an existing situation.

In the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), there have been only 3 major incidents and disasters recorded in history — take note, three and only three.

The major disasters include the Chernobyl nuclear power plant incident and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant incident, while the major incident was the missile strike explosion incident on September 29, 1957, in Ozersk, Chelyabinsk State.

Hence, Chelyabinsk State certainly has a large number of nuclear facilities.

If this meteor really hit these areas, it would inevitably trigger a global catastrophe.

Moreover, looking at the trajectory at the time, the end of the world was possibly just a few dozen seconds away.

But in fact, the damage caused by this strike was far smaller than imagined.

It shattered about 200,000 square meters of glass, and about 7,000 buildings suffered varying degrees of damage.

Although many people were injured, roughly around 2,000 people, almost all injuries were cuts and abrasions from the exploding glass, with no fatalities occurring.

Why did a meteor with a diameter of tens of meters and weighing 7,000~10,000 tons only cause such scale damage?

Did scientists exaggerate the meteor's power?

The answer is, of course, no.

The main reason the damage was so minimal is that the meteor did not actually hit the ground, but rather disintegrated and exploded in mid-air at a distance of 24 kilometers above the earth, so only shockwaves and a small amount of meteor fragments caused harm to ground buildings and people.

According to NASA's calculations, the energy released by the explosion of this meteor was approximately equivalent to 500,000 tons of TNT, a power equivalent to 10-30 Hiroshima atomic bombs, making it the second-largest airburst incident in human history after the Tunguska explosion in 1908.

Interestingly, this meteor even brushed past a passenger-loaded plane.

According to the pilot and co-pilot's recollection, they heard a massive airburst sound, immediately followed by the plane starting to shake, and huge flames appeared not far from the plane.

Seeing this, many people might have a question: why did this meteor disintegrate in mid-air?

In fact, this is the most bizarre part of this meteor event.

Since it happened during the local rush hour, at 9:15 local time, many people witnessed this incredible scene.

Various surveillance and dashcams recorded a large amount of footage, including quite a few high-definition videos.

After compiling these recordings and videos from different angles, an unbelievable discovery was made — the meteor exploded after being punctured by some mysterious object (you can find videos on major video platforms by searching for the "Russia meteor event").

Even more terrifying, this mysterious object that shattered the meteor had a speed of 26 Mach/second!

This is a speed that known human weaponry cannot reach, whether it's Gaul, John Bull, Bear, Rabbit, or Eagle.

In the face of this speed, whether it's Master Eight or the Nascent Soul Stage Sword Cultivator, they are all nothing — and this thing did indeed appear on Earth.

It's no wonder that after that, theories of high-dimensional civilization farming became rampant.

Whether aliens exist is not the focus here, but this event itself is indeed a headline that could have destroyed Earth — can you believe that eight years ago, you and I were only 3.6 seconds from death?

And strangely, many people didn't know it happened at all.

Because such an event occurred on native soil, Ma Ning and others could somewhat empathize with the cultivators who once defended Demon Fortress.

Subsequently, Ma Ning suddenly thought of something and continued to ask:

"Shopkeeper Yang, with the unexpected death of the two Nascent Soul major figures, is there a danger of Demon Fortress falling?"

Yang Bolin shook his head and said:

"Once the Ancestral Array is activated, Demon Fortress will naturally be safe. That is one of the few Tier Five Arrays left in the legendary Damo Realm.

Therefore, the current issue with Demon Fortress is mainly the lack of cultivation resources, and in terms of defense.... as an ancient saying goes, it's as stable as a dragon in flight."

The Ancestral Array of Demon Fortress is not a secret in the Damo Realm, so Yang Bolin naturally shared some information — or rather, he did not consider it too crucial a piece of intelligence, just like how it snows in Demon Fortress.

Ma Ning silently noted the word 'few,' as Yang Bolin's tone seemed to indicate that such ancient formations are very well-known in the Damo Realm, perhaps by inquiring more, one could obtain certain information.

Then Ma Ning hesitated for a few seconds before continuing to ask:

"Shopkeeper Yang, you know we just came from across the mountain, and due to the long isolation of our clan... I have a question, and I hope you won't hesitate to enlighten us."

Yang Bolin readily nodded and said:

"What questions do you have, Shopkeeper Ma? Feel free to ask."

Ma Ning hesitated for a moment, then slowly asked:

"May I ask Shopkeeper Yang, exactly how many Nascent Soul Great Cultivators exist in the Damo Realm?"

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Note:

This chapter is considered a small experiment, so I dared not write too much.

I wonder if this kind of content interests everyone, specifically providing some popular science on relatively obscure matters (not complex theories), roughly interspersed once every fifty or sixty chapters. Does everyone want to see this kind of plot?

If you have any ideas, feel free to leave a comment. Today is also the first time I've tried this, and I want to see everyone's feedback.

Also, I spent too much time on Brother Qian's gossip yesterday, leading to not writing the second chapter. Today's update might be delayed.

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