A giant mushroom cloud erupted into the sky. The shockwave from the explosion obliterated the surrounding blizzard for kilometers. Anything under the Soul Transformation Realm was directly evaporated, leaving behind only bones. As for those in or above the Soul Transformation Realm, it depended on their distance from the point of impact.
However, nobody came out unscathed.
Even the massive amounts of snow that had built up was mostly obliterated.
At the center of the explosion, a massive crater formed not just in the snow but the earth as well. The dozens of monks who participated in the 'ritual' were scattered and sprawled out, hanging onto their last breath.
Most were missing limbs or were on the brink of death, surviving merely by their own force of will. The ones that didn't make it didn't leave any remains.
"Cough… Ugh… Damn…" A curse came from within a multi-layered barrier made up of all the elements, Mira's [Elemental Barrier].