The calamity of the Night Walk of a hundred Ghosts in the Central Region had an extremely wide-reaching impact; back when the Hand of the Heavens had many Heavenly Ghosts under his command, the Blood Puppets swept across the world, unstoppable.
Now the Heavenly Ghosts have lost their sentience, but their combat prowess remains impressive.
The Hand of the Heavens, deploying them, could still deliver a heavy blow to the survivors in the Central Region.
They're only mindless now, lacking initiative, but their strength remains.
As a result, survivors in the Central Region are now very scarce, and those who remain must be extremely smart, capable of deducing that the Heavenly Ghosts have lost their sentience, and powerful enough to escape from the grasp of these mindless entities.
Such people must be few and far between, yet the Hand of the Heavens hadn't expected to find a settlement here with tens of thousands of inhabitants.
