A blanket of light-blue smoke shrouded the light-path platform, the ancillary temple, and several buildings of unknown uses. The seemingly beautiful smoke had a horrifying side: it was a combination of dust from degraded psionic crystallites and secondary radiative fog produced by those crystallites. It likely contained second or even third and fourth-stage degraded psionic energy. It was extremely harmful to living tissues. One only needed to inhale a small amount or simply be exposed to it for it to be fatal.
Hao Ren had specially selected the most radioactive dust for the "big package" he prepared.