The extraordinary circumstances became a kind of a stress test for the Eternal Duality Valley.
During the time that Hong Xinyi was asleep Wu Long did check on the situation by silently and briefly communicating with Fen Baihu early into waiting for the former to wake up, but once she did, he shifted all of his focus to her, and only a true emergency would've made him pay any attention to what was happening outside in the aftermath of the auction.
Of course, it was easier for the Sect to handle the situation because most of the focus on the continent went to the wormhole.
Most people were knocked out, but those in Seven Profound Realms vaguely saw that something fell out of it, and thus a frantic search for the 'fallen treasure of the higher Boundless World' preoccupied the minds of everyone on the continent.
