In fact, Douluo Continent had been on a downward slope for years.
The plane that had once nurtured countless powerhouses had now lost its former glory. Its life energy was gradually drying up, and its foundations were steadily being depleted.
None of this was accidental.
The relentless exploitation of resources, the explosive growth in Soul Masters, the gradual weakening of the Soul Beast Clan, and the support provided to the God Realm—all of these had disrupted the plane's balance and caused its life energy to decline continuously.
But most crucially, Tang San had been pulling strings in secret. It was precisely his selfishness that had led the Douluo Plane step by step toward ruin.
Tang San had wanted nothing more than to turn Douluo Continent into his own backyard. He had devoted himself to suppressing the Planar Consciousness, even having Ah Yin seize the Plane Core of the Golden Ancient Tree and Tang Hao take the position of Lord of the Plane.
Every scheme had been for the Ten Thousand Year Plan Tang San spoke of.
Not until the Abyssal War ten thousand years after the Original Work did Tang San use the energy devoured from the Abyssal Plane to replenish Douluo Star's life energy, allowing the Douluo Continent, which had been on the verge of collapse, to regain its vitality.
It looked like the work of a savior, rescuing Douluo Continent from fire and water—but don't ask where that fire and water had come from.
Even more ironically, Tang San later took the moral high ground and gaslit all the Soul Masters of Douluo Continent, shamelessly declaring that the crisis of the plane's decline had been caused by Soul Masters excessively plundering and destroying nature.
Planar Consciousness:?
If it had still been around back then, it would definitely have