Under normal combat conditions, he could have held on for ten moves. But Ye Xiwen's utterly reckless fighting style did not even give him that much time. He perished completely, his fleshly body exploding into a sky full of blood mist that fell over the land of Dark Province, while his already feeble Primordial Spirit withered away in an instant.
Yet the moment the Dark Emperor fell, Ye Xiwen discovered that all of Dark Province showed signs of collapse. The Heavenly Dao of the entire province was gradually crumbling, and countless laws were dispersing at an astonishing speed.
Alarmed, Ye Xiwen immediately began calculating. Before long, he understood why. The true core power behind the grand formation used to transform Dark Province was none other than the Dark Emperor himself.
Other than him, there could not possibly have been any core capable of sustaining a formation that enveloped all of Dark Province.
For many years, he had relied on the formation to transform Dark Province, turning its environment into one suited only for the survival of the Dark Clan.
But at the same time, for this very reason, he had fused with Dark Province itself, becoming a part of its Heavenly Dao and maintaining the operation of that portion of its laws. With his death, the laws of Dark Province naturally began collapsing one after another.
Having worked it out, Ye Xiwen hurriedly began transforming Dark Province's environment. After destroying the formation and driving out the excess dark power, the situation in Dark Province gradually improved.
Of course, this improvement was only from Ye Xiwen's perspective. To him, Dark Province had finally stabilized.
But for the Dark Clan, it was no different from the apocalypse. Sunlight from outside shone in, and for ordinary Dark Clan creatures, it was a calamity