The standoff continued. Perhaps it was Heng Emperor's delaying tactic. Everyone moved to the great camp on the outskirts of this Ancient Battlefield to discuss negotiations.
Days passed in the blink of an eye, marked by sunrises and sunsets.
Yet after several days, neither side of the standoff had reached a suitable outcome.
Chu Mu never showed himself, much less interfered with these meaningless discussions. He stood in the air, sensing the changes in this world.
As the world's last remnants of power completely drained into this derived world-cage, the once incomparably stable Sky Palace Domain began to show visible signs of turbulence and instability.
The Celestial Heart's power originated from the world.
With the world's power gone, the Celestial Heart's power naturally declined sharply as well.
As the final balance shattered, no one knew when it happened. In a single instant, the formerly bright heavens plunged into utter darkness.
Somewhere in the unseen, a mournful cry seemed to echo through the world. Within the camp, the already taut, sword-drawn negotiations instantly collapsed at that very moment!
One powerful aura after another erupted with a boom. The orderly Great Heng camp became ruins in an instant! With the world destined to sink, the fate of the living beings within it was not difficult to imagine.
In the face of despair, no one cared any longer about Heng Emperor's faintly discernible fifth-order might.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Heaven-shaking detonations rang out. As the world completely sank, an unprecedented "internal conflict" unfolded in the heart of the Desert Sea, now cleansed bare.
Yet this upheaval seemed to be only the beginning.
The world's final power was drawn away and returned to the derived world.
The world's complete sinking naturally meant that the Celestial Heart's power had been expelled beyond the main world.
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