Normally, whether it was the Thirty-Six Heavens or even the great worlds beneath the Seventy-two Realms, their World Barriers could repair themselves after being breached; the only difference was the speed of repair. But as this world began to crack apart, the words "world collapse" came to mind.
This was deeply wrong. Unless the Origin of a world had been destroyed, its Heaven and Earth Will worn away, or its World Barrier riddled with holes beyond repair, with at least two of those three conditions met, a world collapsing was simply unrealistic.
This strangeness naturally caught your attention, and you worried that it might be another trump card left by the demonic creature. Fortunately, that was not the case. The demonic creature truly was fighting you only on instinct. Though powerful, as long as you were careful and cautious, you could still minimize the casualties.
After half a day of battle, the flames on the giant Flame Butterfly had dimmed several degrees, like a candle flame that could gutter out at any moment, barely noticeable even in the night.
Yet this battle had cost you dearly. Apart from the survivors nearly exhausting their protective treasures to save their lives, the eighty-eight-person team had lost twenty-seven people since first facing the small Flame Butterflies. Even Yuanshi Tianzun had nearly been touched by one; only because Emperor Donghua paid an enormous price to unleash the Eastern Emperor Bell was his life saved.
Where there was battle, there would inevitably be casualties. You had considered this before coming, so it was not wholly unacceptable. But after this incident, the situations in many worlds would change, because as many as six Co-lords of Heaven and Earth like Sage Kongdu had died in this battle. At least in the worlds they ruled, the heavens were