Battered and wounded, the Spirit Emperor fled the battlefield and returned to the Blood River God-Slaying Array. His enormous Abyss Spirit Dragon body reverted to human form.
Then the Spirit Emperor dropped to one knee, bracing one hand against the ground and pressing the other against the wound on his chest.
Huo Yuhao's earlier strike had nearly taken his life. Had the Spirit Emperor not escaped by sheer luck and even absorbed the energy of every Abyss Spirit Dragon on the battlefield, he probably would not have lasted until now.
Just as the Spirit Emperor steadied himself slightly, he heard thunderous sounds of collapse continuously emerging from the Abyss Passage connected to the Blood River God-Slaying Array, mingled with the dying screams of countless Abyss Demons.
The Spirit Emperor knew what this meant: Abyss Lords had died on the battlefield, and the Abyss Energy they carried had failed to return to the Abyss Plane, causing their respective layers to begin collapsing.
This had happened before, during the attack on the Blood God Legion. Tang Wulin had used the Golden Dragon Spear to kill three Abyss Lords and absorb their Abyss Energy, causing those three layers to collapse outright.
However, the situation now was different. In just a few minutes, the Spirit Emperor had heard at least a dozen collapses from within the Abyss Passage while inside the Blood River God-Slaying Array. This meant that a great many layers were already collapsing.
Moreover, there was no sign of this ending, as the sounds of collapse continued to emerge from the Abyss Passage.
This outcome could not possibly be good news for the Spirit Emperor, but he did not fly into a rage over it.
Listening to the sounds of collapse around him, the Spirit Emperor forced his weak, wounded body up