"What's going on?"
Within the Abyss Plane, the Abyssal Sage King fell into confusion once more.
After the several Abyss Kings he had sent out this time disappeared without a trace, the layers under their command had not collapsed either. Instinctively, he sensed that something was wrong.
As the Plane Master of the Abyss Plane, the Abyssal Sage King had two absolute conditions that had to be met if he wanted to descend fully upon the Douluo Plane.
One was the need for a god-level physical body to serve as a vessel. To fulfill this condition, he had secretly taught the Blood River God-Slaying Array to the Holy Spirit Cult, using it to entice the Demon Empress into reaching the god-level with the array's power.
The other was that the passage connecting the Abyss Plane and the Douluo Plane had to be large enough. To achieve that, they needed to continuously use Abyssal Energy to batter the opening.
In other words, they had to keep sending powerful Abyss Creatures to their deaths in order to tear open the breach.
Now that Abyssal Energy could no longer return to the Abyss Plane, if the Abyssal Sage King wanted to widen the breach, he could only obtain it from the collapse of the layers.
That was to say, he had to keep sending Abyss Kings to their deaths, damaging the Abyss Plane in exchange for the energy needed to open a passage to the Douluo Plane.
It was impossible not to feel heartache over it, but one could not catch a wolf without sacrificing a child. Only by hardening his heart at a critical moment could he turn defeat into victory.
For the Abyssal Sage King, devouring Douluo Continent before Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong returned was imperative. Otherwise, if things dragged