The Heavenly Emperor no longer suppressed the curse left by the Great Evil within His body, and half of His body began to decay at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This is the so-called "Five Declines of the Celestials", the end of this curse, where the internal organs and flesh dissolve into liquid, leaving only an empty skin; after breathing their last, the essence will be completely absorbed by the Great Evil as nourishment.
The Immortals hanging upside down in the grand hall, and the victims wrapped in cocoons in the abyss, mostly met their end in this way, dying in extreme agony.
However, the Heavenly Emperor's soul retained a formidable power; at the same time, the wound He left on the demon uncontrollably reopened, considerably weakening the Great Evil's abilities, thus preventing the latter from devouring the former through the curse.
