# Chapter 1869: The True Uprising
For this wave, the Ancient Machine Elder had made thorough preparations.
Not only was he himself the leader of an eighth-level mechanical civilization, wielding part of the power to "suppress the Mechanical Revolution," he had also brought out the ninth-level civilization's trump card—the "Cosmic Plane"—and, with the help of leaders such as Gao Gong, assembled every evolution of the Mechanical Revolution.
These preparations were nothing like his claim before coming here that this was merely an "investigation."
He had come prepared to make the first battle the final battle, directly suppressing the source of this "cosmic upheaval."
Even at a level Gao Gong could understand, he could not see how they could possibly lose—if he had not transmigrated here.
Using the Cosmic Plane to evolve the Mechanical Revolution and trace the origin of the "Mechanical Uprising."
This was an invincible method within the mechanical system.
All technological evolutions related to the cosmic mechanical system were unable to escape this operation. Even judging from the Ancient Machine Elder and the Ancient Guardian's tone, this operation could trace the origins of mechanical technology in the first few destroyed old universes.
But that premise was that those mechanical technologies already existed.
But what if those things had not yet been developed?
For example, the "Great Revolution" series evolved from the Five Mechanical Revolutions.
The Sixth Mechanical Revolution, the "Great Blackout"; the Seventh Mechanical Revolution, the "Great Rollback"; and the Eighth Mechanical Revolution, the "Great Uninstallation."
What if the five Mechanical Revolution evolutions belonging to this universe, suppressed by the "Cosmic Mechanical Plane," together with the Cosmic Plane itself and the "Foundation" technology brought by Xiao Yu from another universe... were all merely "fuel"?
What if they were merely "firewood" prepared by the other side to ignite an