The Dimensional Hegemony in the Land of Exile had been going on for so long, yet Saine himself had never personally targeted a single Dominator-class powerhouse from the enemy side.
This stemmed from restrictions at the level of rules, as well as the influence of the power of balance.
Even now, as Saine considered whether or not to make a move against Ancient Emperor Jing Jue, it did not mean that he would directly use Level-9 Power to suppress his opponent, then kill Ancient Emperor Jing Jue on the Dimensional Battlefield just as he had crushed Starfall Envoy Oren to death.
That approach... forcing it through would work too.
But it would inevitably violate certain rules, and the Jue Teng Tree Demon could likewise fight by means of the Destruction Rules.
For example, it could forcibly kill Lisa, Befu, the Destruction Giant Ape, and other highly important upper-echelon figures of the Mechanical Civilization faction on the Dimensional Battlefield.
If that happened, everything would descend into chaos.
The rules of Dimensional Hegemony would also be twisted, and the laws of balance trampled beneathfoot.
In the end, neither Saine nor the Jue Teng Tree Demon would likely come away with anything good.
Perhaps that was also the ending the Astral Realm Will and the Overseers most wished to see.
At least within the Material Star Realm, only if Saine and the Jue Teng Tree Demon greatly disrupted the balance would the Astral Realm Will have an excuse to directly intervene against them.
Yet in the past, because Saine understood the rules, he had been extremely "slippery." In truth, neither the Astral Realm Will nor the Overseers had managed to seize any leverage over him. Instead, Saine had reasonably done many things that disrupted the balance by exploiting numerous loopholes in the Astral