Sure enough, the Darkness Source Civilization was far less simple than it seemed on the surface.
In merely three hundred thousand years, this civilization had completed the path of development that had taken the Light God Race nearly a million years to achieve.
Saine absolutely did not believe there were no secrets behind it.
As for the parallel higher-dimensional plane dominated by dark power that the Level-9 King of Darkness had mentioned, the information Saine currently possessed remained extremely limited.
It was not that this Level-9 King of Darkness had deliberately concealed anything. Rather, although its Life Level and Power Height allowed it access to some information from the upper echelons of civilization, it could not reach the true core secrets of the Darkness Source Civilization.
For instance, by what means had the Darkness Source Civilization established contact with another parallel higher-dimensional dark time-space?
What sort of resource exchange had taken place between the two sides?
Or what kind of Rule Contract had they reached?
This Level-9 King of Darkness knew nothing whatsoever about such crucial information.
However, among the information it later revealed to Saine lay an important clue: the reason the Darkness Source Civilization had been able to connect with another higher-dimensional dark time-space was entirely because one of the civilization's three ancestors had gained an insight after arriving in the Light Universe Time-Space, then voluntarily ventured into the Illusory Sea Maze to explore—and did not return for a hundred thousand years.
The Darkness Source Civilization's true explosive expansion and development had begun exactly two hundred thousand years ago.
When that ancestor returned to the civilization, he was already a Level-11 Strong Practitioner.
The greatest opportunity he had brought back from the Illusory Sea Maze was the connection he had established with that higher-dimensional dark time-space.
This was