After his communication with the Evil Spirit King ended, Saine did not linger for long in the Shattered Star Sea.
The postwar reckoning in the Demon Cave Time-Space would naturally continue to be advanced by the Sky Net Central Hub, the Mechanical Civilization Legion, Zi You and the others.
He also left behind a large number of Observation Nodes to keep monitoring Destruction Demon God Locke's qualitative transformation.
Locke was still at the center of the Demon Cave Time-Space, with surging Destruction Tide continuously pouring into his body.
This process would not end in the short term.
Saine naturally would not miss the chance to observe a Level-13 Lord of Dimension breaking toward a higher stage.
But he also could not possibly keep standing outside and watching.
The three level-13 Rule Heart Core Fragments had already been firmly sealed away by the Cube Time-Space.
This was one of Saine's greatest personal gains from this trip.
Thus, after confirming that the outside situation was temporarily stable, Saine's true body returned to the Mechanical God Fortress Research Base.
Wall-E had already prepared the Highest Level Experimental Sequence there in advance.
The three purple-black Heart Core Fragments were placed separately in three independent sealed containment cabins.
Outside each containment cabin were the stabilizing structure of the Ten Thousand Mechanical Law Ring, a miniature lockdown projection of the Dimension-Severing Cage, and the high-dimensional isolation layer provided by the Cube Time-Space.
Even though the Demon Cave Master's true-name imprint had already been mostly erased by Locke, Saine would not take these fragments lightly.
Level-13 Rule Heart Core Fragments were not ordinary materials. Any one of them might retain certain unpredictable high-dimensional echoes.
Saine did not immediately allow any ordinary researcher to approach these containment cabins.
Even the few high-level mechanical lifeforms within the mechanical civilization