Leaving aside Gear Time-Space, on Saine's side, he had already pushed the Mechanical God Rule True Body into the Level-12 Life Level.
At the central region of Demon Cave Time-Space, Destruction Demon God Locke was still in a state close to secluded cultivation.
There, the starry sky in the normal sense could no longer be seen.
The jet-black Destruction Tide was like an endless deep sea, heavy to the extreme, covering the core region of Demon Cave Time-Space.
The remnants of the Demon Cave Master's rules body were still slowly disintegrating within that deep sea of destruction.
This former Level-13 Lord of Dimensional Planes no longer possessed intelligent will or a complete Divine Soul, but his Rules Body was simply too vast.
Even if it was only a corpse, completely digesting it was not something that could be finished in a mere few thousand years.
As more of the Demon Cave Master's rules shell was broken down by the Destruction Tide, more and more Rule Fragments were successively collected by the Destruction Divine Kingdom and Mechanical Civilization.
A portion of them went to Locke, serving as nourishment for the Destruction Tide to continue growing stronger.
Another considerable portion was sent to Gear Time-Space and entered Saine's experimental system.
These fragments, of course, were far inferior to the three level-13 Rule Heart Core fragments Saine had obtained first.
But their advantage lay in their sheer quantity and mixed sources.
Some came from the edges of the Demon Cave Master's rules true body.
Some came from the high-dimensional Ash left behind after his Divine Soul perished.
Others were residual echo particles captured by the Sky Net Central Hub when Locke erased the Demon Cave Master's true-name imprint.
To ordinary practitioners, these things were dangerous, chaotic, and difficult to handle.
But to Saine,