The Dead Silent Dimension had been rather unsettled lately.
The competition between the Decayed Civilization and the Evil Tide Civilization was growing increasingly obvious, and the Mechanical Fleet's listening arrays near the origin extraction channel were becoming denser and denser.
But what truly made the Gray Nebula lively was Cassiopeia's breakthrough.
The Serpentine War Temple where the Serpent Empress had gone into seclusion had been shaking continuously for hundreds of years.
At first, the Decayed Civilization had merely added more guards around the temple's perimeter.
Later, Emperor Chenlun personally left the projection of his decayed rules above the temple.
Zanting, meanwhile, led a group of Decayed Civilization elites to blockade several outward routes from the Gray Nebula.
Cassiopeia's breakthrough meant a great deal to the Decayed Civilization.
If she succeeded, the Decayed Civilization would possess a third Transcendence Realm powerhouse.
If she failed, not only would they waste a vast amount of hard-won resources, it would also ruthlessly suppress the momentum the Decayed Civilization had only just begun to build.
No one wanted to see the latter.
Deep within the Serpentine War Temple, Cassiopeia coiled atop an altar jointly constructed from a Decay Mineral Mother and the Mechanical Civilization's Crystal Nucleus.
Her serpent body had already swelled to several times its size before her seclusion.
On the surface of every serpent scale, dark yellow decayed patterns appeared.
Those patterns were not simple corrosion.
Rather, they were constantly breathing in and out the thin decayed-attribute power within the Dead Silent Dimension.
Five hundred thousand years of barrenness had worn away far too much from the Decayed Civilization.
But it had also brought their utilization of every thread of power to an extremely refined degree.
Cassiopeia's breakthrough at this moment was precisely the eruption that came after such refinement suddenly met abundant