When the Mechanical God stepped into the bronze Time-Space Rift, the entire Gear Residual Ring Zone fell quiet for an instant.
It was not that sound had vanished.
Rather, the abandoned gear continents around him, which had still been slowly turning, seemed to have been gently pressed still by some higher-level force of space-time.
Saine sat inside the Mechanical God's core cabin, and hundreds of silver-white light screens lit up at once in front of him.
Each light screen corresponded to a rule contact point somewhere on the Mechanical God's outer layer.
Thomas's castle gear module was in a half-deployed state.
The Earth Element Golden Wall defense module contributed by the Mountain Giant King Qingtian was like a layer of thick, fine golden-brown patterns, covering the Mechanical God's chest, arms, and pauldrons.
Wuzhuo had turned into a vast cloud of rule-darkness, following behind the Mechanical God's right side. He did not dare stray too far from Saine.
Star Mark, Long Ga, Agulos, Lian Mo, and the other Evil Swamp Level-12 Strong Practitioners did not immediately follow them in for the time being.
This was because Saine had required them to maintain a receiving formation at the outer layer of the passage.
The first wave to truly approach the physical forms of the Ancient Tree of the Moon and the Bronze Gate consisted only of the Mechanical God, Wuzhuo, and a small number of high-grade Mechanical Reconnaissance Units.
After crossing into the passage, a feeling both familiar and strange immediately surged into Saine's heart.
It was familiar because this space-time tunnel was indeed the special passage he had once glimpsed from afar back when he ascended dimensions.
It was strange because back then, Saine had merely been an ascender who had just broken free of the Material Star Realm and first