The Evil Spirit King had been in a good mood recently.
Evil Swamp Time-Space was still dangerous.
The Lord of Evil Swamp also remained asleep within deeper layers of rules, like a great mountain pressing down above the heads of every temple lord.
But at least within the one-third of the time-space territory controlled by the Evil Spirit King, the situation was slowly becoming stable, bit by bit.
During the previous exploration of Destruction Time-Space beyond the Bronze Gate, the Evil Spirit King had not gone in person.
He could not possibly leave Evil Swamp Time-Space lightly.
The foundation of this newly advanced Level-13 Lord of Dimension was still far from solid enough for him to pull away at will and launch a distant expedition.
But he had sent enough of the Evil Swamp Legion, and had also dispatched Level-12 Temple Lords such as Agulos, the Blue-eyed Octopus, and Wuzhuo.
Those investments had not been wasted.
Afterward, the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction had shared no small amount of benefits with the Evil Spirit King.
It was not only partial rule samples from Destruction Time-Space, but also trade channels, cross-dimensional resource quotas, and certain war authorities that only core allies of the Destruction Divine Kingdom could enjoy.
These things did not look as direct and obvious as being granted an entire star sector.
But to the Evil Spirit King, they were even more valuable.
Because they represented that this portion of Evil Swamp Time-Space's forces had already been formally incorporated by Saine and Locke into a higher-level faction system.
The Evil Spirit King needed this identity.
The temple lords under his command needed this identity as well.
Long Ga, Star Mark, Agulos, and the other existences who had been among the earliest to lean toward the Evil Spirit King had gained