News of Wuzhuo's return to the Level-12 Peak spread through Evil Swamp Time-Space faster than Saine had expected.
That was hardly surprising.
The Evil Swamp Halls appeared wary of one another, but in truth, each had its own eyes and ears.
There was no way Wuzhuo's restored strength could remain hidden.
Besides, Wuzhuo had never intended to hide it.
He had even deliberately revealed his dual-origin true body of pollution and destruction near several important Origin Nodes in Evil Swamp Time-Space.
Deep within the black-green clouds of pollution, dark-gold patterns of destruction crisscrossed one another.
The moment that aura appeared, many native powerhouses of Evil Swamp Time-Space knew that Wuzhuo had indeed returned to his peak.
He was even more dangerous than in the past!
The first to approach Saine was Blue-eyed Octopus.
This guy had always had a thick enough skin.
Or rather, in the Higher Dimensional Plane, thick skin was itself a kind of resource.
Through the cross-dimensional communication channels under the Evil Spirit King, Blue-eyed Octopus submitted an impressive gift list to Mechanical Civilization.
The list included the coordinates of three hidden corrosive springs in Evil Swamp Time-Space, a batch of psychic Rule Crystal Nuclei accumulated by the clans under his command over generations, and two vague pieces of intelligence concerning the outskirts of the Lord of Evil Swamp's Slumber Zone.
Those things were not few.
But neither were they especially numerous.
Blue-eyed Octopus was clearly testing Saine's appetite.
After reading the gift list, Saine gave only one reply.
"You can queue up."
After Blue-eyed Octopus received those words, he blinked his eyes and swiftly indicated that he understood.
Once this guy had adjusted his mindset, he added another batch of Rule Compound Eye samples, along with a small fragment of his true tentacle body.
This time,