The outer reaches of Demon Cave Time-Space had been very quiet these past few years.
This quiet, of course, was not because this place truly had no defenses.
On the contrary, ever since Locke had absorbed most of the remaining Destruction Factor in Demon Cave Time-Space, Saine had begun turning this already once-ruined Higher Dimensional Plane into an important flank position for Mechanical Civilization at the edge of the Multiverse.
Those Shattered Continents that still retained traces of the Demon Cave Master's origin had been transformed into semi-fixed War Platforms.
The turbid currents of destruction that had once permeated deep space were extracted, filtered, and sealed away by Mechanical Civilization, becoming supplemental energy sources for one cannon formation after another.
The dark fleets of Evil Tide Civilization, the Metal Fortresses of the Stein Empire, and the special legions under the Jinyue Witch that had leaned increasingly toward Mechanical Civilization in recent years were stationed in different directions.
On the surface, there even seemed to be quite a few holes in the outer defenses of Demon Cave Time-Space.
But those were deliberately left by Saine.
The probing legions sent by the Myriad Phenomena Balance Master Chen Yuan and others slipped in through one of those "holes."
This legion's composition was very mixed.
There were undead fleets sent by subordinate civilizations on the outskirts of Dark Universe Time-Space, shadow mercenaries under the Darkness Sword Organization, and sand-element Expeditionary Army legions transferred from Qisha Time-Space. Besides them, there were also several Top-Level Civilizations that only had Level-9 Beings holding down the fort, who had taken resources and followed behind to test the waters.
Of course they knew this trip was dangerous.
But under the hints and promises of several level-13 Lords of Dimension, these subordinate forces still came.
In particular, the level-11 Transcendence