After the great battle in Demon Cave Time-Space ended, the atmosphere within the Myriad Phenomena Community grew even more somber than before the war.
This gloom was not because they had failed to withdraw from Demon Cave Time-Space.
In fact, the Level-13 Lords of Dimension—Myriad Phenomena Balance Master Chen Yuan, the Myriad Law Thunder Emperor, Ebony, Duolie, and the others—had each escaped with a portion of their surviving legions from that devastated Higher Dimensional Plane, which could scarcely sustain any further major battles.
But withdrawing did not mean they had paid no price.
Quite the opposite. For the Myriad Phenomena Community, this battle in Demon Cave Time-Space could almost be called an utterly humiliating defeat.
Chen Yuan's losses were the most apparent.
Kakarot had shattered a corner of the Myriad Phenomena Balance Disk's phantom with a single punch, after which Mechanical God Emperor Saine had forcibly seized seventeen rule fragments.
Although those fragments were not core pieces broken from the actual Myriad Phenomena Balance Disk, the traces of balance rules they contained would allow Saine to continue analyzing some of the arcane truths of the Great Dao of Myriad Phenomena for many years to come.
For Chen Yuan, that was harder to bear than a mere injury.
He was a Lord of Dimension who commanded balance rules, and the Myriad Phenomena Balance Disk was his most important Dimension Supreme Treasure.
For many years, Chen Yuan had grown accustomed to using the Myriad Phenomena Balance Disk to observe the state of the Multiverse, and to using balance rules to gauge the fluctuations in power across numerous Higher Dimensional Planes.
But this time, he himself had become the subject of dissection and study.
Even harder for Chen Yuan to accept was the sealing of Luo Heng, the Myriad Phenomena Balance Arbiter.
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