Saine was in the Evil Swamp Time-Space, but that did not mean the arrangements in other directions had come to a halt.
Within a relatively concealed Mechanical Civilization outpost in the Primordial Universe Time-Space, one-third of the first foundation layer of the Cross-dimensional Teleportation altar had been completed.
This altar's target was neither the Destruction Time-Space nor the Final Silence Time-Space.
It was the Clear River Time-Space!
The several coordinates Saint Laozi had provided back then had already been repeatedly calibrated by Skynet and the Magic Cube. The Clear River Time-Space lay far from the Multiverse system connected to the Primordial Universe Time-Space, with several layers of unfamiliar Time-Space Folds in between. Without clear coordinates, even ordinary Transcendence Realm strong practitioners would not be able to find the direction.
The Mechanical Civilization was not in a hurry to expand the scale.
This time was not an expedition.
Still less was it a conquest.
Saine's orders were clear: communicate first, observe second, and only then devise a plan for long-term contact.
The Mechanical Civilization engineering units constructing the altar moved with even greater restraint than they had in wartime.
There was no large-scale army assembly.
No Level-12 Strong Practitioner stood guard.
Even the altar's outer Defense Array had deliberately been suppressed, to avoid letting the Clear River Time-Space they would contact in the future sense an overly strong air of war at first glance.
Of course, restraint did not mean a lack of preparation.
The Despair Matriarch had already been invited to assist.
The Mechanical Civilization had long witnessed her ability to stabilize cross-dimensional time-space passages many times. The passage beyond the Bronze Gate had endured the repeated assaults of the Destruction Supreme until now, and the time-space safeguard left behind by the Despair Matriarch had always been an immensely important