While Saine was busy with numerous experiments, the delegation he had sent to Clear River Time-Space had already arrived at its destination.
When the Clear River Delegation arrived, there was no artillery fire, nor was there any battle.
On the other side of the Cross-dimensional Teleportation altar was only a quietly flowing light-blue river of stars.
Clear River Time-Space's rejection from its origin was even gentler than the delegation had anticipated before setting out.
But gentleness did not mean there was no pressure.
The first batch of Mechanical Civilization reconnaissance units had barely left the teleportation curtain when an extremely faint watery-blue membrane of rules appeared over the surfaces of their outer shells.
If the leader of this delegation had been a Level-12 Strong Practitioner, that membrane of rules would most likely have immediately turned into far more intense dimensional rejection.
But the delegation's highest combat power was only at the Level-10 Mid-Stage.
Together with the spacetime safeguards Despair Matriarch Ilena had set up in advance, no accidents occurred throughout the entire crossing.
Several spacetime nails slowly descended outside the teleportation altar.
The accompanying Mechanical Civilization units immediately activated their recording cores, while the small commercial team from Bewilderment Time-Space swiftly sorted and sealed away the goods they had brought.
They had not come to wage war.
At least, not for now.
Following several old coordinates provided by Saint Laozi, the Clear River Delegation advanced outward for a period of time before finding the first watery-blue starfield that bore obvious traces of civilized activity.
There stood a Top-Level Civilization—the Lanxi Civilization.
Most of this civilization's world clusters floated amid watery-blue stellar tides, and many worlds were wrapped in natural curtains of water.
Their ships were not as sharply angular as those of the Mechanical Civilization. Instead, they resembled long vessels