After the Secondary Source-Devouring Channel fell silent, the first thing relayed back to the Devouring Realm Ancient Emperor and the others was not news of the Mechanical Civilization's legion movements.
Instead, it was an extremely fragmentary piece of rule feedback.
Before the Mechanical Civilization completely sealed the Source-Devouring Channel, a small number of bright yellow rule veins had still maintained contact with the Source-Devouring Time-Space.
These rule veins relayed the channel's final changes, along with some of the methods the Mechanical Engineering Legion had used to seal it, back to the Devouring Realm Ancient Emperor.
Naturally, a complete picture could no longer be reconstructed.
All that appeared before the three Ancient Emperors were countless intermittent energy ripples and hazy information reorganized by the Source-Devouring Rule.
At first, the Devouring Realm Ancient Emperor paid little attention.
In his view, the Mechanical Civilization had merely concentrated all its superior forces to seal a secondary channel that lacked a Level-12 Strong Practitioner to guard it.
There were still five other Source-Devouring Channels in the Clear River Time-Space.
As more Source-Devouring Legions arrived, they could continue opening new channels in other starfields.
The loss of a single secondary channel meant little to the Source-Devouring Time-Space as a whole.
Yet as those fragments of rule information unfolded one after another, the Devouring Realm Wheel behind the Devouring Realm Ancient Emperor gradually stopped turning.
A patch of gray-white rule ripples appeared deep within the bright yellow feedback screen.
The Mechanical Civilization's node devices had divided this power into layer upon layer, mixing it with the Clear River Time-Space's water-element origin and rules of various attributes, including destruction, light, and machinery.
But the aura of stillness and suppression at its deepest core was familiar to the Devouring Realm Ancient Emperor.
"Final Silence Rule?!"
The Devouring Realm Ancient