The arrival of the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch and two new Ancient Emperors had thrown Clear River Time-Space's barely stabilized front lines into peril once more.
Although Saine had held back the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch on the main battlefield, he could not possibly appear in every starfield of Clear River Time-Space at once.
Moreover, Saine was merely an allied reinforcements commander who had come to help. Naturally, he could not be summoned to every battlefield at a moment's notice, much less when he still had important experiments of his own to conduct.
Recently, the seven Ancient Emperors had each led their Source-Devouring Legions forward from multiple directions.
The Azure Blue Sea Lord had suffered severe injuries.
Although the Heavenly Water Deep Blue Mirror had not sustained any fundamental damage, the yellowish spots lingering deep within its surface proved that the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch's strike had not been easy to withstand.
Within the origin sea region of the Azure Blue Sacred Sea Civilization, vast amounts of Water Element Rules continuously flowed into the Azure Blue Sea Lord's body.
Her injuries would still need a period of time to recover.
Lan Qiong had also recently been held back in turn by two Source-Devouring Ancient Emperors, leaving him unable to provide support across multiple war zones as he had in the past.
As for the Clear River Time-Space Allied Legion coordinated by the Myriad Rivers Ancient Star Civilization, its situation was even worse.
The legion system that had only recently been painstakingly reorganized had once again fractured in many places under the pressure brought by the seven Ancient Emperors.
Some homeland civilizations far from the Mechanical Civilization Frontline had already begun abandoning their outer starfields and retreating toward the regions occupied by the three Super Civilizations.
Clear River Time-Space was losing more and more