Deep within Source-Devouring Time-Space, the murky yellow Origin Sea had regained its outward calm.
The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch sank into the center of the sea.
Vast quantities of Source-Devouring Time-Space's origin enveloped his rule true body, slowly wearing away the power of destruction Locke had left inside him.
The Dimension-Rending Shuttle hovered above the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch.
The crack the God Slaying Spear had struck directly into this Dimension Supreme Treasure's surface did not heal after the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch returned to his native time-space.
Black-and-red destructive light occasionally flashed deep within the crack.
Whenever that destructive light appeared, small explosions erupted in the surrounding murky yellow seawater.
The Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch's rule will remained at the edge of the Origin Sea.
Through the origin veins connecting them to Source-Devouring Time-Space, the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch and the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch also made their final confirmations of the withdrawal procedures.
The first things to be withdrawn were the vast stores of origin wealth already plundered from Clear River Time-Space.
Only then would the Source-Devouring Beast Legion and practitioners at the Transcendence Realm or above follow.
The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch and the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch would stay until the end to prevent Destruction Demon God Locke and the others from pursuing them into the Source-Devouring Channel.
The four Emperor Monarchs quickly reached an agreement.
Clear River Time-Space was a rich prize already within their grasp, and abandoning it was indeed painful.
But fighting to the death against three powerful practitioners from another dimension was clearly not a wise choice.
As long as Source-Devouring Time-Space still existed, they could naturally continue searching for other, relatively weaker dimensional planes.
Yet just as the withdrawal plan was about to be fully implemented, an extremely deep tremor suddenly came from the deepest reaches of the murky