The Third Reception Passage

After the clash between Saine and the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch ended, the third channel for Jieyin did not return to stability.

On the contrary, as more Source-Devouring Beasts entered the Sunken Star Remnant Domain, the battle lines around the passage were quickly stretched to dozens of star fields.

The first to come into contact with the Mechanical Legion were the most numerous level one to three Source-Devouring Beasts.

These lower beings lack complete intelligence.

After bursting out of the bright yellow tide, they don't even actively avoid the energy traps laid by the Mechanical Civilization.

Dense laser beams swept across the starry sky.

Rows of Source-Devouring Beasts were pierced through on the spot.

The nascent Source-Devouring Beast Core within them then exploded, releasing the mixed energy they had devoured back into the surrounding area.

Elemental Tide, mechanical artillery fire, and source-devouring beams intertwined to form a large, chaotic light curtain outside the third passage.

A migration ship carrying ordinary civilians suddenly lost power as it passed the edge of the defensive line.

The dozen or so Level 2 Source-Devouring Beasts immediately changed direction and pounced on the flanks of the ship.

A nearby Mechanical Squad did not wait for new orders.

They voluntarily left their original positions and formed a temporary metal wall around the ship.

The Source-Devouring Beasts's claws tore through the front-line Mechanical Unit one after another.

Meanwhile, the rear-echelon Mechanical Unit took the opportunity to reignite the ship's propulsion systems.

When the migrating ship entered a safe route, less than 30% of the Mechanical Squad responsible for providing cover remained.

These low-level Mechanical Unit have no soul and are incapable of feeling fear from casualties.

However, the remnant creatures inside the ship, who were also only at the first to third Life Level, recorded the scene of them blocking the outside completely.

Over the past hundreds of thousands of years, most of the advanced Civilization Legion they encountered came from the Source-Devouring Time-Space.

That was the first time they had ever seen a legion from another powerful civilization willingly stay behind to protect them.

The Mechanical Unit responsible for maintaining the first line of defense also have a low average Life Level.

However, the unified scheduling of Skynet ensures that there are almost no redundant actions among them.

After the front-line Mechanical Unit completed a salvo, they immediately retreated to the sides.

The Combat Platform, carrying heavy Energy Weapon, then moved forward from behind.

Large swathes of mechanical debris and the corpses of Source-Devouring Beasts quickly covered the perimeter of the battlefield.

The fighting continued to advance inwards.

When level four to Level-6 Creature begin to appear on a large scale, relying solely on energy firepower is no longer sufficient to completely stop the Source-Devouring Legion.

Some Source-Devouring Beasts, each exceeding ten thousand meters in size, withstood the mechanical fire with their Rules Body, crashing head-on into the space base station outside the passage.

The Engineering Legion of Gear Time-Space then transformed a large number of fixed devices into temporary combat forms.

Metal pillars rise from the starry sky.

The interlocking Gear form a multi-layered cutting force field in front of the Source-Devouring Beasts.

Several level-six Source-Devouring Beasts charging at the forefront were sliced into several pieces by the rapidly spinning metal blades as soon as their Rule True Body passed through the first layer of force field.

More level four to six Source-Devouring Beasts followed, unleashing their own Devouring Laws.

They did not continue to forcefully confront the mechanical defenses with the Rule True Body.

Large, bright yellow light curtains connected as one, beginning to draw energy from the Gear force field from the outside.

The two sides are vying for control of the same area governed by the laws of the game.

For every minute the Gear speed decreases, the Devouring Light Curtain advances a certain distance.

Whenever the Mechanical Engineering Legion recharges its energy, the Source-Devouring Beasts at the forefront of the light barrier is instantly shredded by the Law of Gear.

At this moment, a level six powerhouse from one of the eight exiled civilizations also led his clan's legion into the force field.

They possessed a relatively rare understanding of the laws of magnetism.

These creatures cannot defeat Source-Devouring Beasts of the same level head-on, but they can disrupt the energy flow inside the bright yellow light curtain.

The mechanical energy that had been drawn away then flowed back along the magnetic trajectory.

The Gear Element Civilization seized the opportunity and wiped out the hundreds of Source-Devouring Beasts at the forefront in one fell swoop.

The Rule True Body of that level six expert also developed large cracks during the backlash from the Devouring Yuan.

He did not leave the battlefield.

This native army only began to retreat after the last group of ordinary people from its civilization joined the migrating procession.

More bright yellow blood spilled out, but it did not dissipate normally.

They adhere to the surface of mechanical devices, continuing to extract energy from them.

The purification legion of the Water Mirror Civilization then entered the battlefield.

A large curtain of clear water spread outwards along the mechanical defense line.

The remaining Devourer Blood on the armor and space base stations was continuously diluted and stripped away by the Water Element Rules, and finally sealed into translucent water spheres.

The life force of the Green Vine Civilization was used to treat the wounded soldiers from the Remnant Realm who were being evacuated from the front lines.

For some creatures whose injuries are too severe to recover, the Civilization Fire Seed and some of their memories can be extracted by the powerful members of the Flame Civilization in time.

These items will be sent to the Primordial Universe Time-Space.

Even if they themselves cannot leave alive, at least their civilization will not leave its last legacy here.

The hidden power of the Star Tomb Civilization also played a significant role on the battlefield.

Instead of directly attacking the area with the highest density of Source-Devouring Beasts, they infiltrated the flanks of the battle line and destroyed the Source-Devouring Nodes responsible for transmitting orders.

The Remnant Star Civilization Legion, utilizing its familiarity with the devastated environment, continuously opened up new temporary routes among the rubble of the collapsed plane.

The eight exiled civilizations were also not idle.

They proactively drew all combat-capable forces from the migrating fleet to fill the areas not yet fully covered by the Mechanical Legion.

A legion of Level-4 lifeform from the native Sunken Star Remnant Domain deliberately destroyed the plane in which they had lived for hundreds of thousands of years before withdrawing.

The Rule Turbulence caused by the collapse of the plane briefly blocked a group of Source-Devouring Beasts behind them.

After doing all this, the creatures did not look back.

They followed the last of the migrating ships, continuing to approach the Jieyin channel.

It's impossible to take your original home with you.

All they can preserve now is the part of civilization that is still alive.

As the battlefield continued to expand, some of the creatures from the Remnant Realm that had been injured by the Source-Devouring Beasts began to develop fine, bright yellow markings on their bodies.

These stains are not just ordinary pollution.

They establish contact with distant Source-Devouring Mother Nest and continuously transmit the host's location outwards.

The Mechanical Civilization did not immediately realize this.

It wasn't until several migrating ships that had already entered the passage were suddenly tracked by a large number of Devouring Veins that Skynet was able to pinpoint the source of the anomaly.

All organisms entering the third channel are then required to undergo three rounds of rule-based screening.

The Water Mirror Civilization installed a large number of purification devices at the entrance.

Creatures detected to have the phagocytic mark will be temporarily kept in a separate, isolated area.

Some migrants who are heavily polluted may even need to voluntarily abandon a portion of their Rules Body.

The Green Vine Civilization collected and sealed these severed flesh and limbs.

The Water Mirror Civilization was responsible for stripping away the Devouring Imprint, while the Mechanical Civilization sent the more complete contaminated structure into the sample library.

Although the whole process was tense, there was no large-scale chaos.

The more Dimension War the various civilizations experienced, the more sophisticated their cooperation became.

This adjustment reduced the fleet's transit speed, but prevented the Source-Devouring Time-Space from directly finding the Primordial Universe Time-Space by following the imprints within the migrants' bodies.

The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch observed the battlefield from a higher vantage point.

Saine did not relax his focus on him just because the situation below was gradually stabilizing.

The two forces at the Level-13 Tier restrained each other, preventing either from easily crossing that invisible boundary.

However, this balance did not last long.

When the migrating fleet had completed nearly half of its evacuation, a grayish-white chain suddenly pierced through from the other side of the Sunken Star Remnant Domain.

Several fleets of remnants approaching the passage were frozen in place by the Rule Ripple around the chains.

An aura that had once appeared in the Remnant Star Remnant Domain descended upon this battlefield; it was the arrival of the World-Hunting Ancient Emperor.