Recaps

Salamander Grek’s trade conference in Bewilderment Time-Space drew thousands of civilizations and enabled exchanges, contracts, and long-term collaborations. By the three-thousandth year, the conference’s most important transactions began as a Level-9 civilization leader entered the divine temple and saw three Dimension Supreme Treasure-level items.

• Salamander Grek organized the trade conference, while the Stone Belly Spider established trading zones and safety rules for the arriving civilizations.
• The Stone Belly Spider turned away a Level-9 Silicon-based delegation’s radioactive minerals until Mechanical Civilization leased it safer cargo holds.
• A Level-9 civilization from the edge of Primordial Universe Time-Space sold its Soul Crystals to Destruction Divine Kingdom and secured a long-term supply contract.
• A Demon Cave Time-Space practitioner traded War Fortresses for two sets of Light-type Purification Devices, while a Plant Civilization signed a long-term spore-development agreement with Mechanical Civilization.
• Saine approved an exchange of incomplete Dimensional Information Encoding Technology for Mechanical Civilization’s knowledge about dismantling the Dark Universe Death Altar.
• At the three-thousandth year of the conference, the Level-9 civilization leader entered the divine temple and saw three Dimension Supreme Treasure-level items.

The Bewilderment Time-Space Trade Conference traded three Dimension Supreme Treasures and brought many civilizations into new commercial relationships with the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction. Chen Yuan saw that the faction’s influence was growing through trade, while neutral civilizations gradually moved closer to it.

• The Mechanical Civilization won the Incomplete Star Disk by offering a Death Altar core, and its Main Brain stored the treasure.
• The Destruction Divine Kingdom obtained the Dark Gold Seed after Paradise Lost sent a surge of rule fluctuations, then strengthened the seed’s seal.
• A Primordial Universe Time-Space representative traded secret dimensional coordinates for the Gray-White Box, while the Stone Belly Spider stopped two Level-11 Strong Practitioners from escalating a bidding dispute.
• Civilizations used the conference to acquire strategic resources and establish new trade channels and agreements with the Mechanical Civilization, the Destruction Divine Kingdom, and other powers.
• Chen Yuan reviewed the conference’s trade records and watched a neutral civilization’s marker shift toward the Destruction Divine Kingdom on the Rule Star Map.

Balhaine broke through to Level-12 Early-Stage in Paradise Lost, unleashing a storm that expanded its territory and gave Locke new insights into the Great Path of Wind. After she emerged, a strange rule tremor came from Evil Swamp Time-Space.

• Balhaine gathered the rules and power she had accumulated from past wars and began her attempt to cross the Level-12 Life Barrier.
• Ilena stabilized the time-acceleration zone as Balhaine’s wind pillar and Destruction Flames tore through its time nodes.
• Balhaine broke through to Level-12 Early-Stage, and her storm dispersed Chaos Airflow and expanded Paradise Lost’s borders.
• Balhaine drew back most of the storm and left seven storm eyes in the new territory, where Wind Elemental lives gathered and some Wind Elemental Lords advanced.
• Locke received rule feedback from Balhaine’s breakthrough and tested a storm fused with Destruction Flames.
• Balhaine claimed she could now suppress Karuman, but a strange rule tremor came from Evil Swamp Time-Space and quickly subsided.

Heavenly Wing Demon Lord and Molan sought refuge in an ancient ruin near the sleeping Evil Swamp Time-Space Dimension Lord, where its chaotic consciousness protected them while increasingly alienating their bodies. Star Mark and the Evil Spirit King learned of their condition, but Saine advised continued observation rather than risking the sleeping Dimension Lord’s awakening; an eye on Heavenly Wing Demon Lord then turned toward a Mechanical Civilization Observation Altar.

• Star Mark observed eye patterns growing on Heavenly Wing Demon Lord’s remaining Rule wings and concluded that the pair had encountered something in the depths.
• Heavenly Wing Demon Lord and Molan entered an ancient ruin, where a blurred consciousness from the sleeping Evil Swamp Time-Space Dimension Lord weakened Star Mark’s tracking and began altering their bodies.
• The pair retreated to the ruin’s outskirts after their wings and Skeleton Mist became increasingly alienated, and the ruin’s mist independently devoured Star Mark’s tracking power.
• Star Mark sent the last image of the altered pair to the Evil Spirit King, who shared it with Saine and the Mechanical Civilization.
• Saine found that the Dimension Lord remained asleep and advised the Evil Spirit King to keep observing without sending anyone into the sleeping region.
• An eye on Heavenly Wing Demon Lord’s back turned toward a Mechanical Civilization Observation Altar while he sensed nothing.

The Salamander Gray Guest helped turn Bewilderment Time-Space into a lasting hub for cross-dimensional trade, while Chen Yuan pursued a lower-threshold cooperation agreement among independent civilizations. Both loose networks began to take shape, but Ebony only requested the agreement’s terms rather than joining.

• The Mechanical Civilization and other participants established permanent trade facilities, while the Salamander Gray Guest and Stone Belly Spider expanded their trade network and standardized resource assessments.
• The Salamander Gray Guest became a guarantor and joint host for growing trade channels, with the Destruction Divine Kingdom and Mechanical Civilization serving as the system’s main axes.
• Chen Yuan replaced his demanding military-alliance proposal with a Cooperation Agreement covering limited resource sharing, intelligence exchange, and help during external invasions.
• The Paper Figure Dimension Lord, Dark Nether Death God, and Duolie accepted parts of the arrangement, while the Heavenly Crown Emperor Monarch sent a Level-12 Strong Practitioner to discuss its terms.
• As the first agreements neared completion, Ebony requested a full copy of the terms but did not agree to join.

Saine fused Thomas’s Level-12 castle true body into the God of Machines, resolving a clash between their control systems by giving Thomas an independent command region. After the successful experiment, Saine sought help from the Limitless Golden Emperor to prepare for fusing the Mountain Giant King Qingtian, and a Golden Artifact Forging Furnace arrived in Gear Time-Space.

• Thomas entered the experimental sector and agreed to fuse his castle true body with the God of Machines.
• The fusion triggered a control conflict that caused an explosion, but Saine stabilized the chaos and assigned Thomas an independent control region.
• After eight hundred years, Thomas’s castle was fully integrated into the God of Machines, whose layered mobile armor withstood years of attacks from a Level-10 mechanical fleet.
• Thomas remained within the God of Machines for several hundred more years before returning to castle form with new Magic Cube patterns on its walls.
• Saine considered fusing Alarm Clock Girl and the Mountain Giant King Qingtian, but needed forging methods beyond Mechanical Civilization’s capabilities.
• The Limitless Golden Emperor responded to Saine’s request with interest, and a Golden Artifact Forging Furnace arrived through the Space-Time Channel.

Saine used the repaired Incomplete Star Disk to locate a dead, ravaged dimension and sent five exploratory fleets to investigate it. By the end of the chapter, the Third Exploration Fleet had found a vast rule remnant with an artificial-looking gap and abandoned warships nearby.

• Saine used the Moonlight Essence Branch to activate the Incomplete Star Disk, which revealed an unfamiliar dimension with dormant rules and signs of ancient devastation.
• Saine refused to build a permanent passage and ordered five exploration fleets to gather information without establishing anchor points.
• Four fleets reached the dimension, where the Second Exploration Fleet found an evacuated planet drained by a Rule Extraction Conduit; a sample from the conduit crumbled after entering the temporary passage.
• Seven hundred and twenty-six years later, the Third Exploration Fleet detected a rule remnant in a dark star sea and sent reconnaissance robots toward it.
• The Third Exploration Fleet’s robots captured images of a huge gap in the remnant and several abandoned ancient warships floating nearby.

The Third Exploration Fleet uncovered an ancient battlefield and recovered technology and records showing that a Gray Tide from another Higher Dimensional Plane had devastated the region. After Saine learned that the invasion had drained the plane of its origin, he ordered the fleet to search deeper for survivors and the war’s outcome.

• The Third Exploration Fleet confirmed that the colossal wreckage was a battlefield mass of shattered worlds, fortresses, and warships.
• The fleet explored an ancient warship, recovered damaged Information Cores, and spent centuries deciphering their contents.
• The Mechanical Civilization replicated a Rule Barrier that sacrificed its outer layers to preserve its core, then added its mechanism to its priority archives.
• The fleet found more than seven hundred Stasis Pods whose occupants had lost their souls, alongside a warning not to wake them.
• The Second Information Core revealed a Gray Tide invasion that drained the plane’s origins and laws, but its records ended before the war’s outcome.
• Saine ordered Wall-E and the Third Fleet to explore deeper and search for surviving members of the Homeland Civilization.

Saine’s Mechanical Civilization searched the Dead Silent Dimension for records of the ancient war, finding little useful information until it uncovered rule imprints linked to the Decayed Civilization. The imprints pointed toward a distant gray nebula, and Saine sent fleets to investigate.

• The Mechanical Civilization explored several surviving worlds, but their records revealed little about the ancient war.
• A mechanical avatar gave a Medium World observation equipment, energy devices, and three vessels in exchange for access to its records.
• After more than a thousand years of searching, a fleet found faint rule imprints and a fractured substrate hidden beneath a collapsed plane.
• Skynet matched the imprints and repeating coordinates to the Decayed Civilization, prompting Saine to order deep scans of nearby star domains.
• Saine mobilized three reconnaissance fleets, and two nearby fleets changed course toward the gray nebula indicated by the imprints.

Saine advanced the God of Machines project by successfully disassembling and fusing the Mountain Giant King's right arm, proving that Rule-based Transformation disassembly could work. Meanwhile, cooperation across time-spaces expanded, and rival communities began competing over trade, intelligence, and rule technology.

• Saine and the Limitless Golden Emperor used a temporary origin cycle to stabilize the Mountain Giant King's detached right arm after its rules began collapsing.
• Saine fused the arm into the God of Machines' left arm, greatly increasing its defensive capacity and pressure-bearing limit before returning it to the Mountain Giant King.
• The successful test established Rule-based Transformation disassembly as a promising approach, though Saine still needed to solve the Mountain Giant King's more complex modules.
• Saine visited Limitless Time-Space and Eternal Day Time-Space, where he studied their artifact-forging systems and energy conditions and conceived an Eternal Day Purification Circuit.
• Civilizations aligned with the Myriad Phenomena Balance Master entered Bewilderment Time-Space's trade channels, as neutral civilizations navigated competing offers and a quiet arms race began.

Dark Nether Death God chose Great Black Heaven to become Dark Universe Time-Space’s new God Envoy and forcibly advanced him to Level-12 Early-Stage. After Saine secretly concealed Great Black Heaven’s past aid to the Mechanical Civilization from the Death Mark, Great Black Heaven accepted his new position while keeping his allegiance hidden.

• Dark Nether Death God selected Great Black Heaven and poured the Origin of Dark Universe into him to force his breakthrough, reshaping his Rule Origin and binding him with a Death Mark.
• Great Black Heaven reached Level-12 Early-Stage, while the breakthrough killed more than one billion Dark Beings and raised Darkness Source Civilization into one of Dark Universe Time-Space’s top three factions.
• As the Death Mark began searching Great Black Heaven’s memories, he activated a hidden Mechanical Rule Rune to send Saine a plea for help.
• Saine sent specially processed chaotic emotions through the Mechanical Key, hiding Great Black Heaven’s contact with the Mechanical Civilization behind a false memory blank.
• Dark Nether Death God examined Great Black Heaven’s memories, found no anomaly, and formally named him the new Darkness God Envoy.
• Great Black Heaven obeyed Dark Nether Death God while concealing a wisp of mechanical light within his Rules Body.

The Mechanical Civilization discovered a hidden branch of the Decayed Civilization in the Gray Nebula of the Dead Silent Dimension and arranged contact. Saine traveled there in a level-nine mechanical clone, where Emperor Chenlun emerged to greet him.

• The Mechanical exploration fleets detected an encrypted signal in the Gray Nebula and identified it as originating from the Decayed Civilization.
• A battered ancient warship emerged from the nebula and recognized the signal as belonging to Mechanical God Emperor Saine.
• Saine reviewed the fleets’ findings, ordered them to hold their distance, and sent a low-level mechanical clone toward the nebula.
• After more than two hundred years, Saine’s clone arrived, and the Gray Nebula opened a passage for him.
• Emperor Chenlun greeted Saine at the passage’s end.

Emperor Chenlun told Saine how the Decayed Civilization launched its Dimensional Hegemony early in Despair World, won, and opened the Dimensional Ascension Channel, only to be shattered by temporal turbulence during ascension. He said the civilization had spent more than five hundred thousand years in the Dimensional Plane.

• Emperor Chenlun showed Saine the Decayed Civilization’s ruined stronghold and its old Star Map, which marked Despair World as the site of its Dimensional Hegemony.
• Emperor Chenlun explained that he had moved the war ahead of schedule to avoid the Evil Tide Civilization and alter the Decayed Civilization’s fate.
• The Decayed Civilization defeated another Top-Level Civilization after Zanting destroyed its device for splicing future rules, and Emperor Chenlun broke through its last seven fortresses.
• Three years after the Dimensional Ascension Channel opened, time reversals brought back past remnants and scattered the Decayed Civilization’s legions across time.
• Emperor Chenlun, Zanting, and Cassiopeia preserved only the civilization’s core seeds, and Emperor Chenlun told Saine they had been in the Dimensional Plane for more than five hundred thousand years.

Saine learned that the Decayed Civilization had spent more than five hundred thousand years hiding in the Dead Silent Dimension after arriving there weak and resource-starved. Emperor Chenlun showed him a newly discovered ancient passage, where Cassiopeia was scouting.

• Saine questioned why the Decayed Civilization had been in the higher dimension for only five hundred thousand years, and Emperor Chenlun attributed the discrepancy to the backlash of changing time.
• Emperor Chenlun showed Saine how the Decayed Civilization had escaped a Gray Fleet by abandoning transport ships and hiding in a collapsed Rule Node.
• Emperor Chenlun recounted how the civilization had survived in the Gray Nebula for five hundred thousand years as resources dwindled and dangerous exploration missions suffered heavy losses.
• Saine learned that Emperor Chenlun and Zanting had reached the Transcendence Realm, while Cassiopeia remained at Level-9 Peak.
• Emperor Chenlun revealed a black rift at a newly discovered ancient passage and said Cassiopeia was scouting nearby.

Saine investigated a jet-black rift that was draining the Dead Silent Dimension’s origin and confirmed it connected to a distant, stable landing point. Emperor Chenlun offered the Decayed Civilization’s knowledge and allegiance in exchange for shelter, and Saine agreed to review their materials.

• Saine learned from Emperor Chenlun that the rift periodically swallowed energy and law fragments, and suspected it was an ancient origin-extraction passage.
• Saine sent a fleet to observe the rift, where probes were drained or erased until a decayed-law probe revealed brief coordinate echoes of a stable destination.
• Emperor Chenlun offered the Decayed Civilization’s star maps, war materials, technology, and ancient inheritances in exchange for shelter and basic resources.
• Saine told Emperor Chenlun that the Evil Tide Civilization had joined the Mechanical Civilization and had prospered in Demon Cave Time-Space.
• Emperor Chenlun accepted the Mechanical Civilization’s arrangements, and Saine asked to see the materials the Decayed Civilization had brought.

Saine confirmed that the Dead Silent Dimension’s original Dimension Lord had fallen and accepted the Decayed Civilization’s allegiance. The Mechanical Civilization supplied resources that revived the Decayed Civilization, and Emperor Chenlun began his breakthrough to level 11.

• Saine and the Mechanical Civilization investigated ancient Origin Nodes, tested seventeen surviving nodes, and concluded that the Dead Silent Dimension’s Dimension Lord had fallen.
• After Emperor Chenlun handed over the remaining archive permissions, Saine accepted the Decayed Civilization’s allegiance and kept it in the Gray Nebula for its knowledge and research value.
• Mechanical transport ships delivered vast resources through temporary Cross-Dimensional Channels, astonishing the Decayed Civilization and triggering a Rule Rain that helped low-level creatures advance.
• The new supplies restarted the Decayed Civilization’s War Fortresses, Temples of Decay, research program, and ancient warship factories as Emperor Chenlun restored its own technological legacy.
• Saine supplied Zanting with Destruction-Type Materials, Cassiopeia with Level-9 Peak breakthrough resources, and Emperor Chenlun with Level-10 Peak Rule Essence and a High-Dimensional Death Core.
• In the seventh year after the supplies arrived, a dark-yellow Law Tide spread from the Temple of Decay as Emperor Chenlun began charging toward level 11.

Emperor Chenlun broke through to Level-11 Early-Stage, strengthening the Decayed Civilization’s refuge and deepening its alliance with the Mechanical Civilization. Meanwhile, Saine advanced his God of Machines experiment, and Great Black Heaven secretly sent intelligence about the Myriad Phenomena Community to the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction.

• Emperor Chenlun’s breakthrough stirred the decayed laws across the Gray Nebula, and Zanting and Cassiopeia guarded the area while Saine watched over him.
• Emperor Chenlun reached Level-11 Early-Stage, restoring part of the Gray Nebula’s concealment array, then thanked Saine, who promised to refine him a Dimension Supreme Treasure.
• Saine’s second-stage experiment integrated parts of the Mountain Giant King Qingtian into the God of Machines, allowing Qingtian to control its defensive rules.
• The Secluded Bamboo Supreme learned that Emperor Chenlun had reached Level 11, while Zi You reflected on the Decayed Civilization’s changed path.
• Great Black Heaven recorded the Myriad Phenomena Community’s military ties and resources, evaded the Myriad Phenomena Balance Master’s scrutiny, and secretly transmitted intelligence to the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction.

After Emperor Chenlun reached Level 11, he joined Saine’s exploration of the Dead Silent Dimension, where the Mechanical Civilization found evidence that an extraction network had drained worlds over time. Zi You brought an Evil Tide Civilization force to join the operation, and she and Chenlun restrained their civilizations’ old hostility as their fleets departed for separate assignments.

• Emperor Chenlun emerged from seclusion and volunteered to guide the Mechanical Civilization’s exploration fleet deeper into the Dead Silent Dimension.
• Saine, Chenlun, and three mechanical exploration fleets entered the Broken Flow Zone, where they found world remnants drained by a long-running extraction network.
• Zi You asked Saine to let the Evil Tide Civilization join the expedition, and Saine agreed.
• Zi You’s force arrived at the Gray Nebula, where Decayed Civilization forces raised defenses until Saine and Chenlun urged both sides to stand down.
• The Mechanical Civilization assigned the Decayed Civilization to guide the Broken Flow Zone and sent the Evil Tide Civilization to a more heavily corroded star domain.
• Zi You and Chenlun exchanged no words as their fleets departed, but both legions increased their marching speed.

Decayed Civilization and Evil Tide Civilization competed to explore the Dead Silent Dimension, uncovering old refuges, dangerous creatures, and a hostile transfer station. As Saine’s forces reached the still-operating Origin Transport Channel, their probes detected an unfamiliar will of deathly silence beyond it.

• Emperor Chenlun found an abandoned starport whose sealed warehouses held records and Star Maps of ancient refuge routes, which Saine added to the Sky Net Central Hub.
• Zi You’s force subdued deformed creatures with Evil Tide pollution and delivered a level-ten specimen to Saine for study.
• Decayed Civilization and Evil Tide Civilization raced to secure the Bone-Splitting Belt Transfer Station, with Decayed Civilization taking a control node and Evil Tide Civilization capturing two puppets.
• The civilizations approached the Origin Transport Channel and found its surrounding Rule Low-Temperature Zone drained the activity of beings who entered it.
• When the seventh group of probes reached the channel, the fleet sensed an unfamiliar will of deathly silence, and Saine sent the recorded rule-echo to Gear Time-Space as more probes moved closer.

Great Black Heaven supplied Saine with intelligence from within Dark Universe Time-Space, allowing Saine to mislead the Dark Nether Death God’s cleanup forces. Meanwhile, Saine studied the corruption near Lord of Evil Swamp and found a possible connection to the Dead Silent Dimension, ending with both phenomena added to the same research comparison.

• Great Black Heaven sent Saine intelligence about Dark Universe Time-Space’s repairs and the cautious responses of the Myriad Phenomena Community’s representatives.
• Saine planted false mechanical patterns through Great Black Heaven, and the Dark Nether Death God’s forces wasted resources in abandoned star domains, worsening instability and triggering a Death Tide outbreak in the Corridor of Silent Bones.
• Great Black Heaven continued to contact Saine through concealed channels, which briefly weakened the Death Mark within his Divine Soul.
• Heavenly Wing Demon Lord and Molan remained near Lord of Evil Swamp’s Slumber Zone, where its sleeping influence increasingly corrupted them.
• Saine compared Lord of Evil Swamp’s sleep-related rules with the Dead Silent Dimension’s low-temperature zone and added the Evil Swamp samples to the same research sequence.

The Decayed Civilization prospered after Emperor Chenlun’s advancement, while Saine directed it and the Evil Tide Civilization to compete in exploring a dangerous region. Meanwhile, the Evil Spirit King consolidated his territory and prepared his forces for a possible war, but waited for Saine’s orders before acting.

• The Decayed Civilization expanded its Rule Evolution Zones and used Mechanical Civilization resources to rebuild its forces and pursue advancement.
• Cassiopeia discovered a decay-attribute mineral vein, then entered seclusion in the restored Serpentine War Temple to pursue Level 10.
• Zanting competed with the Evil Tide Civilization in exploration, prompting Zi You to request more dangerous routes for her forces.
• Saine assigned Zi You and Zanting different approaches to the same hazardous region, with future resource preferences at stake.
• The Evil Spirit King organized his territory and assembled elite legions, while Long Ga, Star Mark, and Agulos took charge of patrols, temple nodes, and cannon-fodder forces.

Saine stabilized the Moonlight Essence Branch’s signals and revealed clearer traces of the Bronze Gate leading to a dangerous Destruction-type time-space. After weighing the risks of other fronts, Locke began preparing an expedition there, though he first ordered Saine to locate the gate.

• Saine used mechanical systems, time-space samples, and aid from the Alarm Clock Girl and Ilena to stabilize the Moonlight Essence Branch’s coordinates and detect the Bronze Gate.
• Locke continued absorbing the Demon Cave Time-Space’s remaining origin and considered how its power, along with death and thunder rules, could strengthen his Great Way of Destruction.
• Saine warned Locke that launching a total war against known hostile time-spaces could unite their forces, while the unknown Destruction Time-Space behind the Bronze Gate might be a better target.
• Locke asked about the Evil Spirit King’s forces, and Saine advised keeping the King’s main body in Evil Swamp Time-Space until its balance was confirmed.
• After the Moonlight Essence Branch revealed a stronger pulse of black destruction, Locke copied an imprint of the Bronze Gate and told Saine to find it, beginning preparations for an expedition.

Saine and his allies pinpointed the Bronze Gate’s location and began secretly building a cross-dimensional passage to reach it. The first anchor piles went into an abandoned gear graveyard as the expedition plan moved into execution.

• After nearly a thousand years of research, Saine assembled enough coordinate fragments to identify the Bronze Gate’s approximate location.
• Saine warned Locke that the coordinates could serve as a first anchor point, and Locke ordered the channel’s construction to begin.
• Saine, Ilena, the Alarm Clock Girl, and Locke coordinated to design a concealed, lightweight cross-dimensional passage.
• Saine chose an abandoned gear graveyard as the secret construction site, and Wall-E named it the Old-Style Mechanical Material Recycling Test Site.
• The first Mechanical Anchor Piles were sunk into the Abandoned Gear Continent, making the ruins vibrate with a low rumble.

Locke and Saine prepared to open the Bronze Gate passage toward an unknown Destruction-type time-space, judging that the expedition offered a better path than further wars against known dimensions. The Bronze Pattern briefly lit in response to Locke’s Destruction Origin, and he concluded that the force beyond the gate was waiting for him.

• Locke absorbed the Demon Cave Master’s Rule Shadow and studied the echoes of the fallen Dimension Lord to deepen his understanding of destruction.
• Saine reported that the Bronze Gate passage’s first anchor points had stabilized, while the operation in Dead Silent Dimension continued at low intensity.
• Locke and Saine agreed to avoid escalating conflict with Dark Universe Time-Space and its potential allies, since further attacks could unite the Myriad Phenomena Community against them.
• Saine asked whether a setback at the Bronze Gate could weaken the Destruction Divine Kingdom, and Locke said his faction could afford to lose while he followed the pull of the Great Way of Destruction.
• Locke touched the Bronze Pattern with Destruction Flames, and it briefly illuminated as if recognizing his Origin of Destruction.

Saine observed Hongjun’s hidden preparations in several higher-dimensional time-spaces and considered whether Immortal Domain Civilization or Wizard Civilization would ascend first. As the Bronze Gate expedition advanced, the Mechanical Civilization continued monitoring the Dead Silent Dimension’s draining channel without cutting it off.

• Saine mapped Hongjun’s Rule Beacons and inferred that they might guide Immortal Domain Civilization if it reached the Higher Dimensional Plane.
• Saine told Duan Ning not to approach Hongjun’s hidden location in Evil Swamp Time-Space after she described seeing his Hongmeng aura.
• Emperor Chenlun and Zi You continued competing to provide exploration results from the Dead Silent Dimension.
• The Mechanical Fleet deployed listening arrays at the source extraction channel, and Emperor Chenlun asked Saine to sever it.
• Saine refused to cut the channel yet, choosing to avoid alerting the unknown higher dimension while the Bronze Gate expedition was underway.