Recaps

Destruction Time-Space launched a full-scale assault on the Bridgehead, forcing the Dimensional Legions to defend the Steel Great Wall in a costly positional war. Saine deployed new champions against three Level-12 threats as Locke watched the battle and considered the value of conquering the powerful time-space.

• Destruction Creatures attacked the Bridgehead from every direction, and the combined defenses of the Steel Great Wall struggled to hold the outer lines.
• Saine withdrew injured veterans to the second line and sent Sword Demon against the Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse, Balhaink against the Star-Shattering Moth Emperor, and Thomas and the Jinyue Witch against the Silent Wheel Burier.
• Sword Demon struck the Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse by locking onto its Rule Origin, and Saine noticed that the creature's chest ring affected the Ancient Tree of the Moon beyond the Bronze Gate.
• Balhaink tore through much of the Star-Shattering Moth Emperor's scale powder, but contamination still mutated Evil Swamp Legion troops and forced the Mechanical Civilization to exterminate them.
• The Silent Wheel Burier reflected attacks, so Saine ordered its opponents to favor restraints, delays, and multi-point suppression over powerful linear attacks.
• As the Bridgehead's losses mounted, Saine continued gathering data while Locke watched the fighting and contemplated seizing Destruction Time-Space.

Chen Yuan sensed that the Destruction Divine Kingdom was fighting a major war and urged several Lords of Dimension to exploit the opportunity by striking its rear. They agreed only to probe Demon Cave Time-Space first, while Locke and Saine continued securing their bridgehead in Destruction Time-Space.

• Chen Yuan sensed the balance of power shifting and contacted Dark Nether Death God, Ebony, Duolie, Myriad Law Thunder Emperor, and Heavenly Crown Emperor Monarch about attacking Demon Cave Time-Space or Light Universe Time-Space.
• The Lords of Dimension hesitated, demanding clearer information, guarantees, leadership, or rewards before committing to a strike against Locke and Saine.
• Chen Yuan presented evidence that the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction had mobilized resources and was sustaining a major expedition, then warned that the opportunity might not come again.
• Ebony proposed sending subordinate forces to probe Demon Cave Time-Space, and the others accepted the plan without committing to a full attack.
• Locke waited for Saine's bridgehead to secure Destruction Time-Space, while Saine waited for more Level-12 nodes to reveal weaknesses in their laws.

The Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse disrupted the battlefield by cutting away spatial continuity, forcing Thomas and the Sword Demon to confront it while Saine prioritized collecting samples. The Sword Demon began adapting his sword path to the creature’s severing rules, and the Limitless Golden Emperor recognized that he was learning.

• The Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse arrived and severed the Mechanical Civilization’s signal links and weapon trajectories, redirecting fire into the Limitless Time-Space Legion.
• The Sword Demon attacked the corpse, but its spatial cuts disrupted his sword lights and pulled him into the path of its strike.
• Thomas shielded the Sword Demon and absorbed the blow, allowing the Sword Demon to wound the corpse’s arm and mechanical needles to collect rule fragments.
• Saine identified a connection between the corpse’s gate ring and the Bronze Gate system, then ordered Thomas to hold its attention while the Sword Demon targeted the ring.
• The corpse divided the battlefield’s spatial continuity, and the Sword Demon used his sword to reconnect and then sever the fractured rules as he fought.
• The Limitless Golden Emperor observed that the Sword Demon was learning from the Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse’s power.

Sword Demon used Saine’s rule markers to exploit the Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse’s defenses, discovered how to sever connections between things, and broke through to Level-12 Mid-Stage. With the corpse still stronger and the battle ongoing, Saine ordered him to target the second layer of gate rings on its chest.

• Saine turned data from destroyed sampling towers into rule markers around the Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse, and Sword Demon used them to study its defenses.
• Thomas blocked the corpse’s attack while Sword Demon advanced and flicked a bronze chip from the door ring in its chest, triggering a powerful backlash.
• Sword Demon realized he could sever the connections between things and cut the corpse off from the Destruction Crystal Tide long enough for Thomas and Mechanical Civilization’s cannons to strike its chest.
• Saine’s sampling net collected seven gate-ring fragments as Sword Demon broke through to Level-12 Mid-Stage.
• Locke ordered a thirty-percent withdrawal of legions near the battlefield, and Saine told Thomas to adjust his defense and Sword Demon to collect fragments from the second layer of gate rings.

Saine and the Mechanical Civilization countered the Silent Wheel Burier after its rotating black wheel reversed their artillery and caused heavy friendly-fire damage. They learned to constrain its rotations and track its attack paths, but the Star-Shattering Moth Emperor began spreading an even more troublesome pollution elsewhere.

• The Silent Wheel Burier reversed the Mechanical Civilization's opening barrage, destroying a War Fortress, killing allies, and destabilizing the Destruction Crystal Tide.
• Saine identified its Annihilation Reversal ability and sent the Jinyue Witch, Jin Yi, and mobile legions to engage it.
• The Jinyue Witch tested the wheel with scattered Demonic Fire while Jin Yi's Radiance of Eternal Day revealed its reversal paths, allowing Saine to adjust the artillery to dispersed curved fire.
• Saine's Final Silence Gray Seals disrupted the wheel's rotation, giving the Jinyue Witch an opening to wound the Silent Wheel Burier and the Mechanical Civilization a chance to collect a sample.
• Saine classified the Silent Wheel Burier as a high-risk rotational node and turned his attention to the Star-Shattering Moth Emperor, whose pollution had begun spreading.

The Star-Shattering Moth Emperor spread Destruction Scale Powder across the battlefield, mutating allied legions and forcing Balhaine to destroy contaminated troops while fighting the Level-12 creature. Saine collected samples for the Mechanical Civilization, and Balhaine drove the moth emperor’s contamination back long enough for the Mechanical Civilization to reseal the flank.

• The Star-Shattering Moth Emperor’s Destruction Scale Powder rewrote the rules of Evil Swamp, Limitless Time-Space, and some Destruction Divine Kingdom troops, causing them to mutate and attack their own ranks.
• Saine ordered isolation, and Balhaine used her storm breath to destroy contaminated allied legions and contain the spread.
• Balhaine fought the Star-Shattering Moth Emperor as Saine sent sampling units into the contaminated zone to collect scale-powder samples.
• Saine classified the battlefield as a destruction aberration testing ground and ordered contaminated units that could not evacuate abandoned.
• Balhaine charged through the scale-powder storm, drove it back into the Destruction beasts, and gave the Mechanical Civilization time to seal the flank.

Saine developed Destruction Node Engineering as a way to dismantle and control the Level-12 Destruction Creatures anchoring Destruction Time-Space. While he directed a trap for forces probing Demon Cave Time-Space, the frontline battles continued and new Level-12 auras approached.

• Chen Yuan and the Lords of Dimension agreed to send subordinate forces and a few Transcendence Realm experts to probe Demon Cave Time-Space without attacking the Destruction Divine Kingdom's core defenses.
• Great Black Heaven sent Saine intelligence about the probe, and Saine ordered Skynet to lure the attackers through the outer defenses before sealing them in.
• Saine studied the Level-12 Destruction Creatures and identified them as living nodes tied to distinct rules, naming his strategy to dismantle and control them Destruction Node Engineering.
• Saine assessed the project as requiring at least 17,000 years for its first phase and considered it a promising direction for stabilizing Destruction Time-Space.
• Sword Demon, Jinyue Witch, Jin Yi, and Balhaine continued fighting their targets as new Level-12 auras approached from deeper within Destruction Time-Space.

Saine’s forces lured a probing army into Demon Cave Time-Space and destroyed it with a prepared pocket formation. The losses and surviving witnesses spread fear among Chen Yuan’s allies, leaving them less willing to commit forces against the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction.

• Saine’s defenses let Venerable Sandfall and a mixed probing legion enter Demon Cave Time-Space before Skynet sealed the area with mines and surrounded them with allied fleets.
• The trap cut off the legion’s retreat, and the mechanical-undead cannons destroyed a Level-9 undead monarch as its Death Origin was absorbed.
• Venerable Sandfall burned his origin and tried to escape as a sand river, but Saine’s sealing formation forced him back into range of the allied forces.
• The allied fleets killed Venerable Sandfall and captured or annihilated the subsidiary legions, while Saine ordered his rule-sand-core fragments sent for study.
• Wall-E classified the battle as a model defensive operation, and released remnant souls carried fragmented accounts of the slaughter back to their stations.
• Chen Yuan, Dark Nether Death God, Duolie, Ebony, and Heavenly Crown Emperor Monarch recognized the warning and hesitated to commit more forces to Demon Cave Time-Space.

Saine’s forces targeted the Silent Wheel Burier, a Level-12 Late-Stage Destruction Creature blocking the Mechanical Civilization’s advance, and fought to suppress its reversal rules. The battle left the creature vulnerable for the first time and gave Saine’s team crucial data for developing a way to turn its rules against Destruction Time-Space.

• Saine ordered seventeen Final Silence Gray Seals deployed around the Silent Wheel Burier, while precision fleets calibrated their placement.
• Jinyue Witch and Jin Yi damaged the creature’s black wheel, and Mechanical Civilization recovered a wheel fragment despite losing several Gray Seals.
• The Silent Wheel Burier reversed its wheel and lashed the forward line with Destruction Crystal Tide, forcing the Mountain Giant King to block with the Earth Element Golden Wall.
• On her sixth charge, Jinyue Witch reached the black wheel as Jin Yi illuminated a crack, allowing seventy-two cannon beams to knock the Silent Wheel Burier half a step back.
• Skynet recorded the creature’s reactions for Saine’s Destruction Node Engineering model, and Saine ordered the assault to continue as Jinyue Witch charged again.

Sword Demon and Kakarot used fierce battles against powerful Level-12 Peak opponents to temper themselves, while their allies supported them and disrupted enemy defenses. As the Silent Wheel Burier came close to yielding an exploitable opening, two new Level-12 threats appeared in the Destruction Crystal Tide.

• Sword Demon continued fighting the Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse despite severe injuries, sharpening his sword under its pressure while Thomas blocked its attacks and Saine collected samples.
• Kakarot fought the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch head-on, while Vegeta disrupted the Dark Obelisk Phantom’s recovery links at Saine’s direction.
• Wuzhuo watched the battle and resolved to keep following Saine and Locke after recognizing the strength he still needed to reach.
• Saine, the Jinyue Witch, Jin Yi, and their allies found an exploitable flaw in the Silent Wheel Burier’s defenses.
• Saine identified two new Level-12 threats, Ash Sea Singer and Sky-Rending Ash Ape, as the entrance-zone Star Map turned a deeper shade of red.

The Creation God entered the Destruction Time-Space and confronted the Ash Sea Singer, while the Mountain Giant King, Despair Matriarch Ilena, and the Mechanical Civilization held back the Sky-Rending Ash Ape. The fighting escalated into a high-intensity war of attrition, foreshadowing the eventual entry of the Level-13 Lords of Dimension.

• The Ash Sea Singer’s destructive song disrupted Mechanical Civilization command towers, destabilized pollution creatures, and drove Destruction Divine Kingdom vassals into a deadly frenzy.
• The Creation God entered the battlefield and used his creation radiance to disperse the song and strike the Ash Sea Singer.
• The Sky-Rending Ash Ape charged the Mechanical Civilization’s Steel Great Wall, and Saine detonated a fortress to delay its advance.
• The Mountain Giant King confronted the Sky-Rending Ash Ape, while Despair Matriarch Ilena slowed its attacks and helped the Mechanical Civilization bind its arms with rule cannon beams.
• The battle shifted into a high-intensity war of attrition as more Level-12 practitioners entered the conflict and others awaited the Level-13 Lords of Dimension.

As Destruction Time-Space’s counterattack gathered force, Saine concluded that the Level-12 practitioners could not hold the bridgehead alone and prepared for Level-13 intervention. Locke and the other Lords of Dimension readied to enter the field, while the Evil Spirit King set out to join them after securing his own realm.

• Saine assessed the growing threat from the Destruction Supreme and determined that the first-stage objectives were complete but the bridgehead faced a 37% chance of its outer positions being torn open.
• Locke, the Limitless Golden Emperor, the Lord of Eternal Day, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun agreed that the Lords of Dimension should enter the battle before the Destruction Supreme reached the entrance zone.
• Saine summoned the Evil Spirit King, who secured his authority in Evil Swamp Time-Space and prepared to travel to the battlefield, expecting to arrive after 287 hourglasses.
• Locke gripped the Spear of Destruction as the Destruction Supreme's will pressed against the Bronze Gate and Alarm Clock Girl worked to stabilize the space-time channel.
• Locke stepped forward as the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction's auras rose, while Saine kept the bridgehead systems running and his Mechanical God Rule True Body prepared in Gear Time-Space.

Locke sent the Spear of Destruction through the Bronze Gate to block the Destruction Supreme’s first will impact and establish a foothold in the Destruction Time-Space. The bridgehead stabilized as Saine’s forces began anchoring Locke’s destruction node, while the Destruction Supreme’s will remained present.

• The Destruction Supreme’s first wave overloaded mechanical defenses and unleashed destructive backlash across the entrance zone.
• Locke launched the Spear of Destruction through the Bronze Gate, where it intercepted the Destruction Supreme’s will impact.
• Locke’s destruction ripples rallied the Destruction Divine Kingdom legions, and Kakarot struck the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch with renewed force.
• Saine redirected mechanical fortresses and engineering units to build Rule Anchor Points around the Spear of Destruction.
• The Limitless Golden Emperor observed that the Destruction Time-Space seemed to be recognizing Locke, while Locke drove his will deeper into the entrance zone.

The Evil Spirit King forced his way into Destruction Time-Space with Saine’s support and helped Balhaink suppress the Star-Shattering Moth Emperor. He left the damaged Destruction Creature alive and contained, allowing the allied forces to limit its contamination and preserve it for research.

• Saine’s support systems helped the Evil Spirit King overcome Destruction Time-Space’s rejection and descend onto the battlefield.
• The Evil Spirit King trapped the Star-Shattering Moth Emperor in an Evil Swamp mud sea, slowing the spread of its Destruction Scale Powder.
• Balhaink attacked the Star-Shattering Moth Emperor while the Evil Spirit King bound it with black-green chains.
• The Star-Shattering Moth Emperor detonated condensed scale powder, blasting open the mud sea and driving Balhaink back.
• The Evil Spirit King struck the Star-Shattering Moth Emperor into the Shattered Black Continent, and Balhaink tore away part of its wing root.
• The Evil Spirit King contained the badly damaged Star-Shattering Moth Emperor instead of killing it, while Balhaink swept scale powder away from the allied front lines.

The Creation God completed the Voice of Creation while fighting the Ash Sea Singer, stabilizing the Light God Race legions and pushing the Singer back. He advised Locke and Saine that creation and order could help control Destruction Time-Space, and Saine began planning how to combine those rules with existing anchors.

• The Ash Sea Singer's destructive song disrupted the wills and rules of the allied legions, while the Creation God's light struggled to contain it.
• Under pressure from the Singer, the Creation God realized sound could establish order and formed the Voice of Creation.
• The Voice of Creation restored the angels' hymns and battlefield rhythm, suppressed the Singer's song, and let the Creation Light Spear pierce her core mist-shadow.
• The Creation God told Locke and Saine that Destruction Time-Space needed creation, order, or stabilizing rules alongside destruction if Locke hoped to control it.
• Saine added the Voice of Creation's effects to the Destruction Node Engineering projections and tasked Skynet with studying how it interacted with the Destruction Crystal Tide and the legions.

Saine used the Silent Wheel Burier to redirect a Destruction Crystal Tide into the native beast tide, confirming that Destruction Time-Space’s nodes could be manipulated. As the Destruction Supreme approached, Saine also uncovered deeper connections between several destruction creatures and began turning captured enemies into tools for studying the realm.

• Saine timed the Mechanical Civilization’s attack to the Silent Wheel Burier’s seventy-third cycle and briefly redirected its revolving rules, sending a Destruction Crystal Tide back into the native beast tide and killing three Level-10 powerhouses.
• Wall-E confirmed the second-stage practical verification of Destruction Node Engineering, and Saine studied Skynet’s diagrams showing that Destruction Time-Space’s nodes could be exploited.
• Saine recorded how Locke’s destruction node intensified the resonance between the Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse’s chest ring and the Bronze Gate, while the Sword Demon and Thomas pressed their attack on the ring.
• Saine connected the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast’s Destruction Vision to a segmented Skynet subnet for seven breaths, gaining advance warning that the Destruction Supreme was approaching and detecting hidden rule fluctuations.
• Saine considered using other captured Level-12 Destruction Creatures as specialized war nodes while the frontline battle continued.

Chen Yuan failed to persuade the Lords of Dimension to risk more forces against the Destruction Divine Kingdom and ordered further intelligence gathering. Meanwhile, Evil Spirit King’s rear held against a probe by Heavenly Wing Demon Lord and Molan, as the Destruction Time-Space front continued pressing toward a decisive confrontation.

• Chen Yuan saw Duolie refuse to commit more forces after Qisha Time-Space lost Venerable Sandfall, and the other Lords of Dimension also declined to continue probing.
• Chen Yuan ordered his forces to strengthen intelligence gathering and sent secret messages while waiting for more concrete evidence about the Destruction Divine Kingdom’s plans.
• Heavenly Wing Demon Lord and Molan attacked ancient temple nodes in Evil Swamp Time-Space, but Jiang Qi destroyed their Supply Nodes and disrupted their attempt to summon reinforcements.
• Heavenly Wing Demon Lord and Molan retreated with a small amount of residual origin, and Evil Spirit King decided the disturbance did not require him to leave the Destruction Time-Space frontline.
• Creation God’s power pushed back Ash Sea Singer’s sound waves and restored the Light God Race’s polluted Angel Legion, while Wuzhuo judged Creation God’s foundation for reaching Level 13 to be deeper than his own.
• Locke’s Spear of Destruction continued spreading destruction at the entrance, Destruction Supreme drew closer, and Saine monitored the experimental array’s data.

Destruction Supreme’s arrival unleashed a devastating assault on the entrance-zone bridgehead, forcing Saine and the allied forces to abandon outer positions and prepare for level-13 combat. As the bridgehead came under threat, Locke stepped forward beyond the Bronze Gate.

• Destruction Supreme’s approaching Rule True Body destabilized Saine’s Crystal Tide Wrath Beast and Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast containment systems, while Destruction Creatures surged toward the bridgehead.
• Mechanical Civilization lost three temporary War Fortresses, and Saine ordered the defenders to abandon outer positions and preserve the core bridgehead and its living Rule Anchor Points.
• The Evil Swamp Time-Space Legion struggled against the crystal tide, while its supervisors swallowed out-of-control creatures to prevent their spread.
• Saine concluded that the bridgehead could not hold without level-13 combat power and shifted his Mechanical God Rule True Body into a half-combat form.
• Despair Matriarch Ilena warned that a bridgehead collapse could send the Destruction Crystal Tide back through the Cross-dimensional Plane passage, and Saine prepared for a battle between Lords of Dimension.
• Destruction Demon God Locke stepped forward beyond the Bronze Gate.

Locke crossed the Bronze Gate into Destruction Time-Space and confronted the Destruction Supreme, whose uncontrolled destruction rejected his arrival. His presence rallied the Destruction Divine Kingdom Legion and shifted the entrance-zone battle’s momentum, leaving the two powers poised for a larger struggle over authority.

• Locke entered Destruction Time-Space through the Bronze Gate, aided by a stable passage and the Ancient Tree of the Moon’s guidance.
• The Destruction Crystal Tide split around Locke and the Destruction Supreme, and their opposing currents collided across the entrance zone.
• Locke’s arrival rallied the Destruction Divine Kingdom Legion, whose forces counterattacked as Saine recorded the clash through Skynet.
• Locke took hold of the Spear of Destruction, stabilizing allied forces and briefly slowing nearby native Destruction Creatures.
• Locke and the Destruction Supreme confronted each other as Locke declared his arrival, and the Expeditionary Army regained the initiative on the entrance-zone battlefield.

Destruction Supreme struck the Evil Spirit King, driving him back and damaging his throne while its Rule Ripple battered the Bronze Gate channel. Dao Ancestor Hongjun stabilized the channel long enough for more legions to enter, and the Limitless Golden Emperor and the Lord of Eternal Day crossed ahead of him.

• Destruction Supreme's first Rule Ripple targeted the Evil Spirit King, whose Evil Swamp wall failed to stop it and who was forced back seven steps.
• Saine recorded the clash as the Bronze Gate, Ancient Tree of the Moon, and Cross-dimensional Plane channel trembled under the continuing aftershocks.
• Despair Matriarch Ilena and Alarm Clock Girl worked to stabilize the gate and channel as cracks appeared in the Ancient Tree of the Moon and Alarm Clock Girl's clock phantom.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun used Great Dao ripples and a Dao pattern to stabilize the channel and shield the Ancient Tree of the Moon from some of the aftershocks.
• The Mechanical Civilization transport ships, Destruction Divine Kingdom Legion, Limitless Time-Space, and Eternal Day Legion continued through the channel, while the Limitless Golden Emperor and the Lord of Eternal Day entered ahead of Hongjun.

The Limitless Golden Emperor and the Lord of Eternal Day entered Destruction Time-Space and stabilized critical fronts alongside Locke's allied forces. More Level-12 Destruction powerhouses awakened and converged on the entrance zone, turning the battle into a full-scale multidimensional war.

• The Limitless Golden Emperor restrained the Silent Wheel Burier and Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse, giving Saine time to analyze a Destruction Node while the Sword Demon continued fighting.
• The Lord of Eternal Day joined the Creation God against the Ash Sea Singer and Star-Shattering Moth Emperor, suppressing their attacks and helping the Light God Race restore its battle lines.
• The Destruction Supreme's arrival awakened more Level-12 Destruction powerhouses, whose legions surged toward the entrance zone.
• Saine divided the battlefield into seventeen war zones as the allied forces coordinated through Skynet and Locke's Destruction Nodes.
• The Limitless Time-Space and Eternal Day legions advanced and established support points, while their dimensional lords' forces suffered heavy losses and Saine tracked their expenditures.

As the Destruction Supreme’s forces fully awakened and the allied armies faced mounting losses, Kakarot and Vegeta fused to unleash a power that rivaled the pressure of a Lord of Dimension. The Fusion Saiyan turned first to clear the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch from his path, blasting apart a huge portion of its Dark Obelisk Phantom.

• The Collapsing-Continent Mountain Bearer, Star-Extinguishing Bone Phoenix, World-Splitting Axe Demon, and other destruction powerhouses emerged as the Destruction Supreme’s reserves were revealed.
• Locke and the allied forces held their positions while Skynet recorded heavy casualties across the frontline legions.
• Kakarot knocked back the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch, then told Vegeta to fuse with him.
• Kakarot and Vegeta completed their fusion, and the Fusion Saiyan’s golden aura shook the battlefield and drew the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch’s attention.
• The Fusion Saiyan looked toward the Destruction Supreme, then punched the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch and shattered a huge portion of its Dark Obelisk Phantom.

Locke and the Destruction Supreme fought across the Destruction Time-Space entrance zone, and their clashes destabilized the battlefield and awakened connected Destruction Creatures. Locke remained eager to face the Supreme as the two powerhouses prepared to clash again.

• Locke blocked the Destruction Supreme's first strike with the Spear of Destruction, and their opening clash pushed back fortresses and damaged parts of the frontline defenses.
• Saine ordered the engineering legions to reposition and reinforce the fortress array while preserving the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast anchor point.
• The Destruction Supreme and Locke exchanged a second blow, causing the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast and Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast to rampage against their restraints.
• Saine suppressed the creatures with Dimension-Severing Cage components and concluded that they were tied to the Destruction Time-Space and the Supreme.
• The surrounding Destruction Creatures and battlefields reacted to the two powerhouses' clashes as Locke and the Destruction Supreme pressed toward one another again.

The fused Kakarot overwhelmingly suppressed the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch, drawing the Destruction Supreme’s attention and prompting Saine to organize a plan to weaken and seal the creature rather than kill it. As Kakarot’s focus shifted toward the Destruction Supreme, his allies began preparing to contain the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch so he could leave the battlefield.

• After fusing with Vegeta, Kakarot struck the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch hard enough to shatter several Dark Obelisk Phantoms and drive it through the Destruction Crystal Tide.
• Saine ordered Bing Xin, the Moonlight Goddess, and Thomas to support Kakarot, while directing them to weaken, divide, and seal the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch instead of killing it.
• Kakarot smashed the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch into the Destruction Crystal Tide, and Wuzhuo recognized the vast gap between Kakarot and other Level-12 Peaks.
• Saine observed that the Destruction Supreme was reinforcing the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch, making a prolonged fight dangerous, while Kakarot and Vegeta grew eager to challenge the Destruction Supreme.
• Bing Xin, the Moonlight Goddess, and Thomas prepared a containment route as Kakarot overwhelmed the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch’s annihilating beams and looked toward the Destruction Supreme.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun entered Destruction Time-Space and stabilized the Bronze Gate passage, allowing Saine to study how his Great Dao interacted with its rules. Saine uncovered a deeper destruction core and considered what Locke might need to take control of the realm, but the Destruction Supreme launched another attack.

• Hongjun entered Destruction Time-Space and used his Great Dao ripples to steady the Bronze Gate and the surrounding passage.
• Saine's Sky Net revealed that Hongjun's Great Dao could stabilize collapsing Rule Rifts and interact with Destruction Time-Space in a way distinct from Locke and the Destruction Supreme.
• The combined presence of Locke, the Destruction Supreme, and Hongjun exposed the hazy location of a special destruction core deep within Destruction Time-Space.
• Hongjun moved toward the Destruction Supreme after stabilizing the passage, while Saine recorded his effects on the Ancient Tree of the Moon and considered the role of order and creation in Locke's future struggle.
• The Destruction Supreme's second wave of impact swept across the frontline again.