Recaps

The allied forces’ Level-12 practitioners demonstrated how their distinct abilities could stabilize the battlefield in Destruction Time-Space. Their cooperation strengthened the bridgehead and reduced the toll of Destruction erosion, leaving Saine convinced that the dimension could be conquered by expanding safe zones and dismantling its Level-12 destruction nodes.

• Venerable Xuanheng used his balance halos to slow Destruction Creatures and suppress the destructive forces within them, while the newly advanced Formless Furnace Lord adapted to the crystal tide and produced smoke that helped repair Rule Anchor Points.
• Jin Yi, Sacred Lord Ximian, and Spirit Empress Xidie combined offense, defense, and healing to establish a stable Eternal Day battlefield and support the Light God Race’s Angel Legion.
• Saine sent Mechanical Engineering Legion troops to extend Rule Anchor Points along the Eternal Day Light Domain, accelerating the bridgehead’s expansion through the combined use of light stabilization, mechanical rules, and the Final Silence Gray Mark Array.
• Locke’s presence reduced Destruction erosion for the legions of the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction, allowing their troops and Transcendence Realm practitioners to endure and fight more effectively.
• Saine concluded from Skynet’s battlefield data that Destruction Time-Space could be conquered by expanding stable zones and dismantling its Level-12 destruction nodes.
• Spirit Empress Xidie’s light-dust stabilized wounded troops and enabled stronger purification charges, while Jin Yi and Sacred Lord Ximian reinforced the front with sword attacks and stable light domains.

The Creation God combined his Voice of Creation with the Lord of Eternal Day’s radiance to repel the Ash Sea Singer and move closer to the Level-13 threshold. As the battle intensified, Saine oversaw Demon Cave Time-Space’s integration into the Mechanical Civilization’s system, preparing it as a stable base for the campaign to conquer Destruction Time-Space.

• The Lord of Eternal Day shielded the Creation God from the Ash Sea Singer’s sound waves, inspiring the Creation God to refine his Voice of Creation.
• The Creation God joined his Voice of Creation with the Radiance of Eternal Day, purifying the Destruction Crystal Tide and distorting the Ash Sea Singer’s body.
• The Evil Spirit King recognized that the Creation God was nearing Level 13 and resolved to secure greater benefits from the war.
• The Mechanical Civilization and its allies consolidated Demon Cave Time-Space, while the Evil Tide Civilization, Stein Empire, and Devil Moon Civilization took on distinct roles in restoring order.
• Saine monitored the Creation God’s metamorphosis and archived reports as the forces prepared to use their foothold to advance against the Destruction Supreme.

Saine mapped a hidden destruction core deep within Destruction Time-Space and concluded that it supplied power to the Destruction Supreme and major Level-12 nodes. As Locke continued fighting the Destruction Supreme, Kakarot repeatedly charged it, ending the chapter injured but rushing back into battle with greater fighting spirit.

• Saine combined data from captured Destruction Creatures, battlefield reports, and scouting fleets to map the deep rules of Destruction Time-Space.
• Saine identified a hidden core that supplied power to the Destruction Supreme and major Level-12 nodes, and told Locke it might be possible to disrupt the Supreme’s combat reactions by interfering with it.
• Locke acknowledged Saine’s findings during his fight with the Destruction Supreme and signaled for him to continue investigating.
• Kakarot left the fight against the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch and attacked the Destruction Supreme, punching through part of its Rule Shadow before being blasted into a Destruction Crystal Tide Sea.
• Kakarot emerged injured but with even greater fighting spirit and charged the Destruction Supreme again as Saine recorded his surging power.

Saine activated the Node Chain to sever the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast Star Zone’s rule connection to the Destruction Supreme, briefly weakening its rule arm and giving Locke and Kakarot a chance to wound it. The experiment revealed how Destruction Time-Space distributed power through Level-12 nodes, but its fierce self-repair and backlash made clear that dismantling it would be a costly, prolonged effort.

• Saine built the Node Chain around the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast and the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast, sacrificing Skynet subsystems and fortresses to contain contamination as the device activated.
• The Node Chain briefly severed the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast Star Zone’s feedback to the Destruction Supreme, making its rule arm lose some of its support.
• Locke pierced the weakened rule arm with the Spear of Destruction, and Kakarot struck the Destruction Supreme with a golden fist, leaving two wounds.
• Sword Demon, Storm Dragon Balhaink, and Venerable Xuanheng each gained a brief advantage against their opponents as the destruction power weakened.
• Destruction Time-Space sent a surging crystal tide to repair the breach and locate its source, swallowing three outer fortresses while further backlash overloaded fortresses and burned out a Skynet subsystem.
• Saine concluded that the Node Chain could weaken Destruction Time-Space’s native powerhouses, but that the process would require continued work against powerful self-repair and contamination.

Level-12 practitioners fought Destruction Time-Space’s powerful creatures across multiple battle zones, and the Limitless Golden Emperor and Lord of Eternal Day sealed the Silent Wheel Burier and Ash Sea Singer. The battle remained a costly stalemate as Saine’s forces contained the other threats and tried to keep the Bridgehead secure.

• The Limitless Golden Emperor, aided by Jinyue Witch and Jin Yi, sealed the Silent Wheel Burier after suppressing its Turning Wheel.
• The Lord of Eternal Day, the Creation God, and their allies sealed the Ash Sea Singer in a Radiance Cage, while the Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse broke free and provided Saine with valuable resonance data.
• Venerable Xuanheng and the Formless Furnace Lord confronted the Crystal Tide Snake King, while the Mountain Giant King shielded troops from the Black Sun Falling Monarch’s destructive rain.
• Balhaine fought the Star-Extinguishing Bone Phoenix, Sword Demon evaded the World-Splitting Axe Demon, and Wuzhuo and the Blue-eyed Octopus disrupted the Erosion Abyss Mother Nest.
• Agulos and Long Ga forced the Headless Spear Chief to reveal its position, allowing the Mechanical Civilization to recover a spear-shadow remnant for its engineering archive.
• Saine reinforced the Bridgehead against the Sky-Rending Ash Ape, while the prolonged fighting exhausted several allied Level-12 fighters and left the battlefield dangerous despite the sealed enemies.

Saine coordinated several Level-12 Strong Practitioners to half-seal the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch and capture valuable Dark Obelisk data. The seal held, but the obelisk cluster began resonating more strongly as Locke continued fighting the Destruction Supreme.

• Bing Xin, the Moonlight Goddess, Thomas, and the Mountain Giant King contained the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch while Saine prepared to intervene.
• Saine used scouting data to direct the others, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun briefly straightened the Monarch’s feedback streams.
• Saine deployed the Dimension-Severing Cage and Final Silence Gray Mark Array, sealing half of the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch’s Rule True Body.
• The seal flooded Skynet with Dark Obelisk data and opened a gap in the Destruction Supreme’s feedback system, which Locke noticed.
• The Dark Obelisk cluster resonated more strongly, so Saine ordered heightened monitoring and reinforced the area with reserve War Fortresses.
• Saine refused Thomas’s offer to press forward, choosing to stabilize the half-seal while Locke and Kakarot remained focused on the central battlefield.

Saine and the allied forces exploited the weakening Destruction Time-Space front to advance their campaign, while Saine gathered frontline data to locate the destruction core. Destruction Supreme noticed Saine and attacked his position, but Locke intercepted it and renewed their clash.

• Saine recorded how the capture, sealing, and defeat of several Level-12 Destruction Creatures weakened Destruction Time-Space’s battlefield support.
• Mechanical God moved through the frontlines so Saine could observe Destruction Nodes directly and gather data for Destruction Node Engineering.
• Locke, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Limitless Golden Emperor, Lord of Eternal Day, and Evil Spirit King helped stabilize the battlefield as allied forces advanced and Saine tracked their contributions for merit distribution.
• Saine used Sky Net to compare the statuses of sixteen Level-12 Destruction Nodes and concluded that weakening them further could expose the destruction core.
• Destruction Supreme looked toward Saine and sent Destruction Rules against his position, but Locke blocked the attack and clashed with it again.

The Destruction Supreme targeted Saine and the Mechanical God, forcing Locke to block its attacks while Saine studied the revealed pathways of Destruction Time-Space. As the Supreme prepared a third strike, Dao Ancestor Hongjun intervened, and Saine abandoned his plan to activate the Heart of Dimension Magic Necklace.

• The Destruction Supreme locked onto Saine and struck the Mechanical God with a giant palm, which Locke blocked with the Spear of Destruction.
• The Destruction Supreme sent dark golden threads toward the Mechanical Civilization’s Rule Anchor Points, and Locke shattered them with Destruction Ripples.
• Saine tracked the damage and Node Chain stability through Skynet, preserving some contaminated subsystems in Quarantine Zones as samples of Destruction Time-Space.
• Saine considered moving the Mechanical God closer to the Frontline and using the Heart of Dimension Magic Necklace, but decided against risking synchronization with Destruction Time-Space’s Origin Rules.
• As the Destruction Supreme prepared a third attack, Dao Ancestor Hongjun sent Great Dao ripples from the Bronze Gate, diverting the Crystal Tide and preventing Saine from activating the necklace.

Hongjun's Great Dao ripples obscured Saine from the Destruction Supreme's attacks, giving Saine time to advance Mechanical Civilization's Node Engineering while Locke held the enemy back. Saine concluded that any future takeover of Destruction Time-Space would require forces that could balance and reorganize its rules, and he began extending the front deeper into the realm.

• Hongjun's Great Dao ripples shifted the Destruction Supreme's lock, causing its third attack to miss Saine and carve a dangerous fissure in a nearby Crystal Tide Sea.
• Saine sealed off the fissure, ordered remote observation, and heeded Hongjun's warning not to synchronize too deeply with Destruction Time-Space's Origin.
• Locke wounded the Destruction Supreme's Rule True Body while Saine used the reprieve to advance Node Engineering and record his Destruction Time-Space Reshaping Hypothesis.
• Saine assembled a deep-range reconnaissance squad and established the Second Node Front by reconnecting Rule Anchor Points with dozens of War Fortresses.
• The Destruction Supreme tried to pressure Saine again, but Locke blocked it as Hongjun reinforced the barrier, allowing Saine to continue his work.

Saine sent Alarm Clock Girl, Despair Matriarch Ilena, Wuzhuo, and modified Mechanical Civilization reconnaissance units deep into Destruction Time-Space to gather information while avoiding contamination and unknown threats. The squad uncovered ruins and evidence that the dimension once had an ordered civilization connected in some way to the Bronze Gate, leaving Saine eager to investigate further.

• Saine assembled a reconnaissance squad and equipped it with detailed orders, independent Skynet cores, and emergency time-space anchors.
• Alarm Clock Girl, Ilena, Wuzhuo, and the mechanical units entered the depths, where Destruction Crystal Tides and creatures destroyed many of their scouts.
• The squad discovered ancient ruins and Dark Obelisks that Saine suspected had once stabilized or contained destruction.
• Reconnaissance units recovered worn warning-like images of star rings, gates, and giant trees, and the gate image coincided with a fluctuation from the Bronze Gate.
• Wuzhuo collected a sealed sample of ancient anti-destruction residue, while Alarm Clock Girl and Ilena identified abnormal time-space traces resembling the Bronze Gate passage.
• Saine ordered the squad to avoid active obelisks and continue gathering information about the prehistoric civilization.

After Saine dismantled several rule nodes, the Destruction Supreme triggered a self-preservation response and called its level-12 destruction creatures back toward the Central Battlefield. Saine and Locke redirected the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction to intercept them, leaving the war in a costly, fast-moving struggle to keep the nodes from restoring the Destruction Supreme’s strength.

• The Destruction Supreme sent a silent ripple across the battlefield, prompting the Black Sun Falling Monarch, Headless Spear Chief, Erosion Abyss Mother Nest, and other level-12 creatures to withdraw toward it.
• Locke warned that the returning nodes could repair the Destruction Supreme, and Saine changed the faction’s orders from sealing them to intercepting, delaying, separating, or heavily damaging them.
• Sword Demon, Storm Dragon Balhaink, Venerable Xuanheng, Formless Furnace Lord, Wuzhuo, Blue-eyed Octopus, Star Mark, and Lian Mo pursued or restrained the departing nodes in their battle zones.
• The Mountain Giant King and Limitless Golden Emperor slowed the Black Sun Falling Monarch while Mechanical Civilization artillery struck it; Agulos and Long Ga disrupted the Headless Spear Chief, and the Mechanical Civilization’s Dimension-Severing Cage captured data from its afterimage.
• The nodes’ determined retreat forced the faction into mobile warfare, raising casualties and straining Mechanical Civilization’s Engineering Legion as Skynet rapidly issued new deployment orders.
• Saine recognized that the battle had forced Destruction Time-Space to activate its self-preservation mechanism.

The Creation God’s improved light domain began calming Destruction Creatures, offering Saine a possible way to stabilize the Destruction Time-Space. Beyond the Bronze Gate, the Ancient Tree of the Moon grew a Moonlight Essence branch that steadied the channel, leaving Saine to prioritize both developments as potential keys to the war’s aftermath.

• The Creation God stopped angels from purifying Destruction Creatures that had calmed inside his light domain, and Saine’s Skynet confirmed that the Creation Rule temporarily reduced their rule noise.
• Saine asked the Creation God to preserve the domain for observation, and the Creation God, Lord of Eternal Day, Spirit Empress Xidie, and Angel Legion helped maintain it as a frontline stronghold.
• The Ancient Tree of the Moon grew a Moonlight Essence branch as the Bronze Gate trembled, and the branch began stabilizing nearby Time-Space Folds.
• Despair Matriarch Ilena and the Alarm Clock Girl recognized the branch’s stabilizing effect, and the Alarm Clock Girl’s time marker remained intact beside it.
• Saine and Locke learned of the tree’s transformation, and Saine designated both the light domain and the Ancient Tree of the Moon as highest-priority observations.

Saine tested whether the Creation Light Domain could calm destruction creatures and stabilize Destruction Time-Space’s destructive fluctuations. The experiments showed that it reduced agitation but could not restore consciousness, leaving Saine to pursue layered noise reduction, rule restructuring, and control of higher-order nodes.

• Saine established an experimental zone where the Creation God, the Lord of Eternal Day, and Spirit Empress Xidie helped test the Creation Light Domain on lower-level destruction creatures.
• The Voice of Creation, Radiance of Eternal Day, and light dust calmed many of the creatures, though some experiments ended in explosions or crystal collapse.
• Saine found that the calmed creatures remained empty shells without recoverable thought or self-awareness.
• Saine and his allies developed a layered model of destruction noise and concluded that the Creation Light Domain affected lower layers, while the highest rule-level pressure required higher-order nodes.
• Saine tested dead destruction creatures and eroded Evil Swamp corpses, finding that the Creation Light Domain also suppressed destruction crystal activity and further corruption.
• Saine compared Destruction Time-Space to a fever-stricken organism and concluded that reducing its destructive noise would not be enough without more tools to stabilize it.

The battle in Destruction Time-Space continued as Locke used Paradise Lost and his own power to adapt to the realm while fighting the Destruction Supreme. Saine’s observations increased the possibility that Locke could replace the Supreme, but Locke remained wary that the time-space might consume whoever mastered it.

• The Destruction Supreme recalled scattered Level-12 Destruction Nodes, while Sword Demon, Balhaine, Agulos, Long Ga, Wuzhuo, Blue-eyed Octopus, and other strong practitioners intercepted them across the battlefields.
• Black Sun Falling Monarch and Headless Spear Chief escaped their pursuers and returned to the Destruction Supreme, stabilizing its rule-feedback system and increasing the pressure on Locke.
• Locke resonated Paradise Lost, the Sacred Tree, and the Destruction Black Lotus with Destruction Time-Space, gradually spreading his own Destruction Tides through it.
• Saine studied Locke’s adaptation and found that Destruction Time-Space accepted him more when Paradise Lost’s stabilizing rules emerged, while pure clashes with the Destruction Supreme intensified its rejection.
• Locke’s Destruction Tides reduced the realm’s erosion on his legion and strengthened its Destruction power, but some ancient trees in Paradise Lost briefly withered after his clashes.
• Saine warned that Destruction Time-Space would gnaw at its master, and Locke tightened his grip on the Spear of Destruction and continued facing the Destruction Supreme.

Saine developed and tested the Destruction Noise Canceller, a creation that suppressed Destruction Time-Space’s agitation without disrupting Locke’s destructive power. After refining it for safe deployment, he planned a first batch of three hundred units and established a Skynet-directed system to distribute them across the frontlines.

• Saine activated the first Destruction Noise Canceller, and it briefly silenced nearby Destruction crystal samples.
• Saine tested the device on Destruction Creatures, finding that its effect weakened as their level rose and had almost no effect on Level-12 creatures.
• Saine proposed producing three hundred units, with each linked to Skynet so it could adapt to local conditions and detach if contaminated.
• Saine discarded failed samples, then refined the thirty-sixth sample to suppress disorderly Destruction noise without affecting Locke’s will of destruction.
• Skynet assigned the first batch to battlefronts and sealing zones, while Saine equipped each unit with operating modes and arranged for Engineering Ships to deploy them.
• The Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction gained the ability to regulate its battlefield environment instead of merely enduring the Destruction Crystal Tide.

Saine’s faction swept through Destruction Time-Space with noise cancellers and established new stable zones, while Saine and his allies fully sealed the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch. As damaged destruction nodes began surging together around the Destruction Supreme, Saine prepared for an imminent decisive counterattack.

• The Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction deployed noise cancellers and advanced across multiple Star Zone Battlefields, establishing passages and recovery zones.
• Saine and his allies fully sealed the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch with the Dimension-Severing Cage, creating a gap in the Destruction Supreme’s feedback system.
• Wuzhuo, Blue-eyed Octopus, and other allies weakened the Erosion Abyss Mother Nest and several Level-12 destruction creatures.
• Saine grew uneasy as the Destruction Supreme’s feedback system strengthened and realized destruction creatures acted on the time-space’s instinct rather than military orders.
• Skynet recorded a sudden surge in the Destruction Supreme’s rule feedback, and Saine ordered the noise cancellers into standby overload mode and withdrew the Mechanical Civilization’s outer defensive lines.

The Destruction Supreme gathered feedback from its returning destruction nodes and struck with power beyond an ordinary level-13 peak being, blasting Locke and Kakarot back. Saine moved closer to analyze its rule structure as Locke and the other powerful beings prepared to dismantle its supporting nodes.

• The Destruction Supreme combined the returning nodes’ feedback and unleashed a strike that overwhelmed Locke, while Locke shielded Kakarot from a fatal blow.
• Kakarot remained excited by the display of power despite his injuries and unstable fusion state.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun, the Evil Spirit King, the Lord of Eternal Day, and the Limitless Golden Emperor moved toward the Destruction Supreme as Saine advanced with Thomas and the Mountain Giant King.
• The shock waves devastated nearby legions and damaged Mechanical Civilization forces, while Saine used Skynet to restore battlefield control and record the strike’s structure.
• Saine identified how several destruction nodes had strengthened the Destruction Supreme and prepared to analyze it at closer range.
• Locke steadied himself and prepared to fight again as the others focused on tearing apart the node feedback sustaining the Destruction Supreme.

Saine identified the Destruction Supreme’s three sources of power and ordered the allied forces to disrupt its wounded Level-12 nodes and feedback channels. As Locke intercepted the Supreme’s attack on Saine, Kakarot emerged from the distant Destruction Crystal Tide Sea.

• Saine analyzed the Destruction Supreme’s power and traced it to the Destruction Heart Core, Level-12 Rule Nodes, and the Destruction Tide.
• Locke agreed that Saine should dismantle whatever sources of power could be disrupted.
• Saine ordered the allied forces to seal or dismantle Destruction Creatures and interrupt their feedback to the Destruction Supreme.
• The Blue-eyed Octopus, Lian Mo, Star Mark, Agulos, Long Ga, the Limitless Golden Emperor, and other fighters worked to isolate or restrain their assigned Destruction nodes.
• The Destruction Supreme targeted Saine, but Locke intercepted its Destruction Ripple with the Spear of Destruction.
• Kakarot burst from the distant Destruction Crystal Tide Sea, appearing close to shattering.

Kakarot and Vegeta broke through under the Destruction Supreme’s crushing pressure, strengthening their fusion enough to damage its defenses. Kakarot remained on the front line as Locke took on more of the Supreme’s pressure and continued the assault.

• Kakarot charged the Destruction Supreme again as Locke sent Sacred Tree radiance from Paradise Lost to sustain him.
• Kakarot’s realm broke through from Level-12 Late-Stage to Level-12 Peak, stabilizing the Fusion State.
• Vegeta advanced from early Level-12 to Level-12 Mid-Stage, and their breakthroughs raised the Super Saiyan Legion’s morale.
• Kakarot’s next punch opened a gap in the Destruction Supreme’s Rule Shadows, drawing more of its attention toward him.
• Locke bore more of the Destruction Supreme’s pressure for Kakarot and pressed forward with the Spear of Destruction.

Locke, Kakarot, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, the Limitless Golden Emperor, and the Lord of Eternal Day coordinated a siege that wounded the Destruction Supreme and held it back. With the central battlefield temporarily stabilized, Saine headed toward the outer star regions to investigate a possible way to change the war.

• Locke, Kakarot, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, the Limitless Golden Emperor, and the Lord of Eternal Day attacked the Destruction Supreme together while the other Level-12 fighters held back its supporting forces.
• Wuzhuo, Sword Demon, Balhaine, and the Creation God continued their assigned battles to limit the Destruction Supreme's reinforcements.
• The allied fighters coordinated their attacks, and repeated strikes from Locke and Kakarot, supported by the others' techniques, left wounds across the Destruction Supreme's Rule True Body.
• Saine observed that Kakarot's battle instincts exposed openings even before Skynet's calculations could predict them.
• After the siege temporarily stabilized the central battlefield, Saine flew toward coordinates transmitted by Alarm Clock Girl and the reconnaissance teams.

Saine’s reconnaissance team discovered the remains of the Realm-Suppressing Ring, an ancient device built by Destruction Time-Space’s Prehistoric Civilization to stabilize the realm and possibly replace its failing core bearer. Saine began planning a partial restoration that could help restrain the Destruction Supreme and Level-12 nodes, while Locke and the others held the main battlefield.

• Alarm Clock Girl, Despair Matriarch Ilena, Wuzhuo, and the Mechanical Civilization’s reconnaissance units entered the destruction core’s outer region, where hidden destruction creatures ambushed them.
• Alarm Clock Girl detected fault lines in the Time Flow Rate, and Despair Matriarch Ilena found ancient signs that the region’s time-space had once been forcibly stabilized.
• Wuzhuo absorbed a ring-shaped fragment whose stabilizing fluctuation resembled the Destruction Noise Canceller, and Alarm Clock Girl sent the discovery to Saine.
• Saine connected the coordinates of the recovered fragments and identified a vast broken structure as the Realm-Suppressing Ring, which had suppressed destruction noise, stabilized fissures, and guided Level-12 node feedback.
• Saine reconstructed a fragmentary image of the ancient civilization and suspected the ring had also been designed to replace the Destruction Supreme as the core bearer.
• Saine began modeling a partial activation of the Realm-Suppressing Ring, planning to combine its functions with other devices and use his team to stabilize, power, and defend it.

Saine partially reactivated the Realm-Suppressing Ring wreckage while the Creation God manifested the Creation Prologue, briefly disrupting the Destruction Supreme and revealing a way to interfere with its power. Saine prepared the frontline for a second round of node severance.

• Saine and his allies assembled the Realm-Suppressing Ring fragments, and after several failed attempts, they established a thin, stable ring of gray-white light that suppressed nearby destruction noise.
• The Creation God manifested the Creation Prologue, clearing some destruction noise, briefly restoring the clarity of affected creatures, and strengthening the allied legions.
• Skynet sent Saine data about the Creation Prologue, and he incorporated it into a model connecting it with the Realm-Suppressing Ring, the Destruction Noise Canceller, and the Final Silence Gray Seal.
• The reactivated ring briefly halted the Destruction Supreme, allowing Locke, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, the Limitless Golden Emperor, the Lord of Eternal Day, and Kakarot to strike its rule convergence point and force it half a step backward.
• Saine confirmed the interference worked and instructed the frontline to prepare for the second round of node severance.

Saine's second round of node severance briefly cut off the Crystal Tide Snake King and Black Sun Falling Monarch from the Destruction Supreme, allowing the frontline to wound it more severely. The Destruction Heart Core then struck back, collapsing the outer core region and placing the exploration team in danger.

• Saine linked the Realm-Suppressing Ring remnants, Destruction Noise Cancellers, Final Silence Gray Seal, and Creation Prologue into a temporary Rule Chain, then deployed thirty-seven Skynet Subsystems for the severance operation.
• Venerable Xuanheng, the Formless Furnace Lord, and Edgar helped sever the Crystal Tide Snake King's feedback, while Balhaine, Jin Yi, Sacred Lord Ximian, and the Moonlight Goddess disrupted the Black Sun Falling Monarch's connection.
• Locke, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, the Limitless Golden Emperor, and the Lord of Eternal Day attacked the exposed Destruction Supreme, leaving it with more severe cracks and dimming nearby Destruction Star Zones.
• The Destruction Heart Core released a pulse that overloaded dozens of Destruction Noise Cancellers, cracked the Final Silence Gray Seal, and destabilized the rules in the outer core region.
• Alarm Clock Girl warned that the outer core rules were collapsing, Despair Matriarch Ilena said the time-space curtain was failing, and Wuzhuo's cloud mass was blasted open, putting the exploration team in danger.

Saine’s attempt to study the Destruction Heart Core triggered a devastating backlash, but his team contained the damage and gathered valuable samples. Afterward, Saine concluded that the Heart Core may be the source of Destruction Time-Space and that the Realm-Suppressing Ring had been built to suppress it.

• The Destruction Heart Core retaliated against Saine’s dismantling of the Realm-Suppressing Ring, destroying reconnaissance units and spreading rule-level contamination.
• Alarm Clock Girl, Despair Matriarch Ilena, Wuzhuo, Thomas, and the Mountain Giant King helped contain the backlash while Saine extracted samples of Destruction residue.
• The backlash subsided after Saine stabilized the Realm-Suppressing Ring fragments, leaving cracks and widespread crystal contamination that required safeguards.
• Saine’s team analyzed the residue and found it could rewrite inanimate Rule Materials as well as contaminate living beings.
• Saine speculated that the Realm-Suppressing Ring had been built to suppress the Destruction Heart Core, and that the Destruction Supreme and other monsters had emerged from the collapse of the prehistoric civilization.
• Saine classified his theory as top-secret and concluded that the central challenge of Destruction Time-Space was dealing with the Destruction Heart Core, not defeating the Destruction Supreme.

After Saine warned Locke that absorbing the Destruction Heart Core could overwhelm him, he proposed taking control of Destruction Time-Space gradually through a new realm-suppressing system. Locke accepted the safer plan, and the faction established its first experimental stable zone, where his lucid destruction will met fierce resistance but began anchoring a foothold.

• Saine assessed the Destruction Heart Core's danger and secretly sent Locke data showing that his compatibility with Destruction Time-Space did not make him safe from its influence.
• While Locke fought the Destruction Supreme, Saine proposed using the Realm-Suppressing Ring wreckage, Mechanical Civilization systems, and other tools to take over Destruction Time-Space in stages without absorbing the core.
• Locke accepted Saine's plan to establish localized stable zones and gradually claim part of Destruction Time-Space's authority.
• Saine chose the Star Sector containing the sealed crystal tide wrath beast as the first testing ground and deployed rule anchor points, Destruction Noise Cancellers, the Final Silence Gray Seal, and Locke's lucid destruction will.
• The Star Sector violently resisted Locke's will, straining Venerable Xuanheng, the Formless Furnace Lord, and Edgar, but Saine reinforced the zone with more Cancellers and Mechanical War Fortresses.
• The new stable zone reduced disruptions to Mechanical Civilization energy circuits and lowered the Evil Swamp Time-Space Legion's mutation rate, giving the faction a dependable foothold.