Recaps

Saine used the Source-Devouring Channel Cores and rule data to locate Source-Devouring Time-Space and convert a damaged channel into a Reverse Passage. The Mechanical Civilization established a foothold beyond it, where its vanguard met the Source-Devouring Beasts and began a counter-invasion.

• Saine combined feedback from the channel cores, Source-Devouring traces, and battlefield coordinates to pinpoint Source-Devouring Time-Space.
• Saine and the Mechanical Civilization modified a damaged Source-Devouring Channel, and after 372 experiments a probe crossed into Source-Devouring Time-Space.
• Saine adjusted the passage exit to a distant marginal starfield, where Mechanical Beacons formed a coordinate grid and a stable foothold.
• The three Super Civilizations of Clear River Time-Space supported the passage project with resources and logistical aid while keeping their main legions at home.
• The Mechanical Civilization sent engineering, reconnaissance, and Destruction Divine Kingdom Vanguard Legions through the Reverse Passage, where they fought off arriving Source-Devouring Beasts.

Saine’s Mechanical Civilization established a foothold in Source-Devouring Time-Space and prepared for the Progenitor’s massive counterattack. He considered drawing the Lord of Evil Swamp into the conflict and sent the Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord an invitation to join the war, leaving their decision unresolved.

• Saine’s forces opened a Reverse Passage into Source-Devouring Time-Space and fought off the first Source-Devouring Beast assault with destruction-powered troops.
• The Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch mobilized reserves and plundered resources, while the Abyss-Pasture Emperor Monarch awakened Mother Nests to send vast beast tides against the new frontline.
• Source-Devouring Time-Space summoned enormous forces, including Level-10, Level-11, and Level-12 Strong Practitioners, to attack the Reverse Passage and Second Battlefield.
• Saine considered using the Lord of Evil Swamp’s aura and allied time-space coordinates to draw the sleeping entity into Source-Devouring Time-Space, despite the risk of uncontrollable devastation.
• Saine sent the Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord war information and coordinates as an invitation to join the counterattack, and the Eternal Lord opened their eyes upon receiving it.

The Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord decided to personally join the war against Source-Devouring Time-Space to restore the Multiverse’s balance. He unified legions from the Myriad Phenomena Community and secured cooperation with Saine’s Mechanical Civilization before opening a channel to the battlefield.

• The Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord studied the damage Source-Devouring Time-Space had caused to the Multiverse’s balance and decided to intervene personally.
• The Paper Figure Dimension Lord and the Myriad Law Thunder Emperor declined to send their true bodies but placed their legions and Level-12 Strong Practitioners under the Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord’s command.
• The Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord used Balance Sigils to coordinate the allied forces, which completed a joint exercise and began assembling for the expedition.
• Saine welcomed the Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord’s decision and promised the Myriad Phenomena Community a share of the war spoils based on its contributions.
• The Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord acknowledged Saine’s terms and opened a Cross-Dimensional Channel toward Clear River Time-Space.

The Mechanical Civilization defended its foothold in the Source-Devouring Time-Space through twenty-seven waves of beast tide assaults while Saine used Skynet to identify the enemy’s origin supply and deployment network. The frontline shrank, but the Reverse Passage and core engineering zone remained secure, leaving the Mechanical Civilization ready to target key Mother Nests and Origin Nodes.

• The Source-Devouring forces sent Mother Nests and two Level-12 Strong Practitioners against the Mechanical Civilization’s positions, but concentrated fortress fire stopped an Origin Spear from reaching the Reverse Passage.
• The Destruction Mech Soldiers and Destruction Divine Kingdom Vanguard Legion charged into the beast tide, prompting Abyss-Pasture Emperor Monarch’s deployment system to field armored troops resistant to Destruction Factor.
• The Clear River Time-Space civilizations supplied energy, stabilizing materials, and other war resources through the Reverse Passage as Mechanical reinforcements arrived.
• After the outer defensive line fell during the twenty-third wave, Saine remotely used the God of Machines to cripple a peak Level-11 attacker, while Skynet isolated invading beasts and the Mechanical forces compressed their line.
• After twenty-seven waves, the Mechanical Civilization retained the Reverse Passage and core engineering zone, and Skynet mapped the Source-Devouring Veins and identified relay nodes within enemy Mother Nests.
• Saine ordered a battle plan targeting key Mother Nests and Origin Nodes, concluding the first homeland counterattack with the Source-Devouring forces repelled.

The Myriad Phenomena Community joined the Mechanical Civilization’s war against the Source-Devouring forces, and the Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord descended into Source-Devouring Time-Space. After helping destroy a Source-Devouring Beast Mother Nest with Saine, he faced the arriving Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch in a battle between their Level-13 powers.

• The Myriad Phenomena Community’s Balance, Thunder, and two-dimensional legions entered Source-Devouring Time-Space and helped the Mechanical Civilization halt its retreat and reclaim War Fortresses.
• The Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord descended through the Reverse Passage as Azure Blue Sea Lord, Heavenly Waterfall Water Emperor Lan Qiong, and the Mechanical Civilization helped stabilize it.
• The Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord used the Myriad Phenomena Balance Disk to weaken a Source-Devouring Beast Mother Nest, allowing Saine’s forces and the Destruction Divine Kingdom’s vanguard to destroy it.
• The Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch arrived and began drawing dispersed Source-Devouring origin back toward the battlefield.
• The Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord broke through the Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch’s barriers, and their Level-13 Domains clashed across Source-Devouring Time-Space.

The Source-Devouring Emperor Monarchs withdrew from Clear River Time-Space after the Mechanical Civilization and the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction attacked their retreat. The allied forces reclaimed the devastated territory, then moved their main force into Source-Devouring Time-Space as the war’s core battlefield shifted there.

• Saine, the Limitless Golden Emperor, and Locke attacked the retreating World-Devouring Emperor Monarch, World-Eroding Emperor Monarch, and Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch, but the three escaped through a Source-Devouring Channel.
• The Mechanical Civilization destroyed the Source-Devouring Channels in Clear River Time-Space, leaving the remaining Source-Devouring Beast Legion without reinforcements or command.
• The Clear River Time-Space Allied Legion, supported by the Azure Blue Sea Lord, Lan Qiong, and the Mechanical Civilization, reclaimed star territories and fought the remaining beasts.
• Clear River Time-Space’s defenders began restoring their worlds, though tens of thousands of Plane Worlds had lost their life and origin.
• Saine, Locke, the Limitless Golden Emperor, and other powerful fighters entered the Reverse Passage with their legions, shifting the main battlefield to Source-Devouring Time-Space.

Saine used the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord to connect Evil Swamp Time-Space to Source-Devouring Time-Space, testing how the two planes’ rules interacted. The experiment let the Lord of Evil Swamp’s will enter Source-Devouring Time-Space, where its corruption triggered the first large-scale clash between the two powers.

• Saine stabilized the Mechanical Civilization’s frontline with the God of Machines, then focused on the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord as the Level-13 battles continued elsewhere.
• The Heavenly Wing Demon Lord agreed to Saine’s risky experiment, and Saine used Alchemy Needles, the Mechanical Seal, and Cube Time-Space to draw out his suppressed evil swamp aura.
• Saine and his allies formed a narrow rule passage to Evil Swamp Time-Space, stirring the sleeping Lord of Evil Swamp and attracting Source-Devouring Time-Space’s devouring veins.
• The source-devouring veins turned gray-green and spread evil swamp pollution through nearby space, mutating source-devouring beasts and expanding the connection between the planes.
• A wisp of the Lord of Evil Swamp’s will entered Source-Devouring Time-Space and corrupted a nearby Beast Mother Nest, which then attacked another Source-Devouring Beast Legion.

Evil Swamp Pollution spread through Source-Devouring Time-Space, corrupting Mother Nests, beasts, and even a powerful Source-Devouring powerhouse. Saine helped establish the first stable Evil Swamp Anchor Point while testing the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord’s resistance, drawing the attention of the Source-Devouring Progenitor and awakening rule eyes above the anchor.

• The Abyss-Pasture Emperor Monarch severed its control over contaminated Mother Nests, but Evil Swamp Pollution spread through Source-Devouring Veins and forced it to abandon tens of thousands of Origin Nodes.
• A Peak Level-11 Source-Devouring powerhouse attacked an out-of-control Mother Nest, became contaminated, and turned its blade against the legion it had been protecting.
• Saine intensified the Evil Swamp infusion on the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord while using mechanical modules and Locke’s Emotion-Type Origin Power to strengthen its resistance.
• Saine reinforced the spreading rule channels until the first stable Evil Swamp Anchor Point formed in Source-Devouring Time-Space.
• The Source-Devouring Progenitor sensed the Lord of Evil Swamp’s arrival, and rule eyes opened above the anchor point.

The Source-Devouring Progenitor fought to contain the Evil Swamp Lord’s pollution while the Lord of Final Silence advanced against it, weakening its control of Mother Time-Space. As the Lord of Evil Swamp briefly regained clarity, it became fixated on the Progenitor’s intact sense of self and asked how it had resisted the effects of extreme rules.

• The Source-Devouring Progenitor severed contaminated rule veins and sent a giant Rule Hand to suppress the Evil Swamp Anchor Point, while Saine let the Lord of Evil Swamp’s will enter through the passage.
• The Lord of Evil Swamp’s tentacles corroded the Rule Hand, and their collision destroyed Mechanical Civilization’s platforms and damaged distant Source-Devouring Beast Mother Nests.
• The Lord of Final Silence exploited the disrupted rule network, stilling the Progenitor’s veins and advancing across the Second Battlefield as the Progenitor diverted power to contain the pollution.
• The Lord of Evil Swamp’s will gained temporary clarity, surveyed the powerful beings in Source-Devouring Time-Space, and became greedy for the secret behind the Progenitor’s clear self-awareness.
• The Lord of Evil Swamp focused on the Source-Devouring Progenitor and asked why extreme rules had not troubled its sense of self.

The Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord gained the upper hand against the Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch by redistributing Source-Devouring power, while allied legions destroyed the enemy’s network nodes. As the war’s stakes weighed on him, he pushed his Balance Domain forward and shattered the origin the Emperor Monarch had gathered.

• The Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord used the Myriad Phenomena Balance Disk to divert Source-Devouring Veins and distribute the enemy’s erosion across countless Rule Nodes.
• The Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch struggled to control the flow of origin, while the Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord learned that its authority depended on the Source-Devouring Progenitor.
• The Paper Figure Dimension Lord and the Myriad Law Thunder Emperor’s legions joined the Balance Legion to destroy mid-level Source-Devouring Nodes.
• The damage to Mother Nests disrupted the beast tide controlled by the Abyss-Pasture Emperor Monarch.
• The Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord reflected on the danger posed by the Lord of Evil Swamp, the Source-Devouring Progenitor, and Destruction Demon God Locke, then shattered the origin gathered around the Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch.

The Destruction Divine Kingdom Main Force launched a full assault on Source-Devouring Time-Space as Locke, the Lord of Final Silence, and the Lord of Evil Swamp pressured the Source-Devouring Progenitor. The battle spread across multiple fronts, and the Lord of Evil Swamp began pouring more origin through its anchor point.

• The Source-Devouring Progenitor cleansed polluted starfields and erased mutated Mother Nests, then taunted the Lord of Evil Swamp for being weaker than the Destruction Supreme.
• Locke sealed the Evil Swamp Pollution region with the Destruction Black Lotus while the Lord of Final Silence advanced, forcing the Source-Devouring Progenitor to face pressure from three directions.
• Saine and the Limitless Golden Emperor battled the World-Devouring and World-Eroding Emperor Monarchs, while Locke kept the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch restrained.
• Vegeta, Bing Xin, the Mountain Giant King, and other Level-12 fighters joined the assault as the Destruction Divine Kingdom Legion and Mechanical Civilization destroyed Mother Nests and adapted their tactics against new Destruction-resistant beasts.
• Saine sent the Mechanical Engineering Legion to collect scattered resources and watched the exchange between the Source-Devouring Progenitor and the Lord of Evil Swamp.
• The Lord of Evil Swamp's remaining clarity gave way to rage and greed as more origin surged through its anchor point.

The Lord of Evil Swamp forced its Rule True Body into the Source-Devouring Time-Space, spreading corruption as the Source-Devouring Progenitor and its allies fought to contain the invasion. As the war reached a new escalation, the strongest Emperor Monarch, absent for more than a million years, finally sent a faint rule response.

• Saine and the Evil Spirit King maintained the Evil Swamp Nodes while the Lord of Evil Swamp shaped a cross-realm Rule True Body and focused on the Source-Devouring Progenitor.
• The Lord of Evil Swamp’s palm entered the Source-Devouring Time-Space, corrupting Source-Devouring Veins and driving a Level-11 Source-Devouring Lifeform into madness.
• The Source-Devouring Progenitor clashed with the Lord of Evil Swamp, while the Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch and the Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord battled over the distribution of origin.
• The Lord of Final Silence attacked the Source-Devouring Progenitor, and Destruction Demon God Locke destroyed Origin Veins, allowing the Evil Swamp passage to expand.
• The Lord of Evil Swamp pushed more of its body through the passage as the allied forces pressed the Source-Devouring Time-Space across multiple battlefields.
• A faint rule tremor came from a long-silent region, and the Source-Devouring Progenitor and its upper echelons sensed the strongest Emperor Monarch’s first response in more than a million years.

World-Realm Emperor Monarch returned to the Source-Devouring Time-Space after more than a million years away, arriving as a Level-13 Peak powerhouse with mastery over dimensional rules. He targeted Locke, and their clash began amid the battlefield.

• Saine detected an interdimensional rift far from the main battlefield, and World-Realm Emperor Monarch emerged from another dimensional plane.
• The Source-Devouring Progenitor and the other Emperor Monarchs welcomed World-Realm Emperor Monarch, but he declined their offers of origin and command authority.
• World-Realm Emperor Monarch observed Locke’s connections to Paradise Lost Time-Space and Destruction Time-Space, then crossed the starfields to confront him.
• World-Realm Emperor Monarch used the Silver-Gray Ancient Disc to distort space, while Locke prepared the Destruction Black Lotus and God Slaying Spear.
• World-Realm Emperor Monarch and Locke exchanged attacks, with the Ancient Disc redirecting Locke’s spear strike to another area of space.

The World-Realm Emperor Monarch used the Cosmic Realm Disc and Seven-Realm Spear to pressure Locke with shifting dimensional rules, but Locke endured the assault and wounded him with the God Slaying Spear. As Locke drew on more of the Destruction Time-Space, the World-Realm Emperor Monarch’s advantage rapidly diminished.

• The World-Realm Emperor Monarch used the Cosmic Realm Disc to replicate other dimensions’ rules and attacked Locke with the Seven-Realm Spear.
• Locke withstood the Emperor Monarch’s strikes with help from the Destruction Black Lotus and Paradise Lost, then returned a compressed Destruction Tide.
• The World-Realm Emperor Monarch sealed off Locke’s escape routes and continued attacking, forcing nearby armies to retreat as the battle’s rule impacts destroyed starfields and Mother Nests.
• The World-Realm Emperor Monarch’s Seven-Realm Spear cracked the Destruction Black Lotus, but Locke stabbed his chest and spread Destruction Factor through his Rule True Body.
• The World-Realm Emperor Monarch cut away the infected tissue and stepped back as the Ancient Tree of the Moon strengthened the Origin of Destruction reaching Locke.
• Locke mobilized more nodes in the Destruction Time-Space, and dark-golden Destruction Rules appeared across his body as the Emperor Monarch’s advantage rapidly shrank.

Locke drew on the origin power of Destruction Time-Space to turn his fight with the World-Realm Emperor Monarch from a slight disadvantage into a small upper hand. Kakarot studied both combatants for insight into reaching higher levels, while violent rule tremors from other battlefields signaled the war’s escalation.

• Locke used the steady flow of Destruction Time-Space’s origin power to break through the World-Realm Emperor Monarch’s defenses and begin taking the initiative.
• The World-Realm Emperor Monarch narrowed the Cosmic Realm Disc’s coverage and focused the Seven-Realm Spear on defense as Locke’s attacks drove it backward.
• Kakarot watched the battle to study how the World-Realm Emperor Monarch had advanced without dimensional authority, and Vegeta warned him not to join while he was still recovering.
• Locke continued pressing the World-Realm Emperor Monarch with the God Slaying Spear and the Destruction Black Lotus, maintaining a small upper hand.
• Violent rule tremors erupted across several other battlefields as all seven Emperor Monarchs of Source-Devouring Time-Space entered the war.

The Lord of Eternal Day joined the battle in the Source-Devouring Time-Space and engaged the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch, relieving pressure on the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction’s forces. As the front stabilized, Saine and Skynet began preparing for a large-scale relocation while Saine considered when to end the dimension war.

• The Seven Emperor Monarchs intensified the fighting, and Saine ordered the Mechanical Civilization’s forces to contract their lines and concentrate around core regions.
• Locke summoned the Lord of Eternal Day, who entered the Source-Devouring Time-Space and attacked the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch.
• The Lord of Eternal Day forced the wounded Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch to abandon his attacks on the Mechanical Civilization’s rear lines and fight him in the distant starry sky.
• The Lord of Evil Swamp’s arrival unsettled Wuzhuo, the Blue-eyed Octopus, and the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord, who kept their distance and concealed their presence.
• Skynet redeployed forces to evacuation channels, while the Mountain Giant King, Bing Xin, and the Alarm Clock Girl received assignments to fortify rear positions and adjust cross-time-space channels.
• Saine watched the changing war data and began considering when the dimension war should end.

Saine judged that the war’s gains no longer justified the growing cost and decided the Expeditionary Legions should withdraw from Source-Devouring Time-Space. The chapter ends with Saine coordinating a dangerous, staged retreat while the Source-Devouring Progenitor and Seven Emperor Monarchs still threatened the withdrawing forces.

• Saine reviewed the Mechanical Civilization’s spoils and the rising danger posed by the Source-Devouring Progenitor and the Seven Emperor Monarchs, then decided to leave.
• Saine sent the withdrawal proposal to the allied leaders, and the Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord, the Limitless Golden Emperor, the Lord of Eternal Day, and Locke agreed.
• Locke and the World-Realm Emperor Monarch paused their duel as the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction began pulling its forces back toward the Cross-dimensional Passages.
• Saine organized the retreat in stages, assigning legions to evacuate, defend the perimeter, destroy source-devouring veins, and dismantle rule nodes without stranding forces or exposing their routes home.
• Saine planned to destroy the final core Cross-Time-Space Channels with Alarm Clock Girl and the Despair Matriarch while allied Lords of Dimension held off the Source-Devouring Progenitor and the Seven Emperor Monarchs.

The Mechanical Civilization and its allies began an orderly withdrawal from Source-Devouring Time-Space while coordinating passage transfers and destroying their outer nodes. As the enemy recognized the retreat and moved to intercept it, the Lord of Final Silence agreed to withdraw but prepared a final strike against Source-Devouring Time-Space.

• Saine and Skynet organized the Mechanical Civilization's phased withdrawal while the Alarm Clock Girl, the Despair Matriarch, the Mountain Giant King, and Bing Xin protected the passages.
• The Destruction Divine Kingdom and Myriad Phenomena Community shifted their legions to cover defensive gaps as Clear River Time-Space prepared to receive the returning troops.
• Saine placed the outer nodes' destruction under Skynet's control, and the Mechanical Engineering Legion recovered their data and core modules before preparing each node to self-destruct.
• The Abyss-Pasture Emperor Monarch and Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch noticed the retreat, prompting the Source-Devouring Progenitor and other Emperor Monarchs to pursue the withdrawing forces and target their Cross-Time-Space Nodes.
• The Lord of Final Silence accepted Saine's withdrawal proposal but expanded the Sea of Stillness to sever Source-Devouring Veins and move against key veins used by the Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch.

The Expeditionary Legion retreated through the Source-Devouring Time-Space as its forces fought off the pursuing Emperor Monarchs and Source-Devouring Beast army. Saine and Skynet used abandoned Mechanical Nodes to damage the Mother Nest network and briefly slow the pursuit, but the Source-Devouring Progenitor continued gathering power.

• The Destruction Divine Kingdom Legion and the Destruction Zerg Beasts fought alongside the Mechanical Civilization against the Source-Devouring Beasts, while the Destruction Angel Legion held its formation.
• The Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch disrupted energy flows across the evacuation zone, and the Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord adjusted the Balance Rules to reduce the retreating legions' energy costs.
• Saine drove the God of Machines into the Myriad-Origin Heaven-Devouring Ring, forced the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch back, and returned to shield the evacuation zone.
• Bing Xin slowed the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch's attack on a retreating Mechanical Legion, while Vegeta struck apart its extended Rules Domain.
• Locke, the Limitless Golden Emperor, and the Lord of Eternal Day prevented enemy Emperor Monarchs from reaching the Expeditionary Legion's rear and core nodes.
• After the outer war zone evacuated, Skynet detonated abandoned Mechanical Nodes, destroying Source-Devouring Beasts and damaging Mother Nests, but the Source-Devouring Progenitor continued feeding power into the pursuit.

The Expeditionary Legion continued its evacuation from Source-Devouring Time-Space while its strongest fighters held back the pursuing Emperor Monarchs. Saine remained at the rear as the Lords of Dimension prepared to withdraw one by one according to Skynet’s order.

• The Mountain Giant King and Bing Xin stabilized the core channel until the Mechanical Legion’s mobile fortresses had passed, then entered the channel with Vegeta and the evacuating forces.
• Vegeta drove off a Level-12 Source-Devouring Strong Practitioner and withdrew after the last Saiyan Legion troops entered the channel.
• The Heavenly Wing Demon Lord, Wuzhuo, and the Blue-eyed Octopus escaped into Clear River Time-Space under Skynet’s guidance, while the Lord of Final Silence disrupted Source-Devouring Veins to buy time for the evacuation.
• The Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord, the Limitless Golden Emperor, and the Lord of Eternal Day blocked Emperor Monarchs from reaching the core channels as Saine cleared a path through the Source-Devouring Beast armies.
• The Lord of Evil Swamp kept the Source-Devouring Progenitor occupied and intercepted its attacks, indirectly protecting the evacuation while Saine recorded their battle data.
• As the remaining Level-12 Strong Practitioners began entering the channel, Saine kept the Lords of Dimension in position and relied on Skynet to order their staggered withdrawal.

Saine coordinated the destruction of the Mechanical Civilization’s High-Level Rule Nodes while the Expeditionary Legion’s strongest members fought off the Emperor Monarchs and evacuated through the three core channels. With only the final escape route left, Saine and Locke remained behind to hold it until its last node was ready to self-destruct.

• The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch tried to recover dimensional coordinates from the first node’s wreckage, but the Alarm Clock Girl trapped its will in a time loop and the Lord of Eternal Day destroyed it.
• Locke disrupted the World-Realm Emperor Monarch’s analysis of the core channels, destroying its dimensional projections as the second and third nodes self-destructed.
• After the fifth node exploded, the Lord of Final Silence, the Lord of Eternal Day, the Alarm Clock Girl, the Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord, and the Limitless Golden Emperor evacuated through the channels.
• Saine detonated the nodes supporting the second channel, then triggered the remaining nodes’ destruction in a sequence that erased their rule traces and dimensional coordinates.
• Saine led the God of Machines against the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch while Locke held back the World-Realm and Withered-Realm Emperor Monarchs; both stayed behind to protect the final escape route.

Saine and Locke withdrew the Expeditionary Legions from Source-Devouring Time-Space by destroying the last Cross-Time-Space Channel, while the Lord of Evil Swamp continued battling the Source-Devouring Progenitor. Clear River Time-Space had held, but the two powerful beings remained locked in combat.

• The collapsing final channel forced Saine and Locke to race against its destruction while the Alarm Clock Girl and Despair Matriarch stabilized it from the other side.
• The Lord of Evil Swamp tore a fragment from the Source-Devouring Progenitor’s Rule Crystal, seeking the secret that let the Progenitor retain sanity after reaching level fourteen.
• Saine and Locke used a destructive spear strike and the mechanical units’ self-destruction to break the Progenitor’s contracting rules and retreat through the channel.
• Saine detonated the last core node and all three mechanical platforms, and the Balance Dispatch Core’s destruction caused an explosion that erased the channel’s coordinates.
• The Expeditionary Legions reached Clear River Time-Space, but the Lord of Evil Swamp’s battle with the Source-Devouring Progenitor continued.

After the defeat of Source-Devouring Time-Space, Saine and Locke returned to Clear River Time-Space with their allied legions, leaving its native powers to reckon with the visitors’ overwhelming presence. Saine promised to restore wartime permissions and limit Mechanical Civilization’s remaining role to cleanup assistance, while the legions began recuperating and their eventual departure remained unsettled.

• Saine and Locke emerged from the collapsed passage as Azure Blue Sea Lord and Lan Qiong welcomed them amid the other-dimensional armies gathered across Clear River Time-Space.
• Saine confirmed that Mechanical Civilization had withdrawn from Source-Devouring Time-Space and destroyed the six passages, then identified remaining Source-Devouring Beasts and corrupted Rule Nodes for cleanup.
• Saine agreed to leave only reconnaissance and Engineering Legions to locate threats, with Clear River Time-Space’s native civilizations handling the cleanup.
• Saine promised to return Mechanical Civilization’s wartime permissions over the next three hundred years and restore Cross-Time-Space Channel authority to the three Super Civilizations.
• Locke sent wounded Destruction Divine Kingdom Legions into Paradise Lost to recuperate and made no demands for territory or local conscripts.
• Mechanical and Destruction legions organized their bases and began recuperating, while Clear River Time-Space’s leaders still had to negotiate when the visitors would leave and how many troops would remain.

The factions distributed the spoils of the Source-Devouring Time-Space war according to their contributions, then began withdrawing their legions from Clear River Time-Space. The chapter ends with Clear River Time-Space opening limited trade with other dimensions while its Super Civilizations weigh how to protect their sovereignty.

• Clear River Time-Space delivered the first portion of its war reparations, and Saine organized the Mechanical Civilization's share alongside the spoils from Source-Devouring Time-Space.
• Saine and the participating factions allocated contested spoils using battlefield records, assigning rule cores, Mother Nest tissues, and other materials according to each faction's interests and contributions.
• Saine offered the Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord limited trade with the Mechanical Civilization, and the Lord accepted a Balance Sigil as a direct means of communication.
• After several hundred years of distributions, the expeditionary legions departed Clear River Time-Space, while the Mechanical Civilization left only agreed-upon reconnaissance and Engineering Legions behind.
• The Azure Blue Sea Lord and the other leaders agreed to establish long-term trade with participating factions, and Clear River Time-Space began preparing its first small-scale trade delegations.

The Lord of Evil Swamp fought the Source-Devouring Progenitor in the Source-Devouring Time-Space, then retreated with the stolen Rule Fragment despite losing much of his projected body and origin. Back in the Evil Swamp Time-Space, he fell silent again, leaving the Evil Spirit King and the Mechanical Civilization to pause their operations while they waited.

• The Source-Devouring Progenitor used the Mother Time-Space's origin to overpower the Lord of Evil Swamp and began tracing the Cross-Time-Space Channel toward the Evil Swamp Time-Space.
• The Lord of Evil Swamp corrupted the channel to disrupt the Progenitor's lock-on, wrapped the stolen Rule Fragment in Evil Swamp Runes, and slowly retreated despite severe damage.
• The Source-Devouring Progenitor tore apart the retreating projection, but the Lord of Evil Swamp escaped with the fragment and returned his Core Will to the Evil Swamp Time-Space.
• The returning Lord of Evil Swamp reactivated Rule veins and caused disturbances across the Evil Swamp Time-Space, then sank into its depths as the Evil Spirit King withdrew his will and halted further erosion.
• Saine's Sky Net Sub-unit recorded the return without approaching the Slumber Zone, while the Lord of Evil Swamp fell silent with the fragment, leaving his purpose uncertain.