After the Dimensional War ended, the thickness and integrity of the Dimensional Esophagus's spacetime barrier visibly weakened and began to erode.
Of the refugees who had once survived by sheer luck, only one in ten thousand remained. The vast Bone Continent gained many new corpses, which, after weathering the surging Time Storms, gradually turned into bones.
The old era had passed. The Dimensional Esophagus's digestive laws had temporarily entered a dormant period of inactivity.
The sturdy, nearly indestructible spacetime barrier dissolved away. As more and more newly trapped refugees accumulated, the Dimensional Esophagus's digestive laws would eventually awaken once again, entering a new era and welcoming the next Dimensional War.
Above the empty, desolate Bone Continent, an intent gradually spread in all directions from within the twisted vortex of dark clouds.
"Submit to me, and escape despair."
Dark Sacred Ancestor Wushi had created the Dark Gate for only one purpose: to use helping the refugee monsters of the Dimensional Esophagus as a condition, and the consumption of the Dark Great World's laws as the price, in exchange for the combat assistance of the Dimensional Esophagus's refugees!
This could be seen as an investment, or as the formation of a new civilizational system.
By continually consuming the power of the laws from the various subworlds in the core region of the Dark Great World, piercing through spacetime, then paying the price of consuming the Wushi Dark Will to forcibly remove refugees trapped within the Dimensional Esophagus, he could use them as seedlings for the Dark Great World to plunder resources from foreign world clusters, strengthen the Wushi Dark Will, and form a virtuous cycle.
Growing stronger with every battle—this was how one gained the traits of a civilization!
The Dark Saint Ancestor Wushi naturally knew that hidden within the Dimensional Esophagus