The Watchful Elder knew that the Redstone Empire's attacks on the Light Empire's home territory were mainly meant to support the Heat Death Research Institute's campaign in the Wolong Star Sector.
But he did not regard the Soulless of the Heat Death Research Institute the way he regarded the Redstone Empire.
In his eyes, the Redstone Empire was nothing but a swarm of expendable insects.
Yet those Soulless posed a genuine threat to him, even to his life.
For all these years, the Watchful Elder had not even known an organization like the Heat Death Research Institute existed.
He had not known that a group of Soulless had secretly pledged themselves to the Dreamwalker.
Nor had the Dreamwalker ever deployed that organization for any overt operations or missions.
Only after his last failure had he learned that his great master commanded such a secret force.
And the Watchful Elder knew the Soulless all too well.
During the Third Great Cataclysm, he had witnessed their entire civil war.
He had even used his own power to steal some of their core technology.
He knew exactly how terrifying they were and what formidable power they wielded.
For one thing, their leaders had achieved true immortality within the Space-Time Turbulence.
They could not reach into the past and retrieve lost treasures at will, as the Mist Sage once had.
But they truly could not die, and they could calculate past events with precision to predict the course of the future.
More importantly, the Soulless now possessed arguably the most powerful and terrifying technology in the universe.
During the Third Great Cataclysm, the Zeroing Titan Qian Haonan had created filled even the Watchful Elder with indescribable fear.
He knew the Zeroing Titan was virtually invincible in the Material Universe.
Even if his true body