Cave Refuge

But it's precisely because each raid into the Otherworldly realm is conducted by only a small number of elite teams, that once an accident leads to the annihilation of the entire team, it actually causes a considerable loss to their own Plane.

After all, the members of the elite team are usually cultivated with an immense amount of resources. So even if it's not a total wipeout, just having significant casualties is a considerable loss for their Plane.

As for the Plane where the Bat Monsters reside, the reason they dispatch large numbers of low-level Bat Monsters into the Different Dimension for plunder each time the Plane Channel is opened, is not because their ranks lack individually strong fighters.

Instead, they rely on those powerful individual Bat Monsters to fend off elite teams sent by other Planes to invade their Plane.

Though they possess the Plane Transmission Channel that allows them to invade other Planes, it doesn't mean their own Plane is immune to invasions from other Planes.

And once the Blue Star Humans obtain the Plane Transmission Array and gain the capability to raid other Planes.

Anyone slightly astute would realize they are now trapped in a gambling game where they can't leave unless they go bankrupt; the Plane Origin serves as their chips. Unless they lose all their chips, they have no choice but to engage in one endless gambling pursuit after another.

Once they give up struggling and want to leave, the only thing awaiting them is a fate of complete devastation.

After all, once the Plane Origin in their Plane is completely depleted, a Plane that has lost all of its Plane Origin can only face one outcome: the collapse of the Plane.

And in this never-ending gambling game, the only ones who can always profit without losing are those who provide the Plane Transmission Channel. They only need to rely on collecting the Plane Origin required to activate the channel each time, similar to the house's cut in each gambling game.

Although it seems they don't participate in any of the gambles and always act as the fairest judges, in every gambling game, not losing essentially means winning.

But although all smart people can see the crux of it, since the Plane Transmission Array automatically activates periodically and other Planes also invade sporadically, even if these smart people understand the complicated twists inside, no one can stop it from happening.

At this time, all Planes are like vessels against a current, and behind them is a monumental cliff. Any retreat would undoubtedly result in being shattered to pieces, and they must keep sailing forward incessantly.

Because if they ever stop and want to remain stationary, the currents beneath them will push them towards the abyss behind.

One should know that under such circumstances, even if they are merely lacking in force and move slower, the outcome awaiting them might not be just staying put but gradually stepping back, slowly nearing the bottomless abyss behind them.

If it were during an invasion of another Plane, since it doesn't cost a huge amount of Plane Origin to open a massive Plane Transmission Channel at that time, those Bat Monsters might consider attempting to invade or attack a city in the Different Dimension.

After all, since they send large armies to invade the Different Dimension each time, it's normal to expend some forces to test the defensive capabilities of the cities there.

However, this time when they opened the Plane Transmission Channel, it's not only due to the enormous consumption of Plane Origin to inaugurate a massive-scale Plane Transmission Channel, but the primary objective wasn't for invasion; it was for exiling that gigantic monster from our world.

One must know that the monster had already stayed in their Plane for more than ten days, so theoretically, the Plane Origin contained within the monster now belongs to the Plane of the Bat Monsters.

Now, when those Bat Monsters exile that monster to Blue Star, not only will there be a massive consumption of Plane Origin to open the Plane Transmission Channel, but they will also lose the Plane Origin contained within the monster itself.

If it were not for the Plane Will of the Plane where the Bat Monster resides, which is currently in a dormant state and has not yet chosen a spokesperson, this event would have surely been successful. Even though the success this time was fortunate, the person destined to open the Plane Transmission Channel must be responsible for the massive loss of Plane Origin and bear the corresponding consequences.

However, exiling that gigantic monster, although it caused significant loss to their own plane, it was a very beneficial event for the Bat Monster.

Perhaps this could also be the difference between human virtues and Heavenly Path Merit as often mentioned by humans.

Nevertheless, because a large amount of Plane Origin was lost during this exile plan, those Bat Monsters invading Blue Star, in order to bring back more Plane Origin when they return, would find every means to minimize losses.

According to their thinking, as long as a sufficient number of them return, even if those Bat Monsters dispatched to Blue Star do not obtain items containing a massive amount of Plane Origin, they can still plunder a considerable amount of Plane Origin from Blue Star by accumulating small amounts.

It is because of this plan that those Bat Monsters, once they confirmed that their target was located within the human cities, did not even bother with a probing attack and directly abandoned it.

The reason why the Bat Monsters used the Acid Rain Technique near the Magic Capital Base was also to temporarily disrupt the lives of the humans living near the Magic Capital Base.

Because every time invaders enter another plane through the Plane Transmission Channel, they can only open the return Plane Channel at the original location if they stay in the other plane for nine days.

They wanted to return to their original plane and must traverse the Plane Transmission Channel again within the return time; otherwise, unless a Plane Transmission Channel coincidentally appears between Blue Star and their original plane, they would have to stay on Blue Star forever, unable to return to their original plane.

Each invasion into a different dimension is most crucial not for how much they plunder during the invasion, but for how much they can bring back to their own plane upon return.

Invading a plane like Blue Star, which still does not possess a Plane Transmission Array and has no experience of invading other planes to plunder, is manageable. But planes that have experience like theirs, invading other planes and plundering, they would fiercely guard the return Plane Channel on the last day.

Because as long as the invaders cannot carry away the plundered items from their plane, and once the return Plane Transmission Array closes, then those invaders who came to their plane will all become one of the natives.

Regardless of whether the invaders are willing or not, once the return Plane Channel closes and ten days pass, the Plane Origin contained within them will have been assimilated by the native plane, and whether these invaders are dead or alive, they will no longer have any effect on the native plane.

Moreover, since the things they plundered during the invasion were not taken away from the native plane, those invaders are seen as Treasure Chest Monsters by the indigenous inhabitants.

After all, any native with invasion experience knows that only through sacrifice can the invaders inform them of the precise coordinates of the treasures in their plane.

If those invaders through sacrifice find the treasures of this plane, well and good; but even if the invaders for various reasons did not obtain the treasures, the natives only need to torture the exact coordinates of the treasures out of the invaders to consider it a substantial gain.

After all, many of the locations containing treasures might be unreachable for the invaders, preventing them from acquiring the treasures, but these natives have plenty of time to attempt.

Of course, if they're unlucky and the coordinates they obtain are already owned, it actually yields no loss for them.

If they kill those invaders from a different dimension before the eleventh day because the Plane Origin inside the invaders has not successfully assimilated with the native plane, they can attain a kind of omnipotent Heavenly Path Merit reward similar to what's in the Primordial novels.

And if they fail to kill them before the eleventh day, they can consider them slaves to be sold.