But now that he had reached the Fourth Grade Wizard realm, things were gradually becoming difficult for him.
"In their eyes, I'm still a Third Grade Wizard. They have no idea that I broke through to the Fourth Grade a year ago. Even providing resources for my Third Grade cultivation was already incredibly difficult for that group of Second Grade Witches. Now that I'm at the Fourth Grade, I can only secretly figure something out myself."
"Elizabeth and the others are utterly amazed by my talent. Their horizons are simply too narrow."
Li Shengjiang frowned and shook his head with a bitter smile. "My talent is merely above average. I'm far inferior to the Three Witches of old, and even somewhat inferior to gifted women of this era like Lilith and Medusa. If I cultivated normally, I could never catch up to them. But I have my own strengths. I haven't spent more than forty years in this world for nothing. At last, I've climbed my tech tree!"
His gaze slowly shifted toward the Mechanical Creature he had secretly created.
It was a slender male figure standing three meters tall. It held a curved shield in its left hand and a dark-blue staff in its right. With snow-white skin, a holy face, and a blue wizard's robe patterned with stars, it resembled a deity from Norse mythology.
It looked like a humanoid creature, but in reality, it had been constructed from the sturdy bones of countless giant beasts. Its surface was covered in densely packed enchanted patterns and all kinds of rune formations, like circuit diagrams. Profound and mysterious, it gave off an extremely intense sense of danger.
"In my original world, I was among the world's top experts in mechanical technology research. I was only in my forties when