Saine had never been an easy man to reason with.
His gentle nature had always been reserved for those close to him.
If anyone showed hostility toward him, what awaited them would be Saine's stormy, torrential retaliation.
The decline in his aura at this moment was not a bad thing for Saine. On the contrary, it was a good thing.
The rule fluctuations at the Critical Point had left his current condition extremely unstable.
For the time being, he had no intention of immediately attempting a Level-4 breakthrough. At the very least, he needed time to prepare in advance.
With the support and enhancement of the Faceless Mask, Saine's body was currently in an exceptionally stable state.
This stable state could, at the very least, last Saine another hundred years.
Back in the Inheritance Secret Realm, he had absorbed five hundred years' worth of knowledge and nourishment. The reason he had ultimately emerged from that state and come back to himself was that the fluctuations in his aura had become far too obvious, to the point that even he was having trouble controlling them.
If he had continued immersing himself so deeply, Saine feared that he would have encountered the crucial threshold of breaking through to Level 4 within the secret realm space.
As a rational, calm magician, Saine felt it would be better to slow down first.
The reason the energy elements in the secret realm space had grown increasingly thin at the time was largely because Saine, in a subconscious state, had absorbed them excessively.
The birth of every Level-4 lifeform required an utterly staggering total amount of energy drawn from the surrounding environment.
Level-4 lifeforms were likewise a vital opportunity for a Micro Plane to advance into a Low-Level Plane!
Now that he had flown directly above