The thaw in Saine's relationship with the Long-Armed Ape had begun with a war of reinforcements.
At the time, Saine had personally led an army of over ten million to reinforce the Long-Armed Ape and the Intercept Sect legion under his command, who had been surrounded on all sides.
Judging by the outcome, the monkey had appreciated the gesture.
Faced with Saine's smiling rebuke, the Long-Armed Ape still looked somewhat doubtful.
"Can you really raise the grade of this staff?" the Long-Armed Ape asked once again.
"Do you know who forged this staff for me?" the Long-Armed Ape muttered under his breath.
Saine did not catch what the Long-Armed Ape had muttered. After taking the Heavenly White Jade Pillar into his hands, the Faceless Mask swiftly began analyzing the Immortal Domain spiritual treasure before him.
Much of the feedback concerning the forging details of this Heavenly White Jade Pillar indicated that its creator's attainments in the art of artifact forging far surpassed Saine's own.
And Saine intended to use the insights gained during the process of reforging this staff to imitate some of the original creator's methods, thereby advancing his own accomplishments.
Though the paths of artifact forging differed, they ultimately led to the same destination.
By the standards of Immortal Domain artifact forging, the fact that this originally "ruined" staff had managed to reach the level of a low-grade, low-tier World-Class Secret Treasure was already the result of its creator's exceptional skill and painstaking efforts to salvage it.
If another Immortal Domain artifact-forging master were brought in to repair it, the finished product would not be much worse.
However, the profound principles of Wizard Civilization alchemy that Saine had mastered shared similarities with Immortal Domain artifact forging, while placing emphasis in different directions.
In Saine's view, he had a