Saine and Gongsun Wudi had stayed in the Gate of Penetration settlement area for a very long time.
The precise span was estimated to be 2,173 years.
This was according to Despair World's timekeeping.
Judging by the Time Flow Rate of the Material Star Realm, only twenty years should have passed in the Star Realm.
That amount of time was probably just enough for Wizard Civilization to recover from the Galente Federation's Endless Light Strike in the Asgard Star Region.
Saine had very much wanted to serve as Wizard Civilization's Vanguard Army and deal a heavy blow to those Federation legions still fighting like caged beasts.
But for now, he could only remain in Despair World and search for a way out.
More than two thousand years was quite a lengthy stretch of life even for a Level-6 lifeform like Saine.
The main reason was that Saine himself was relatively young, so two thousand years truly was a long time for him.
He was not like those Old Monsters who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, whose sense of time had faded to the extreme.
Fortunately, these two thousand years had also been an exceptionally fulfilling period of Saine's life.
Body Tempering Experiments, Ashes of Fire fusion experiments, mechanical fusion experiments, Combined Fortress Group reforging experiments, Intelligent Robot training experiments... Every experimental project filled Saine's daily life, leaving him no time to notice how swiftly time was slipping away.
Of course, beyond those experiments, while stationed in the Gate of Penetration settlement area, another of Saine's specialized research subjects was the Gate of Penetration itself, this Rule Dangerous Land.
Over the past two thousand years, the Gate of Penetration had opened twice more.
The intervals between each opening differed, as did the power of the Energy Tides they