After inviting the Plant Giant to visit his laboratory when it had time, Saine left the trading bazaar and returned to his own laboratory on Third Peak.
With only a little over a hundred years left before the secret realm opened, Saine needed to resolve part of the energy replenishment issue for his Magic Cube during this time.
137 years later.
Minghua Phoenix, who had been dormant for a long time, came to visit Saine's laboratory.
Perhaps because the portion of Saine's laboratory exposed above the surface had been built rather narrowly, Minghua Phoenix finally assumed Humanoid Form, as Saine had requested the first time they met.
Powerful creatures like them possessed the ability to shapeshift at will.
Yet appearance was born from the heart. The humanoid form Minghua Phoenix had taken by instinct was naturally a woman who best matched her true self.
She was a tall woman with a luxuriant mane of golden hair, a full bosom, and rather peculiar clothing—likely the style of the Hundred Spirits Aviary.
"Actually, our world, as well as certain planes under our star domain, also has Humanoid Creatures."
"But I don't really like their clothes. Transforming directly into phoenix form suits me better," Minghua said, lowering her head to sip the orange-yellow juice.
This glass of juice was a special potion Saine had made by combining the watermelon seeds he had acquired not long ago with some stockpiled materials from his and Gongsun Wudi's Space Equipment.
Besides tasting superb, it also had some energy-replenishing and body-tempering effects.
Minghua Phoenix suddenly felt rather foolish.
Why had she entered a nirvana state to maintain the bare minimum consumption of her body?
Rather than sleeping day after day in her nest, she might as well come to Saine's place for food.
So long as