After staying in the Spark Rule Dangerous Land for another dozen or so years, Saine and his group continued on their journey.
Before leaving, Saine made another deal with the local tyrant of this settlement area, the Red-Footed Centipede.
In exchange for three precious blood essence potions, Saine obtained a large quantity of the Red-Footed Centipede's demonic blood, along with a wisp of origin-law poisonous fire.
Aside from being raw material for refining blood essence potions, that demonic blood also possessed immense research value.
For instance, Saine planned to use this toxin-laced demonic blood as the primary ingredient to refine several special body-tempering potions.
As for that wisp of law poisonous fire from the Red-Footed Centipede, it was likewise an effective supplement that Saine's Flames of Ash could absorb.
At this stage, it would probably be difficult for Saine to undergo another transformative breakthrough.
But Saine's path of progress had not stopped.
Every achievement Saine had attained and every profound truth of laws he had mastered had been accumulated bit by bit in precisely this manner.
After leaving the Spark Rule Dangerous Land, Saine's party grew considerably larger.
More than ten Wanderers from the Spark Rule Dangerous Land spoke with survivors such as Chocolate, then successfully traded with Saine's group at fair value for some precious Energy Crystals.
Thus, they too decided to follow His Majesty the "Mechanical God-Emperor."
In terms of loyalty and reliability, these newly joined Wanderers were certainly inferior to the old hands from Mechanical Valley, such as Chocolate.
Perhaps after following for a while, they would voluntarily leave again.
But Saine did not mind expanding his ranks a little further.
During this time, some newcomers could not help asking the old members of the group why Saine bore the title "Mechanical God-Emperor."
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