The increase in strength was, of course, gratifying.
And with all the gains he had just reaped from the Land of Immortal Severance, Saine's time was once again filled with experimental research. At last, it filled much of the emptiness within him and his longing for home.
After his true body broke through to the Half-Step Peak Despairer realm, Saine fell silent for many more years.
Many beings in Mechanical City wondered what their mysterious city lord did every day.
Other than when some major event occurred in Mechanical City that required Saine, the city lord, to show himself.
Most of the time, even the famed Despairers of Mechanical City found it difficult to catch so much as a glimpse of Saine.
Five thousand years after Saine returned to Mechanical City, something rather interesting happened.
The Azure Dragon Saber Practitioner, who had briefly interacted with Saine and the others in the Land of Immortal Severance and left both sides with favorable impressions, also arrived in Mechanical City.
The Azure Dragon Saber Practitioner had always wandered aimlessly through Despair World, tempering himself along the way.
Compared to five thousand years ago, the only change in him was that his beard had become even more unkempt.
At first, the Azure Dragon Saber Practitioner had no idea this was a city established by Saine. When he first arrived, the magnificent mechanical structures before him left him utterly stunned.
If not for the fact that the surrounding environment still lacked energy elements, and beyond Mechanical City still stretched the boundless, snow-white White Bone Continent.
The Azure Dragon Saber Practitioner might have thought he had returned to the Material Star Realm and found himself within a Technological Civilization.
The first to receive the Azure Dragon Saber Practitioner was Ming, the Black-Clad Despairer.
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