The experiment had, of course, succeeded.
However, Saine had just achieved a major experimental breakthrough, and even his life level had unknowingly advanced by a small measure.
Yet for some reason, he was rather silent.
Being able to advance was naturally cause for joy.
But during the previous transfer of Scarlet's True Spirit, Saine had inadvertently come into contact with Mystic System rule factors concerning the Star Realm's most fundamental essence, and they had plunged him into deep thought.
Even Saine's silence at this moment was not because he did not wish to speak, but because he could not.
Just as a Level-9 Being could not remain in the Star Realm for long.
When it came to power capable of breaking the Star Realm's laws of balance, an inexplicable rule-based restriction prevented Saine from freely sharing everything he had explored with others.
At this moment, Saine finally understood somewhat why, back in the Time-Space Crack, when he had asked that Level-9 Being of the Gray Mist Civilization certain questions involving the Star Realm's sharpest and most core origins, the other party would so often fall silent.
It had only selectively told Saine answers he was permitted to know.
Seen in this light, it was not because that being had an eccentric temperament or was stingy.
Rather, at its level, even while dwelling within the crack, it was still subject to certain restrictions.
Or perhaps it simply did not wish to draw the attention of the Astral Realm Will because of it.
Perhaps only when they truly departed this Star Realm and escaped the constraints of the laws of balance.
Could Saine and those other Level-9 Beings obtain true "freedom."
"Sometimes, being a low- or mid-level lifeform."
"Not knowing the many laws by which this world operates, nor its core essence,