The appearance of the Star Body Tempering Pill finally gave Saine's long-dormant body-refining arcana a chance to enjoy a second spring.
Saine, a magician, had once again begun cultivating his body, while his good brother Duan Po, a sword cultivator, had once again started tinkering with machinery and technology...
When Saine arrived at Duan Ning's private Pill Refining Room, Master Tongtian had arrived at Hong Hou's Cosmic War Fleet.
Setting aside the covert deals previously reached between the upper echelons of the Immortal Domain and Wizard Civilization, Duan Po had also privately reached quite a few agreements with Saine concerning the principles of machinery and technology.
Duan Po had sought Saine's help entirely for Hong Hou's sake, that artificial intelligence which had awakened self-awareness.
Hong Hou did not come from any civilization. She was an artificial intelligence born within some prehistoric ruin. Moreover, the moment she awakened, she had found herself in the Slaughter Space, the same blood-red world where Duan Po had once been stranded.
The ruin where Hong Hou had remained was likely left behind by a Top-Level Civilization that had once fought a Dimensional Ascension War in the Slaughter Space.
Unlike the vast majority of intelligent beings, who gradually lost their sanity upon entering the Slaughter Space, Hong Hou, being an artificial intelligence, had surprisingly been unaffected by the Slaughter Space's special laws during the initial stage.
It was also because of this advantage, coupled with Hong Hou gradually gaining control over certain technological creations around her base, that she had slowly developed to her current scale.
However, the Slaughter Space's influence on Hong Hou was also extremely apparent.
According to Hong Hou's own account, when she had first awakened her will, her Rules True Body had been nothing but a patch of white light.
Yet after