Saine's advancement in Life Realm had been so astonishingly rapid that it left people speechless.
Of course, such an outrageous rate of advancement had not come out of thin air. It was inextricably tied to the many precious spoils of war he had seized during his earlier campaigns across numerous dimensional planes.
To be honest, Saine often sighed to himself. Although he had spent a full five thousand years painstakingly researching and cultivating his work in the exclusive laboratory he had meticulously built, he felt that his explorations across the many fields of Truth Arcana had not truly reached a level that satisfied him.
Or rather, to be precise, aside from his initial specialized study into the mysteries of the Child of the Dimensional Plane—which could be considered a genuine, resounding success—all his other research projects had flaws.
In particular, it was only because Zheng Fei, an exceedingly rare and one-of-a-kind living specimen of a Darling of Dimensions, had served as the core foundation that Saine had been able to successfully create the Dimension Star Magic Necklace, a cutting-edge magic item comparable to a Quasi-Dimension Supreme Treasure. This achievement was also the breakthrough of which he was proudest in his five-thousand-year research career.
However, none of the Truth Arcana research projects Saine had subsequently pushed forward with all his strength—whether the in-depth analytical experiments on the Sacred Flame, the magic staff modification experiments involving the Sky Burning Staff, a Dimension Supreme Treasure, or the decryption research on fragments of Origin Rules he had personally collected from a Level-12 Peak being such as the Ancestor of Eternal Fire—
Had actually reached the state of one hundred percent perfection he had envisioned.
In his own exacting eyes, these research results had not even fulfilled ninety percent of his expectations.
At most, they