Jiang Qi had failed to obtain the answer he most wanted from Mechanical God Emperor Saine.
But for Jiang Qi, the trip had not been in vain.
At the very least, Mechanical God Emperor Saine had personally confirmed one thing to him—the other man, like himself, was a fellow native from the same lower resource dimension.
Moreover, on a deeper level of alignment, the two of them could be considered partners of the same camp.
Of course, claiming that Saine and Jiang Qi had already formed some profound and unshakable relationship of trust would have been pure nonsense.
At least for now, their understanding of one another remained extremely limited. Neither knew the other's past trump cards, nor did they understand the other's true nature.
Yet after such a candid and in-depth exchange, coupled with the natural closeness that perhaps came from both being natives of the Material Star Realm, Jiang Qi and Saine were no longer locked in the openly drawn-swords-and-bent-bows hostility they had shared before.
Saine's side also selectively told Jiang Qi about some of the Material Star Realm's past and present circumstances, especially the matter Jiang Qi had always been most curious about—after he left the Chaos Sea of Qi all those years ago, what earth-shaking changes had taken place in the homeland that had nurtured him?
What Saine told Jiang Qi was mostly about the great shifts in the Dao and changes in power that had openly occurred in the Chaos Sea of Qi in recent years, and most of it was old information from before Saine had left the Material Star Realm.
As for the upheavals and transformations the Chaos Sea of Qi had undergone after Saine left the Material Star Realm, or the little-known secrets that had occurred there, those were not things Saine