Throughout his exchanges with Jiang Qi, Saine never mentioned his relationship with the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord.
This was not deliberate concealment. Rather, the ways Saine had befriended the two were worlds apart—his cooperation with the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord carried the caution of mutual probing and each taking what they needed, whereas his contact with Jiang Qi had, from the very beginning, included the subtle bond of being fellow countrymen. Their manner of getting along was fundamentally different.
Besides, while he and Jiang Qi were not yet familiar and mutual trust had not been fully established, rashly revealing his secret collaborator in the Evil Swamp Time-Space would hardly have been a wise move.
In response to the goodwill Saine had taken the initiative to show—especially after he later proposed allocating an entire complete Star Sector as exclusive territory to Jiang Qi and all the civilization forces under his command—Jiang Qi immediately returned the favor.
After more than a million years of arduous development and relentless struggle in the Evil Swamp Time-Space, Jiang Qi had now built himself a rather impressive foundation.
The resource overflow and developmental support he could bring to Saine and the entire Gear Time-Space were in fact not inferior to those of the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord in the slightest.
What was more, perhaps because the bond between fellow countrymen had drawn them closer, coupled with the immense sincerity Saine had indeed displayed without reservation during the negotiations, Saine unexpectedly discovered during their deeper exchanges that the benefits and profits Jiang Qi offered him in certain core areas of cooperation were actually two, even three times greater than what he had received when cooperating with the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord.
Even so, Jiang Qi frankly admitted that he still stood to make no small profit under