Over on Demon Cave Time-Space's side, aside from Locke, the other level-13 existence who had always seemed rather low-key was Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
After the Demon Cave Master fell, Hongjun did not immediately leave Demon Cave Time-Space.
He still remained in this Higher Dimensional Plane.
Only, unlike Locke's seclusion, where jet-black Destruction Tide covered the core starsea, Hongjun's presence was much more tranquil.
Most of the time, he simply stood at the edges of certain Ancient Rifts.
Sometimes he gazed at the deep fissures of Demon Cave Time-Space.
Sometimes he looked toward the more distant void.
No one knew what he was really looking at.
Even Saine's Sky Net Central Hub found it very difficult to deduce a clear purpose from Hongjun's movement trajectory.
This Dao Ancestor had always been like this.
The calmer he was, the more it made people feel that deeper thoughts lay behind him.
However, there was one person who could often see Hongjun.
—Duan Ning.
As Saine's adopted sister, and also a junior of Hongjun's lineage, Duan Ning had gone several times recently to visit her grandmaster.
Every time she went, she could see Hongjun himself.
No matter how the outside world speculated about the Dao Ancestor's whereabouts, and no matter whether Hongjun had still been observing the deep fissures of Demon Cave Time-Space only a moment before.
As long as Duan Ning went to pay her respects, Hongjun would usually see her.
This kind of treatment naturally drew quite a bit of attention, though Duan Ning herself did not think much of it.
In her eyes, the Dao Ancestor was still that calm and unfathomable elder.
Only, after Hongjun advanced to become a Level-13 Lord of Dimension, he seemed even more unhurried when it came to Duan Ning.
Every time Duan Ning went, Hongjun