After accepting his disciple's request and staying in Gear Time-Space recently, the happiest person was Duan Ning.
Although Saine's adopted sister had arrived in the Higher Dimensional Plane before Laozi and had studied under Dao Ancestor Hongjun for many years,
she still had far too much to ask her own master about when it came to alchemy.
Hongjun was certainly powerful. Within the current Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction, he was one of the few beings Saine found unfathomable.
But Hongjun's path was too lofty and too broad.
He could guide Duan Ning from the level of the Great Dao, but he would not necessarily, like Laozi, personally walk her through the heat control, medicinal properties, and rule-settling details of a furnace of Golden Cores.
Laozi was different. He had always been one of the foremost representatives of alchemy in the Immortal Domain.
After arriving in the Higher Dimensional Plane, although he had no fixed dojo and had not reestablished the Human Sect, his attainments in alchemy had not stagnated because of it.
On the contrary, thirty thousand years of traveling and reflection near Clear River Time-Space had exposed Laozi to quite a few High-Dimensional Rule Materials.
Now that he was in Gear Time-Space, his alchemical exchanges with Duan Ning quickly entered an extremely profound stage.
Laozi's recent residence in Gear Time-Space was also a good thing for Saine and the Mechanical Civilization.
High-grade Golden Cores were extraordinarily valuable throughout the Multiverse.
Especially cutting-edge Golden Cores suitable for experts above the Transcendence Realm—even Level-12 Life would be tempted by them.
Saine now had numerous subordinate civilizations under his command.
Water Mirror Civilization, Green Vine Civilization, Moonlight Civilization, branches of the Evil Tide Civilization, the Decayed Civilization, and the high-level mechanical flesh-and-blood lifeforms constantly emerging within the Mechanical Civilization all had enormous