The Prehistoric Universe's Ice Age, Paradox of Light, Xuanming's Path to Enlightenment

Taiyin, Taiyang, and Ziwei, the three Supreme Stars, hung high over the River of Time above all dimensions, never ceasing to pour their source starlight down upon the Primordial World.

That eternal light, which had existed since the splitting of heaven and earth, was one of the ultimate foundations sustaining the operation of heaven and earth. With an unchanging frequency through the ages, it scattered across this Primordial World, which had long since been riddled with a thousand wounds and ten thousand holes.

Yet the true dead end had never lain in the higher dimensions, but in the bearing dimension of the Primordial World itself.

The Immeasurable Kalpa tore apart the underlying framework of heaven and earth. The low-dimensional receiving nodes on which billions upon billions of Auxiliary Stars depended, crushed under the double pressure of entropy reaching its peak and the erosion of kalpa force, utterly collapsed.

The Auxiliary Stars had originally been like prisms, refracting, transforming, and spreading the radiance of the Supreme Stars, turning it into Innate Spiritual Qi, Star Law, and Glimmer of Life energy that nourished all spirits.

But now, the prism effect was gone.

In all things, where there was gain there had to be loss, and even the deeds of the Heavenly Emperor were no different.

High-dimensional starlight pierced through the barriers and arrived, yet when it touched the ruined Auxiliary Star nodes, it was completely "evaporated," turning into lifeless energy dust.

A bizarre scene thus shrouded the Primordial World:

The light of the Supreme Stars remained vast and surging, yet only the lords of the Main Celestial Stars could truly guide the starlight down to the earth.

The light was before their eyes, yet it could not be touched, could not be used, could not be comprehended.

"Light" descended within a