The era advanced.
Civilization changed.
Yi Mang's breakthrough seemed to herald the opening of a new world.
Within this pitch-black Primordial Universe, newly opened from primordial chaos, heaven was clear while mysterious yellow turbid qi filled every corner. They lived floating within it, eternal and ageless, unaware of how many cosmic epochs they could endure. Without change, this world would remain murky and repetitive forever.
As an eternal being, in the growth stages he had deduced, the eighth stage of Innate Gods and Demons—divinity—allowed legendary Four-Dimensional Beings to govern the past and future of their own lives.
If he wished, as a Four-Dimensional Being, he could swiftly reach the distant future of his own life—ten thousand years later, even a hundred million years later—to meet the unimaginably powerful self he would become then.
"Time and growth are utterly meaningless before a Four-Dimensional Being."
Yi Mang sat cross-legged, pondering within an exquisite and magnificent palace of sculptures.
The first seven realms cultivated oneself. The realms beyond would cultivate heaven and earth, visualizing rules.
From the perspective of later generations, stepping into divinity meant igniting Divine Fire. He had now officially become a true Seeker of the Dao.
Soon, he arrived at his seventy-thousand-year-old self and reached the peak of divinity.
Yet he again sensed that he could advance no further.
This time, he was not anxious. With the experience from before, if there was no road ahead, he would simply open another one.
"Above Four-Dimensional Beings, are there Five-Dimensional Beings? Or something else?" Yi Mang kept pondering. "If it truly is five dimensions, then what is the fifth dimension, the new measure added to life?"
He then stepped into High-Dimensional Space-Time.
He traveled across the cosmic land, observing the universe's rules and all manner of chaotic, ruined landscapes.
He became an