The Opening of Fate

Aza continued to listen.

The Mother River System was indeed the core system of life for Element Lifeforms like them.

But the vast Mother River that ran through the entire universe and connected endless galaxies was merely the ultimate form of civilization.

Even if they completed the incense-light beam array spanning the entire Solar System and forged the race-luck divine artifact—the Mother River Mirror—allowing it to fire beams into the void...

It would still only be a tiny green sapling, just beginning to sprout tender buds.

This tree would grow very, very slowly.

After all, the speed at which light traveled was still far too minuscule and slow for the universe. Distances between galaxies were often measured in thousands or even tens of thousands of light-years.

And what was a light-year? The distance light traveled in a straight line over one year.

Even if it distorted the laws and grew faster than light, branching and budding, it would still need countless cosmic light-years to grow from a tender shoot into a small tree that reached another Solar System.

Whoosh!

Yuan Qinghua unfurled another blueprint and pointed in a direction. "The great tree of the universe grows outward continuously in units of light-years, its age increasing with time. As light, it is naturally countless times slower than direct 'spatial jumps,' but it is an eternal bridge connecting innumerable tributaries! This is a stable and inexpensive passage beyond anything spatial jumps can imagine!"

"What a vast vision."

Aza could not help becoming captivated by the beautiful cosmic giant tree.

Growing at faster-than-light speeds, constantly taking root and sprouting, endlessly rising higher—it was an ancient cosmic miracle tree beyond the imagination of many extraordinary lifeforms.

A vast and magnificent mythological miracle!

And in the future, major cosmic civilizations would sooner or later emerge