Imperial Capital and Imperial Palace

Time flowed from the past toward the future.

It symbolized time passing from the past to the present before flowing onward into the future, like an ever-rushing river.

Space expanded from a point into a circle.

It symbolized how space expanded in every direction without a single blind spot, covering the entire area across up, down, left, right, east, south, west, north...

Reality, meanwhile, was formed on the basis of time and space, supplemented by energy, matter, fate...

Under normal circumstances.

As phenomena depended on reality, they rarely caused any deep impact on time, space, matter... the fundamental components of the world.

Weapons such as nuclear bombs, for example, seemed to cause extremely serious destruction to matter, but from a macroscopic perspective, matter itself had not suffered any fundamental impact. It had merely changed form under the effects of light and heat. The total amount of matter remained completely unchanged.

But for the various Transcendent Stage Awakened, things were certainly not that simple.

Not to mention them.

In this vast world, where technology had continued developing for countless years and even Superdimensional Battleships equipped with spacetime technology had become widespread among numerous lower-level civilizations, even many extremely weak individuals could use some fairly ordinary standard equipment to cause all kinds of tangible effects on reality.

Twisting time, piercing through space, altering entropy increase and decrease, modifying the universal constants...

All of these were things that civilians could easily accomplish with common public-service devices.

In fact, those civilians did not even need to come from particularly powerful civilizations.

For example, in the newborn spacetime Xi Shenlian had casually created out of boredom to serve as a new world, many civilizations of that level could be born.

In essence, they were merely natives active within a single universe and the various Parallel