With a wave of her hand, Red Dust sealed off the surrounding million miles. The territory remained, but its mountains and forests vanished, drawn into a dimension of space-time she had isolated, detached from the God Realm yet hidden within the dimensions of the void.
Through her heaven-defying methods, the mountains and forests once steeped in baleful energy and poisonous fumes soon became a blessed sanctuary.
She named this place the Spacetime Forbidden Domain. At its center, she brought out the Emperor Phoenix Tower, left an avatar behind, and entered the tower to cultivate.
Inside the Emperor Phoenix Tower, an exceedingly simple innate talisman had condensed in the depths of Red Dust's consciousness. Of course, it was simple only compared to a complete innate talisman. In truth, it was profoundly mysterious, containing boundless truths of the Great Dao of Space-Time.
This was the innate talisman of the Great Dao of Space-Time that Red Dust had condensed by combining the Great Dao of Time with the Space Great Dao.
What was space-time?
The four directions, above and below, were space; all that had been and all that would come were time. Together, they formed space-time.
Space-time consisted of countless dimensions: one-dimensional space, two-dimensional space, three-dimensional space, four-dimensional space...
An ordinary mortal could perceive the world in four dimensions. In other words, an ordinary person could perceive only four dimensions.
The first dimension was length, and the second was width. Together, they formed two-dimensional space.
Three-dimensional space added a solid height to length and width.
Four-dimensional space added the dimension of time to the original three-dimensional space. With time, the whole world came alive.
As her contemplation deepened, Red Dust's understanding of the Path of Space-Time grew ever more profound.
While contemplating the Path of Time and Space, Red Dust also created