The road once used to reach the Thirty-Three Heavens was called the Tongtian Road. Later, an unknown powerhouse severed it, utterly destroying it. Gradually abandoned, it eventually became a Life Forbidden Zone.
The Tongtian Road did more than connect the Three Thousand Dao Realms; it existed in every universe. The Dragon's Spine in the Great Universe was another name for the Tongtian Road, and in the past, one could also reach the Upper Realm by traveling along it.
That was what ordinary people called "ascending."
As the common sovereign of all realms, the Thirty-Three Heavens were absolute rulers—the most powerful and vastest realm of all.
No, perhaps the Thirty-Three Heavens could no longer be called a realm. They were a celestial expanse: thirty-three super celestial expanses!
The thirty-three celestial expanses ruled over all realms, their might shaking the cosmos and their blessings reaching all under heaven. No one dared offend them in the slightest.
Even the Dark World was one of the realms. Though they were at odds, it still had to admit that, in the eyes of the world, the Thirty-Three Heavens were its big brother.
After the Tongtian Road was severed, countless millennia passed before the Imperial Court, Chaos Holy Land, Phoenix Immortal Dynasty, Heavenly Extreme General Academy, and the other hegemonic powers of the eleven celestial expanses gradually emerged.
After that, the hegemonic beings of the eleven celestial expanses personally took the lead in creating a new Heavenly Path.
Each power's Heavenly Path led to the celestial expanse where that power was located, with travelers arriving at the Ancient Reception Hall there.
But anyone who wished to travel to the Thirty-Three Heavens via the Heavenly Path needed approval from a hegemonic power.
And getting that approval was no easy matter.
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