Yue Ling and the Heavenly Demon

"So my arrival itself was an answer?"

No one knew how long had passed. Within the Moon Palace, Lin Chen's clear, jade-like voice sounded.

"That's right." An irrepressible smile surfaced on Celestial Maiden Yue Ling's face, which had been ice-cold for ten thousand years. "The universe is like a giant sieve, sifting away countless intelligent civilizations. Among these hundreds of millions of Ganges-sand worlds, perhaps only one civilization—or perhaps none at all—can transcend beyond."

"But your existence represents that there is a being capable of traveling through universes of different dimensions. Behind it, there must be a great civilization, one that has truly shattered the cyclical law of its own rise and decline, roaming the endless sea of stars as a hyperdimensional civilization beyond dimensions!"

"Then why couldn't it be the existence of an individual who transcended alone?" Lin Chen asked.

Celestial Maiden Yue Ling smiled at his words. Rather than answering directly, she asked in return:

"If this world had no Cultivation System and no civilizational knowledge to draw upon, and you alone were placed within a High Order Spirit Vein to cultivate, could you have reached your present level?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen instantly understood.

Any individual transcendence was a further advance built upon the pinnacle of an existing Cultivation System. But if even the Cultivation System did not exist, where could any further advance come from?

Ordinary people always spoke of transcendence, transcendence, believing that once they had harvested all the resources of the entire world, they could transcend to the supreme, roam the sea of stars as they pleased without relying on their race.

But they had forgotten one thing. Without the Civilization Ancient Sages forging the Cultivation System through wave after wave of effort, without the knowledge they created forming their very thoughts, how