A person could not walk two paths at once. He had broken through four Ancestor Worlds and walked four paths, but that did not mean he had walked all four simultaneously. Rather, he had walked them one by one. In the end, the four paths would converge, forming the single path he would ultimately take.
He understood now. He got it.
No wonder breaking through the four Ancestor Worlds earlier had produced no phenomenon.
By rights, breaking through the Exploration Realm, the Enlightenment Realm, and the Star Envoy stage had each produced a phenomenon. There was no way breaking through to the Ancestral Realm wouldn't.
Only now did he understand. The four Ancestor Worlds had merely divided his process of breaking through to the Ancestral Realm into four stages. This was the moment he was truly breaking through.
Breaking through to the Ancestral Realm involved a tribulation of slaughter and a trial of the heart. Only after that came the changing of the heavens.
Breaking through in the Dust World, with Parallel Space-Time layering and crushing everything, was tantamount to suppressing the firmament.
The Power Beasts and the other Starry Sky Giant Beasts, such as the Void Beasts, were the tribulation of slaughter when he broke through in the Infinite Ancestor World.
The River of Time surged and ebbed when he broke through in the Flowing Light Boat. That, too, was a tribulation of slaughter.
Breaking through with the Wordless Heavenly Book was a trial of the heart.
He had endured the suppression of the firmament, the tribulation of slaughter, and the trial of the heart. What came next was—changing the heavens.
Others changed the heavens after breaking through to the Ancestral Realm. For him, changing the heavens meant making a choice and breaking through all over again.
His paths