After a pause, Azure Lotus Supreme continued, "Actually, in the Cubic Distance, moving distances that take decades or centuries is perfectly normal—and that's using the speed of Eternal Life as the unit. For those below the Eternal Life Realm, the time would be tens of thousands of times longer,
or even more. Otherwise, neighboring civilizations would have gone to war long ago. Many civilizations are quite close to another one. Even if traveling at the speed of One Leaf Green Lotus would take only a year, they would still never come into contact."
Lu Yin picked up the thread. "Just like the Heaven Origin Universe, the Spiritualized Universe, and the Nine Heavens Universe."
Azure Lotus Supreme nodded. "The Nine Heavens Universe, the Heaven Origin Universe, and the Spiritualized Universe are incredibly close together. Across the Cubic Distance, there are very few civilizations that are so close. At the very least, the distance between the All-Sense Universe or the Cang Tian Universe and the Nine Heavens Universe
would be considered normal. Even so, at the speed of One Leaf Green Lotus, it would take only a few years to reach them."
"Distance is what truly protects civilizations. It's the universe's kindness toward them."
"Any means of crossing that distance is burying oneself. That applies to us, too, but since we've come this far, there's no turning back."
"If we widened the current distance several times over, perhaps we wouldn't run into a Fishing Civilization so easily..."
A little over half a month later, One Leaf Green Lotus stopped in the starry sky. They had arrived.
It had taken only a little over half a month to reach this civilization. It was indeed very, very close to the Gate of Distance.
"If there were Eternal Life here, I wouldn't have allowed a