Once, the world had many dazzling geniuses who sought to break through the heavens above the world. They possessed astonishing talent, yet every one of them was struck back down to the mortal realm.
The universe beyond the firmament was a dream countless people could only yearn for. The Human Emperor gave his life merely to glimpse the universe beyond the world.
Today.
Li Tianyi ascended to the heavens. He saw the universe—not because he possessed power beyond that of his predecessors, but because of that one voice... I am here.
"Pop..."
That membrane which had barred countless monsters and geniuses seemed so fragile before Li Tianyi, as though he had effortlessly poked through a bubble.
His mind was utterly blank. He did not even know whether, after ascending, what he saw truly was his ancestor.
By the time he regained his senses, he had arrived in an illusory world in the blink of an eye—
It resembled the chaos within one's consciousness. There was no concept of time or space here, only the boundless darkness of Infinity and distant, glittering Stars.
He lowered his head. As ripples spread beneath his feet as though he were walking upon water, he saw the mortal realm.
The world... was flat!
No—in the depths beneath the world, there seemed to be Stars of Infinity as well. And the world they inhabited appeared to separate the Stars he could presently see from those beneath the world into two distinct realms, like the upper and lower sides of a sheet of paper.
Li Tianyi's heart trembled. He felt that he had glimpsed a secret of the universe, one far beyond Daochu's so-called secret of "the world's workings."
He abruptly raised his head.
His ancestor was right before him, yet he did not dare make the