Feng Shouji hurried across the rockery and pond, arriving at the center of his family's garden.
Only after reaching this place did he relax slightly. Wang Qi was, after all, only at Qi Refining; his spiritual sense was weak and insufficiently keen. He could see only the garden's first layer of wonders, yet could not perceive the second layer of mystery within this courtyard. Even Feng Shouji, at the Primordial Spirit stage, had to pass through it with care.
The space here had been repeatedly encrypted by spiritual restrictions hidden among the rocks, becoming an encrypted spatial structure of quadratic twists and turns. Within these overlapping layers of space, even the way light traveled had become exceedingly complex.
Matter determined how space existed; space determined how matter moved.
Toying with space-time was the Myriad Dharma Sect's specialty. Though it was indeed Taiyi Tianzun who revealed the essence of space-time, the first to depict its true form was a senior of the Myriad Dharma Sect, Taiyi Tianzun's own Dao-entry teacher, "True Universe Aspect" Minkov.
At the center of the courtyard stood a mirror, a computational artifact of no low grade. The first computational artifact, the Bronze Fairy, had taken its form from the mystical light mirrors of ancient manifolds. At this time, high-grade computers and large computational artifacts were also often fashioned as mirrors. Before the artifact stood an old man and a young child. The old man was not truly old; rather, he seemed caught between middle age and old age. The child was a little girl of about three, with rosy cheeks still carrying a touch of baby fat, adorably innocent and charming. It was the very picture of an elder amusing his descendants.
Feng Shouji stepped forward and called, "Grandfather." Then he smiled at the little girl. "Ge'er,