Within the condensed phantom of the supreme Great Luo Heaven, the supreme wills of countless civilizations now lingered, drawing in the mysteries of Immortality and the many truths revealed within.
With the power of the fire of civilization, even things that did not exist could be condensed into being—let alone things that had once truly existed.
Yet it was precisely because Great Luo Heaven had once existed that these civilizations could so "easily" use a portion of their civilization fire as the price to condense this phantom.
Otherwise, if they were merely condensing something that existed only in fantasy, then given the formidable essence of Great Luo Heaven, even if it were only a phantom, this meager amount of civilization fire would have been nowhere near enough.
And once this thing had been condensed, its benefits were inexhaustible. Right before their eyes, the wills of countless civilizations contemplated the profundities of the Great Luo Heaven phantom, absorbed the mysteries within, and refined them into their own civilizations. If one observed those civilizations during this process, one would discover that their fires of civilization had gradually become tinged with a trace of an aura akin to that of Great Luo Heaven.
And if one observed the civilizations themselves, one would find that their very foundations were continuously adjusting their material structures, information structures, energy structures, spacetime structures, civilization structures...
Given the scale of these civilizations, the growth brought about by such changes was not especially explosive. The changes seemed enormous, but viewed across an entire civilization, they were merely minute adjustments.
But one had to know that the path of a civilization's ascension was measured in hundreds of millions of years. It was not that taking a step was difficult, but that taking a step forward was difficult. More often than