Under these circumstances, what Zhao Cheng lacked was not mere accumulation, but the sudden turn in that instant when there seemed to be no road ahead—the burst of clarity it brought.
Otherwise, no matter how much one's power and scale grew, how could life within a dimension, after being born, ever catch up to dimensional spacetime whose scale expanded by who knew how many trillions of times every second compared to the second before?!
The only possibility was to break free from inherent logic, introduce entirely new concepts, and transcend old understanding.
The transition from the Ninth Heaven realm to the Tenfold Heavenly Pass was precisely such a situation.
Before the Tenfold Heavenly Pass, there was no need to catch up. One only needed to pile up enough to reach higher dimensions and achieve it.
The difference between the Ninth Heaven and the Tenfold Heavenly Pass was that at the Ninth Heaven, one was no different from the First Heaven—or even the Zero Heaven—in the eyes of dimensional spacetime.
No matter how one cultivated, in terms of existential rank, one remained within the dimension.
Infinity, whether one subtracted one from it or one trillion from it, was still infinity.
But the Tenfold Heavenly Pass stood partially level with it in terms of existential rank.
This was the foundation of the Dimensional Demon God Dao Fruit.
Even if it was only partial, if that portion were subtracted, that portion would become zero...
Put simply, that portion would become "infinity." Partial infinity was still infinity.
Under such circumstances, no matter which Heavenly Pass Zhao Cheng's final trial turned out to be, he could not possibly pile up low dimensions into a high-dimensional structure suited to his own Dao Fruit.
Because the difficulty of this stage was not the stacking of structures, but