And the moment this hand extended from the Dimensional Gate appeared, it immediately triggered a resonance with the Dimensional Strings. Indeed, when the Heavenly Emperor acted, he refined all things into "primordial energy," then used a single breath to create the cosmos, split earth, and open heaven.
Yet no matter how matter, energy, information... and all such things transformed, they ultimately remained within dimensions, within the Dao.
Certainly, on the surface, every one of the figures who had appeared seemed capable of defying heaven and overturning the Dao.
Even the weakest among those who had attained Immortality walked against the Dao.
The path of cultivation had always been this way: follow it, and you remained mortal; defy it, and you became immortal.
But this so-called following and defying—whether one followed or defied it—in essence, what was defied was merely law. Law was only one part of the Dao, not its entirety.
At the level of the Dao, whether one followed or defied it, one remained within the Dao!
Thus, the supreme Dao did not care how the myriad spirits it created through its workings thought or acted.
Even if they defied heaven and earth and replaced the universe, they would ultimately remain within the cycle of reincarnation.
Even if one devoured the soul of heaven and earth, seized the will of dimensions, and replaced the power of dimensions with one's own thoughts—if my body itself was the dimension—that still remained within the Dao.
Nor did the Dao care who held dominion over dimensions.
Except for the transdimensional!
Because transdimensionality was no longer a matter of following or defying. It already lay beyond the Dao.
And now, the strongest few in the arena had in truth comprehended fragments of things beyond the Dao. That was why these "ghosts," who should never