Zhao Xiaoxiang piloted the Supreme Sacred Ark upward, constantly leaping across dimensions. From her vantage point, the Federation's entire territory was no longer a flat pattern, but a three-dimensional "tree."
At a glance, it looked exactly like the World Tree of legend.
This was also one of the changes brought about as the path of civilization continued to advance, somewhat akin to the ancient path of terrestrial immortals.
So-called terrestrial immortals first created blessed lands, then forged grotto-heavens, splitting earth and opening heaven to form a world of their own. Yet that world was still merely a transformation within the dimensions; all matter, energy, and information came from within those dimensions. This was fundamentally different from Zhao Cheng, who evolved a multiverse from nothing, stepped beyond it, and opened dimensions of his own.
Of course, that did not diminish the power of this path.
Within the "Dao," the path of terrestrial immortals was already among the most supreme routes. Its patriarch was the Earth Sovereign, an Eternal One.
As for stepping beyond and opening dimensions of one's own, Zhao Cheng had only completed half of it before truly condensing his Transdimensional Dao Fruit. Once he had condensed it, however, there was no longer any need to finish the other half.
Opening dimensions was merely one of the processes of attaining the Transdimensional, not the final result.
As for the path of civilization, the Great Dao had ten thousand paths that all led to the same destination. Beneath the same dimension, there had always been many overlapping points.
The "giant tree" now condensed from civilization's territory was called the "cornerstone," or the "Kingdom," along the civilization route. It was the foundation of civilization, as well as the manifestation of civilization's authority.
It was both the "Noah's Ark" that protected civilization from