"To ordinary cultivators, these two mysteries were of almost no significance. What common cultivators cared about was no more than longevity, transcending the mortal world, and severing karmic ties and fetters. But once all of that had been achieved, once one experienced the profundity of Karma and Fortune, took notice of the countless marvels of the human world, or even wished to set foot upon the true summit of the starry sky, one would pursue such things."
As Qiu Yan pondered this, the Divine Spirit Body did not slow its steps.
Unlike the other Heaven Lords and his own External Incarnation, the Divine Spirit Body had not chosen to break outward and search for a way out of this so-called Time-Space Maze. Instead, it continued deeper inward.
For Qiu Yan had long since recognized that this so-called maze was actually the outermost fringe of a spiritual world.
After many twists and turns, his Divine Spirit Body had entered a wondrous region. The mountain it was climbing was riddled with mechanisms, yet they were not ordinary mechanical constructs, but countless mechanisms fused with time and space, linked together layer upon layer. Looking around, all he could see were caves covering the mountainside.
The sounds of springs snapping and mechanisms shifting constantly echoed from those caves, while continuous artistic conceptions seeped forth, as though every cave contained a world of its own.
"These cave entrances should be the Central Pivots of the outer world, controlling those layers of consciousness and shaping them into the form of a maze. Once I pass beyond this Central Pivot, I should be able to see the true face of the Three-Manifest Dharma Realm. Still, I once investigated it before. When my consciousness delved deep, it touched upon a secret. Now that the Divine Spirit Body has