"We have stagnated at the fifth dimension for far too long."
"All research points to one conclusion—breaking through to the sixth dimension requires not greater power, but a more complete understanding."
"But we do not understand what 'more complete' means."
"Now..." Guanlan's voice turned solemn. "I seem to have found the answer."
Lin Ye turned around and looked directly at the core of that presence.
"The reason you have stagnated is because you are too fixated on moving upward."
"You have always wanted to break through to the sixth dimension, yet you overlooked other possibilities."
"Evolution is not a one-way climb, but a multidimensional expansion."
"In pursuing height, you abandoned breadth."
"In pursuing complexity, you lost purity."
"In pursuing omniscience, you forgot specialization."
He raised a hand, and a holographic projection of the Superconsciousness network unfolded.
"Look at this network. Two dimensions, three dimensions, four dimensions, five dimensions—all dimensions are equal nodes."
"They are not arranged in a hierarchy, but complement one another."
"The purity of two dimensions, the intuition of three dimensions, the panorama of four dimensions, the possibilities of five dimensions... every one of them is indispensable."
"If the sixth dimension exists, what it needs is not to transcend these traits, but to integrate them."
"Not to stand at the peak of a pyramid and look down upon everything, but to become the bond connecting all dimensions."
Guanlan's presence trembled violently.
The tremor continued for a full five minutes.
For a life-form at this level, five minutes of thought meant reconstructing its entire cognitive framework.
At last, the tremor subsided.
Guanlan said something that shocked everyone:
"Lin Ye." Its voice became more serious than ever before. "A sixth-dimensional existence once left behind a sentence."
"'To reach our level, do not look upward. Look inward.'"
"We studied that sentence