His consciousness began to extend.
Stronger than divine sense, it could feel every scrap of information drifting through the void and give him flashes of foresight into how things would unfold.
His mind expanded many times over.
Xu Yuan opened his eyes and looked down at his body.
His physical strength was no longer limited to withstanding attacks.
The moment an attack struck him, or even entered his awareness, he could gauge his opponent's strength. Scenes of a lifetime spent honing their skills would flash through his mind, revealing flaws in their technique.
"So this is an Ancient God after Dimensional Ascension?"
He vanished from where he stood and reappeared deep in the Universe. There, amid the darkness, he found the passage linking Earth and the Three Realms.
—The passage opened by the Cube was transparent, but no one could pass through it.
Xu Yuan studied it for a while and gradually grasped the true nature of the barrier between worlds: it was the tangible manifestation of two universes repelling each other.
In other words—
"The immortals can see Earth's past and future only within the bounds of the Universe after Dimensional Ascension."
"But no one can discern the movements of the Origin of Truth."
"So the only unknown now is what will happen during the second Dimensional Ascension."
"That's why everyone wants to make more preparations."
"What a bother."
As Xu Yuan thought in silence, he turned toward the depths of the endless Void.
That White Mountain.
It held countless Ancient Gods who had abandoned Dimensional Ascension.
To the Origin of Truth, they were a bad debt. It would do everything it could to reclaim that power.
But doing so could not be easy.
—Its only hope was to wait for an exceptionally powerful Universe to undergo Dimensional Ascension,