The Universe, Planes, and Reality (Thanks to "Stars Beneath the Night...

The twelfth lunar month had arrived, and winter had settled over the mountains and rivers.

Ning Qing sat in the front row of the classroom beside a petite girl she did not know. This was the final lecture of Cosmic Radiation and Spiritual Power.

The course seemed to be about cosmic radiation and Spirit Power, but old Lord Ouyuangong excelled at guiding his students' thoughts. From a single leaf, he led them to see the coming autumn, using the various forms of radiation and Spirit Power that filled the cosmos to give them a rough understanding of the universe. He also laid the groundwork for next year's Plane Studies.

Scholars of this world generally treated Spirit Power separately from the rest of the universe, distinguishing it from ordinary matter and energy.

That was because Spirit Power had a peculiar tendency to diverge. It seemed to exist in another dimension, apart from the main world. Only living beings or objects with Spiritual Power Aptitude could observe and touch it; it had no interaction with anything else.

A scholar had once proposed a hypothesis: if a civilized planet existed in this universe and none of its inhabitants had Spiritual Power Aptitude, they might never detect the Spirit Power in the cosmos.

Fortunately, most life on this planet did intersect with the "Spirit Power universe," allowing people to form a bond with this wondrous, ancient energy.

It was a lucky thing indeed.

For it was truly captivating, marvelous beyond words.

Some Spirit Power came from stars unimaginably far away. It crossed many light-years to visit this place, and with every step it traveled, every second that passed, and every place it crossed, it underwent subtle changes. Those changes held a wealth of information, like a letter written to Earth's cultivators by a distant