["What a strange feeling."]
[Your consciousness rapidly rose, and the "view" available to you gradually broadened.]
["Is this the process of crossing from the Nascent Soul Realm into the Spirit Transformation Period?"]
[You wondered to yourself. In your fifth simulation, you had also attempted to reach Spirit Transformation, but you had never passed the stage of transforming your nascent soul into a primordial spirit, so you had never directly experienced this elevation of your own status.]
[The Sky-End Fruit allowed you to experience the change in status between the Nascent Soul Realm and the Spirit Transformation Period.]
[This so-called status was mysterious beyond mysteries, something belonging solely to Heavenly Monarchs in the Spirit Transformation Period.]
[Why were those in the Spirit Transformation Period called "Heavenly Monarchs"? A "Heavenly Monarch" was also known as a sovereign of heaven and earth.]
[The transition from the Nascent Soul Realm to the Spirit Transformation Period involved more than improvements in magical power, the physical body, and the divine soul.]
[It also allowed one to merge with heaven and earth and observe all things from their perspective. That was status.]
[Once merged with heaven and earth, a Heavenly Monarch in the Spirit Transformation Period could mobilize their boundless might with a single thought.]
[No True Lord in the Nascent Soul Realm could accomplish that, no matter how powerful.]
[Rather than rising, your consciousness was merging with heaven and earth.]
[Of course, you had only managed this passive merging of consciousness through the Sky-End Fruit's power. You could merely experience the sensation temporarily, not mobilize the power of heaven and earth like a true Heavenly Monarch in the Spirit Transformation Period.]
["Merge with heaven and earth!"]
[You closed your eyes, and your perception spread.]
[Vaguely, you could sense the lands of the Central Province. This perception