Heaven Refining physique

The burly man got scared and nodded immediately.

They moved and came down in front of Jiang Hao and Yao Ying.

....

Jiang Hao stopped when he saw two people landing in front of them. Although he had never seen them before, he knew quite well that they were from the Ling Clan. He had sensed them a while ago.

"Fellow Daoist, I am from the Ling Clan and I have come here to apologise for my nephew's mistakes. He is a retard, so please forgive him."

Jiang Hao was surprised. When he saw the middle-aged man, he understood that he was in the mid-stage of the Void Reversion realm.

Cultivators of that realm were very strong in the Eastern Region; they were respected in every city here. So seeing a cultivator of a big clan bow was quite interesting indeed.

Jiang Hao was even ready for a fight. He could easily handle a mid-stage Void Reversion realm human cultivator, so there was no need to involve Senior Yao. But it looked like not everyone was a fool in the Ling Clan. Maybe this was the reason they were able to become a big clan in the first place.

"I heard you. Now leave." Although they had come here to apologise, it definitely wasn't their initial intention. So there was no need to be respectful.

The middle-aged man flinched but nodded. "Of course, Senior, we will leave."

After saying that, they left hurriedly.

Jiang Hao and Yao Ying again moved towards the Twin Mountains.

...

When Jiang Hao looked at them for the first time, he felt they were quite unique. It was as if these weren't two mountains originally but only a single mountain, and something massive had impacted exactly in the middle to create a deep crater in it.

He was quite sure he was right in his guess. That was the only way Void Stones might have arrived in this world.

They flew up and saw the lake which had formed in the crater.

Yao Ying used her spirit sense to dig out all the Void Stones present here. There were about forty-six of them.

When Jiang Hao thought that this might be it, a big rock came out from the centre of the lake. And it might be the thing that had impacted this mountain.

The rock churned under the pressure of spirit senses and turned to dust, leaving behind a lot of Void Stones. There were eighty-eight in total. With this, they had one hundred thirty-four Void Stones now.

The ring could definitely be repaired, at least to the point of opening the new dimension.

"Alright, put them in. These are all the Void Stones in this mountain. The rock seemed to be a broken piece, so there are chances of some more of these in the world...

But finding them won't be easy. If I hadn't seen the rock, even I wouldn't have been able to pick it up with my spirit sense.

You need to practice spatial laws to find them with your naked eyes..."

Jiang Hao nodded and put all the stones in the ring. When Senior Yin awoke, she would handle it herself.

They again came back to the path leading to the next city.

They again walked silently for some time before Jiang Hao wondered about the upper world. He had just basic knowledge, so it was a good time to get some more.

"Senior, is your world nearer to this world?"

Yao Ying was surprised a little at that question.

"Why? You want to visit it?"

"You must jest, Senior. I am just a mortal... who knows if I will ascend or not."

"Who knows? You shouldn't say that to someone who can read your fate."

Jiang Hao was stumped. He really didn't have a comeback for this.

"Well, I was just asking to measure how vast the upper realm is."

"Big? Even the strongest cultivators have not visited all the worlds in the upper realm. But do you know there is a place which is even bigger than the upper realm? In fact, it has no end. It is still expanding as we speak."

Jiang Hao got stunned. Wasn't the upper realm the entirety of the universe? Was there even another realm?

"Senior, aren't upper and lower realms the only realms under the vast universe?" He was truly intrigued now.

"That is true. Your knowledge isn't wrong about it. But when did I say 'realm'? It is a dimension—just like the one you visited before."

This was even more shocking to hear for Jiang Hao. Dimensions were created by some powerful cultivators; maybe some were naturally born, but they wouldn't be bigger than the upper realm, right?

Even a single world in the upper realm could be a thousand times bigger than his current world, not to mention there were countless worlds in the upper realm.

"It is called the Primordial Dimension, and no, it wasn't created by any races... it is said that it has existed since the creation of the universe.

Just like how some dimensions need anchoring to a world, the Primordial Dimension is anchored to the universe itself.

It is far better than any upper world in terms of qi and law concentration, and because of this, it has almost all the resources one can need in their whole cultivation journey."

Jiang Hao was truly awed by this new information.

"All the universal treasures were born in that dimension, and yes, they stay in that dimension too... Unique treasures and resources are being born as we speak. It truly is infinite, because it is expanding.

You can tell by looking at it, as you must first reach its end. But till now, no one has been able to do so. It was information gleaned from the heavens as enlightenment by some senior who sacrificed his chance of epiphany to glean just this information.

Some didn't believe him and ended up doing the same, but they got the same results. So it is a known fact that the Primordial Dimension is still expanding, and there is a chance that if someone truly reached its end, they can see the truth of the forming of the world itself, and they might be able to practice one of the supreme Daos which are impossible to understand without a celestial physique—the Creation Dao."

Jiang Hao was truly amazed by this information. The world was truly far bigger than his imagination.

"Do you know what is the most amazing part of the Primordial Dimension? Since it is anchored to the universe, you can enter from any upper world, as all the upper worlds are in fact nodes of this dimension."

Jiang Hao was surprised. So the upper worlds exist just because they are nodes of the Primordial Dimension?

"Senior, what about the lower worlds? Aren't they part of the universe too?"