He moved through the contact zone toward the Celestial Realm above and found the movement different from every previous traversal the path had required.
The Star Compass had carried him between planets through the damaged thread of the True Celestial Emperor Blade's connection. The mountain's gates had carried him through the Lower Domain's ceiling. The blade's thread had carried him from the Middle Domain to the contact zone. Each traversal had been a following of something that already connected the origin and the destination.
This movement was not following a connection.
The realized expression moved toward the Celestial Realm the way water moved toward the sea, not because a path existed between them but because the movement was the realized expression's own nature in the presence of what it was oriented toward.
The realized expression and the recognition's expression in the Celestial Realm were the same principle expressing in different modes.
They were already connected.
