A path that seemed deformed, but still a normal route of development.
Just like how civilizations on the technology side were developing starships capable of traversing the universe, the people of this world modified their bodies with the planet's spiritual energy, gradually gaining the ability to cross the universe and search for new civilizations.
That's why, in the Mahayana Stage, cultivators aimed to fill every cell in their body with spiritual energy.
Clearly, to explore the universe, one needed to accumulate a sufficient amount of energy.
But their approach was likely misguided.
Mahayana practitioners probably didn't realize how vast the distances between stars were.
Depending on the amount of energy they had stored in their bodies, it was utterly insufficient for interstellar travel—most cultivators who ventured into the starry sky ended up dead.