After trying several times and confirming that he truly had no way to enter the Third Layer, Wang Tao could only give up.
On the way back, Wang Tao pondered carefully.
"Why was this happening?"
He felt that it might be some kind of world rule. After all, this was the apocalypse; no strange phenomenon would be surprising. But why would the world have such a rule? When he reached the entrance to the Second Layer, an idea suddenly flashed through his mind.
"Could it be because I'm only Fifth Order right now, so it won't let me enter the Third Layer?"
Based on his experience from his previous life, if there were living creatures on the Third Layer of the rift, they would definitely be Sixth Order. Yet the highest-level creatures in the world should currently only be Fifth Order, so theoretically, Sixth Order creatures had not appeared yet.
That conflicted with the situation inside the rift—the Third Layer should contain Sixth Order creatures, but no creature had evolved to Sixth Order yet! So, did the Third Layer actually have Sixth Order creatures or not?
In a sense, was this a "bug" in the real world? Was that why Wang Tao could not enter the Third Layer? Of course, this was all just Wang Tao's speculation, and there was a good chance something else was going on. But proving his guess was simple: he only needed to see whether he could enter the Third Layer after advancing to the Sixth Order.
If he still could not enter the Third Layer after advancing to the Sixth Order, then his guess was wrong, and the existence of that "Air Wall" had some other cause.
But if he could enter the Third Layer after advancing to the Sixth Order, then it would