Regarding the Holy Church Orb's true whereabouts, Hao Ren suspected it was in the Outer World.
All the signs indicated that the wrecked spaceship at the bottom of the lake and the Holy Church Orb on the island in the middle of the lake had been swept into the same spatial anomaly. At the time, the Dream Plane had opened a hole at the Blood Lake's location, so there was a very high chance that the Holy Church Orb and the four ascetics had been transported to the Outer World.
Even so, it was difficult to determine the orb's exact whereabouts. First, the spaceship had clearly been cruising normally when the accident occurred at the bottom of the lake. Its position should have been somewhere in the vastness of space. If the orb had been transported in reverse according to the exact mapping between the Space Gate and the two worlds, it should have been cast into the space of the Outer World as well. With two months of drifting added to that, who knew where the thing had ended up by now?
Second, the orb might not have been transported in reverse according to the precise mapping. The spaceship's exact accident site had been the waters at the bottom of the lake, while the other spatial rift had appeared inside the church on the lake's central island. Based on this, the Data Terminal analyzed that the spatial distortion at the time must have produced a deviation, causing the same distortion to open two passages. The most frightening thing about spacetime teleportation was coordinate deviation. A tiny parameter adjustment in higher dimensions could create a discrepancy of tens of thousands of miles in lower dimensions, let alone the fact that the mapping between the Outer World and the Dream Plane