Sand Sea Instructor turned to look into the distance. "Above Nine-Pattern Battle Qi is another realm. I don't really know what it's like, to be honest. How should I put it? That power has been restricted."
Lu Yin was puzzled. "Restricted?"
Sand Sea Instructor sighed. "Yes. Though Nine-Pattern Battle Qi is difficult to cultivate, there are quite a few people in this universe who've reached it. You're not the only young person who has, either. Unfortunately, the path beyond it has been cut off."
"Who cut it off? Battle Qi is cultivated through one's own efforts. How could anyone cut off that path?" Lu Yin pressed.
Sand Sea Instructor shook his head. "I don't know. Can you explain why no one from the Fifth Continent has reached the Ancestral Realm since the ancient war?"
"The heavens were covered. The Sixth Continent obscured the heavens of the Fifth Continent," Lu Yin said without thinking.
Sand Sea Instructor scoffed. "What do you mean by 'the heavens'? Where are these so-called heavens? How were they covered, and what was covered? Do you know?"
Lu Yin shook his head. He had never thought it through. But now that he heard the question, it made sense. What were the heavens? In the understanding of the ancients, the heavens were above the earth: the endless expanse people saw when they looked up. But this was the universe. What were the heavens here? Did the term mean the boundless universe? Even if it did, what had the Sixth Continent covered when it obscured the Fifth Continent? Why had that prevented the Fifth Continent from producing Ancestral Realm experts?
The question was just like the one about Battle Qi. The path of Battle Qi cultivation had been cut off—but by whom, and why could no one advance beyond