This gate had manifested for quite some time, yet it had remained tightly sealed by Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Qi.
The reason Li Shun had been fraught with misgivings and had never sent puppets in to explore was that the deep, profound aura was eerie beyond compare.
"Since it came from a fallen Outer God, the place beyond this gate is very likely another world outside the Primordial Ancient Domain..."
The many fragmented worlds within the Primordial Ancient Domain all originated from the Elder Primordial Continent. Though they had each evolved independently over tens of millions of years, their roots were ultimately the same; no matter how they changed, they could not stray far from their origin.
Yet worlds beyond the Primordial Ancient Domain...
Those truly came in every strange and bizarre form imaginable.
Through the Mind-Communicating Bead, Li Shun had learned of many weird and wondrous worlds explored by other disciples.
The vast majority of them differed greatly from Great Qian in their world landscapes.
A world's landscape encompassed every aspect. The Imperial Academy generally used a datum known as the [Deviation Index] for its primary assessment.
The Mind-Communicating Bead would conduct a comprehensive analysis of the world's origins, inheritances, civilization, primary life forms, and more, judging it against Great Qian as the foundational template.
The higher the similarity, the lower the Deviation Index, and the lower the difficulty of exploration tended to be.
Once the Deviation Index fell below 50%, however, the Imperial Academy generally would not recommend exploration.
If the world's civilization differed too greatly from that of Great Qian, then even if one could use the Mind-Communicating Bead's wondrous ability to possess a key figure in that world, one would be unable to adapt to its way of life and would easily expose oneself.
Even after painstaking