Beyond the Heavens was boundless Voidness Dao; these spatial rifts might lead Beyond the Heavens.
They might also open onto forbidden lands and deadly regions, or randomly drop one into some other world.
Within the Ganges-Sand Minor Realms, Ganges-Sand Worlds were as numerous as motes of dust. Countless specks of starlight formed a band of light winding around the Nine Heavens Great Realm. Compared to that band of light, the Minor Realms discovered by the various major powers and brought under their control seemed insignificant.
After all, the vast majority of Minor Realms were merely broken worlds.
Without divine abilities or laws, the living beings born there found it difficult to achieve anything greater. To avoid wasting effort, many sects of the Nine Heavens generally made a rough internal distinction among these foreign worlds.
Only those that reached the level of a Trial Micro-Realm had the possibility of drawing the attention of higher circles.
Thus, the West Sea was more perilous than the Southern Sea because spatial rifts might appear there at any time.
To return to the Nine Heavens, one either had to be lucky enough to encounter a Boundary-Breaking Grand Formation, with the legendary land on its other end happening to be the Nine Heavens Realm.
Or one had to possess peerless cultivation. Yet deeply cultivated cultivators generally would not be so unlucky as to miss a spatial rift beside them.
Or one had to be a second-generation cultivator, the disciple of a great power, laden with treasures and backed by a formidable background, able to call for someone to come and take them away.
Otherwise, ordinary unlucky cultivators rarely, if ever, managed to return to the Nine Heavens on their own.
After all, once one left a Trial Micro-Realm, countless more realm barriers of Trial Micro-Realms stood