Zhang Yu knew that although the Interlayer was now a fragmented realm, it might not have been so in the past. Why it had become so shattered was also a question worth examining.
And all this seemed to have occurred during the early days of the Ipal Gods. They had not spoken clearly about their own race's early history, and the whereabouts of the first God King remained unknown to this day. That might well have something to do with this matter.
At this thought, he looked toward the portions of the rubbings that seemed to depict celestial phenomena. After studying them for a moment, he raised his head to look into the sky, divine light flickering in his eyes.
Because heaven and earth had undergone great changes and the Turbid Tide had shifted its course, while the upper reaches of the firmament had once been occupied by the Ipal Gods, countless stars had been destroyed in the interim. It was no longer possible to distinguish them clearly. Even with his Eye Seal, it was nearly impossible to identify the corresponding stars from a simple rubbing.
Fortunately, the radiance of past celestial phenomena had once been reflected upon the heavenly walls of the Inner and Outer Layers, where traces would remain. Those were precisely the weakest points through which the Turbid Tide passed, and he could examine them with the Eye Seal.
He had not been the first to discover such traces. When Celestial Xia had divided the past into six eras, it had relied not only on documents but also on verification from many other sources. One piece of evidence had come from distinguishing the reflected traces of celestial phenomena after shifts in the Turbid Tide, roughly revealing six overlapping layers. After sorting through these and combining them with