Chapter 715: The Heavens Vast, the World Far Away
Zhang Yu looked at the three glittering rifts overhead. The lingering auras of both sides' clash drifted out from within, and from these alone, he could analyze the situation on the other side.
He soon discovered that those who had arrived this time were all cultivators. He did not know whether they came from Upper Firmament Heaven or Nether City, or whether both factions had come together. Yet two of the groups seemed merely responsible for pinning their opponents down, while only one was mounting a truly fierce assault.
He also knew the Profound Venerable guarding that rift. It was none other than Daoist Yu Hang, with whom he had dealt before.
After turning the matter over in his mind, he already understood.
He knew that Daoist Yu Hang had become one of the three Profound Venerables guarding Jade Capital. As a Guardian of Rectitude, while he could not be familiar with every garrison, he still had to possess a general understanding of them.
It seemed that the various Outer Layer powers had learned that a new guardian had arrived here—and one who had only recently attained the Dao as a Profound Venerable—so they had come to probe him.
If Daoist Yu Hang's cultivation proved insufficient, then even if they did not use this route to force their way in now, they would very likely regard this place as a suitable breakthrough point in the future.
Although only an incarnation guarded the other side of the rift, an incarnation represented the true body in a certain sense. The enemy had likewise sent incarnations, and through the clash between the two sides, they could naturally gauge each other's approximate level.
After this battle had continued for nearly half a day, the other