Zhang Yu judged that the other party had likely entered a lower layer.
Lower layers differed from one another. Some were closely connected to the entire Inner Layer, with gateways linking them appearing from time to time. Such places allowed cultivators to travel back and forth. Other lower layers, however, had no connection at all.
If the Inner Layer were likened to a river, then the lower layers tied to it could be counted as tributaries. As for those lower layers with no entanglement whatsoever, they were simply watercourses that never crossed. Only special objects like the World-Breaking Pearl could pierce through and link the two.
The lower layer this person had entered should belong to the kind more closely connected to the Inner Layer.
He put away the Little Wooden Boy and pondered. This region lay far beyond the thirteen Upper Continents, so even Celestial Xia knew nothing of its precise circumstances. For someone newly arrived in the Inner Layer to locate an entrance to a lower layer here with absolute accuracy, they could only rely on luck.
But perhaps it was precisely luck.
A cultivator's opportunity could indeed be attained through a certain stroke of fortune.
Yet the intruder could not possibly give up just like that. They surely intended to return to the Inner Layer from the lower layer.
However, for an Arch-Exalt to return from a lower layer was no easy matter. An object of guidance was necessary. Thus, before crossing into the lower layer, the other party must have found a way to leave something behind.
With that thought, he used the Heaven-Training Dao Canon to communicate with the Profound Court for a moment.
After a while, an opening split apart in the sky, and a stream of light descended. By the time it reached