Above a desolate region somewhere in the Inner Layer, one of Zhang Yu's projections appeared in the sky.
His projection had gathered from a wisp of his own Heartlight Seal. Even so, it was still at the Xuanzun level, enough to handle the vast majority of contingencies within the Inner Layer.
Looking down, he saw stone grottoes and tower halls scattered below at varying heights. All these structures had been carved and built upon natural mountains. It was not difficult to see that this had once been a prosperous kingdom, though it had been abandoned at some unknown time. Now, only a few traces of its former magnificence could be glimpsed in the lingering glow of the setting sun.
His gaze followed downward, piercing straight into the depths of the earth. Before long, he saw an incomparably massive root buried there. Just as he had anticipated, it was indeed a remnant root of the Ipal Divine Tree.
The Ipal Divine Tree possessed boundless vitality and could alter the surrounding heavens and earth on its own. After this thing had broken, the life force it emitted must have drawn many living beings here, who then established a flourishing kingdom atop it.
However, once the divine power radiating from the tree had healed over at the break, it withdrew once more. The surrounding environment of heaven and earth was no longer what it had been, and with the foundation of that kingdom's existence gone, it had completely perished.
At that moment, his brow flashed, and a divine light descended below. The enormous root, large enough to encompass the surrounding mountain ranges, withered and decayed in a mere instant, dispersing and merging into the land beneath it.
He had drawn all the vitality within this object back into the Divine Treasury Land of