Chen Yang still did not know the mysterious being's exact identity, but since it had called Zhuang Xuanji, once the Number One Cultivator in the Human Realm, "Little Zhuang," its seniority and standing had to be extraordinarily high.
Moreover, merely being able to pinpoint the location of the Canglan Divine Palace and directly transmit its thoughts to Chen Yang, the master of the Canglan Divine Palace, showed that this being must also have known every hidden place throughout the Canglan Continent like the back of its hand.
Combining those two points, Chen Yang made a brief deduction and quickly arrived at an answer.
This mysterious being speaking with him was most likely something akin to the "planetary will" from the science-fiction novels of his previous life.
He—no... It, perhaps—was likely the manifested individual form of the immortal Dao laws within the Canglan Continent.
With that understanding in place, Chen Yang's thoughts broadened accordingly.
"So... it's somewhat similar to the Spirits of the Secret Realm in those large and small Secret Realms."
Chen Yang knew there were still concrete differences between the two, and they could not simply be lumped together.
Yet from this perspective, upon reexamining the Canglan Continent, he realized that if it were considered a part of the entire Eastern Region, its scale might only amount to a single Secret Realm.
Those Treading Void mighty cultivators who had to leave the Canglan Continent and head for the Void Realm after breaking through were actually sensing this world's immortal Dao will rejecting and resisting them, as well as the suppression imposed upon them by the Dao laws of the lower realm.
And the reason for this situation was very likely that horrifying Treading Void battle of years past.
Two Treading Void mighty cultivators had fought fiercely upon the Canglan