"Then think about the era long ago—there should have been no barrier between the heaven and earth, right?" Ethan asked again, his voice calm but laced with curiosity.
Onyx Orchid struggled to recall, her mind searching the depths of ancient memory. "It seems not."
"So the barrier between heaven and earth, which the Star Emperor called The Heaven and Earth Barrier must be man-made. Something even the Emperor couldn't break. What kind of people left such a thing behind?"
Ethan's brows knitted as he continued his probing. "Is there a higher realm beyond the Emperor realm?"
A pause lingered before Onyx Orchid responded vaguely, "Maybe."
The ambiguity in his voice betrayed his uncertainty, yet Ethan's intuition insisted there must truly be some realm above the Emperor.
He turned his gaze inward and inquired of the system, "Alicia, what realm lies beyond the Emperor realm?"
A moment passed in silence. Then the system replied:
[Searching, above the Emperor realm...]
