He needed to confirm it himself.
Not because he doubted Ambrose's assessment — her reaction alone had been sufficient evidence that the situation was what she described, and her background gave her access to information he had no reason to dispute. But there was a specific, practical difference between knowing a thing intellectually and knowing it in the direct, physical language of cultivation feedback, and the difference mattered when the thing in question was going to govern every decision he made for however long they remained in this place.
He sat. Breathed. Extended his awareness in the specific, inward direction of the rank four technique and let it do what it was designed to do.
The thread came down from the void....
