They were four tides one would have to confront before stepping into the cave in which the four divine beasts were residing.
One was the gate of success, the beast's horde, the arena of life and death, and finally the battle of will. Only by passing through these tides would one be able to witness the four divine beasts.
Each tide is more dangerous and life-threatening than any event in the world. It had to be known that the number of experts who had fallen to the tides was countless, deeming the ominous cave as one of the most terrifying places in the world.
It was even so that people began to believe that the danger in the ominous cave was very close to meeting that of the doomsday ground.
Devon also had his own share of information from the books he picked up in the matriarch mansion and entering inside the gate of success, the scene there left his mouth wide open as he never saw this coming.