Chapter 1422: Chapter 239: A Transcendental Stare Across Space-Time
Elan didnât know why one sentence from him suddenly made his brother have an epiphany, but itâs good to help. The little dragon happily wagged its tail, "Yay!"
After "Yay," came the excitement.
"Elan, try it, see if you can retrospectively view the condition of this sea area more than sixteen hundred years ago?"
Ian pulled Elan aside, attempting to let him backtrackâbecause Ian himself didnât know exactly when the Terra Dragon had formed this Miniature Star Prison Inferno, itâs always best to first test the limits of Elanâs ability.
"Hmm..."
And in Elanâs six dragon eyes, a faint purple halo lit up, which was the brilliance of the Retrospective World. He seriously looked towards the Star Prison Tianyuâs direction, then slightly shook his head, "No, brother, I canât see that far back... at most, just a few decades, not even a hundred years..."
"Is that so?"
But Ian wasnât disappointed, as this had long been within his expectationsâElanâs ability definitely wouldnât be able to instantly know secrets from a thousand years ago, just like his Spirit Energy also progressed little by little to its current level.
A few years later, when Elanâs Arcane Path âBright Soulâ matures, his Spirit Energy is expected to undergo a transformation and could be able to see hundreds or thousands of years into the past.
But for now, Ian didnât give up directly. He let Elan try to backtrack to the special circumstances of this sea area.
"What do you mean by special circumstances?" Elan asked, "Brother, you know, my Spirit Energy requires a clear target to backtrack... so I can sense your experiences, but not othersâ."
"As for specific information..." Ian was gazing at the Star Prison Tianyu before him, contemplating, and then slowly said, "Inheritance, powerful beings... perhaps those interested in this black sphere like me."
At that moment, a name swiftly popped into Ianâs mind.
Inega II.
"Inega II," Ian slowly stated, "Elan, try to backtrack this sea area based on the situation of âInega IIâ."
"Okay!"
Because of Ian and Hiliad, Elan was quite familiar with Inega II. Although he didnât have a specific understanding, he did have an image of the Former Emperorâs appearance.
Moreover, Inega IIâs era was just within the century range, and the little dragonâs six dragon eyes lit up with a faint purple halo as Elan began to backtrack.
Ian used the special ability of âStar Soulâ to make contact with Elanâs soul, sharing the vision seen in this backtrack with him.
Then...
He saw a thin figure standing with another tall knight before the pitch-black sphere.
This thin man looked about thirty or forty years old on the surface, clean-shaven, with golden hair casually hanging behind. His eyebrows were a little long, but they tilted upwards like sharp blades, and his mouth corners, like his eyebrows, always turned up, as if he was always smiling.
His eyes were exceptionally bright, like two golden stars, but not dazzling, instead imparting a kind sense of warmth.
And the tall man had a head of tawny-brown messy hair, a calm demeanor, and a rugged face that made Ian feel immeasurably familiar.
"Teacher..."
Speaking softly to himself, Ian was well aware that the knight was exactly Teacher Hiliad in his youth, while the thin, golden-haired man standing before him, slightly shorter than the teacher...
Was none other than Inega II.
[Can you open it?]
[Your Majesty, itâs a bit too demanding. This item has no gravity at all, and the surrounding space-time is not distorted. In other words, either it doesnât exist in reality at all, or it has already distorted space-time to the extreme, which is an anomaly almost impossible to interfere with.]
[Hmm, as expected, you saw through its anomalous nature at a glance... and even you cannot open it; perhaps no one in this world can open it by pure brute force.]
[Your Majesty, what is this thing? Why is there such a rare item among the dragon bones beneath Latran Giant City? Is it the âtreasureâ pursued by the True Dragon?]
[Hmm. Calling it a treasure is not an exaggeration... This is the greatest treasure the Terra Dragon left us. But if we must say, itâs merely something the pre-epoch civilization should have passed down to us. Itâs only because the Calamity of Heavenly Fall severed all inheritance, leaving only a duplicate here.]
[I see...]
Vaguely, you can see hazy light and shadow and overhear the conversation.
The scene Elan saw was precisely the situation decades ago when Inega II and Hiliad arrived in Latran Giant City.
Ian was particularly perceptive and sensed waves of bloodlust emanating from Teacher Hiliad, clearly having just fought. They referred to the Latran Ranch as the âGiant City.â
Obviously, this was before the Maze Ranch was created. It might very well be the day when Hiliad slayed through the entire Latran Labyrinth, neutralizing it, turning it into a ranch.
And it was on that very day he and his Lord Inega II stood before the black sphere.
With Hiliadâs strength, he could already see through most of the âtruthsâ in the world. The essence of the Star Prison Tianyu, which isolated all gravity influence, was that it doesnât resemble any material whose mass gravity would distort the surrounding space-time; in other words, if perceived by creatures that sense via gravity, the Star Prison Tianyu simply doesnât exist in their eyes.
This is something Ian already knew from previous exchanges with Echo because the probability is high that the Calamity of The End is unaware of âStar Prison Tianyuâ and the âTerra Civilizationâ behind it due to this kind of perception.