Elan didn’t know why one sentence from him suddenly made his brother have an epiphany, but it’s 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 backtrack—because Ian himself didn’t know exactly when the Terra Dragon had formed this Miniature Star Prison Inferno, it’s always best to first test the limits of Elan’s ability.
And in Elan’s six dragon eyes, a faint purple halo lit up, which was the brilliance of the Retrospective World. He seriously looked towards the Star Prison Tianyu’s direction, then slightly shook his head, "No, brother, I can’t see that far back... at most, just a few decades, not even a hundred years..."
But Ian wasn’t disappointed, as this had long been within his expectations—Elan’s ability definitely wouldn’t 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 Elan’s Arcane Path ’Bright Soul’ 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 didn’t 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 others’."
"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 Ian’s mind.
"Inega II," Ian slowly stated, "Elan, try to backtrack this sea area based on the situation of ’Inega II’."
"Okay!" The rıghtful source is 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡⁂𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚⁂𝙣𝙚𝙩
Because of Ian and Hiliad, Elan was quite familiar with Inega II. Although he didn’t have a specific understanding, he did have an image of the Former Emperor’s appearance.
Moreover, Inega II’s era was just within the century range, and the little dragon’s six dragon eyes lit up with a faint purple halo as Elan began to backtrack.
Ian used the special ability of ’Star Soul’ to make contact with Elan’s soul, sharing the vision seen in this backtrack with him.
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.
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.
[Your Majesty, it’s a bit too demanding. This item has no gravity at all, and the surrounding space-time is not distorted. In other words, either it doesn’t 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 ’treasure’ 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, it’s merely something the pre-epoch civilization should have passed down to us. It’s only because the Calamity of Heavenly Fall severed all inheritance, leaving only a duplicate here.]
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 ’Giant City.’
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 Hiliad’s strength, he could already see through most of the ’truths’ in the world. The essence of the Star Prison Tianyu, which isolated all gravity influence, was that it doesn’t 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 doesn’t 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 ’Star Prison Tianyu’ and the ’Terra Civilization’ behind it due to this kind of perception.