Everything left a trail.
Any living being in this universe, the land they had walked upon, the air they had breathed, the images they had left behind, the words they had spoken, even the saliva they had spat out—all of it exchanged matter with the universe as a whole.
In the eyes of ancient ultimate beings like them, from a certain angle, it was like a dense web of threadlike laws through which they could directly trace the past.
Even a Tenth-Order Ultimate found it difficult to erase every trace completely.
Yet now, there was not the slightest clue, as though this living being had never appeared anywhere along the timelines of the universe's past and future.
It unsettled her greatly.
"What exactly is this...?"
And Rennimansga had been personally slain by her back then, his Great Dao Bloodline taken from him.
That had been the last bloodline of the Iron-Based Clan.
Yet before her, faint and mysterious traces had appeared. The Cosmos Garden still existed, Rennimansga was still alive, living an exceedingly carefree life, and he had even fathered a descendant with the Iron-Based Clan, whose fertility rate had been unbelievably low.
It was as though some heaven-shaking contingency plan lay hidden behind it all.
"Was the Cosmos Garden truly destroyed back then?"
Emperor Lord stood in black robes, his features cold and refined, his eyes deep as the sea. He looked into the distance. "Look again. What of the ancient ruins of the Elemental Civilization now?"
Boom! Melville's vast Divine Sense descended once more.
She swept across several ancient ruins of the Elemental Civilization, all of which had fallen into ruin. Yet within one elemental ruin, she unexpectedly discovered a vibrant scene filled with life.
Countless strange elemental lifeforms cultivated and grew stronger, creating a flourishing spectacle.
Her