The coordinates provided by the Azure Blue Sacred Sea Civilization lay in an extremely remote corner of Clear River Time-Space.
After the Clear River Delegation set out from the outer-sea trade zone and passed through seven large water-element starfields in succession, the life fluctuations observable around them grew fewer and fewer.
Further on, even the water element rules that spread throughout Clear River Time-Space became far sparser.
Empty. Dead silent.
One lifeless star after another hung suspended in the darkness. There were no obvious signs of rupture on their surfaces, nor any rule trauma left behind by war. They simply rested there in silence.
After the Clear River Delegation arrived at the target region, the first to stop was not the mechanical fleet, but the accompanying Lady Chenglan.
She looked toward that dead-silent expanse of stars, her expression visibly unnatural.
"I have been here before," Lady Chenglan said.
"A long time ago, the surroundings of this starfield did not look like this."
The Level-10 Strong Practitioner sent by the Azure Blue Sacred Sea Civilization then added further information about this place.
Several thousand years ago, a large water-element World Civilization had existed in this region.
That civilization had not been particularly powerful, but its territory had been quite vast. Under its command were numerous medium- and small-sized water-element planes and ocean worlds.
They provided resources to the higher-ranking suzerain civilization while also bearing responsibility for maintaining the nearby network of water element rules.
When the anomaly first appeared, no one paid it any attention.
It began only with the law tides in several remote ocean worlds declining. Then, the number of newborns born within the civilization fell. After that, the powers of several Dominator-class Beings began to weaken for no apparent reason.
By the time that civilization truly sent out