Whoosh...
At this moment,
The Female Emperor's thoughts raced like lightning.
In an instant, a thought made even her soul tremble, and a figure emerged in her mind.
Master?!
Having just been stirred by the scene, her emotions were already unstable. At this thought, those two words nearly burst from her throat, making her almost speak them aloud.
Her delicate body trembled faintly beyond her control, and her mind was violently shaken.
The grief and resentment in her eyes were instantly replaced by an incredulous, blazing light!
Tap...
Without hesitation, she stepped forward.
Then,
Her Imperial Dao divine sense poured forth without reservation, meticulously examining this piece of Divine Source—every glimmering ray on its surface, every trace of aura!
Yet the results showed, unmistakably, that there were no traces at all.
During this time, the Divine Source showed no sign whatsoever of having been breached from the outside.
Everything was perfectly natural.
As though whoever had come had merely passed by coincidentally, or...
Had returned to a familiar place, solely to take a look at the person within the Divine Source. Seeing that she was unharmed, they had quietly remained for a while, done nothing, and then left.
"Could Master be alive? Did he come back?"
The Female Emperor's chest rose and fell slightly as she considered the possibility brought about by her intuition.
But the answer she reached was that it was truly infinitesimal.
How could that be possible?!
Master had already been at the end of his life then. At the very last moment, he had even excavated his Origin.
Even if Master had not fallen on the spot and had used that inconceivable "escape art" to shift elsewhere,
Given his condition, it would have been absolutely impossible for him to survive until now.
After all, during the