The future exists in the imagination. But the past exists in memories. Therefore, if all vestiges of a person’s past were to be wiped out, and if those who cared about that person chose to forget them, then it would be the same as if that person never existed. There would be nothing left behind. At that point, would that person even have existed? And even if they did exist, what would it mean if no one knew about them and no one remembered them? Perhaps they would really disappear. They would have no name, no past, no future, no anything.17

That was another ability of gods. The power over the past.0

Forgetting.18

As Chu Tianqun yet again burned his essence, the ancient world fragment of the Smokewights went absolutely still, like it had been paused. Chu Tianqun’s fleshly body also stopped moving, as did the descending Ghost Emperor mountain.0

Everything went quiet, as if it had frozen in place. Only Chu Tianqun’s soul, which was surrounded by godly light, could do anything. It flew out of his forehead, becoming the only moving entity in the world. In that form, he looked up at everything, his expression one of reverence.0

“This... is ‘leaving nothing behind’?” Chu Tianqun murmured. This was his first time using the apex-level god magic. In his view, this version of heaven and earth looked different from the real version. The dome of heaven didn’t exist. The land didn’t...1