Barrier of Knowledge and Perception.
Ji Jue fell into thought, unable to voice his confusion.
"Sounds like some religious term from before the Chaos Era?"
Ji Jue wasn't particularly good at history. "Going by my understanding, it should mean—the more one knows, the more confused one becomes, making it difficult to grasp the essence of things?"
"That interpretation isn't wrong, but what I mean is something completely different."
Ye Xian weighed the disc in her hand before casually tossing it onto the table. "Seventy years after the Eternal Empire's destruction, during the early days of the Federation and the Empire, when every side was fighting bloody life-and-death struggles, they rarely joined forces under the coordination of the first-generation Sky Overseer and Earth Warden to complete a revision that covered the entire world.
Numerous Heart Pivots and celestial beings of the Aether lineage took part. Using countless works of writing, stories, music, paintings, and more as vessels, they expended many Blessings to construct a meme that circulated through every surviving soul, adding one more insignificant corner to the tangled subconscious.
Whether you call it a virus or a vaccine doesn't matter. Its name was Barrier of Knowledge and Perception—a barrier erected before what people saw and knew."
"Just this?"
Ji Jue instinctively lowered his head to look at the disc, too stunned to speak.
He wasn't merely shocked by the existence of something so bizarre. He was equally horrified by how shallow his own perception had been—why did it look like nothing more than an ordinary disc to him, with nothing strange about it at all?
Ye Xian glanced at him as though she were looking at an idiot.
"The Barrier of Knowledge and Perception was completed over four hundred years ago. Over those four centuries, its power has circulated and