Gaze of the Void Sea

Lin Ye looked at them in silence for three seconds.

Then he smiled.

"Get up."

He pointed toward the surging Void Sea in the distance.

"Not to follow me. We're going together to see what exactly it is that even the Ruins of Return fears."

The Primordial Lifeforms rose as one and looked into the distance.

There, the Void Sea was slowly advancing.

But this time, they were no longer prey waiting to be devoured.

They were warriors returning home.

Lin Ye turned and took a step forward.

Behind him, three thousand elites followed close behind.

Behind them, countless Primordial Lifeforms followed.

And farther behind, three hundred and seventy million Stars lit up at once, illuminating the road ahead.

The Void Sea had no boundaries.

When Lin Ye led everyone before it, they all fell silent.

It was not out of fear, but shock.

It was a true ocean of "nothing." There was no up or down, no distance, no past or future, no traits that could be perceived. It simply existed—if "existence" was even a word that could describe it.

But it had eyes.

Countless eyes.

Those eyes had no physical form. They were merely ripples that occasionally appeared upon the surface of the Void Sea. Yet when they looked at you, you felt as though your very being was being thoroughly examined from the inside out by "never having existed."

Lin Ye stood at the very front, looking at the boundless Void Sea.

Behind him, Harmonic Leaptone's voice trembled. "Tuner, this is..."

"The Void Sea," Lin Ye said calmly. "The homeland of the Ruins of Return. The source of all 'nothing.'"

He raised a hand and pointed at the sea. "Do you see those eyes?"

Everyone looked over at once.

Those eyes were slowly closing, then slowly opening