Memory Sea

The Memory Sea had no entrance. It was not a sea one could "enter," but a state of existence—when your consciousness was old enough, your memories deep enough, and your burdens heavy enough, you would fall into the Memory Sea.

Lin Ye led the expedition through the Void for seven days. There was no direction, no distance, no reference point. Only the darkness endlessly stretching beneath their feet, and the 370 million Stars forever shining behind them.

On the seventh day, Harmonic Leaptone stopped.

"I... felt it..." Her voice trembled as all thirty-three Fate Harmonic Links began to resonate at once, each vibrating at a frequency she had never heard before. "That is the frequency of memory itself..."

Radiant Stilllight raised the Spear of Definition, and its tip began to glow—not with an aggressive light, but with an exceedingly gentle glimmer, like morning mist. "I defined the boundary of the Memory Sea..." Uncertainty appeared in his voice for the first time. "But it is too vast, so vast that my definition cannot encompass it..."

Myriad Faces began to change form. It was no longer any known form of existence, instead becoming something that had never appeared in the universe before—the form of the Memory Sea itself. "I have become part of it..." Myriad Faces' voice came from every direction. "But it has no boundary, no shape, no rules. It merely exists..."

Primordial Source's cloak began to glow. The obsessions of 37 billion Zero Era civilizations awakened at once. They sensed something—memories older than themselves, something that had existed before they were born.

"This is the place." Primordial Source's voice was hoarse. "The mother sea from the Zero Era legends, before the universe was born."

Lin Ye stood at the front. He looked at that empty Void and remained silent for