Definition Core

All three billion seven hundred million stars on Primordial Source's cloak lit up at once. The obsessions of the Zero Era cheered—not because Lin Ye had gained power, but because they had witnessed the moment an existence became "memory itself."

Lin Ye lowered his head and looked at his hand. In his palm, sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven colors slowly flowed, each speaking the same sentence in its own way—

We were remembered by you. That is enough.

He looked up into the depths of the Void. "How much farther?"

Primordial Color's voice came from the Void, carrying an unprecedented solemnity. "Ahead lies the deepest part of the Grave of Definitions—the Annihilation Zone. What is buried there is not recycled definitions, but definitions that have been 'completely deleted.' Even I cannot enter."

"Why?"

"Because there are no colors there. Not black, not white—the very concept of 'color' does not exist. Any colored existence that enters will be rejected as a 'foreign object.'"

Lin Ye fell silent for a second. Then he extinguished all thirty million stars on his cloak at once.

They did not merely dim. They went out.

Harmonic Leaptone let out a shriek. "Tuner!"

Lin Ye ignored her. He stood there with no light on his cloak, no color on his body, and even his pupils had turned transparent—not white, not black, but the transparency of "having no color at all."

He was making himself like the Annihilation Zone—colorless.

Primordial Color's voice carried shock. "You... you learned 'Colorless Existence' from my memories just now? In an instant?"

Lin Ye did not answer. He merely looked toward the Annihilation Zone.

"Let's go," he said softly.

He stepped into the Annihilation Zone. Behind him, the expedition followed closely.

Primordial Color watched his back for a long time without speaking.