Scobio's Eye of Truth saw a deeper truth: "Both pain and joy are components of truth; truth lacking either side is incomplete."
Shadow Creator was silent for a long time, seeming to ponder Lin Ye's words.
"Your perspective... has some merit." The despair in his voice began to wane, "But I have one more question."
He looked straight at Lin Ye, asking the most crucial question: "If one day, the universe you create is filled with pain, and the lives you create are crying out wanting to vanish, would you still insist that creation is right?"
This question pierced like a sharp sword into Lin Ye's heart. This was not a theoretical philosophical debate, but a realistic challenge that a creator had to face.
"If the beings you create ultimately choose to deny the value of their own existence, would you still persist in the meaning of creation?" Shadow Creator's follow-up was even sharper.
The Trial Space fell into a deep silence.
Faced with Shadow Creator's ultimate challenge, Lin Ye did not answer immediately, instead pondering deeply on the essence of this question.
The surrounding Creation Trial Space was terrifyingly quiet, even the black ocean of conceptual nothingness having stopped churning. All the Conceptual Gods and Zodiac Guardians were waiting for the answer that would determine the fate of the multiverse.
Lin Ye felt the resonance coming from the Immortal Genesis Arrow, which was the deep memory from Primordial Alpha Creator. In these memories, he saw the creator's struggles and pain when facing the same question back then.
"This question troubled the primordial creator throughout his entire existence cycle." Lin Ye's voice was gentle, "And it was precisely because he couldn't find a perfect answer that his inner self split into an shadow persona like you."
Shadow Creator nodded in