Lin Ye opened his eye of consciousness. He saw familiar faces: Primordial Source, Absolute One, Three Phases, Niu, Su, and many new friends he had met in battle. They were all looking at him, unable to hide the joy in their eyes. He wanted to say something, but found that his consciousness was still too weak, making even expression difficult.
Primordial Source told him not to rush to speak and to rest properly first. It told Lin Ye that he had been asleep for a full three months, during which many things had happened. The good news was that the Order Sovereign had been completely destroyed, and the Multiverse had finally welcomed its long-awaited peace. The bad news was that peace had brought new problems, and they needed his help to resolve them now that he was awake.
Lin Ye listened quietly, slowly absorbing the information. Three months was neither particularly long nor particularly short. He could feel that although his consciousness had regained its basic functions, it was still far from its peak state. Many complex trains of thought left him exhausted. But he knew he did not have much time to rest. Too many matters outside were still waiting for him to handle.
Over the following days, Lin Ye recovered while learning about the situation. The postwar Multiverse had indeed undergone enormous changes. The Order Alliance had completely collapsed. Those once-arrogant hegemonic civilizations had either changed course or withdrawn from the stage of history. The Hyperconscious Network's influence had expanded like never before, with nearly every civilization establishing some degree of connection to it.
But expansion brought new problems. The Network's scale had exceeded what its original framework could support, making much of its management and coordination inefficient. More importantly, disagreements had begun to emerge within the Network.