Meanwhile, Lin Ye broadcast to the entire network, his voice piercing through the tide's gentle whispers:
"The universe has gifted us an ocean of meaning. Do not fear drowning, and do not rush to reach the shore."
"Find your anchor. Raise your sails."
"We are not here to conquer this sea, but to learn how to sail within it, charting paths that belong to ourselves while connecting us to one another."
"The tide will eventually recede. When it does, it will take away the delusions, leaving behind souls truly capable of withstanding the wash of infinite possibilities."
The "Consciousness Seeds" Lin Ye had sent out crossed the Meaning Tide and arrived precisely at their destinations.
The first to be illuminated was the Glow Domain.
The great sage Jingguang was caught in his deepest contradiction. The sense of "Perfect Still Contemplation" brought by the tide clashed violently with his civilization's core pursuit of "seeking one's nature." He felt his soul being torn apart by sweet serenity.
The seed fell into his mindscape.
In an instant, he shared Lin Ye's experience of "being the seabed"—the Observer's Meditative State that embraced all meaning yet remained unmoved.
Jingguang was struck as if by lightning.
"So that's it... Stability is not stillness. It is the steadfastness of a lighthouse amid raging winds and towering waves! What we need is 'dynamic stillness'!"
He immediately gathered all the sages still struggling and passed this experience from mind to mind. The mindscape of the Glow Civilization's "Clarity Anchor" began to undergo a qualitative transformation: at the center of the inward-spinning vortex of light, a brilliant and resolute pillar of light emerged—an anchor—while the vortex itself became a gentle wheel of light radiating outward—a sail. They actively drew the tide through themselves, drawing nourishment from it without ever lingering