The Lord of Nothingness was enclosed at the center of the cocoon. Countless streams of life's light flowed across its walls, forming beautiful, sacred patterns.
Surrounded by life will, the void power the Lord of Nothingness took such pride in began to crumble.
Starlight severed his tentacles one by one. Instead of void darkness, tiny points of light began sprouting from the severed ends. Those lights took root like seeds, slowly growing into little flowers of light.
The seven-colored radiance blinded his thousands of eyes, and tears of light began flowing from every one. Those tears were not signs of pain, but the longing for light deep within his consciousness of nothingness.
"Why... why am I crying..." The Lord of Nothingness felt this unprecedented emotion in bewilderment. "I am nothingness... I shouldn't have feelings..."
Most astonishing of all, tiny cracks began appearing across the surface of the Lord of Nothingness's enormous body. What shone through them was not deeper darkness, but warm light. Like tender shoots in spring, those lights grew tenaciously upon his body of nothingness.
"This is impossible..." The Lord of Nothingness's voice began to tremble. "How could nothingness give birth to life..."
The Seven-Colored Star that Lin Ye had become radiated an even warmer light, and his voice rang out like an echo of the universe:
"Nothingness is not the opposite of life... nothingness is merely a place life has yet to reach... when the light of life illuminates nothingness, new possibilities are born..."
With those words, the Life Cocoon began to contract, enveloping the Lord of Nothingness completely. The patterns on its walls grew increasingly complex, finally forming a complete star chart containing all eighty-eight constellations.
This was more than a sealing-it was a transformation. The Lord of Nothingness would not be destroyed. Instead, he would