Only half the stone tablet remained; the other half had vanished into nothingness. Most of the writing on its surface was illegible, but one line at its very center was still clear:
"Order is not perfection, but acceptance of imperfection."
Lin Ye froze.
He stared blankly at the broken stone tablet as countless images suddenly flashed through his mind.
Zeus had pursued perfect order, only for the Lord of the Void to exploit it and bring about a tremendous disaster.
The Perfect Creation he himself had pursued had instead become the ideal breeding ground for the Nihility Seeds.
Those soldiers had chosen to destroy themselves because their "Perfect Reshaping" had ended up harming them.
And the Lord of the Void-wasn't the "absolute void" he pursued also a state of perfection? So perfect that nothing existed.
"Perfection... perfection..." Lin Ye's hands began to tremble.
Not from fear, but from excitement.
He had finally grasped the heart of the problem.
"I've always pursued perfection, wanting to create a world without flaws or contradictions, a world of complete harmony. But that pursuit itself goes against the very nature of existence!"
Lin Ye rose to his feet, his eyes growing brighter and brighter.
"The real world is imperfect. It has flaws, contradictions, and conflicts, but those very imperfections fill it with life and possibility."
"And the 'absolute void' the Lord of the Void pursues is, at its core, also a 'perfect state'-so perfect that nothing exists."
He looked at the scepter in his hand, almost entirely eaten away by corrosion, and suddenly smiled.
"We're actually the same."
"We're both trapped by the concept of 'perfection.'"
"He pursues perfection in nothingness, while I pursue perfection in existence. They seem opposed, but they're fundamentally connected. Both deny reality. Both reject imperfection."
Lin Ye raised his head