Lin Ye opened his mind's eye. He saw familiar faces: Primordial Origin, the Absolute One, Three Aspects, 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 weak, making even expression difficult.
Primordial Origin told him not to rush to speak and to rest first. It told Lin Ye that he had been asleep for a full three months, and much had happened during that time. The good news was that the Lord of Order had been completely destroyed, and the Multiverse had finally gained the peace it had long awaited. The bad news was that peace had brought new problems, problems that required his help now that he had awakened.
Lin Ye listened quietly, slowly absorbing the information. Three months—neither particularly long nor particularly short. He could feel that although his consciousness had recovered its basic functions, it was still far from its peak. Many complex thought processes left him exhausted. But he knew he did not have much time to rest. Too many matters outside still awaited his attention.
Over the following days, Lin Ye recovered while learning about the situation. The postwar Multiverse had indeed changed dramatically. The Order Alliance had completely fallen apart. Those once-arrogant hegemonic civilizations had either changed course or faded from history. The Superconsciousness Network's influence had expanded to an unprecedented extent, with nearly every civilization establishing some degree of connection with it.
But expansion brought new problems. The Network's scale had exceeded what its original architecture could support, making much of its management and coordination increasingly inefficient. More importantly, disagreements had begun to emerge within the Network. Some advocated for the Network to intervene more