The moment Primordial Fear retreated, the entire Void Domain began to collapse.
It was not destruction, but transformation.
Under the combined force of 370 million gazes and 37 billion voices saying thank you, light appeared for the first time in that darkness that had never been illuminated.
It was not light shining in from outside. The darkness itself had begun to glow.
Primordial Origin stared blankly at the sight and murmured, "That's impossible... how could Primordial Fear's domain light up on its own..."
Lin Ye said softly, "Because it was seen."
He pointed at the collapsing darkness:
"It thought it was 'nothing,' so it could devour everything that 'was.' But the moment it was seen by something that 'was,' it was no longer pure 'nothing.' It bore the mark of existence."
Primordial Origin remained silent for a long time.
Then he smiled.
In that smile was a relief he had never known through countless eras.
"So that's it," he said softly. "I always thought that confronting Primordial Fear required greater power, more civilizations, a more perfect way of bearing them. But I was wrong. All it took was-to be seen."
He looked at Lin Ye:
"You taught me something."
"What?"
"Existence was never a solitary thing."
Lin Ye did not answer.
He merely watched those 37 billion awakening fluctuations, watched them fly out of Primordial Origin's body one after another and slowly take shape in that newborn light.
Each taking shape was a rebirth.
Each ray of reborn light illuminated another fluctuation still asleep.
Thirty-seven billion of them were lighting one another up.
The process lasted seven days and seven nights.
On the morning of the seventh day, when the final fluctuation finally took shape, points of light appeared on Primordial Origin's cloak for the first time.
Not one, not