A pair of eyes coalesced from "never having existed." When they looked at you, you would feel as though "never having existed" itself was watching you.
It spoke. Its voice rang out directly from the depths of his consciousness:
[Lord of Embers.]
Lin Ye said nothing.
[You are more interesting than I imagined.] Guixu's form leaned forward slightly. [You carry three hundred and seventy million beings within you, have three thousand elites following you, and have even awakened the prisoners inside me along the way. Do you know what that means?]
Lin Ye still said nothing.
Guixu waited a long time, then answered its own question:
[It means you are becoming another me.]
Lin Ye smiled.
That smile made Guixu's form falter slightly.
"Another you?" He stepped forward to face Guixu. "You make everything never have existed. I make everything remembered. We are polar opposites, not the same."
Guixu fell silent for three seconds.
Then it laughed.
Its laughter made the surrounding nothingness tremble:
[Interesting. In countless eons, this is the first time anyone has dared speak to me like this. Do you know who the last one was?]
It raised a hand and pointed behind Lin Ye-where the three thousand elites were struggling to maintain their presence:
[No one. The last one who dared speak like this was forgotten long ago. Even the fact that I devoured them was forgotten. You will be the same.]
Lin Ye said nothing.
He merely raised a hand and pressed it against his chest.
There, three hundred and seventy million stars lit up at once.
Their light pierced his body, pierced the nothingness before him, and shone directly onto Guixu's indistinct form.
For the first time, Guixu took half a step back.
Not because it hurt, but because it had been "seen."
Seen