Lin Ye watched them in silence for three seconds.
Then he smiled.
"Rise."
He pointed toward the surging Void Sea in the distance.
"Don't follow me. Come with me and see what that thing Guixu fears really is."
The primordial beings rose together and looked into the distance.
There, the Void Sea was slowly drawing closer.
And this time, they were no longer prey to be devoured.
They were warriors returned.
Lin Ye turned and took a step forward.
Behind him, three thousand elite warriors followed closely.
Behind them, countless primordial beings followed.
And behind them all, three hundred and seventy million stars lit up at once, illuminating the way ahead.
The Void Sea had no boundaries.
When Lin Ye brought everyone before it, they all fell silent.
Not out of fear.
But out of awe.
It was a true ocean of "nothingness." There was no up or down, no near or far, no past or future, no quality that could be perceived. It simply existed in silence-if "existed" was even a word that could describe it.
But it had eyes.
Countless pairs of eyes.
Those eyes had no physical form. They were merely ripples that occasionally rose across the Void Sea's surface. Yet when they looked at you, you felt as though "what had never existed" was scrutinizing you completely, inside and out.
Lin Ye stood at the very front, gazing at the boundless Void Sea.
Behind him, Harmonic Leaping Note's voice trembled. "Tuner, this is..."
"The Void Sea." Lin Ye's voice was calm. "Guixu's homeland. The source of all 'nothingness.'"
He raised a hand and pointed at its surface. "Do you see those eyes?"
Everyone looked at once.
Those eyes were slowly closing, then slowly opening again. With every blink, countless things that had "never existed" escaped from