The Memory Sea had no entrance. It was not a sea one could "enter," but a state of existence-when your consciousness was ancient enough, your memories deep enough, and your burden heavy enough, you would fall into the Memory Sea.
Lin Ye walked through nothingness with the expedition for seven days. There was no direction, no distance, no point of reference. Only darkness stretching endlessly beneath their feet, and the three hundred and seventy million stars that shone forever behind them.
On the seventh day, Harmonic Leaping Note stopped.
"I... can feel it..." Her voice trembled. All thirty-three bonds of the Thirty-Threefold Fate Harmonics began resonating at once, each vibrating at a frequency she had never heard before. "That is the frequency of memory itself..."
Radiant Stilllight raised the Spear of Definition, and its tip began to glow-not with an aggressive light, but with an exceedingly gentle glimmer, like morning mist. "I have defined the boundaries of the Memory Sea..." For the first time, uncertainty entered his voice. "But it is too vast, so vast that my definition cannot encompass it..."
Myriad Faces and Forms began to change. They no longer possessed any known form of existence, but took on a form that had never appeared in the universe-the form of the Memory Sea itself. "I have become part of it..." Their voice came from every direction. "But it has no boundaries, no shape, no rules. It simply exists..."
Primordial Origin's cloak began to glow. The lingering wills of thirty-seven billion Zero Era civilizations awakened at once. They had sensed something-memories more ancient than themselves, something that had existed before they were born.
"This is the place." Primordial Origin's voice was hoarse. "The Mother Sea from the legends of the Zero Era, which existed before the universe was born."
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