Thirty-seven billion stars lit up on Primordial Origin's cloak at once. The Zero Era Obsessions cheered-not because Lin Ye had gained power, but because they had witnessed the moment an existence became "memory itself."
Lin Ye lowered his head and looked at his hand. In his palm, sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven colors flowed slowly, each saying the same thing in its own way-
You remembered us. That is enough.
He looked up into the depths of the void. "How much farther?"
Primal Color's voice came from the void, carrying an unprecedented solemnity. "Just ahead lies the deepest part of the Grave of Definitions-the Annihilation Zone. What lies buried there isn't reclaimed definitions, but definitions that were 'completely deleted.' Even I cannot enter."
"Why?"
"Because there is no color there. Not black, not white-the very concept of 'color' does not exist. Anything with color that enters will be rejected as a 'foreign object.'"
Lin Ye fell silent for a second. Then he extinguished all thirty million stars on his cloak at once.
They did not dim. They went out.
Harmonic Leaping Note screamed, "Tuner!"
Lin Ye ignored her. He stood there, his cloak utterly lightless, his body devoid of color, even his pupils transparent-not white, not black, but a transparency with "no color whatsoever."
He was making himself like the Annihilation Zone-colorless.
Primal Color's voice shook with astonishment. "You... you just learned 'colorless existence' from my memories? In a single instant?"
Lin Ye did not answer. He simply looked toward the Annihilation Zone.
"Let's go," he said softly.
He stepped into the Annihilation Zone. Behind him, the expedition followed closely.
Primal Color watched his retreating figure without speaking for a long time.
Finally, they said only one thing. "In all these endless eras, you are the first existence to