The instant Xu Yuan formed the thought, a flash of Creation suddenly dawned on him.
The Universe was waiting for him.
As an Immortal Species, he was someone the Universe was waiting to Gaze upon it.
The feeling was strange, yet so real that Xu Yuan thought he had gone mad.
But considered from the perspective of an Immortal Species,
it all made perfect sense.
“Is that it? The Immortal Species are the ones who Gaze, while short-lived species are the Universe itself—the means by which it perceives itself?”
Xu Yuan murmured under his breath.
A strange sensation rose within him—
It was as though he had returned to the time before the Universe was born.
Before then, nothing existed, yet anything could have existed at any moment.
For that was the source of the Universe.
It could turn everything into "something," then turn everything into "nothing."
It was truly "all-powerful"!
But—
Without anything to serve as a point of reference, without any distinctions at all, it existed in an eternal state of "nothingness." To end that state, this greatest of beings created a species capable of Gazing upon it—
The Immortal Species.
Only through the Gaze of the Immortal Species could that great, endless, all-powerful force begin to manifest.
Thus the Universe was born!
This was the essence of the Immortal Species' Gaze System!
Lines of faintly glowing text suddenly sprang into view:
"You have seen through the truth behind the 'endless' Universe and grasped a Truth of the utmost depth."
"In this instant, an all-powerful force grants you one chance to Gaze upon it to your heart's content."
“Everything you are will become a Gaze, freeing the Universe from its essential 'Entropy Reduction' and bringing 'Entropy Increase' into bloom once more.”
“The Universe will accept your Entropy Increase