Clarity II
It wasn't that he had lost his way, but rather that Lin Hui suddenly realized something.
This state is like a surveillance system without cameras, a life devoid of all senses; at this moment, only oneself remains... Isn't this the perfect moment to truly experience oneself?!
Suddenly, he understood.
With eyes closed, all sensory signals in the body are cut off at this moment.
In an instant.
quiet.
In my mind and soul, there was nothing but silence.
Stripped of experience and memory, stripped of all perception, all feeling, and touch, what remains seems to be only emptiness, void, and stillness.
But in this profound stillness... Lin Hui clearly sensed the existence of himself at this moment.
It was an indescribable, mysterious state; he was like a wisp of mist, floating hazily in the endless emptiness and stillness, without outline, without thought, only tranquility.
Time seemed to lose its meaning at that moment; he had no idea how much time had passed.
It might take a year, it might take ten years, or it might take longer.
finally...
In the void, Lin Hui suddenly opened his eyes, and all the memories, experiences, thoughts, and sensations in his mind returned.
He clearly felt that he himself was like a huge empty bag, filling everything back to its original state.
No... it should be said that it's more like a vast, complex imprint, a unique imprint, whose grooves and dents are quickly filled back in by countless other things.
He suddenly understood why the word "imprint" was used to describe his self.
This self-imprint is neither two-dimensional nor three-dimensional, but rather a strange and complex imprint that naturally grows in as many dimensions as the number of senses one has previously perceived.
That emptiness and stillness was him; the multidimensional imprints that grew after being nourished by countless informational awareness were also him.
Because each living being receives information and perceives things differently, their sense of self is shaped into a unique and distinctive outline.
Therefore, everyone is unique. This is the fundamental reason behind this statement.
Engraving...
The moment Lin Hui understood this deepest self, his figure, sitting cross-legged in the void, suddenly blazed with blue light.
He stretched out his hand, and a complex, semi-transparent mark the size of an egg slowly floated in the palm of his right hand.
The mark resembled a coral model crafted from crystal, its interior hollow, covered with countless protrusions and indentations.
It was strangely shaped, not of any known geometric form, and there were layers upon layers of blurry, illusory figures appearing around it.
Countless translucent points of light flew towards it and merged into it from all around.
This is me, or rather, the smallest unit that makes up the self—the imprint.
Lin Hui smiled as he gazed at the engraving, for the engraving was the Thought Endures Eternally.
Only after you have it, and have found it, can you move on to the next step.
The next step is to cultivate and imprint the mark, gradually changing its outline, making it increasingly solid and indestructible, and then... passing it on. This step involves methods summarized by predecessors through countless trials. It seems we can only wait for the Blood Seal to evolve...
The energy required for the No-Thought, No-Mind Canon to be stored within the Blood Seal has also been reduced to 500 million.
Clearly, Lin Hui had fully grasped the meaning of his self-imprint, saving him half of his Existence Force.
With the assistance of the Supreme Omniscience Seal, Lin Hui reached this level after more than ten years of sitting in meditation.
This was achieved only because there were specific Blood Seal guiding the direction, without any trial and error.
If it were someone else... with aimless and aimless attempts, it would take countless years to find the right path.
Lin Hui put away the engraving and was in a great mood. He immediately turned on the Wind Chime to check the messages sent back by his three disciples.
The first thing that came back after opening the app was Xia Si's entire investigation footage.
This guy actually recorded a lot of his investigation process and sent it over as videos.
She is currently on a ruined planet, investigating a man wearing a rubber duck mask.
Accompanying her was an indigenous woman named Chen Jialing. The two traveled together and gradually discovered that the man with the little yellow duck mask was not alone, but part of a large group.
They might not even be human; they just dress up as humans.
At this very moment, Xia Si, after years of meticulous investigation, has finally caught a clue about one of the little yellow duck masks.
The mysterious organization that induced the mutation of the Black Disaster is finally about to reveal just the tip of the iceberg.
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In the hazy sky, Xia Si carried Chen Jialing and flew swiftly, soon hovering above a wide, black lake.
Despite having witnessed it many times, Chen Jialing was always deeply shocked by this exaggerated way of traveling.
The people on this planet don't have any cultivation system. They can only rely on various drugs, biological mutations, and technological means to temporarily enhance themselves, and the enhancement is very small, sometimes not even exceeding the level of the first ring.
"This is it!" Xia Si stared coldly at the lake below.
"There's nothing in this lake; we've explored it extensively before," Chen Jialing couldn't help but remind her.
"It itself is nothing special, but at its very bottom, it connects to another area..." Xia Si slowly drew her sword.
Swish!
The next instant, she swung her sword down with a blue-gold light.
The sword light seemed to cleave the entire lake in two, cutting through the water from top to bottom and penetrating deep within.
Moo!!
The next moment, a huge roar, like that of a bull, came from the bottom of the lake.
Suddenly, a giant black human hand rose from the bottom of the lake and crashed into the sword light.
With a soft thud, the Giant Hand was severed at the waist, and the arm continued downwards, cutting the entire black giant diagonally into two pieces.
The blue-gold sword light continued relentlessly, penetrating deeper into the depths.
In an instant, the countless black giants below were all cut in half by a single sword strike.
There were also countless bizarre and strange black creatures, all of which were cut down without hesitation by the sword light.
They flew downwards for countless miles, severing countless bizarre Black Disaster in their path.
finally...
A large, gray, wooden hand suddenly opened and grabbed the sword light.
Boom!
The sword light shattered, and the owner of the giant hand slowly emerged from the darkness.
It was a gray-clad man wearing a rubber duck mask.
"You are not a native being. Who are you? State your origins..." The man looked up through the mask at Xia Si.
His response was an even swifter and more ferocious sword strike.
Xia Si didn't bother with any more words. She had already teleported close to him and activated the Star Breath Sword Classic. In an instant, a black sky unfolded behind her, and countless stars shone and appeared.
The lightning-fast sword light, imbued with immense stellar power and Wind Energy, flashed past the man at an indescribably terrifying speed.
"It's useless!" The man's body was severed, but his tone remained calm. "I have become one with this area. No matter how much you kill, no matter how powerful your destruction, you cannot reach my core..."
"Millions of people still live on this planet, and a kind soul like you, a member of the Resistance Faction, would never stand idly by. So, let's sit down and..."
The next moment, his words came to an abrupt halt.
Because he saw that the identical dark sky above Xia Si's back was rapidly expanding, enlarging, and covering the entire planet's atmosphere.
"Wind!"
Xia Si remained motionless, her longsword held horizontally.
Boom!!
A thunderous roar erupted, and from her center, countless blue Wind Energy expanded and swelled to an unprecedented size, instantly transforming into a terrifying blue tornado that swept across millions of kilometers.
The tornado lifted people up from the ground, soaring into the sky and connecting with the starry sky.
The enormous tornado relentlessly engulfed the entire planet.
A destructive force is rapidly disintegrating everything on the planet.
Xia Si didn't care about survivors or Resistance Faction at all; all she wanted was to complete the task assigned by her teacher, nothing more.
As for other outsiders, they're dead, so what? What does it have to do with her?
"No!!" Chen Jialing, who had been protecting her all along, also saw this scene in the void. Her eyes widened in horror, and her expression twisted in horror.
Her friends and her family were all engulfed by the massive tornado at that moment.
"Shut up, or you'll die too!" Xia Si said impatiently.
"You killed my parents! You!!" Chen Jialing roared angrily.
But the next moment, she was also instantly shredded by the gale, cut into countless pieces, and died beyond any hope of survival.
"It's no use anyway, they might as well all die!" Xia Si said coldly.
The planet slowly began to disintegrate.
The man wearing the rubber duck mask who flew out was covered in blood and looked quite disheveled, clearly seriously injured.
Seeing this, he opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but for a moment he didn't know what to say.
He had thought that by binding himself to numerous inhabited planets, he could make himself feared by the Resistance Army. But he never expected... that the other side would simply go all the way and wipe out all the survivors.
The problem is that the deployment on this planet is not yet complete, and the array formations within this planet are not yet fully mature.
How is he supposed to explain this to the sect now!?
"You still have time to daydream!" Xia Si's figure reappeared behind him, and tens of millions of swords erupted in a single second.
Countless blue sword lights transformed into a supernova-like explosion, completely engulfing his figure.
The figure shattered and vanished, but behind it emerged a massive, withered, yellow gate.
The gate, initially appearing as a door, became solid, surrounded by vines and leaves of various shapes and sizes.
Boom!
The main gate opened.
With a loud boom, countless pale yellow, sharp vines surged out from it.
Two more figures, both wearing rubber duck masks, flew out together.
"Where is the Wind Disaster? Where?!" The figure on the left asked anxiously as soon as he appeared.
"Xue Shi, you're still so irritable. So what if you died once?" Another person spoke indifferently, dressed in a pale yellow gauze, clearly a voluptuous and mature woman.
"That's not death! That's humiliation!!" Xue Shi roared like a madman. He flew a short distance before his gaze locked onto Xia Si.
The massive, surging Wind Energy emanating from the other party was remarkably similar to the Disaster Energy of Wind Disaster, which caught his attention.