After the mirror shattered, the Eye Faculty Emanation Domain did not immediately recover.
The billions of mirrors suspended in mid-air remained motionless, frozen in the void; the vast Sea of Form slowly receded from Qin Yu's feet to both sides, shedding all its colors to reveal a deep, primordial void devoid of color and darkness, transcending light and shadow.
The countless eyes of varying sizes in the distance closed simultaneously, as if the innate "watching" power of the entire world had been completely reclaimed and concealed by some higher-dimensional being.
Qin Yu raised his eyes and gazed into the distance. At the end of the sky, the ancient colossal eye that had covered countless ages still stood, its billions of crystal fragments on the iris extinguished and Wheel-less, only the deep, dark pupil in the center was slowly expanding and deepening.
The ancient, colossal eye slowly closed.
Without a deafening roar or a tremor in the void, the upper and lower eyelids gently closed, and the last glimmer of light from the iris completely dissipated. In an instant, the vast and boundless Eye Faculty Emanation Domain sank into a deathly silence and darkness.
With only a moment's pause, the giant eye suddenly reopened. Boom! The world underwent a dramatic change, all things were overturned, and the rules were reshaped. Deep within the dark pupil, a majestic silhouette that had suppressed the Emanation Domain for countless ages finally broke free from the darkness and truly appeared in the world.
The first thing to be revealed was an ancient pupil ring, nested in layers and interlocked.
The first ring is silvery and clear, with countless future trajectories flowing within it, yet to be realized or born; the second ring is dark and gilded, engraving billions of already formed and unchangeable established facts; the third ring Silent Void, with only gazes that return and intersect, eternally shuttling and endlessly cycling within it.
Extending inward, the fourth ring, the fifth ring, the sixth ring... each ring contains a layer of legal principles, each circle confining a layer of evolutionary mechanism. The rings contract inward and converge at the core, while simultaneously expanding outward endlessly.
Between the rings are thin, grayish-white primordial fissures. These fissures have no flesh or substance, but they compress countless derivative possibilities, as if all the branches, variables, and causes and effects of the entire Wanyan Ancestral Land are contained, sealed, and condensed within this giant eye.
Immediately following, a vast and boundless Daoist body, transcending the structure of mortal beings, slowly descended from the depths of the pupils; this was the Sight-Derivation Beast.
It lacks the sinews, bones, flesh, and blood of ordinary beasts, and the inherent texture and veins of living beings. Its overall outline resembles an ancient beast that has been crawling in the void for countless ages, with long and straight limbs and a slightly arched back. Its body is formed by layers upon layers of semi-transparent and semi-illusory visual afterimages interwoven and condensed.
Its left half is pieced together from countless "visible images" of the changing of mountains and rivers, the rise and fall of stars, the prosperity and decline of ancient cities, and the birth and death of all living beings. With each slight movement of its body, the ancient scenes attached to it iterate, change, and flow endlessly.
Its right half was covered with dense, deep dark pupil patterns. Countless pupil patterns, sometimes open, sometimes closed, sometimes still, sometimes turning, slowly rose and fell beneath the surface of its body, endlessly regenerating.
It has no fur or feathers; instead, a single row of long, crystalline ridges grows along its back. Within each crystalline ridge, a unique perspective and a story of eternal rise and fall are perfectly preserved.
There is the beginning of the universe and the birth of the Great Dao; there is the collapse of the great world and the Annihilation of all heavens; there is the prosperity of the Wanyan Ancient Clan and its glory throughout the ages; there is the destruction of ancient civilizations and the dust settling. Countless scenes of rise and fall flash synchronously and cycle repeatedly, so that the entire body of the Sight-Derivation Beast is always in the original state reflected by billions of worlds and all things throughout the ages.
What is most awe-inspiring and reverential is its head, which has no mouth, no nose, no ears, and nothing but eyes.
At the very center of the head, a single dominant pupil, which governs the entire situation, stands Ji Ran; beyond the dominant pupil, nine layers of secondary pupils are arranged and surround it for protection; around the nine layers of secondary pupils, countless fine pupils are densely packed, extending along the forehead, cheekbones, and jaw all the way to the neck, numbering in the thousands and covering the entire area.
Thousands of eyes never looked in unison towards one place.
Some gazed at the spot where Qin Yu stood, observing his true self in this moment; some looked back at the years behind Qin Yu, reflecting the countless tribulations of the past; some looked into the vast road ahead, locking onto the Unborn future; and several pupils turned towards the corner of Emptiness, a place without space, Timelessness, or phenomena, containing only the endless possibilities of the primordial origin yet to be born.
This eye is the Myriad-Aspect Double Pupils.
Qin Yu slightly raised his eyes and briefly met the gaze of one of the narrow pupils.
In an instant, thousands of completely different images flashed through his mind, one after another.
In one frame, he stands still, unmoved; in the next, he draws his sword and breaks through the odds; in another, he conceals his sharpness and does not make a move; and in yet another, he has never set foot in the Wanyan Ancestral Land and has never personally experienced this trial.
The Myriad-Aspect Double Pupils can dissect a fleeting moment into billions of lives and infinite possibilities, unfolding and manifesting them simultaneously.
Qin Yu's gaze darkened slightly, and he immediately averted his gaze, ceasing his pursuit of the layers of images and disregarding the myriad possibilities. At the same time, Sight-Derivation Beast slowly touch the ground.
Thump--
The four feet never touched the physical earth; where the soles of the feet landed, rings of transparent light, formed from the pure origin of "seeing," bloomed and spread across the void.
With its first foot landing, the dormant Sea of Form regained its radiance and surged anew; with its second foot landing, the No Mirror Sea materialized and appeared in the world, spreading out in all directions; with its third foot landing, countless eyes in the void opened one after another, returning to the world; with its fourth foot landing, all the myriad colors, shapes, and lights of the entire Eye Faculty Emanation Domain converged and returned to their Sight-Derivation Beast.
Upon Sight-Derivation Beast, fully descended and completely manifested in the world, Qin Yu suppressed his emotions and did not act rashly. His gaze swept lightly over the central pupil, then quickly shifted away. In his mind, he rapidly reviewed all the supernatural abilities and original secret techniques he could use, weighing the pros and cons and deducing the gains and losses.
The Return to Origin and Sever Retracing and tracing back was the first to be excluded.
This sword strike could sever the very existence of a being and erase its very foundation; its power was far too domineering and thorough. The Sight-Derivation Beast was the very embodiment of the Eye Faculty Emanation Domain's origin, and the very foundation upon Name of Primal Evolution resonated. Forcibly annihilating it without fully understanding the trial rules could very well sever the fragments of its origin and destroy the foundation of the entire Emanation Domain, resulting in a net loss.
The Star Wancai Key - Edict of Returning to Zero is also ineffective.
Sight-Derivation Beast does not rely on external objects or magical treasures for its existence, has no array diagram to rely on, and no divine weapon to support it, its double pupil divine power and the origin of "seeing" are all innate and inherent in its own Dao, and are completely outside the scope of the Edict of Returning to Zero.
The Void Source and Dream Stillness can touch upon the essence of existence, the origin of cause and effect, and the core of concepts, but it should not be used lightly. The core of this trial is to see through the true meaning of the eye and break free from the shackles of Attachment to Seeing. Forcibly dragging the entire visual source into the zero point of nothingness will not break the deadlock, but will only completely erase the problem and the answer, and be futile.
The Book of Fate Law - The Realm Severing Origin Brush can read the boundaries of concepts and analyze the levels of legal principles. The act of "actively reading" is itself an extension of the obsession of "wanting to see clearly and persistently exploring." Within this Emanation Domain, one will only Sight-Derivation Beast.
After several deductions, Qin Yu completely abandoned all methods of outward analysis and forced breakthroughs. Deep within his sea of consciousness, the Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram leisurely unfolded and slowly rotated.
The Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel do not extend outward, do not peer into external objects, and do not disturb the void; they only revolve around one's own Fate Soul, stabilizing one's original mind. The first wheel guards the present form of the Fate Soul; the second wheel fixes the self's original awareness; and the third wheel severs the causal entanglement between the past and the present.
The fourth round suppresses the spillover and intrusion of countless future possibilities. The remaining rounds interlock and are linked together, constructing a perfect soul path structure within the sea of consciousness that only stabilizes the true self, does not pry into the outside world, and is not attached to all phenomena.
At the same time, Qin Yu slowly raised his right hand, his two fingers joined together like a sword, fixed and still, a wisp of light black gold pattern spreading and flowing from his fingertips. Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence - Six Severances Seal, First Form - Fate Cause Sealing Mirror - Logic Abyss Core.
There was no vast array of magic formations deployed, nor any overwhelming pressure emanating from it.
Twelve thin, dark mirror images quietly appeared in the void around Qin Yu. The mirror surfaces were clear and Emptiness, with a jet-black primordial pattern vertically engraved in the center of each mirror.
The twelve dark mirrors intertwined and swirled, opening and closing layer by layer, completely isolating and severing the causal chain and logical circuit of "seeing and being seen" between Qin Yu and the outside world. Whenever an eye from beyond the realm lowered its gaze and traced a trace, the mirror surface would ripple with subtle patterns, completely suppressing that power of prying, tracing, and observing into the abyss of the mirror's core and dissolving it into nothingness.
Qin Yu never attempted to seal the eyes of the Sight-Derivation Beast or imprison its observation. What he sealed was the viewing chain between himself and the beast, a chain that could be traced, bound, and shackled.
This kind of defense, Ultimate restrained and Ultimate safe, is perfectly suited to the current situation of the fundamental confrontation. However, the Sight-Derivation Beast that descended into the world remained silent and motionless.
It simply rotated slowly in the center of the main pupil, gently falling towards Qin Yu. In an instant, the twelve rotating dark mirrors simultaneously froze and remained Ji Ran.
Qin Yu's eyes narrowed sharply, a sense of unease rising within him. There was no piercing gaze, no causal entanglement, no trace of destiny being traced, no external force invading his body. The Fate Cause Sealing Mirror — the Logic Abyss Core —remained untouched and unshaken. The Sight-Derivation Beast, from beginning to end, merely glanced at him...