Within his Eye Faculty Emanation Domain, Qin Yu still saw everything. And everything still saw Qin Yu. But there was no longer a fixed "I am looking at something" or "something is looking at me" between them. He began to approach that most primal state—seeing itself.
... The gray-white light in the Sight-Derivation Beast Master's pupils began to fluctuate violently for the first time. One circle. Two circles. The ninefold pupils contracted simultaneously. Within the "Myriad-Aspect Double Pupils," countless worlds flickered, attempting to recapture Qin Yu from different times, different possibilities, and different perspectives.
The left pupil looks to the past, grasping nothing. The right pupil looks to the future, seeing only countless possibilities. The three narrow pupils on the forehead simultaneously read the present. Qin Yu is clearly standing there. But the moment they try to confirm "this is the Qin Yu who is being seen," that definition immediately slips away from Qin Yu.
The Sight-Derivation Beast first true sign of disorder. Its very existence, "seeing," began to lose its footing. It looked at Qin Yu, but what it saw was no longer Qin Yu; it saw its own gaze.
The grayish-white primary pupil trembled slightly. It looked forward again. But at the end of its vision, all it saw was that same "looking" extending outwards. The third time. The fourth time. No matter where it looked, it could only see itself looking.
One gaze follows another. One pupil reflects another. In the Myriad-Aspect Double Pupils, billions of visual planes are instantly folded inward.
Boom--! At this moment, there was finally a sound. The entire Eye Faculty Emanation Domain suddenly trembled. The transparent crystal prisms on the backs of the Sight-Derivation Beast, which sealed countless visions, lit up at the same time, and then all the images began to play in reverse.
The universe retreated from destruction to its zenith. Civilization retreated from its zenith to its nascent stage, the stars returned to their origin, and the first ray of light sank back into the unseen. All visual echoes were forced to turn back to Sight-Derivation Beast itself.
Seeing this, Qin Yu didn't rush to use his full power; "Return to Origin and Sever Retracing" was still unnecessary. He also suppressed "Void Source - Dream Stillness." Now that the Sight-Derivation Beast had exposed its true weakness, using a large-scale Existence Erasure cover the entire Eye Faculty Emanation Domain would only destroy the test that had already been completed.
Qin Yu slowly raised his right hand. The twelve shattered dark mirrors reappeared from the void. This time, the "Fate Cause Sealing Mirror - Logic Abyss Core" did not block the line of sight between Qin Yu and the Sight-Derivation Beast. All twelve dark mirrors turned towards the Sight-Derivation Beast. The vertical black line in the center of the mirrors opened simultaneously.
Buzz—Each dark mirror catches a viewing trajectory that is turning inward. The first mirror locks in the view of the past. The second mirror locks in the view of the present. The third mirror locks in the view of the future. The remaining dark mirrors, in turn, seal off the visual path that is constantly splitting in the Myriad-Aspect Double Pupils.
Sight-Derivation Beast's "seeing" was suppressed back into itself, the more it saw, the more it could only see itself.
Billions of visual circuits began to overlap wildly. The Sight-Derivation Beast's head simultaneously reflected another pupil. That pupil then reflected yet another, and so on, an endless recursion. But this time, Qin Yu was no longer part of the recursion. Only the Sight-Derivation Beast.
Qin Yu stood outside the twelve dark mirrors, his gaze calm. He had previously Sight-Derivation Beast the "Seeing" chain to bind him. Now, that chain had lost its observer, leaving only the observer himself.
Just as all the viewing trajectories were forced back to the moment of Sight-Derivation Beast, Qin Yu raised two fingers together. No sword was drawn. No sword light flashed across the sky. Deep within his sea of consciousness, an extremely pure sword intent slowly swept across. "The Silent Origin Stainless Sword – The No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword."
This sword strike did not aim at the physical body of the Sight-Derivation Beast. Instead, it struck at the deepest, shared conceptual origin of all double pupils—"I will define what is before me as what is seen."
With a soft hiss—a sound so faint it seemed as if a thin line had been drawn across the entire world—the central pupil of the Sight-Derivation Beast suddenly froze. The very first concept that held together billions of pupils, billions of perspectives, and billions of observation paths was negated from its very origin. It still possessed eyes, but it could no longer establish "who is seen."
The first pupil shattered. Crack, the second, the third, and then—crack crack crack crack!!! The entire Myriad-Aspect Double Pupils on the head of the Sight-Derivation Beast began to crumble in pieces. The silver-white pupil rings shattered into countless crystalline dust. The dark gold pupil rings broke into countless arc-shaped fragments. The colorless pupil patterns lost their meaning before shattering, and then even the shape of the "pupil" could not be maintained.
The massive body of the Sight-Derivation Beast suddenly shuddered. The visual prisms on its back exploded simultaneously. Boom!!! There was no blood. There were no bones. What gushed out from its body were all the shapes and colors that it had once collected, read, and seen.
A universe shattered from his shoulder. An ancient city crumbled from his chest. The last glimpse of countless beings turned into fragments of light from his side. A visual afterimage of an entire timeline rolled up from his spine into the sky. Crimson, blue, silver, black, gold, purple, and countless other unnamed colors filled the entire Eye Faculty Emanation Domain at this moment.
Sight-Derivation Beast took a half-step forward, its foot just landing, the twelve dark mirrors around Qin Yu simultaneously closed. All the reflected "seeing" images were completely superimposed into the central main pupil at that moment. The final reflection in the main pupil was still only itself.
Crack—A crack appeared in the center of the pupil, extending outwards along the iris, through the eye socket, through the skull, and finally spreading to the entire body of the Sight-Derivation Beast.
Qin Yu did not unleash a second sword strike. There was no need. After that initial concept was negated, the Sight-Derivation Beast could no longer maintain itself by using "seeing others" as its core principle.
Cracks multiplied. Finally—BOOM!!! The Sight-Derivation Beast shattered completely. Billions of translucent fragments scattered into the sky. On each fragment remained an eye that was slowly closing. The first fragment closed. The second. The third. In the blink of an eye, all the eyes closed. The fragments then lost their outlines.
The reflections that had once surrounded Qin Yu in the Sea of Form vanished one by one. The enormous mirror sea beneath his feet contracted from afar towards the center. The mirror surface shattered. The gaze dissipated. The last eyeball in the sky slowly closed. The waves of the Sea of Form gradually calmed down. The crack that had been opened earlier silently closed.
No remains were left. No corpses fell. No embers of Fate Soul remained. From this moment on, the Sight-Derivation Beast ceased to exist in any form that could be identified individually.
... Qin Yu stood quietly in the Eye Faculty Emanation Domain, which had regained its tranquility. The void began to lose all color. The distant mountains, trees, mirror, and eye faded one by one. In the end, only an extremely soft, colorless background remained for the entire world.
Qin Yu Sight-Derivation Beast had Return to Emanation. However, he could sense that it hadn't completely "disappeared" from the Eye Faculty Emanation Domain. It was just that it no longer existed as an independent entity. It had merged into this place, into every gaze, every observation, and into the first moment after every newcomer opened their eyes, becoming the Nameless background of "seeing" itself.
From now on, anyone who steps into the Eye Faculty Emanation Domain will no longer see the Sight-Derivation Beast. They will only perceive endless colors, countless reflections, and billions of eyeballs. They will search for fragments, for paths, for the truth. But from the very first moment they enter, they are being silently watched by something. They can never find the source of that gaze, for it is omnipresent. Every "seeing" carries its trace.
Qin Yu looked up. Where he had originally Sight-Derivation Beast, a faint point of light slowly appeared. It had no fixed color, nor a stable shape. It existed for only a moment, then dissipated into the colorless void. Yet Qin Yu saw it. It was the last thing left behind by the first Eye Faculty Emanation Domain— "Seeing Stillness Return to Evolution."
The glimpse left by the Great Ancestor before he entered the Silent Form Realm —if all forms and colors return to stillness, can what is seen still be reborn? The Sight-Derivation Beast has already given the answer through its own Return to Emanation. Yes. As long as "seeing" remains, forms and colors will always have the possibility of being reborn.
Qin Yu didn't reach out to grab it. Because after experiencing the entire eye root, he had understood that the first real breakthrough was never about holding that glimpse in one's palm.
Just as he calmly watched that point of light merge into the void, an extremely thin, colorless trace drifted from afar and landed between Qin Yu's brows. There was no impact. No unusual phenomena. The echo belonging to the root of his eye naturally sank into the depths of his Fate Soul. The first one. Officially passed.
... The next moment, the Eye Faculty Emanation Domain began to recede. The last mirror beneath his feet gradually became transparent. The colorless void split apart from the center to both sides. A new path slowly emerged before Qin Yu. This path was completely different from the Eye Root. There was no mirror. There was no color. Even "seeing" itself began to become blurred.
At the end of the road, a giant pillar loomed in and out of sight. "Ear Pillar."
Before he even entered, Qin Yu noticed something glaringly unusual. It was too quiet. There was no wind, no footsteps, no rustling of clothes. Qin Yu could see his feet landing, but he couldn't hear any sound of contact.
He raised his hand and lightly touched two fingers together. There was no sound. Does Not Exist.
Further away, the "Sea of Sound," which should belong to the second layer of the Sea of Awareness, has become a strange blank. There are no sound patterns. There are no echoes. There are no possible sound phenomena that are developing.
Within the Eye Faculty Emanation Domain, the Wanyan can divide a single color into an infinite number of colors, transforming a single view into countless possibilities. But by the second root—something has already removed "sound and image" from the scope within Wanyan can continue to divide.
The Ear Pillar stood silently at the end of the road. The endless sounds that should have flowed through it were now completely blank. There wasn't even a trace of echo.
Qin Yu gazed at the silent colossal pillar, his eyes having just taught him how to "see without seeing" amidst the myriad phenomena. But the second pillar awaited him in a realm where even "sound" itself could not be Wanyan; a silent rift slowly opened beneath the Ear Pillar. The door to the second trial had appeared.