Qin Yu was deeply shaken and suddenly realized that he had finally taken an unprecedented step—not establishing himself, not falling into egolessness, not leaning to either side, and not clinging to any particular state.
Above the Sea of Touch, Qin Yu still stood. His physical body had not vanished, his Fate Soul had not dissipated, Evolution Name remained Qin Yu. He did not deny his own existence, but he no longer clung to any state or definition.
When the "Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch" once again crushed along the boundary of "my" origin, not a trace of the stubborn belief that "this body is me" arose in his heart.
Thump. The origin settled down. In the past, in order to preserve his own existence, the deepest "I am who I am" in his heart would have spontaneously solidified and solidified its boundaries. But at this moment, he neither urged his obsession to solidify himself, nor did he reverse his thoughts to deny himself.
Thoughts of self arise spontaneously, passing without lingering; thoughts of non-self arise with circumstances, remaining silent without end. Both arise, both cease, neither takes root, neither lingers. Qin Yu simply exists purely, without using existence to prove himself, without relying on Formless to conceal himself.
The next instant, the five fingers of the Touch Emanation Beast, suspended in the void, suddenly paused for a fleeting moment, less than a breath, yet Qin Yu precisely caught it. The boundary between "Qin Yu and Wanyan," which stretched across its body and was clear for eternity, inexplicably blurred by half, becoming chaotic for a moment. The Touch Emanation Beast's fingertips had already pressed down, but it could no longer find a precise, definite point of contact. Qin Yu's mind trembled violently, and a glimmer of clarity flashed in his eyes. It was effective.
But he instantly suppressed this joy, refusing to cling to the notion that "I have broken free from the shackles of boundaries." The moment a thought of certainty arose, a boundary was established, the barriers were reopened, and all flaws were returned to their original state.
Therefore, he also let go of this state of detachment, returned to stillness, and did not cling to it. When he saw, he rose and fell silent, and then began to develop again; when he heard, he rose and fell silent, and then began to develop again; when he smelled, he rose and fell silent, and then began to develop again.
The Ultimate roots of the first three trials were all saturated into Qin Yu's origin, permeating every inch of his existence at this moment. He neither maintained the state nor denied the origin, nor did he define any moment or state as the Ultimate answer. In an instant, an unusual phenomenon was born. The "Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch" touched the boundary of Qin Yu's physical body. The barrier had just taken shape when it returned to stillness and dissipated on its own in the next instant.
The Touch Emanation Beast continued its inward exploration, but a completely new boundary naturally emerged from the Annihilation, quietly giving rise to a new one. Touching again, then annihilating again, evolving again, in an endless cycle. From then on, Qin Yu no longer had to use a fixed and unchanging boundary to resist the Ultimate crushing force of "Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch Nirvana".
His boundaries still exist, constantly changing and evolving, yet there is no barrier that he has fixed as his eternal and unchanging "true self." What the Touch Emanation Beast can touch is always the old world that has already Annihilation in the previous moment. The new life and evolution in the next moment has already transcended the scope of its touch.
Qin Yu slowly opened his eyes, his gaze devoid of joy or emotion. He understood perfectly that this step of transcendence merely freed him from the constraints of supernatural powers and the solidification of boundaries; it was far from a breakthrough. The true root of the problem lay in the incomplete source within the Touch Emanation Beast's body.
The gaze fell again, fixing firmly on the remaining mark, and in an instant, a deep, powerful resonance echoed from the depths of his consciousness. Buzz
The first round of the True Evolution Dharma Wheel slowly turned, followed by the second and third rounds in succession, until the ninth round when all were awakened.
The "Silent Beginning - Ring Master Soul Diagram" slowly unfolded, with Nine-Wheel Dharma Wheel suspended in the air, yet it did not point towards the Touch Emanation Beast's true form. It did not probe the skin and texture of the Touch-Derived Beast, nor dismantle the Dao patterns of the Touch-Derived Beast, nor trace the veins and meridians of the Touch-Derived Beast, nor invade the origin at the bottom of the abyss.
Qin Yu had already grasped the implications. Whenever the Soul Map explored, deciphered, or spied on the Touch Emanation Beast's true form, it would be actively establishing a boundary, separating the "observer" from the "observed object," thus providing the "Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch" with the clearest and most lethal path to destruction.
The Nine Wheels of Falun only revolve around an ancient phenomenon that has occurred naturally - the cycle of birth and death of half of the word "Yan". To be more precise, it is to observe how each time "Yan" is touched and destroyed, a new Dao Mark will counter the trend and revive.
The first round of the Dharma Wheel, frozen in time at the first touch. The contact surface within the Touch Emanation Beast's body crashed down, and the newly formed Derivation mark on the edge of half of the "Derivation" character vanished in an instant.
The second wheel of Dharma turned immediately, and Qin Yu glimpsed the key truth: at the same instant the old trace Annihilation, the Touch Emanation Beast and the trace had already completed an absolute contact. And the "contact" itself was a completely new Great Dao occurring.
The third cycle of the Dharma Wheel receives this new Dao Fruit, and a brand new Great Dao arises without stagnation or retention, naturally giving birth to a new trace of evolution. In the fourth cycle, the Touch Emanation Beast once again touches and Annihilation the new trace of evolution.
In the fifth round, a second attack creates a completely new Daoist rhythm; in the sixth round, evolution begins again and vitality is rekindled; in the seventh round, the attack falls again, and the cycle repeats itself.
After the eighth cycle of Annihilation, rebirth continues endlessly. In the ninth cycle, the Daoist rhythm flows, ultimately returning to the starting point of the first cycle. Om!!! For the first time, the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel form a complete closed loop and a perfect cycle.
Qin Yu's pupils suddenly constricted as he completely saw through the fundamental deadlock. It was never "Yan" that was avoiding the killing intent of the Touch Emanation Beast; Yan had never escaped.
Each strike from the Touch Emanation Beast accurately hits the Path of Derivation, completely silencing the already formed and bounded Path of Derivation. However, the fatal flaw lies precisely in this single strike of Annihilation.
Complete annihilation requires a single, complete contact. And this final contact is itself the emergence of a completely new Great Dao. Once this new emergence takes root, it will naturally give rise to entirely new traces.
Thus, the Ultimate logic of the entire cycle is clearly revealed: touch leads to evolution, evolution is touched again, touch extinguishes to become new touch, new touch generates new traces, and so on endlessly, Endless.
The Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel suddenly increased in speed, humming incessantly, layer upon layer. Qin Yu did not exert force or increase pressure, but simply subdivided and disassembled this ancient cycle layer by layer. Was there a momentary gap between the initial contact and the initial evolution?
Yes, but if the Touch Emanation Beast attempts to touch this gap and sever its root, the very thought and action of "touching the gap" will still result in a completely new Great Dao, and a new Derivation Mark will be born immediately.
Going back further, to the chaos before the boundaries were even born and evolution was yet to take shape, the original source could not be destroyed if the Touch Emanation Beast did not move; once the Touch Emanation Beast moved, new life was created. It was always a step behind, not because of its slow speed, but because of the difference in its inherent nature and the innate difference in its Dao. Touch needs to rely on occurrence to exist; occurrence will inevitably give rise to a completely new evolution.
The light in Qin Yu's eyes gradually intensified, becoming clear and bright. The Nine-Wheel Dharma Wheel simultaneously changed direction, no longer limited to observing a single cycle, but deducing the Ultimate state after the Great Dao was magnified.
Touch once, generate once; touch ten times, generate ten times; touch ten thousand times, generate ten thousand times; touch an infinite number of times, generate an infinite number of times.
The more the Touch Emanation Beast desires to annihilate Wanyan and clear everything, the more frequently it will attack and stack its touches. With each additional touch, it will personally give birth to a completely new evolution.
This is not a simple suppression of Daoist principles, but a primordial vicious cycle that was initiated and maintained by the Touch Emanation Beast and can never be broken. In Qin Yu's heart, an extremely bold and fundamental method to break the deadlock slowly took shape.
Since each attack forces out a completely new evolution—why confine these new evolutionary traces to a single, incomplete character?
If we follow the Daoist rhythm of the Touch Emanation Beast itself, and pour all the new evolutions after each Annihilation into its body and root them in its origin, what if one Dao, ten thousand Daos, billions of Daos, and endless Dao traces, growing and spreading layer by layer?
Born from the texture of skin, from the gaps between bones, from the junctions of tendons, from the boundary between the Touch Wall of heaven and earth and the void at the bottom of the abyss, the Touch Emanation Beast must be endlessly attacked and attacked if they wish to be completely eradicated. The more frequently they are touched, the more abundant they become; the deeper they are touched, the wider they spread.
One day, the boundary Dao Body upon which he relied for his existence will be completely cracked and overturned from the inside by the endless new life force. For the first time, an Ultimate sharp glint flashed in Qin Yu's eyes.
This is the only way to kill the Touch Emanation Beast. There is no need for external attacks or Realm Severing with a sword. External actions will inevitably create new boundaries and leave weaknesses. The best way to break the deadlock is this: borrow its touch to generate my own evolution, causing it to overturn itself and collapse from within.
Just as the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel were about to delve deeper into the Ultimate method of counter-infusion power—the world suddenly fell silent, and the Touch Emanation Beast abruptly stopped.
All the opening and closing of the tentacles on his body froze, the billions of intertwined tendons straightened, and the incomplete patterns flowing on the tentacles completely stopped. The crack above his head no longer opened or closed, and the projection of the Touch Abyss behind him remained Ji Ran for the first time since time immemorial.
The entire Body-Facultyless Emanation Domain fell into a deathly silence, devoid of touch, evolution, life, and stillness. A deadly crisis, far exceeding any previous moment, suddenly rose from the depths of Qin Yu's heart and swept through his entire body.
The next instant, the Touch Emanation Beast slowly raised its head. It had no eyes or pupils, but Qin Yu knew perfectly well that it had seen through everything.
It glimpsed the primordial cycle that Qin Yu had deciphered, the trajectory of the Nine-Wheel Dharma Wheel, and even more so, the method to break the deadlock that was enough to overturn its existence and cause it to collapse from within.
So it changed its tactics, no longer touching Qin Yu's past, no longer eroding Qin Yu's present, no longer severing Qin Yu's future, and no longer gradually erasing the surface boundaries of his physical body, Fate Soul, will, Evolution Name.
Those future branches that had been extinguished layer by layer and broken piece by piece suddenly stopped, but Qin Yu was not relieved at all. Instead, his face suddenly became solemn and deathly pale. The five fingers of the Touch Emanation Beast vanished into thin air.
It wasn't a disappearance, but a complete transcendence of all surface boundaries and external barriers, instantly descending upon the most fundamental and deepest source of Qin Yu's existence. There stood an Ultimate principle that supported him through countless ancient perils and unraveled countless mysteries: I am who I am.
With a thud, Qin Yu's entire body suddenly stiffened, his mind abruptly stopped, and there were no wounds, no bloodstains, and no severe pain. However, his sea of consciousness, Fate Soul, Dao foundation, and even the ever-operating Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel all froze and stopped in that instant, unable to move an inch.
He touched it, Touch Emanation Beast, finally touched its deepest, most solid, and most unbreakable essence—"I am who I am." Qin Yu's pupils contracted violently, and a warning screamed in his heart.
Danger! Ultimate danger! This danger far surpasses the one when the Evolution-Devouring Beast devoured his foundation of Dao. "I am who I am" is not an ordinary supernatural power or acquired Dao method, but Qin Yu's innate nature that allows him to stand in the Wanyan and maintain his unique and constant existence.
The supreme power of "Return to Origin and Sever Retracing" in the past, which could eliminate existence without cost and without any future troubles, was based on this absolutely self-consistent Daoist foundation.