The Eye Faculty Trial confronts the illusion of "Seeing Oneself," with countless false selves arising. He uses this inherent nature to stabilize his true self, remaining neither confused nor lost. Countless parallel evolutions and countless possible selves appear in the world. He uses this inherent nature to firmly uphold the oneness, remaining neither fallen nor chaotic.
Having traveled all the way to the final stage of the five roots, this root nature has long been integrated into the origin and rooted in the foundation of the Dao, becoming the Ultimate background of its existence. But it is precisely because of this that its boundaries are Ultimate clear and Ultimate solid.
I am who I am. Under the whole world, there is no more precise or stable boundary of self. The Touch Emanation Beast no longer needs to explore any surface barriers. It only needs to Touch Return and completely close this Ultimate boundary.
Thump!!! The second strike landed with a deafening roar, Qin Yu's body trembled violently, and a sweet taste rose in his throat. Pfft
A mouthful of blood suddenly gushed out. The Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel in his sea of consciousness all became misaligned and their Dao patterns became disordered. The newly formed "Touch Emanation Cycle" observation loop collapsed and shattered on the spot. The two Evolution Name "Qin Yu" floating behind him suddenly dimmed and lost their light.
From the deepest recesses of the fundamental belief that "I am who I am," an Ultimate sensation arises: a barrier splits in two, with "me" on both sides. One side is the original self, and the other is the boundary self.
The Touch Emanation Beast stood at the center of the two poles, using the boundary as its blade, forcing me to touch it, to destroy me, and then, boom! The third touch crushed down!
Qin Yu's chest suddenly caved inward, not from any external force, but entirely from the inward closing and self-compression of the boundaries of his own existence. Flesh touched flesh, Fate Soul touched Fate Soul, and foundation of the Dao touched foundation of the Dao. The boundaries of the past self, the present self, and the future self touched and annihilated each other.
Name touches reality, reality touches name; I and I are mutually destroying each other, Return to Emanation our origins! Qin Yu's face was ashen, devoid of any color. Behind him Evolution Name flickered violently, and the first Dao pattern began to dissipate inch by inch.
The dead end has fully materialized, and there is no turning back but certain death. Can one forcefully abandon the idea that "I am who I am"? A single thought of denial is "I am not who I am," and a completely new boundary is born, yet one still cannot escape the inevitable Return to Emanation.
Clinging to one's true self and stubbornly clinging to one's obsession? The more solidified the boundaries become, the more violent and deadly the backlash from self-destruction becomes, urging the activation of "Return to Origin and Sever Retracing"? This technique is born from one's true nature, and its use completely reveals the Ultimate boundary, leading to self-destruction.
Can the "Void Source · Dream Stillness" technique be used to eliminate this contact? Even with "Nothingness Destroys Contact," existence and non-existence remain separate, forming their own barriers. Can the "Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence · Six Severances Seal" technique be activated to forcibly sever the boundary? The adjudicator and the adjudicated are clearly opposed; as long as the boundary remains, the contact will not cease.
Wielding the "No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword" to sever my thoughts? Severing me with a single thought would most likely cause my deepest, most fundamental nature to collapse along with me, leading to eternal damnation. A single thought can mean complete Return to Emanation, as if I never existed at all.
The Touch Emanation Beast gave him no chance to catch his breath. With the fourth touch, thud, Qin Yu's left half suddenly became transparent, his flesh and muscles fading into nothingness.
The fifth touch: a corner of the Fate Soul was missing, and the Source Dao rhythm was greatly damaged. The sixth touch: a large area of past traces behind him were extinguished simultaneously, and countless traces of existence disappeared.
The seventh touch severed countless future branches, almost extinguishing all hope for the future. The eighth touch—the second stroke of the Evolution Name "Qin Yu" behind him—completely dissolved!
Qin Yu lost his balance, his knees buckled, and he crashed heavily to one knee, Sea of Touch with a deafening boom!
The Sea of Touch calm and still, without the slightest tremor. The moment his knees touched the surface, the sensation of contact was instantly erased by the "Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch," completely Return to Emanation nothingness. He was as if kneeling in a Formless, without touch, without existence, and without extinction.
Blood dripped continuously from the corner of his mouth, and the moment each drop left his body, the boundary of ownership that "this blood belongs to Qin Yu" was instantly shattered. Before the blood could even hit the ground, it faded layer by layer and returned to Emptiness.
The Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel struggled to restart; the first wheel remained motionless, the second trembled incessantly, and the third barely rotated half an inch—thud!!!
The ninth touch crashed down! Qin Yu suddenly looked up, his eyes surging with the most turbulent wave of death since he began the five trials. With this touch, he clearly sensed that the Ultimate boundary of "I am who I am" had been completely depicted and thoroughly understood by the Touch Emanation Beast.
Without needing to touch it repeatedly, in just a moment, this deepest primordial barrier will be completely outlined. At that time, the power of the second stage "Touch Return" will be fully perfected, and what comes will no longer be a single supernatural power, a single force, or a single cause and effect, but the complete Qin Yu himself.
One boundary is the entirety of the self—past, present, and future; the other boundary is the Ultimate nothingness of Return to Emanation Annihilation. I touch myself, I destroy myself.
All power, all supernatural abilities, all experiences, all causes and effects, all obsessions and letting go, will all be crushed and Return to Emanation to their original state as the boundaries of the true self close. When that strike is completed, there will be no fierce battle or shattering phenomena.
Only the utterly clean, the absolute—that which never existed— the Touch Emanation Beast slowly raised its other hand. The first hand was already firmly placed on one side of its true self's boundary. The second hand slowly moved towards the other side of the boundary.
By closing the barrier between their hands, the barrier of their true selves can be completely closed, completing the ultimate killing formation of self-touching and self-returning. Qin Yuyan's name is incomplete, his life soul is severely damaged, his physical body is ethereal, his past is destroyed, his future is withered, and the nine wheels of Dharma are restricted and difficult to turn.
Having clearly discerned the only chance to break the deadlock, there was no time left to deduce its possibility, no opportunity to unleash it. The second hand of the Touch Emanation Beast slowly descended. Silent and powerless, without a trace of power or anger. The entire world Ji Ran, without wind or waves, without any change in scenery.
Qin Yu knew perfectly well that this was the closest he had ever come to complete annihilation since he entered the Wanyan Trial. In the past, Evolution-Devouring Beast needed to devour its Dao and destroy its roots before its existence could be eradicated.
Now, the Touch Emanation Beast has reached the very essence of its existence, its Ultimate self. Thump. The tenth touch settles, and the remaining Evolution Name of the beast's name behind it are wiped out once more.
Between the Touch Emanation Beast's hands, the Ultimate boundary that runs through its origin and sustains its self is only one step away from complete closure and complete Return to Emanation its origin.
On the chest of the Touch Emanation Beast, the half-incomplete character "Derivation" was still trembling slightly. With each tremor, a new Derivation Mark would sprout from the missing part; the billions of contact surfaces inside the Touch Emanation Beast pressed down, instantly extinguishing the Derivation Mark. But the instant it was extinguished, a brand new contact was formed, and the new contact, once it landed, would draw out the next Derivation Mark.
Breed, extinguished, reborn, and touched again. In just a few breaths, reincarnation has gone back and forth countless times, but the half of the word "Yan" on the chest has never completely dissipated.
Qin Yu stood in the center of the slowly receding Sea of Touch, the Evolution Name behind him fading layer by layer, the blood staining his clothes slowly spreading across his chest. Deep within his Fate Soul, the cracks left by the Evolution-Devouring Beast and the "Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch" surged with intense pain. He did not hastily draw his sword, nor did he activate any offensive divine power. His gaze was calm, fixed firmly on the half of the damaged character "Yan".
He was clear-headed. His most fatal flaw at this moment was his eagerness to break the deadlock. The moment he thought, "I want to break the deadlock," he had already drawn a boundary for himself.
There is a situation to be resolved, and there is someone to break it. There is Qin Yu and the Touch Emanation Beast. As long as he establishes these two opposing ends with a single thought, "Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch" will follow the boundary drawn by this man and rush straight in. Qin Yu slowly closed his eyes, and the first fragment of origin trembled slightly in the true meaning of "seeing".
"Seeing Stillness Return to Evolution." Without brilliance or dazzling light, without any earth-shattering phenomena, Qin Yu simply touched upon the true meaning of that moment of perfect enlightenment at the root of his eye. Seeing, returning to stillness, then evolving again.
Having broken free from the shackles of his own perception in the past, what he ultimately upheld was not "closing his eyes and ignoring everything." If one clings to "not seeing," that very obsession becomes a new obstacle to understanding, a new boundary.
The Ultimate meaning of the eye can be summed up in just four words: seeing without seeing. It does not cling to what was seen or heard in the previous moment, nor does it resist the new life of the next moment. Therefore, the great path of "seeing" has never been interrupted, even after returning to stillness.
The second fragment vibrated in response. "Hearing Stillness Return to Evolution." The ancient echo hidden deep in his ears rose leisurely from the silence. Hearing, not hearing, hearing again. All the sounds of heaven and earth could reach his ears; the thought of hearing could arise at any time. But Qin Yu never clung to grasping the tangible feeling of "I have heard".
When the trace of what was heard fades into Annihilation, the Great Dao itself has never perished. When new sounds arise again, what was heard will naturally revive, hearing without hearing, and hearing without hearing. The tense muscles between Qin Yu's brows slowly relaxed.
The third fragment vibrated, and it was also the most profound of the three. "Smelling Stillness Return to Evolution," the aura of heaven and earth, which can be born and die, can gather and disperse.
Qin Yu possesses the energy of his physical body, the energy of his Fate Soul, the energy of his years of experience, and the energy of his Dao origin. He is surrounded by all kinds of energy, and can even be sensed and detected by all laws and spirits in the world. Yet he never needs to borrow any energy to prove his existence.
Having breath doesn't prove my existence; lacking breath doesn't conceal my existence. The rise and fall of thoughts return to stillness; in the stillness and Emptiness, one can still smell new life. He never needs to retain a trace of his own unique aura as an anchor for himself.
At this moment, the three fragments of origin resonated simultaneously within Qin Yu's mind for the first time, slowly converging.
Seeing, hearing, and smelling are not mutually integrated or absorbed, nor do they give rise to any new supernatural powers. They simply lead to the same destination, reflecting the same great truth. In the depths of Qin Yu's mind, the tight shackles that had been crushed by the "Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch" suddenly loosened a little.
The return to stillness is never the end or extinction. The true vitality of the Great Dao is never in the moment of Annihilation, but in whether it can be reborn after stillness. To see the return to stillness is to see rebirth; to hear the return to stillness is to hear rebirth; to smell the return to stillness is to smell rebirth.
This reveals that the true essence of avoiding the Touch Emanation Beast is never about forcibly erasing one's own boundaries. The very thought of "eliminating boundaries" is itself a new boundary.
It is not about deliberately falling into the state of "no self". As long as you are convinced in your heart that "Inscribe the Self", "no self" will immediately stand in opposition to "having self". One side is Emptiness, and the other side is existence. The two sides confront each other, and the boundary Touch Emanation Beast can still enter by following the trend.
Qin Yu's mind jolted slightly, suddenly becoming clear-headed. He finally decided to try a state of mind he had never practiced before—neither dwelling on "self" nor falling into "no-self."