Forcibly denying "I am who I am" and giving rise to the idea of "I Non-Self" immediately creates a new boundary, which is still difficult to escape being touched and annihilated; clinging to one's original mind and locking away this idea will only make the boundary more solid and the force of the Touch Return more terrifying.
To activate "Return to Origin and Sever Retracing," one must take "I am who I am" as the absolute foundation, which is equivalent to voluntarily surrendering the Ultimate boundary; when "Void Source · Dream Stillness" is used to erase the sense of touch, "I actively extinguish the touch" still stands at two ends, and the boundary is regenerated.
The "Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence of Six Severances Seal" is used to forcibly sever the connection between the arbiter and the severed, with the boundary remaining unbroken. The "No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword" is used to sever one's own constructs, and if one is not careful, one will completely shake one's own Dao root and destroy one's true self.
A single misstep could lead to utter annihilation and destruction. The Touch Emanation Beast gave him no chance to breathe. Thud! The fourth touch landed. Qin Yu's left half of his body suddenly became transparent, almost fading into nothingness and dissipating.
The fifth touch. A corner of the Fate Soul is missing, its origin damaged. The sixth touch. Countless past years and experiences on the Dao Path are extinguished in pieces, returning to emptiness. The seventh touch. The myriad Dao Path and possibilities of future evolution are broken layer by layer and withered away.
The eighth touch landed! The second stroke of the Dao name behind him completely dissipated! Qin Yu swayed, unable to stand any longer, and knelt heavily on one knee Sea of Touch.
Boom!!!
There was no turbulence or explosion upon Sea of Touch. The instant his knees touched the surface, all sensation was swallowed and erased by the "Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch." He was as if kneeling on absolute nothingness, without any support or grounding.
Blood dripped continuously from the corner of his mouth. The moment each drop of blood left his body, the boundary of "this blood belongs to Qin Yu" was instantly extinguished. Before the blood even hit the ground, it faded and disappeared without a trace.
The Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel trembled with difficulty, attempting to restart their operation. The first wheel stopped, the second wheel trembled, and the third wheel barely turned half an inch.
Thump!!! The ninth touch crashed down, and Qin Yu suddenly looked up, his pupils churning with the most Ultimate and real sense of death he had ever felt since he began his cultivation.
He clearly sensed that the Ultimate boundary of "I am who I am" had already been largely depicted and firmly locked by the Touch Emanation Beast. After a few more moments, this deepest, most solid, and most fundamental boundary would be completely depicted, and the second stage of the "Touch Return" ultimate kill would be fully completed.
At that time, what will be Touch Return will not be a supernatural power, a wisp of strength, or a causal relationship, but the complete Qin Yu.
The "me" on the other side of the boundary will touch the "me" on this side in return.
All his power, all his supernatural abilities, all his past, all his future, all his Fate Soul, all his foundation, all his obsessions and letting go, everything belonging to "Qin Yu" will be completely Touch Return and annihilated along this Ultimate boundary.
Once this strike is completed, he won't even leave a trace of his demise. "Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch" will erase all traces of his existence, making it clear that Qin Yu and his Dao never existed in the world.
The Touch Emanation Beast slowly raised its other invisible giant hand. The first hand had already pressed down on one side of the boundary of "I am who I am"; the second hand slowly moved towards the other side.
The moment his hands came together, it was the moment when his two extreme true selves closed and were completely annihilated. Qin Yu's Dao name was incomplete, his Fate Soul was severely injured, his physical body became ethereal, his past was annihilated, and his future was broken. The Nine-Wheel Dharma Wheel were suppressed and could not operate perfectly.
The path to breaking the deadlock was right before him, and he had already grasped the method of channeling boundless transformative power, but he no longer had enough time to deduce and complete it. His second hand slowly fell to his sides.
Silent and still, without power or influence. The entire Emanation Domain was calm and still, without any earth-shattering phenomena, but Qin Yu knew clearly that this was the closest he had come to complete annihilation since he stepped into the fifth realm.
It is more dangerous and more desperate than when facing "Wanyan Return-to-Stillness Devouring". In the past, when Evolution-Devouring Beast, one still had to devour its path and obliterate its heart; but now, Touch Emanation Beast has touched its source of existence and the core of its true self.
With a thud, the tenth touch fell, and the remaining Dao name behind him was wiped out with another stroke, becoming increasingly incomplete and blurred. Between the Touch Emanation Beast's two hands, the Ultimate boundary that spanned the two poles of the true self was completely closed, leaving only a faint line, as thin as a hair.
That line, Ultimate subtle as to be invisible to the eye and imperceptible to the spirit, lies hidden between the two poles of "I am who I am" at the deepest part of Qin Yu's being. One side carries the original self, while the other reflects the mirror image of the self.
With just one final touch, the two poles will be completely Return to One, and the complete boundaries of the self will be Touch Return by the "Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch". At that time, Qin Yu's physical body, Fate Soul, Dao foundation, Dao name, past, present, and future, everything derived from the existence of "Qin Yu", will follow this Ultimate boundary, return to Return to Emanation, and be completely cleared.
Thump... Before the eleventh touch had even fully landed, the calamity had already begun to spread.
Behind Qin Yu, only a fragmented outline of his Dao name remained, cracks piercing through his very Fate Soul, and the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel flickered and teetered on the verge of collapse. The left half of his body was mostly ethereal, countless past years sank into a blank void, and the myriad Dao Path of the future were like shattered scrolls, extinguishing piece by piece.
The blood at the corner of his mouth was still wet, his breathing was heavy and disordered, and for the first time in his life, his right hand, which held the "Silent Origin Stainless Sword," trembled slightly.
But just as the polar boundary was about to close completely and a life-or-death calamity was about to befall him, the Ultimate tension between Qin Yu's brows suddenly dissipated, and he did not deny "I am who I am".
This path still holds true, and the original mind remains pure. Qin Yu is still Qin Yu; his physical body, Fate Soul, Dao foundation, experiences, and Dao name—all of these have not been abandoned or lost.
He suddenly understood—there was no need to repeatedly prove his existence through this Daoist thought. This change in his state of mind was as faint as Wuhen, without any Daoist tremor or strange phenomena arising in the world.
But the two invisible giant hands, which were about to close, truly stopped at this moment, stuck just before the last line, unable to advance any further. Qin Yu lowered his eyelashes slightly, and all his past enlightenments came together.
When the eye is fully developed, it can see endlessly without needing to leave any evidence; when the ear is clear and penetrating, it can hear continuously without needing to leave any trace; when the nose is enlightened, whether there is breath or not, it is not anchored to the ego, nor does it conceal the desire to prove itself.
Why must the deepest "self" be nailed to a fixed and unchanging boundary, repeatedly seeking verification and clinging to it? In this moment, I am myself. After Annihilation, in the next moment, I am reborn, and I am still myself.
Birth and death, silence and rebirth, every moment of self is real and true, without needing to rely on the past or cling to old traces. I am who I am, the Great Way is eternally true.
But this "I" is no longer fixed, no longer anchored, no longer bound to an unchanging boundary.
In the previous moment, I returned to stillness; in the next moment, I was reborn. Stillness and rebirth continue endlessly, without ceasing or end. There is no longer a fixed and unchanging surface of contact, no longer an eternally entrenched obsession with self.
Thump!
The Touch Emanation Beast's first touch landed as expected, touching the boundary of its true self from the previous moment. But when its second touch returned from the other side, that old boundary had already vanished into nothingness. What it touched was a newly born, completely transformed Qin Yu.
At the boundary between the two poles, for the first time, it was completely impossible to close. The massive, invisible body of the Touch Emanation Beast suddenly froze, and the half-incomplete "Derivation" character on its chest trembled violently, its spiritual light surging.
The Dao name behind Qin Yu, which was about to completely dissipate, also stopped fading at this moment, barely remaining. He felt no joy, nor any obsession with "I have broken the deadlock".
Because once you grasp this state and recognize this Dao fruit, a new obsession takes root, a new boundary is formed, and everything will eventually return to its shackles. Therefore, this moment of clarity and this moment of vitality will also vanish as soon as they arise.
Silence. Re-evolution. Silence. Re-evolution, the true self is eternal, needing no proof, hum--! The moment the second move of the Touch Emanation Beast completely missed, deep within Qin Yu's sea of consciousness, all Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel reversed!
The first round reverses direction, the second round follows closely, and the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth rounds all change direction simultaneously, operating against the current!
The "Silent Beginning: Ring Master Soul Diagram" did not expand outwards, nor did it reveal the beast's body. Qin Yu even voluntarily abandoned the previously deduced method of reverse infusion of derivational power.
He suddenly realized that there was no need to deliberately seek a path; the path had already been formed, forged by the Touch Emanation Beast itself. That path of touch, which penetrated deep into Qin Yu's true self, was the deepest, most direct, and most unbreakable connection between friend and foe.
In order to erase the idea that "I am who I am," it personally sent the Path of Touch into Qin Yu's origin. At this moment, this Path of Touch is the only way to backfire on him.
Nine cycles of reversal, all aimed at this Ultimate path.
The first round is to receive its contact. The second round is to determine its occurrence. The third round is to guide it back to stillness. The fourth round is to continue the cycle after stillness.
The fifth round receives the newly generated power; the sixth round locks the power to prevent internal friction; the seventh round traces back to the source by going against the flow of the Dao.
In the eighth round, everything was returned; in the ninth round, everything flowed Return to One, and the closed loop was regenerated. Buzz!!! An unprecedented reverse loop was perfectly closed! Just then, the twelfth touch of the Touch Emanation Beast crashed down, thud! The Ultimate touch once again landed on Qin Yu's true self core.
But the moment this touch was completed, a brand new power was immediately generated. The Nine-Wheel Dharma Wheel reversed their power with all their might, locking this new power firmly in place, preventing it from remaining in their own bodies. Instead, it flowed back into their bodies along the touch path opened up by the Touch Emanation Beast!
Laugh--!
Touch Emanation Beast's chest, Dao Source within. There was no sword wound, no external force; it was purely the primordial energy of the beast's origin, savagely growing and forcibly expanding.
The fissure on the head of the Touch Emanation Beast suddenly widened, and billions of contact surfaces moved simultaneously, frantically eroding the invading Derived Force.
Touch! Destroy! But each touch and destruction is itself a completely new Great Dao occurring, the Nine Wheels reversed again! The power of evolution is reborn! The second strand, the third strand, the fourth strand... a hundred strands, ten thousand strands, a billion strands!
Boom--!!! The massive, formless body of the Touch Emanation Beast twisted and trembled violently. For the first time, the foundation of its Dao Body became unstable. The faster it touched and destroyed, the more abundant the Derivation Power grew; the more it touched, the more endless the new life became.
When it touches the skin, a multitude of causal forces arise within it; when it touches the bone, causal forces grow wildly between the bone joints; when it urges the tendons to touch, endless causal forces flow incessantly at the junction of tendons and veins; when it uses all its power to crush the Touch Abyss marks, once the Touch Abyss is touched, it becomes a new origin and a new derivative.
At this moment, the supreme "Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch" was completely dragged into an unsolvable vicious cycle by its own nature: touch, evolution, touch again, evolution again, the more it touches, the more it multiplies, the more it is destroyed, the more it is reborn, endlessly, and inexhaustible.