Destroying the Body-Faculty, Ascending to the Intentless Root
At the same time, the three fragments of origin within Qin Yu's body resonated simultaneously at their Ultimate: "Seeing Stillness Return to Evolution," "Hearing Stillness Return to Evolution," and "Smelling Stillness Return to Evolution."
The three roots of nature did not transform into offensive power, but quietly unfolded their own perfect true meaning. What was seen before the eyes, the seeing returned to stillness, and after stillness, the seeing was seen again; what was heard by the ears, the hearing rose and fell, and after stillness, the hearing was heard again; what was smelled by the nose, the breath rose and fell, and after stillness, the smell was smelled again.
The three great paths together testify to an ancient truth: Annihilation can never completely extinguish the vitality that arises from it. At the height of the resonance, Qin Yu's tongue trembled slightly.
No fourth fragment appeared in the world; only a faint trace and lingering flavor of the once perfect tongue root lingered in his mind. He recalled that tasteless Consciousnessless Space Silence realm. Taste can Annihilation, yet the Dao can be tasted without ceasing; emptiness can be devoid of things, yet the Dao can Dao Devouring without end.
Once "emptiness" is defined as reality, as something that can be swallowed, emptiness gains boundaries and falls into shackles. The same applies when the body touches the Dao. Qin Yu completely cleared away the last shackle in his heart, achieving perfect and unobstructed perfection.
When the four senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, and tasting first came into being, Non-Observers and the observed, the listener and the listened, the smeller and the smelled, or the taster and the tasted.
Only when the human mind grasps what it sees, hears, smells, and tastes, and can stand in opposition to what it has just experienced, can boundaries be formed, and thus, one touches the Dao and transcends the four.
At the moment of contact, the one who touches and the one who is touched are not yet separated, nor are they in opposition. This is the original state Unborn, which is also the Ultimate flaw that the Touch Emanation Beast can never understand and can never perfect. Qin Yu's eyes suddenly became clear and bright, and he understood in his heart - the end game has come, and it is time to conclude.
He did not rashly draw his sword, for the Touch Emanation Beast itself was the aggregated manifestation of countless boundaries. If he were to forcefully swing his sword and attack at this moment, the slayer and the slayer would immediately separate, and the two sides of offense and defense would be in opposition, which would only provide a complete contact surface for "Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch", and all previous efforts would be in vain.
To destroy its form and sever its path, one must first destroy its root and break its very foundation. Qin Yu slowly loosened his grip on the sword hilt, proceeding step by step, layer by layer. The first step was to activate the "Silent Beginning - Ring Master Soul Diagram".
The Nine-Wheel Dharma Wheel continue to reverse, without attacking, suppressing, or destroying, adhering only to one thing: to redirect all the new deriving power generated by each touch of the Touch Emanation Beast back into its body along the original touch pathways.
Buzz! Billions of transformative forces surged, spread, and collided wildly within his body. Conflicts arose within the skin, cracks appeared between the bones, and the more the tendons eroded the transformative forces, the more transformative marks appeared at the points of contact.
The unique, absolute, and complete boundary system upon which the Touch Emanation Beast relied for its existence has been completely disrupted and collapsed for the first time, making it difficult to maintain its unity.
In the second step, Qin Yu slowly raised his left hand, and twelve thin, dark mirror images quietly appeared in the world, silently suspended in the air. The first move of "Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence - Six Severances Seal" - "Fate Cause Sealing Mirror - Logic Abyss Core" appeared in the world.
The twelve mirrors do not reflect the beast's body or its shape, but instead fall upon the twelve core "Touch Return" pathways. Qin Yu does not sever the touch pathways or erase the touch, but instead folds the coherent cause-and-effect and closed-loop logic of "touch out" and "Touch Return" into the mirrors layer by layer.
The first mirror leads to the exit, the second mirror reverses, the third mirror reverses again... The twelve mirrors circle and encircle each other, creating an unsolvable loop.
The path that the Touch Emanation Beast attempted to use to reach the boundary of Qin Yu and annihilate itself was repeatedly reversed by the mirror, making it difficult to complete the cross-boundary closure and annihilate its origin.
Each reflection in the mirror represents a new encounter, a new beginning, and the Nine-Wheel Dharma Wheel immediately receive it, generating new power! Boom!!!
Large scratches on the chest of the Touch-Yan Beast exploded and flew, and the incomplete traces left by Taizu shook violently. The sentence "If everything returns to silence, can you..." faintly trembled, and the incomplete word "Yan" gave birth to a complete stroke for the first time.
The Touch Emanation Beast is instantly destroyed, but the moment it is destroyed, a new one arises, endlessly. In the third step, Qin Yu abandons many supernatural powers. He does not use "Void Source · Dream Stillness" to avoid the opposing boundary of "I destroy the other"; he does not use "Return to Origin and Sever Retracing and Traverse" to avoid fixing his own anchor point and giving himself a flaw.
He selected the most precise and fundamental technique, the sixth move of "Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence - Six Severances Seal" - "Star Structure Returning Ring - Source Cause Severance".
Thousands of star marks spread out in the air, neither sealing the beast's body nor suppressing its touch, but simply following the billions of contact surfaces that were growing wildly within its body, layer by layer Returning Ring to their source, ultimately locking onto its unique root of the Dao.
Only after the boundary is formed can the Touch Emanation Beast rely on the boundary to establish itself, attain the Dao, and wield the power of destroying Wanyan touches. Qin Yu suddenly clenched his five fingers together.
Clang! All the star marks tightened their Returning Ring, severing the source. He did not cut off the touch, seal the touch, or destroy the touch, but only severed the core Dao cause of the Touch Emanation Beast's "occupation, maintenance, reversal, and obliteration of all established boundaries".
In an instant, the Touch Emanation Beast completely lost the last foundation for maintaining its complete Dao body. Its tentacles collapsed, its tentacles dislocated, its tendons detached, its head cracked open, and the Touch Abyss projection behind it violently trembled and was on the verge of shattering.
The billions of primordial forces that had been reversed and injected into the body completely broke free from suppression and erupted wildly, Boom!!!!!! The body of the Touch Emanation Beast completely collapsed and exploded from the inside!
The time has come, everything is ready. The twelve mirrors lock the Touch Return, the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel continue to infuse new evolution, Star Structure Returning Ring, severing its source of occupation of the established boundary. The first three fragments and the remnant of the tongue root allow Qin Yu himself to remain in the state of "re-evolution after silence, boundary undetermined".
Only now should the sword truly appear. Qin Yu gripped the Silent Origin Stainless Sword again in his right hand, without gathering power, without a vast sword light, and without Sword Qi sweeping across the heavens and earth. He had already used the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to sever the fundamental concept of the Sight-Derivation Beast and the Smell-Derivation Beast. This time, the fatal root that the Touch Emanation Beast truly exposed still belonged to a primordial concept that had not yet been severed, and it was even clearer than the previous two times.
"Touch must first have two sides." "The one who touches." "The one who is touched." As long as these two positions are fixed—the boundary will always exist. The Touch Emanation Beast will always be able to return. Qin Yu's eyes were cold, and he gently raised the Silent Origin Stainless Sword. First move— the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword, this sword did not strike the Touch Emanation Beast's body. The sword tip only lightly passed between those countless broken boundaries.
Swoosh -- What was struck was the very point where the concept of "the one who touches" and "the one who is touched" first arose. After the sword strike, there was neither the one who touches nor the one who is touched.
Touch—it can still happen, but it no longer needs to establish the two sides first. In that instant, the Touch Emanation Beast completely lost its own point of existence; it was the boundary. But now, before the touch occurs—the boundary Unborn.
When contact occurs—the boundary is still undefined. After contact occurs—it returns to stillness. It then evolves again. It can no longer find any boundary that can be called "itself". The first layer of the skin collapses.
Crack! The tentacles shattered in pieces. Crack-crack-crack--! Billions of tentacles simultaneously loosened. Countless remnants of the Wanyan Ones that had been touched on the Pre-Nonbeing rapidly fell off. The Touch Abyss projection on the back tore open from the middle. The crack in the head opened and closed wildly, attempting to touch Qin Yu one last time.
But that touch had just occurred—Nine cycles reversed! Another evolution! New evolution flowed back along the touch path! The Touch Emanation Beast touched again. Another evolution! Another touch! Another evolution! The more it struggled, the more cracks appeared within its body.
Boom! The entire Sea of Touch sank violently. Tentacle islands crumbled in pieces. Touch Threads danced in the void. The crack in the center of the Touch Wall that pierced the heavens and earth suddenly expanded. Only a broken scar remained on the chest of the Touch Emanation Beast.
"If all returns to silence, could we...?" Half of a "Derivation." Qin Yu looked at it. He didn't complete it. Nor did he answer. Because the answer had already occurred before his eyes. Silence. Derivation again. Touch. Derivation again. The boundary annihilated. Derivation still lived. The last remaining boundary of the Touch Emanation Beast began to tremble violently.
Qin Yu's Silent Origin Stainless Sword fell without a second move or any additional supernatural power. All the previous connections had completely severed its roots. This final sword strike only needed to cut off that one concept. Swoosh! The sword intent passed through the Touch Emanation Beast and stopped.
The tentacle skin stopped opening and closing. The tentacle bones stopped vibrating. The tentacle tendons stopped contacting. The cracks in the head stopped opening and closing. The projection of the tentacles on the back solidified. The half of the word "yan" on the chest - fell off gently. Then the whole tentacle beast started from the "border" in the center - disappeared to both sides. There was no explosion, no corpses, and no blood.
It never truly possessed a form of its own. When the concept that "the one who touches" and "the one who is touched" must be separated is severed, when the boundary is no longer a prerequisite for the occurrence of touch, it loses its root to continue existing as a "boundary." The last strand of skin of the touch returns to nothingness. The last bone of the touch returns to nothingness. The last tendon of the touch returns to nothingness. The last trace of the touch returns to nothingness. In the end— the Touch Emanation Beast is completely annihilated.
... A long silence followed. Qin Yu stood there, his body still mutilated and transparent, his Fate Soul crisscrossed with cracks, the Evolution Name behind him now just a blur, bloodstains on his lips and chest. He did not move immediately. Until the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel slowly resumed their normal rotation.
Buzz—The first, second, and all the way to the ninth round, the twelve thin, dark mirror shadows dissipated, and the traces left by the Star Structure Returning Ring gradually Entering Stillness. The Sea of Touch began to calm down. Those traces of existence that had been forced to the brink of disappearance by the Wanyan Return to Stillness Touch and Return to Silence ceased their further Return to Emanation, and no new Touching the Boundary fell toward Qin Yu in the entire Body-Facultyless Emanation Domain.
He defeated the fifth Emanation Guardian — Qin Yu slowly exhaled and then looked up. In the distance, the Touch Wall was receding, Sea of Touch, islands, Touch Threads, Touch Dust, sinking layer by layer into the deepest part of the fifth barrier.
The massive crack that pierced through the Touch Wall slowly closed, and as all the realms gradually fell silent, for the first time, a region in the depths of the void in front of Qin Yu appeared that could not be understood by "laws and principles".
No cause and effect can be established there, no rules can be derived there, no order can be formed there, and even "having law" and "not having law" have not yet become two sides that can be distinguished.
Qin Yu's expression gradually turned serious. He already knew what that was—the last and sixth Intentless Root, the Wanyan could not be derived—a possibility of "law and principle." The Sea of Touch had completely receded, and in front of Qin Yu, a barrier leading to the final root domain slowly appeared.