Just as the final "Return to Silence" of "All Evolutions" approached Qin Yuyan's name, the last page of "Primordial Chaos: Great Luo Heaven Chapter" was fully unfolded, and that page had no words.
The Knowing Emanation Beast stopped. To be precise, it wasn't its enormous form, which stretched across the endless Abyss of Endless Abyss of Knowing, that stopped, but rather the "knowledge" that constituted it. Its head, formed from omniscience, still looked down upon Qin Yu; its body, composed of ignorance, remained connected to the infinite Knowing Layer; and its limbs, formed from attachment, doubt, and emptiness, still pressed between the Myriad Laws Return to the Ruins and the Knowing Surface.
The lingering light of the Silent Form Realm in his chest still flickered, but the instant that page was fully revealed, all the knowledge that was Return to Emanation to Qin Yu simultaneously lost its support to continue moving forward.
Qin Yu was now just a faint outline.
His right hand was almost transparent, and the Silent Origin Stainless Sword became intermittently visible with his presence; his Fate Soul was riddled with cracks, most of the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel were dimmed, the past was broken, and the future withered.
Even the name "Qin Yu" was reduced to a faint, almost vanished trace. The words "I'm still here" had cost him dearly, and in the moment before he was about to disappear completely, he finally saw what he had grasped at the last thing.
He kept proving, proving that he had not been defeated, proving that he was still alive, proving that his Evolution Name still existed, proving that "I am who I am." Even when only one thread remained, he still used "I am still here" to resist Return to Emanation.
But "I am still here" itself is knowledge. As long as he still holds onto this knowledge, the Knowledge-Deriving Beast can derive "I am still here" and then derive it back, continuing to derive back to Qin Yu with Qin Yu's deepest existence root.
His unwillingness to accept defeat can be excused, his determination can be excused, his will to survive can be excused, and even his current realization that he "can no longer prove himself" can be excused.
The light in Qin Yu's eyes had dimmed to almost extinguished, his body was fading away inch by inch, and his Knowing Surface was even beginning to emerge from behind his chest. He looked at his hand, which had disappeared more than halfway, and slowly loosened his grip on the sword hilt.
He didn't deny himself, nor did he try to prove himself again. That one sentence that has accompanied him all the way to this day, and has helped him hold onto his only true self countless times in dire straits—
"I am who I am." It remained there, but Qin Yu no longer used it to answer anything—not the Knowing Emanation Beast, not the Endless Abyss of Knowing, and not even himself.
Existence doesn't require the declaration "I exist," and Qin Yu doesn't need to prove himself time and time again to become Qin Yu. Thus, that last shred of Clinging to Knowing slowly loosened in his heart.
At the same time, the last page of "Primordial Hongmeng: Great Luo Heavenly Chapter" was fully revealed. There was nothing on that page; there were no words and no ink.
There were no laws, no Dao patterns, and not even any trace left by the previous twelve powers, yet when Qin Yu looked at it, he could no longer understand this page as "blank".
Blank space still belongs to the book; blank space means that something can be written there. Nothingness still belongs to the book; nothingness means that no content has yet appeared. A draft means that words are being formed.
A first draft means that the content has been presented in its entirety for the first time; a final draft means that everything is complete; and the page in front of you—all of these meanings Does Not Exist.
It remained in a time long ago, long before "page" became a page, long before "word" became a word, long before the act of "writing" itself had occurred. Qin Yu's ravaged pupils suddenly contracted.
For the first time, the Knowing Emanation Beast truly "looked" at that page. In the next instant, its knowledge touched that page, but there was no roar, no collision, and no destruction.
The head of the Knowing Emanation Beast trembled slightly, and then a small piece of "omniscience" disappeared without breaking or being erased. It simply returned to the state presented on that page, before "knowledge" Unborn.
For the first time, the massive body of the Knowing Emanation Beast paused, and the countless Knowing Layer in Endless Abyss of Knowing froze simultaneously. Qin Yu was also stunned, because even he had not expected this scene. That page did not attack the Knowing Emanation Beast, nor did it rewrite it.
Without defining it or imposing anything that could be called a law on it, the Knowing Emanation Beast touched it on its own, and "knowledge" reached the place where "knowledge Unborn".
And so—Knowledge Return to Emanation. This time, the Knowing Emanation Beast did not immediately generate new knowledge. For the first time, large gaps appeared in the head composed of omniscience, which could not be maintained. Immediately afterward, a change that had never appeared on it before emerged.
Its chest Knowing Wall trembled slightly, one arm formed from grip tightened, and the other arm formed from doubt hesitated for the first time. The Knowing Emanation Beast actually moved back an extremely tiny inch. Qin Yu saw this, and a tremor slowly swept across his broken eyes. What was that? Fear. The Knowing Emanation Beast—
I felt fear for the first time, but that fear only lasted for a very short moment, because fear itself needs to be known, and its "knowledge" is being Return to Emanation. It is losing the ability to know that it is afraid.
The Endless Abyss of Knowing trembled violently. For the first time, the Knowing Emanation Beast reached out its hand. That hand could no longer be described by mere attachment, doubt, or emptiness. The "source" in the infinite Knowing Layer converged along its arm. Each strand of knowledge traced back to its root before its own appearance. It did not continue to touch the last page with "knowledge".
It wanted to reach that place through the "Source," and its fingertips fell, the Source— Return to Emanation. The entire palm of the Knowing Emanation Beast vanished instantly, followed by its wrist, arm, and everything that had traveled back along the "Source." The moment it reached that page, it lost all the meaning it had acquired after the "Source had already arisen."
Because that page was located in an earlier period. The source was not yet called the source, knowledge was not yet called knowledge, and the first derivation had not yet begun. The book was not yet a book.
Qin Yu watched this scene, the last bit of transparency on his chest still spreading, but for the first time, "Wanyan Return to Stillness Knowing"Return to Emanation truly stopped for him. The Knowing Emanation Beast slowly lowered its head.
It looked at Qin Yu, then at the last page. For the first time, the Endless Abyss of Knowing offered no answers. Then, it spoke for the last time. No sound. That sentence still became a wisp of knowledge. Only this time, that knowledge was incomplete. "You... are... who?"
Qin Yu remained silent for a long time. He had little strength left, blood still trickled from the corner of his mouth, and his Fate Soul was on the verge of collapse. Even his body had not yet recovered from the Return to Emanation. But as he looked at the last page, the fear in his eyes finally calmed down little by little.
He didn't say "I am Qin Yu," nor "I am who I am," because those answers were all too late. The name was too late. The self was too late. Existence was too late. Qin Yu stared at that page, his lips moving slowly.
The voice was very soft. "I am that book before it became a book..." He paused for a moment. "That..." The Knowing Emanation Beast froze. The next moment— Return to Emanation began. Its head, composed of omniscience, was the first to dissipate, and countless knowledge returned.
All answers, all principles, all meanings, all traces that can be called "I know," return along the last page to the place Unborn.
Then comes ignorance. Even "not knowing" requires "knowing" as a contrast. When knowledge Unborn, ignorance also loses its place.
As attachment began to dissipate, doubt began to dissipate, emptiness began to dissipate, and countless remains of Dharma dissolved one after another in the Myriad Laws Return to the Ruins, and cracks appeared in the Knowing Wall from the center. Crack—the first one, crack crack crack... the second one, the third one, in an instant, the cracks that pierced through the entire Intent Root Emanation Domain spread to the infinite distance.
The last glimmer of light from the Silent Form Realm on the Knowing Emanation Beast's chest flickered one last time. Then—it too vanished. The Knowing Emanation Beast looked at Qin Yu; it no longer had a complete head, a complete body, or even the ability to continue forming the awareness of "I am disappearing." In the end, everything about it slowly converged along the last page.
It was not swallowed, not touched, not known, not sourced, only returned. Knowing returned to before Unborn. Source returned to before it Unborn. Evolution returned to before it unfolded. When the last trace disappeared into that page, the Knowing Emanation Beast completely disappeared, and "Wanyan Return to Stillness Knowing" returned to silence.
The "Primordial Hongmeng - Great Luo Heavenly Chapter" behind Qin Yu suddenly began to turn, rustling—first page, second page, third page, page after page, the pages of the Book of Time flowing.
The text in space dissipates, the ink of life and death fades, the Karmic Punctuation breaks, the ink of the five elements and five colors dims one after another, and the strokes and blank spaces of yin and yang dissolve into each other. Page after page of the catalog of fate loses its name, and the cycle of reincarnation stops.
The Void Blank Space returned to an earlier Wuhen. Subsequently, the authority of rules, logic, and narrative, which had been fully unleashed in the previous desperate situation, also began to recede. The brilliance of all twelve fully opened did not continue to expand.
They all turn inward—backward. The words on the pages disappear one by one; they are not erased, but returned to the state before the words were born. The ink begins to disappear. The ink has not run dry.
It returns to the state before ink became ink; each page of paper begins to fade, neither burned nor torn. Page—returns to no page. Words return to no words.
Ink returned to no ink, brush returned to no brush, writing returned to no writing, law returned to no law, rule returned to no rule, narration returned to no narration. Qin Yu raised his head. "Primordial Hongmeng - Great Luo Heavenly Chapter" has lost its original form.
It is no longer a book that carries twelve powers and can overturn the origin of the universe.
The four characters "Primordial Hongmeng" faded first. Then, "Great Luo Heavenly Chapter" also faded. The book disappeared, Qin Yu's eyes flickered slightly. The next moment, a scroll appeared behind him— Wordless Heavenly Book.