LRAB Chapter 198 Who am I?
Chapter 198 Who am I?
"Have you made contact...?"
Yan Yi looked at the suddenly awakened Ban Jian beside him, his mind reeling as if he had witnessed a planetary collision.
Clearly, Yan Yi's consciousness had just intruded into Banma's dream under very subtle circumstances. This intrusion wasn't a simple invasion; perhaps it was more like an "overlap."
At this moment, Itama felt that the scenes in his dream were very familiar, not completely strange or nonsensical.
Even the older brothers, who had grown up, recognized him at first glance in the building.
Despite being dressed in armor and having changed significantly from their younger selves, Itama recognized them at first glance, as if he knew what his brothers would look like in the future.
That village, both familiar and strange, that Uchiha clansman... he felt a sense of familiarity, yet couldn't recall his name...
"Square rooms..."
Yan Yi called the boy's name softly, even though he knew Itama couldn't hear him.
However, to Yan Yi's utter disbelief, the next second, after Yan Yi called out his name, Itama suddenly paused, looking in his direction with a bewildered expression...
Itama did hear it; he didn't know where the sound came from, or if it was a sound that resonated directly in his heart.
"Who...who are you...?" Itama asked hesitantly.
Although he felt nothing at the moment, the cave in front of him was pitch black, the sky had completely darkened, and the only sounds in the night forest were the chirping of insects and the howling of wild animals.
Yan Yi was completely stunned. Could it be... that Itama could finally sense a trace of his existence?
If this really works, does it mean that one can actually interfere with certain variables through consciousness...?
Ultimately, the purpose of this eye technique is to keep him alive. But eye techniques are cast from one's own eyes; shouldn't the connection between them be closer?
The mountain path at night might be extremely dangerous for ordinary people, but for Itama, although he was young and looked like a child, he was still a little ninja, so the way down the mountain was not too dangerous.
In that pitch-black atmosphere, illuminated only by the faint moonlight, he should have felt slightly frightened, but now, after sitting up from the ground and tidying his clothes, he felt no unease whatsoever.
He seemed to have a vague feeling that some kind of magical power was protecting him... but who was it?
With these questions in mind, Itama quickly ran down the mountain.
It's so late, it's already dark, the older brothers must be worried...
......
Although this attempt may have succeeded in making Itama aware of his existence, the ending... remained unchanged, still ending with Itama's death.
When Itama was twelve years old, as if it were inevitable, battle still came to Itama and took his young life...
"No, no! Still no! Although I can convey a trace of my existence with my consciousness, it has no effect at all!" Yan Yi lay helplessly in the black void, his eyes lifeless.
"Perhaps from the beginning, this was not a problem that could be solved through intervention? Maybe... I should address the root cause?"
This time, however, he gradually grasped something deeper. He realized that all his previous attempts had been wrong, but this time, he discovered the most crucial point...
This is the 1,170th reset.
To this day, this eye technique has not shown any indication of a future where it could lead to "survival".
He now understood that his eye technique was not an eye technique at all; it was something that should not exist in this plane.
In fact, half of his soul comes from a higher-dimensional world. In his original world, the current ninja world is like a manga or a novel, a product of human creation.
If half of his soul hadn't come from a higher dimension, he might not have been able to do what he was doing.
He had not transmigrated into Indra's body, nor was he Asura; he was merely a minor character in the original story without even a name... He had no magical system, no powerful talent, only his unique cognition and consciousness.
That's right, it's consciousness.
The source of his eye technique's power is his consciousness. It is not the power of the Otsutsuki clan, nor is it the power that his Mangekyou Sharingan should originally possess.
Alaya-vijnana, the root of all consciousness, is a "warehouse" that stores all experiences, memories, and karma.
It's like a huge database, storing all of Yan Yi's thoughts, actions, and experiences, all of which exist in the form of "seeds".
Yan Yi was able to reverse his destined fate with such incomprehensible power, but at the same time, everything about him was trapped by the Alaya consciousness. His existence was sealed, leaving only this wisp of consciousness wandering in the world of endless reincarnation.
Looking at the void before him, after so many resets, he suddenly laughed with relief: "Hahahaha... It turns out I've been moving forward on the wrong path all along, and no matter how hard I try, the outcome won't change in the slightest."
“I think I understand now… If I want to transcend this cycle of reincarnation, I need to erase all of my own consciousness. The Alaya consciousness… will still function, but I… will no longer exist.” Yan Yi knelt weakly on the ground, his hands supporting him, as if he had used up all his strength.
It's called ground, but in reality, the surroundings are nothing but emptiness. This place should have been filled with starlight; that was the original scenery.
Trying over a thousand variables was nothing more than wasting effort on the wrong path. But perhaps... it wasn't entirely useless, since it ultimately led him to discover his own "consciousness."
Because the Alaya consciousness is merely repeating a wrong cycle of reincarnation that is sealed by fate, and if the ending is already predetermined, what is the point of repeating it thousands or tens of thousands of times in this cycle?
Clear all data, release all consciousness...
Yan Yi's thoughts began to blur, and the surrounding void began to clear...
As if the mist had been blown away, starlight began to emerge from the darkness in the distance, and in the far distance, the deep space of the universe was composed of countless dazzling stars.
They contained almost every color, and from a distance, he felt as if he were seeing the whole world.
How long? Yan Yi forgot.
Finally, after countless failures, he fully understood the Alaya consciousness.
This is not a tool, but a kind of karma that one must understand, transcend, and ultimately get rid of. What it stores has no meaning for a failed past.
From this moment on, the cycle of reincarnation will cease. Fate is not immutable, for after losing everything, his world has become so clear.
"I am the universe..."
Yan Yi... has completely lost all his memories, experiences, and karma.
He even felt as if he had traversed an unimaginably long period of time and space. Now, he was no longer surrounded by a hazy black void, but by a dazzling cosmic galaxy.
Planets rotate, supernovae explode, black holes disappear... It might be a second, or it might be eternity.
In that one billionth of a second, in that time that is forever moving closer to infinity, he saw everything.
Everything has been seen, all knowledge, all truth, all knowledge within and outside the world, cause and effect, destiny.
He witnessed the birth of the universe, the extinction of the last star, and even the collapse of the last black hole, with the entire universe returning to heat death.
But he forgot who he was.
Consciousness completely dissipated, and the soul from a higher dimension vanished from this world, leaving only traces that seemed to have existed but were completely erased.
Correct...? Counter...? Change...?
There's no need for that anymore, because everything is meaningless. Release your consciousness, use it as a "blade," and shatter fate.
If the ending leading to the "only future" is shattered, then everyone in the world will develop towards infinitely many possibilities.