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Shen Mo slowly opened his eyes. At that moment, all the intense struggle, fear, and hesitation deep in his eyes were forcibly suppressed by an overwhelming and resolute will, leaving only a calm as deep as an ancient well and a frozen flame.

He stood up, his gaze sweeping over everyone before finally settling on Su Xiao: "Junior Sister Xiao, besides their directional indications, do those hidden marks you discovered have any other meaning or pattern?"

After a moment's thought, Su Xiao replied, "The secret mark itself is composed of seventeen basic variations of the Flowing Cloud Pattern, belonging to the highest level of 'Cloud Tracking Secret Symbol' of my Qingyun Sect, which cannot be known by non-core inheritors."

"The order of its arrangement seems to have a guiding and warning meaning, but it is too incomplete to be fully interpreted. There are fragmented phrases such as 'follow the light,' 'avoid water,' and 'guard the heart.'"

"Follow the light...avoid water...guard your heart..." Shen Mo pondered these words. Following the light must mean following the path of the eerie blue light. Avoiding water? This place is dry and desolate; where would water come from?

Unless... there is something like the "Yellow Springs" or the "Nether River" in that dark vortex, or even deeper within it? Guarding the mind is a reminder to hold fast to one's spirit and resist the omnipresent erosion of this place.

"Understood." Shen Mo nodded, his gaze once again fixed on the winding, dark blue path of light disappearing into the darkness. "Let's go. Shi Tie will lead the way, with Junior Sister Zhao and I in the middle, and Su Xiao protecting A Yuan at the rear. Follow the light, everyone stay alert and don't let your guard down for a moment."

"Yes!" The crowd responded resolutely.

The group left the relatively safe zone shrouded in the white light of the crystal and stepped once again into the thick aura of death and endless darkness.

This time, however, there was a faint blue light guiding them ahead. Although it was cold and eerie, at least they had a direction.

The moment Shen Mo stepped onto the path of light, he felt a strange sensation beneath his feet. It wasn't a physical object, but rather a slight ripple, like stepping on cold water.

The darkness on either side of the path of light seemed to be repelled by an invisible force, forming a relatively clear path. However, the area illuminated by the light was limited, only a few feet in front and behind, with endless darkness still visible beyond.

The chaotic fragments of thought in the air became even denser, like an invisible wind carrying countless broken roars, cries, pleas, and maniacal laughter, constantly assaulting everyone's mental shield.

A-Yuan's face turned pale again, she covered her ears tightly, and her body trembled slightly.

Zhao Qingyan would occasionally activate the Mind-Clearing Talisman, and gentle spiritual light would fall, relieving everyone's stress.

Shi Tie would occasionally let out a low roar, using his vigorous yang energy to dispel the approaching yin and cold intent.

Su Xiao's figure flickered, like a silent ghost, wary of the dangers that might lurk in the darkness beyond the path of light.

Shen Mo walked in the middle of the group, using most of his mind to be vigilant about his surroundings and maintain his protective aura. At the same time, that crazy thought, like a tenacious vine, grew and spread wildly in his heart.

He began, while walking, to conduct a thrilling and unseen "deduction" within his sea of ​​consciousness.

He extracted the fragments of information he had obtained from the tattered jade slip one by one: Qingyunzi repelled the extraterrestrial demons at Meteor Cliff; he preached the Dao in the Sea of ​​Myriad Laws for three thousand years; the Nine Netherworlds were in turmoil, and the Yellow Springs flowed backward; he sacrificed himself to suppress the Reincarnation Palace...

He incorporated the scenes he saw in the murals: the grandeur and brutality of the war between immortals and demons; the figure of the Taoist priest in green robes, wielding the measuring ruler, fighting alone against hordes of demons, and finally rushing into the darkness; the dark vortex and the scene of suppression on the altar murals...

He also used the vague descriptions of the patriarch's final "enlightenment and ascension" and "transformation into flowing clouds to protect the southern region" from his own "Travels of Patriarch Liuyun" as a reference.

He took the incomplete poem "A single thought leads to the heavens and the cycle of reincarnation" as the core image and soul of the poem.

Then, he mobilized all his knowledge, understanding of the laws of the Great Dao, and perception of cause and effect, especially... the mysterious and profound feeling that the Myriad Laws Source Pearl transmitted to him, as if he could touch the "origin" and "reality".

He began to try "knitting":

In the late ancient times, extraterrestrial demons invaded, causing turmoil in the heavens and earth, imbalance in the Nine Netherworlds, and the Yellow Springs to flow backward. As a key node maintaining the balance of Yin and Yang, the Palace of Reincarnation was the first to bear the brunt and faced the danger of collapse. Once it completely collapsed, the cycle of reincarnation would be disordered, Yin and Yang would be reversed, and the beings of this world would be forever condemned to the Abyss, never to be redeemed...

At this critical moment, Qingyunzi, the powerful figure who had defeated the Heavenly Demon at Meteor Cliff and broadcast the Great Dao at the Sea of ​​Myriad Laws, resolutely went to the Hall of Reincarnation, intending to mend the heavens...

However, the source of the collapse of the cycle of reincarnation is not only external demons, but also stems from the wounds and "defects" that the origin of the Heavenly Dao of this world has suffered over the long years and in the great wars, wounds that are difficult to heal... Conventional methods, such as sealing and suppression, can only delay the damage, not cure it completely...

Qingyunzi understood this secret and knew that ordinary "self-sacrifice" sealing was merely a means to prolong life and would eventually be destroyed.

To completely resolve this, the only way is... to merge oneself with the Dao, using one's own supreme Dao fruit and immortal true spirit to fill the "deficiency" in the origin of the Heavenly Dao, and to permanently merge with the Samsara Palace and a portion of the original laws of this world, transforming into the "foundation" and "hub" that sustains Samsara and suppresses the Nine Netherworlds...

The place where it merges and completes the Heavenly Dao is not within the Samsara Palace, but rather in the mysterious place that the Samsara Palace maintains, which connects all the heavens and myriad worlds and is also the place of the end and the beginning of everything—the Ruins of Return!

Only within the vast ocean of laws of "Return to Nothingness" can one touch the deepest origin of the Heavenly Dao and complete this nearly impossible act of "mending the heavens"...

Thus, Qingyunzi, wielding the Dao-proving treasure "Measuring Ruler" (or "Star River Ruler?"), and carrying his life's cultivation and fearless Dao heart, followed the mysterious connection between the Palace of Reincarnation and the Ruins of Return, embarking on a path of no return... Deep within the Ruins of Return, he merged with the Dao of Heaven, his true spirit becoming one with the laws, using his own Dao fruit to repair reincarnation and stabilize Yin and Yang...

From then on, the name Qingyunzi remained with a portion of the Heavenly Dao Laws. His physical form ceased to exist, but his spirit endured forever, guarding the cycle of reincarnation in this world and bearing the erosion and desolation of the endless years of the Void...

This is the true meaning of "Crossing the Cycle of Reincarnation with a Single Thought"—it is not about crossing the cycle of reincarnation and transcending life and death, but about using one's own thought to transform into a cloud and cross the "cycle of reincarnation" on the verge of collapse back to order! It is about merging with the Dao and eternally guarding the void!

In his sea of ​​consciousness, Shen Mo "wove" such a tragic, grand, and eternal "ending".

This ending explains why the deeds of "Qingyunzi" have been passed down to later generations (because his Dao fruit has been partially integrated into the Heavenly Dao, and his "existence" has been remembered by Heaven and Earth), and explains why he "sacrificed himself to guard the Reincarnation Palace" but did not know the specific situation (because he was ultimately in the Ruins of Return, connected to the origin of the Reincarnation Palace).

This also explains why this place (a branch of the Samsara Palace) is still in danger of collapse (perhaps it is just a weak node in the huge system that Qingyunzi has filled in, or perhaps new changes have occurred later), and it connects the places "Meteor Cliff", "Sea of ​​Myriad Laws", "Samsara Palace" and "Return to the Void" with a main theme of "protecting this world".

This "fabrication" seems logically self-consistent and emotionally impactful enough. It connects with existing real fragments (jade slips, murals) and even subtly echoes the "protection" theme that Shen Mo originally set for the ancestor.

However, this is merely his wishful thinking, a "deduction" and "imagination." How can it be transformed from "imagination" into a "causal fulfillment" that could potentially touch upon reality?

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