Chapter 1294: Only

Han Wuxian's Dao Heart remained as clear as a mirror, reflecting every subtle movement of the Infinite Singularity within his body. The strand of indestructible self-attachment belonging to Yan Buji, which had become chaotic and fluctuating under the impact of complex Dao resonance information, was exactly what he had anticipated. He used his own Dao Foundation's evolution as bait, laying a yang scheme intended to force the opponent to reveal itself or self‑destruct.

However, just as he thought victory was in his grasp and was preparing to tighten the net,

A sudden anomaly erupted!

The self-attachment focal point that had been violently trembling due to information overload and seemed on the verge of collapse did not disintegrate; its core, the point embodying Yan Buji's essential indestructible self-attachment, under extreme pressure, erupted with a purity and resilience beyond Han Wuxian's analytical limits!

"Ho… Han Wuxian… you ultimately… underestimated 'me'!"

A cold, mad, yet oddly lucid thought, like a venomous dragon breaking free of all shackles, surged along the parasitic link and brazenly struck Han Wuxian's mind in reverse!

It was not a clash of force, but a forcible overwriting of the concept of Existence!

Yan Buji abandoned all pretenses, all theft and learning, and poured his indestructible self-attachment—tempered through countless demonic thoughts and forged in extreme desire, its most essential, most exclusive, most singular core meaning—like the thickest ink, recklessly into Han Wuxian's Infinite Singularity!

What he now sought was no longer parasitism, no longer theft, but … the usurpation of Dao thought!

"Your 'Infinity'? Embracing all laws? Encompassing ten thousand rivers?"

"Wrong! Gravely wrong!"

"In this world, only 'I' is real! Only 'I' is the sole! Your Infinity, your myriad laws are merely the backdrop and ornament of 'my' Existence! They ought to be defined and governed by 'me', not the other way around, encompassing 'me'!"

This mad thought, bearing a subversive logic, forcibly struck Han Wuxian's fundamental understanding of Infinity. It did not aim to destroy Infinity, but to usurp its ownership! It sought to twist Han Wuxian's 'Infinity Dao' into a tool serving Yan Buji's 'sole I'!

Han Wuxian's newly‑formed, intricate 'Infinity Loop System' briefly stalled under the assault of this pure‑to‑the‑extreme, tyrannical 'self-attachment'! The Dao resonance circulating within the system seemed to encounter incomprehensible 'abnormal data', and its operational logic began to falter.

Even worse, Han Wuxian discovered that he could not muster a sufficiently powerful 'thought' to disperse or suppress this reverse erosion!

The cause lay in his own Dao!

His 'Infinity' pursued inclusion, understanding, becoming the backdrop. When confronted with this irrational, purely 'sole and exclusive' madness, inclusion itself became a weakness! He tried to 'understand' the opponent's attachment, to incorporate it into his own Infinity framework, but that precisely gave the opponent a foothold! Yan Buji's 'self-attachment' outright refused to be understood or included; its very purpose was to dominate all!

Like light attempting to encompass darkness, only to have darkness erode light's boundaries!

"Uh…!" Han Wuxian grunted, his complexion paling for the first time. He felt his Dao Heart thrust into a furnace that constantly emphasized 'sole supremacy', his Infinity thought being forcibly overwritten and assimilated by the opponent's 'sole' thought! The rotation speed of the Infinite Singularity visibly slowed, its light dimmed, and at its core a thread of dark‑red, Yan Buji's 'I' mark stubbornly spread and took root!

"Hahaha!" In the dark trench, Yan Buji's will unleashed a reckless, raucous laugh; his phantom form twisted violently with excitement, "Do you feel it, Han Wuxian? Your Dao, your pride, are so pale and feeble before the absolutely pure 'self'! Your 'Infinity' will become my throne!"

He frantically drove that strand of indestructible self-attachment, burning his very source of existence regardless of everything, to turn this reversal into an eternal fixed outcome!

At Wanji Mountain Peak, the weather turned abruptly. The Gu Jing vortex seemed to sense the master's Dao Foundation's violent upheaval, its spin becoming chaotic. The guardian elder's once‑steady breath again flickered uncertainly.

Han Wuxian's seated form trembled slightly, fine beads of sweat forming at his temples. For the first time he was truly on the defensive; Yan Buji's rebuff, born from death and aimed at the very core of his Dao Heart, exceeded all his predictions.

Can the Way of Infinity truly not accommodate such an extreme 'sole'?

Or perhaps his 'Infinity' itself has entered some sort of misstep?

Within the Dao Foundation, the dark‑red 'self-attachment' mark spread like dense ink dropped into clear water, accelerating its diffusion. Han Wuxian's Infinity realm was being rapidly devoured by the opponent's 'sole' domain.

The situation turned sharply downward!

The dark‑red 'self-attachment' mark, like a living vine, spread wildly within Han Wuxian's Infinite Singularity; wherever it passed, the originally chaotic‑embracing Gui Xu Zu Qi Core was forcibly tinged with an exclusive, sole‑supremacy property. Han Wuxian's Dao Heart felt pierced by countless poisonous needles, his grip on Infinity rapidly slipping, his consciousness beginning to haze, and Yan Buji's maddening, babbling 'sole I' thought nearly became the main theme of his mind!

Life and death hinge on a single thought!

However, at the instant the dark‑red mark was about to reach the very core of the Singularity—the point representing Han Wuxian's original conscious source—

the ultimate danger, like ice water poured on his head, instantly awakened a primal instinct deep within Han Wuxian's awareness. It was not rational thought, not the use of Dao techniques, but a more primitive, more fundamental… Existence self‑awareness that transcended the contest between 'Infinity' and 'sole'!

"I… am Han Wuxian."

A thought simple to the extreme yet as weighty as a galaxy, like the first dawn breaking the endless night, burst from his sinking consciousness.

He did not contemplate how to include, did not wrestle with how to resist, nor define what 'Infinity' is. He merely… affirmed the existence of 'self'.

I am Han Wuxian. I walk within Silence Extinction, I command Gui Xu, I comprehend Infinity… the beginning and end of all this are the choice of 'I', the path of 'I'!

At the moment that thought rose, the Infinite Singularity within him, almost entirely cloaked by dark red, jolted! Its core—the point that had merely passively reflected the source consciousness of all laws—suddenly contracted and coalesced!

It did not become exclusive, but became… clear!

Like a murky droplet, in extreme restraint, precipitating a single crystal‑clear core bead that refracts all light!

This newly‑born 'consciousness core' no longer attempts to encompass Yan Buji's 'self-attachment', nor passively endure its erosion. It simply exists with unparalleled clarity, reflecting all of itself and also the essence of the foreign intrusion.