dognovel Chapter 880: Origin Water Mirror
Chapter 880: Origin Water Mirror
A stone gate slowly emerged from the depths of the forest.
Su Xiaoya and the others looked at each other and realized that they had passed the third level.
I just don’t know what’s waiting for everyone in the fourth level?
"You guys recover your spiritual power first, I will protect you all." Tushan Xiaoya looked at the stone gate and gave a reminder.
"it is good!"
Since they were all teammates, they naturally wouldn't be pretentious. They immediately sat cross-legged on the ground and began to recover their spiritual power.
Tushan Xiaoya's beautiful fox eyes were almost narrowed into a slit when she smiled, and her narrow eyes looked even more slender. It feels so good to be trusted by others!
In just a cup of tea, Su Xiaoya and the other three had recovered their spiritual power to its peak.
Everyone looked at each other, and Yu Shuheng was the first to pass through the stone gate. This time, he was unwilling to let Su Xiaoya take the risk.
Su Xiaoya pulled her bangs speechlessly and followed suit.
Tushan Xiaoya jumped onto Bai Yiyi's shoulders and walked into the stone gate slowly.
Yu Wenyu looked around and confirmed that there was no danger, then he coughed lightly and stepped into the stone gate. The person who was left behind naturally had to be more alert, and Yu Wenyu was quite satisfied with his own alertness.
Behind the stone gate, a stone chamber appeared.
The entire stone chamber was so empty that one could almost hear one's own heartbeat, and it was also so empty that one felt endless loneliness.
To be precise, this stone chamber is square, with a side length of about 100 meters. The four walls, roof and floor of the stone chamber are all made of bluestone.
Inside the stone chamber, there is nothing else except a cylindrical water mirror about 5 meters high and 3 meters in diameter standing in the center.
The surface of the water mirror is as smooth as a polished stone, like a mirror shining with mysterious light, as if it can reflect the mysteries of all things in the world.
Yu Shuheng approached curiously, but found that the water mirror did not reflect his own shadow, but instead a world tree that blocked out the sun and the sky.
The trunk of the World Tree was extremely thick, like a towering mountain, reaching straight into the sky. The crown of the tree was like a huge green umbrella, with dense branches and leaves intertwined together, like a green ocean, as if to cover everything.
Upon closer inspection, one can see that the leaves of the World Tree are sparkling with a strange light.
These lights are different. Some are as green as emeralds, as if they contain endless vitality; some are as bright as gems, emitting dazzling brilliance; and some burn like flames, full of fiery energy. Each leaf seems to contain endless mysteries, which makes people marvel.
Next to this mirror, a line of flamboyant Chinese characters is engraved on it like a swimming dragon. The handwriting is vigorous and powerful, as if it possesses some kind of mysterious power.
Yu Shuheng looked carefully and saw the words written on it: "Give up one, gain one."
Yu Shuheng could not help but frown, thinking to himself: "Give up one, gain the other? What does this mean?"
He stared at the line of words, trying to decipher the deeper meaning between the lines, but he could not get the point.
While Yu Shuheng was thinking hard, Su Xiaoya saw that he didn't move at all, as if he was completely attracted by something, so she simply walked up to Yu Shuheng and stood beside him, looking at the mirror curiously.
However, something unexpected happened. When Su Xiaoya stood in front of the mirror, the mirror did not react at all. It did not flash strange light like it did to Yu Shuheng, nor did it show any image.
"Huh? What's going on?" Su Xiaoya opened her mouth in surprise and looked at the water mirror with suspicion.
However, no matter how she looked left and right, up and down, she still saw nothing.
This really pissed off Su Xiaoya, who couldn't help but complain in her heart: "This broken water mirror, is it discriminating? What's wrong with me? Did I dig up its ancestors' graves, or kill its parents? How come it doesn't even deserve to have a picture taken?"
Not because she was afraid of affecting Yu Shuheng, Su Xiaoya was determined to give this broken water mirror a beating...
Seeing Yu Shuheng and Su Xiaoya walk in front of the water mirror and stand there like they were under a spell, motionless and silent, Yu Wenyu and Bai Yiyi could not help but look at each other, feeling curious.
After the two looked at each other, they stepped forward at the same time and walked in front of the water mirror.
"Huh?" Bai Yiyi looked at the picture in the water mirror and couldn't help but exclaimed.
I saw two white foxes in the water mirror. They were snow-white with silky hair. Behind each white fox, there were six big furry tails swaying gently with their movements, as if they were dancing a graceful dance.
As their nine-tailed fox clan advances one level, they can grow an extra tail. Now, Bai Yiyi and Tushan Xiaoya are both sixth-level monsters (equivalent to the human race's refining period), so naturally they both have six tails.
Bai Yiyi's eyes widened in astonishment. He was clearly standing here in human form, but the water mirror reflected his true form - a six-tailed white fox!
What exactly is going on?
Tushan Xiaoya was no less shocked than Bai Yiyi. Although she was showing her true form as a fox, she only revealed one tail. However, in the water mirror, her true strength was revealed - a six-tailed white fox.
At the same time, Yu Wen Zhangyu was also looking at the scene in the water mirror with shock.
In the water mirror, the image of the emperor was vivid, as if it was right in front of him. If it weren't for the fact that the face was clearly his own, Yu Wenyu would definitely have thought it was a portrait of the emperor on the mural of the imperial mausoleum for people to worship.
Yu Wenyu couldn't help but look at the water mirror column with curiosity. Eh? There was a towering tree, two six-tailed white foxes, a statue of the emperor, and then, nothing else?
This, this is too weird, right? There is no image of Su Xiaoya in the entire water mirror.
Yu Wen Zhangyu didn't believe it and walked around the water mirror cylinder again and again, but there was indeed no image of Su Xiaoya.
Uh?
What's wrong? Is the water mirror broken?
Looking at the water mirror and then at Su Xiaoya, Yu Wenxuan was dumbfounded.
At this time, Bai Yiyi, Tushan Xiaoya and Yu Shuheng also noticed something strange and looked at Su Xiaoya.
Why is there such a difference in treatment?
Everyone immediately looked at Su Xiaoya's feet: "Uh! There's a shadow!"
"It's not an illusion!"
Su Xiaoya's face darkened. This broken water mirror was just here to disgust her. Was it treating her as a "non-human"? She was not a ghost, what was going on?
Su Xiaoya was so angry that she almost died.
Yu Shuheng and the others were dumbfounded - Su Xiaoya herself was standing right here, so why was there nothing in the water mirror?
Did Su Xiaoya offend Shui Jing?
Or did Su Xiaoya offend some big boss behind the level?
Really, I don’t understand.
Suddenly, Yu Shuheng's face darkened. He thought of the words next to the World Tree on the water mirror: "Give up one, gain one."
Could it be that "give up one" means giving up Su Xiaoya? What kind of bullshit is this? When Yu Shuheng thought of this, he could no longer bear it and punched Shui Jing directly.
Su Xiaoya is the only relative he recognizes and the person he is willing to protect at the cost of his life, so he would rather destroy this level than allow anyone to hurt Su Xiaoya in any way.
Yu Shuheng's punch was so powerful that it was like a drop in the ocean. Yu Shuheng's fist actually went straight through the water mirror.
Looking back at the water mirror, I could see a wave of water ripples, just like a stone falling into the lake and creating ripples...
Yu Shuheng retracted his fist in astonishment, and the water mirror was restored intact.
At this moment, the water mirror shone brightly, and an illusory voice sounded: "This level is called the 'Original Water Mirror'. All things in the world will show their true form before the water mirror."
Everyone was shocked, and Yu Shuheng also calmed down, took a deep breath, tried to calm his emotions, and kept reminding himself: deal with urgent matters first, and deal with urgent matters later.
But "all things in the world show their true images in front of the water mirror", but Su Xiaoya is not there! Could it be that Su Xiaoya is not a thing in the world? Even if it is a ghost, isn't it also a ghost cultivator? There should also be an image.
As expected, caring too much will lead to confusion!
But how can it not be chaotic...
Ugh!
Yu Shuheng felt that his life was really difficult!
Just as Yu Shuheng was struggling, the voice sounded again, as if reminding or instructing: "Give up one, gain one, you need to understand it carefully, and don't let one leaf blind you."
Su Xiaoya was dumbfounded as soon as the mysterious voice appeared - so, she didn't exist at all!
What kind of broken level is this?
call!
Su Xiaoya couldn't help but stretched out her hand and pinched her eyebrows, trying her best to calm her mind. Suddenly, an idea came to her mind - could she not be in this space?
Thinking of the laws of space and time that I had comprehended, I was a little speechless. Could I be so powerful?
However, Su Xiaoya was not ready to verify anything, nor did she want to change anything. She could not expose the vast starry sky in her sea of consciousness...
Su Xiaoya frowned and thought for a moment, then her eyes suddenly lit up: "'Give up one, gain one', doesn't it mean 'willing to give up'? Willing to give up, willing to give up, only by giving up can you gain! Could it be that we should give up the distracting thoughts in our hearts in order to get the opportunity to pass the level?"
Everyone thought it made sense, and they all calmed down and put aside all distracting thoughts.
At this moment, Su Xiaoya seemed to have opened up her Ren and Du meridians. Her thoughts flashed again and again, and became clearer and clearer. When Yu Shuheng's punch penetrated the water mirror just now, the ripples on the mirror were not just illusions. The cool touch of her fingertips across the water was still there, but the fist had indeed sunk into the seemingly thin water curtain. This sense of contradiction exploded in her mind at this moment.
"It's neither real nor illusory..." She tapped her palm unconsciously with her fingertips. Suddenly, she looked up with a gleam in her eyes. "It's the wrinkles of space! It's like folding two pieces of paper in half. The paper that seems to be stuck together actually hides another world!"
Su Xiaoya was like Sherlock Holmes, analyzing the situation bit by bit for everyone: "Just now, Yu Shuheng punched through the water mirror, but the water mirror was real like ripples on the water. Therefore, this water mirror is neither real nor a projection, but another space!"
Uh!
This is actually a folding space?
Everyone suddenly realized.
It turned out to be the case.
Before Su Xiaoya finished speaking, the water mirror suddenly trembled violently. Fine lines appeared on the originally smooth mirror surface, like a crumpled brocade slowly stretching out, and the ground under everyone's feet also rippled, as if they were stepping on a shaking lake.
Yu Shuheng, who was at the front, looked down and saw that the soles of his boots were half immersed in the reflection of the world in the mirror. The tips of his boots could even touch the phantom leaves hanging from the tree in the mirror.
"Folding space..." Bai Yiyi couldn't help but muttered. As soon as he finished speaking, the scene in the water mirror suddenly shifted - the World Tree that was originally level with everyone was bent at an angle that defied common sense. The trunk was twisted into a spiral in the mirror, like a giant python poking out from another dimension.
At this moment, the World Tree in the center of the water mirror suddenly burst out with a stream of glass-colored light. The light meandered down the trunk of the tree, washing out a bluestone path at the junction of the mirror and reality. The edge of the stone was still stained with crystal water droplets. Upon closer inspection, the water droplets were actually wrapped in miniature nebulae, which were clearly the condensed form of spatial force.
"Congratulations on seeing through the illusion." The ethereal voice sounded with a smile, "But this test is more than just breaking through."
Yu Shuheng's eyes suddenly fixed. He looked at the world tree in the mirror that faintly resonated with his spiritual power, and suddenly raised his hand to make a seal. As the finger gestures changed, the golden flames rising from his body, the flowing earthy yellow halo, and the leaping electric light gradually extinguished, and finally only a touch of warm green lingering around his body - he actually took the initiative to seal all spiritual powers except for the wood element.
"So that's how it is." He whispered to himself. When he punched through the water mirror just now, he realized that only wood spiritual power could resonate with the world tree in the mirror, and spiritual power of other attributes would only be bounced back when hitting the mirror. At this moment, he poured all his strength into the wood element, and the spiritual power in his body suddenly surged like a flood, flowing along the meridians to the palm of his hand.
The moment the first wisp of wood spiritual power touched the water mirror, the mirror surface suddenly "clicked" and a crack appeared, and a fresh scent of grass and trees gushed out of the crack.
Then, the World Tree in the mirror actually began to "grow" - countless green vines stretched out from the trunk, interweaving into stairs inside and outside the mirror. Each step glowed with a faint fluorescence, and when you stepped on it, you could feel the vitality of grass and trees spreading through your body along the soles of your feet.
Su Xiaoya was amazed. It was clear that half of the stairs were in the mirror, and half were suspended in the air in reality, but they were connected to form a stable pathway.
She looked down at the palm of her hand, where a faint water-type spiritual light was lingering - when she had just cracked the mystery of space, the water-type spiritual power in her body had spontaneously boiled up, and now it echoed with the water light flowing in the mirror.
"Everyone's path is hidden in their own origin." Yu Shuheng suddenly turned around and said as he stepped onto the first wooden step. The steps under his feet came into contact with the wood spirit power, and tiny white flowers bloomed, extending directly to Su Xiaoya's feet.
Yu Shuheng actually planned to use the characteristics of his world tree to take Su Xiaoya directly through the level.
Su Xiaoya already had some guesses in her mind, and with her understanding of the rules of space, she had long seen through all the illusions.
To be precise, the moment Su Xiaoya stepped into the stone chamber, she instinctively applied the rules of space and became one with the space.
Therefore, for Su Xiaoya now, traveling freely in any space is as easy as eating and drinking.
Su Xiaoya stepped steadily onto the stairs under the gaze of Bai Yiyi and the other two...
Everyone suddenly understood. It turns out that the water mirror is not only a barrier of space, but also a mirror that reflects the origin. Only by accepting the purest spiritual power attribute of oneself can the folded space open up a path for you.
Yu Shuheng saw Su Xiaoya climbing up the stairs with his own eyes, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and feel completely relieved.
Looking back, Yu Shuheng looked at the wooden steps rising step by step, and in a trance he saw the scene of the witch clan's mustard seed space again.
At that time, he followed Wu Xian step by step to the top of the World Tree. The stairs under his feet were also condensed from the World Tree. However, the top of the World Tree at that time was desolate and vast, and even the spiritual medicine was full of poison...
The one in front of us exudes vitality and the unique agility of the avenue of space.
When the last person stepped onto the stairs, the water mirror suddenly retreated, turning into a stream of light that merged into the rings of the World Tree. Everyone looked back and saw that the place where they had just stood had turned into a deep starry sky, and the stairs under their feet extended towards the rotating nebula at the top of the World Tree.