Chapter 753 - Life and Death, Reincarnation (1/2)
When the energy seeped into the Heaven Origin Reincarnation Mirror, the unknown innate Qi in Zhong Yue's body suddenly became agitated and lunged over to swallow the energy.
Although the innate Qi was in Zhong Yue's body, he knew nothing about it. This surge of innate Qi had been there ever since he converted his cultivation and arcane energy into innate Qi.
However, he did know that it was not part of his cultivation, his celestial cultivation base had turned into the Innate Celestial Qi, the demon cultivation base turned into the Innate Demon Qi, the Great Sun Golden Crow's Pure Yang Qi into the Innate Tai Yang Qi, and the Star Toad's Pure Yin Qi into the Innate Tai Yin Qi.
These 4 surges of innate Qi could be traced back to his cultivation, with the addition of the fifth innate Qi which was the Innate Lightning Qi he recently cultivated in the Lei Zhe.
Yet, this surge of unknown innate Qi came out of nowhere, with no clear usage. The only thing he knew was that along with his growth in cultivation, this surge of innate Qi would grow stronger as well.
But now, after the innate Qi has engulfed the energy, it was growing stronger at a tremendous rate, almost as if it would triumph over the other innate Qi and dominate above all of them!
Whereas in one of his realms, the Dao Yi Secret Realms, the sword hilt of the shattered imperial sword suddenly sucked the innate Qi into it.
The imperial sword of the last reign of Fuxi Heavenly Monarch, the imperial sword hilt that signified the supremacy of the Heavenly Monarch!
After the sword hilt absorbed the innate Qi, a saber ray suddenly emerged from the broken sword hilt!
A sword hilt with saber ray.
It would have been one of the most peculiar scenes to look at—what was originally a sword had now turned into a saber.
Zhong Yue was also surprised and inspected the sword hilt curiously. Now it seemed like the Fuxi Heavenly Monarch's imperial sword had turned into his third divine saber. Its saber ray was clear as crystal and reflected everything with even more clarity than Realm Monarch Bo Luo's scale.
He looked at himself in the saber ray and saw his own flaws reflected in the saber. In his own reflections, his body, Yuan Shen, blood, totem patterns, and even psyche were broken down to the smallest details.
"So I still have so many flaws." Zhong Yue looked at the flaws in him, but even so, there was no way for him to fix them right now. He had already cultivated to the best of his ability up to this point, even after knowing there was further room for improvement, he was still unable to do so.
This was the limitation of one's knowledge, just knowing the flaws weren't enough, one must still have enough knowledge to know how to fix them.
He glanced around and found himself trapped inside a grand building devoid of life, it was long and narrow like an endless corridor.
He cast the Solar Divine Saber, slashed on the walls but failed to leave even a single impression on it.
It's that durable? No, no, it doesn't feel right. Why can't I understand any of the totem patterns on the walls? What is this place? A world in the mirror?
Zhong Yue remembered that he was sucked into and imprisoned inside a mirror, so he must've still been inside of it.
He raised up the sword hilt and shone the saber ray onto the complex totem patterns on the walls. The deeper he goes, the complexity of the totem patterns grew. Although the totem patterns' nature had been broken down to their simplest form by the saber ray, Zhong Yue still couldn't understand a single thing!
"How is this even possible? They are in their simplest form already and I still can't get anything out of them? What level could they possibly be in? Xin Huo, do you know anything about these totem patterns?" Zhong Yue asked.
Just a split second later, his expression changed drastically and he rushed to check on his Yuan Shen secret realms. The shabby copper lamp was still there, untouched; but the little flame was nowhere to be found!
His heart throbbed in fright, Xin Huo was gone!
The little flame that had been with him for over a few hundred years was missing!
His best friend and his mentor, Xin Huo, was gone just like that. Without him by his side, how would Zhong Yue get through this predicament?
Where did Xin Huo go?
Could it be that along with his identity being revealed as a Fuxi, Xin Huo's presence was also exposed and was taken away?
I mustn't lose myself, keep calm, stay focus!
Zhong Yue calmed his mind and walked forward, he thought, Whoever it was, he didn't take Xin Huo away. I ended up here right after I was sucked into the mirror, if Xin Huo was taken away, the copper lamp would've disappeared along with him as well. So that means Xin Huo should still be in the mirror just like me.
This mirror looks somewhat familiar, hmm, it must be the Heaven Origin Reincarnation Mirror. I've seen it before in the Bo Luo Six Paths World; appearing as a mirror centered by the Six Paths, it is, in truth, a continent created by the late Heavenly Monarch. No wonder I cannot see through the totem patterns on the walls, there is a high chance they are the Heavenly Monarch's totem patterns.
Zhong Yue thought, I am now in one of the many buildings on this continent, only by leaving this place can I proceed in finding Xin Huo!
He sprinted down the endless corridor, twisting through the corners and soon after, he had reached the junction where the corridor separated into three different routes. Zhong Yue randomly picked one and continued, but faced the same situation not long later.
Simply choosing one of the three routes, he continued sprinting and soon met with another junction with three split routes!
A maze! Zhong Yue's psyche shuddered as he realized he was trapped inside of a maze. Totem patterns surged out of his body and marked the walls beside him as he traveled. One route after another, it took some time before he saw his own totem patterns that were on the sides of the walls.
He continued without stopping at the same place for even a second, marking the routes he had taken with the totem patterns while he found his way out of the maze.
Mile after mile, route after route, he couldn't even remember how much time had passed or how far he had gone, or how many routes have he had taken.
Hu—
Countless Yin and Yang lines surged out around him, Zhong Yue sat down in the lotus position and started the divinatory calculation technique to find the path out of the maze.
After a few days, he hopped up from the ground and bolted down the path he found.
Along the way, he had traveled longer and further than he could remember. Suddenly, he stopped and stared at the walls beside him, and on it, he wrote a sentence: