The quest for a quilt is fraught with hardship.
Footsteps approached, and the two became alert. Looking closely, they saw that it was Bai Yuqi. He rushed over and only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that Huaiwen was safe and sound.
Bai Yuqi caught a glimpse of the Fairy Sorrow Grass in Huaiwen's hand, and he was both surprised and delighted: "Ajun, how did you find it?"
Huaiwen looked down at the Fairy Worry Grass in his hand and joked, "Then we have to thank this monster in the forest."
"A monster?" Bai Yuqi asked in surprise.
Huaiwen didn't want Bai Yuqi to worry too much, so she brushed it off with just a few words. Instead, she asked Bai Yuqi if he had discovered or encountered anything on his way there.
Bai Yuqi nodded and said seriously, "Besides us, it seems there is another group of people in this forest."
Bai Yuqi recalled that after they separated, he wandered alone through the forest. In the silence, he heard voices coming from the darkness. From their conversation, he could roughly guess that they were looking for a tomb. However, in the illusory realm, they could be teleported without realizing it, causing them to lose their bearings and search for a long time without finding it.
But who would bury someone in a virtual mirror and even build a grave there? There must be something strange about this.
After summarizing the situation to Huaiwen in a few words, Bai Yuqi asked Huaiwen to bring out the red spider lily, which was somewhat shiny: "It seems that the strangeness of this illusory mirror is not just that there is a grave. We need to be careful."
The moonlight was half-hidden. Before re-entering the primeval forest, to prevent them from getting separated again and to ensure they could quickly find their companions if they did, Bai Yuqi had Huaiwen summon the spirit butterfly and cast his tracking spell on it. This way, Bai Yuqi could track Huaiwen's location using the spirit butterfly's location.
Then, Bai Yuqi asked Xuan Ye if he had any guiding spirits.
Xuan Ye's lips curled slightly, revealing a smile: "I don't need it."
In pitch blackness, with no light to guide them, it would be difficult for those who got separated to find each other again. Bai Yuqi carefully examined Xuan Ye, feeling something was off, but politely inquired, "So, how do you plan to contact us? Through spirit communication?"
Xuan Ye chuckled lightly, "As long as I can find A-Jun, that's enough. Besides—if you don't get lost, A-Jun can just go find you."
Bai Yuqi: "..."
Huaiwen stepped in to smooth things over: "Senior brother, he's my little follower. I have a way to find him. Don't worry."
Bai Yuqi frowned. Although spiritual communication was not something that ordinary cultivators could learn or master, tracking techniques were a fundamental skill for cultivators, and everyone had to learn them. It was just that some people learned them well, and some did not.
In Bai Yuqi's eyes, Xuan Ye's aura, from the inside out, did not match that of a cultivator, nor did he seem like a member of the Human-Demon Bureau. No one from the Human-Demon Bureau would come out empty-handed! Especially not suddenly appearing at Fengqin Mountain. Therefore, Bai Yuqi had to increase his vigilance towards Xuan Ye.
The red spider lily in Huaiwen's hand suddenly glowed. The three exchanged a glance and tacitly walked into the jungle.
Upon entering the primeval forest, a refreshing scent greets you, invigorating the mind and making you move involuntarily.
Their bodies seemed to be controlled, moving straight in one direction. Bai Yuqi picked up a piece of wood from the ground, lit it, and followed the firelight. They saw that what awaited them ahead were man-eating flowers.
Its menacing barbs and drooling appearance reveal that the carnivorous plant is very satisfied with its lured prey.
Huaiwen remembered the appearance of the man-eating flower very clearly. She remembered that in the "Mirror" game at Zuimenglou, those who failed to pass the level were swallowed alive.
Huaiwen looked up at Xuan Ye. She wanted to ask him a few questions about the man-eating flower, but it wasn't appropriate to ask now.
When she came to her senses, she saw Bai Yuqi's sword slice through the man-eating flowers, and a series of man-eating flowers fell to the ground with their heads severed. The refreshing scent faded, and they stopped.
Bai Yuqi sheathed his sword and sighed, "This illusory forest is fraught with danger. You must be very careful."
Huaiwen nodded knowingly, but Xuan Ye didn't even raise an eyelid. However, as he looked at the man-eating flowers on the ground, he seemed to think of something, and his expression became somewhat deep.
Bai Yuqi saw all of this, but he didn't ask any questions. He just told the two of them to continue following him forward.
The red spider lily shone brightly once again, and the shine continued.
Thinking that Pei Chaoqin was nearby, the group hurried along. Unexpectedly, Huaiwen felt herself stepping into thin air again. Her eyes changed drastically, and she grabbed Xuan Ye and Bai Yuqi tightly. However, she did not expect that this time, it was not a transfer, but an entry into a completely new space.
The place was quite spacious, but there was a ring of sealing talismans in the center. Since Xuan Ye and Bai Yuqi were not with Huaiwen, she had to go forward herself to find out what was going on.
Those sealing talismans are incredibly powerful, so whatever is sealed here must be extremely malevolent and not to be underestimated. The presence of a tomb within the illusory mirror is strange, and the presence of such a powerful suppressing seal only adds to the mystery.
boom--
The entire space is trembling! Someone is breaking the formation!
The vibrations continued, causing Huaiwen to stagger and fall, but she struggled to regain her balance. At that very moment, the sealing talismans enveloped Huaiwen, glowing brightly.
Under the powerful spell, Huaiwen lost consciousness and disappeared from this place.
A sleepless night is approaching; no one can be without regrets.
A fallen leaf landed on Huaiwen's face. She gently picked it up, loosely opening her eyes. It was a bald cypress. She couldn't help but take a deep breath of fresh air, thinking to herself—this place is truly full of vitality.
She slowly got up, looked around, and saw golden bald cypress trees everywhere.
It's autumn, she thought.
However, Huaiwen clearly remembered that it was summer.
Confused, Huaiwen took two steps forward and then felt unwell. She looked down at her body and immediately sensed something was wrong.
What's going on? Is she a man now?
Huaiwen first ran to the edge of the pool and looked at his reflection. Sure enough, it was a handsome male face. Huaiwen stared at his reflection in the pool for a long time, lost in thought.
Thinking about it carefully, after she was surrounded and knocked unconscious by those talismans, she woke up in a completely new place. This was not the Void Realm; there were no bald cypress trees anywhere in the Void Realm.
If she was transferred due to the illusory realm, she should be within the illusory realm, and she should be herself, not waking up as someone else. It's truly strange. Huaiwen sighed, only able to say that the illusory realm was too elusive, and that those talismans had done something to her.
Right now, she should first find out where Xuan Ye and Bai Yuqi are.
She had only taken a few steps when something hit the back of her head. She looked back, saw no one, and continued walking, only to be hit on the back of the head again. Huaiwen gasped, and continued walking, her senses fully activated. She swiftly turned around and caught the object that was hitting her.
It is the fruit of the bald cypress.
Suddenly, a bunch of bald cypress berries flew towards her. Fortunately, Huaiwen was agile and dodged them all. Huaiwen focused on the direction from which the berries were flying and threw the few she had caught back at them.
"Bang—"
The fruits collided and exploded.
Then the people appeared—two women. After a few rounds, Huaiwen subdued them, forcing them to stop, and began to scrutinize them.
Seeing that Huaiwen had stopped attacking them, the two people in mid-air, unable to move but unable to come down, couldn't help but quarrel for a few words.
"I told you he was a normal person, but you wouldn't believe me. Now look what happened, you hit the wrong person! He's probably in a lot of pain!"
"This godforsaken place has all sorts of ghosts. How will you know if it's really alive if you don't hit it? What if it turns around and eats you instead of you if you don't hit it? Would you be happy then?"
"That's not what I meant! I meant don't hit people randomly! Oh, that's not what I meant either..."
"You think you're so kind-hearted! You deserve to be a god! Then why don't you find a way to get out of here? You can't even find a grave. I don't understand why Lord Chu Xu arranged for me to come down here with you!"
Standing on the ground, Huaiwen heard them talking about looking for a grave; they were the same group Bai Yuqi had mentioned. And the more he listened to their argument, the more familiar it seemed.
Huaiwen then tentatively asked the two women, "Are you two priests?"
The argument stopped.
One of the women leaned forward, her eyes bright, and asked Huaiwen with a mixture of surprise and delight, "Are you also a priest? What a coincidence! I didn't expect that besides us, someone else was also assigned to the illusory mirror."
"Idiot! You've revealed your identity again!" another woman roared.
Huaiwen had a pretty good idea of what was going on. She coughed twice and asked, "Mo Heng? Rong Yun?"
"My God! You actually know me!" Mo Heng exclaimed with delight.
Rong Yun clenched his fist and pounded Mo Hengdi's head, feeling utterly disappointed and frustrated with his incompetent teammate. Only Huaiwen silently released his control over them.
After arguing for a few more minutes, the two realized they could move again, so they flew down and asked Huaiwen who he was.
After Huaiwen gave his name, the two looked each other over again, the woman turning into a man and the man into a woman, and then they both fell silent.
After a long while, Rong Yun, in a fit of rage, shouted, "What the hell is going on here?!"
Huaiwen shook her head, only Mo Heng appreciated her dress and praised its good workmanship.
However, they couldn't just sit and wait to die. Rong Yun withdrew her helpless mood, and Mo Heng stopped admiring the dresses. Because of their previous experience with Huai Wen, the two of them went straight to the point and told Huai Wen why they had come to the Void Mirror.
Ever since they passed the last test, they have been assigned to work as henchmen under various high officials. Mo Heng and Rong Yun were assigned to the Martial God Chu Xu.
However, once they arrived at Chu Xu Palace, they only saw Chu Xu once, and rarely encountered him at other times. The people they interacted with most frequently were the other people in the palace.
Not long after, Rong Yun and Mo Heng were assigned to find a tomb in the Void Mirror. The people in the hall told them that it was a tomb where a vengeful spirit was suppressed. The vengeful spirit harbored deep resentment, and every now and then, they had to go down to strengthen the seal to prevent it from breaking free.
The people in the temple then taught the two the incantation to suppress the demons, gave them a few more instructions, and waved them off to the mortal realm.
The two hadn't expected the Mirror of Illusion to be such a magical place. They had come down from the realm of gods and spent ages searching for the entrance to the Mirror of Illusion. Once they finally got inside, they started to get lost.
Although they had a map on a leather scroll, the illusory mirror kept moving them, causing them to repeatedly go to the wrong place.
They were just ambushed by a monster in the forest, fought it out, and fled, but ended up here again.
Rong Yun cursed angrily. No wonder the newly promoted junior priests in Chu Xu Palace had all been assigned this task. This thankless and arduous job was naturally given to the newcomers. As he cursed, Rong Yun tugged at his clothes and shouted, "How can I turn back?"
Upon hearing this, Huaiwen tried the alien transformation technique. It proved useless; it seemed they would have to operate under this identity for the time being.
"What should we do now?" Mo Heng asked innocently.
Huaiwen thought for a moment: "Let's find my senior brother and A-Ling first."
Mo Heng was shocked: "Ah Ling is here too?"
Huaiwen nodded: "Have you found anything here?"
Rong Yun said in a muffled voice, "I didn't find anything. All I can see is that this place is beautiful and has a good environment for cultivation."
Indeed, the scenery inside and outside the illusory mirror were completely different, worlds apart. Huaiwen sighed helplessly; everything that had happened was beyond her expectations.
She had no idea what Pei Suqin's purpose was in coming to the Void Mirror.
How many unknowns still await her?
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