kingnovel Chapter 905: The Mystery of the Mirror of Rebirth
Chapter 905: The Mystery of the Mirror of Rebirth
The frozen surface of the cold pond cracked inch by inch as the laws collided. The fragment of Hongmeng in Yun Yao's palm suddenly burst into a dazzling golden light, dyeing Chu Mochen into a blood-stained shadow. The wanted posters of the Three Thousand God Realms swirled in the void, transforming into thousands of chains, but they were burned to ash the moment they touched the corner of her clothes.
"We must find the truth." Chu Mochen wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and a spatial crack formed at his fingertips. Behind him, Xiao Cui's body was dissipating at a visible speed. The black mark of the Heart-Eating Curse snaked up Yun Yao's wrist like a venomous snake. Yun Yao looked at her gradually transparent palm and suddenly remembered the System Lord's last words: her soul was the embodiment of the Hongmeng Law.
From the depths of the spatial rift came a strange whisper, like countless voices whispering simultaneously in her ears. The moment Yun Yao stepped into the rift, the starry sky suddenly reversed, and the ice beneath her feet transformed into a flowing river of stars. A vast, ancient bronze mirror hovered in the void, but its reflection reflected not their figures, but countless shattered worlds.
"Mirror of Rebirth?" Chu Mochen's pupils suddenly shrank, and he subconsciously stood in front of Yun Yao. "It is rumored that this mirror can reflect all parallel time and space, but every reflection is a trap that devours living beings." Before he finished speaking, dozens of blood-red arms suddenly stretched out from the mirror and wrapped around Yun Yao's ankles like vines.
Yun Yao swung her Law Blade, only to find it crumbled to dust the moment it touched the bloody hand. The arms dragged her rapidly downward. Chu Mochen slashed two with his sword, only to find himself entangled by more arms. Ripples spread across the mirror, dragging the two of them into chaos.
When Yun Yao opened her eyes again, she found herself in a bustling royal palace. Ivy covered the vermilion walls, and lanterns hung in the corridors fluttered in the breeze, reflecting her in her wedding dress. In the bronze mirror, "Yun Yao" smiled softly, a dot of cinnabar between her brows as bright as blood. The woman standing behind her, combing her hair, was none other than Liu Yan'er!
"Sister, you look so beautiful today." Liu Yan'er's voice was eerily gentle, but the wooden comb in her hand slowly transformed into a gleaming dagger. Yun Yao tried to retreat, but found herself unable to control her body. The moment the blade pierced her heart, the scene suddenly changed.
She stood on a scorched earth. Chu Mochen, clad in a black robe, held a longsword pointed at her throat. "The Law of Hongmeng must be controlled by me." His voice was icy and emotionless, and her blood still dripped from the blade. Yun Yao looked down and found that the Law of Destruction was wrapped around her fingertips—it turned out that in this world, she was Chu Mochen's enemy.
"Enough!" Yun Yao roared, the Rule Realm power within her body erupting with a bang. Countless parallel worlds shattered before her eyes, transforming into a sky of stardust. However, just as she thought she was about to break free from the mirror's illusion, a pale hand wrapped around her waist from behind.
"Yao'er, you're finally here." The familiar voice made Yun Yao stiffen. Chu Mochen's face pressed against her ear, but it lacked the warmth of the past. His pupils had turned a strange purple. "Do you think you can escape fate? In fact, from the moment you traveled through time, you were just a chess piece of mine."
Yun Yao turned abruptly, only to find Chu Mochen's body becoming transparent, gradually merging with the reflection in the mirror. The mirrored world distorted again, this time revealing her lying on the operating table. The ECG monitor emitted a long, piercing beep, and above her head, a system interface flashing blue light counted down: "Host's soul is about to dissipate. Do you choose to restart?"
"This is impossible..." Yun Yao stumbled back, bumping into the bronze mirror behind her. The mirror suddenly cracked into spiderweb-like patterns, and countless "Yun Yaos" crawled out from the cracks. They wore different clothes, but all wore the same desperate expressions. One of the "Yun Yaos" grabbed her wrist and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Chu Mochen lied to you! He doesn't care about you at all!"
In the real world, Chu Mochen's spiritual veins were being devoured by the mirror spirit. He looked at Yun Yao's painful expression in the mirror and suddenly smiled. "So that's how it is..." He muttered to himself, and a stream of his lifeblood condensed at his fingertips. "Since you want to see the truth, then watch carefully!"
The moment her essence and blood sank into the mirror, all illusions shattered. Yun Yao saw the true past—when the Hongmeng Universe was on the verge of destruction, Chu Mochen fragmented her soul into countless pieces and sent them into three thousand small worlds. Each time he crossed over, he sought a chance to complete her. And now, the mirror spirit was exploiting her fear, attempting to completely destroy her Dao heart.
"Yun Yao, remember!" Chu Mochen's voice pierced through time and space. "You are the embodiment of the laws of Hongmeng, and I am the Dao that will forever protect you!" His body transformed into a stream of light and sank into Yun Yao's sea of consciousness. The mirror spirit let out an unwilling roar, and the entire Rebirth Mirror began to collapse.
A cosmic star map emerged in Yun Yao's pupils, and the power of the Rule Realm swept across space like a tsunami. She raised her hand and waved it gently, and the laws of the mirror world began to reverse. The blood-red arms that had attacked her now transformed into tiny specks of starlight. The shadow of the mirror spirit dissipated in the power of the law. Before dying, it cried out unwillingly, "Do you think this is the truth? How naive!"
With the Rebirth Mirror completely shattered, Yun Yao and Chu Mochen returned to the real world. Chu Mochen's face was as pale as paper, and half of his spiritual vein had disappeared, but a relieved smile played on his lips. "It's good that you're back," he said softly.
Yun Yao suddenly recalled the last image she'd seen in the mirror—Su Yao lying on the operating table, and the darkness after the countdown ended. She clenched Chu Mochen's hand, a resolve she'd never felt before welling up in her heart. Perhaps the truth had yet to be fully revealed, but at least she was no longer a time traveler at the mercy of others.
In the distance, the three thousand pursuers from the divine realm approached once more. Yun Yao stood up, the power of the laws surging out from her body, forming a dazzling curtain of light behind her. "Chu Mochen, this time, it's my turn to protect you." She turned and smiled, the light in her eyes brighter than ever. And in her sea of consciousness, a mysterious jade slip slowly emerged, engraved with the key to unlocking all the mysteries...