Chapter 1494: Mirror Pillar, Questioning the True Heart

The moment Li Luo stepped onto the Mirror Altar, a dazzling surge of light flooded his vision, forcing his eyes to narrow involuntarily. A few breaths later, when he opened his eyes, the scene before him had already changed.

Li Luo looked around and found that he seemed to be inside a great hall. The hall was brilliantly lit, for the floor was paved with a mirror-like surface that clearly reflected his own figure.

And the most striking feature was, at the front, a mirror pillar several zhang wide.

The mirror pillar flowed with mystic light, reflecting everything.

On the mirror pillar, Li Luo saw four ancient characters.

"True Heart Mirror Pillar"!

Li Luo was slightly stunned. This was the trial of the thirty-second floor of the Heavenly Mirror Pagoda?

And just as he was wondering, a stream of information descended from the heavens and fell into his mind.

"The True Heart Mirror Pillar can reflect the deepest depths of one's heart, pointing straight at the desires and flaws within. Answer the call of your true heart, and you may enter the thirty-third floor."

Li Luo muttered, "Quite the variety of tricks."

This Heavenly Mirror Pagoda truly lived up to being a sect's foundation that the Faceless Holy Sect had built at enormous cost. Such a supreme treasure would be enough to make any Heavenly King lineage salivate.

After all, under these various trials, many with exceptional talent and character would emerge, and for top powers, the cultivation of talent and the constant emergence of fresh blood was the very foundation of their enduring existence.

Li Luo kept his guard up as he slowly stepped forward and stopped before the dazzlingly bright mirror pillar.

Then he saw that, within the flowing light of the mirror pillar, a figure slowly emerged.

It was a youth with grey-white hair and an exceedingly handsome face. His frame was straight as a pine, his features sharply defined, his gaze somewhat gentle, yet when the smile faded from his eyes, he seemed to grow sharp.

"What a peerlessly handsome man." Li Luo couldn't help but sigh. No wonder so many girls kept casting covetous glances his way.

"Indeed."

And just as Li Luo was praising himself, a burst of laughter suddenly rang out within this vast, empty mirror hall.

Li Luo's gaze sharpened, and he saw that the figure within the mirror pillar, identical to himself, had actually begun to smile. That smile brought Li Luo an immense sense of familiarity—for after all, it was his own smile.

Then, the "Li Luo" within the mirror pillar actually took a step, and under Li Luo's gaze, walked right out of the mirror pillar and stood before him.

Two Li Luos faced each other in this mirror hall, and the atmosphere suddenly grew somewhat strange.

Li Luo regarded the "Li Luo" before him with great interest and said, "So you're my true heart? Then what flaw does my true heart have?"

"Li Luo" smiled faintly and said, "You really don't know?"

"I'm all ears." Li Luo said with a smile.

"Li Luo" said calmly, "The flaw in your true heart is Jiang Qing'e. For her sake, you have suppressed your own desires and emotions, denying your true heart."

"How have I suppressed my inner desires and emotions for her sake?"

"Then how do you treat Lv Qing'er?"

Li Luo's gaze sharpened, and he said slowly, "We are friends."

"Naive. Between you and Lv Qing'er, there may be many possibilities—even enemies—but the one thing you can never be is friends." "Li Luo" scoffed.

"Lv Qing'er once accompanied you as well. She gave you much help. She deeply loves you. She even went to the Golden Dragon Mountain to receive the inheritance of the 'Holy Ice Seed,' and her original reason was simply to become stronger, so she could keep pace with you and do more for you."

"And yet now, for Jiang Qing'e's sake, you cast aside her feelings. In the end, all you'll do is force her to freeze her own emotions, turning her into a cold, unfeeling ice sculpture."

"Li Luo, you truly are cruel."

"Taking a once lively, ethereal young girl and turning her into that cold, frozen figure." Li Luo laughed, yet his words were like the sharpest blades in the world, cutting at the softest part of the heart.

And as "Li Luo" spoke, from the mirror pillar behind him, light refracted outward and, before Li Luo, formed a graceful silhouette.

It was Lv Qing'er, once of the Sacred Mystic Star Academy.

The young girl wore the academy uniform of the Sacred Mystic Star Academy, which wrapped around her slender, graceful figure. On her beautiful, captivating face hung a lively, mischievous smile. This sight made Li Luo feel a pang of nostalgia, for this was the Lv Qing'er from his earliest memories.

That Lv Qing'er—beautiful, proud, and brimming with liveliness.

But the Lv Qing'er of today no longer possessed the girlish innocence of before; the lively mischief in her eyes had gradually been covered by a layer of frost.

This frost came from the power of the Holy Ice Seed within her, and also from the severance of emotions between her and Li Luo.

Li Luo gazed silently at the young girl's figure.

And "Li Luo" continued, "Li Luo, you shouldn't suppress these feelings for Jiang Qing'e's sake. You should release them."

"Release them?" Li Luo murmured to himself.

A smile appeared on "Li Luo"'s face. He nodded vigorously and said, "As long as it's your choice, Jiang Qing'e won't object in the slightest. She'll support you too."

"So don't bother with those so-called betrothals and responsibilities. Don't be bound by such useless things."

"Open your heart, accept them, release our desires. The future you will be the one and only existence under heaven and earth. You deserve to have anything."

Li Luo's gaze grew slightly dazed, and he said blankly, "Them?"

"Yes! Not just Lv Qing'er!"

The expression on "Li Luo"'s face grew increasingly fervent. With a sweep of his hand, Li Luo saw one after another graceful silhouette, each with her own charms, all absolute beauties, step gracefully out of the mirror pillar.

Gazing at those silhouettes, Li Luo's expression suddenly became extraordinarily colorful.

For among them, he saw Cai Wei, her face like peach blossoms, alluring and captivating.

He also saw Bai Bai Mengmeng, pure and lovely, petite and adorable.

And the Eldest Princess, regal in bearing, her curves full and shapely.

And Qin Yi, her beauty breathtaking, ethereal as a water fairy.

Oh? And Li Li Lingjing, a black snake coiled around her wrist, her aura exotically bewitching to the extreme.

Li Hongyou, her brows coldly beautiful, yet radiating a hint of gentle compliance.

And even Instructor Xi Chan, wearing the instructor's uniform, her face veiled in thin gauze, appearing even more coolly aloof and intellectual.

Li Luo stared blankly at those graceful silhouettes, then looked again at the fervently excited "Li Luo." He was silent for a few breaths, then clenched his hand. The Dragon Elephant Thunder Blade appeared in his grip, a flash of thunder light blazed to life, and the blade light slashed down violently.

"Shit."

"This is my true heart?"

"What the hell are you?"

"Die!"

Accompanying the flash of the blade was Li Luo's furious, exasperated roar.

And while Li Luo was raging on his side, in the same Mirror Palace, Jiang Jiang Qinge was also staring at the figure that had walked out from the mirror pillar before her.

It was also a "Jiang Jiang Qinge."

Jiang Jiang Qinge watched with cold eyes, while the "Jiang Jiang Qinge" who had walked out of the mirror pillar merely smiled faintly and said, "Jiang Jiang Qinge, hello."

Jiang Jiang Qinge gave no reply, silently raising the heavy sword in her hand and pointing it at the other party.

And "Jiang Jiang Qinge" showed no sign of fear, merely saying, "Jiang Jiang Qinge, you need not be so harsh with yourself. I have only one question for you."

"She" stared at Jiang Jiang Qinge, and her soft voice rang out in the empty Mirror Palace.

"Jiang Jiang Qinge."

"Who are you?"