Chapter 1495: The Shame and Annoyance of Lv Qing'er

"Jiang Qing'e, who are you?"

In the great hall where the light was so bright it was almost blinding, the "Jiang Qing'e" who stepped out from the mirror pillar wore a faint smile on her equally exquisite, breathtakingly beautiful face, and the voice she softly uttered echoed through the hall.

Carrying a trace of empty, desolate cold.

Jiang Qing'e's slender, pale hand gripping the sword hilt slowly tightened. Her brilliant golden eyes stared with utter coldness at the figure before her who looked exactly like her, and she said, "A boring trick."

"Jiang Qing'e" shook her head and said, "This question is buried in the deepest part of your heart. Why deceive yourself at this moment?"

"I am Jiang Qing'e, Jiang Qing'e of Luo Lan Mansion, Li Luo's wife, Jiang Qing'e!" Jiang Qing'e said, word by word.

"The name Jiang Qing'e was given to you by Li Taixuan and Dantai Lan. Then who is the real you?" "Jiang Qing'e" said calmly.

Jiang Qing'e's hand gripping the sword hilt let out a creaking sound, and even slender green veins began to bulge out on the back of her hand.

"You were brought out by Li Taixuan and Dantai Lan from the ruins of the Formless Saint Sect. You are a Primordial Seed. You may be the bloodline of that last Sect Master of the Formless Saint Sect, and of course, you may also be..."

"The culprit who caused the Formless Saint Sect's sudden destruction."

From deep within Jiang Qing'e's eyes, a bone-piercing chill surged forth. The heavy sword in her hand, flowing with light, suddenly shot out, and in the blink of an eye, it had already pierced through the chest of the "Jiang Qing'e" before her.

The heavy sword pierced through and stabbed into the mirror pillar behind, emitting a humming sound.

But "Jiang Qing'e" was completely unmoved. The sword wound on her chest rapidly healed. She stared at Jiang Qing'e, the smile at the corner of her lips growing ever richer: "Jiang Qing'e, your heart is in turmoil."

"Because you know that these guesses of mine are also the guesses buried deep in your heart."

"You are afraid, afraid that one day, you might truly lose the name and identity of Jiang Qing'e."

"When that time comes, you will lose Luo Lan Mansion, you will lose Li Taixuan and Dantai Lan, and you will also lose Li Luo."

"You came with nothing, and you will leave with nothing."

She did not finish her last words, because Jiang Qing'e walked forward expressionlessly, stretched out her hand, gripped her throat, and slowly lifted her up.

Jiang Qing'e stared at the figure before her who looked exactly like herself. Coldness flowed through her golden eyes as she slowly said, "No one can strip away Jiang Qing'e's identity and name."

"And no one can make me lose them."

In her eyes, the faces of Li Taixuan and Dantai Lan flashed past, finally settling on Li Luo's face. The warm smile that appeared on his face gradually restored calm to Jiang Qing'e's gaze.

In the end, her hand suddenly clenched tight.

It was as if dazzling light surged forth from Jiang Qing'e's heart. The "Jiang Qing'e" before her, like a reflection in water into which a large stone had suddenly been thrown, was instantly smashed into pieces.

Crack.

The mirror pillar ahead and the mirror hall beneath their feet also began to have cracks spreading rapidly like spiderwebs at this moment, and in a short while, they reached every corner.

Boom!

In the end, everything shattered along with it.

"Li Luo."

"Jiang Qing'e."

Before the clear, bright mirror pillar, Lv Qing'er gazed with slightly furrowed brows at the two figures walking out from within it — it was precisely Li Luo and Jiang Qing'e.

But what made Lv Qing'er's pretty face turn slightly cold was that even at this moment, Li Luo and Jiang Qing'e were holding hands.

In the depths of her heart, did these two still have to show off in front of her?

Lv Qing'er took a deep breath, her chest heaving slightly. But the next moment, her eyes couldn't help but suddenly widen, because she saw Li Luo with one arm around Jiang Qing'e, while his other hand reached out toward her.

On that handsome face, a smile appeared.

"Qing'er, come."

Lv Qing'er gazed at the hand Li Luo extended toward her, and a trace of absent-mindedness inevitably appeared in her beautiful eyes. Perhaps, this was the scene she had most wanted to see in the depths of her heart.

The girl's feelings had already shown signs back at the South Wind Academy, but that ambiguous engagement of Li Luo's had made her hesitate, unsure how to respond.

Yet the fondness in her heart had, with the accumulation of days, grown ever richer and deeper.

And now, meeting again after such a long separation, Lv Qing'er felt a thick, sour bitterness, because she could sense the elevation of the relationship and feelings between Li Luo and Jiang Qing'e.

Therefore, she could only use frost to cover up the sourness and pain deep in her heart.

Seeing Li Luo suddenly in this kind of environment now, even though she knew this was only a projection, Lv Qing'er still, in her absent-mindedness, couldn't help but take a step forward.

But immediately after, she came to her senses.

Then, on that snow-like skin, a fresh red color surged forth, and Lv Qing'er's eyes filled with rising shame and annoyance.

What is Li Luo trying to do?!

One arm around Jiang Qing'e, and still reaching out to her?

A bone-piercing icy cold aura swept out from within Lv Qing'er at this moment. Her beautiful eyes, like Binghu, stared with utter shame and annoyance at Li Luo's handsome face.

"Li Luo, go dream your spring and autumn dream!"

A voice of shame and annoyance, like shards of ice, sprang from between Lv Qing'er's silver teeth. The next moment, a cold current swept out like a tide, directly turning the Li Luo and Jiang Qing'e before her into two ice sculptures.

Bang!

The ice sculptures shattered, fell to the ground, and turned into ice shards all over the floor.

Crack.

At the same time, cracks began to spread from beneath their feet, and after just a few breaths, this mirror hall suddenly shattered.

In the refraction of countless fragments, Lv Qing'er saw her own shame-flushed, blushing cheeks.

What she saw before her — was that her true heart?

Impossible!

Lv Qing'er gritted her teeth, her chest heaving deeply, while simultaneously activating the Holy Ice Seed within her body. A bone-piercing cold spread through her body, and under this cold, even her emotions were being frozen.

In the end, Lv Qing'er gave a cold snort, stepped on Li Luo's face among the fragments, and pressed down hard with the tip of her foot, directly crushing this handsome face into powder all over the ground.

The scene before her eyes also began to change. After just a few breaths, the blinding light scattered, and Jiang Qing'e found herself appearing on an ancient plaza.

And around her, figures kept flashing into existence one after another — they were precisely some of the others who had passed the thirty-second level.

But judging by the number, it was clearly far, far fewer than before.

Clearly, those who made it this far were almost all true elite powerhouses from the major academies.

Of course, the number of people reaching the thirty-third level this time seems slightly higher than before; this can only be attributed to the unpredictable nature of the Mirror Tower trial, whose patterns remain elusive.

"Jiang Qinge-sis."

At that moment, a familiar voice came from behind; Jiang Jiang Qinge turned her head and saw Li Luo's figure reflected in her eyes, causing her originally sharp and stunning face to soften involuntarily.

Then she noticed Li Luo's gaze avoiding hers, as if guilty, and she immediately asked with curiosity: "What did you just experience?"

"Huh? Hahaha, it was incredibly dangerous just now—I never expected the trial here to be so cruel, but luckily my inner resolve was firm and unshaken." Li Luo laughed evasively, his eyes darting.

Could he really talk about what he just experienced?

Moreover, he would never admit those were his deepest thoughts—this must be one of the Mirror Tower's trials testing one's will.

Li Luo didn't want Jiang Jiang Qinge to keep pressing him with questions, so he quickly turned the subject: "What about you, Jiang Qinge-sis? What did you encounter before that mirror pillar?"

Jiang Jiang Qinge's expression grew slightly uneasy, then she changed the topic abruptly: "This must be the thirty-third level, right?"

She, too, had no intention of telling Li Luo what she had experienced.

Li Luo nodded in understanding, his gaze sweeping the area, and then he spotted Lü Qing'er, Li Hongyou, and Instructor Xi Chan standing on the ancient platform.

They, too, had passed the mirror pillar trial of the thirty-second level.