Chapter 615: The Great Secret of Reincarnation, the Western Kunlun Mirror That Shifts Cosmic Time

"Brother… what is this?"

Seeing Yan Shu, united with his sword, chased Brother Qian Chen to the edge of the atmosphere and could see this scene where the virtual space of outer space overlapped with reality; he could not help but whistle in amazement.

Brother Qian Chen nodded slightly: "The people of this era use virtual reality technology to create AIs that manage the virtual network, acting like gods. This is the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array, established by an organization called the Dao Gate, which has conferred over three hundred and sixty star deities!"

"The people of this world are truly… utterly insane!"

Seeing Yan Shu marveled: "In any realm under the Heavenly Court, anyone who dared such an act would already have been annihilated by the Heavenly Court!"

"The ancient Heavenly Realm, supreme among all realms, most abhors anyone daring to establish a new heaven!"

"Why did you come here, brother?" Seeing Yan Shu watched the new deities revolving within the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array and could sense the hidden killing intent in outer space.

Brother Qian Chen's spiritual sense swept across, sensing the countless ultra-tech weapons layered along the orbital paths—so numerous they could cleanse this poor planet eight times over—and he felt helpless at the madness of humanity in this world.

He finally understood why the Central District government completely ignored the autonomous regions.

With trusts and conglomerates having grown to this extent, the Central District could only maintain a suppressive posture, hastening to flee this powder keg of a planet and head toward the stars and seas!

"Ninety percent of the greatest threats to us in this world are right here. If we don't give them some trouble, these 'magic artifacts' looming from above will strike us no matter where we go!"

Brother Qian Chen led Seeing Yan Shu closer to the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array, introducing him to the ultra-tech 'magic artifacts' installed by the Dao Gate within the array, and the methods deployed by the Buddhist Sect and other factions, as well as extraterrestrials, beyond it.

"This is the 'Daoist Yangshen-Slaying Mirror'!" Brother Qian Chen pointed to the orbit of Mercury, closest to the Sun, where a vast spectacle composed of countless nearly perfectly smooth light-focusing materials stretched before them.

Each mirror in this spectacle was large enough to cover the entire Qinghai Lake; over one hundred thousand such mirrors formed a colossal array.

Seeing Yan Shu looked at the mirrors, constantly channeling immense solar energy, and said with difficulty: "Though the materials are ordinary, the sheer audacity alone makes this rival the pinnacle of magic treasures in our world!"

Even though such a massive, bloated artifact seemed like something a single Yin Shen True Person could destroy!

But Seeing Yan Shu knew that even with the swift flight of a Yuan Shen Zhenxian True Person, it would take nearly half a minute to reach the 'Daoist Yangshen-Slaying Mirror' from this planet.

If this mirror were operated by a Daoist Yangshen True Person, even halfway there, it could gather boundless solar true fire to intercept the Yuan Shen Zhenxian.

Such immense spiritual energy, even if drawn solely from the Sun's own energy, already carried formidable destructive power; if that Daoist Yangshen True Person wielded divine arts using solar energy, even a Yuan Shen Zhenxian Immortal would find it nearly impossible to approach—burning mountains and boiling seas would be as easy as flipping a hand!

"This mirror was placed by a race from another planet in this world… roughly nine thousand six hundred years ago!"

Brother Qian Chen pointed toward the southern gate of the constellation, a star system with three stars: "That planet, even at the speed of a Yuan Shen Zhenxian True Person, would take over four years to reach. Because the planet orbits three suns, solar conditions are wildly chaotic. Across all realms, planets inhabited by humanity—including the Earth Immortal Realm and even this one beneath our feet—are mostly governed by regular sunrise and sunset, with stable cycles…"

"This is the principle of Heaven's Dao. Could there truly be places that defy this order?" Seeing Yan Shu asked curiously.

"The civilization I speak of is exactly such a place! There, not only does the Sun reverse its course, with centuries of unbroken daylight, but even three Suns circling chaotically in the sky are possible!"

Brother Qian Chen couldn't help but laugh silently, thinking to himself: "Just by looking at this planet, I know this world's creation must be tied to Tai Shang…"

"Just like the Tai Shang Heavenly Demon Body, always with three heads and eight arms, born from red lotus flowers! Hmph… the Dao Chen Pearl seals Tai Shang's Dao Reversal? I think it's clearly Tai Shang's cosplay obsession."

"Who knows if the Dao Reversal isn't something Tai Shang cooked up after reading my memories of 'The Call of Cthulhu'?"

"At the very least, the mere existence of the Tai Shang Heavenly Demon must be hinting at something."

Brother Qian Chen recalled his own body—the Dao Chen Pearl—and that damned sense of déjà vu; completely ignoring how much fun he himself had had, he added another mark against Tai Shang in his mind!

Seeing Yan Shu stared at the southern gate of the constellation for a long while, shook his head, and still couldn't picture what it looked like when the Sun wandered wildly across the sky; he merely changed expression and sighed: "With such chaotic Heaven's Dao, yet life still persists—and even such magnificent artifacts are forged! Truly, they possess great audacity and great perseverance!"

"Roughly ten thousand years ago, the civilization of that star system once sought to seize this planet, escaping the nightmare of its three suns!"

Brother Qian Chen walked beside the outer-space armed satellites, listing them off like a shopkeeper: "The ancient civilization of this world, to defend against invasion, installed a device deep within the planetary core capable of reversing the magnetic poles—called the 'Two Yizhou Guang Disc.' Once activated, it would instantly flip the planet's magnetic poles."

"Ten thousand years ago, when this planet was invaded, the ancient civilization launched this method with reckless courage, causing crustal displacement, continental upheaval, and nearly perished alongside the alien invaders!"

"And this 'Nine Heavens' Secret Demon Talisman'!"

"This was created fifty thousand years ago by a civilization that fell into demonic ways, causing humanity to nearly shed its physical form entirely, wandering the earth through the mind, drowning in self-created illusions, and stealing others' hearts as their own. To save themselves, they created this 'magic artifact' to restrict and control humanity's own demonic thoughts and minds. Now hidden in the planetary core, it monitors humanity's collective subconscious through the planet's magnetic field!"

"And such apocalyptic relics of ancient technology can be traced back as far as nine hundred thousand years. Aside from the artifacts built by modern humanity, there are already dozens left over from ancient civilizations!"

"And these ancient civilizations either vanished completely, fled to other stars, or even originated from other planets—all left behind their methods here… Do you know why this planet is so special in this world?"

Seeing Yan Shu thought for a moment: "Could it be related to the Western Kunlun Origin you mentioned?"

Brother Qian Chen nodded: "Exactly. All these civilizations once obtained a bronze ancient mirror; every being or civilization that believed it could control the mirror ultimately had to flee from it. And all the methods they left behind were meant to monitor this object!"

"What is the origin of this ancient Western Kunlun Mirror?"

Seeing Yan Shu mused: "And the Mirror-Light Realm you mentioned—Western Kunlun—is that a coincidence? Western Kunlun, whether in the Earth Immortal Realm or the ancient Heavenly Realm, has always been an extremely ancient and mysterious place. Could this mirror be connected to it?"

"You guessed right," Brother Qian Chen said calmly. "I suspect that bronze ancient mirror is the Primordial Spirit Treasure—Western Kunlun Mirror!"

"Sssss…"

Seeing Yan Shu yanked out several of his own beard hairs, gasping in pain, trembling: "Wasn't this mirror lost since ancient times? It was once the sacred treasure of the Wang Mu's Kingdom. Later, when the Immortal Qin conquered the Wang Mu's Kingdom and pulled its entire world into the Earth Immortal Realm, turning it into Western Kunlun Continent, the treasure never surfaced—so it was hiding here all along!"

"If this news got out…" Seeing Yan Shu whistled: "Even my Sect Master would be tempted! The upheaval would dwarf the disappearance of your Dao Chen Pearl by far! It might… overturn the heavens!"

Brother Qian Chen frowned: "Why is the Dao Chen Pearl inferior to the Western Kunlun Mirror?"

"Is the lineage of Tai Shang's Three Treasures not sufficient? Or is the Western Kunlun Mirror somehow special?"

Seeing Yan Shu looked at Brother Qian Chen with a strange expression and said: "The Western Kunlun Mirror is said to be able to shift cosmic time and travel through space and time!"

"Wow! So amazing! Western Kunlun Mirror! …I'm a waste!" Brother Qian Chen bowed his head.

"But… mirrors divide two realms and can reflect past and future alike. We're all Primordial Spirit Treasures, born as sect's supreme treasures! The Western Kunlun Mirror is going too far!" Brother Qian Chen's face twitched as he harshly condemned it.

Seeing Yan Shu, however, felt compelled to defend his Dao Gate's three sects' supreme treasures.

"The Western Kunlun Mirror can shift cosmic time and travel through space and time, true—but what do our sect's supreme treasures fear? The Supreme Pure Sect's treasure, the Tai Shang Eight Trigrams Furnace, can generate and transform the universe, forge heaven and earth; even a Yuan Shen Zhenxian True Person can use it to forge a microcosm, and at the Dao Lord realm, opening a whole realm is effortless!"

"The Tai Shang Yin Yang Fan is the primordial treasure of Yin-Yang Dao—it can create chaos, nurture Yin and Yang, manipulate the universe's stillness and motion, reverse life and death, unify clarity and turbidity… how could it be inferior to the Western Kunlun Mirror?"

"The Yuan Shi Dao's Record of Divine Enfeoffment, and my Ling Bao Dao's Green Ping Sword, are even superior to the Western Kunlun Mirror!"

Seeing Yan Shu grew enthusiastic, then suddenly noticed Brother Qian Chen's drooping face and realized his mistake, his voice lowering: "Brother, your Lao Sister Guan Dao's Dao Chen Pearl was also a divine light severed directly by Tai Shang, the Dao Ancestor! It seals such a great demon—it's also extremely remarkable…"

His voice faded.

Brother Qian Chen had already grown indifferent—he had transcended it—"Hmph! Supreme treasures? Only mine isn't good enough, right!"

Brother Qian Chen wanted to release the Dao Reversal sealed in the Dao Chen Pearl and show them what a true Tai Shang treasure was—

"Destroy it! Just do it already! I'm tired!"

The two returned to the matter at hand. Brother Qian Chen walked through the vacuum as Seeing Yan Shu beside him said: "Did the Lord of Reincarnation know of this, and thus cast us into this world? Without your Dao Chen Pearl, it would be impossible to influence the Western Kunlun Mirror in this way."

"If the Lord of Reincarnation is using us to seize this treasure…"

"Have you ever seen the Lord of Reincarnation's exchange list?" Brother Qian Chen suddenly asked.

Seeing Yan Shu frowned slightly: "Of course I've seen it. Many things on it… are deeply shocking. Even my ancestral master's personal sword—Shao Qing Yan Shixiong's—was listed there! At that time, I wanted to inform my sect, but the Lord of Reincarnation warned me!"

"This matter is too deep. We can't handle it. Let someone like Tao Tianshi worry about it!"

Brother Qian Chen sighed: "You probably didn't look closely—you saw your own Shao Qing Sword and didn't look further! Otherwise, you'd have seen… the Western Kunlun Mirror is right there on the list."

"What?"

Seeing Yan Shu was truly stunned.

"Sister Si should have told you: back when we were in the Jin Ling Cave Heaven, we discovered an ancient relic left by the Great Fangshi, and accidentally obtained several of their replica divine artifacts—including a Western Kunlun Mirror! At that time, I already suspected something. Because to replicate such a divine artifact, one must have seen the original."

"And most of those divine artifacts are listed on the Reincarnation Realm's exchange list!"

"During the Immortal Qin era, Emperor Qin destroyed the Wang Mu's Kingdom and absorbed its world, turning it into Western Kunlun Continent!"

"During the Immortal Qin era, the Fangxian Dao flourished; Great Fangshi replicated the Western Kunlun Mirror to create the Luo Tian Immortal Artifacts and Zhou Tian Starships!"

"Still during the Immortal Qin era! One great Great Fangshi, who seized Western Kunlun Continent, renamed it Dongying, and established the Penglai and two other Immortal Isles as sect lineages… becoming a major enemy of the Central Plains!"

"Originally, I thought these clues formed a thread tying into the great secret of the rise and fall of the Immortal Qin. Now it seems they're tied to the hidden secrets of the Reincarnation Realm."

"Did the ancient Immortal Qin ever rule the Reincarnation Realm? The Heavenly Court of the Tian Zhou Divine Dynasty still exists today and seems to have some knowledge of the Reincarnation Realm!"

Brother Qian Chen could not forget the effect of the merit he casually added to the divine talisman.

"The Reincarnation Realm did not cast us into this world by accident," Brother Qian Chen sighed softly, gazing down at the spherical planet beneath the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array, locking onto the capital of the Central District…

"This journey may reveal to us an extremely important secret!"