Chapter 1330

After every battle, the looting was accompanied by frenzied cultivation. He sat cross-legged in a temporarily opened mirror cavern, where concealment formations had been laid, his surroundings piled with resources glittering in various colors.

The pure soul crystals were directly crushed, and the vast soul energy, like rivers flowing into the sea, was greedily drawn in by the Chaos Core, strengthening his magical foundation.

Various yin‑dark ores and sin‑stain crystals containing special energy were ground and dissolved by Chaos deathly qi, extracting the most primordial netherworld Law Fragments and energy, which were then integrated into himself.

The cultivation jade slips he had looted, whether righteous or evil, he all analyzed and deduced using the Chaos Path, extracting their essence and discarding the dross, thereby enriching his understanding of the laws, especially those concerning 'karma', 'causality', and 'illusion' that are closely related to the Sin Mirror Hell.

His cultivation, building on the late Great Vehicle stage, advanced at a visibly rapid pace!

The Chaos Core grew ever more brilliant, the phantom of the 'Reincarnation Ring' within it becoming clearer; as it slowly turned, it autonomously refined the stubborn obsessions and lingering laws left by the ancient gods' grace, imprinting them completely with Yan Buji's mark. That strand of azure radiance and dark gold luster nearly merged into every facet of his Chaos Force, making its quality far surpass that of peers.

He even began to try, actively summoning the power of the surrounding Sin Mirrors. He sent a thread of his divine sense into a huge Sin Mirror, enduring the impact of boundless karmic sin and twisted illusions therein, thereby tempering his will and, with the inclusive nature of Chaos, forcibly parsing and absorbing the causal karma contained within the mirror!

This is an extremely perilous cultivation method; a moment's carelessness could invite karmic fire to burn the body or cause the mind to lose itself. Yet Yan Buji, relying on the protection of the ancient gods' Dao rhythm and the overbearing nature of the Chaos Path, endured it head‑on. His comprehension of the essence of the Sin Mirror Hell deepened rapidly, and occasionally a wisp of eerie light—originating from the same source as the Sin Mirrors but even more profound—would circulate around him, as if he himself had become a 'living Sin Mirror' capable of reflecting and twisting causality!

Time flew by in the midst of looting and cultivation.

That day, Yan Buji had just emerged from the lair of the recently annihilated 'Phantom Enchantress', playing in his hand with a heart‑confusing pearl obtained from its core that could amplify Illusion Art power. His aura, compared to when he first entered the Sin Mirror Hell, had become many times richer; though he had not yet broken through to the Great Vehicle peak, he stood at the pinnacle of the late stage, only a thin membrane away from the summit.

He felt that, should he face Bai Chen again now, he would need no bitter struggle—he could suppress him with a flip of the hand!

However, just as he was preparing to seek his next target, his heart lurched suddenly and a strong sense of unease welled up.

Almost simultaneously, the mirror labyrinth region where he stood saw mirrors in all directions flare with piercing blood‑red light; a vast, stern formation power, imbued with rich Asura battle intent, crashed down, completely sealing off the space for tens of li around.

Within countless mirrors, the reflections were no longer twisted illusions but dense ranks of Asura warriors clad in blood‑red heavy armor, their killing intent filling the heavens!

A bone‑chilling voice, brimming with endless hatred, exploded like thunder across the entire sealed zone:

"Yan! Bu! Ji!"

"I have come in person—see where you can run this time!"

"You slaughtered my kin, stole my fortune; today I will offer your soul‑blood as a sacrifice to my clan's heroic spirits!"

Immediately afterward, the countless mirror images of 'self' before Yan Buji moved in unison, raising their hands and pointing at him. In the next instant, billions of strands of mirror light, condensed to the extreme and containing the artistic conceptions of laws such as replication, severance, and reflection, erupted like a torrential flood from each image, converging into a destructive beam of light that slammed toward him.

This attack was not merely a pure energy impact; it also carried the terrifying connotation of seizing one's existence, as if it sought to strip his power, memories, and even the very concept of 'self' from his true body and scatter them among the endless mirror images!

"You want to seize me? Then see if your mirror can reflect all of this Chaos!"

At the critical moment, Yan Buji did not retreat; instead, he drove his Chaos Core to the extreme! He no longer tried to oppose domain with domain, but gathered all the Chaos Force within himself, his whole person seeming to become a constantly collapsing and evolving Chaos Singularity!

"Chaos returns to the One; all laws cannot invade!"

The flood of mirror light imbued with seizing power slammed onto the Chaos Singularity, erupting in blinding, dazzling radiance. The mirror light attempted to disintegrate and sever, but found that the mass of Chaos within was like a world unto itself, undergoing birth and death without beginning or end, making severance impossible! All the mirror light's power, like mud‑cows entering the sea, was forcibly devoured, ground, and dissolved by that Chaos Singularity.

"Huh? It can actually withstand the 'Mirror Image Severance'?" the existence within the mirror exclaimed in surprise.

At that moment, Yan Buji moved! He caught a fleeting, unique core fluctuation amidst the endless mirror images as he defended against the mirror light!

"Found you!"

He pressed his forefinger together like a sword; the wisp of eerie light within him, gained from cultivating in the Sin Mirror Hell and related to causal karma, suddenly blazed, winding around his fingertip. This finger was no longer merely Chaos deathly qi; it also embodied his preliminary understanding of the Sin Mirror Hell's origin, carrying a hint of reality‑twisting, karma‑reversing flavor!

"Silence Extinction Finger—Reverse Mirror Backflow!"

A finger thrust forth, the gray‑gold finger wind ignoring space and the obstruction of countless mirrors, as if flowing upstream along that thread of core fluctuation, directly striking the most fundamental law node of this boundless mirror domain!

"Crack—!"

An exceptionally crisp cracking sound rang out, as if echoing in the heart of every living being. Before Yan Buji, a mirror surface that seemed no different from any other smooth mirror suddenly cracked all over; the mighty voice within the mirror let out a muffled groan, full of pain and disbelief.

As this core mirror surface shattered, the entire boundless mirror domain began to violently tremble; countless mirror images became distorted and blurred, finally vanishing like bubbles one after another. The omnipresent sense of suppression and severance swiftly faded.

The mirror domain dissipated, revealing the original mirror labyrinth scenery. Before the shattered core mirror, a vague humanoid light‑shadow formed by countless mirror fragments barely coalescing appeared, its aura feeble—this was a wisp of the core manifestation of the Mirror Demon Lord. It stared fixedly at Yan Buji, its eyes filled with fear and vengeful hatred.

"Chaos… twisting causality… what… exactly are you, monster?!"

Yan Buji's expression remained unchanged as he stepped forward; his Chaos deathly qi formed a great hand that lunged straight for the Mirror Demon Lord's core manifestation.

"What need is there to question a thing already destined to die?"

The great hand clenched; the Mirror Demon Lord let out a final unwilling shriek, and its core light‑shadow was completely submerged and devoured by the Chaos deathly qi.