Chapter 410 – Seizing Power from the Future: The Terror of the Mirror of Nothingness!
by spirapiraChapter 410 – Seizing Power from the Future: The Terror of the Mirror of Nothingness!
The simulation Chime sounded, and Su Xing’s consciousness entered the simulated world.
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Fifth Heaven, a certain Secret Realm.
Su Xing slowly opened his eyes. Without wasting any time, he immediately began comprehending the Great Dao of Space.
“The Dao-Enlightenment Tea has already been brewed, and all the other Dao essence treasures for comprehending the Great Dao of Space have been prepared.”
“Then, let the comprehension begin…”
Su Xing spoke as he took a sip of Dao-Enlightenment Tea, and mysterious spatial Dao essence flickered around his body.
…
In the blink of an eye, a hundred years passed.
The immersive simulation ended, and Su Xing’s consciousness returned to his true body.
Slowly opening his eyes, a trace of regret flickered within them.
“A hundred years of immersive simulation, and yet my spatial Dao is still just one step short of the fifth realm Major Mastery!”
Su Xing let out a sigh. He had somewhat underestimated the difficulty of comprehending the fifth realm of the Great Dao.
“But it’s not far off. Three more simulations should be enough to step into the sixth realm…”
Su Xing was in no rush. The key priority right now was to successfully advance his cultivation to Golden Immortal.
“Calculating the time, it should be roughly the third year of the simulation…”
“The Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s Celestial Vessel is about to descend. I need to perform well from here on… and earn as many contributions as possible!”
“Only then can I obtain the right to use the Mirror of Nothingness…”
Su Xing had already decided that in this simulation, he would do more work for the Celestial Secrets Pavilion—hunting down foreign races.
With this in mind, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【Year 300: Your comprehension concluded, but the spatial Dao remained one step short of fifth realm Major Mastery.】
【Before you could lament, the White Cloud Realm was soon struck by a great upheaval.】
【You brought the Bai siblings aboard the Celestial Vessel, which transformed into a streak of light and sailed toward the Celestial Secrets Realm.】
【In the blink of an eye, twenty years passed.】
【Year 320: As expected, the Celestial Vessel was ambushed by foreign races.】
【White Emperor, Xiao Zhanlong, and other powerful cultivators fought back, but were entangled by the foreign race’s Divine Sovereigns and Blood Three, unable to break free to protect the Celestial Vessel.】
【Under these circumstances, you made your move…】
【This time you held nothing back, fully revealing your late-stage Golden Immortal strength.】
【In mere days, nearly a hundred foreign race Divine Sovereigns died at your hands, and countless foreign race True Gods perished under your Myriad Stars Thunder Attraction.】
【After this battle, you earned White Emperor’s favor. You exchanged contact information, and White Emperor invited you to join the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, granting you the position of terrestrial Elder.】
【Naturally, you did not refuse, and gladly accepted.】
【Year 330: The Celestial Vessel arrived at the Celestial Secrets Realm.】
【That same year, you joined the Celestial Secrets Pavilion and began executing missions.】
【Since your goal from the very beginning was to obtain the right to use the Mirror of Nothingness, you needed to constantly undertake missions and accumulate contribution points.】
【With your status as a terrestrial Elder, you could accept most missions.】
【In the blink of an eye, seventy years passed.】
【Year 400: Over seventy years, you executed over a hundred missions, slaying hundreds of foreign race Divine Sovereigns, and even rescued more than ten human race worlds that were under foreign race invasion.】
【Your fame gradually spread throughout the Heavenly Secrets Domain.】
【You ascended the Prodigy List’s Earth Ranking, placing 28th.】
【That same year, you undertook a critical mission—hunting down a foreign race Divine Sovereign whose power rivaled a late-stage Golden Immortal!】
【Besides yourself, another mid-stage Golden Immortal Elder also participated in this operation.】
【But you knew this Golden Immortal Elder would be of little use…】
【Several months later, you successfully located the Red-Pupiled Divine Sovereign, and a great battle erupted!】
【This battle lasted a full three years!】
【Though your raw strength surpassed the Red-Pupiled Divine Sovereign’s, slaying an enemy whose power rivaled a late-stage Golden Immortal was no easy feat.】
【But in the end, you prevailed. Slaying a Red-Pupiled Divine Sovereign at the late-stage Golden Immortal level, your prestige surged.】
【Your ranking on the Prodigy List rose to 23rd.】
【Of course, what you cared most about was the rapid growth of your Celestial Secrets Pavilion contribution points.】
【Including the contributions from slaying the Red-Pupiled Divine Sovereign, you had already accumulated half the contribution points needed to use the Mirror of Nothingness.】
【But you did not slacken in the slightest and continued executing missions.】
【With the advantage of foreknowledge, intelligence on numerous foreign races surfaced in your mind one after another.】
【As a result, below the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal level, virtually no Elder’s mission efficiency surpassed yours.】
【You became widely recognized within the Celestial Secrets Pavilion as the “Mission Maniac,” and were regarded as a role model by human race cultivators.】
【Thus, another two hundred years passed…】
【Year 600: Even though most of your time was spent hunting foreign races, your cultivation did not fall behind.】
【This year, your Spirit Domain expanded to a range of eight thousand li (4,000 km).】
【However, the foreign races had not launched any large-scale war, and the pace of accumulating contribution points through routine extermination slowed.】
【You calculated the contribution points you had been steadily amassing. If you performed normally in the great battle at year 800, it would be just enough to exchange for the right to use the Mirror of Nothingness.】
【So, between missions, you did not forget to comprehend your Spirit Domain.】
In the Real World, Su Xing let out a breath of relief upon seeing this.
“More or less on track. This simulation should be enough to obtain the right to use the Mirror of Nothingness.”
“Just what kind of existence is this Mirror of Nothingness? I really am looking forward to finding out!”
Su Xing turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.
【Time flew by, and over two hundred years passed in the blink of an eye…】
【The first great war between the Heavenly Secrets Domain and the foreign races was about to erupt!】
【On the eve of battle, you adjusted yourself to peak condition and prepared to fight.】
【Just as in previous simulation trajectories, you smoothly joined Xiao Zhanlong’s command.】
【Then, in just a few short years, the number of foreign race Divine Sovereigns who died at your hands exceeded several hundred.】
【The losses on the human race cultivators’ side were also extremely heavy. In the years since war broke out, over a thousand human race True Immortals had fallen.】
【More than ten Golden Immortals had also perished!】
【As for the losses below the Celestial Immortal level, they were beyond counting…】
【Among the enemy, a Peak Golden Immortal Divine Sovereign of the Shadow Tribe was particularly terrifying, having hunted down more than three Golden Immortals on the battlefield.】
【Because of this, this Shadow Divine Sovereign was placed on the Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s kill list. Slaying the Shadow Tribe Divine Sovereign would yield a massive amount of contribution points.】
【And this was precisely the moment you had been waiting for.】
【With hundreds of years of accumulated contributions, if you could successfully slay the Shadow Tribe Divine Sovereign, you would essentially reach the contribution threshold for using the Mirror of Nothingness.】
【At that point, you would only need to pay a large quantity of heavenly materials and earthly treasures as an additional price to gain access to the Mirror of Nothingness.】
【But your opponent possessed Peak Golden Immortal strength. Even though your attainments in the spatial Dao ran deep and were highly effective against this Shadow Tribe Divine Sovereign, you dared not underestimate your enemy.】
【So you called upon Xiao Zhanlong, preparing to assassinate the target together…】
【After a full year of baiting, the Shadow Tribe Divine Sovereign finally revealed an opening!】
【After you endured a great battle, the Shadow Tribe Divine Sovereign attempted to assassinate you…】
【But you had been scheming for an entire year, and this was the very moment you had been waiting for.】
【The instant it emerged from the shadow realm, you swiftly sealed off the surrounding space and laid down prohibitions, stripping it of its ability to travel between the shadow realm and the real world!】
【Deprived of this ability, the Shadow Divine Sovereign’s strength plummeted…】
【And in a pure contest of physical body and supernatural arts, you were confident you were no weaker than it.】
【This battle lasted roughly half a year. In the end, at the cost of sustaining injuries, you personally slew the Shadow Divine Sovereign!】
【And Xiao Zhanlong, who had been lurking in the shadows, never even needed to make a move…】
【After this battle, your status within the Celestial Secrets Pavilion rose even higher.】
【This Shadow Tribe Divine Sovereign was the most powerful enemy you had ever faced, and it propelled you in one leap to 16th on the Prodigy List.】
【Several years later, the great war between the human race and the foreign races drew to a close.】
【From large-scale warfare, things shifted back to small-scale skirmishes…】
【And you returned to the Heavenly Secrets Domain, spending all of your contribution points along with the vast quantity of heavenly materials and earthly treasures you had accumulated, in exchange for a single opportunity to use the Mirror of Nothingness.】
In the Real World, Su Xing clenched both fists upon seeing this.
“Finally, the chance to use the Mirror of Nothingness is in my hands!”
“I want to see just what kind of existence this Mirror of Nothingness truly is!”
Su Xing took a deep breath and silently recited:
“Activate immersive simulation, duration: one year…”
【Ding…】
The Chime sounded, and Su Xing’s consciousness entered the simulated world.
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The deepest Secret Realm within the Celestial Secrets Pavilion headquarters.
Su Xing arrived at a peculiar space—this was the very same place where he had previously exchanged for the Spirit-Connecting Flower and Qi Refinement Stones, the treasure vault of the descent.
Soon, a voice reached his ears, belonging to the Artifact Spirit of this space.
“Please select the item you wish to exchange for…”
Su Xing did not hesitate. “I want to exchange for one use of the Mirror of Nothingness!”
Having said this, Su Xing waited quietly.
Upon hearing Su Xing’s words, the treasure vault’s Artifact Spirit seemed to freeze for a moment. Its originally cold, mechanical voice suddenly took on a more humanized quality.
A moment later, a notification sounded in Su Xing’s ears.
“Detected that you meet the requirements for using the Mirror of Nothingness…”
“Please note: the Mirror of Nothingness is a supreme treasure of the human race. Each person may only use it once in their lifetime…”
“Once you enter the Mirror of Nothingness, if conditions are met, it can maximize the stimulation of your latent potential, allowing a breakthrough in cultivation or realm.”
“Please note: this opportunity is available only once per lifetime… Do you wish to proceed?”
Hearing the voice, Su Xing was momentarily stunned. Then he asked probingly:
“Are you saying that this treasure vault exists within the Mirror of Nothingness? And that you are the Artifact Spirit of the Mirror of Nothingness?!”
Su Xing finally understood why the Celestial Secrets Pavilion regarded the Mirror of Nothingness with such importance!
Because the entire interior of the Celestial Secrets Pavilion headquarters was constructed within the Mirror of Nothingness!
The Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s treasure vault, along with the countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures accumulated over eons, were all contained within it…
“So it seems the Mirror of Nothingness’s function is somewhat similar to the Luotian Mirror!”
“The difference being that the Luotian Mirror is still in a damaged state… while the Mirror of Nothingness should be at its prime!”
Su Xing’s mind raced with thoughts.
The Luotian Sect, once the greatest sect, possessed the Luotian Mirror—a treasure of heaven and earth, its grade even surpassing innate treasures!
And now, the most powerful force in existence, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, possessing a treasure of the same grade seemed perfectly natural.
“So the Mirror of Nothingness is a primordial chaos treasure on the same level as the Luotian Mirror!”
Su Xing thought to himself.
Soon, the Artifact Spirit’s confirming voice reached his ears.
“Yes, the Mirror of Nothingness is where the Celestial Secrets Pavilion headquarters is established…”
Seeing that the Artifact Spirit could actually answer his questions, Su Xing immediately pressed further with some curiosity:
“I’d like to ask—regarding the use of the Mirror of Nothingness, you said each cultivator can only come once in their lifetime, and that it maximizes their potential. What exactly does that mean?”
“And also…”
Su Xing asked several questions in succession, essentially inquiring about the Mirror of Nothingness’s specific functions.
To his surprise, the Artifact Spirit answered them all one by one:
“The Mirror of Nothingness can temporarily borrow the power of time… granting a cultivator a portion of the strength that belongs to their future self!”
“This effect of obtaining future power can only be used once per person… and it causes a certain degree of damage to my true form…”
As if to better explain its function, the Artifact Spirit of the Mirror of Nothingness continued:
“Nine million years ago, the Celestial Immortal Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master used his sole opportunity to elevate his attainment of the Great Dao of Destiny to the seventh realm!”
“Eight million years ago, White Emperor used this opportunity to elevate his comprehension of the Great Dao of the Sword to the seventh realm…”
“Six million years ago…”
“…”
“In short, the Mirror of Nothingness can intercept a portion of future power from the timestream and advance it to the user ahead of schedule…”
The Artifact Spirit of the Mirror of Nothingness explained several points in succession. After hearing everything, Su Xing was completely stunned.
The Mirror of Nothingness could directly elevate a cultivator’s Great Dao comprehension?!
“Just… how terrifying of an ability is this?”
Su Xing was utterly dumbfounded.
The seventh realm of the Great Dao was known as Dao Completion!
It was a realm that only Great Firmament Golden Immortals could reach!
Countless Supreme Unity Golden Immortals had spent their entire lives, devoting endless eons, trying to catch a glimpse of the Dao Completion realm, yet all to no avail.
And the Mirror of Nothingness could accomplish this directly!
Su Xing fell silent for a moment, then said:
“Then can you directly raise my cultivation to Great Firmament Golden Immortal?”
Su Xing immediately changed his plans. Why bother pursuing Golden Immortal anymore?!
If it could truly borrow the power of the future timestream, intercepting strength from the future, wouldn’t that make him invincible?
Su Xing was absolutely confident that his future self would certainly be a Great Firmament Golden Immortal.
And now… it was merely an early withdrawal!
However, upon hearing Su Xing’s request, the Artifact Spirit explained:
“That is not possible. First, the user must possess the potential to cultivate to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal level…”
“Second… I cannot intercept too much future power at once… What I can access pertains more to intangible, ethereal aspects of existence.”
“And I can only intercept a small portion at a time…”
“Considering your current situation, you may ask me to help you enter the final step of comprehending the Three Flowers Above the Crown ahead of schedule…”
“That is to say, I can put you directly into the state of comprehending the Gold Flower…”
“As for whether you can successfully comprehend it, that I do not know…”
Hearing this, Su Xing felt a slight tinge of regret.
So in the end, he could only comprehend the Gold Flower?
“Directly enter the state of comprehending the Gold Flower, huh…”
“That’s actually… not bad at all!”