Chapter 43: The Great Dry Heaven and Earth Formation

  Xiao Lao frowned and said: "A Long, you broke the mirror?"

  Lao San looked around and rubbed his head, saying: "I don't know either. Now I'm surrounded by myself and all of you. Xiao Lao, how can we break through this array? I'm dizzy."

  Yang Cangcang suddenly had an idea: "Jun Yang, you raise your hand, and whoever raises their hand is the real Jun Yang?"

  I was taken aback with a black line all over my face: "Sister, doesn't the me in the mirror also raise my hand? What do you want me to say is good?"

  Yang Cangcang exclaimed "Ah!" as if suddenly enlightened: "How could I have not thought of that?"

  Suddenly, the sound of a mirror shattering came from the corner behind me. I saw what was happening behind through the surrounding mirrors. That mirror seemed to have cracked open, and I saw Old Three desperately pounding on the mirror, his eyes filled with terror, shouting "Let me out! Let me out!"

  Xiao Lao's forehead began to sweat, and he said anxiously: "Didn't I tell you not to touch the mirror? Why are you so disobedient every time? It's said that the mirrors in this array are very strange and unpredictable things may happen."

  Karamay's voice came from my left: "It's not a solution to stay here all the time, if we can't touch the mirror, I have a stick here, if it doesn't work, let's just smash all the mirrors." As he spoke, there was another sound of shattering glass, and Karamay smashed the mirror beside him with his extendable baton.

  Xiao Lao almost fainted, and Fu Ma shouted loudly: "Stop hitting it! Xiao Lao means that this mirror may reflect our souls. If we break it, we'll all die and never be able to leave."

  Yang Cangcang irritably said: "This won't work, that won't work, what to do in the end. I think we'll be trapped here sooner or later."

  Xiao Lao looked around cautiously for a long time before saying, "I carefully examined this mirror array earlier. The maze-like shape is closed off at the top and bottom, so there must be an exit somewhere. Whatever you do, don't touch the mirrors directly - I can sense that the dark power of the void is lurking in the surrounding mirrors. We all have luggage with us, let's find something to use as a barrier and carefully try to find a way out."

  We all nodded in agreement, and Old Three behind us continued to knock on the mirror, muttering something under his breath that was getting harder and harder to make out. I felt a growing sense of unease: "Old Three? Are you okay?" He ignored me and kept knocking on the mirror.

  "Fu Ma, listen to Lao San's heartfelt words, have you been bewildered?" I shouted loudly.

  Fu Ma paused for a moment and said: "Can't hear A Long's voice at all, it was blocked by a layer of dark misty air, he should have been hit."

  "Let's first find a way to gather together, then we can rescue Ah Long." Karamay used his staff to tap around him, finding the path like a blind man.

  I also took out the flashlight and probed around, afraid of touching the mirror. For a while, the room was filled with the sound of tapping on glass.

  "Ah——" After a dull sound, Yang Cangcang shouted loudly, "Damn it, the mirrors in this mirror array can even move, I remember there was a road here just now, but when I turned my head, it became a mirror, I'm going to die."

  "Tsuan-tsuan's voice is weakening!" Fu Ma shouted loudly.

  It's done, I thought to myself with a sense of foreboding, guessing that Cangcang had also fallen victim. Unexpectedly, Cangcang was just like Lao San, staring at the cracked mirror in terror and knocking on it with all his might. He muttered something under his breath, but I couldn't make out what he was saying - his voice seemed to be coming from a great distance.

  "Everyone be careful, never touch the mirror again!" I feel a strong sense of unease and fear spreading inside me, and can't help but blame Wu Zihuan in my heart, that guy has gone who-knows-where again, knowing it's dangerous here yet leaving us behind.

  I was fumbling my way through the road with a flashlight, but no matter how I walked, it seemed like I was just going around in circles. If what Yang Cangcang said was true, that the mirrors in this maze were moving, then how could there be a way out? As I was thinking about this, I suddenly realized that the sound of knocking on the glass had stopped abruptly, and an eerie silence fell over the room. I swept my gaze around the surrounding mirrors to see what everyone else was doing, but I was immediately stunned.

  Apart from me, those people were standing in front of the mirror, staring at themselves with gloomy and terrifying eyes. Their faces were pale white, without a hint of expression. The only thing they had in common was that there was a crack on the mirror each of them was looking at.

  I was shocked and stunned, how did everyone get caught in just a short while? I suddenly panicked, feeling my upper and lower teeth trembling, I almost bit off all ten of my fingernails, a sense of loneliness and fear that I had never experienced before rushed over me.

  Before in the wind array, I was left alone outside the thatched cottage, but I wasn't as scared as I am now. I don't know how to break this mirror array, nor do I know what to do to rescue everyone from inside. What should I do? I'm almost going crazy! The old three, Xiao Lao, Cangcang, Kelamayi and Fu Ma in the mirror saw my flustered appearance and actually all smiled with their mouths open, tilting their heads, eyes wide open, seemingly admiring my expression. This scene scared me to death, my whole body trembling as I sat limply on the ground.

  Suddenly, a strange itch appeared in my ear, and the nine insects flew out of my ear. They circled around me, chirping a few times, playfully jumping in an eight-trigram dance. This little guy seemed to be able to sense my inner emotions, deliberately coming out to tease me into laughter, making me feel more relaxed. The nine insects gestured with their small arms, as if indicating for me to follow them.

  Xiao Lao once said that he was a spiritual being from ancient times, or had a way to break the mirror array. I suddenly felt like I had grasped a lifeline, and my heart was filled with hope again. The negative emotions I had before were all driven away by this mischievous little guy. He was flying and calling out in front of me, sometimes the mirrors in front would suddenly change direction, and he would crash into them with a "thud", then dizzily turn around and gesture to me that there was an obstacle ahead. The mirrors here seemed to have no effect on Jiu Chong, and even after colliding with them multiple times, he didn't get caught.

  As I walked forward for a while, I found something on the ground shining with a cold light. Upon closer inspection, it seemed to be Wu Zihan's dagger. How did this dagger end up here? Did something happen to Wu Zihan? I quickly shook my head, as I hadn't seen him at all in the mirror array earlier. It seems he had broken out of the array and left his dagger behind. Could it be that he was helping me break through the array? He must have trusted us to escape unscathed, which is why he could leave with peace of mind.

  Nine insects chirped in front of me, I took a look and it was a dead horse. I shone my flashlight on it, and indeed it was real. The dead horse didn't move at all, just like a stone statue. Nine insects stopped on the forehead of the dead horse, constantly gesturing towards me, "Are you asking me to slash its forehead with a knife?" I asked tentatively. Nine insects nodded, chirping non-stop.

  "Alright." Just as I stepped forward, he suddenly used his hand to grab my neck tightly, scaring me. The knife slipped from my hand, and his strength was incredibly great. His face revealed an extremely ferocious expression, and I was almost choked to the point of rolling my eyes back. Seeing this, Jiuchong quickly transformed into a silver-white color, and Fuma's entire body was covered in a layer of white frost, stiffening there.

  I coughed hard, only to realize that being able to breathe smoothly was a wonderful thing. Xiao Lao had said that being frozen by the Nine Worms for too long would be dangerous, and I couldn't bear the pain anymore. I hurriedly used my knife to make a cut on Fu Ma's brow, and suddenly a stream of black blood gushed out. I signaled to the Nine Worms to unfreeze Fu Ma, and they happily turned red. As soon as the white frost retreated, Fu Ma's whole body shook once, looking at me in confusion, his eyes restored to their usual state.

  "Pay attention, is everything all right with you?" I asked anxiously.

  Fu Ma stared at me blankly: "Are you really Jun Yang? Not a mirror image? What just happened?"

  I put his hand on my face, and it was very cool. I guess it had just been frozen and hadn't recovered yet: "Feel me, am I Jun Yang? You touched the mirror earlier, didn't you? You were affected, almost choked me to death." I finally let out a sigh of relief.

  "Is that so?"

  "Let's hurry up and save others." I said to Fu Ma, he nodded, but I don't know if it was psychological or not. When I turned around, I inadvertently caught a glimpse of Fu Ma in the mirror, his mouth seemed to flash with a hint of a sinister smile. It must be this mirror playing tricks on me, I thought to myself.

  Nine insects flew happily in front, not far away, I saw Yang Cangcang again, imitating the previous appearance, Cangcang also recovered his consciousness after a black blood was released, walking and listening to her complaining about who designed the mirror array, what kind of person, Karamay, Lao San and Xiao Lao were all rescued.

  We finally gathered together again, and we quickly touched each other to see if it was real. I don't know if you'll misunderstand us, but I've become evil!

  Yang Cangcang stared at the dagger in my hand and said: "Huh, isn't this Zi Han's? When did you see him?"

  "When I saved you guys, I picked him up from the ground. It seems he firmly believes we can break through and is waiting for us in the next formation." I explained.

  Lao San impatiently said: "Don't worry about these for now, let's first get out of here quickly, how are we going to break through this siege?"

  Xiao Lao thought for a long time, and finally said: "I remember that in this mirror array, there is an original mirror, also called the mother mirror. If we can find it and break it, the entire mirror array will naturally collapse."

  "Didn't you say before that our primordial spirits are in this mirror and it can't be broken? Now that it's been broken, nothing will happen to us, right?" I asked with some concern.

  "When did Old Xiao say that this mirror can't be broken? How come I didn't know?" Lao San's eyes were distant, as if he was recalling something.

  Yang Cangcang kicked him and said, "At that time, you were already controlled by the mirror. What can you hear?" She glared at Lao San fiercely, and I suddenly felt a bit eerie atmosphere.

  "It should be, when Ceng Ceng was confused, Fu Ma said that your heart voice is weakening." I interjected.

  Fu Ma's face was filled with confusion: "Did I say that?"

  My heart skipped a beat, had they all lost their memories? Or was there still some memory left in the mirror?