Chu Jiang slowly opened his eyes.
Before him were no longer the streets and houses of Qingshan Town, but an empty, desolate wilderness.
The heavy snow, the small town, the altar, the bloodstains... every trace had vanished, as though an invisible giant hand had wiped them away completely.
"This..." The Heavenly Phoenix Girl looked around, a trace of bewilderment surfacing on her stunning face. "Was everything just now a great dream? Did Qingshan Town... never exist at all?"
"It wasn't a dream." Chu Jiang's calm voice rang out.
He had initially doubted it as well. Had they stepped into an exquisitely crafted illusion? But the clearly updated lifespan gains on his panel told him that Qingshan Town had truly existed. At the very least, it had been real within some fragment of time and space, or under certain special rules.
At that moment, a faint warmth spread through everyone's palms at once.
Looking down, they saw three faintly glowing, profound marks appear in the palms of Fu Yunxuan, the Heavenly Phoenix Girl, Xie Hongchen, and Li Daoyi. They resembled leaping flames and contained an unusual Dao Charm.
Six appeared in Wu Yue's fair palm.
When Chu Jiang spread out his hand, twelve flame marks hovered quietly above it—the most among them all.
Chu Jiang instinctively reached into his robes, his fingertips brushing against something.
He took it out. It was a palm-sized bronze mirror of archaic design. Its surface was blurred and its edges bore signs of damage, yet it faintly emanated an ancient, boundless aura of time.
``` [Attribute One: Observe the Past. In specific environments, can activate the ability to witness true fragments of history and alter history on a small scale (usable only within the Barren Heaven Secret Treasure)]
[Attribute Two: Military Sage's Gift. The mirror seals