One Step to Heaven

Gu Shaoshang once again arrived in the Mirror World, where dim purple light flickered and flowed.

The familiar Stone Platform, the familiar purple qi, the familiar Mirror World.

Yet in Gu Shaoshang's eyes, everything was now completely different.

The unremarkable Mirror World now appeared incomparably resplendent, profound, and unfathomable to him.

Beneath the thirty-foot Stone Platform, worlds could faintly be seen rising and falling—valleys, starry skies, snowfields. They were clearly projection spaces, where Gu Shaoshang had once battled countless projections.

Beyond the purple qi above the dome, what Gu Shaoshang had once been unable to see now appeared clearly: the Unpredictable Land, and the Chaos Sea—or rather, the River of Time and Space.

Gu Shaoshang knew that the boundless Chaos Sea and the Unpredictable Land through which he traveled between worlds were not the same existence. They seemed to share one origin, more like the two sides of yin and yang—reality and illusion.

"So that's how it is..."

Enlightenment rose in Gu Shaoshang's heart.

This Mirror World lay between the Unpredictable Land and the Chaos Sea. It truly resembled a world within a mirror: reality on one side, illusion on the other.

What had changed was not the Mirror World, but himself.

The change in his essence and understanding had allowed him to see the Mirror World's true face.

The Mirror World had always been there. It had never changed, nor had it ever concealed anything from him. The difference was that even if it had displayed everything before him in the past, he still could not have perceived it.

It was like the universe in the eyes of mortals. They could not see the complete universe—did that mean the universe had hidden its existence from them?

No. It was merely a matter of perspective. Ordinary people simply could not