In Lady Deepnet's eyes, "Mirror Spirit" had been summoned back by Gao Gong.
In Gao Gong's eyes, "Mirror Spirit" had always been with Lady Deepnet, giving "Mirror Gao Gong" a spiritual massage.
Both sides assumed the other knew about it.
So only after Gao Gong entered complete seclusion did Lady Deepnet realize, to her astonishment, that something had happened.
That was, "Mirror Spirit"—or rather, the faction's only other cosmic relic, the Ghostly Magic Mirror—might have gone missing!?
Gao Gong had now entered complete seclusion.
His mind no longer focused on external things. Instead, following the source of authority within his own decaying divine system, he once again touched that "Tier Nine Corpse" stretching across an unknown dimension and radiating an endless aura of deathly silence and majesty.
To guard against every possibility, Gao Gong had previously sought out Du Zhaodi and learned these cosmic death characters.
Now, they were finally coming in handy.
One "cosmic death character" after another emerged and fell into it.
In an instant, ancient, distorted characters that seemed to have condensed from death itself—"silence," "end," "decay," "annihilation," "return," and so on—began surfacing within his mental perception.
These characters were no longer merely knowledge taught by Du Zhaodi. They were vessels bearing the origin power of the decaying divine system, radiating an aura of the same origin as that Tier Nine Corpse.
Immediately afterward, a wondrous change occurred—
These "cosmic death characters" outlined by Gao Gong's mind seemed to have received some supreme summons. They broke free of his mental control one after another, like weary birds returning to their nests or stars drawn in by gravity, spontaneously and orderly falling into the invisible force field radiating from that "Tier Nine Corpse."
Each death character that fell in was like a stone dropped into an unfathomably