The mirror flew toward Lu Yin. Even when he shook his consciousness, he couldn't shatter it. It swept past him.
Lu Yin stood still as the mirror passed through him. A gray figure emerged from it and turned to face him. It was another Lu Yin.
Lu Yin stared at the gray Lu Yin, recalling fragments of Hua Manyi's memories.
He remembered the Thirteen Celestial Phenomena, known in Hua Manyi's memories as Nightmare Xing Jue. It used fear as a mirror.
Hua Manyi's understanding of Xing Jue was that he could draw out the things a being feared most. Lu Yin had remembered when Xing Jue first made his move, but this Thirteen Celestial Phenomenon posed no threat to him, so he hadn't paid it much attention.
Old Chief had described Xing Jue as "the person in the mirror, the nightmare in the person."
No one knew what that meant. Even Hua Manyi, one of the Thirteen Celestial Phenomena, had never experienced it.
Now Lu Yin understood.
This was the person in the mirror, the nightmare in the person.
The gray Lu Yin embodied every fear Lu Yin had ever experienced. It had no real offensive power. Xing Jue had merely peeled those fears from Lu Yin's consciousness, then forced him to experience them all over again.
Lu Yin couldn't avoid it, and he wouldn't. Those fears weren't just fear; they held the experiences, the karma, and the memories behind them.
Without those fears, he would no longer be whole.
The mirror suddenly flew in one direction, dragging the gray Lu Yin along with it.
This was Xing Jue's deeply concealed ability. Only Old Chief had ever seen it; none of the other Thirteen Celestial Phenomena had. It was a means of saving his own life.
At Lu Yin's level,