The void was boundless. Gao Xian could see no end to it.
He could only vaguely sense the Jade Pivot Mirror's spatial restrictions, spread across every direction, forming an enormous and incomparably intricate world of space.
Having broken through the first spirit realm, Gao Xian did not see the second spirit realm change. Nor did he know what he was supposed to do next.
The Jade Pivot Mirror was also known as the Three Lives Bright Mirror.
The Daoist school had its name for it, and the Buddhist school had another.
The difference in names also revealed how Buddhism and Daoism regarded this Divine Artifact.
Buddhist cultivators called it the Three Lives Bright Mirror, claiming it could illuminate the three lives before one's present existence. Some also said it could reflect the past life, present life, and future life—the three lives.
The future was beyond measure. Not even the Divine Emperors above the Nine Heavens would dare claim they could clearly perceive a future life.
Though the Three Lives Bright Mirror was a powerful Divine Artifact, it clearly could not see the future. Thus, the "three lives" came to mean the three lives before the present one.
However, Sister Bai had said that the Jade Pivot Mirror's manifested spirit realms varied from person to person, evolving from the foundation of a cultivator's soul origin.
If a cultivator possessed powerful innate aptitude, their soul origin might bear imprints of past lives, making it possible for a past-life spirit realm to evolve. Yet such evolution was ultimately only a transformation of the Jade Pivot Mirror. It had nothing to do with past or future lives; its primary purpose was to test a cultivator's heart and nature.
For a cultivator to advance to the eighth rank, they first had to understand their heart