Gains and Losses, Aspirations and Desires (3)

The howl rang in his ears, and Ghost Loathing's face blossomed into a smile. Hundreds of millions of miles away, Yu Ci felt it even more directly. He threw back his head and laughed. Within the Heart Refining Dharma Fire burning around the altar, the Equality Bead rolled and stirred, its true intent surging forth. It descended all the way from Chengqitian, following the stable and convenient connection like a flash of lightning. It swept over Ghost Loathing's body, then struck the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror that had long since been retrieved and hidden in Ghost Loathing's sleeve. If it had been anyone else, Yu Ci could have tainted and transformed them himself. But Madam Huanyong was, after all, a Calamity Law Grandmaster—and she was now half a Demon Lord Yuran as well. Naturally, the standards had to rise with the tide. Though Yu Ci had not touched the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror for more than a decade, it did not feel unfamiliar in his hands. Instead, he gained some wondrous new insight. It was the result of all his accumulated attainments over the years feeding back into the treasure mirror. The Chaotic Desire Essence Divine Communion, the Square Inch Demon Kingdom, the Demon Lord Huiyuan's methods, the structure of the Nine Palaces Demon Domain... These arts and corresponding insights, all more or less tied to the foundations of the demonic sects, appeared scattered and fragmentary. Yet every one of them deepened Yu Ci's understanding of demonic secret arts. Not to mention the foundational mental cultivation of the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament's Profound Passage, as well as his profound understanding of the Heaven and Earth Law System. Everything had changed Yu Ci's perspective. To his eyes, the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror's outer form remained unchanged, but its inner nature had become utterly