Three Thousand Six Hundred Years Apart, the Mirror of Origin Struck Back!

After parting ways with Ke Lan, Lu Xingshi found a place nearby to settle down.

"A protagonist who isn't a protagonist..." Lu Xingshi recalled Ke Lan's circumstances. There was no Heavenly Mandate on him, so his path was destined to be exceptionally rough.

Lu Xingshi had also found the other man's cheat—the Mirror of Origin, the one among the three supreme quality items back then that had not fallen into Lu Xingshi's hands.

Logically speaking, the Mirror of Origin should have already been scrapped. Its function had been to travel between and connect the World Core and the Mortal World.

The World Core had long since vanished, so the Mirror of Origin's abilities should have failed.

But now, it seemed the Mirror of Origin's abilities were not so simple.

"Still, he really is quite qualified. If he had a Heavenly Mandate on him instead, he'd be screwed over like a dog."

Without a Heavenly Mandate, he could only rely on himself while needing a bit of luck. That instead gave him a chance of succeeding.

Just like Li Fan, who had not become a Heavenly Mandate puppet back then—even the Source Otherworld Demons had feared him.

But once a Heavenly Mandate got involved, he would become a novice who loved to show off, a master of micromanagement despite being terrible at it.

He could turn a perfectly good situation into a pot of porridge.

So the Heavenly Mandate of this world was not anything good. The more it favored someone, the more it controlled them, rather than allowing them to act on their own.

This led to people clearly having their own plans and capabilities, only for it to insist on interfering, ultimately causing the whole board to be lost.

The main issue was that its methods of control were