The instant Chen Miao opened his eyes, the first thing he did was close them again.
After sensing that nothing was amiss, he placed his hand on the booklet.
In an instant, a small bottle and a Talisman Brush appeared in Chen Miao's hands.
Under the covers, Chen Miao unscrewed the bottle cap and dipped the Talisman Brush into it.
After scraping the excess ink off the tip, Chen Miao lifted the covers and raised the Talisman Brush to the spot between his eyebrows.
He reviewed the rune once, gathered the yin energy in the room between his eyebrows, and began drawing.
In barely two breaths, the rune between Chen Miao's eyebrows absorbed all the yin energy gathered from the entire room.
Sensing the fluctuations from the activated rune, Chen Miao let out a breath of relief and put away the Talisman Brush and ink.
"Good thing the Mortal World is naturally rich in yin energy. Otherwise, a roomful of it might not have been enough to activate the rune."
After that remark, Chen Miao began connecting with the bronze mirror again.
With the rune in place, the process went smoothly this time.
In just three minutes, Chen Miao caught that fleeting spatial fluctuation.
He channeled soul power into it, connecting the spaces.
Chen Miao reached his right hand toward the bronze mirror.
When he saw his right hand pass into the mirror's surface, a smile spread across his face.
"It worked!"
After breaking his connection with the bronze mirror beneath the covers, Chen Miao took the bronze mirror he had marked in the real world out of his notebook.
"The mark is gone!"
"Does that mean the Mirror Space in the Mortal World isn't the same space as the one in the real world?"
Although he had expected this,