Early the next morning.
Xu Ye stood before the mirror, tidying his hair, and remarked:
"This face looks handsome no matter how I look at it."
Perhaps it was because he had absorbed the energy block, but Xu Ye's skin looked more radiant today, and even his eyes seemed brighter. As long as he kept his mouth shut, he had a scholarly air and a sunny, youthful innocence.
Crack!
A crack appeared in the mirror, stretching from the upper right corner to the lower left.
Xu Ye raised an eyebrow. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted the Mirror Spirit timidly poking his mask-like face out from the lower left corner of the full-length mirror.
"What, you've got a problem with that? You can't even show your face properly."
The Mirror Spirit's expression stiffened. He rested his hands on the frame, looking aggrieved, then waved them in denial.
Xu Ye gave him a sinister grin. The spirit's face contorted, and he fled like a shot.
"What a coward."
Xu Ye found it rather amusing. He was quite curious about what would happen in Forbidden Zones where Heavenly Dao Distortion exceeded 10%.
Once he was dressed, he returned to the coffee table and tried turning the Book of Treasures to its last page. Once again, he found no black energy blocks.
The female ghost in the television did not appear either.
Xu Ye thought it over.
Although the Heavenly Dao had been distorted, there should still be rules governing that distortion. Every object and spirit here had to obey those rules, which were utterly different from those of reality.
The Mirror Spirit, for example, could only kill someone standing within half a meter of the mirror.
Or the female ghost in the television: when the Book of Treasures was