In metaphysics, mirrors were objects that carried yin and yang information.
Among the correspondences of all things in the Eight Trigrams, they belonged to both the qian trigram and the yin-aligned dui trigram, making them both yin and yang within the trigrams.
Objects like these could reflect things invisible to the human eye-in other words, yin souls.
When Song Xiaotian and Meng Yifan carried the Dressing Table out, I had already spotted an extra figure in the mirror.
That figure was one of He Tao's seven souls.
But strangely, besides He Tao, there was another figure beside me. He looked very much like me, and even his movements were in sync with mine.
I thought he was copying me and jumped in fright.
Song Xiaotian and Meng Yifan saw him too, and both were shocked.
"Why are there two..."
"Never mind that."
Zhao Laoqi suddenly took out another talisman and stuck it directly between my eyebrows.
The instant the talisman touched me, the figure who looked so much like me suddenly vanished.
"A soul of the seven souls isn't one of the three souls. It can't possess you, but your yang energy is the weakest right now, so only you can communicate with him."
Zhao Laoqi reminded me, "Don't ask anything too complicated. Get straight to the point. Ask whether Du Yuwei ate his two souls, and whether he knows where she is."
I nodded and hurriedly asked the mirror, "He Tao, your mother hired me. Tell me, did Du Yuwei eat your earth soul and human soul?"
I thought I would hear He Tao speak, but in fact, I heard nothing.
Miraculously, although I couldn't hear him speaking, a message soon reached my mind-a message He Tao had sent me.
"He says yes. Du Yuwei has already eaten his