"Can we take the Reincarnation Mirror now?"
Lin Shisan crouched at the edge of the stone platform, his gaze resting on the slowly widening fissure.
Dark golden light poured out of the crack, raising the temperature throughout the stone chamber a few degrees.
He reached out, holding his fingertips half an inch above the fissure, and felt warm Spiritual Power rising from deep underground.
The dark golden patterns along the fissure's edges still pulsed slowly, like a bronze drum that had been struck, its lingering echoes reverberating between the stone walls.
Gai Jiuyou looked at the floating bronze mirror and remained silent for a moment before speaking. "Yes. That cauldron strike of yours disrupted the Earth Vein's suppression. The resonance between the Reincarnation Mirror and the node is weakening. Taking it down now won't trigger the restrictions."
She raised her right hand, spread her fingers, and gently beckoned toward the Reincarnation Mirror.
The bronze mirror trembled slightly in midair. The runes flowing along its edges flickered twice, and then it slowly descended.
The mirror stopped an inch above Gai Jiuyou's palm. Silvery-white light shone from its surface, illuminating every fine line on her palm.
Lin Shisan leaned closer to look.
The mirror reflected not the chamber's vaulted ceiling, but a shifting expanse of gray-white luminous mist, as though something were slowly moving deep within it. Occasionally, a blurred outline rose from the mist and sank again, too quickly for him to make out its shape.
"There are many remnant souls trapped inside the Reincarnation Mirror."
Gai Jiuyou's voice lowered a little. "Over the past thousand years, it has drawn in some of the unclaimed souls scattered throughout the Tianyuan Continent. If you want to find Mu Ling'er's soul, you must first let it recognize your senior sister's aura."
"How does