Within the Illusion Realm Lies Reality

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Sword light surged magnificently, the Big Dipper blazed, and Shi Xuan's sword seemed poised to sever all space and time with ruthless sharpness.

Yunmiao Valley was not large. The Taixu Mirror's afterimage lay within a hundred li of Shi Xuan. In the blink of an eye, his sword light tore through the sky and descended above the Taixu Mirror. Time rippled strangely all around it, yet the Vermilion Small Gourd flying from Shi Xuan's body churned those ripples into scattered fragments, unable to slow his sword light.

Yet the closer Shi Xuan drew to the Taixu Mirror's afterimage, the more unreachable it felt while he merged body and sword. It seemed separated from him by layer upon layer of space, hidden behind countless worlds. His sword light cleaved apart world after world, yet could never draw any closer to the Taixu Mirror's afterimage.

A powerful external illusion realm, one so close to turning illusion into reality. The thought flashed through Shi Xuan's mind, only to be suppressed in the next instant by his firm and resolute Dao heart. He sought to transform the Taiji Diagram into the Other Shore Golden Bridge and suppress the changing illusion realm.

Just as Shi Xuan's sword light rose, a brown river surged toward him and streaks of golden light descended, seeking to stop him. Yet an almost identical Hunyuan Golden Dou and Nine Bends Heavenly River Array blocked them.

The mottled golden lights collided, each spinning once before vanishing into nothingness at the same time. Roiling waves crashed against one another.

Taking the point where the brown river waters collided as the boundary, the left and right sides resembled the inside and outside of a bronze mirror, forming a bizarre scene.