Shattered Mirror Evil Spirit (II)

Before the words were even finished, the surrounding mirror shards suddenly began to move.

Amidst countless fragments, a dark gray afterimage flashed by simultaneously.

Fast! Too fast!

Like a shadow leaping and darting between mirrors, without a fixed trajectory or a sound. Its shadow is everywhere, yet it's impossible to distinguish which one is the real body.

Occasionally, its outline is reflected in a few fragments, slender and light, walking along the edge of the mirror without causing the slightest ripple.

"It's observing us." Lin Chen's pupils contracted slightly.

The Void Divine Eye operated at full power, attempting to pinpoint its location. However, whenever its senses touched the figure, the reflection was deflected by the mirror, as if striking a slippery ice surface, and it vanished in an instant.

This Soul Beast's spatial manipulation ability is no less than that of the Void Beast King.

"This can't go on." Dugu Bo frowned, his fingertips flashing with emerald light. "I'll unleash a wide-area poison attack and see if I can force it out."

"No way." Lin Chen immediately shook his head. "The mirror will reflect the poisonous fog back, trapping it in our own area instead."

He paused, closed his eyes, and relied entirely on his divine eye to perceive the energy flow in the space.

Countless energy trajectories refracted by mirrors spread out in my mind, like a densely packed net.

Lin Chen traced the energy source step by step, and finally, at a 70-degree angle to the upper left, he detected a very faint but continuous energy fluctuation.

All the mirror energy emanates from there.

That's it!

"Master, seventy degrees to the upper left, twelve zhang away!" Lin Chen suddenly opened his eyes and shouted in a deep voice, "Use your strongest single-target attack there!"

Dugu Bo did not hesitate for a moment.

He didn't even ask why.

A vibrant green natal poison needle suddenly materialized at his fingertips, and the phantom of the Serpent King flashed past behind him.

This attack concentrated the full power of his level 93 Titled Douluo, and the space around the poison needle rippled.

Broken ripples.

"Go!"

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The poison needle shot out, transforming into an extreme emerald light, and shot straight towards the direction Lin Chen pointed out.

The poison needle struck the mirror without making a sound.

Then, click—

A crisp cracking sound echoed from the depths of space.

It was like the thinnest ice cracking, or like a piece of glass shattering.

The countless mirror fragments floating all around shattered from that point onward, like collapsing dominoes, layer by layer.

Countless specks of light fell softly, like a snowflake made of shattered light.

The dizzying sensation returned, and the three of them found their footing again on the thick snow.

The familiar dense forest, the familiar snow, the familiar sunlight.

As soon as the three of them steadied themselves, their gazes fell on the snow-covered ground ahead.

A Soul Beast was crouching there.

Small in size, about the size of an adult domestic cat, with a slender and flexible body, long and well-proportioned limbs, its paws lightly pressing into the snow without leaving a single snowdrift, as if stepping on a soft lake surface without disturbing a speck of dust.

Its entire body was covered in deep, dark gray fur, as heavy as a solidified night. Yet, when the light fell upon it, it shimmered with subtle changes in luster—a cold, dark blue light when it turned to the side, and a faint, silvery glimmer when it turned its face, as if it were not covered in fur, but in flowing moonlight.

In the center of his forehead was a diamond-shaped transparent crystal, thin and translucent, like a shard of mirror embedded in his flesh, with irregular, jagged edges. Inside the crystal, a faint purple mist flowed, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, as if it were breathing.

A pair of pointed ears stood upright on its head, with a layer of translucent scales growing on the inner edge of the ears, which trembled slightly with its breathing.

Its eyes are the most frightening part.

Those were eyes like polished obsidian lenses, without the pupils of ordinary beasts; their surfaces were smooth and cold, clearly reflecting the figure of the one gazing upon them.

There was no fierce baring of teeth, no docile fawning; those eyes held only a bottomless stillness. It was as if they were seeing right through you, yet also as if they saw nothing at all, empty like two deep pools.

It has two tails trailing behind it, much longer than those of ordinary felines, each two-thirds the length of its body.

The base of the tail is folded together, while the tips naturally separate, each end adorned with a faint purple glint that sways gently with the movement of the tail, resembling two half-open, half-closed pupils.

When the two tails swept across the snow, the surrounding air rippled like water, as if space was being gently crumpled and then slowly smoothed out.

"This... could it be Shattered Mirror Evil Spirit?"

Dugu Bo's pupils contracted slightly as he uttered the name in a low voice, his tone grave. "It's actually this thing... It's only recorded in ancient books; I thought it was long extinct."

"Shattered Mirror Evil Spirit?" Lin Chen raised an eyebrow, his gaze still fixed on the Soul Beast.

"Hmm. Walking in the cracks between reality and shadow, they are most adept at manipulating mirrored space, reflecting all attacks, sensations, and sounds."

Dugu Bo nodded slowly, "It actually has a cultivation of 63,000 years. This kind of Soul Beast is incredibly fast and elusive; even Soul Master of the same level can't catch a glimpse of it. I never expected that such a thing would be hidden deep within the Star Dou Great Forest."

While the three were talking, the Shattered Mirror Evil Spirit simply squatted in place, tilted its head, and its obsidian-like eyes reflected the figures of the three, remaining motionless.

But the next second, it suddenly swung its two tails.

Buzz--

The surrounding air rippled and twisted once more.

Its form blurred instantly, as if it had melted into the light and shadow. Only a pale purple afterimage remained on the snow. The next moment, it appeared on a tree trunk three zhang away, its claws treading on the bark, still without making a sound.

The surrounding light began to distort again, and tiny fragments of mirror light appeared faintly in the air.

"Don't let it gain momentum!"

Dugu Bo shouted and raised his hand, sending several emerald green poison needles flying in a fan shape toward the tree trunk.

But just as the poisoned needle reached the tree trunk, the figure of the Shattered Mirror Evil Spirit blurred again.

Puff puff puff--

The poisoned needles were all embedded in the tree trunk, corroding several small, charred holes.

The dark gray figure had already appeared on the branch on the other side.

It perched on a branch, its tail swaying gently, the purple light at the tip of its tail flickering.

It's like a provocation.

Lin Chen's eyes narrowed.

With a thought, the Chaos Prison Suppression Domain instantly expanded.

A dark gray domain power enveloped an area of ten zhang in radius, and the space suddenly sank.

The Shattered Mirror Evil Spirit paused for a moment.

However, it was not completely locked up like ordinary Soul Beast.

Stepping on the spatial folds at the edge of the domain, it flashed out of the domain's range, still perched on the branch, tilting its head to look at them, as if wondering about the suppressive force.

"Such speed," Lin Chen whispered.