Pits Bigger Than the Last

The three were clearly slower than the Shadow Unicorn.

Even with Qiluo's multiple layers of amplification, it only slowed down the pace at which they were overtaken; the three of them were swept away by the wind blades and staggered about.

But the distance has been roughly created.

The next instant, Zijin and Su Ming suddenly scattered to the sides.

They left Qiluo alone in the center.

"Huh?"

Qiluo hadn't reacted yet.

Turning her head, she saw the shadow unicorn rushing straight towards her, its wind blades like a torrential downpour sweeping across the land.

Startled, Qiluo immediately took off running.

"Wait, what are you doing!"

Wind blades rained down, causing her protective shield to sway wildly.

The area where the blue light was most concentrated almost brushed against her tail, forcing Qiluo to hop and leap, executing the most stylish maneuver of her life. Zijin had already stood firm in the distance, the Divine Favor Scepter glowing, and a large amount of Magic Power began to converge into it, compressing into a dense elemental flow.

"Give me a time window."

"Let me take care of it!"

Su Ming also stopped on the other side, and the Dawn and Dusk Bracelet on his wrist began to materialize.

He encouraged Qiluo, "Keep pulling the aggro, you can do it!"

"I really didn't hide my true strength!"

Qiluo's tears flowed uncontrollably.

"I'm just an ordinary moon prayer master!"

"How could an ordinary Moon Prayer Master have a shadow of a Wind-type Saint Rank being?" Su Ming clearly didn't believe it.

"That's the problem with this broken mirror!"

As soon as Qiluo finished shouting, the shadow unicorn was already close by.

Its long horn on its forehead lit up, and a sharp ray of blue light condensed at the tip of the horn, clearly preparing to pierce through Qiluo directly. Su Ming raised his hand, and frost runes lit up on the surface of the Dawn and Dusk Bracelet.

The third installment in the timeline – "Eternal Frost Deposition!"

A field of frost instantly spread out.

The temperature in the mirror world plummeted, and the moisture in the air condensed into countless tiny ice crystals. Pale frost patterns spread rapidly along the ground, like an open icy spider Spiderweb, directly covering the shadow unicorn's charging path.

The shadow unicorn's azure wings suddenly stopped, enveloped in frost, and its speed abruptly decreased.

It abandoned Qiluo and pounced on Su Ming instead, clearly drawn into the aggro by the successful domain attack.

Qiluo scrambled and crawled away from the area covered by the wind blades.

We're saved!

She turned to look at Su Ming and Zijin, and stomped her feet in anger.

You guys are so mean!

"It's a tactic," Su Ming corrected.

**** Su Ming originally planned to set up a binding magic array under his feet.

A dazzling, sharp light suddenly appeared from behind the shadow unicorn. The arrow pierced through the ice and snow wall, and white crystal fragments and blue wind patterns exploded simultaneously.

"Binding Arrow!"

The arrow approached the shadow and exploded into countless threads of energy.

The threads materialized rapidly, wrapping around the shadow unicorn's limbs, wings, and horn, like a hunting net suddenly tightening.

Leoni's figure appeared in the distance.

He rushed over, stepping across the mirror surface, and the longbow was already drawn back.

For a fleeting moment, a thought flashed through Su Ming's mind:

Could this person be a fake teammate who will suddenly betray us after getting close?

The next moment, he realized it himself.

This is PTSD left over from being ambushed by the sorcerer last time.

Leoni, who came to help, did not approach Su Ming. Instead, he distanced himself to the other side and attacked the shadow unicorn with a barrage of arrows, attempting to compete with Su Ming for "aggro."

The Shadow Unicorn remained unmoved, still more concerned with the frost domain unleashed by the Dawn and Dusk Bracelet.

Even though it was entangled by the "Binding Arrow," it still stubbornly charged towards Su Ming.

"It loves you so much!" Leoni said.

"Everyone loves me, there's nothing I can do about it," Su Ming said.

He raised his hand, preparing to cast a spell.

Despite her resentment, Qiluo immediately activated "Radiance of Devotion." White light spread from her body, transforming into several Heguang that wrapped around Su Ming.

With this assistance, Su Ming's rune construction strength has been significantly improved.

He spread his five fingers. "Deathly Word - Arcane Collapse!"

The gray runes burrowed into the shadow unicorn's body along the energy threads left by the "Binding Arrow," like tiny wedges embedded in the weak points of the wind-elemental protective layer.

The cyan wind-elemental defenses on the outer layer of the Shadow Unicorn were dismantled, and the originally smooth wind elemental structure developed large and small holes, collapsing layer by layer.

One side of the wind wing suddenly lost its balance, and the Shadow Unicorn's sprint trajectory became chaotic.

"Not bad." Su Ming breathed a sigh of relief as he watched this scene. "Not a very strong Saint Rank."

"It's because the enemies you usually face are too overpowered!" Qiluo complained.

She looked at her shadow and added softly:

"And it's already very strong."

Just as the Shadow Unicorn was attempting to reorganize the "Wind Sequence," Zijin's magic was finally completed.

She raised the Divine Favor Scepter high in her hand, and the radiance of the six elements condensed.

The crimson of fire, the azure of water, the cyan of wind, the thick yellow of earth, the silvery white of light, and the deep darkness.

Compared to before, the gathered six colors of light are no longer mixed, but exist and flicker simultaneously.

This signifies that the Zijin has made significant progress in manipulating elements and concepts.

Zijin swung her scepter, and a powerful beam of light pierced through the Mirror Domain, shooting out in a straight line.

"Six-pointed star - Divine decree!" The mirrored world was thus distorted.

The Shadow Unicorn had just broken free from some of the effects of "Binding Arrow" and "Arcane Collapse" when it was struck by this "solid" beam of light.

It let out a silent screech, and its body suddenly collapsed, scattering into fragments.

The azure light flowed for a moment, then dissipated like smoke.

Qiluo stared blankly as her shadow shattered, her expression complex.

"Wow, the wind-based route is so cool!"

Su Ming disbanded the Dawn and Dusk Bracelet.

"Do you need to take some wind-based classes?"

This unicorn has such great untapped potential in combat, besides being a voracious eater; it's such a waste.

"It's no use," Qiluo said. "I can't use offensive spells."

****

On the other side, the power invoked by Yise's "Raven: Memory Seal" was not strong, almost non-existent.

However, they are extremely restrained towards the Thought-Dwelling Tribe.

The Abyss aura emanating from the Jielusi seemed to have encountered its natural enemy after the six-pointed star magic circle was closed.

The dark red, lava-like patterns cooled inch by inch, the Abyss aura receded rapidly, and it returned to ordinary shadow Magic Power.

The shadow was still the same shadow, and even its energy intensity didn't seem to have decreased. But the oppressive aura belonging to the Saint Rank Thought-Dwelling Tribe had vanished without a trace.

That wasn't a true Saint Rank.

Yise explained, the Raven Key in his hand still shimmering with stardust.

"It was just power that Lai'aoniya forcibly unleashed."

"The Thought-Dwelling Tribe, without a true form, is nothing but rootless duckweed."

"So simply erasing 'her' memory will suffice."

Jielusi climbed up from the mirror, with several bloody marks on her neck, and the tearing sensation on her soul level had not completely dissipated.

But she couldn't care less about that. Jielusi looked at Yise with great confusion.

How do you know this response?

"And so skilled?"

Jielusi had never seen Yise use the "Raven Key" like this before.

Yise had always told her that this thing was just a strange object that could easily open all kinds of locks, with at most some storage capabilities.

Jielusi quickly guessed at a possibility.

She looked at Yise, her voice lowering.

"Yise, you did this to me once, didn't you?"

You also erased my memory!

When Yise revealed this ability, he already knew that Jielusi would see through it.

"If you won't tell me, did something happen?" Jielusi continued to press.

"There are some things," Yise sighed. She had indeed used this ability on Jielusi, three times in total.

With a wave of his hand, Yise summoned the floral umbrella into his grasp.

"Let's finish the battle first."

Jielusi calmed herself down.

The next moment, her eyes returned to their usual Shadow Form.

"Good."

The two rushed toward the shadow Jielusi, at the same time.

This time, Shadow Jielusi did not display Lai'aoniya's power again.

A flash of light appeared between the ribs of Yise's umbrella, and several spells were unleashed in a series of rapid turns.

Shadow Jielusi raised her hand to counterattack, but Jielusi sealed the casting node in advance.

It tried to retreat, but Yise drew his umbrella-shaped sword and entangled it.

The two moved in swift and coordinated movements, one in front and one behind. Shadow Jielusi was quickly suppressed.

****

"A pleasure to meet you, Bone King, Bay Owl, and Princess Milan!"

Leoni gave a brief greeting.

He drew a solid arrow from his quiver, nocked it, and looked at the two remaining reflections beside Prism Shadow.

Which one to choose?

Su Ming and Zijin exchanged a glance.

"Take out my shadow first," Su Ming said. "It'll be easier for me to deal with."

Call out!

Leoni acted decisively, releasing the arrow and heading straight for Shadow Su Ming.

Shadow Su Ming raised its head, and an invisible light flashed in its eyes.

Whoosh! The arrow vanished. When it reappeared, it was embedded in the forehead of Shadow Zijin.

The entire room fell silent.

Zijin's eyes widened. "How did you do that?"

Su Ming was equally surprised, "How would I know?"

He was completely unaware of when his spatial abilities had progressed to the point where he could teleport to attack.

Shadow Zijin raised her head; the arrow was embedded in her forehead, shattered and falling away.

She was not injured, but she was clearly enraged by the arrow.

Shadow Zijin first glared angrily at Shadow Su Ming, then swung her hand and sent him flying.

They then turned to Su Ming and the others.

Her ethereal dress fluttered in the mirror's light, Pale ripples spreading from her feet. She resembled a drifting, pale flower, yet carried an air of stagnation and desolation.

Su Ming's heart skipped a beat.

That feeling of déjà vu was finally fully awakened by this scene. "The Archlich!"

Su Ming shouted loudly.

"The one I saw in the Brown Gold Island mine!"

Zijin was taken aback. "Huh?"

Of course she remembered it.

But shouldn't this be her own "strongest reflection" of the past?

Why a Archlich?

****

The next instant, the shadow in the form of the Archlich suddenly accelerated.

Before it arrived, a circle of Pale white ripples swept across the mirror beneath everyone's feet.

"Negative Energy Surge!"

Everyone's bodies suddenly felt heavy. It was as if the weight of the surrounding air had suddenly increased, and the flow of Magic Power within their bodies was suppressed by a layer of cold aura.

Everyone quickly reinforced the shields, and the protective lights illuminated as they fought against the negative energy.

But then another wave of turmoil washed over us.

"Mind Void!"

Su Ming felt the mirrored world before him recede slightly, as if his consciousness was being dragged backward by a cold hand. Reality began to thin, sounds became distant, and even the fact that he was fighting seemed to be being peeled away from his mind.

But it's not difficult to break free.

Su Ming focused his mind and immediately broke free from this distraction.

However, everyone is clearly under mental pressure.

Leoni looked at the approaching figure and exclaimed in admiration.

"As expected of the legendary Archlich!"

These two effects may seem weak, but they are merely permanent negative debuffs around the Archlich.

The enemy hasn't even really made a move yet!