Chapter 50: The Mirror That Wants to Devour Its Master

Traveling through time and space is a supreme taboo. Even True Immortals would perish within the River of Time, and not even an Immortal King would dare to casually cross through the ages.

Wasn't that Chaos Green Lotus an Immortal King? Yet it still only dared to strike a blow along the threads of cause and effect across endless time and space, never daring to set its true body into the River of Time.

To disrupt the flow of time—the resulting karmic burden was unimaginably immense!

Luo Yan once again realized the true weight of the "Law of Time" and the origin of the Time Mirror; it was definitely no ordinary immortal artifact!

His own comprehension of the Law of Time was already defying the heavens, and the Time Mirror could even withstand the formidable power of the River of Time's laws, allowing him to use it to travel upstream against the current!

"However... this era is actually so ruined that not even a few Immortals are to be seen!" The light of the Time Mirror illuminated all directions, extracting fragments of information from this ancient history.

"The Immortal Realm is gone!" The Time Mirror suddenly grew excited, realizing it could no longer sense the location of the Immortal Realm anywhere within the universe!

"How could this be... What happened... Why can't I remember anything at all?" It felt a splitting headache, completely unable to recall.

Luo Yan remained silent. He only had a vague understanding of why the Immortal Realm had vanished—it had been shattered, and the surviving remnants had severed themselves from the two realms for self-protection.

This mirror has issues!

Luo Yan had remained vigilant ever since it woke up. Now, he even discovered that his control over the Time Mirror seemed to have been momentarily hijacked; this fellow was trying to retake its own body!

Luo Yan reacted instantly, suppressing it in a fraction of a second.

"Are you trying to bite the master?" Luo Yan looked at it coldly, having sensed its covert little movements.

The Time Mirror stiffened, then responded with caution and determination, "How could that be? It must be an illusion! How could I possibly want to bite my master?"

Luo Yan gave it no quarter, delivering a merciless kick straight down.

The Time Mirror immediately wailed, "It's breaking! It's breaking! This mirror is going to shatter!"

Despite its loud cries, it was actually completely fine. While it looked battered and ruined on the surface, its core was inextricably linked and incomparably tough.

"This mirror did not want to bite its master!" the Time Mirror protested, feeling deeply aggrieved.

"I just wanted to test your current strength..." It said as it probed inward, discovering another body hidden within this vessel—that was Luo Yan's true physical form, while the outer shell had already become a mere puppet.

"How bizarre? I can't see through its foundation today! Kid, your new body has an incredible background!" It exclaimed, extremely shocked and utterly unable to pierce the mystery for the moment.

Luo Yan slapped it down heavily. The Time Mirror felt as though its mirror body was about to crack into pieces, utterly devoid of any chance to resist! Its very core had been refined by someone else, binding its fate to this man!

"I'd expect you wouldn't dare!" Luo Yan said, his gaze filled with ferocity and utmost vigilance.

The moment this broken mirror woke up, it began to grow rebellious. It was nowhere near as easy to use as when it was dormant!

"Still, I am a cautious person. Who knows when you might bite back? Should I just obliterate your consciousness right now?" Luo Yan wasn't just making idle threats; he was genuinely considering it and truly preparing to act.

The Time Mirror was terrified. "Don't! I promise to be completely obedient from now on, please don't erase my consciousness! Besides, once my consciousness is obliterated, the mirror's grade will drop as well. Only by nurturing a brand-new consciousness over time would it ever possibly reach the next level!"

It could sense that this master wasn't just bluffing; he was actually pondering the idea very seriously!

"Once the grade drops, there's a high chance I will lose the ability to travel through time and space!" Seizing upon a flicker of hesitation in Luo Yan's mood, the Time Mirror hastily added.

The hand Luo Yan had raised to strike immediately lowered. If its grade truly dropped and it lost the ability to travel through time and space, that would be equivalent to cutting off one of his own arms.

The ability to travel freely through time and space, despite bearing a massive karmic burden, was simply a heaven-defying power.

Moreover, he still owed the Empress a massive karmic debt that he hadn't repaid yet; if he lost this capability because of a grade drop... the loss would be catastrophic! Besides, for now, he could easily manipulate this mirror however he pleased—there was no real reason to erase its consciousness.

Seemingly sensing Luo Yan's thoughts, the Time Mirror instantly breathed a sigh of relief.

The awakening of the Time Mirror was just a minor episode, but for Luo Yan, it served as a wake-up call: this artifact possessed an independent consciousness of its own and had its own agenda.

"Right, let me ask you: why is my new body unable to cultivate?" Luo Yan asked. This fellow was an old monster and definitely possessed more knowledge than him.

Peering through the puppet body, the Time Mirror carefully and meticulously scrutinized the infant-like form. "Strange! Bizarre! How on earth did you forge this body? Why can't I see through its origins at all?!"

It was beyond shocked. As a precious mirror that had existed since the Mythical Age, its background was astonishing, and it had witnessed countless Divine Physiques, Immortal Physiques, and all sorts of other constitutions. Yet this single body left it completely unable to discern its roots.

Luo Yan suddenly dropped a reminder, "Didn't you say you had amnesia?"

The Time Mirror was startled, feeling extremely guilty as it stammered, "Seeing certain things naturally triggers associations with some of my memories. In human terms, you could call this intermittent amnesia..."

This bastard was actually trying to trick a confession out of it!

Luo Yan didn't want to bicker with it over this issue. "Answer my previous question first: why can't this body cultivate?"

The Time Mirror recalled carefully, its mirror light sweeping across the form. After hesitating for a long while and thinking deeply, it finally answered, "This body of yours... why do I feel like it's an Immortal Physique?"

"An Immortal Physique?" Luo Yan was particularly sensitive to this.

The more the Time Mirror looked, the more shocked it became. Seeming to have discovered some earth-shattering secret, it muttered in a daze, "Kid, how did you even manage to forge this body? There isn't even a trace of immortal energy left in this world, yet you actually managed to birth an Immortal Physique!"

"It's not that your body can't cultivate; rather, the energy of this world is simply unsuitable for it. This body of yours has transcended the mortal shell, leaped clear of the secular world, and truly become a genuine Immortal Physique! Such a constitution normally only undergoes transmutation when ascending from the mortal realm into the Immortal Realm. Yet you managed to forge an Immortal Physique in a mortal world where not even a wisp of immortal energy exists—this is utterly abnormal!"

With its mysterious origins, having fallen into the universe directly from the Immortal Realm, the Time Mirror quickly unraveled the secret of Luo Yan's new body!

"Once a constitution like this enters the Immortal Realm, it starts at the True Immortal level at the bare minimum, and its future achievements are limitless! Even in the Immortal Realm, very few people can possess such a Primordial Divine Immortal Physique—this is the legendary bearing of an Immortal King!" The Time Mirror's emotions surged as it fully grasped the secret of Luo Yan's physique!

"After saying all that, you still haven't told me why I can't cultivate!"

"It's not that you can't cultivate, but rather that your Immortal Physique cannot absorb the energy of this world. Only immortal energy can replenish the withered immortal origin within you!" The Time Mirror began to look slightly gleeful.

"You really are unlucky! If you had formed this Primordial Divine Immortal Physique inside the Immortal Realm, you'd definitely be nurtured as a future Immortal King. But in this era where the Immortal Realm has vanished, your Primordial Divine Immortal Physique is no different from a crippled constitution!

Still, it's not entirely useless; your physical body is immensely powerful, almost reaching the realm of True Immortals, comparable to the Ancient Great Emperors of this era! An Ancient Great Emperor's physical body only becomes a True Immortal body after being cleansed and refined by immortal energy."