Chapter 1874: Strange Mirror

"He Ling, what is the 'Heavenly Profound Thousand Realm'?" Yun Che asked through a soul transmission.

After the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor and her nine hundred Devil Gods were banished by Mo E, the Devil Race was undoubtedly enraged but did not immediately retaliate. Their overall strength was already inferior to the God Race, and the sudden loss of their emperor and nine hundred Devil Gods made a direct confrontation almost impossible to win.

However, shortly after, the Heaven Punishing God Emperor, the pillar of the God Race, met his end, and the powerful Elemental Creation God went into reclusion. The remaining leaders of the God Race were only Xi Ke, the Order Creation God, who preferred to act independently and lacked unifying or commanding power, and Li Sa, the Life Creation God, who possessed the weakest combat ability.

For the Devil Race, who had long harbored resentment, this was undoubtedly an opportune moment. Thus, with the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword as the catalyst, a fierce war between gods and devils erupted.

However, according to the records in the Dragon God's ancient texts, the ancient Devil Race gravely underestimated the God Race's power. Although Mo E was dead, his Heaven Punishing God Race and various guardian God Races were incredibly powerful. This is evident from the fact that many royal realms in the current era inherited their legacies from Mo E's guardian God Races. It also suggests that Mo E might have been preparing for a war with the Devil Race throughout his life.

Another crucial reason for the Devil Race's defeat was that their three core Devil Emperors—Pan Ming, Nie Lun, and Jiu Sha—who possessed the most potent dark energy, were firmly trapped within the "Heavenly Profound Thousand Realm" during the latter stages of the war. They only managed to escape when the Myriad Tribulations of Annihilation descended, but by then, everything was irreversible. This directly nullified the Devil Race's advantage in top-tier power, and with their leaders suddenly gone, the Devil Race began to crumble step by step. In their despair, the three Devil Emperors still did not appear, and with no retreat possible, the Devil Race had no choice but to unseal the Evil Infant's Wheel of Myriad Tribulations.

The Heavenly Profound Pearl ranked fourth among the Seven Profound Heavenly Treasures, only behind the Ancestral Sword, the Evil Infant's Wheel, and the Life-Death Seal. This had always puzzled Yun Che, as it seemed a stretch for the Heavenly Profound God Realm alone to surpass the Heaven Smiting Devil Orb and the Heavenly Stabbing Sword. However, this "Heavenly Profound Thousand Realm," which Yun Che had never heard of, was so potent that it could forcefully restrain the three Devil Emperors for such an extended period, which he found utterly inconceivable and deeply shook his soul.

He Ling's voice gently echoed, "The Heavenly Profound Pearl's interference with the law of time can not only amplify it but also drastically shrink it. However, the latter is far more difficult than the former."

Yun Che immediately understood, "So, this Heavenly Profound Thousand Realm can accelerate the flow of time?"

"Yes!" He Ling affirmed, "When the Heavenly Profound World unfolds, it creates the Heavenly Profound God Realm to amplify time. When the Heavenly Profound World folds in on itself, it can be collapsed into a Ten-Fold Realm, a Hundred-Fold Realm, or a Thousand-Fold Realm."

"At the current power level in this world, even folding the Heavenly Profound World into a Ten-Fold Realm is extremely difficult; a Twenty-Fold Realm is already impossible. As for a Thousand-Fold Realm... only the ancient Order Creation God could achieve that."

"Once trapped within the core of the Heavenly Profound Thousand Realm, to escape, one must consecutively break through a thousand small worlds. During the escape process, it's very easy to lose one's spiritual perception and fall deeper in the wrong direction."

"And within the Thousand-Fold Realm, the flow of time is a thousand times faster."

"..." Yun Che was inwardly astonished.

The true divine might of these Profound Heavenly Treasures in ancient times was indeed beyond current comprehension and imagination. A thousand-fold world's lock, a thousand-fold time acceleration... The three Devil Emperors struggled in the Thousand-Fold Realm for a century, while outside, the fierce war had raged for a hundred thousand years. This was the truly terrifying aspect of the Heavenly Profound Pearl. However, in the current world, it was destined never to display such divine brilliance again.

But then again, the Heavenly Profound Pearl was typically used to amplify time, allowing for miraculous leaps in a short period and overcoming challenges impossible to surmount within normal timeframes. Accelerating the flow of time, on the other hand, would be forcefully squandering one's current life. No normal person would do that, Yun Che thought.

**Fifth Treasure: Heaven Smiting Devil Orb**

Born from the depths of the Devil Race's primordial abyss, it is supremely yin and toxic, yet also supremely pure and pristine. It contains infinite space and possesses powerful toxic and purification abilities. It can bury gods and devils in a poison abyss and instantly purify all evil. It was wielded by the Devil Emperor of the Devil Race.

Its ultimate poison is named 'Heavenly Scourge Soul Severance'. The Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor once left its poisonous essence with various Devil Races, who used it as a source to derive numerous terrifying devil poisons: Eternal Reincarnation Severance, Nine Fiend God Extermination, God Slayer's Despair, Eternal Dark Gloom...

From the records of numerous wars between gods and devils, the Devil Race's most important and terrifying weapon was devil poison. Hong'er's Sky Spirit God Race was annihilated by devil poison, and even the Life Creation God perished under its influence. To this day, traces of various ancient devil poisons still remain in the Southern Divine Region.

Yun Che had never expected that these powerful devil poisons were essentially derived from the Heaven Smiting Devil Orb's power... even the God Slayer's Despair that Jasmine was once afflicted with originated from the Heaven Smiting Devil Orb! The more he read the Dragon God's ancient texts, the more Yun Che felt that the Profound Heavenly Treasures in their complete state were truly terrifying to the extreme; any one of them, in ancient times, could significantly sway the tide of battle.

...Although it was believed to have departed forever with the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor to the outer chaos, the Heaven Smiting Devil Orb unexpectedly appeared in the Eternal Night Devil Race, emitting a horrifying blue light... Fortunately, the Heaven Smiting Devil Orb did not acknowledge a master, so the Eternal Night Devil Race could not unleash 'Heavenly Scourge Soul Severance' with it, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable...

...The Evil Infant's Wheel of Myriad Tribulations hijacked the Heaven Smiting Devil Orb, and 'Myriad Tribulations of Annihilation', recorded in the Ancestral Devil Codex, truly manifested, bringing inescapable doom upon gods, devils, heavens, and all things...

Under the Evil Infant's hijacking, the Heaven Smiting Devil Orb's poison spirit also met an end through annihilation. Why did the Heaven Smiting Devil Orb not depart with the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor, instead leaving behind this despair of myriad tribulations...?

This final lament touched Yun Che's heart. If the Heaven Smiting Devil Orb had remained with the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor or the Evil God, it would never have been hijacked by the Evil Infant's Wheel of Myriad Tribulations. Even if the Evil Infant's Wheel alone could bring about great calamity, it would not have ended an entire era... No matter how he looked at it, the root of all these disasters pointed to the Heaven Punishing God Emperor.

**Sixth Treasure: Heavenly Stabbing Sword**

Born from the primordial chaotic spatial fissures, it is a supreme treasure with ultimate spatial divine power. It can instantly traverse, open, and transfer space, and can also interfere with, disrupt, and collapse any spatial law. It is rumored that it can even disintegrate the Chaos Wall. It was wielded by the Elemental Creation God, Ni Xuan. Our race received the 'Cosmic Dragon City' as a gift from the Elemental Creation God, and it is also inscribed with the power of the Heavenly Stabbing Sword.

...As recorded in the Ancestral God Codex, the Heavenly Stabbing Sword's spirit was born alongside primordial chaos. If the owner of the Heavenly Stabbing Sword possesses power derived from primordial chaos, even if the Heavenly Stabbing Sword's divine power is depleted, they can use the sword spirit as a medium to forcefully activate spatial divine power with their own strength. However, this action would severely damage the sword spirit and harm the user's own body, so it should only be used as a last resort.

"..." Yun Che paused, his brows slightly furrowing. He remembered what Shui Meiyin had told him when she introduced the Heavenly Stabbing Sword: "But before Senior Devil Emperor departed, she didn't want the Heavenly Stabbing Sword to accompany her forever into chaos, so she entrusted it to me... Because the Heavenly Stabbing Sword was born from the core of primordial chaos, in this era, only my Immaculate Divine Soul, birthed by the aura of primordial chaos, can nourish and temporarily awaken the sleeping sword spirit of the Heavenly Stabbing Sword..."

"And with my Immaculate Divine Soul as the connecting medium, I can, with the help of the temporarily awakened sword spirit, forcefully activate the Heavenly Stabbing Sword's dimensional divine power using my own strength."

Shui Meiyin's description matched this record, yet there were differences. Shui Meiyin stated that only her Immaculate Divine Soul could temporarily awaken the sleeping sword spirit and forcefully activate the Heavenly Stabbing Sword's spatial divine power with her own strength... This was also why the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor specifically left the Heavenly Stabbing Sword to her. However, this record in the Dragon God's ancient texts states that "power derived from primordial chaos" could achieve this.

In the current era, there are three known individuals bearing the blessings of primordial chaos: Yue Wugou, with the "Immaculate Divine Body"; Xia Qingyue, with the "Glazed Heart"; and Shui Meiyin, with the "Immaculate Divine Soul." However, Yue Wugou and Xia Qingyue, the mother and daughter, have both perished. In this current era, indeed, only Shui Meiyin can accomplish this.

It was perfectly normal for current knowledge to deviate from ancient understanding, and many distorted facts proved that ancient records were not always entirely accurate. Yun Che's gaze briefly lingered but he did not dwell on it, continuing to look further down.

**Seventh Treasure: Samsara Mirror**

Of unknown origin, it has never appeared in the world, nor has anyone ever seen this mysterious supreme treasure. If its name were not inscribed in the Ancestral God Codex, perhaps no one would believe in its existence.

Rumors say that the Samsara Mirror does not appear in the world because it exists within the Samsara Well, being the source of the Samsara Well's power.Rumors say that the Samsara Mirror's core power surpasses the Samsara Well, capable of traversing samsara and altering causality.Rumors say that because the Samsara Well can only achieve one reincarnation every twenty years, the Samsara Mirror's divine power falls dormant for twenty years after each activation.Rumors say that the Samsara Mirror was born alongside the Ancestral God, preceding the other six treasures, and the Ancestral God was its only true master.The Dragon God once said that none of the four Creation Gods ever touched or even knew of the Samsara Mirror's existence.

...The Samsara Well died, gods and devils withered, heaven and earth crumbled, yet the Samsara Mirror remained without a trace... Is there truly no more samsara in the world, and must everything... genuinely face... an eternal end...?

Yun Che read the records regarding the Samsara Mirror with particular slowness and seriousness, fearing he might miss any detail. This was because the turning point of his own fate began with an incredibly bizarre "reincarnation." He desperately wanted to understand how his two "reincarnations"—from Profound Sky Continent to Azure Cloud Continent, and then from Azure Cloud Continent back to Profound Sky Continent—had occurred. Was it truly as Jasmine speculated, that his two deaths separately triggered the Samsara Mirror's power, which existed within him?

In ancient times, the Samsara Mirror never appeared, and was rumored to exist within the core of the Samsara Well. So why did it appear in the current era? The Heaven Smiting Devil Orb was left by the Evil God on the Blue Pole Star, but the Samsara Mirror clearly was not. Moreover, he was never the master of the Samsara Mirror; he was absolutely certain of this. Over the years, countless methods had failed to elicit any response from the Samsara Mirror, and his consciousness could not even penetrate its internal world in the slightest.

So why did his deaths trigger its power... when there had never been such a precedent in past history?

Suddenly, a peculiar feeling arose in his soul... What if the Samsara Mirror's power wasn't passively triggered by his death, but rather actively compelled by someone, or some other force, from behind the scenes!? This thought, which flashed unexpectedly, made Yun Che's heart pound, and he consciously tried to dispel it.

"Spacing out again!" Qianye Ying'er leaned forward, her snowy legs slightly bent, tightly clasping Yun Che's hand to prevent him from escaping. "The Samsara Mirror? It once appeared in the God Realm, but only fleetingly, and then there was no further news or trace... However, it seems it wasn't a false rumor."

"..." Jasmine had also mentioned the Samsara Mirror appearing in the God Realm. He couldn't comprehend why the Samsara Mirror, which had inexplicably appeared and then vanished in the God Realm, had ended up in the Illusory Demon Realm on the Blue Pole Star. The Samsara Mirror ranked last among the Seven Profound Heavenly Treasures, yet everything about it, whether in ancient or current times, was shrouded in thick mist and strangeness.

Turning the page, the subsequent records in the Dragon God's ancient texts detailed the long history of the Dragon God Race, as well as various core races of both the God and Devil Realms, including some major historical events of both realms. By the time Yun Che finished reading this ancient Dragon God text, seven days had passed.