Chapter 2825: The Lethality of Mirror Space

“Beep beep beep!!!” The instrument let out a shrill alarm, and at the same time, Miss Zeng writhed in agony on the hospital bed. She hadn’t woken up, but blood was streaming from her ears and eyes!

“Miss Zeng’s psyche has collapsed!” The experts hurriedly manipulated the device, attempting to abort the treatment, but they were outside; the room was already within Xu Huo’s Spiritual World, utterly beyond their reach.

Realizing the drug couldn’t be injected successfully, the expert shoved Tang Xu aside and bolted toward the room. Tang Xu, who was also wearing a protective suit, glanced at the motionless Xu Huo seated by the side before following suit.

But it was futile—neither he nor the expert at the front had any chance of entering the room. From inside came a single command: “Out.” Instinctively, the group turned and moved to exit.

Even as clarity returned the moment they turned, Tang Xu and the experts were still stunned. They were wearing professional anti-interference protective suits—the best current method for blocking spiritual influence among practitioners. Yet, even so, they couldn’t resist Xu Huo’s command. This was already far beyond their research limits!

The ward door shut once more. Miss Zeng on the bed became calm again; her breathing steadied. She wouldn’t die, at least not for now.

Xu Huo maintained his original posture.

The two faced each other within the Spiritual World.

The “Dou Shengnan” stabbed by the white materialized item wore an expression of pain, but she wasn’t actually Dou Shengnan. Realizing this, Xu Huo immediately halted his attack.

Yet even as he circled “Dou Shengnan” for observation, he couldn’t find any flaw. Inside the red-tiled cottage, no other concentrated psychic power entity remained. In other words, if the one before him wasn’t Miss Zeng, then Miss Zeng’s autonomous consciousness might be fundamentally unable to materialize in her own Spiritual World.

Attempts to awaken Miss Zeng failed, so Xu Huo suspected his psychic power wasn’t strong enough. He decided to try the “Mirror Space.”

“Mirror Space” is an evolution—a vertical deepening—of the Spiritual World. It can invert people and objects so that virtual, passable entities transform from everyday items into humans. This is a more profound form of mental interference. Before Xu Huo’s mobile space evolution, it could already achieve spiritual control, but until now, he’d never unleashed it in a Spiritual World clash.

After evolving again during the mobile space incident, both the strength and range of “Mirror Space” increased. However, its effect inside the Spiritual World was unknown. Previously, “Mirror Space” had only targeted ordinary players. To avoid irreparable consequences, he tested it on himself first.

Unexpectedly, under the Spiritual World’s shroud, he didn’t fall from his chair or onto the floor. The moment “Mirror World” covered him, three shadowy personas appeared behind him—like they’d shed from his body—but in an instant, the three shadows withdrew back into him.

He only experimented briefly before retracting the “Mirror Space.” Though he felt a jarring shock, the sensation wasn’t uncomfortable—on the contrary, it was odd. It also differed from Xu Huo’s expectations.

His original plan was to use “Mirror Space” to enhance spiritual control, thereby exerting deeper influence on Miss Zeng and wake her from the shadow of “Dou Shengnan.” Whether she would fall from the bed was a trivial concern.

However, when he used it on himself, “Mirror Space”‘s original effect disappeared, inadvertently stimulating multiple personas.

Each persona represented a part of his psyche. Does focusing intently in the Spiritual World while deploying “Mirror Space” directly affect a person’s spirit?

Yet, that instant hadn’t damaged his brain. Was it because of the Spiritual World’s restrictions, or does “Mirror Space” simply have minimal effect in this regard?

This could be examined later. Xu Huo again looked at the “Dou Shengnan” before him. After activating “Mirror Space” on her, Miss Zeng’s face appeared behind her shadow. Miss Zeng seemed to struggle, as if trying to break free from within, but couldn’t truly escape “Dou Shengnan.” Within two or three seconds, she instead clutched her head in agony, her expression collapsing.

Outside, Miss Zeng had already passed through the bed. Had the materialized item not caught her, she would’ve slammed onto the floor. At that point, “Mirror Space” had been retracted, but she still convulsed uncontrollably; blood oozed from her eyes, ears, mouth, and nose!

Xu Huo opened his eyes to check her status, then controlled the device to inject a small dose of sedative before refocusing on the red-tiled cottage.

Miss Zeng’s Spiritual World was severely collapsing—the streets had been obliterated; the Forest World, Tunnel World, and Black World twisted around the cottage, slowly eroding her core materialized item.

Luckily, after the shock, Miss Zeng had separated from “Dou Shengnan’s” shadow. She slumped to the ground, trembling in pain, completely unable to collect herself.

Her autonomous consciousness had been suppressed, leaving her incapable of controlling her Spiritual World, which kept her trapped here, her mind a muddled mess.

The childlike personality returned. In his right hand he squeezed a lump of soil and a leaf; in his left, he held a black cube.

A familiar object yet again.

“Destroy it,” Xu Huo said, frowning.

The childlike personality crushed both hands, and the soil, leaf, and black cube turned to drifting sand, disappearing as they rose into the air.

The multiple entangled Spiritual Worlds around Miss Zeng vanished. Her original Spiritual World gradually returned to normal; the street once again extended from the cottage, quaint and cozy buildings, brightly painted colors, streetlights blinking on one by one, stretching far into the distance…

“Beep beep beep!” The ward instrument emitted a steady tone. The person on the bed slowly opened her eyes.

Xu Huo retracted the Spiritual World, stood up, opened the ward door, and said to those outside, “Check Miss Zeng first. In half an hour, I need to speak with her.”

The experts were too distracted to hear him, rushing into the ward en masse. Tang Xu was excited too, but managed to acknowledge Xu Huo, nodding vaguely in agreement.

Xu Huo found a seat in the corridor and pondered what had just transpired.

There was no doubt that “Mirror Space” could impact both people and spirits. Miss Zeng’s psyche suffered heavy trauma purely because the strength of “Mirror Space” far exceeded her capacity; he didn’t need to do anything else—the multiplied spiritual power alone was enough to force her collapse.

As for the condition shown in himself, it likely correlated with his own spiritual strength threshold. This turned out to be an unexpected benefit. In matches of equal Spiritual Worlds, as long as he locks onto the other’s autonomous consciousness and activates “Mirror Space,” it’s a fatal blow—he could even skip the step of materialized item combat.

He looked up at the light on the ceiling. “Mirror Space” was an evolution that only appeared once the childlike personality became whole.