Chapter 255: Trapped in the Mirror World
"You injured me, and the medicine to heal my injury is also provided by myself." Chen Yan looked at the little girl: "Is this what you call taking responsibility?"
The little girl immediately jumped up and shouted: "What else! I’ve already suffered significant losses, okay! I also infused you with a lot of Primordial Qi!"
"Is Primordial Qi valuable? Can’t you just cultivate and recover it through your own breath practice?"
As soon as Chen Yan finished speaking, he saw the little girl looking at him with an expression as if he were a fool.
"... What’s wrong? Is it not?" Chen Yan was also somewhat puzzled.
The little girl sighed: "You just came to this world and haven’t come to terms with it yet... Hmm, take a look yourself using the Qi Observation Skill."
"..."
Chen Yan felt a jolt in his heart, opened his eyes, and used the Qi Observation Skill to look around.
Then, Chen Yan’s face changed. He suddenly discovered a detail he had been ignoring all this time!
"This world... has no Primordial Qi?! There’s no Primordial Qi between heaven and earth?"
The little girl sighed lightly: "What do you think? This is the Mirror World. Everything in this world is projected from the real outside world. There are no life forms, no creatures, and no Spiritual Sense here. So where would the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi come from?"
The little girl then spoke in a serious tone and continued: "Alright, you can put away your Qi Observation Skill now! Although using the Qi Observation Skill consumes very little, it still uses Primordial Qi.
In this world, we can’t use Primordial Qi for cultivation. This means that whatever your current cultivation level and amount of Primordial Qi is, it can’t be replenished in this world. Primordial Qi is something that once used up, it’s gone forever! It will always be this way!
So we need to conserve our Primordial Qi because, once your own Primordial Qi is exhausted, you can’t cultivate or use a cultivation technique in this world, then... at that time, you’ll just be an ordinary mortal."
Chen Yan’s face shifted slightly. Although surprised, he didn’t feel much fear in his heart.
Exhaust all Primordial Qi?
I can go out! I can return! I’m not going to stay in this Mirror World forever.
However, Chen Yan wasn’t stupid. He could make out some implications from the little girl’s words.
It seemed... she, couldn’t leave this Mirror World!
"Now do you understand? Here, I’m willing to use my Primordial Qi to save you. That’s already a significant sacrifice." The little girl looked at Chen Yan helplessly.
"It seems you don’t cherish your Primordial Qi that much. You even used a spell to transform into a bird and fly all around."
The little girl shook her head, "I’m a Half-Demon. Transforming into a bird is just another form of my true body. It doesn’t consume my Primordial Qi. It’s an inherent skill for me; transforming into a bird isn’t a spell, it’s just switching to another form."
Demon Cultivator? Or Half-Demon?
"Wait, didn’t you say you didn’t remember anything?" Chen Yan stared at the little girl and asked.
"I don’t remember." The little girl squeezed her face in frustration, making her dirty face twist: "I don’t know who I am or where I came from, but I remember things about cultivation, spells, cultivation, cultivation techniques, Alchemy, and I know the Heavenly Dao...
I remember all these things clearly, with no reason or explanation. I just know them, understand?
I’m a Half-Demon, that much I know!
I also remember that I used to have a master who taught me many things.
But who my master is, what they look like, whether they are male or female, human or demon, I can’t remember!"
The girl pointed to the sky of this world, then to the ground of this world.
"All my memories start from when I was in this world. It feels as though when I opened my eyes, I was already in this world. I’ve even wondered if I was born in this world.
But my remaining memories tell me this is a world without Primordial Qi. There’s no way I could have cultivated my current levels of cultivation here!
So, I must have come from somewhere outside. I have so many cultivation techniques and once had a master... All these prove I wasn’t born in this Mirror World!"
Chen Yan pondered for a while and asked: "Have you... tried to leave here and go to the outside world?"
"Of course I have." The little girl responded quickly.
"You couldn’t get out?"
"I can get out." The little girl replied.
Chen Yan was stunned for a moment.
She can get out?
But the little girl added: "But as soon as I go out, I’m struck back by heavenly thunder."
Heavenly Thunder?
While Chen Yan was still bewildered, the little girl continued: "I’ve been out before. But when I leave this world and go to the outside world... as soon as I show my face, the sky gathers thunderclouds, and within ten breaths, heavenly thunder strikes me!
That heavenly thunder is powerful! Each strike is stronger than the last!
I’ve tried with my cultivation level. I can withstand the first three thunder strikes at most, but I get injured. If I were to force it, I couldn’t withstand the fourth thunder strike!
I’ve been out three times in total, and each time I was struck by the heavenly thunder and had to rush back to this world.
Later I dared not go out anymore, because I had a premonition..."
"What premonition?"
The little girl solemnly said: "I can’t go out again! If I go out again, the heavenly thunder doesn’t matter! More importantly, if I go out again, the Heavenly Dao will discover my hiding place!
I hide in the Mirror World, where the Heavenly Dao can’t find me, so I’m safe here.