Chapter 1307: Humanoid Diamond
"Mirror Xu Huo" appeared to be a person with self-awareness, but in reality, he only smiled at Xu Huo in a "human-like" way each time he passed before him. Elsewhere, he merely mechanically repeated Xu Huo's previous walking posture.
However, changes were still occurring within this spiritual space. Each time he passed before Xu Huo, the distance he traveled afterward grew longer. Across a single street, the street scene began to replicate on a large scale.
The spiritual space, which might have originally been an instance venue, was certainly not that simple. After a brief moment of thought, Xu Huo chose a different underground station to enter.
Before long, "Mirror Xu Huo" followed him down. Similarly, wherever he walked, mirror spaces appeared, even encroaching upon the original underground passages and carving out a new space within the metal layers.
Xu Huo then left the underground station through another exit. The moment he stood at the turnstile, "Mirror Xu Huo" also walked up beside him and replicated a turnstile next to him.
Their eyes met. "Mirror Xu Huo" smiled at him again, then stepped past him and walked forward.
The replication speed of the spiritual world had accelerated. Previously, the scenery would only gradually form where "Mirror Xu Huo" had walked. But now, wherever his body touched, the scenery was immediately covered, like spreading dye.
This mirror world was not replicated in a perfectly symmetrical pattern, so the final formed spiritual world was full of conflicts. Streets and buildings abruptly connected, or two structures directly merged in many places. The entire world looked as if it had been haphazardly pieced together.
Xu Huo could not freely enter the world replicated by "Mirror Xu Huo." He had to use spiritual power to forcefully break through, just like before.
"Mirror Xu Huo" could disappear and reappear at will. Wherever he walked, a new world would form, squeezing the space of the original spiritual world. It was estimated that in less than half a day, Xu Huo would be trapped in a narrow corridor.
After continuously destroying several pieces of the mirror world, Xu Huo switched to trying to restrict "Mirror Xu Huo."
However, the Book Tower could not trap him. It seemed that because "Mirror Xu Huo" represented him, once he left the Book Tower, "Mirror Xu Huo" would immediately follow him out. If he stayed inside the Book Tower, "Mirror Xu Huo" would replicate his Book Tower very slowly.
A manifestation within the spiritual world could actually materialize another person's spiritual symbol... Xu Huo was uneasy about letting him continue replicating his Book Tower, so he had to release him.
Uncertain whether this "Mirror Man" was directly connected to him, Xu Huo did not attack him. Subsequently, he could only continuously destroy the streets he replicated.
Soon, this spiritual world became spotted. The replicated street scenes scattered across the original city center, some overlapping with existing buildings, others blocking streets and alleys. These mirrored sections were all covered by an invisible, imperceptible barrier that could only be detected through touch.
Continuously materializing spiritual power was extremely draining, let alone in such a war of attrition. In less than half a day, Xu Huo was completely exhausted.
This was the most fatigued he had been since his Mental Super Evolution. Exhaustion of mental energy was followed by physical tiredness. The cooldown time for "Spiritual Gate" had not yet passed, but he had to try to get out.
He tried the three newly purchased items designed for spiritual interference one by one. The best one could only barely cause fluctuations in the spiritual space, while the other two had no reaction at all—but merely affecting the spiritual world was useless; he simply couldn't find a way out.
Just as he was feeling a bit of a headache, "Mirror Xu Huo" appeared before him, mimicking his gesture of rubbing his temple.
Although he had long known this was a form of interference within the spiritual world, Xu Huo still felt somewhat irritated. He felt as if all the blood vessels in his head were throbbing violently.
Seeing the surrounding world gradually being filled again, he placed "Spiritual Gate" by the door and sat down to rest. But at that moment, a change occurred—the Book Tower in his spiritual world actually appeared on its own!
He automatically switched to the base of the Book Tower. White floor tiles spread out one by one, followed by the surrounding rooms, and then the suspended staircase. Unlike his previous experience of descending from above, this time the Book Tower appeared from the bottom up, gradually ascending...
Xu Huo immediately stood up, but a new staircase suddenly rose beneath his feet. As the spiral staircase carried him upward, he accidentally touched a newly formed table beside him and heard a crisp sound—this was not a normal collision noise. When he raised his hand, he found his palm had turned into an object resembling a diamond rhombus.
His fingers could still move, but they had become noticeably sluggish. Conversely, "Mirror Xu Huo," standing three steps below him, had become more agile and lifelike.
Things left behind by Super Players, even if just a destroyed instance venue, should not be underestimated.
Ignoring his gradually crystallizing hand, Xu Huo looked up at the darkness slowly descending from above. After another flash of white light passed by him, he entered a new space.
In the pure white space, the ground was littered with diamonds shattered into human shapes. Some were still wrapped in clothing, looking as if a person had petrified and then shattered from within, roughly maintaining the shape of a human and their garments.
Xu Huo crouched down and picked up two pieces, confirming they were real objects. Yet he couldn't help but find it incredible. People couldn't truly turn into stone. This was merely a form of spiritual interference. Could believing oneself to be stone actually turn a person into stone without external interference?
Perhaps a player who had undergone Super Evolution of the body could achieve this, but mere spiritual interference likely could not.
Whether using spiritual power to interfere with reality and blur the line between truth and falsehood, or moving within a confined space, the essence was still the influence of the human spirit on matter. Just as he could pass through people using this spiritual world, both he and the people he touched remained their original selves. It was merely achieving a state of coexistence without mutual interference, not transforming a person into another object or existence.
"Can't be real people, can it?" "Mirror Xu Huo" had not followed him in, and Xu Huo had no intention of going out, so he picked up a nearby stone.
Half a meter away from him, a stone trembled slightly.
"Still alive?" Xu Huo raised an eyebrow. The next second, he picked up that stone, held it in his palm, and said, "Move."
The stone had no reaction. After a brief thought, he put the stone back and gathered the other scattered stones together according to the positions of the clothing.
The scene of a person coming back to life did not appear, but the patterns on Xu Huo's palm had receded to his fingers. He placed a nearby hat over the diamond person's face and said, "People don't turn into stone. Of course, if you burn them, that's a different story."
(Chapter End)