# Chapter 2036: Mirror Spiritual Realm
In the spiritual realm, evolvers can successfully open portals and pass through obstacles like doors and walls primarily because they change the state of both the obstacle and themselves. A hard wall can be easily broken through like a sponge or air, allowing smooth passage. This not only reduces obstruction but also shortens distance. This is the transformation of the surrounding environment by spiritual power. In this spiritual realm, everything in the environment should be able to temporarily become as insubstantial as air for the evolver.
However, in the mirror realm, everything in the environment is real. It's just that people seem to possess the state of walls in the Library Tower world—they themselves can pass through any object. Simply put, it's like reaching the state of a spiritual realm opener, but unlike the opener, people in the mirror realm seem to have been decomposed by power. Although they appear to be a whole, they have achieved the wall state of the Library Tower world—people can be passed through by objects.
Based on the current state, it seems difficult to understand the difference between the two, but under the influence of spiritual power, while Yan Jiayu can pass through walls, she also has a chance of being unable to hold onto items.
In the past spiritual realm, Xu Huo had to spend a long time completely blurring the trapped person's mental state, causing them to detach from the game and render items ineffective. Entering the mirror realm completely compressed this process, and whether the trapped person could use items depended on their own mental strength and degree of influence.
For someone like Yan Jiayu, whose mental state was extremely stable, influencing her was not easy. So after a brief period of confusion, when she fell downstairs, she used her willpower to grab the floor and climbed back up from below.
She stood in front of Xu Huo with a lingering fear on her face. "Hide and seek, do we have to play this big?"
Xu Huo smiled. "Try to see if the items still work?"
Yan Jiayu immediately pulled out two items. The first time, she couldn't activate them successfully. She exclaimed in amazement, "Your spiritual realm is too powerful. It can even completely blur perception. How did you do it?"
It was simply compressing the lengthy spiritual interference process. Just like the previous transition from spiritual interference to mind control, using stronger spiritual power to forcibly shorten the time. In the mirror realm, mind control should be easier to accomplish.
So Xu Huo turned his gaze to the person lying on the stairs. After locking him in the mirror space, Qi Cong, whose will was loose, immediately fell to the first floor. He looked up in confusion, only to see a rose appear. A voice commanded him, "Use it to cut off your right hand."
Qi Cong, who was already exhausted, seemed bewitched. He grabbed the flower from the ground, bent the stem at a very clever angle to form a sharp point, and then stabbed it toward his own right wrist!
With the empowerment (jia chi) of player power, the flower stem successfully pierced into the flesh, but Qi Cong himself didn't wake up until Xu Huo commanded him again to stab his own throat.
The blood-stained flower stopped near his neck. Qi Cong seemed to wake from a dream, gasped, and then violently threw the thing in his hand away. He frantically wrapped his wound, sobbing as he did so, "I just wanted to find a job that provides food, lodging, and lifelong security. You guys actually want my life. God, is there really no good person left in this world? Can't live! Can't live!"
Xu Huo withdrew his gaze and said to Yan Jiayu, "This friend of yours has a pretty strong will."
Yan Jiayu, who was still trying to use items and feel the difference in the spiritual realm, looked up upon hearing this. "Can't underestimate him. He followed me all the way to E27. I originally wanted to go home and play, but now that's out of the question. But he did help me in the previous instance. He's not a bad person. I just don't like him following me. Can you think of a way to help me?"
"Isn't he looking for a safe job? I'll have Mr. Dong help him, as long as he's willing to stay in District 011," Xu Huo said.
"I'll talk to him tomorrow." Yan Jiayu stretched. "Have you resolved your matters? If so, I'm going back to sleep."
"Sweet dreams." Xu Huo closed the mirror spiritual realm and refocused his attention on the Library Tower.
He was still sitting by the table. As if sensing something, he looked at the book in front of him. The cover had changed, becoming mirror-like. When he casually flipped open a page, a small mirror door appeared on it—his materialized object had gained new content.
At this point, Xu Huo had completely recovered his childhood memories. By accepting his childhood personality, he had completed the construction of a new spiritual space, doubling his overall spiritual power. Although the controllable range of the mirror spiritual space wasn't large, escaping it wasn't as easy as escaping the Library Tower space. Moreover, the two had a progressive relationship—after leaving the mirror spiritual space, one should return to the Library Tower space. Additionally, his materializable space had expanded from the original twenty meters to two hundred meters.
That is, within this range, his spiritual power, without materializing into specific objects, could replace items or traits for attack and defense, just like space power. The attack and defense of items might depend on the strength of the attack, but defense traits, especially attack-type traits, were very effective. Against an impenetrable wall formed by materialized space, the possibility of traits taking effect was very small. However, he didn't know if such a materialized power space could guard against trait constraints like the "Arena Referee" he had encountered on the train.
Naturally, there were also differences between traits. For example, Xu Huo's "Never-Dying Passerby A" had the effect of isolating all traits, items, and other physical damage within 10 seconds. Such a protection level was already high enough, but "Never-Dying Passerby A" wasn't omnipotent. The Space Ray Blade could damage it to a certain extent, but it required sufficiently strong space power. Undoubtedly, the Time Ray should also be able to penetrate it.
Looking at the use of the three super evolution powers, traits, and items, they were different yet interconnected. Certain traits could be uses of space power or spiritual power, but they generally required a medium, more like another usage of items. And this usage mostly needed game support. Items go without saying—they themselves included temporal-spatial and spiritual classifications.
From this perspective, ordinary players actually had a certain possibility of super evolution during their evolution process. However, the state might be different—perhaps point-like or line-like—in any case, not systematic. Additionally, it couldn't be ruled out that traits were actually items with non-substantial carriers, since some bizarre activation methods for traits were themselves similar to items.
Therefore, all the complex and diverse existences in the game world ultimately connected back to time and space.
But these weren't things that urgently needed to be understood right now. The specific use of the spiritual realm would have to wait for the next suitable opportunity. For now, he could get a good night's sleep.