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Chapter 465: Evil Mirror
Similar to the Starving Corpse Seal, there is another one called the Retribution Mirror Seal!
The Mirror of Retribution in the Netherworld is an oval-shaped mirror, one meter high and half a meter wide, with a wooden frame covered in patterns. Judging from its style, it should be a type from the ancient Xia Dynasty.

After obtaining the Hungry Ghost Seal, Chen Xin thought that dealing with other turbid world gods would be easier.

After all, the Hungry Ghost Seal's power was truly abnormal. In order for the Hungry Ghost Seal to exert its proper effect, Chen Xin even consumed another 100,000 units of Yin Virtue to add ten more layers to the Hungry Ghost Seal.

In this way, at least the power of the Hungry Ghost Seal can be guaranteed to be undiminished when dealing with the gods of the turbid world.

But when Chen Xin activated the power of the Hungry Ghost Seal, he found himself staring at the mirror in bewilderment.

Five minutes passed before Chen Xin realized that the mirror was not an active attack type.

Recalling the battle between the six clans of the Great Xia Dynasty and the guide whose entire body was covered in mirrors, Chen Xin tried shooting iron tree leaves at the mirror.

The 100,000 leaves on the cycad tree tumbled and spun, transforming into a long snake covered in reverse scales, rushing towards the mirror.

The moment Chen Xin touched the mirror, he saw ripples spread across its surface, like water.

Immediately afterwards, the leaves of the iron tree disappeared into the mirror, much like the way a hungry ghost opens its mouth to devour other attacks.

However, the hungry ghost did not react otherwise after swallowing those attacks.

But after the mirror absorbed all the attacks, it began to change.

The wooden frame of the mirror changed color, turning the same black as the iron tree.

Soon after, iron tree branches sprouted from the frames. These branches grew quickly and soon took shape, becoming frames that connected to the mirrors.

A rough count revealed that there were over a hundred picture frames, occupying a space in front of Chen Xin with a diameter of nearly a hundred meters.

Seeing this, Chen Xin silently activated the possession seal, allowing the possession object to cover his entire body, and then summoned the paper sedan chair to sit inside.

After thinking for a moment, he summoned the iceberg again and wrapped the paper sedan chair inside it.

Chen Xin also wanted to see how many layers of defense those mirrors could break through.

Just as Chen Xin was doing these things, mirrors appeared in those picture frames as well.

Immediately afterwards, a leaf of ironwood slowly emerged from the mirrors.

Then, a series of whooshing sounds rang out as ironwood leaves shot continuously toward the iceberg and the ironwood tree.

Chen Xin had only controlled the iron tree to shoot out 100,000 iron tree leaves, but the mirror gave Chen Xin much more in return.

Or rather, each of those hundreds of mirrors gave Chen Xin a hundred thousand iron tree leaves in return!
Millions of ironwood leaves converged to form two imposing, hundred-meter-long pythons, which crashed into the ironwood tree and the iceberg respectively.

Chen Xin manipulated the iron tree to launch an attack to defend, while he made no move against the iceberg.

Thus, the sounds of metal pieces clashing and splattering, as well as the hissing sound of metal pieces shooting into the iceberg, could be heard continuously from the underworld.

However, the iron tree was soon riddled with holes.

It's not the iron tree's fault. After all, it takes time for the iron tree's leaves to grow, and it can only shoot out 100,000 leaves at a time. But the giant python that attacked it had a full five million iron tree leaves!

After the iron tree was destroyed, Chen Xin ignored it, focusing all his attention on the iceberg.

At this moment, the side of the iceberg facing the mirror was densely covered with iron tree leaves.

After that, the ironwood leaves shot at the iceberg had nowhere to land and could only hit the iceberg itself, thus making the entire iceberg make a clanging sound.

Despite the impressive display, it only penetrated ten meters.

Chen Xin had only used the Iceberg Seal once, and he was quite surprised that it had achieved this effect.

However, Chen Xin soon realized that something was wrong.

The mirror seemed to realize that its attack efficiency was a bit low, so it manipulated the remaining iron tree leaves to reassemble into a giant python, which eventually coiled up along the iceberg!

The leaves of the cycad that make up the giant python are like saw teeth, constantly scraping ice shards off the iceberg.

Although it didn't look as imposing as before, after circling three or four times, the part of the iceberg that was trapped sank inward by more than ten meters, and it was only thirty meters away from the center of the iceberg.

This surprised Chen Xin.

He immediately activated the Iceberg ability, the freezing power that preserves anything.

Frozen air rose from the iceberg, and the unusually dense white freezing air seeped into the giant python. Soon, the python's coiling speed began to slow down.

When it was less than ten meters away from where Chen Xin was located, the black python's body was covered with a layer of white frost, and it was frozen in the iceberg, becoming part of the iceberg.

As the giant python stopped moving, the iceberg began to recover under the pervasive freezing air.

From a distance, it doesn't look like an iceberg, but more like an artwork with a giant python sealed inside!
Just as Chen Xin was satisfied with the iceberg's abilities, the mirror over there changed again.

A touch of snow-white appeared on the original black iron frame of the mirror.

Immediately afterwards, leaves from the cycads shot out, and tens of millions of cycad leaves transformed into giant pythons.

This time, however, every single ironwood leaf was covered with a layer of frost!
From a distance, this time, it wasn't a black python that appeared, but a white one!

Under Chen Xin's watchful gaze, the white python once again coiled around the iceberg, repeating its previous tactic.

Chen Xin naturally noticed the changes in the white python, made some guesses in his mind, and then released the freezing air again.

This time, however, as the white python coiled and slicing away more than twenty meters from the iceberg, and was about to reach the location of the previous python, its body did not feel stiff at all.

It seems to be immune to freezing air!
Click, click, click!
The white python shredded the previous black python and, in the blink of an eye, was within five meters of Chen Xin's location.

Just when Chen Xin thought the other side was going to continue to close the last bit of distance, the giant white python exploded!
Countless white ironwood leaves shot through the last five meters of ice from all directions, penetrating the sedan chair.

After everything calmed down, all that remained where the iceberg had been was the sedan chair, which had already gone into hiding.

The 100-meter-high iceberg was shattered into powder.

Chen Xin was inside the paper sedan chair and was not harmed.

Just as Chen Xin was wondering whether to continue testing the limits of the mirror, the mirror changed again.

The black iron frames that were originally covered in white frost now looked rather strange, their texture had changed, and Chen Xin couldn't tell at first.

Only after the frame stopped changing and the iron tree leaves shot out again did Chen Xin understand what that texture was from the giant python that it formed.

Paper!
This time, the cycad leaves have an added paper-like texture!
Having understood this, Chen Xin had some guesses. So, before the giant python arrived, Chen Xin made the thing he was possessing expand and fill the inside of the sedan chair.

At the same time, the black python swallowed the sedan chair whole.

The papery ironwood leaves spun and cut around the sedan chair.

Just as Chen Xin had predicted, the sedan chair's concealment effect was ineffective.

After enduring two breaths, the four sedan bearers were torn apart first, followed by the sedan itself.

Until finally, Chen Xin, who was wrapped in a black sphere by the object that possessed him, was revealed.

Chen Xin had initially wondered how long this host could withstand the attacks from the ironwood leaves, but he quickly realized something was amiss. The papery ironwood leaves seemed rather weak in their attack power!
It took a full half minute to scrape off even a thin layer of the host.

This situation left Chen Xin somewhat stunned.

When he saw the papery texture on the ironwood leaves, he suddenly understood.

Although this mirror has acquired the characteristics of a sedan chair and can attack a hidden sedan chair, the original sharpness of the iron tree leaves has changed because the sedan chair itself is made of paper. In addition, the frost characteristic is water-based, so the effect of paper meeting water is naturally even more negligible.

The reason it was able to break through the sedan chair was simply because the sedan chair itself had very low defense.

Sedan chairs were never used for defense.

After the sedan chair was broken open, the paper-like iron tree leaves naturally revealed their true form. Apart from the white frost, which could still cause some damage to Chen Xin, the rest of them had little chance of breaking the black sphere formed by the host.

This is like trying to cut a tire with a knife; the tire definitely won't withstand it.

Then they replaced the knife with wet paper. How were they supposed to cut it?
After this test, Chen Xin finally understood the abilities demonstrated by the mirror.

In some ways, the power of this mirror is even stronger than that of the hungry ghost in the Starving Ghost Seal.

After all, a hungry ghost can only replicate one identical ability, but a mirror can continuously add new abilities to the same ability to solve new problems.

It's as if the mirror is telling Chen Xin that no matter what move he makes, I can find a corresponding countermeasure.

However, this method of cracking the code can only be applied to the next stage.

If the superimposed abilities conflict with each other during this process, they will not necessarily become stronger.

Just like Chen Xin, if Chen Xin were to summon the iron tree again, even if this paper-like iron tree had tens of millions of leaves, it would be impossible for it to break the iron tree.

But Chen Xin didn't do that, because once he summoned the Iron Tree, it would mean that the leaves shot out by the mirror the next time would once again possess the Iron Tree's sharpness.

Thus, the defense formed by Chen Xin's possessions became extremely vulnerable.

As for now.

Chen Xin smiled as he looked at the black, rubber-like texture that had appeared on the glasses frame.

Soon, new leaves shot out from the mirror.

This time, the paper-like texture is weaker, and there is a more textured feel, like a parasitic creature, with even some sticky threads on the leaves.

Thus, this python made of leaves became the most realistic of all the pythons ever made.

Nevertheless, Chen Xin did not dodge.

The black python, being made of the same material as the host creature, only had the added property of freezing air, posing little threat to Chen Xin.

Just as Chen Xin had guessed, the hundred-meter-long black python crashed into the black sphere that Chen Xin had transformed into.

The black ball bounced away after being hit!
This scene not only made Chen Xin laugh out loud, but also stunned the giant python controlled by the mirror for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, as if angered, the giant python opened its huge mouth and bit the black ball that Chen Xin had transformed into.

If you add two antlers and four claws to this black python, it would look very much like a flying dragon soaring in the sky, or a divine dragon spitting out a pearl.

Unfortunately, the black python was not a divine dragon.

The black ball that Chen Xin had transformed into was being torn apart in the giant python's mouth. Although it had the characteristics of a host, the leaves, apart from their elasticity, stickiness, and changeability, did not gain any sharpness.

The black ball inside the python's mouth was completely unharmed.

Chen Xin even felt that as long as he didn't attack the black python, they could remain locked in a stalemate forever!

But Chen Xin only wanted to understand the extent to which the mirror could do that, so he waited a minute after being bitten by the black python.

Chen Xin then used his supernatural powers, appearing behind the mirror with the black sphere in his body.

His right hand reached out from the black ball and grabbed the frame of the mirror in the very center.

The "Complete Guide to Town Statues" appeared, tearing and pulling in the mirror at the very center.

The other mirrors also became as soft as noodles, and were pulled into the "Complete Collection of Town-Suppressing Objects" along with the central mirror.

After Chen Xin activated the Mirror of Evil, he had a mirror in his hand.

Just as he expected, the Mirror of Evil could not attack on its own initiative; it would only retaliate after the enemy launched an attack.

But there was one thing that Chen Xin didn't expect.

This so-called attack doesn't just refer to Chen Xin's previous attacks.

If you stand in front of a mirror and show aggressive intent, that counts as an attack!
The Mirror of Evil has its own countermeasure against this malice: it returns even more malice to the person who previously spread it!

This kind of malice can be intimidating or it can create illusions for the other party.

Although it doesn't have the power to kill directly, if the target can't withstand the malicious attack that returns, it's possible for them to become an idiot, a moron, or even a vegetable.

In addition, mirrors also respond to attacks such as illusions.

Chen Xin specially sought out a malevolent spirit and had it use its malevolent energy to create an illusion that enveloped Chen Xin and the mirror.

What happened next surprised Chen Xin.

The fiend launched an attack on Chen Xin using the illusion it had created, but its attack missed its target.

After that, the ferocious creature began to relentlessly attack different false targets within its own illusion.

The fiend thought Chen Xin was too fast, but little did it know that when it launched its illusion attack, it and its illusion were completely enveloped in the illusion formed by the Mirror of Evil.

The main principle is: how you treat me, I will treat you the same way!

If Chen Xin hadn't already subdued the Hungry Ghost, he really wanted to see what would happen if the Hungry Ghost and the Mirror of Retribution were put together.

Will they remain silent, or will the hungry ghost launch an attack, which the Mirror of Retribution will then break, followed by the hungry ghost replicating and counterattacking, and the Mirror of Retribution reinforcing and counterattacking... and so on, until they can keep fighting and neither can gain the upper hand?

Unfortunately, the hungry ghost is gone, only the hungry ghost mark remains.

The Mirror of Calamity also belongs to Chen Xin. Even if Chen Xin uses the Hungry Ghost Seal to attack the Mirror of Calamity, the Mirror of Calamity will not retaliate.

Because it assumes that Chen Xin is harmless.

The appearance of both the Hungry Ghost Seal and the Mirror of Karma made Chen Xin even more interested in the turbid god that Wang Taihong, the Grand Guide of the Divine Envoy Organization, would guide later.

But after Chen Xin obtained the tongue-pulling mark, he found that things were not quite as he had imagined!

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(End of this chapter)