Buying the bronze mirror, Jiang Ge asked again,

"Is your shopkeeper here? I want to meet him. ”

He wondered if the shopkeeper could be a skilled mirror grinder.

"Guest, I'm sorry, the shopkeeper has gone far away, and it will take a long time to come back, so I won't be able to see him for a while." The clerk replied.

Jiang Ge nodded.

Stuff the packed 10 small makeup mirrors and bronze mirrors into your backpack.

Jiang Ge walked out of the Hidden Mirror House and walked around the shopping street twice, searching for materials for the Shadow Binding Ritual.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Jiang Ge returned to the dormitory.

…………

Night.

Ryugu University, lecturer's dormitory.

Today is sixteen.

It's still a full moon.

The quiet moonlight shines through the window, illuminating the room.

Jiang Ge didn't light the lamp, he sat on the bed and thought, holding the bronze mirror he bought from the Mirror Hiding House in his hand.

"Ancient dreams are connected to the world of illusions......"

Jiang Ge looked at the mirror and said softly.

Among the many books he had read, it was mentioned that the Illusory Realm was beyond the reach of mortals, and that there were seven Heavenly Gates standing among them.

They are the gates of the illusory world.

If a mortal wants to enter the Illusory Realm, he must pass through these seven heavenly gates.

The rumored final step of becoming an immortal is to cross the Heavenly Gate with a complete soul and flesh and blood body and reach the Illusion Realm.

Its name is Feather Ascension.

Of course, there are very few people who have been able to do this in the past.

All of them have reached the ultimate of mortals, only one step away from the immortals, and are almost inhuman.

And most people's so-called entry into the illusion world is actually to use their own free spirituality to enter the illusion world and obtain knowledge materials from it.

It's more like a kind of smuggling.

Compared with ascending across the gate of heaven, the difficulty is one in the sky and one underground.

However, even so, this kind of smuggling is still a difficult thing for ordinary people.

Therefore, the illusory world is a place that mortals cannot touch, and this sentence is indeed literal-

People who can touch the illusory world are, to some extent, inhuman.

…………

Under the moonlight, on the bed.

Jiang Ge was half-recumbent, holding a bronze mirror with exquisite workmanship.

The image in the mirror is immediate, reflecting a young face.

It is mentioned in the memory of the apprentice.

When a person goes to sleep, his own spirituality will unconsciously diverge, if he is lucky enough and has a certain talent.

Then it is possible for this person to follow the guidance of the underworld and come into contact with the edge of the illusory world, the wall that separates the surface and the inner illusory world.

This is why, in ancient legends, the realm of illusion is often associated with dreams.

Therefore, the first step in entering the illusion world is to let one's own spirituality wander.

In short, let the union of soul and body no longer be so solid.

Similar to Taoist out-of-body experience.

In folklore, it is very taboo to sleep in front of the mirror, believing that the mirror will suck away people's souls and dissipate people's souls.

"But I'm different......"

Jiang Ge looked at himself in the mirror and said softly.

"Tonight I will sleep in the mirror, reflecting the mirror of the soul, which will open the way to the illusion world for me......"

Jiang Ge's eyes gradually blurred.

The golden moonlight seemed to fill the whole world.

A veil of cloth for heaven and earth.

The mirror is also hazy.

In a trance.

Jiang Ge seemed to see the self in the mirror gradually fade.

In its place, there is a full moon in the color of glass.

Under the moon, there was a small figure.

If you look closely, it seems to be a figure that is very familiar to him.

Under the light of the moon, step by step.

"I'm in the mirror?"

Jiang Ge was surprised, and then fell into a dream.

……

In a dream.

The vast galaxy builds a bright silver sinuous serpent.

Jiang Ge looked ahead.

Thoughts are like moths fluttering around the lights.

It makes it impossible to concentrate.

He seemed to have forgotten something.

I just remember that I have come a long, long way.

Across verdant mountains, across the boundless desert, and across the silent ocean by boat......

Always accompanied him was the glass moon that hung high above his head and occupied half of the sky.

In the distance, he saw a vast lake, the surface of which was like a mirror.

Jiang Ge moved forward.

But he suddenly found that he had stepped into the water at some point.

And the glass moon above his head also rose from the surface of the lake at some point.

The water is connected to the sky, and the sky is the same color.

"Mirror Lake, legend has it, the place where the moon was born."

However, Jiang Ge knew that this was not the real Mirror Lake, but just the manifestation of his dream.

Because the real Mirror Lake is in the depths of the Illusory Realm.

But he did not hesitate and walked into the lake.

Cool to the touch.

The moonlight-colored lake filled the surroundings, but he didn't feel suffocated at all.

It was as if he had turned into a swimming fish, following the water of the lake to the deepest part of the bottom of the lake, and diving deeply.

Dive, dive, dive......

The depth of this lake seems to have surpassed the limits of human thinking.

Finally, at the end of the bottom of the lake.

It was as if he had arrived in another world and saw something unbelievable.

It was a towering wall that stretched across the heavens and the earth.

It doesn't seem appropriate to describe it as a city wall, as it doesn't have the slightest appearance of a city wall.

It's like a thick layer of skin that covers flesh and blood.

Jiang Ge suddenly realized that the flesh and blood skin was the epidermis of the world he lived in.

But then, his attention was drawn to something else.

It was a huge rod like pitch black, taller than the city walls, piercing the skin of the world like a nail, holding it firmly to the flesh skeleton of the world.

"Dinghai needle ......"

This was Jiang Ge's first thought when he saw it, but then he shook his head.

He knew it wasn't a needle.

Those were the seven heavenly gates that stood in the illusory realm.

"The Gate of the First Day: The Principle of Constancy."

"Flesh-and-blood walls, riveted doors......"

The illusory world is a place that subverts the cognition of mortals, a place of constant contradictions.

He came to the unreachable gate of the first day.

Neither majestic nor vast seems to be enough to describe its greatness.

From the memories of the Spirited Apprentice, he knew that in order to enter the Heavenly Gate, he needed to have three elements.

The first element is to make oneself free from spirituality and come to the gate of heaven.

This, with the help of the power of the mirror and the moon, he has already done it.

The second element is the key to open the gates of heaven, a correct secret tradition.

He also already possessed the secret inheritance of the mirror moon, which was one of the three kinds of knowledge that could subvert the principle of permanence.

And the third and most important element is desire.

If the secret is the key, then desire is the power to twist the key.

Or rather, this is the qualification that a person who enters the illusory world should have.

And at this moment, Jiang Ge seemed to hear it.

A deep voice asked in his ear.

"What kind of desire makes you pursue the illusion?"

The moment he heard this, Jiang Ge knew.

This voice came from his heart, so there was no point in deceiving.

After a moment's thought, he looked up and gave an answer.

"Strength, I seek the strength to get out of the current predicament......"