Killing monsters with a 100% explosion rate, are you luckier than me?

"Rumble...."

The door creaked open and slowly opened inwards.

Behind the door was a blinding white light, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

Ye Chuyun stepped into the doorway, her figure swallowed by white light.

When the white light dissipated, Ye Chuyun found herself standing in nothingness, with a platform as smooth as a mirror beneath her feet.

The platform is not large, with a radius of no more than a hundred feet.

[Challenge: Mirror Battle]

[Rules: Defeat your mirror image clone. The clone will have the exact same attributes, skills, equipment (including equipped item effects), and combat awareness as you.]

[15-minute time limit; failure will result in being teleported out.]

The rules and information flooded my mind.

"A mirror copy, that means it's exactly the same as me?" Ye Chuyun's eyes narrowed.

This challenge sounds simple, but it is actually extremely dangerous.

The person who knows you best in the world is yourself. The difficulty of fighting against a "self" who possesses all your abilities and thought patterns is unimaginable.

Just as he was on high alert, starlight gathered in the void ahead and quickly condensed into a human shape.

The same build, the same face, the same clothes, and even the same calmness and sharpness in their eyes.

She is another "Ye Chuyun".

After Ye Chuyun's mirror image appeared, a cold glint flashed in her eyes, and she launched an attack immediately.

His fighting style is exactly the same as Ye Chuyun's...

Pursuing high efficiency and lethality!

"Whoosh!"

The mirror image pointed its fingers like a sword, and a sword aura with the same power as Ye Chuyun's previous attack tore through the void, heading straight for the face of the original body.

The speed, angle, and timing were all extremely cunning and ruthless.

"As expected of me, you came at the right time."

Ye Chuyun let out a low shout, not daring to be careless in the slightest, and also launched a sword aura to meet the attack.

boom! ! !

Two terrifying sword beams, powerful enough to annihilate ordinary Heavenly Realm beings, collided fiercely in mid-air, unleashing a devastating impact that made the platform beneath their feet vibrate and hum.

Both men retreated several steps at the same time, their strength evenly matched.

Immediately afterwards, the mirror image swayed, instantly closing the distance across space.

He wielded fists, palms, fingers, and legs with ease, each strike containing the power to shatter mountains and split rocks, and he even anticipated Ye Chuyun's possible evasive routes.

Ye Chuyun focused intently, responding to each move with utmost skill and bringing her knowledge to its fullest potential.

The two moved with lightning speed, their figures constantly intersecting and colliding on the platform, with explosions ringing out and the aftershocks of their attacks surging everywhere.

This was a true showdown between oneself and oneself.

Any small mistake could be seized upon by the opponent, leading to a crushing defeat.

Ye Chuyun grew increasingly alarmed as the fight progressed. This mirror image was practically like a mind reader, completely familiar with his fighting style.

Several times he was nearly hit by his opponent in the way he was best at.

Moreover, every time I figure out what move to use next, the mirror image seems to anticipate it and uses the same move as well.

"No, we can't let this continue!" Ye Chuyun thought to herself. "We have exactly the same everything. If we play the conventional way, we won't be able to determine a winner. We'll just be dragged out until time runs out."

This absolute balance must be broken.

He thought of the Soul-Devouring Crystal he had just absorbed.

While the increase in soul strength doesn't directly boost combat power, it dramatically improves his thinking speed and his ability to understand the battlefield.

"Perhaps... this is the key to breaking the deadlock!"

After a fierce battle, the two separated again.

The mirror image, with its cold eyes, remained absolutely rational and began to prepare for its next attack.

Ye Chuyun keenly realized that the mirror image's "perfect replication" might be its greatest weakness.

Because it is too perfect, so perfect that it must be kept in absolute synchronization with the original body at all times, and any slight desynchronization could become a breakthrough.

He no longer tried to suppress it with force, as it was pointless.

Why not expose a little weakness? It might just have an unexpected effect.

In a close-quarters encounter, Ye Chuyun deliberately created an opening, leaving his left side wide open.

Just as predicted, the mirror image delivered a swift, venomous chop to his opening.

However, Ye Chuyun did not block or dodge as the mirror image had calculated; instead, she made an inexplicable move.

He twisted his body forcefully, using his right arm to meet the chop.

"puff!"

The hand slash cut into flesh, causing excruciating pain.

At the same time, Ye Chuyun endured the pain and slammed his right arm backward, his elbow striking the mirror image's temple like a hammer.

This is completely outside the logic of perfect replication of the mirror body.

Because it replicates Ye Chuyun's fighting style and physical reactions in his "normal" state. This kind of desperate fighting style, which involves trading injury for life and even damaging one's joints, is something Ye Chuyun only uses occasionally in dire situations and has not become his main fighting habit.

The mirror image hesitated for an extremely slight moment.

It is judging the rationality of this move and the optimal response.

This was exactly what Ye Chuyun wanted. The enhanced perception brought about by the increase in his soul strength amplified this slight hesitation infinitely.

"It's now!"

A powerful surge of energy erupted from his body, forcefully pushing the mirror image back half a step.

At the same time, his hands moved with lightning speed, using his fingers as a brush to draw upon the boiling energy around him, rapidly carving in the void.

One after another, mysterious and unknown runes instantly took shape.

These runes were not learned by Ye Chuyun from any lineage, but rather were an unconscious manifestation of his vague understanding of his own power and the laws after his soul sublimated.

He himself never fully understood it, let alone put it into practice.

Under this life-or-death pressure, he had a sudden inspiration and forcibly condensed and materialized these fragmented insights.

A small vortex suddenly appeared in front of his fingertips.

At the center of the vortex, it seemed as if earth, water, fire, and wind were being reenacted, emanating a terrifying aura that could annihilate everything.

This move was completely beyond the expectations of the mirror body!

Its perfect ability to replicate encountered incomprehensible unknown variables at this moment.

For the first time, a look of confusion appeared in the mirror image's eyes.

It attempted to imitate, but the principles governing the chaotic vortex involved Ye Chuyun's unique and fundamental insights, making it impossible to analyze and replicate it instantly.

"Annihilate!"

Ye Chuyun's face was pale, and blood was trickling from the corner of his mouth. Forcing himself to perform this unfinished move was also a huge burden for him.

But his eyes were sharp as knives as he pointed a finger at the mirror image that had briefly crashed.

The tiny chaotic vortex flew out silently, seemingly erasing space in its wake, leaving behind a faint black trail.

The mirror image attempted to defend itself, unleashing the Myriad Transformations Spirit Armor that Ye Chuyun frequently used.

However, the defense formed by the Myriad Transformations Spirit Armor was easily dissolved in the face of that chaotic vortex.