After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

Long Yucheng seemed to be asleep with his eyes open, his breathing weak but even, as if he had just entered a dreamless slumber.

Huo Yu's divine sense landed on Long Yucheng, and after a moment, his tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed.

There was indeed an unfamiliar power flowing slowly within Long Yucheng's body, but this power did not cause any direct harm to his body. Instead, it seemed to be some kind of dormant power, temporarily lying dormant within him.

Huo Yu did not withdraw his divine sense; his gaze was as cold as ice as he silently stared at Long Yucheng's slightly pale face.

He was not entirely at ease. Although Long Yucheng seemed to be out of danger, the origin and purpose of the crystal pillar remained a mystery. No one could guarantee that it wouldn't suddenly erupt at some point and bring unpredictable consequences.

Moreover, no one knows when Long Yucheng will wake up.

In the end, Huo Yu did not take Long Yucheng away from this place, but returned to the huge head of the strange beast.

Because around this strange beast corpse, there seems to be a mysterious power that can smooth out spatial fluctuations, making this place the safest place in this perilous spatial rift.

He slowly closed his eyes, and his divine sense spread out like an invisible giant net, taking everything around him into his perception.

Only now did Huo Yu have time to calm down and think about what his Heavenly Prism, which had turned gray again, really meant.

Time passed slowly, and Long Yucheng's breathing remained steady as he slept peacefully, seemingly oblivious to everything around him.

……

At this moment, Long Yucheng was in a vast, boundless, pure white space.

There was nothing in sight except the crystal pillar that had merged into his body, which floated quietly not far in front of him, like a lonely star in this pure white universe.

This crystal pillar is colorless and transparent, crystal clear throughout, and empty inside.

It floated there in a near-perfect pose, as if waiting for a specific moment to arrive.

Long Yucheng looked around, his heart filled with doubt and vigilance.

He knew this was no illusion, because his consciousness was clearer than ever before, and his body remained in human form without any change.

He still clearly remembered everything that had happened before—one second he was standing with Huo Yu; the next second he was forcibly pulled into this unfamiliar space by this strange crystal pillar.

By the way, where did my senior brother go?

"Senior brother?"

Long Yucheng called out tentatively, his voice echoing in the empty and silent space, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea, receiving no response.

He looked down at his hands and tried to move his body, finding that although he was in this void, he did not feel any weightlessness.

His feet felt as if they were on solid ground, steady and powerful. He could even walk freely, but there was still nothing around him, and no reference points to define his direction.

There was no sky, no ground, not even a breath of wind. The whole world seemed to be isolated by an invisible barrier, so silent it was unsettling.

Standing in this void, Long Yucheng felt more lonely and insignificant than ever before, as if he had been abandoned on a deserted island. All around him was white, and the only thing he could see was the crystal pillar that floated silently.

Long Yucheng tried to mobilize the spiritual power and divine sense within his body, but there was no response at all, as if he had turned back into a mortal once again.

Long Yucheng tried to contact the system again, but was surprised to find that the system had also disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed.

This unprecedented sense of powerlessness stirred a sense of unease within him, but he quickly took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the emotion and calming himself down.

Panic solves nothing; only calm thinking can lead to a solution.

"Could this be... my consciousness space? My mental world?... Or a dream?"

Long Yucheng frowned, his mind wandering as he considered all the possibilities.

Why can't he use spiritual power and divine sense? How can he get out of here?

Moreover, why is this crystal pillar here?

Long Yucheng was filled with doubt.

He wandered aimlessly in this pure white space for a long time, trying to find some clues or an exit, but no matter how far he went, he would inexplicably return to the crystal pillar.

This space seemed to be an endless, looping maze, with the crystal pillar being the only unchanging origin point.

This wasn't the first time Long Yucheng had seen this crystal pillar.

Back in Lingxiaozi's cave, when he completed the main quest "Obtain the Ascension Token", the system rewarded him with something similar.

However, the system only provided a small fragment, which was regular in shape and transparent, like a piece of glass without any impurities, and was only one-tenth the size of the complete crystal pillar in front of them.

He clearly remembered that, just like the Primordial True Fire before, the fragment appeared directly in his sea of ​​consciousness the moment he completed the mission, and it seemed that the system's temporary item slots could not store it.

However, Long Yucheng is currently unable to use his divine sense to look inside his body and cannot confirm whether that fragment is still lying quietly deep within his sea of ​​consciousness.

The system named the previous fragment "Fragment of the Mirror of No Form".

Long Yucheng had been somewhat unable to imagine what the "Mirror of No Form" would look like in its entirety, but now that he saw the crystal pillar, it all became clear to him—because no matter which angle he looked at it from, it didn't resemble a mirror at all.

The complete crystal pillar in front of me is slightly larger than a palm. It has six distinct edges, and both the top and bottom ends are cone-shaped. The inside is colorless and transparent, and there is nothing inside.

Its shape was unusually regular, and its surface was as smooth as a mirror, without any sign of reflection. Even though Long Yucheng was standing right in front of this crystal pillar, his figure could not be reflected in it.

He then tried placing his hand behind the crystal pillar. The light passed through the pillar without obstruction, allowing him to see his hand clearly, as if the crystal pillar did not exist.

What is this mirror called?

In this pure white space, there was nothing else but the crystal pillar in front of them.

The crystal pillar was completely transparent. It neither actively approached Long Yucheng nor moved away from him. It simply stood in this space, which seemed to be frozen in time, with an almost eternal stillness, silently waiting for something.

Long Yucheng knew he had no other choice.

He looked around the endless, pure white prison again, and suddenly anger rose in his heart, and evil thoughts arose in his mind. He closed his eyes, steeled his heart, and raised his hand to punch the crystal pillar that was the culprit.

The moment he touched the crystal pillar, a cool and gentle sensation spread rapidly from his knuckles. A strange feeling suddenly arose in Long Yucheng's heart, as if he had touched some kind of substance that did not belong to this world.