Xia Feng kicked Mu Qingtong's head away.
"What are you doing?"
At that moment, the bedroom scene shattered like glass, and countless water mirrors once again surrounded him, revealing the same puzzled expression within.
"Isn't this what you wanted?"
"No need to strive for strength, no need to hustle for life, beauty, money, and spirit entertainments. You don't have to lift a finger; they will automatically present themselves to you. All you need to do is lie down."
"Look, what a blissful life of an idler~"
"Don't you like it?"
"Do you really not like it?"
They bickered back and forth, Xia Feng rolled his eyes and raised his index finger, "Firstly, this Mu Qingtong is too fake, completely lacking any sense of immersion."
"Ah? Is the character not right?" The mirror image pondered, "This can be modified, I promise a 99% similarity and making the plot plausible!"
Xia Feng then raised his middle finger, "Secondly, as long as there are game rules, no puzzle is unsolvable. Just like the explosions in TV dramas are eventually deciphered under the rules, this crappy Spiritual Artifact space surely has its rules of cracking... It might be related to the abilities of the Spiritual Artifact itself; I simply haven't discovered it yet."
"What are you talking about? We can't understand."
"Yeah, we can't understand."
"We can't understand."
"It's over, our original self has gone mad, talking nonsense~"
"Talking nonsense~"
"Talking nonsense talking nonsense talking nonsense..."
Xia Feng ignored them and raised a third finger, "Thirdly, although I am a vulgar person, if you ask me whether I'd prefer to live in 'false happiness' or 'real misery,' honestly, I'd choose false happiness."
Xia Feng smiled, "But unfortunately, there are people in the real world I care about. Though there are neither familial nor romantic ties between us, I can't just leave her all alone."
Upon hearing this, the noises from the mirror people suddenly stopped, and after a moment of silence, they all murmured in unison, "Right, Mushroom can't be without me."
"Mushroom can't be without me."
"Can't be without me..."
They started to repeat again, and Xia Feng blinked, "Right, Mushroom can't be without us! So, why don't you guys tell me the way to break out of here?"
"Right, we'll tell you the way to break out!"
"Right, let you out!"
"It's necessary to let you out, otherwise Mushroom will be lonely again."
They stood in the mirrors, looking around and chattering, and quickly reached a consensus, looking at Xia Feng they unanimously said, "Alright, we'll tell you the method to break out."
"?!!" Xia Feng was slightly shocked. Are you really going to tell me?
"So..." Xia Feng looked hopeful.
"The method to break out is—" they said in unison, more serious than ever, "defeat your Spiritual Artifact embodiment!"
"Okay, and then what?"
"And then? There's no then. That's the method!"
Xia Feng: o_O
Alright, alright, making fun of me, huh?! Just like me, really damn cheap! Xia Feng cursed even himself in anger.
"Very well, since that's the case!"
Xia Feng swung his great sword, his chin held high as he formally declared war, "Watch me beat the crap out of you!!"
"Did you hear that, our original self wants to beat the crap out of himself~"
"Heard it, heard it, truly our original self, so bold!"
"Well then, let's indulge him."
"Indulge him indulge him indulge him…" As solemn low voices echoed back and forth across the space, rows after rows of Xia Feng's emerged from the water mirrors, ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand...
They formed a hollow circular array on the endless water surface, their serious black pupils staring at Xia Feng in the center, as they raised their great swords and shook the heavens and the earth in unison, "Indulge him! Kill!!!!"
Xia Feng: ⊙▂⊙
"Not my bros, I was just joking—"
Chop—chop—chop—chop... one sword strike after another, Xia Feng was pierced all over by more than a dozen swords, confusedly looking up at the sky, not even having time to feel the pain before his vision flickered dark and bright.
He was reborn in the middle of another crowd.
"You guys are poison!" Xia Feng cussed and cursed. How am I supposed to play this, I can't win at all!
The people in the mirror turned back in unison, their gaze deep: "Kill!!!"
"I lost my mother!" Xia Feng instantly entered a concealment state, but the mirror people didn't care at all and directly released Triple Waves towards the center.
One hundred Xia Fengs, neatly arrayed, equaled three hundred waves of blood, Boom!!!
A huge mushroom cloud of blood red rose, shaking the space.
As the crimson rain fell, the multitude of Xia Fengs looked around puzzled, searching for the trace of their original self.
"Where is he?"
"Yeah, where is he?"
"Just like me, to think of this method."
The Xia Feng standing in the lineup nodded along in repetition, "Just like me, to think of this method."
"Where is he where is he where is he..."
While repeating, he moved along with the crowd, silently pondering his next move.
After several attempts, he also understood that this ridiculous Spiritual Artifact test couldn't be resolved by brute force.
After all, if he couldn't beat one avatar, let alone countless avatars.
Completely getting hammered according to his style.
So... what should I do?
According to what Lady Black Crow said, defeating the Spiritual Artifact embodiment meant clearing the level, but he doesn't even know where the Spiritual Artifact embodiment is.
It can't possibly be these countless mirror people, can it?
If these mirror people are the Spiritual Artifact embodiment, it's completely unsolvable, he simply couldn't clear the level.
"As long as it's a test, no matter how difficult, there is always a glimmer of hope..." Xia Feng pondered quietly, thoughtfully scanning his surroundings, "Could it be, the Spiritual Artifact embodiment is hidden among these avatars?"