With a heavy heart, Ji Yuan walked toward the blue portal.
He took one last look at Feng Minyue, Mu Wan’Er before he took a forlorn look at Ling Feiyue, Little Princess, Bai Qianfeng and Shui Xisi.
The nature of the trial itself forced all the cultivators to be separated again after each new level of the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth.
There was really nothing that Ji Yuan could do except for a melancholy sigh.
He could feel the forlorn looks that were on Feiyue, Qianfeng, Little Princess and Sisi as they quietly followed after him.
Even though they could follow him into the blue portal at the same time but they would not appear together on the second level.
The Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth was very vast and it was estimated that there may be as many as more than three hundred thousand golden celestials from all over the Celestial Realm that were taking part in the trials.
Some had even estimated that there were a million golden celestials!
The first level had thousands of worlds before scaling smaller in size for each level because many of the cultivators would be struck on the first two levels.
Ji Yuan knew that it was impossible to meet them again so soon. If he wanted to meet them then they had to endure until the upper levels of the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth where the number of worlds would dwindle down to just a few dozens.
He could only pray silently in his heart for now.
With one last look at all the maidens, Ji Yuan had entered the blue portal now; he had already said his farewells to everyone and it was pointless to linger anymore.
He now found himself in a white room with a door in front.
“Where am I?”
In front of him were two tables and there seemed to be a mirror on the table.
The voice of the earlier dark robe ferryman echoed. “This is your reward. You can only pick one of the mirrors.”
Ji Yuan frowned. “I am a man. Why will I need a mirror for? And what is the purpose of these mirrors?”
The laughter of the dark robe ferryman laughed. “These are the Mirrors of the Telepathy. You can only obtain them in this trial and you cannot obtain this elsewhere. Even in the Immortal Realm, the Mirrors of Telepathy is quite a rare profound treasure.”
“Oh?” Ji Yuan began to laugh. “Then it means that I have the lucky occurrence to find something so rare? Am I lucky or what? Quickly tell me, what are the uses of these two mirrors?”
“The Mirrors of Telepathy will allow you to contact another cultivator briefly as long as they too possess another Mirror of Telepathy…”
Ji Yuan was startled and he had an excited look on his countenance. “Does this mean that I can contact Feiyue, Qianfeng, Little Princess and even Sisi even if we are not together? Awesome! Haha.”
But all of a sudden Ji Yuan was frowning. “Wait a minute. Did you just say that in order to use the Mirror of Telepathy, the contacted party must have another Mirror of Telepathy first?”
“That’s right.”
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“Then this Mirror of Telepathy is of no use to me.” Ji Yuan cursed softly.
“It will be of use.” The voice of the dark robe ferryman echoed in the white room. “Because everyone that has reached for the blue portal will receive the same exact reward.”
“Is it?” Ji Yuan laughed. “Well, that is great. Even though my reward isn’t that rare but at least I can communicate with my women daily with this Mirror of Telepathy.”
“You can only use it for free only once. If you want to use it again, you have to burn one million high grades spirit stones to use it again.”
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“What?! Only one free use?” Ji Yuan was stunned. “And how long does the communication lasts?”
“It depends on the distance. Usually it is ten minutes if you are outside the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth.”
Ji Yuan was stunned. “Ten minutes…this is way too short…”
“If you use it inside the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth, it will last less than three minutes.”
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“And this costs one million high grade spirit stones to recharge?!” Ji Yuan was completely rendered speechless. “This is too ridiculous. Do you think that I am a rich cultivator? Are you expecting me to rob or steal to recharge this stupid mirror?!”
But the dark robe ferryman refused to answer him.
With a soft sigh, Ji Yuan approached the two tables and saw that the two Mirrors of Telepathy were nearly identical except for its size.
“Huh? Are they different or what?” Ji Yuan muttered.
He saw that one of the mirrors was handy enough to hold it in his palm while the larger mirror was twice as big and it was difficult to hold.
“They are identical in properties except for the size.” The dark robe ferryman answered him.
Ji Yuan was amused.
He reached out for the smaller mirror naturally because he could hold it firmly in an emergency. The larger mirror was useless to him because he could carelessly break it in an emergency. So he was not too foolish to pick the larger one.
He was not exactly vain and he was sure that everyone else would also pick the smaller mirrors.
This was a no brainer decision.