The Xie family of Zhenxu has guarded the rift between the two worlds for thousands of years, relying on "blood sacrifice" - every generation must put the clan members on the Zhenren Xuanzhu, and use living flesh and blood to fill the gap that can never be fed. Xie Yan, a concubine from the side branch, lost his parents when he was young. He grew up working as a bookkeeper in the marketplace in the mortal world. He was born with a pair of eyes that can vaguely "see cause and effect accounts", but he was regarded as a low-level spiritual invalid by his clan. At the beginning, he was framed by his direct lineage as a collaborator with the enemy, and thirty-seven members of his clan were led to the sacrificial altar. The moment the knife fell, a broken mirror stained with blood blocked the fatal blow for him - in the mirror was a money-grubbing Mirror Spirit Tong Lao, and an account book full of "deceptive notes" written thousands of years later.
Others practice immortality by wielding swords and refining elixirs, but Xie Yan cultivates immortality by polishing mirrors: he grinds peace mirrors and sells them to the common people to ward off evil spirits, he grinds contract mirrors to be notarized by sects, and in a hurry, he picks up the back of the mirror and uses it as a brick to hit people on the back of the head. At the Spiritual Mine Conference, he saw through the real ore vein at a glance, and backhandedly shorted the entire net worth of his direct lineage, causing the superior Xie Linyang to vomit blood on the spot; the Qingyun League used Shou Yuan to loan usury to harvest mortals, so he launched a "willing loan", and the interest was only one-tenth of the other party's.
But Xie Yan gradually discovered that the broken mirror was not picked up by him. Every time he appeared in the mirror, he was blocking a fatal situation for him; every time he came back from a desperate situation, it was like his "future self" was making a move in the air. The ancestor Xie Xuanyi who disappeared thousands of years ago, the abnormal invasion of the soul-eating tribe, and even the sacrifice contract passed down by the Xie family for thousands of years all point to the same mirror that "should not exist".
The truth is: the consequences in the future are the causes of today. That broken mirror is a glimmer of hope for the desperate future Xie Yan to risk his life to send him back to the past - and every choice Xie Yan makes at this moment,
