Chapter 28: The Reflection Rebellion

1. The Inverted World's Rules

Stepping onto Page 13's mirrored surface triggered fundamental shifts:

Gravity: Pulled toward the sky—what they stepped on were the undersides of floating Tome pages

Text Behavior:

Inked characters fled from their shadows

Negative space words clung to their wounds to be "filled"

Distortion Effect:

Every spoken word reversed its meaning midair

Bai Yu's anti-jokes became prophecies

2. The Blood Revelation

When Lin Feng's pear-blossom-marked hand bled onto the mirror:

Page 13's True Title Appeared:

"On the Necessity of Disobedience"

Author Signature: Not a name, but a child's fingerprint (the 7th persona's)

First Passage:

"They fear not your strength, but your questions—

for the system's answers cannot survive examination."

3. The Nurses' Awakening

The factory-produced教具护士 began malfunctioning:

Stage 1: Repeated "Good students obey" while ripping their own protocol scrolls

Stage 2: Used frost needles to stitch their eyes shut

Final Form:

Gathered around the music box's remains

Sang the lullaby backward (which unsealed their memories)

4. Scholar Wen's Metamorphosis

Her silver strands now projected Page 13's content:

On Walls: "Grades measure only fear, not growth"

On Enemies: "Your techniques have these 3 flaws..."

Most Devastating:

Beamed the truth directly into the Pavilion's central mainframe

Caused 37% of grading talismans to self-correct into origami cranes

5. The Hollow King's Farewell

As Li Feng's liberation glyphs faded:

The Hollow King's consciousness merged with Xuan Gu

Their final act: Carved a door out of Page 13's frame

Last words: "Walk through sideways—

so you don't become just another correction."

6. The Choice

The door led to three diverging reflections:

A Perfect Cultivation World (Flawless but sterile)

The Tome's Corpse (Freedom amid chaos)

A Blank Page (Ying Sha's prism showed only this one trembling)

7. The Sideways Passage

The act of crossing sideways through the mirror-door triggered metaphysical metamorphosis:

A. Quantum Disassembly

Lin Feng's Body:

Temporarily separated into six light spectrums (each representing a persona)

Xiao Qi's wavelength shone brightest, guiding the others

Bai Yu's Comedy Core:

Split into two entangled particles:

Slapstick quark (spontaneously generated banana peels)

Deadpan quark (made gravity behave "normally" in absurd ways)

B. Temporal Echoes

Every step left three sets of footprints:

Past: Child-Lin Feng's barefoot prints (filled with pear petals)

Present: Bloodied silver strand fragments

Future: Blank—waiting to be imprinted

C. The Tome's Last Curse

Attempted to rewrite them as footnotes:

Lin Feng became "See Appendix 13.1 for specimen decay"

Ying Sha was reduced to "Cf. Prism Fracture in Ch.7"

Bai Yu... simply read "This space intentionally left hilarious"

The curse failed where Xiao Qi's light touched

8. The Blank Page's Tremor

Ying Sha's prism-vision revealed why the blank option trembled:

Not Empty: But overloaded with all possible futures at once

The Cost:

Choosing it would require erasing their current selves

Every step on it burned away one memory from the past

9. The Ultimate Serum

The Cloud Soaring strategists arrived with their final weapon:

Batch Ω:

Contained liquid Page 13 mirror (could "immunize" against truth)

Labeled: "For Reformist Use Only"

Fatal Flaw:

Required Lin Feng's storm qi to activate

He let them steal a strand—tainted with Xiao Qi's tears

10. The First Unwritten Step

As they tentatively stepped onto the blank page:

Lin Feng: Began forgetting his hatred of the Pavilion

Bai Yu: Lost his worst trauma (but also his best material)

Ying Sha: Saw every version of her father's death simultaneously

Yet the page started writing itself with:

Ink: Their dissolving memories

Text: A new kind of cultivation manual:

"Lesson 1: Be incomplete.

Lesson 2: Doubt even this."