But this pattern is unfamiliar, and upon careful sensing, there's no energy response. It doesn't seem like a restriction, nor does it resemble any treasure, more like random engravings out of boredom.

Perhaps it is a special kind of script, chronicling a history unknown to man.

Piaomiao also leaned in, gently stroking the texture with her hand, and after a while said: "This is Innate Inscriptions, which is a kind of script. I can only recognize a very small part, as I wasn't born with the world, and by my time, this script had already been lost."

"The Ye Family sisters might recognize it?" Zhao Changhe touched his chin: "Could it be that Ye Jiuyou recorded some things casually while bathing? Or was it carved by the Heavenly Dao long ago, with Ye Jiuyou placing it by the pond to study daily?"

"It's all possible." Piaomiao said: "It's difficult for me to identify here, let's first make a copy of it and study it outside."

"Alright." Zhao Changhe took a blob of Energy Jelly, made a copy of the inscription, and stroked Cui Yuanyang's little head: "Yangyang truly is a lucky star, making another contribution."

Cui Yuanyang felt quite proud: "Just wait, after I finish bathing I'll help you all look together, maybe I'll find something else."

Zhao Changhe smiled and ruffled her hair, this little girl has left the shared vision, can't see anything, yet she really found the inscription, maybe she's truly lucky.

He didn't say more, directly went to the Soul Capturing Mirror. The Soul Capturing Mirror was conspicuous, right by the pond, an full-length mirror, which Ye Jiuyou frequently checked after bathing.

It's evident this mirror was cut out from the stone wall, with similar utility but being only a small part, its effect is much poorer than the original. Zhao Changhe can directly face it and withstand the soul siphoning effect, although he has to do so deliberately. From this, it's deduced that Ye Jiuyou could completely remain unaffected.

Once the soul-siphoning effect is removed, looking into the mirror, what you see seems to be the "true inner self."

Zhao Changhe had seen it many times, after experiencing various illusions of the Heart Demon in the Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm, he is somewhat "tired of looking," feeling indifferent. The recurring images are still the same as before, besides the well-known desires, there are also weaknesses, dependencies, evasions, things that outsiders would think Zhao Changhe doesn't possess.

This time upon longer observation, he saw new aspects, such as inner violence, a desire for slaughter, and others.

Zhao Changhe quietly watched for a while and softly said: "This reflects that every person has two sides, having these negative emotions makes one complete. As long as they are hidden in the heart, not allowing them to dominate and sink, it makes one a normal person. There's no need to avoid having them. All the Heavenly Demon does is magnify these to cause harm or exert control, it's really nothing special."

Piaomiao stood beside him watching the mirror, nodded upon hearing this: "Yes."

"Considering this, could it be that Ye Jiuyou truly behaves differently from Ancient Times because she saw her true inner self?"

"Possibly." Piaomiao said somewhat out of it: "Anyway, I didn't have these before, now I do... But it's not related to this mirror, just because I have love and hate."

"You transformed from divine to mortal... regardless of whether your power remains the same, your mind has gained many weaknesses gods originally didn't have, do you regret?"

Piaomiao gently said: "Because of you, transforming to mortal, I don't regret."

Zhao Changhe embraced her waist and kissed her forehead lightly.

Piaomiao pouted slightly: "That's your reaction after hearing this?"

She would even act coy... Zhao Changhe couldn't help but smile, then shook his head and said: "I was thinking about something..."

"What?"

"I was thinking... wondering if this could also count as 'killing Piaomiao the Ancient Demon God'?"

Piaomiao's heart tightened, turned to look at Zhao Changhe. Zhao Changhe also turned to look at her, both had slight unnamable complexity in their eyes.

If this was also what Ye Wuming intended?

After a brief silence, Zhao Changhe finally said: "I don't think Ye Wuming calculated this far... don't forget our Stealing Lotus Platform affair, her attack at that time was meant for real hits, if we had been slightly weaker, we'd be dead, showing she didn't even anticipate us going for the Stealing Lotus Platform. She admitted once before, regarding my causality, she succeeded in manipulating few, she wouldn't have any necessity to lie about it to me. She's not omnipotent, otherwise she'd not need me, no need to overestimate."

Piaomiao nodded: "I also suddenly thought... we might as well view it from a different angle, if this indeed counts as 'killing the Demon God Piaomiao', perhaps it rather implies some things may not need to be done according to Ye Wuming's plan, maybe it can be done in a different way."

The two exchanged a smile and continued to embrace while observing the Soul Capturing Mirror.

The mirror always flashes everyone's true inner thoughts, merely watching for fun is quite entertaining.

Zhao Changhe laughingly said: "Considering using this occasionally to see if there are aspects of yourself you haven't understood, it's quite useful... calling it True Illusion Mirror indeed stands to reason, no wonder even someone like Jiuyou could be misled."

Piaomiao watched in the mirror the scene of Zhao Changhe carrying her and fleeing in the Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm, her eyes softened: "Do you know, when I was before the stone wall and entered into madness, it wasn't just seeing things related to Ye Wuming... when you later revisited, the causality blade severed too quickly, missing something else."

"Ah? What?"

"At that time... I saw that I like you... I then found it very disgraceful and refused to believe it... entering madness partly resulted from this."