Tianpo chuckled, "Long time no see, you broken little mirror."
The little brat glared at Tianpo before snorting, "Hmph! Last time I told Master that your usual maturity was all an act, he didn't believe me! He really should've seen how you bully me."
Tianpo snorted coldly, "If you could really bring Master here, I'd be delighted."
The moment those words were spoken.
Both Tianpo and the Heart Trial Mirror fell silent.
They both knew that their Master would never return.
After a moment of silence, Tianpo adjusted his emotions and said, "This is Yun Jin, Master's inheritor. From now on, she is our little master. Come and pay your respects."
Actually, with the Sword Sage of Ten Thousand Daos gone, Yun Jin was Tianpo's master in the truest sense.
Yet in Tianpo's heart, there's always a lingering hope. He insisted on calling her little master, clinging to the fantasy that one day, his Master might stand before him again.
Even if it was nothing more than wishful thinking, it's enough to give him some comfort.
Only then did the Heart Trial Mirror look at Yun Jin with curiosity.
The results of her three heart trials had genuinely surprised him.
She was decisive in killing, yet never slaughtered the innocent. Most importantly, when facing the Demon Clan, she showed an attitude of total eradication. This alone greatly pleased the Heart Trial Mirror.
After all, Wushuang Sect had been reduced to ruin by the Extraterrestrial Demon Clan.
If the new inheritor hesitated or wavered when it came to the Demon Clan, then even if Master himself had chosen her, the Heart Trial Mirror would rather perish than acknowledge her.
"Master once gave me a name," the Heart Trial Mirror said solemnly as he bowed. "He called me An Tong. Little Master may address me as such."
Yun Jin naturally accepted this, "An Tong, you're the artifact spirit of the Heart Trial Mirror?"
An Tong nodded, then suddenly plucked a few hairs from his head. In the next instant, the hairs transformed into a red cord that flew straight toward Yun Jin, wrapping itself around her wrist.
An Tong then turned into a ray of light and vanished into the red cord.
Moments later, his childish voice rang out again, "Little Master, you can now command the Heart Trial Mirror and the Heart Trial Heavenly Stairway. I deliberately adjusted the length of the stairway, Little Master is the first to pass all three trials. Everyone else is still stuck in the first trial. You can view their progress through the mirror at will."
"Alright," Yun Jin replied with a smile.
An Tong emerged from the red cord again, looking a little embarrassed, "Little Master, I'm still more used to staying inside the mirror. But my primordial spirit is within this red cord. Through it, you can control the Heart Trial Mirror and the Heart Trial Heavenly Stairway, and you can contact me at any time."
This childlike form of the Heart Trial Mirror had likely existed for countless ages, yet his appearance still made Yun Jin instinctively treat him like a child.
"Stay wherever you like," Yun Jin said with a smile. "Whatever suits you."
An Tong immediately brightened up and said proudly, "Little Master, if you want to see anyone's trial progress, just think of them and the mirror will show it."
Yun Jin nodded. The image of Yue Zhao appeared in her mind, and immediately, the Heart Trial Mirror displayed Yue Zhao undergoing his trial.
Yue Zhao was still in the first trial. His scenario looked somewhat similar to Yun Jin's, yet not entirely the same.
"Hehe," An Tong said smugly. "Little Master, all the scenarios in the heart trials were personally written by me. Yue Zhao's script is even more complicated than yours. He also starts with his entire family being slaughtered, but he escapes alone and is taken in by a benefactor. In the end, he'll discover that this benefactor is actually the enemy who wiped out his clan. Tsk tsk tsk, gratitude and hatred, how does one balance the two? Difficult! Very difficult!"
An Tong spoke while shaking his head dramatically, making Yun Jin's lips twitch.
So all this melodrama actually had scripts behind it?!
Her senior brother's scenario really was something else!
Yun Jin then thought of Si Wanning.
The mirror immediately shifted to another scene.
An Tong burst into excitement, "This one's even better, there's a tragic romance plot in the middle! Her lover gets stolen away, and then..."
Yun Jin understood now.
This An Tong is completely obsessed with writing dog-blooded drama scripts!
Her own first trial had been relatively normal, it's probably because he knew she was the little master and didn't dare go too far, holding himself back at least a little.
Yun Jin glanced through Yu Songnian's and the others' scenarios. Each one was more dog-blooded than the last.
She couldn't help but feel a bit of sympathy for these unlucky people.
Not bothering to look at them one by one, Yun Jin directly asked, "The first trial is almost over. What do you think of this group's temperaments?"
An Tong chuckled, "Little Master's friends go without saying, how could Little Master ever misjudge people? In my opinion, they're all suitable to become disciples of Wushuang Sect."
Yun Jin nodded, "What about the senior brothers and sisters from the four holy lands?"
She naturally had confidence in Yue Zhao and the others, even Feng Linglong. But she couldn't easily judge the disciples of the four holy lands.
An Tong smiled and summoned Jin Yu's scene.
At this moment, Jin Yu was covered in blood, suffering miserably after being thoroughly outmaneuvered.
An Tong looked away in discomfort, "This sword cultivator has excellent talent, but he's too single-minded. I gave him so many hints, yet he still trusted the enemy and ended up like this. Honestly, he's more suited to secluded cultivation. If he was a disciple of Wushuang Sect, I'd definitely advise the Sect Master to never let him travel alone."
Yun Jin: "..."
There's nothing she could say.
The reputation of sword cultivators being all brawn and no brains is probably impossible to wash away.
"Next is Cheng Su from Beast Taming Sect." The mirror shifted again.
Cheng Su maneuvered between multiple factions. In the end, without expending any effort herself, she caused all those factions to perish.
An Tong commented, "This Beast Taming Sect disciple is quite clever, but her methods show little regard for the lives of others. For the sake of revenge, she stirred conflict among several forces. She achieved her goal, but many innocent people were dragged down as well. That said, disciples of the holy lands have always stood above the masses and treated common lives as grass, this kind of behavior is fairly normal."
Yun Jin nodded, her mood complicated.
She knew.
That on Beast Taming Sect's side, it was definitely Liuli who had intervened on her behalf, that's why Cheng Su treated her so courteously.
Without Liuli, these lofty disciples of the holy lands would've never given her a second glance.
"Then there's Ye Liuqin from Xuandan Sect." The scene shifted once more.
In this first world, a mortal world, Ye Liuqin was an alchemist. Even there, she developed a refined alchemy system, using local herbs to refine pills that extended mortal lifespans. Using these pills, she recruited numerous experts to work for her, easily eliminating her enemies. However, those pills later spread through the martial world, triggering wave after wave of bloody conflicts.
In Yun Jin's eyes, this was similar to Cheng Su's approach, stirring chaos to achieve one's goals.
"And there's also a kid from Qingxiao Pavilion," An Tong said, as the mirror began to change once again.