It sounds like this explanation makes some sense.

But it doesn't answer the most fundamental question for the Witch Gui Jiang Ye—

That is, when he is parasitizing the Mirror Puppet BOSS's body and sacrifices the Mirror Puppet BOSS, will it have any effect on himself!

Also, what Jiang Ye truly wants to know is the significance of the Reincarnation Mirror Palace devouring the Mirror Puppet BOSS.

In other words, what benefits can this bring to these Light players?

And what exactly does the entire Reincarnation Mirror Palace represent?

Why are these Light players, like flies drawn to filth, all swarming into the Mirror Palace secret realm?

Furthermore...

When Light players appeared before, it wasn't on such a massive scale.

But the number of Light players in this Mirror Palace secret realm makes Jiang Ye seriously suspect—

It's probably the entire Light faction mobilizing!

Then this full mobilization should mean that the entire "membership" of the Light faction can obtain certain benefits from the Mirror Palace secret realm!

What Jiang Ye is truly curious about is that unknown benefit!

Or a more accurate word than "benefit" would be "motive."

He wants to know the motives of these Light players.

Unfortunately, that Wang Hanmo is feigning ignorance, and the answers he gave only concern the secret realm itself, revealing nothing related to the Light faction.

The Witch Gui Jiang Ye and that Wang Hanmo exchanged verbal blows for several more rounds, yet still failed to gain any substantial advantage.

In the end, Wang Hanmo, who holds the Lightburn ultimate move, still took a step back, indicating he already knew about Guan He's situation with [Nesting Inner Demons].

And he agreed to hand over Guan He, this Light faction member, to the Witch Gui.

Simply put, under normal circumstances, a Light faction "traitor" like Guan He should have been eliminated.

But Wang Hanmo is giving the Witch Gui face, leaving this "traitor" for the Witch Gui to deal with.

This kind of "concession"—you could say it's not a concession, but for the Light faction, it indeed is a concession.

Ultimately, Jiang Ye was too lazy to continue the battle and agreed to that so-called "cooperation."

Because, as Wang Hanmo said, the outcome of this "cooperation" does hold benefits for him as well.

Without "cooperation," he wouldn't be able to enter that Reincarnation Mirror Palace.

And there's a high probability that even if those Light players didn't appear and call for "cooperation," he would have eventually fed the Mirror Puppet BOSS to the Reincarnation Mirror Palace anyway.

The appearance of the Light players merely accelerated this process.

Thus, the Witch Gui Jiang Ye didn't waste much time and began controlling the Mirror Puppet BOSS, feeding its massive, mountain-like body inch by inch to the Reincarnation Mirror Palace.

And during the process of feeding the Mirror Puppet BOSS to the Reincarnation Mirror Palace, he indeed saw with his own eyes—

The entire Reincarnation Mirror Palace, just as Wang Hanmo said, was continuously expanding.

Finally, when it completely devoured the entire Mirror Puppet BOSS...

The entire Reincarnation Mirror Palace completely filled the entire Mirror Palace secret realm.

And the Witch Gui Jiang Ye automatically entered the Mirror Palace.

Of course, those Light players, along with all the players in the Mirror Palace secret realm at that time, including Jiang Ye's puppet clones...

Naturally, they all entered the Reincarnation Mirror Palace as well.

And the experience after entering the Reincarnation Mirror Palace, from the Witch Gui Jiang Ye's perspective, felt a bit like clouds parting to reveal the truth!

Previously, the light clone, when entering that Reincarnation Mirror Palace, faced a vast, empty hexagonal space.

On one of the faces of the hexagonal space, there existed a two-dimensional hourglass image.

The sand in the hourglass image indicated a 3-minute time limit.

After 3 minutes...

Everything within the entire hexagonal space would return to the moment the three of them first entered that space.

They would hear again in their ears the phrase they heard upon first entering that space—

"Welcome back... my children..."

Everything seemed trapped in a 3-minute cycle.

Therefore, Jiang Ye understood that hexagonal space as the "Reincarnation Mirror Palace."

And Jiang Ye's light clone, along with Chen Cang and Guan He who were trapped together in the "Reincarnation Mirror Palace," all racked their brains trying to figure out how to break the Reincarnation Mirror Palace, focusing on the only eerie and abrupt hourglass image in that space.

This is the "Reincarnation Mirror Palace" seen from the light clone Jiang Ye's perspective.

However...

The "Reincarnation Mirror Palace" seen from the Witch Gui Jiang Ye's perspective greatly shocked Jiang Ye!

The Witch Gui Jiang Ye also saw a large hexagonal space.

But no phrase like the looping symbol "Welcome back my children" echoed in his mind.

Moreover, within the entire vast hexagonal space, he first saw neatly arranged rows of coffins!

The material of those coffins looked like ice, also like mirror shards, even somewhat like...

The "ice" surface that Jiang Ye's Administrator 4444 clone saw in the cross-shaped tombstone space of the Reincarnation Graveyard.

So much so that the Witch Gui Jiang Ye's first reaction at the time was to think...

Could it be that the entire "Reincarnation Mirror Palace" is itself located within the cross-shaped tombstone of the Reincarnation Graveyard?

Of course, his attention was soon captured by the six "faces" of the six-sided space.

Those six "faces" still appeared to be "mirror surfaces."

But those "mirror surfaces" did not reflect the "ice coffins" arranged within the Mirror Palace.

On the contrary, those "mirror surfaces" were like movie screens, playing back some scenes—

The scene on one of the "mirror surfaces" was precisely Chen Cang, Guan He, and Jiang Ye, still studying the hourglass, trying to find a way to break the reincarnation...

Another "mirror surface" showed Li Aoliang and Xing Yishan, who were under the Witch Gui's [Nesting Inner Demons].

They entered the Reincarnation Mirror Palace later and were frozen on another "mirror surface," still in the early stages of exploring the "reincarnation" situation.

Additionally, the scene on another "mirror surface" showed a large number of Light players!

Clearly, these Light players were forcibly entered the Reincarnation Mirror Palace only after it devoured the Mirror Puppet BOSS.

Their exploration of the Reincarnation Mirror Palace was at an even earlier stage than Li Aoliang and Xing Yishan's, not even aware of the existence of the "3-minute minor reincarnation" yet...

In other words...

Those players who entered the "Reincarnation Mirror Palace" all thought they had entered the "Reincarnation Mirror Palace"...

But in reality, they were merely trapped on one of the mirror surfaces of the six-sided Mirror Palace!

What they saw was a false Mirror Palace!

Or more accurately...

What they saw was merely one face of the Mirror Palace!

They were living in the world within the mirror surface!

And from the "Witch Gui" perspective looking at them, it's as if...

They are living in a "two-dimensional" world and cannot escape.

And they are completely unaware that they are trapped in a two-dimensional world!

Of course, Jiang Ye also pondered—

Why is it that only the Witch Gui was not drawn into the two-dimensional mirror surface world, but instead could stand in the real three-dimensional Mirror Palace, seeing the six two-dimensional mirror surfaces of the real Mirror Palace and those arranged ice coffins...

Ultimately, he felt the only plausible reason should be the characteristic of [Eternal Witch Gui]—the Conscious Soul Body!

Other players are a combination of "consciousness + physical body," and this combined entity is trapped together in the Reincarnation Mirror Palace.

If those ice coffins trap the players' physical bodies, and those mirror surfaces trap the players' consciousness...

Then the Witch Gui entered the Mirror Palace in the state of a "Conscious Soul Body."

He only has consciousness, no physical body.

Because there is no "physical body" to be trapped, his "consciousness" is also free...

So he saw the truth of the entire "Reincarnation Mirror Palace"!

But...

The Witch Gui Jiang Ye couldn't help but doubt—

Is what he saw really the truth?

It's like a frog at the bottom of a well leaves the well and thinks it has seen the entire sky.

But who can say that the "entire sky" it sees isn't a larger "well bottom"?

To be honest, the Witch Gui Jiang Ye at that time was somewhat questioning his entire existence.

Simultaneously, when he stayed in the real "Reincarnation Mirror Palace" for 3 minutes in the state of a "Conscious Soul Body"...

He then clearly saw the so-called "reincarnation" from another outsider's god-like perspective.

The 3-minute "minor reincarnation" within the six mirror surface worlds manifested in the three-dimensional Reincarnation Mirror Palace as merely a switching of mirror surfaces.

That is—

Assuming the six mirror surface worlds are A, B, C, D, E, F respectively.

Then after 3 minutes, the so-called "reincarnation" is simply—

Players in mirror surface A enter mirror surface B.

Players in mirror surface B enter mirror surface C.

And so on, players in mirror surface F will enter mirror surface A.

Therefore, each mirror surface world needs to experience 6 of what they perceive as "minor cycles" to complete a full cycle of the entire six-sided Mirror Palace!

Of course, each face of the six-sided Mirror Palace indeed also displays the so-called "hourglass."

The Witch Gui Jiang Ye stood outside the six mirror surface worlds, watching those two-dimensional beings within the mirror surfaces intensely studying the "hourglass"...

He naturally also tried—

Could he, standing outside the mirror surface worlds, influence the players within those mirror surfaces?

The result was—

No way!

His "Conscious Soul Body" simply could not enter the mirror surface worlds.

And because the players within the mirror surface worlds exist in the form of consciousness bodies to begin with.

And the [Eternal Witch Gui]'s "seize the body" targets physical bodies!

That is, he cannot directly seize a consciousness body.

Of course, the Witch Gui Jiang Ye quickly tried another approach—

If those rows of ice coffins indeed contain the players' "physical bodies."

Then, could he directly attempt to seize the "physical bodies" within those ice coffins?

The result...

Still failed!

The Witch Gui's consciousness body simply could not enter those sealed ice coffins!

Thus, the [Eternal Witch Gui]'s Conscious Soul Body seemed to be in a state of isolation from the Reincarnation Mirror Palace!

The mirror surface worlds, he couldn't enter;

Those rows of ice coffins, he also couldn't enter!

The entire being seemed out of place...

Of course, he couldn't leave either.

Trapped in the Reincarnation Mirror Palace like this, after who knows how long... the six faces of the entire Mirror Palace suddenly began rotating faster!

The original 3-minute interval for minor cycles suddenly accelerated to 1 minute, then 30 seconds, then 1 second...

Finally, its rotation speed became so fast it was a blur!

Players from different mirror surfaces stayed on each surface for no more than 0.00001 seconds!

And from this perspective of extreme rotation, the entire Mirror Palace space seen by the Witch Gui no longer seemed to have six faces!

Instead, it seemed to form a circular surface!

To be precise, it was the curved surface of a cylinder.

Such a curved surface looked like a single whole!

That is, the original six mirror surface worlds seemed to merge, through extreme rotation, into a single world like the curved surface of a cylinder!

Of course, under such extreme rotation, Jiang Ye also couldn't clearly see the players within those mirror surface worlds.

Thus, he also didn't know whether they achieved "encounters" across mirror surface worlds within the seemingly merged mirror surface world, or whether their consciousness became confused because the "minor cycle" time they perceived was less than 0.00001 seconds...

The Witch Gui Jiang Ye still seemed to be in a state where he couldn't interfere with the entire Reincarnation Mirror Palace.

But at this moment, an unexpected event occurred...

Those rows upon rows of ice coffins, suspected to seal the players' "physical bodies"...

The Witch Gui originally couldn't seize the "physical bodies" sealed within them.

Yet, precisely when the Mirror Palace was in its state of extreme rotation, he tried seizing again...

For a large number of ice coffins, the consciousness body still couldn't probe in.

Except for one ice coffin...

For some reason, the Witch Gui's consciousness forcefully broke in!

He directly seized the physical body within that ice coffin!

Then he discovered...

That physical body belonged to Chen Cang, who possesses the [Protagonist Halo]!

For some reason, Chen Cang seemed to have cracked the mirror surface world that imprisoned players' consciousness bodies!

His consciousness had actually returned to his ice coffin physical body!

And possibly because the difference in mental attributes wasn't great...

The Witch Gui's seizure of Chen Cang didn't last long before Chen Cang forcefully broke free!

At that time, the Witch Gui Jiang Ye truly realized for the first time just how outrageous the effect of [Protagonist Halo] is!

Logically, he shouldn't provoke Chen Cang, who possesses the [Protagonist Halo], again...

But he was indeed too curious about the entire Reincarnation Mirror Palace.

Moreover, before Chen Cang even had the [Protagonist Halo], he had already "contaminated" Chen Cang with his own blood.

Not to mention, Jiang Ye, with his special blood, is essentially the most unique existence.

So...

Why fear the [Protagonist Halo]!

Thus, the Witch Gui Jiang Ye directly hit Chen Cang with a wave of [Nesting Inner Demons].

This way, his subsequent "seizure" of Chen Cang went quite smoothly.

However, to obtain more information, he still returned the body to Chen Cang, staying within the [Inner Demon Nest] himself to communicate with Chen Cang.

Mainly, he wanted to know how Chen Cang cracked the so-called "reincarnation," freeing his consciousness body from the mirror surface world, allowing his consciousness to return to the physical body sealed in the ice coffin...

And Chen Cang's explanation was—

He didn't free himself by cracking the reincarnation.

He was released by the mysterious existence that trapped them!

His so-called "mysterious existence" is the owner of the voice that gives the "Welcome back" prompt at the beginning of each "minor reincarnation."

According to Chen Cang, this "mysterious existence" took a liking to Chen Cang's [Protagonist Halo] and decided to release him to help with some matters...

As for why he was released only after the Mirror Palace's extreme rotation...

Because the mysterious existence said—

The times have changed!