“Two-Life Buddha Wheel?” Zanxing was stunned: “What is the Two-Life Buddha Wheel?”

Ming Jing stared intently at the Buddha wheel rotating in the skeletal remains’ palm. His usually calm brow rarely carried a trace of shock as he said: “All beings in the three realms reincarnate through the six paths, like a spinning fire wheel. Legend tells of a Two-Life Buddha Wheel that governs the laws of time in heaven and earth. By turning the wheel, one can return to the past or reach the future.”

Zanxing frowned slightly. Was this a time travel machine?

“So the reward for the fifth-level Buddha pagoda trial was the Two-Life Buddha Wheel…” Ming Jing murmured, “No wonder no one has seen it after all these years…”

“Hey,” Gu Baiying planted his embroidered bone spear on the ground, interrupting Ming Jing’s deep thoughts: “That wheel has been spinning for so long, aren’t you going to take a look?”

Ming Jing was startled.

The small spinning wheel slowly rotated in the monk’s skeletal palm, turn after turn, moving forward unhurriedly… no, wait, it wasn’t moving forward, it was moving backward.

This Buddha wheel was rotating in the reverse direction!

Zanxing’s hair stood on end as she looked toward Ming Jing. Ming Jing suddenly spoke: “This is bad, someone has entered!”

This Buddha wheel shouldn’t be moving backward at all. Thinking again about how, when Zanxing first arrived here, she hadn’t seen anyone else, yet Gui Yansheng had entered the pagoda before them… Zanxing realized: “Gui Yansheng has entered.”

Gu Baiying: “What?”

Zanxing urgently spoke, asking Ming Jing, “Master Ming Jing, what exactly happens when the Buddha wheel turns? Do you know?”

Ming Jing was also nervous: “The wheel changes time. If it moves backward… he’s returned to the past.”

Zanxing stared into his eyes: “Can the past be changed?”

Ming Jing shook his head blankly: “I don’t know.”

He truly didn’t know. The Two-Life Buddha Wheel existed in legends within scriptures. No one in the world had glimpsed its true form, and this was his first time seeing it. As for what would happen after turning the wheel, he knew nothing at all.

Zanxing only felt unease in her heart. Gui Yansheng was a madman who single-mindedly wanted to wash the three realms in blood and reestablish the rules. Who knew what time he would return? Perhaps he’d go back to hundreds of years ago when the Xiaoyuan Pearl first appeared, seize it and refine it, then use his power to destroy the human world. Then all of them, now the vibrant Duzhou, might cease to exist in an instant.

She had come here originally to prevent Gui Yansheng from obtaining the trial rewards and greatly increasing his strength, but she hadn’t expected the reward in this Buddha pagoda to be even more valuable than any of them had imagined, almost allowing Gui Yansheng to reach his goal in one step.

She had to stop him!

But how exactly was this Buddha wheel used?

Zanxing stepped forward several paces. Ming Jing saw her movement and worried: “What does Little Highness intend to do? Don’t get too close to the Buddha wheel…”

Before his words finished, Zanxing’s hand had already touched that small golden-black Buddha wheel. In an instant, the palm-sized Buddha wheel suddenly enlarged, forming a huge phantom in mid-air like an opened light gate, catching Zanxing off guard as it sucked her in!

“Little Highness!”

Gu Baiying’s brow jumped, and he instinctively flew forward to grab her calf, but within that spinning light gate, it was as if a giant beast was ferociously opening its mouth, ruthlessly tearing both of them inside.

“Ding—”

The spinning wheel stopped rotating, and the two people’s figures were no longer in the hall.

Ming Jing’s face suddenly went pale as he looked at the Buddha wheel in the skeletal palm and murmured: “This is terrible.”

……

With a “thud,” in the vast mountain forest, wild birds were startled by this loud sound and flew toward the distant sky with flapping wings.

Zanxing looked around. This was an unfamiliar mountain forest.

“Have you had enough of lying there?” A voice grinding teeth reached her ears. Zanxing looked down to see Gu Baiying pinned beneath her, his expression truly not looking good.

“Gu Baiying?” She was slightly stunned and quickly scrambled up from the ground, asking somewhat puzzled: “How did you follow me in?”

When she had touched the Two-Life Buddha Wheel, she hadn’t expected it to be so domineering, actually dragging her in by force – even her Demon Lord yuanli couldn’t resist it.

Gu Baiying stood up from the ground, patted the dust off his body, and snorted lightly: “You’re from the demon clan, so naturally I had to follow you. Who knows if this is some conspiracy you concocted?”

“Then I’m truly sorry to disappoint you.” Zanxing shrugged: “I have no conspiracy. On the contrary, you’re now trapped here with me and can’t get out even if you wanted to.”

Gu Baiying raised an eyebrow: “Why can’t I? Just walk forward, right?”

Zanxing followed his gaze and saw that in the dense forest, there was indeed a small path. It seemed few people usually walked it, and without careful observation, it was hard to tell that this was a path.

She tried to open her Qiankun Bag, but it wouldn’t open here. Zanxing felt something was wrong – could this place be like the illusion in Wufan City, not the real world?

Just as she was thinking, Gu Baiying’s impatient voice came from ahead: “What are you dawdling for? Aren’t you coming?”

She sighed, thinking that staying here wasn’t a solution, so she followed.

This mountain forest was very large, and they couldn’t find an exit for the time being. Although the Qiankun Bag wouldn’t open, their yuanli didn’t seem to be affected. As Zanxing walked, she said to Gu Baiying: “I haven’t sensed any demonic yuanli in this area. Gui Yansheng isn’t here.”

“I haven’t felt any cultivator yuanli either.” Gu Baiying said, then suddenly paused, as if just realizing the atmosphere between him and this demon clan member was too peaceful. He imperceptibly increased the distance between himself and Zanxing, frowning as he asked: “What exactly is your relationship with that Gui Yansheng? Aren’t you the Demon Lord’s daughter?”

This was somewhat complex to explain, so Zanxing could only give a brief version: “He’s my father’s illegitimate son. In the past, I lived in Duzhou while the Demon Realm’s situation was complicated. Gui Yansheng plots to control the Demon Realm, but he’s a moody madman who only wants to slaughter the three realms. So I could only return to stabilize the situation. You can think of it as…” She chose her words carefully: “Mortal imperial family power struggles.”

“Illegitimate son?” Gu Baiying’s eyelids lifted slightly, half-mocking and half-serious: “Your father is quite the playboy.”

Zanxing: “……”

Was this the important point to focus on?

She glanced at the person beside her. The young man was still as before, with clean white brocade robes and flying crimson hair ribbon, his brow carrying the high spirits of someone who hadn’t experienced worldly hardships. She suddenly sighed in her heart. Breaking through in the Extreme Ice Abyss and secluding herself in Heishi City for two years had indeed made her grow considerably, no longer as naive as she was two years ago.

While Gu Baiying still looked the same as before, her previous displeasure with Shaoyang Zhenren suddenly dissipated like smoke.

This way was quite good too.

Noticing Zanxing’s gaze, Gu Baiying glanced at her, his tone inexplicable: “What are you looking at me for?”

Zanxing looked away and spoke frankly: “There are few young men as handsome as you in Heishi City. It’s natural for me to take a few more glances.”

Gu Baiying’s expression stiffened, then quickly became ugly, like a chaste young lady whose virtue had been compromised. Just as he was about to lose his temper, Zanxing suddenly turned her head toward the front.

“Oh, there’s a village ahead?”