Reincarnated as a Mosquito, I Sucked the Reborn Empress to Tears

Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng didn’t linger. They bypassed the female classmate who had fallen into a spiral of self-doubt and crazed obsession, and continued deeper into the Time Wilderness.

Having learned their lesson, this time, both human and mosquito were exceptionally cautious.

Chu Sheng, relying on his Time Realm, carefully sensed the subtle changes in every inch of Space around them.

In his Perception, time in this wilderness was like a roiling sea.

In most areas, the flow of time was stable. But every now and then, invisible undercurrents and whirlpools would appear—fatal time traps.

The space-time singularity they were searching for wasn’t fixed in one place, either. It was like a lone island in an ocean current, appearing and disappearing at random.

Some people might get lucky and stumble upon it right after entering, allowing them to proceed directly to the second layer.

Others could wander in here for a year and never find a way forward.

Even Gu Yuexi, with all her knowledge from being reborn, was helpless in this regard. She could only rely on experience to search for areas where the fluctuations of Time Law were relatively intense.

But now, with Chu Sheng—a living cheat code who was extremely sensitive to the Power of Time—their search efficiency had undoubtedly skyrocketed.

Chu Sheng flapped his wings, leading the way. Every so often, he would let out a couple of buzzes to remind Gu Yuexi to steer clear of dangerous areas.

The human and the mosquito, working in perfect sync, traversed the treacherous wilderness as if it were level ground.

As they searched, Chu Sheng asked curiously:

"BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ, BUZZ? (You know, this is the first time I’ve ever seen you take a Secret Realm so seriously. You even started preparing for it half a year ago.)"

"BUZZ? (What exactly is in this Secret Realm Zero?)"

Hearing this question, Gu Yuexi’s steps faltered for a moment.

An unprecedented solemnity appeared on her cool, aloof face.

She looked up at the eternally gray sky, silent for a moment before speaking slowly.

"This Secret Realm has three layers in total. As for what’s on the third layer... to be honest, even I don’t know."

"But on the second layer, there is something that was the key to my final breakthrough into the Emperor Realm in my past life!"

The Emperor Realm!

’Tsk tsk, sounds like some seriously good stuff then.’

However, Gu Yuexi wasn’t finished.

She continued calmly:

"In fact, the reason I was able to be reborn... might also be inextricably linked to that thing."

As she spoke, her gaze grew distant, as if she were lost in memories of her distant past life.

She remembered the moment she fell, under the divine lightning of the Celestial Tribulation.

Just as her consciousness was about to dissipate completely, that mysterious object had suddenly erupted with an unimaginable power, forcibly pulling her crumbling will inside it.

When she awoke again, she had been reborn!

’Holy crap? The secret to the Little Empress’s rebirth?’

Chu Sheng was even more astonished now.

But... it wasn’t over.

Gu Yuexi’s next words were even more shocking.

No, they were terrifying!

She stared at Chu Sheng and said, word by word:

"And I’ve always had a feeling... The reason you suddenly appeared by my side... perhaps the answer to that is also related to the greatest opportunity on the third layer of this Secret Realm..."

’Huh?’

Chu Sheng was completely stunned.

He knew his own origins better than anyone.

His mosquito body had originally been a perfectly ordinary Aedes mosquito.

But his soul had been reincarnated from another world!

And the only reason he’d made it this far was entirely thanks to the system that had mysteriously appeared.

Why he was reincarnated, where the system came from, the reason for it all... these had always been unsolved mysteries.

’But now, hearing what Gu Yuexi just said... could it be? Is the answer inside this Secret Realm?!!’

’Interesting!’

A golden light flashed in Chu Sheng’s eyes.

Originally, he had entered this Secret Realm just to accompany Gu Yuexi and to see if he could suck up anything good along the way.

’But now... Heh heh. It looks like this Lord Mosquito has no choice but to visit that third layer!’

...

As the human and the mosquito pressed onward, each lost in their own thoughts, a figure silently emerged back in the place they had just left.

It was Qin Wudao.

However, at this moment, his entire demeanor had once again changed dramatically.

Ever since emerging from Secret Realm Nine, Qin Wudao’s behavior had been cryptic, his personality erratic—one moment he was himself, the next he was a complete stranger.

And now, his eyes had become incredibly dark and cold, holding a world-weariness and ferocity that did not belong to someone his age.

"A Mosquito Beast that has mastered the Power of Space-Time... Interesting. Could it be... related to *that* existence?!"

His gaze followed the direction where Chu Sheng and Gu Yuexi had disappeared, the corners of his mouth curling into a cold arc.

"No matter. My strength as this Emperor has yet to recover. It would indeed be difficult to obtain that treasure on my own. Perhaps I really will have to rely on you two to clear the way for me."

"Perhaps I can even use you to probe the inheritance of that being on the third layer..."

A wicked smile played on his lips. The next second, his figure once again vanished bizarrely on the spot.

...

「Meanwhile.」

Led by Chu Sheng, the human and the mosquito traveled across the wilderness for several more hours.

Suddenly, Chu Sheng stopped.

He sensed that in an area not far ahead, the fluctuations of the Time Law were abnormally dense.

’Could it be the space-time singularity?’

The two immediately picked up their pace and hurried in that direction.

However, when they arrived, they didn’t find any space-time singularity.

Before them, on the desolate gray earth, grew a solitary, pure white lotus flower.

This Time Wilderness was almost devoid of any plant life.

The only thing they occasionally saw was that strange black flower from before, the one that emitted hallucinogenic pollen.

Chu Sheng had carefully inspected one of those black flowers earlier and found it completely empty—no Energy or Power of Law whatsoever. He couldn’t suck anything out of it at all.

But this one before them was pure white.

No, to be precise, it was just a tiny sliver away from being pure white.

At the very tips of its snow-white petals, a small, ink-like speck of black remained.

The moment Gu Yuexi saw the lotus, a rare trace of excitement finally appeared in her perpetually calm eyes.

"This is... the Karma Lotus! It’s about to bear fruit!"

’Karma Lotus?’

Chu Sheng’s heart stirred. The name alone sounded grand and profound.

Gu Yuexi gazed at the lotus and explained, her voice tinged with excitement:

"The Karma Lotus is a wondrous treasure of heaven and earth that can only grow in places with dense Time Law. Its growth process is a transformation from black to white. When it becomes completely white, it is ready to bear fruit!"

"A lotus like this might take thousands, even tens of thousands of years, to produce a single fruit. And that fruit is called—Karma!"

"Legend has it that consuming Karma can even change a person’s destiny! It would even make it possible to defy the heavens and alter your fate!"

’The Karma Fruit?’

’The name alone sounds ridiculously awesome!’

Chu Sheng was slightly taken aback, and his eyes instantly lit up.

He watched as the last trace of black on the lotus faded at a visible rate, and only one thought remained in his mind.

’Hesitate and you lose!’

He immediately flapped his wings and shot toward the Karma Lotus.