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

On the day Yun Yao inherited the position of Holy Daughter, she swore an oath before her ancestors’ spirit tablets. She had to succeed! As long as she could obtain the legendary holy artifact, she could lift the ten-thousand-year curse on the Witch Race!

But now, with the Holy Land right before her eyes, her path was blocked by a mere one hundred and eight steps!

Resentment, anger, anxiety... All sorts of emotions festered wildly in her heart.

While her subordinates behind her were as anxious as ants on a hot griddle, Yun Yao, in contrast, forced herself to calm down.

"I understand now."

She spoke slowly, her voice quiet but filled with an unquestionable calm.

Her sharp eyes, hidden behind her veil, replayed the scene of Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng ascending the steps.

’That woman had a string of wooden beads on her wrist, and the mosquito had one around its neck...’

’And after they passed, did they leave behind some... wood shavings on the ground?’

’Combined with the information revealed earlier by that man, Qin Wudao...’

A bold conjecture gradually took shape in her mind.

She’d figured it out!

"Go!"

Yun Yao spun around and gave her subordinates an order that every single one of them found utterly baffling.

"Go back to the forest and cut down trees!"

...

「Not long after.」

Yun Yao and her subordinates returned to the foot of the jade steps, each of them now holding a special, vibrant green branch freshly cut from the Forest of Stagnation.

This time, she did not hesitate. Holding the branch, she was the first to step onto the stairs.

The moment she stepped on, she clearly saw the outermost growth ring on the branch she was holding vanish into thin air.

’It’s just as I thought!’

A wave of ecstasy washed over Yun Yao. ’Where there are venomous snakes, the antidote is always found nearby. The same must be true here!’

She immediately led her subordinates and began the ascent.

With each step they climbed, another growth ring on the branches they held would disappear.

Once all the growth rings on a branch were consumed, it would instantly turn to dust.

They would then immediately pull another prepared branch from their Spatial Rings and continue upward.

In this way, using a method that seemed clumsy but was exceptionally effective, Yun Yao and her group also successfully ascended the one hundred and eight steps and entered the Divine Hall!

...

「Inside the Divine Hall of Stagnation.」

The moment Chu Sheng and Gu Yuexi stepped into the Divine Hall, they found themselves in a long, straight corridor.

There were no murals or sculptures on either side of the corridor, only wall after wall polished to a mirror-like sheen.

"This is the Corridor of Time."

Gu Yuexi’s voice echoed slightly in the quiet corridor.

"These mirrors can reflect a person’s past. There’s no great danger, but be careful not to get lost in past memories. Otherwise, your mind will be trapped inside forever."

As she spoke, Gu Yuexi walked to the first mirror on the left side of the corridor.

The mirror clearly showed the recent scene of her and Chu Sheng participating in the Global Martial Dao Tournament in the White Eagle Empire.

She continued forward to the second mirror.

Inside, it showed them exploring together in Jing University’s Secret Realm Nine.

The third showed them fighting side-by-side against that Alien Race’s Evil God.

The fourth was in Hong Kong Island...

Gu Yuexi walked forward, step by step, as her past replayed before her eyes, scene by scene, like a movie.

Finally, she stopped in front of a particular mirror.

The mirror showed the exact moment she had tried to form a contract with her Lifebound Spirit Beast, the Green Snake, but, due to an accident, had ended up inexplicably bound to this damn mosquito instead.

She watched the reflection of her past self, looking disgusted and somewhat helpless, then glanced at the mosquito brandishing its might in her palm.

A rare, faint smile appeared on Gu Yuexi’s perpetually frosty face.

She didn’t linger and continued forward.

Soon, she came to a mirror that emanated an ominous aura.

The mirror starkly displayed the scene from her past life: the final moment of her attempt to break through to the Divine Realm, where she faced the world-ending divine lightning, only to fall at the last step, dying filled with regret.

Watching her other self collapse in a pool of blood, her eyes filled with bitter resentment, Gu Yuexi’s own gaze became incredibly firm.

’In this life, that ending will absolutely not happen again!’

She took a deep breath, strode forward, and arrived at the final mirror at the end of the corridor.

She had walked here in her past life as well.

But back then, this mirror had been blank, reflecting nothing at all.

But now, as she looked at the mirror again, her body suddenly went rigid.

The mirror showed someone who looked exactly like her!

’No!’

’That’s not right!’

Gu Yuexi’s brows furrowed instantly.

’Although the woman in the mirror is ninety-nine percent identical to me, that is definitely not me!’

’Moreover, right now, I’m frowning outside the mirror. But the woman inside the mirror is looking at me and smiling.’

The smile was holy, yet it also felt inexplicably strange.

Then, the woman in the mirror opened her mouth, as if wanting to say something to her.

However, the moment she began to speak...

CRACK!

Without any warning, a jagged crack split across the entire mirror.

「Meanwhile, on the other side.」

On the right side of the corridor, Chu Sheng was also looking at his own mirror.

He too had arrived at the final mirror.

Then, he froze.

Because what the mirror reflected was not a mosquito.

But a human.

A lazy-looking young man in a white T-shirt with wireless earbuds hanging around his neck.

’This... isn’t this fucking what I looked like before I was reincarnated?!’

In the mirror, his past-life self was fast asleep in bed.

Suddenly, without any warning, a faint golden light emanated from his body. Then, countless profound and complex runes began to flow across the surface of his skin.

Just as Chu Sheng widened his compound eyes, trying to get a clearer look and figure out what on earth was happening...

...the mirror in front of him began to tremble violently, as if it couldn’t bear the information contained within the scene.

The next second, the entire mirror violently shattered!

Unlike Gu Yuexi’s mirror, which had only cracked, his mirror had completely and utterly disintegrated into a pile of fine powder.

"BZZZ! (Damn it! To crap out at the crucial moment!)"

Chu Sheng buzzed twice in frustration.

Gu Yuexi heard him and turned her head. When she saw the mirror in front of Chu Sheng shattered into a pile of dust, she was inwardly shocked.

’It seems... the secrets this damn mosquito carries are even more unfathomable than I imagined...’

After both of their mirrors had shattered, a new, large door slowly materialized at the end of the Corridor of Time.

The human and the mosquito didn’t hesitate and walked right through.

Passing through the door, they emerged into an immense and empty grand hall.

But the moment Chu Sheng landed, his ears keenly picked up an extremely faint sound.

"Bzzz, bzzz!"

’That sound... Is that a mosquito buzzing?’

’Besides me, there’s another mosquito here?’

Chu Sheng immediately focused all his Mental Power, carefully trying to distinguish the source and meaning of the sound.

Finally, he heard it clearly.

The sound was intermittent yet full of allure, seeming to call out to him.

"Bzzz, bzzz... (Come here... Come here quickly...)"