After walking forward a few dozen steps, the view suddenly became clear.

The four people were seen on a cliff platform, with an endless sea of ​​clouds in the distance and only a long iron chain bridge connecting to this side.

A tall warrior in golden armor stood at the end of the bridge, long sword in hand, eyes closed and motionless.

Qiu Changtian tried it and found that he couldn't steer the sword here, so he carefully observed the warrior in golden armor.

Suddenly, I heard the Kunlun Mirror in the Sea of ​​Consciousness say in surprise:

"What's going on?"

"What's wrong, Ajing?" Qiu Changtian asked with a frown.

Kunlun Jing was silent for a moment, then said to Qiu Changtian in a serious tone:

"Don't be afraid of what I'm going to tell you next."

"Don't worry, Ah Jing." Qiu Changtian said seriously, "I have received professional training. No matter how horrible the things I encounter, I will not be afraid... unless I can't help myself."

"What professional training... forget it." Kunlun Jing quickly told him everything that had happened before.

Qiu Changtian listened in silence and said:

"So, time went backwards?"

"I suspect that the mirror on the Yaochi mirror stand is actually a fragment of my true self." Kunlun Mirror sighed and said, "That's why it has the ability to reverse time and space."

"Fragments? Ajing, when did you die?" Qiu Changtian said in surprise.

"After descending from the West Queen Mother's Palace," Kunlun Mirror said lightly, "the main body was broken into pieces... and scattered everywhere, leaving only the spirit of the weapon."

"My condolences, by the way. I'll see if I can help you find the broken pieces and put them back together again when I get a chance."

Qiu Changtian was chatting with Kunlun Jing here. Junior Sister Xu beside him watched for a moment and recognized that the golden-armored warrior was a follower of the Divine Fire Sect, so everyone planned to return to the cave and leave the secret realm.

Xu Yinglian was about to follow him out, but found that his brother was standing there motionless, so he turned around and looked at him in confusion.

Qiu Changtian took his junior sister and walked a few steps towards the edge of the platform.

Not long after, the warrior in golden armor suddenly opened his eyes and walked into the cave with a sword in hand.

Qiu Changtian immediately pulled his junior sister, rushed onto the long iron chain bridge and ran all the way to Yuntai on the other side.

As soon as I got onto the platform, I could hear the sound of celestial music, as if it were right next to my ears.

"The music this time is louder than last time." Kunlun Mirror suddenly said.

"Perhaps it is hinting that time has gone backwards once." Qiu Changtian pondered and said, "As the music gets louder and louder, does it mean that some kind of change is happening in the secret realm?"

"And it's definitely a bad change." Kunlun Jing said seriously, "This is not the secret palace of the Chan Sect. Outsiders like you may not be welcomed to enter."

"That's right." Qiu Changtian agreed, looking at Yao Chi from afar with a vigilant look, and suddenly said, "By the way, Ah Jing!"

"If I go to Yaochi again to pick golden lotus seeds, can I eat them a second time?"

Kunlun Mirror:?

"It should be possible." It said hesitantly.

"After time goes back, can the effect of the lotus seeds we ate last time be retained?" Qiu Changtian asked cautiously.

"The time reversal here does not mean time goes back." Kunlun Mirror replied, "It means that you and your junior sister's bodies are transported to the past, and the illusion of mirror flowers and water moons is used to give you mental hints, so that you cannot remember what happened before."

"For example, if your junior sister dies next, then after time goes back, all you will see is her phantom... just like the two Kunlun disciples just now."

"After all, traveling through time and space in the flesh is easy, but bringing the dead back to life involves so many consequences that even I can't do it, let alone a fragment of my original body."

"The two people just now were just illusions?" Qiu Changtian understood and sighed.

Chiang and Hu invited me to come and help because they trusted me, but I didn't expect that I would be killed... I feel helpless.

He mourned in silence for a few seconds, then pulled out the sword and rolled up the shriveled lotus pod in the Yaochi into his hand.

Xu Yinglian was startled, but when he saw that no formation had been triggered in Yao Chi, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Qiu Changtian peeled open the lotus pod and indeed took out two lotus seeds from it.

That's strange, doesn't that mean that the lotus seeds can be picked repeatedly?

"A Jing." He couldn't help but ask, "I remember you once said that history that has already happened cannot be changed."

"Yes." Kunlun Jing sighed and said, "So this is false history."

"What is false history?" Qiu Changtian asked in surprise.

Kunlun Mirror was silent for a moment, then said:

"You are walking on the road and suddenly you meet your future self, who gives you a lotus seed."

"In order to ensure that history is not changed, you traveled back in time to yesterday the next day and gave the lotus seeds you had obtained to your past self."

"So, where did this lotus seed, which is sent back to yesterday every other day, come from?"

"The answer is: this lotus seed comes from 'false history', which is a temporary thread that is not on the main line of time created by the Avenue of Time in order to ensure linear looping."

Qiu Changtian was silent for a moment and said:

"A Jing, can you speak human language?"

"Oh, I forgot that you are not Luo Yan now, and you don't have the bonus of comprehension." Kunlun Jing said with a smile, "This is very complicated to explain. First of all, you have to know that time is a ray, with a starting point but no end point..."

"Okay, stop." Qiu Changtian sighed and said, "Anyway, these lotus seeds can be eaten, right?"

"right."

"Can I swipe it infinitely?"

"That's impossible." Kunlun Mirror said, "Even if it's my fragments, it's impossible to create an infinite number of timelines. It will be backfired by the Avenue of Time."

"I see." Qiu Changtian ate a lotus seed and stuffed another one to Xu Yinglian, "Be careful not to choke."

Xu Yinglian:?

"What's this?"

"Yaochi Golden Lotus Seeds, if taken, can improve the efficiency of breathing and refining qi."

Xu Yinglian was slightly startled when he heard this, and quickly ate the lotus seeds, then looked at the other remaining lotus pods.

"Don't look, there's nothing inside." Qiu Changtian said this, and suddenly he made a sword gesture with his hand. The Jade Dragon Sword turned into a ray of light and rolled directly towards the mirror on the Yao Chi mirror table.

…

My vision suddenly brightened.

Qiu Changtian walked out of the cave and looked at the golden-armored warrior guarding the bridge. Just as he was about to speak in a low voice, he suddenly heard Kunlun Mirror say helplessly:

"Let me show you a short video..."

Qiu Changtian watched the video in amazement, and his eyes shone:

"So I've been reincarnated twice?"

"Yes." said Kunlun Mirror.

"And it's not clear why I got caught."

"Not sure. For now, it seems best to avoid approaching the fragment of my true self, the mirror."

"That is to say." Qiu Changtian thought and said, "Considering that there is a high possibility of flashback this time, even if I kiss Junior Sister Xu now, she will not remember it after the flashback."

"Indeed." Kunlun Jing said numbly, "As long as you can survive until the third time of retrospection after kissing her."

After imagining for a moment that he was being chased by Xu Yinglian with a sword in hand on the long chain bridge, Qiu Changtian shook his head violently and threw some unrealistic thoughts out of his mind.

I am a gentleman, how could I do such a thing!