Behind the New Orthodox Temple lay the Reincarnation Forbidden Land.
Ning Qing stood in midair, having come alone.
A host of eminent monks lined up to welcome her.
She ignored them and walked straight into the Forbidden Land.
The Buddhist Order had always valued strength of mind. The Reincarnation Forbidden Land chiefly tested whether one's resolve was firm.
Entering it was like stepping into reincarnation. Sometimes you began an entirely new life from birth to death. Sometimes you became someone else, living with that person's memories and thoughts. Sometimes you remained yourself, but your memories had been altered, leaving you to live inside an illusion.
The Forbidden Land peered into your heart and knew your weaknesses. It could even use your own thoughts and wisdom against you, then choose its methods according to what needed testing before you could merge with the Origin.
During that process, you might face hardship, temptation, loss, or fear. You might be deceived. But you had to recognize yourself at every moment and hold fast to your true heart. Fail to break free, and you would be trapped there forever.
A hundred years in an instant, an instant in a hundred years.
Many gifted disciples of the Buddhist Order also entered the Forbidden Land, but stayed on its outskirts or edges, brushing against its divine power without daring to venture deeper.
In an instant, divine power erupted, and golden light blotted out the sky.
The Forbidden Land's rules awakened and swallowed all things.
Ning Qing merely stood at its center, eyes quietly closed, her expression as indifferent as ever. She looked like a deity.
A Twin Universe? Or overlapping universes?
Only two layers? Or countless layers?
Had Ning Qing of the Front Plane truly returned to the past? Or had it only been a dream?