Zhou Bai followed Lin Muqing into a metal-made mobile home. Seeing that it was empty, Lin Muqing slightly relaxed.
The next moment, Zhou Bai felt a tremor beneath his feet as the mobile home began to ascend.
Lin Muqing said, "This aerial corridor will rise to the 2000-meter high government district, then circle down to the 500-meter military zone. We’ll have enough time to talk. But still..."
She then waved her hand, and array flags the size of a palm flew out one after another. As she performed hand seals and her Primordial Spirit surged, the flags flew to specific positions, emitting a red light, which gradually vanished after half a minute.
"All set, I’ve laid down a Two Realms Separation Array. It’s not much for defense, but it will prevent eavesdropping."
Saying this, she relaxed, found a spot to sit, and pulled Zhou Bai next to her.
Zhou Bai asked, "Can we talk now? Who are you exactly?"
Lin Muqing mysteriously smiled and pulled out a black leather notebook from her bosom. "Zhou Bai, before we get into that, I want to show you something," she said, caressing the notebook. "How much do you know about the 64 Hexagrams?"
Zhou Bai’s eyes narrowed. Ever since the notebook had been taken out, he had been staring at it constantly. Within his sight, a golden light moved back and forth, seemingly attracted by Christina’s gemstone.
Hearing Lin Muqing’s question, he shook his head and said, "I don’t know."
Lin Muqing shrugged indifferently and continued, "I’m not very clear about the origins of the 64 Hexagrams either. However, they do exist in this world, comprising 64 items with special effects and various peculiar side effects."
Zhou Bai felt a stir in his heart. Lin Muqing’s words seemed to coincide with the information he knew. Xing Jun had also used the First Hexagram to break the school’s Array.
But what about his gemstone? Why could it absorb the power of the hexagrams and use it for Time Reverse?
Lin Muqing, unaware of Zhou Bai’s inner thoughts, continued, "This notebook is the 12th Hexagram. Its specific function is that whatever is written on it must be true."
"Must be true?" Zhou Bai raised an eyebrow. "What if what’s written is not true?"
Lin Muqing seriously said, "You’d get injured. The more the words deviate from the truth, the greater the injury, and in the most severe cases, it could kill."
Zhou Bai’s heart sank, but his eyes suddenly brightened. "Then could this be used to kill someone?"
Lin Muqing shook her head. "It only works if the person writing knows about the notebook’s ability in advance. Hidden writings, tearing the paper, overlapping—it’s all ineffective."
Zhou Bai Oh’ed silently."’It seems Lin Muqing is planning to use this notebook to communicate and build trust with me. But could I absorb its power into the gemstone?"
"Are you wondering whether this notebook is real?" Lin Muqing flipped open the notebook and took out a pen to write: "Let me prove it then."
She wrote: "I am 29 years old this year."
The next moment, accompanied by a light ’pfft’ sound, Zhou Bai immediately saw a cut open on the back of Lin Muqing’s hand.
Lin Muqing said helplessly, "This is really an unpleasant verdict." She turned to Zhou Bai and smiled, "Why don’t you give it a try?"
"Alright, I’ll give it a try."
Zhou Bai nodded seriously. His Time Reverse had already cooled down, and even if he died, he could reverse back to ten minutes ago, so he wrote without hesitation: "I am not handsome."
A deadly silence permeated the air.
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After half a minute, seeing Zhou Bai saying nothing, Lin Muqing awkwardly suggested, "Want to try writing something else?"
Zhou Bai did not speak, but just looked at the notebook in his hand and shouted in his mind, "Incredible, the gemstone seems to have absorbed the power of this hexagram again."
In Zhou Bai’s very gaze, where previously a golden light was rustling about in the notebook, the moment Zhou Bai touched the notebook, it surged into his palm and then traveled through his body into his mind, ultimately entering Christina’s gemstone.
Christina laughed heartily, "My gemstone has become even more powerful!"
Zhou Bai’s gaze intensified, and his Primordial Spirit power rolled towards the gemstone. "Time Reverse...turned into 20 minutes?" He suddenly became excited. He had felt that a 10-minute reversal was too little, but now with 20 minutes, there was much more he could do.
"But with the power being absorbed like this, won’t the notebook become useless?" Zhou Bai looked at the black leather notebook in front of him and thought of Xing Jun’s first hexagram: "It should still function for a while due to some lingering power."
But in the next moment, he discovered that as long as his hand remained on the notebook, strands of golden light continued to flow from the gemstone into the notebook, actually providing power to it.
Zhou Bai was startled: ’So that’s how it is, even if the gemstone absorbs the golden light, it can still power the notebook, even use the notebook.’
’I remember the last time a hexagram’s power was absorbed, just like the first hexagram Xing Jun used last time, it could still continue to be used.’
’That means if I recharge it periodically, I can keep it functional indefinitely.’
’And based on the time difference Xing Jun calculated between the Heavenly Demon and the old dormitory building, this notebook can be used for about 2 to 3 weeks.’
Lin Muqing watched Zhou Bai with an awkward expression and spoke again, "Zhou Bai? Want to try again?"
"Sure." Zhou Bai picked up the pen and casually wrote: "I now have long hair."
Pfft!
Zhou Bai looked at the scratch on his hand, pairing it with his process of absorbing the golden light, and he was now ninety percent convinced of the notebook’s function.
Lin Muqing said, "Now you believe in the function of this notebook, right?" Seeing Zhou Bai nod, she wrote on the notebook: "We have no ill intentions towards Zhou Bai or current humanity."
Zhou Bai’s gaze intensified again and he asked, "Who are you?"
Lin Muqing touched her lips and said softly, "How about Zhou Bai you ask one question, and I ask one, taking turns? Of course, you can choose not to answer any question you don’t like."
Zhou Bai nodded. "You ask."
Lin Muqing: "Zhou Bai, do you trust the Heavenly Demon and the Celestial Court?"
Zhou Bai: "Isn’t that two questions?"
Lin Muqing smiled and leaned back, "Though I trust you a lot, Zhou Bai, I still need to ask what needs to be asked."
’I hardly think you trust me that much.’ With the 20 minutes of Time Reverse available to him, Zhou Bai directly wrote, "Neither trust." Then he asked, "Who are you?"
Seeing Zhou Bai’s response, Lin Muqing’s eyes slightly brightened and she took the pen to write, "Sky Flipping Sect."
Zhou Bai was shocked; he had actually guessed right last time—it really was the Sky Flipping Sect.
Seeing Zhou Bai’s expression, Lin Muqing smiled and said, "It looks like you guessed it a while ago."
Zhou Bai then asked, "What exactly is your goal?"
Lin Muqing put up a finger to her lips and said, "Now it’s my turn to ask."