I am the villain, plundering the destiny of the heroine.

"Fortunately, I have already won over Yu'er and persuaded her. Now is the right time to take action against Emperor Yan."

Li Xu thought thankfully that compared to helping his foster sister to enter the city from both inside and outside, there was no rush to destroy the other four formation bases of the Sealing Heaven and Absolute Earth Formation. He immediately turned into a ray of fire and shot towards the west city gate in the distance.

"General Li, stop it!"

"You are clearly plotting treason! Where do you think His Majesty's dignity is?!"

The roars rolling in from the city gate became more and more intense and panicked. It was obvious that the general guarding the city did not stop Li Tianai's confidence.

As the distance got closer, Li Xu gradually saw the outline of the city gate. At this time, he saw tens of thousands of city defense troops standing in a neat row on the top of the city, forming a collective battle formation to consolidate the protective barrier covering the city gate. One after another, blue-purple thunder smashed down from the sky, and within a few dozen breaths, spider-web-like cracks appeared on the surface of the barrier.

Li Xu's eyes swept across the top of the city wall like lightning, trying to find the general who was leading the battle and then use the Daluo Time and Space Method to teleport over and kill him, leaving the city defense forces leaderless.

However, what Li Xu never expected was that before he could find the officer defending the city in the crowd, a familiar figure of a young girl caught his eye first.

The graceful figure was wearing a light blue dress. She swung a sword with a dazzling sword light, forcibly cutting down many soldiers at the city gate and sending them flying. She turned into a stream of light and rushed towards the inner city at full speed.

Even though they were facing a dangerous situation with Li Tianai attacking the city, the city defense forces still dispatched a large number of manpower to chase the girl in blue skirt. Among them were two old men whose spiritual power fluctuations were between the third level of fusion realm.

"Youwei?"

Li Xu was stunned. He really didn't expect to see Hua Youwei here.

According to Zhou Furong and Xia Lengbai, after he was taken away by Cheng Susu half a year ago, Hua Youwei returned to Baihua Valley to inquire in order to find out more information about Cheng Susu. Li Xu originally wanted to wait until the unrest in Dijing City was settled before going to Baihua Valley in person to pick up Hua Youwei.

"Youwei has found out Cheng Susu's details from Baihua Valley and returned to Imperial Capital?"

"But why are there so many city defense troops chasing her? The two third-rank monks among them are obviously not from the city defense troops..."

Li Xu didn't have time to think about it in detail. Suddenly, he saw one of the two third-grade monks, a long-bearded old man, shouting angrily:
"stop!"

The next moment, the old man's body suddenly disintegrated into sparse cherry blossoms without any warning, and flashed to the top of Hua Youwei's head as if he had changed his position.

"The Heaven-Shocking and Earth-Charming Art? He is the elder of the Hundred Flowers Valley!"

Li Xu recognized the martial arts used by the old man at a glance, and was secretly shocked.

Apart from him and Cheng Susu, the only people in the world who mastered the Art of Shocking Heaven and Charming Earth were Liu Qingshan, the leader of Baihua Valley, and a few elders whom Liu Qingshan trusted deeply.

When he and Cheng Susu were besieged by a group of elders from the Hundred Flowers Valley, the leader, the great elder Zheng Jing, had mastered the Shocking Heaven and Charming Earth Art to a very sophisticated level.

Compared with Zheng Jing, the third-rank old man's application of the Shocking Heaven and Charming Earth Art was obviously very crude and crude. It was estimated that he had just received his instruction from Liu Qingshan within half a year.

"what?"

Hua Youwei had little understanding of the Shocking Heaven and Earth Art, and did not expect the opponent's charming hand to be so powerful that she was caught off guard by the scattered cherry blossoms that flashed over her head. She saw the cluster of cherry blossoms condense back into the form of a long-bearded old man, who spurted out a large amount of charming energy towards her with a palm, so she quickly raised her sword to block it.

"Hua Youwei, how dare you betray the master!"

"That's all!"

The old man with a long beard snorted angrily, as if he had already seen the scene of the opponent being defeated by his palm.

After all, the other party was only at the fourth level of the Void Refinement Realm, and his cultivation was a full level lower than mine. If he endured a full-strength attack from me head-on, he would have no chance of escaping any harm.

"Om~"

Just as the old man with long beard was about to hit Hua Youwei's sword that she was trying to block, he suddenly didn't know if he was dazzled or what, but he saw visible ripples spreading in the void in front of him, and a blazing fire fist surrounded by endless cherry blossoms suddenly appeared in his sight.

"this--"

The old man with a long beard had no time to be shocked. The moment the Sakura Fire Fist collided with him, he immediately felt a familiar charm of Taoism invading his body, accompanied by a terrifying high temperature that instantly ignited his limbs.

"what!"

The old man with a long beard screamed miserably, completely unable to withstand the burning of the Burning Fire Technique, and his whole body turned into flames and shattered into pieces.

There is also a gap between the third-grade fusion realm and the third-grade fusion realm. Li Xu has mastered five kinds of heaven-level skills, while the old man with a long beard has only a rough grasp of the Shocking Heaven and Charming Earth Art. The combat power of the two is not at the same level at all.

"Youwei, are you hurt?"

After killing the bearded old man with one punch, Li Xu immediately hugged Hua Youwei in his arms and asked with concern.

At first, Hua Youwei didn't know who appeared in front of her out of nowhere. She wanted to push Li Xu away reflexively, until she heard his voice the next moment and was suddenly surprised.

"Mr. Li! When did you come back?!"

Just as Li Xu was about to speak, he heard another terrified shout: "Are you Li Xu? Everyone, come on, kill him!"

Another third-rank cultivator in the city defense force at the rear was so frightened when he saw Li Xu kill his companion with just one punch that he quickly gave panicked orders to the surrounding city defense forces, and he decisively turned around and fled towards the city gate.

There was no way Li Xu would let go of the group of people who were chasing Hua Youwei, so he secretly activated the Ice Thousand Miles, and a bone-chilling icy aura erupted from him. No matter whether it was the city defense troops who were rushing towards him, or the third-rank cultivator who turned around and fled, they were all instantly frozen into solid ice and fell headfirst from the sky.

"Mr. Li...are you so strong now?"

Even Hua Youwei was shocked by the powerful fighting ability displayed by Li Xu, and her beautiful eyes were full of disbelief.

After all, half a year ago, when she and Li Xu finally had a physical and mental connection, Li Xu was only at the sixth level, and he was completely different from his current invincible image. "I was lucky to get some opportunities."

Li Xu didn't have time to enjoy the joy of reunion with Hua Youwei. After all, his foster sister and Lao Deng were now attacking Emperor Yan, so he tried to be as brief as possible:
"Youwei, I'll take you to a safe place first, and we'll talk about other things later."

As soon as he finished speaking, he was about to use the Daluo Space-Time Method to teleport, but Hua Youwei grabbed his arm and interrupted him:
"Mr. Li, don't worry about me! Go to the palace and save Zhou Lingyu and Zhou Furong. Emperor Yan wants to sacrifice the blood and essence of all the people in the imperial capital to replace his bones and blood and take over his two daughters!"

"what!"

Li Xu was startled and his pupils shrank to the size of a needle tip.

"Youwei, please explain clearly, what exactly is going on?"

Hua Youwei's face was filled with anxiety, and she also tried to keep her words short:

"I returned to Baihua Valley half a year ago, and used the excuse of understanding the enemy to ask Master for information about Cheng Susu, but Master kept hiding the truth and refused to tell me."

"Until half a month ago, when Master went out from Baihua Valley, I quietly sneaked into the Sect Master's Hall after he left. I wanted to investigate Cheng Susu's background by reading the sect's secret history, but I accidentally discovered the letters between Master and Emperor Yan."

"From those letters, I learned that Cheng Susu was once Master's disciple. Master was attracted by Cheng Susu's natural beauty and wanted to use her to open the seal of the ancestor's tomb, so he secretly arranged for the elders to secretly kill Cheng Susu's relatives. After that, Master came forward and pretended to save Cheng Susu and accepted her as his personal disciple..."

Li Xu had already heard from Cheng Susu herself about the deep blood feud between Cheng Susu and Liu Qingshan. He wanted to interrupt Hua Youwei several times to let her get to the point, but he held back in the end. He believed that the other party would not make random remarks and waste too much time and effort on things that had nothing to do with Emperor Yan.

"Later, Cheng Susu opened the seal of the master's tomb and took out the Heaven-shaking and Enchanting Art left by the master." Hua Youwei continued to make the long story short and explained the whole story to Li Xu.

"But the Heaven-shaking Charm of the Earth is extremely difficult to practice. Only the innate charming body can perfectly match it. Therefore, the master used the bone-changing and blood-changing method left by the ancestor to try to take over Cheng Susu's innate charming body for his own use. In the end, he failed due to various reasons."

"Emperor Yan sent someone to find Master two years ago. He wrote in a letter that he had learned from the Heavenly God Temple that Master had a method to replace bones and blood. He wanted to use this method to prolong his life. As long as Master was willing to give the method to Emperor Yan, he would agree to all the conditions proposed by Master."

...Temple of the Heavenly God! It's the Temple of the Heavenly God again!

It turns out that Jiang Mubai was behind all this! !
Upon hearing this, Li Xu suddenly had an epiphany and figured out many things that he had not figured out before.

He felt it was strange from the beginning, wondering why the original plot was so different from reality.

You know, in the original plot, the Temple of the Gods has no presence at all, and no one has ever heard of it.

However, ever since Li Xu awakened his memories of his past life, the Temple of the Gods has been attacking him in various ways. First, they used the elixir of immortality as a condition to let Cheng Susu sneak into the palace and assassinate Emperor Yan. Later, they sent a group of elders and disciples of the Temple of the Gods to the Imperial Capital to assassinate Zhou Lingyu.

Li Xu initially thought that these developments that were different from the original plot were changes brought about by the butterfly effect caused by him. This statement was tenable at first, until the moment he learned that Emperor Yan was colluding with the major sects, it was completely untenable.

No matter how big the butterfly effect he caused was, how could it be that Emperor Yan, who was supposed to die peacefully a year later, suddenly collude with the sect?

After hearing Hua Youwei's explanation, Li Xu finally realized that the person who brought the butterfly effect to reality was not only himself, but also Jiang Mubai.

In fact, to be precise, all these butterfly effects were still caused by myself.

If she had not awakened her past life memories, she would have been completely defenseless against Tang San as in the original novel, and would have been chopped into pieces and thrown into the vegetable market by Tang San at the beginning. She would not have survived to the end and went to the Northern Border ruins with Cheng Susu, and traveled back to 20,000 years ago with Ji Weiming in the ruins, thus bringing Jiang Mubai, who should have died in the apocalypse 20,000 years ago, back to the present era.

If Jiang Mubai had not been brought back to this era by himself and Ji Weiming, he would not be the current master of the Heavenly God Temple, there would be no one except Luo Meiyu and Zhou Lingyu to integrate the major sects to fight against Li Chunfeng, and no one would use the temptation of extending life to make Emperor Yan collude with the sects and stab Li Chunfeng without hesitation.

……

"Does Emperor Yan want to use Liu Qingshan's method of changing bones and blood to take over Zhou Lingyu and Zhou Furong's bones and prolong their lives?" Li Xu took over the conversation and asked.

Hua Youwei agreed repeatedly: "Yes!"

"Master is afraid that Li Chunfeng and Li Tianai will start another war to destroy the sect in the future, so he asks Emperor Yan to kill them. Only then will Master be willing to give away the Dharma."

"Emperor Yan promised Master in the letter that Li Chunfeng and Li Tianai were already powerful and entrenched, and it would be difficult to kill them. He asked Master to give him a method first, and then he would slowly take action against Li Chunfeng after Emperor Yan successfully extended his life."

"But Master insisted on seeing the news of Li Chunfeng and Li Tianai's death first, and he was in a stalemate with Emperor Yan. Later, Jiang Mubai, the master of the Heavenly God Temple, intervened as a third party and sent someone to pass a message to Master, saying that he hoped Master would hand over the method to Emperor Yan first for the sake of the Heavenly God Temple. He could guarantee that Emperor Yan would never break his promise."

"The Heavenly God Temple is the one with the longest heritage and the most mysterious of all the sects. Out of trust in the Heavenly God Temple, Master wrote a letter back to Jiang Mubai and explained his difficulties."

"It turns out that although Master has the bone-changing and blood-changing method left by the ancestors, the success rate is very low. Even if he tries a thousand times, he may not succeed once. It was for this reason that he failed to seize Cheng Susu's innate body. Master is worried that if he hands over the method and Emperor Yan fails to extend his life, he will provoke Emperor Yan's crazy revenge by any means necessary."

"Jiang Mubai told Master not to worry. He will ask Emperor Yan to possess the body of his son Zhou Lingyu. The two are blood relatives, which can maximize the probability of possession."

"If that doesn't work, Jiang Mubai will then set up another ancient sacrificial formation in the Imperial Capital City to devour the blood and energy of all the people in the Imperial Capital City, and use them all for Emperor Yan to help him completely change his fate against the will of heaven."

At this point, the anxious look on Hua Youwei's pretty face turned into one of grief and indignation:

"Master actually agreed to Jiang Mubai's proposal to commit countless murders! He left Baihua Valley shortly after receiving the letter. I knew he must be going to Imperial Capital City to assist Emperor Yan, so I wanted to rush to Imperial Capital City to stop him immediately."

"But on my way out of the sect hall, I ran into the elders of the Hundred Flowers Valley. When they saw that I had uncovered the secret between Master and Emperor Yan, they wanted to kill me and chased me all the way from the Hundred Flowers Valley to the Imperial Capital."

"I see……"

When Li Xu heard this, all the ins and outs became clear to him, and the whole truth came to light.

He originally thought that the purpose of Emperor Yan's setting up the Sealing Heaven and Destroying Earth Formation in the Imperial Capital City was to use the energy and blood of all the people in the Imperial Capital City to deal with his adopted sister and Lao Deng. He never imagined that his main purpose was to use the formation to take over the bodies of his two biological children!

Three days ago in Jinling City, Xiao Yan must have known Emperor Yan's plan, so when he learned that Zhou Furong was Emperor Yan's daughter, he hurriedly told himself not to bring Zhou Furong back to Imperial Capital City, and subconsciously exposed Emperor Yan, causing him to accidentally violate the soul restriction and explode and die. (End of this chapter)