After descending the mountain, my aloof fiancée became completely devoted to me.

Lin Ping leaned down, his voice gentle, and coaxed softly, "Aoxue, listen to me. I'm going to Tianshan to save everyone's lives. I'll be back soon, and I'll stay with you day and night and never leave you again."

Shen Aoxue's eyelashes trembled, her eyes filled with resentment and grievance, her small hands still tightly gripping his clothes, refusing to let go.

She was extremely reluctant to let Lin Ping go, but the power of the pills within her body suppressed the restrictions, and she could no longer pretend to be on the verge of death.

After a moment of stalemate, she bit her lip, slowly loosened her fingers, and lowered her head sullenly, looking like she had suffered a great injustice and was helpless.

"Then...you must come back soon."

"Um."

Lin Ping nodded, instructed Adele and Alu to guard the manor, then turned and strode out of the bedroom, heading straight for the Tianshan Mountains.

The room fell silent instantly.

Seeing this, Ake used the excuse of tidying up to quietly slip away and secretly sent a message to Xiaoyuer in the back mountain, informing him that Lin Ping had set off for Tianshan.

Inside the bedroom, only Zhu Xiaohan and Shen Aoxue, who had just woken up, remained.

The door closed gently, shutting out all outside sight.

The weak, aggrieved, clingy, and dependent look on Shen Aoxue's face vanished almost instantly.

Zhu Xiaohan stepped forward, her gaze sharp as a knife, staring intently at the girl in front of her, her tone cold and serious, without a trace of gentleness.

"Who exactly are you?"

Where is the real Shen Aoxue?

Shen Aoxue looked up, her eyes filled with innocent confusion, and said softly, "Sister Xiaohan, what did you say? I am Aoxue, I just have amnesia, I don't remember anything."

"You are not."

May Xiaohan's words be firm and her steps ever closer.

"Amnesia only makes you forget people and things, it doesn't change your inherent nature."

"The real Shen Aoxue was kind-hearted and had an extreme fondness for small animals. She fed the stray kittens in the yard every day with the utmost gentleness."

"But this morning I saw it with my own eyes. You saw that kitten with eyes full of disgust and coldness, and even raised your hand to try to drive it away and trample it."

"This is not amnesia; it's a change of soul and mindset!"

The innocent look on Shen Aoxue's face gradually faded, and a faint, eerie smile slowly appeared on her lips.

No longer soft and gentle, no longer aggrieved, only a strange indifference and profundity remain.

She looked up at Zhu Xiaohan and said softly, "You have a keen eye for detail."

"There are too many people and too many eyes around here, making it inconvenient to talk."

She raised her hand and pointed to the rooftop outside the window, her tone calm yet carrying a sense of overwhelming control.

"If you want to know the truth, come with me to the rooftop."

Zhu Xiaohan's eyes suddenly sharpened.

She already harbored doubts, and today she was determined to tear down the other party's disguise and uncover all the conspiracies.

"it is good."

Zhu Xiaohan responded decisively, without any fear.

The two walked out of the bedroom one after the other in silence, and steadily climbed the stairs to the top floor of the manor.

The rooftop was swept by a biting night wind; it was empty and deserted, the howling wind completely isolating the manor from all movement and noise.

Standing in the center of the rooftop, Zhu Xiaohan turned around first and said coldly, "Speak, who exactly are you? What is your purpose in possessing Ao Xue's body?"

With her back to the evening breeze, Shen Aoxue's long hair flew wildly, and all the gentleness on her exquisite and delicate face vanished.

She slowly turned around, her eyes revealing a coldness and calculation that did not belong to Shen Aoxue, and spoke softly.

"Zhu Xiaohan, the Holy Maiden of Lingyun Mountain, is in charge of the Divine Soul Array and is skilled in observing souls and investigating the void."

"You think what you've found is the whole truth?"

Zhu Xiaohan's pupils contracted slightly: "You know who I am?"

"I know far more than just who you are."

Shen Aoxue slowly took a step forward, her body faintly exuding a blood-red aura, and her aura suddenly reversed.

On the rooftop, a fierce wind howled and swirled.

Shen Aoxue's body was surrounded by a slowly rising crimson aura, her aura completely reversed, and there was no trace of her former gentle and soft nature.

Zhu Xiaohan's expression tightened, and she secretly gathered spiritual energy in her palm, staring coldly at her opponent: "What exactly are you hiding!"

Shen Aoxue smiled faintly, her eyes filled with scheming and treacherous intent.

Before Zhu Xiaohan could speak again, she suddenly lunged forward and shoved Zhu Xiaohan hard on the shoulder!

She calculated the angle and the force precisely, intending to push Zhu Xiaohan directly off the rooftop steps.

Just as his fingertips were about to touch Zhu Xiaohan, the earth vein restriction suppressed by the pill suddenly backfired, causing her soul to explode in excruciating pain!

The force was instantly out of control!

puff-

A muffled thud suddenly exploded.

Zhu Xiaohan, who should have fallen, remained completely still.

On the contrary, Shen Aoxue, who took the initiative, staggered and lost her balance, and tumbled and fell hard down the rooftop stairs!

The sound of impacts echoing down the stairs resounded!

His forehead slammed against the edge of the stone steps, and bright red blood slid down his brow and cheek, a shocking sight.

The courtyard downstairs.

Upon hearing the loud noise, Ade and Aru's expressions changed drastically, and they rushed upstairs at top speed.

Look up—

At the entrance to the rooftop, Zhu Xiaohan stood quietly, her posture upright and her expression calm and serene.

At the bottom of the stairs, Shen Aoxue was curled up on the ground, blood seeping from her forehead, her whole body trembling uncontrollably.

She raised her trembling finger, weakly and fiercely pointing at Zhu Xiaohan. Her lips trembled, her breath was barely audible, and she couldn't utter a complete sentence. Her eyes were filled with fear and grievance.

The image is extremely glaring and immediately obvious.

Anyone who saw it would assume that Zhu Xiaohan, in a fit of rage, had seriously injured Shen Aoxue.

Adele didn't have time to ask what happened. She rushed down the stairs, bent down and picked up Shen Aoxue, who was trembling all over and bleeding from her forehead.

"Proud Snow!"

Seeing the girl's face covered in blood and on the verge of death, Adele frowned deeply. Without further hesitation, she turned around, quickly carried the girl back to the bedroom to stop the bleeding and bandage her wounds.

At the entrance to the rooftop, only A-Lu and Zhu Xiaohan remained, facing off.

Alu is straightforward, but her expression is complicated as she looks at Zhu Xiaohan.

Zhu Xiaohan remained calm and composed throughout, showing no panic or attempt to explain herself.

She turned her head to look at Alu and asked softly, "Alu, do you believe me?"

After a long silence, Alu sighed softly and patted Zhu Xiaohan's shoulder.

"I'm willing to believe that you're not a bad person at heart."

"But now the evidence is irrefutable, and everyone saw it with their own eyes."

"It's no use. It only works if Brother Ping believes in you."

In a single sentence, he revealed the deadlock.

Within the manor, turmoil suddenly arises, misunderstandings become completely locked, and a huge conflict will erupt as soon as Lin Ping returns.

Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains.

A figure in white arrived on the wind, seemingly weak and powerless, with a faint and swaying aura, still maintaining the disguise of being severely depleted of vital essence and blood, weak and tired.

It was Lin Ping who had arrived at this place.

Looking up, the mountain paths of Tianshan were densely packed, and countless martial arts cultivators and scions of noble families were already rushing up the mountain, their figures covering the mountains and fields, all heading towards the deadly trap set by Xiaoyuer.

At the foot of the mountain, only a group of low-level martial artists with weak cultivation, slow reaction, and unable to seize opportunities at the front were left.

When everyone saw Lin Ping appear, they were all stunned for a moment, and then they all revealed a mocking smile.

Among the crowd, Zheng Yan, the young master of the Zheng family in the ancient city, stepped forward and joked with a smile.

"Mr. Lin?"

"You've already reached the pinnacle of martial arts, with a profound foundation that makes you invincible. Why are you also here to join the fun of this divine medicine? Could it be that this thousand-year-old divine medicine can even allow a top expert like you to achieve another breakthrough?"

The surrounding low-level martial artists joined in the laughter and chatter.

"As expected, opportunities are tempting; even Lin Shen couldn't resist the allure of a sudden surge in cultivation!"

Hearing the teasing around him, Lin Ping remained indifferent, his gaze turning slightly cold as he looked at Zheng Yan.

"Where did you hear that there are miraculous medicines in the Tianshan Mountains?"

Zheng Yan casually replied, "It's all over the city! Everyone's saying that a peerless divine medicine has appeared in Tianshan, with no requirements to obtain it; whoever gets it will break through to the next level!"

Zheng Yan abruptly stopped speaking halfway through his sentence.

His smile froze on his face, his pupils contracted slightly, and a chill ran down his spine.

Not right.

Something's really wrong!

If such a peerless divine medicine truly existed, capable of defying fate and instantly boosting cultivation without any barriers, it would undoubtedly be a top-tier secret, something that the major aristocratic families would secretly vie for and keep hidden.

How could it be that the news spread like wildfire throughout the city, and everyone knew about it, with even wandering cultivators and low-level martial artists rushing over to fight for it?

There is no such generous opportunity in the world!

Zheng Yan's face instantly turned pale: "This...this is a trap?"

Lin Ping glanced coldly at the figures climbing the mountain and spoke calmly.

"It's not a trap, it's a deadly scheme."

"The ultimate killing formation set up by Little Fish of the Illuminati used divine medicine as bait to lure all the martial artists in the Southern Frontier to gather at Tianshan Mountain, where they sacrificed a hundred martial arts souls to forcibly activate the earth vein formation."

All the low-level martial artists present turned pale instantly and their bodies stiffened.

They were only concerned with the opportunity and blindly followed the trend, without a shred of doubt from beginning to end!

Zheng Yan's voice trembled: "Then...then all those senior masters on the mountain...won't they all die?"

Lin Ping's eyes flashed with a sharp, piercing light.

On the surface, he still appeared weak and powerless to salvage the situation, but in reality, his inner strength had already been fully accumulating, just waiting for the right opportunity.

"You've come at the perfect time."

"Everyone should join in, so I don't have to search for them one by one."

He had been playing dumb for days, exhausting his illusions and feigning weakness, all in preparation for the moment when Xiaoyuer would unleash all his trump cards and launch a full-scale attack.

Once the enemy's main formation is activated and all its forces are deployed, he can win the battle and completely annihilate the main force of the Illuminati in the southern border region.

But just as Lin Ping was about to take off, intercept the warriors covering the mountain, and reverse the deadly situation—