Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

"Stop! Stop!"

"Please... there must be a way..."

At that moment, he suddenly thought of—

His eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked like a death row inmate grasping at a straw: "That's it, teacher... teacher, the teacher must be here too, he must have a way..."

"is it?"

I don't think so.

Huang Luo stared coldly at Jiang Yuetian, a smile that wouldn't fade once it appeared on his lips: "Just like that little girl said, people are all ugly and despicable. Even saints and immortals will be briefly immersed in the most despicable, painful, and desperate scene in their hearts when faced with it."

"Although I don't expect this paradise for living beings to confine him for long, for him... hehe, he wants to come here to save people, but he also has to take care of his other disciples. I'm afraid he will have a hard time making a choice, right?"

"On one side there is one person, and on the other side there is a group. In terms of numbers, the other side is also superior."

Huang Luo's mouth stretched to his ears, revealing an especially exaggerated and ferocious smile.

"Human nature is a really interesting thing."

……

The words fell.

Lin Yuan, who was standing in front of Jiang Yuetian, suddenly turned into a pool of dark blood and fell from his arms.

He frantically tried to grab the blood, but once it fell into the darkness, it vanished without a trace. In just a few seconds, all he could see was a tiny bit of black blood remaining in his palm.

The jade hairpin fell to the ground, and seconds later, even the hairpin turned into blood, which then sank into the darkness.

Gazing in the direction where Yuan'er disappeared, Jiang Yuetian's eyes widened, his expression shifting several times, from pain to sorrow, from sorrow to anger, from anger to despair...

In the end, he could only look up to the sky and howl, crying out:

"Yuan'er!!!!!"

……

When its mournful cries reached their peak.

Suddenly, a voice came from the darkness—

"Okay, cut!"

next second.

The night drew back his curtain.

Within the pluralistic space that cannot be described by quantity, a patch of black that blends seamlessly with its surroundings is as if it has been lifted, revealing a pure white space.

The young man in the white shirt walked out of that space, carrying a megaphone in his hand.

He said calmly under the stunned gazes of Huang Luo and Jiang Yuetian.

"Well, the footage we just recorded is now complete. Everyone did a great job. This take was really fantastic. Haha, it's great that we got it right on the first take."

"Thanks to our voice actors too... They really worked so hard, didn't they?"

“Yuan’er”.

……

As the words fell, the petite and adorable girl stood safely beside Yun Ping, her red hair so familiar.

Lin Yuan seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and said, "It's so good that you didn't mispronounce your lines..."

"Right? Yuan'er has the potential to become a famous voice actress. If I ever make a movie or anime in the Desolate Sky Domain, I'll definitely ask Yuan'er to be my voice actress."

"So you mean dubbing? By the way, what are movies and anime?"

"It's a very interesting thing, and who knows, I might come up with something like this in the future—provided I'm interested. Speaking of which, Cloud Sky Cinema sounds pretty classy."

The master and apprentice talked back and forth.

The two of them acted as if it were perfectly natural, but Jiang Yuetian, who had just cried her eyes out, and Huang Luo, who thought she had completed her plan, were filled with horror.

"Eh?"

Jiang Yuetian lowered his head, looking at the blood on his palm, then turned back to look at Lin Yuan, who was jumping around with her eyes curved into crescents. He was momentarily stunned.

“Yuan’er is over there…and…who was that just now…”

"Doll."

The third one to emerge from the dark space—as if they had always been hiding there—had short, snow-white hair and a face as pale as a corpse.

Following Gu Xingzhuo, Ye Yuchan, Zhang Ruoxue, and even Lu Yingqiu also emerged from that void space.

Huang Luo stared at the group from Yuntian Academy in astonishment, his expression full of disbelief.

"What's going on... Shouldn't you be..."

"Should we be trapped in the Paradise of Living Beings?" Ye Yuchan shrugged helplessly and said, "This kind of illusion is indeed very scary, and it starts digging directly from the deepest shadows... If you don't know in advance, you really can't withstand it."

Huang Luo was taken aback: "Ahead of schedule...?"

“Actually, we weren’t pulled into the illusion of Paradise of Living Beings at all—” Lu Yingqiu laughed: “From the very beginning, it was just a few puppets that went in, including when we confronted Zuo He.”

Yun Ping chuckled, then struck an extremely exaggerated pose: "Because there hasn't been any in-depth exchange, Zuo He was probably fooled."

"While I cannot create puppets that can talk and think on their own—that falls within the realm of life creation—I can still create puppets that are [able to speak but not to make a sound, able to move but not to think independently]."

"Because the puppets have no hearts, they will not be affected by the Paradise of Living Beings. Once the puppets have entered the deepest part of the Paradise of Living Beings, we can then exchange spaces with them—this is much simpler than forcibly entering the Paradise of Living Beings."

"Then all you have to do is release the Iris puppet to act with you."

"So--"

He gently placed his hand on Yuan'er's head beside him and rubbed it a couple of times.

The latter showed an expression of enjoyment, but his squinted eyes looked at Huang Luo, a cunning glint in his scarlet eyes.

Yunping's gaze slowly fell on the utterly shocked Huang Luo, and he smiled slightly.

"General, Ghost Lord Jiang Shengxuan."

51. A general is not necessarily about to die.

General.

Sound the horn of impending victory—raise the flag and wave the radiant glow of yearning for glory.

On the chessboard, it was a declaration of victory, a direct assault on the enemy's heart—uttered by Yunping without a single mistake.

The plan was completely foiled, and the entire operation was manipulated from the very beginning; the meticulously crafted scheme was turned against them...

And at this very moment, he was all alone, facing the entire Yuntian Academy.

no doubt.

Jiang Yuetian has been checkmated.

……

Quiet.

A deathly silence.

Beneath the pitch-black curtain lies a void, where fragments of painful, negative memories from the past lie scattered on the ground.

It was windless and rainless, yet more terrifying than a stormy night.

Huang Luo's expression changed several times, with pain, anger, and helplessness appearing on his facial muscles before finally returning to silence.

After another period of silence, he raised his head.

His face was grim and cold, his lips trembled slightly, and he subconsciously clenched his fists tightly as he stared at Yun Ping, who stood confidently with his arms crossed.

The previous shock and anger vanished, replaced by wide-open eyes and a ferocious, maniacal laugh.

"Hahahaha—General, General is in charge..."

He seemed resigned to his fate and asked in a deep voice, "When did you start to suspect? Since you took countermeasures in advance... it means that Huang Luo was suspected, right?"

"Although I really want to say it was at the very beginning—your methods were indeed quite good. At least when I first met Huang Luo, I only felt strange and didn't delve too deeply into it."

Yunping spread his hands, not holding back his praise.

A large part of the reason was that his soul had not fully recovered, so he did not see through Huang Luo's problem hidden deep in his soul at first glance.

However—he wouldn't say such things to Jiang Shengxuan.

Huang Luo narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "So, it was exposed later?"

Yunping nodded in agreement, “The method you used was not pure manipulation. The ‘threads’ needed to manipulate the puppet are easy to see through, so you used a method that can almost be called ‘hint’.”

"We made Huang Luo believe that he needed to come to the Azure Secret Realm with us, rather than simply forcing him to go. We gave him a reason that he could convince himself, and he probably didn't even realize that he was being controlled."

"But after all, it's an implanted idea, not his own will—therefore, in order to change his will, a special reason is needed. His reason is to find the Plain Face Fruit and the Cleansing Water for his beloved Senior Sister Qin."

"However... after all, it's something I made up in my head—"

Yun Ping smiled and narrowed his eyes: "So there's no such thing in the Azure Secret Realm."

Yunping, who once lived in the Azure Secret Realm for a period of time, can be said to know this place very well.

Plain fruit?

That's not something that can be produced in the Azure Secret Realm at all, and besides, this thing disappeared hundreds of years ago during the Heavenly Annihilation Era.

Huang Luo, however, was convinced that something that didn't exist existed within the Azure Secret Realm, which in itself was enough to arouse suspicion.

Huang Luo took a deep breath. "Could it be that he misremembered? That's possible too."

That's right.

The one who answered was Ye Yuchan.

The silver-haired maid brushed a strand of hair from her temple with her right hand and smiled, "It's just a suspicious spot, and secondly... he was too resolute."

"Even after witnessing places like the Death Grounds of Wraiths, he still didn't give up on going to the Azure Secret Realm. If Qin Shishi and he really do have a close relationship, maybe it's understandable."

Yuan'er nodded and continued Ye Yuchan's words: "But Huang Luo only came to the Qin Sect not long ago."

"Spending two months risking my life to explore the Azure Secret Realm for someone who doesn't even acknowledge me and with whom I have a very shallow relationship."