The improved female villains regained their memories.

The middle-aged man cried out that he was wronged: "Your Honor, you have wronged me! I did not do that. My mother said that there was no point in living and that she wanted to go down to join my father as soon as possible. That's why she didn't take the pills you gave me. I swear to God, it really is like that!"

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The middle-aged man remained silent.

The Great Dao True Mark probed his memories, and he was telling the truth.

Wen Shihan stood in front of his mother-in-law's memorial tablet, looking at it silently.

The family stood trembling outside the door, except for the middle-aged man beside Wen Shihan. He swallowed hard and said, "My lord..."

"Ok?"

“My mother said that we are where we are today entirely thanks to your blessings. Before she died, she specifically instructed me that if you ever return, I must do everything in my power to repay her. So…”

"No need," Wen Shihan interrupted him, and then left the ancestral hall.

Her face was calm as still water, but the darkness in her eyes deepened.

Another person who was good to me has passed away.

peak......

Is this what it means to reach the top?

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normal......

It is normal for people to grow old, get sick, and die.

She's the one who's not normal.

But so what?

She has climbed to the top by any means necessary, and now she will find a way by any means necessary.

Even if it's stained with blood, even if it carries sins.

She wants it all...

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People soon discovered that the supreme immortal had changed.

She was no longer without desires or wants; she transformed from a reclusive ruler who cared about nothing but accepting worship into a blood-stained tyrant.

She ordered the true immortals of all countries and sects to gather at her immortal palace within three days, as she had important matters for them to attend to.

The so-called important matter was the refining of the Ten-Turn Elixir of Immortality.

If Wen Shihan can't solve this problem alone, then he'll force the world to solve it together.

She didn't expect these people to offer any suggestions. The alchemy level in this world was extremely backward. Let alone ten-level pills, even refining one- or two-level pills was difficult.

She brought them here because she wanted them as raw materials for making medicine.

After all the True Immortals entered the main hall, the hall doors slammed shut, and a grand formation descended, enveloping them.

They looked up in horror and saw Wen Shihan standing above them, his eyes icy cold.

They cursed, they pleaded, they rebelled...

No matter what they do, the accumulated darkness remains, quietly going about its business.

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Wen Shihan used a true immortal to refine elixirs.

This news can be kept secret for a while, but not forever.

If there is one person who rebels, soon there will be a second, and a third.

But Wen Shihan possesses absolute power; whoever dares to resist, she will annihilate.

Soon, everyone fell silent.

The crimson inferno gradually expanded, enveloping the entire world from the Immortal Abode.

Black ripples spread, and the deep color turns red.

She pushed open the palace door and saw Yang Pingsheng standing there.

The two looked at each other and saw that they were the only ones in each other's eyes.

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"sister."

Yang Pingsheng asked:

"why?"

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Why.......

Black flames burned fiercely.

Having already figured it out, Wen Shihan was naturally able to answer his question.

Because she didn't want to lose him, and she didn't want to be all alone for those long years.

She didn't want to open her eyes one day to find that the person kissing her wasn't a boy, but the heavy darkness.

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Wen Shihan did not answer and walked past Yang Pingsheng.

But Yang Pingsheng's next words made her stop in her tracks.

"Actually, I understand that my sister's desperate search for the way to immortality is actually for my sake."

Wen Shihan stopped in his tracks.

"My older sister is the most capable person, but she is afraid of being alone."

"My older sister doesn't want me to travel because she's afraid that traveling will attract my attention and reduce the time I spend with her."

"My elder sister made me cultivate diligently because she wanted to prolong my life."

"My sister can't accept my death, she can't accept that she'll be all alone in this world."

"Because my elder sister is an anomaly in this world."

She looked up and saw that familiar face.

"But sister, we can't be together forever."

"It's forever..."

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"...Minor Cold".

"It's impossible for us."

"You are a disciple of an immortal, destined to become one, while I am ultimately just a mortal, and older than you. Think about it... more than sixty years from now, you will still be as beautiful as a flower, while I will have become an old man!"

"Besides, I'm still your older brother. There's no reason for siblings to be together in the world. That's just how it is. Xiaohan, you will become more and more outstanding, and you will meet someone worthy of entrusting your life to. So, don't worry about me. I will take good care of myself."

"Dragons play with dragons, phoenixes play with phoenixes, and mice play with mice. Little Han, what you want, I can't give you, so I won't be a burden to you. You are a dragon and phoenix soaring in the sky, and I am a mortal ant crawling on the ground, but I will bless you."

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Her pupils constricted, and the words from before and the words now echoed each other; she finally understood.

This is the pinnacle.

The two people who once met and got to know each other could never go back to the way things were as one of them slowly climbed higher.

You are a phoenix soaring in the sky, while I am still a mouse crawling on the ground.

Whether it's in the sky or on the ground.

The past is the past. From then on, all feelings vanished like water, leaving nothing behind.

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But......

But that's not how it works.

She was the rat crawling on the ground.

She is a homeless beggar on the street, not the female villain Wen Shihan.

Although they always say that she will become an immortal sooner or later, that she will break through that harsh environment sooner or later, and that she will become a climber who will stop at nothing to reach the top.

But......

But in that alley filled with sewage, during those most desperate days, when she looked up, what she saw was not sunlight, but Yang Pingsheng under the sunlight.

He took her hand.

Why is it that now that it's her turn, she can't hold his hand?

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"...You are the person I love most."

"He is the first and the last person in this world to love me."

"I can endure the loneliness at the top, I can endure the beatings of adversity, I can accept others betraying me, backstabbing me, and trying to kill me for their own benefit."

“I can accept any of these.”

"Because I have never asked for love."

"If you don't crave love, you naturally won't care about hate either."

"But..."

She looked at Yang Pingsheng's puzzled eyes and chuckled softly.

She then reached out, wanting to touch him, but her face was a smile through her tears.

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