The improved female villains regained their memories.

"I'm sorry, young master, I've caused you trouble."

Yang Pingsheng held her in his arms, inhaling her fragrance, his eyes lowered.

"It's okay, as long as he's still alive."

If you lose your house, no matter if you're a true immortal or a celestial being, you'll have to sleep on the streets.

Fortunately, Xu Anlu stepped forward.

She purchased many properties in the capital, one of which was originally intended as a base for training her subordinates. It was quite large, located near a commercial street, and even bigger than Yang Pingsheng's residence.

She offered this place to Yang Pingsheng so he could settle down and live there.

Whether she had ulterior motives is hard to say, but at least this action was what Yang Pingsheng needed at the moment. Yang Pingsheng originally wanted to thank her, until he discovered that there was a secret passage in his room leading to the outside world.

That's it.

The silvery moonlight softly reflected in the pond, and the flowers and plants in the yard were gently caressed by the evening breeze, releasing a burst of fragrance. At dinner, Yang Pingsheng told Wen Shihan, Luo Benmo, and Xu Anlu, who had come to freeload, that he had some things to do that night and should not be disturbed.

All three nodded in agreement, but what they actually thought was anyone's guess. Xiaoyu remained silent, eating and drinking as usual.

After dinner, Yang Pingsheng went into his study, locked the door, and instead of lighting candles, set up a warning array.

The black cat, hanging upside down from the roof beam, managed a weak smile.

"That, that, in my life..."

"Ah."

"We're friends, right?"

What do you think?

"Hahaha, look, after going through so much, we're practically comrades-in-arms, if not friends. Um, what are you doing with that whip? Wait, wait! No way!!!"

A lesson learned.

After a long while, the black cat, which had been untied and laid down, lay on the ground, its eyes lifeless: "I'm just a cat..."

Yang Pingsheng kicked it: "Stop pretending to be dead."

"Life has lost its meaning for me."

"I'm going to use you to wipe my butt."

"But in other words, it's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death. Oh, my beloved life, what can I do for you?"

Its eerie green pupils shimmered, and the black cat blinked as it darted into Yang Pingsheng's arms, snuggling affectionately. Ignoring its attempts to please, Yang Pingsheng grabbed it by the neck and lifted it up.

Do you remember what you told me?

"Which sentence are you referring to?"

"The net of Heaven is vast, its meshes are wide, yet nothing escapes it."

“Yes, yes,” the black cat muttered, “Indeed, that’s really how it is…”

The words are the original quote from the book, not what it said.

"What's wrong with Xu Anlu? Didn't you say that if we fully implemented the Heavenly Dao's plan, there was no way she could have escaped?"

"Ah...uh...meow?"

"You big-headed devil!"

The black cat, relying on its feline identity, attempted to slip through the cracks, but Yang Pingsheng ruthlessly interrupted it.

Do you know a hundred ways to cook cat meat?

"No to that kind of thing!!"

It howled, and finally, under Yang Pingsheng's increasingly dangerous gaze, it weakly mumbled, "I... I don't know either. At that time, it was indeed following the plan of Heaven."

"So? You didn't even know that someone else had been replaced later!"

"That Heavenly Dao didn't tell me either, I was just guessing!"

"You didn't notice Xu Anlu was switched at birth because you were just guessing before, right!?"

"No, don't be so fierce." The black cat forced a smile. "I'm here to help you save things, aren't I?"

"You didn't help at all!!"

"Because there's no energy left..." the black cat sighed helplessly. "Explaining things like the Heavenly Dao and the formation of energy is complicated. It's not that I don't want to talk about it, but..."

It shut its mouth, the meaning of which was self-evident.

Do you know how Xu Anlu got here?

“Hmm…” The black cat remained silent for a while before speaking, “The world where Xu Anlu lives is just a small garden, and Xu Anlu is the flower in that garden. Logically speaking, no matter what, the flower cannot break free from the garden’s constraints.”

"But Xu Anlu did it."

"I don't know exactly how she did it, but her current method is like someone picking a flower from one garden and transplanting it to another garden. But this kind of transplantation is not transplanting it into the soil; it's cutting off half of a flower from this garden and then grafting it on."

Yang Pingsheng frowned slightly: "Is this even possible?"

"I can't do it, so I don't know how Xu Anlu did it. Besides, I can tell from her mental state that she's not doing well. She has a strange dependence on you, and I don't know why that dependence formed."

“You might think that’s the way of Heaven,” the black cat said, looking at him. “But I can tell you definitively that it isn’t.”

Heaven is impartial; matters of love and affection do not originate from Heaven.

Wen Shihan, Luo Benmo, and now Xu Anlu—their feelings for Yang Pingsheng are a bit too strong. Judging from the outcome, this is not the way of Heaven.

There is a mastermind behind it all, manipulating everything.

“Pingsheng, do you remember what I told you?” the black cat said seriously, “Even if the female villain breaks free from the world’s will, she will not be able to find you.”

"Someone is helping them find you."

Who is that person?

What is his purpose?

How much does he know, and why is he doing this?

Yang Pingsheng looked out the window and lowered his eyes.

The night seemed to grow even deeper.

Chapter 120 Shameless Person

Wen Shihan once told Yang Pingsheng about a mysterious person.

She was able to find her thanks to that mysterious person.

Yang Pingsheng was in turmoil. In the darkness, he looked at the black cat and vaguely felt that its green vertical pupils were staring at him. Upon closer inspection, he found that it was licking its fur.

"The Heavenly Dao defines Xu Anlu as a two-faced emperor, isn't that right?"

That's right.

"Since he's a two-faced emperor, that includes Xu Anyin, right?"

"Hmm...that's how it is."

“Xu Anyin…” Yang Pingsheng paused for a moment, then said, “He has no intention of contacting me.”

"Huh? How do you say that?"

"So... never mind."

Yang Pingsheng continued to ponder, but the system might not believe him, so he didn't intend to reveal his guess for the time being.

He wanted to ask something else, so he continued, following up on what the system had said earlier: "You just said that Xu Anlu is like a flower in a garden, and that she has been taken to another flower. What will happen to her original garden?"

"It's hard to say; it depends on whether the world's will has collapsed."

"Did it crash?"

"The world is destroyed."

"It didn't crash?"

"That……"

The system thought for a moment and said, "Then there's a high probability that a new villain will appear."

Where there is good, there must be evil.

The end of one story foreshadows the beginning of the next. The world goes on and on, history passes by in a hurry, but the fundamental law never changes.

“Even without Xu Anlu, there would be Liu Anlu, Wang Anlu, and the definition would still be a two-faced emperor,” the black cat said. “As long as people exist, humanity will not disappear, which is why the Way of Heaven advocates change, not erasure.”

"But now..."

"The current situation...sigh, I don't know what's going on either."

The system no longer mentions the Heavenly Dao.

The Heavenly Dao seems to have encountered some trouble, and the system is out of energy; the current situation is beyond its ability to resolve.

"We can only take it one step at a time."

If the will of the world still exists, even if the female villain leaves, a new female villain will be born, and the evolution of the will of the world will not stop.

But what if the world's will collapses...?

"In other words, if these female villains don't manage to subdue the world's will before they leave, those worlds will actually continue to operate. Even if they leave, it won't matter, because the world's will will cultivate new female villains," Yang Pingsheng summarized softly.

“That’s how it is, but… I don’t think it’s possible. The world’s will won’t let them leave. Their departure would mean the world’s will has been destroyed.” The black cat nestled in Yang Pingsheng’s arms, wagging its tail. “So, let’s forget about those things and think about how to solve this. It’s getting late, Tian Tian, ​​why don’t you get some rest?”

Yang Pingsheng did not reply.

After a moment of silence, his voice finally broke through the darkness: "Xu Anlu won't be the last, will she?"

Even a fool wouldn't think it's a coincidence if he got hit by a car three times in a row.

Of the nine worlds he was tasked with, aside from the first two, he followed the system's instructions step by step in the subsequent worlds. He was supposed to spend the rest of his life in the Valley of Immortals and eventually die in a place no one knew.

But now, not long after he retired, Wen Shihan, Luo Benmo, and Xu Anlu have been coming to him one after another.

A conspiracy has ensnared him, but he is unable to see through it.

Those ancient memories kept replaying in his mind, and the scenes from the past irritated him, revealing not his achievements, but his crimes.