The improved female villains regained their memories.

"what!!"

A heart-wrenching scream came from the projection. Flesh and blood were torn apart, and the screams echoed throughout the projection. Song Panning was immediately enraged and grabbed Lin Wanjun by the collar.

"Lin Wanjun!!!"

"Oh dear, be careful, be careful!" Lin Wanjun hurriedly raised her hand, saying with a playful smile, "If you hurt me, the formation over there will activate, and who knows who will lose an arm next? Let me think, is it your father, your mother, or your friend Ling Shuxin again? Or perhaps..."

"Yang Pingsheng?"

Song Panning's body trembled, but then she spoke with a gloomy face: "Lin Wanjun, although Yang Pingsheng is my follower, he is, in the end, your fiancé and your lover. How dare you threaten me with him? Have you lost your mind?"

"Hehehehehe." Lin Wanjun let out a strange laugh. "Song Panning, stop deceiving yourself. Even a fool knows that Yang Pingsheng loves you. Hehehehe, do you think you're popular? You're stubborn, self-righteous, controlling, and look down on others. You're a complete troublemaker. Your personality is absolutely terrible. But Yang Pingsheng is the only one who hasn't complained and has always silently stayed by your side. My fiancé? Ha, don't be ridiculous. You care about him too, don't you!?"

Song Panning was stunned, and the strength in her hand loosened slightly.

Lin Wanjun looked at Song Panning with amusement. She must be crazy to treat someone like this as her nightmare.

"It seems you still don't understand."

Lin Wanjun chuckled.

"You've already fallen in love with him, haven't you realized?"

like……

Something drifted into Song Panning's heart, carrying ancient memories, washing over her soul like a storm.

As the past unfolds, the little things in life, already ingrained in our bones, become tightly intertwined and inseparable.

The mountain city wasn't large, and most of the children from the temple faction stayed in one place with little entertainment. But for Song Panning, being with him was the best form of entertainment.

She loved watching him sleep in class, loved him sitting across from her at the dinner table, eating while listening to her rambling, loved how he always silently followed behind her no matter what, loved how he held her hand as they walked along the back path of the college, loved every word he said, loved his breathing, loved the stars in his eyes.

Those things we like are hidden in our daily lives, little by little, they gather into a vast ocean.

"You've already fallen in love with him, haven't you realized?"

As the words came, Song Panning looked back in confusion, gazing at her past self in her memories.

At that moment, she looked at Yang Pingsheng, who was fast asleep on his desk, and chuckled to herself as she poked his cheek with her finger.

She looked at herself then, at the way she looked into Yang Pingsheng's eyes. Those eyes held endless stars, each one an unspeakable love.

She loves him.

Long ago, in childhood, in everyday life.

That was probably when she fell in love with him.

Chapter 255 Taking Everything From Her

Love is a very mysterious thing.

It comes and goes quietly, bringing you both unparalleled pleasure and boundless terror.

In love, you are filled with self-exploration and introspection; all the storms and waves belong to you and have nothing to do with others.

No one can understand this except yourself.

Judging from her expression, she probably hasn't realized she's fallen in love with Yang Pingsheng yet. How pathetic!

Lin Wanjun looked at the stunned Song Panning with a disdainful smile.

In her past life, Song Panning was mysterious, powerful, terrifying, and adept at disguise. Blood-red skies were her backdrop, ruins were her stage, and abandoned corpses were her audience. Back then, she was someone Lin Wanjun could only look up to. She brought Lin Wanjun boundless fear and was her eternal nightmare.

The current Song Panning is easily swayed, easily provoked, and has lost the strategic mind she had in her past life. Most ridiculously, she has become a complete love-obsessed person.

It's pathetic and lamentable that Song Panning is no longer Lin Wanjun's nightmare.

"Let go."

Lin Wanjun tilted her head back, looking at her with a flippant gaze: "Perhaps, we can have a proper talk."

"..."

Anger, confusion, and inner turmoil were among the complex emotions that appeared in Song Panning's eyes. Lin Wanjun saw them clearly and became even more confident in Song Panning's abilities.

Wise people don't fall in love. Song Panning is already lost in the labyrinth of love, and it's no longer a threat to her.

No, there is still a threat. The formation set up by Song Panning is a threat to her.

The formation in the mountain city was incomplete, but the one in the Goddess Palace was not. Who knows what methods Song Panning had set up inside all this time? If things go wrong, I might lose everything.

Thinking of the instructions on the mysterious scroll, Lin Wanjun calmed herself down a bit and said in as gentle a tone as possible, "Song Panning, you see, there is no hatred between us. Du Wanli should have conveyed my meaning, right? You are the successor of the Song family and the current Goddess. As long as you are willing to remove the great formation and give up the Goddess Hall, you will remain who you are. I will not touch you in the slightest. How about it?"

Song Panning had already realized what was happening, and looked up at her with icy eyes.

"You just cut off Ling Shuxin's arm, and now you say we have no grudge?" Song Panning said through gritted teeth. "You've been hiding for years, and now you're suddenly making your move. Your intentions are far-reaching. How can I believe you?"

"Hehehe, Ling Shuxin is a cultivator and the eldest daughter of the Ling family. Losing an arm is better than losing her life. If I didn't do this, how could I show you my determination? Otherwise, you would think I was joking with you." Lin Wanjun chuckled. She would never admit that the stab was her way of settling a personal score and repaying the humiliation Ling Shuxin had caused her in her previous life.

"You're just spouting nonsense. You clearly have the heart of a wolf. You're far from making me back down and admit defeat."

After Song Panning finished speaking, she got up to leave, but as soon as she stood up, Lin Wanjun said calmly, "Three days."

She turned to look at her: "What?"

"I'll wait for you for three days. If you don't withdraw and admit defeat within three days, I'll kill them."

"Lin Wanjun, if you dare to touch them, I, Song Panning, swear that even if it costs me my life, I will kill you."

"Fine." Lin Wanjun spread her hands. "I'm sitting right here now. Go ahead and kill me if you dare."

More than a dozen immortal auras appeared around the formation. At the same time, the formation was operating at high speed. Once Song Panning made a move, she would be suppressed without hesitation.

“Song Panning, you need to understand the situation. If I didn’t value you, I could have killed you instantly and searched your soul the moment you stepped into my formation. If you were dead, I could have slowly dismantled those formations myself.”

"Can you untangle it?" Song Panning looked at her, then regained her composure. "Lin Wanjun, stop with the high-sounding words. You've been talking about cutting off arms and making deals, but frankly, you don't understand the essence of my formation. You don't know the connection between the formation of my Goddess Palace and the formation of the entire mountain city. Am I right?"

Song Panning was right.

The formation in the mountain city was indeed incomplete. However, after this incident, Song Panning constructed a new formation in the Goddess Hall. This new formation actually resonated with the formation in the mountain city. Lin Wanjun was always eager to learn about formations, and even she couldn't decipher such a profound mystery.

Activating a formation is as simple as thinking about it. Besides, some formations, even if activated without thinking, can cause trouble by setting a time limit and having backup plans.

Song Panning dared to come alone, which must mean she had a backup plan.

Lin Wanjun frowned. In her heart, she really wanted to take this opportunity to kill Song Panning. Firstly, Song Panning was her enemy, and secondly, she had already offended Song Panning, so there was no need to keep her alive. However, the scroll's instructions prevented her from killing Song Panning at this time, so she had no choice but to give up.

The situation was about to change. As long as Song Panning was willing to surrender, her life and death would be entirely in his hands.

"You're right, but you don't have a choice. In short, I'm putting it this way: three days from now, it'll be your turn to choose."

After Lin Wanjun finished speaking, she made a gesture as if to see the guest out.

Song Panning flew away on her sword without saying a word.

As the sun sets and the gloom gradually rises, the evening breeze blows through Song Panning's hair, as if gently caressing her lover.

She returned to the Goddess Palace, where the aloof and noble goddess seemed to be on the verge of collapse.

"Miss……"

Leng Yan walked out, clutching his wound, and looked at her.

"...Why did you come out?"

"I'm waiting for you, Miss."

"Xiaoyan..."

Her long, ink-black hair fell rapidly with her body, collapsing to the ground. Her pure white dress was stained with filth. Song Panning clutched her chest and sat on the ground.

"Miss!!"

Leng Yan hurriedly walked over, wanting to help her up, but she refused. At the boundary between darkness and light, the blood-red twilight light entered the hall. Song Panning looked up slightly and saw many things.

She saw scenes of hunting with her father, scenes of her mother teaching her to dance, scenes of the school with the sound of reading aloud, scenes of the forest rustling in the mountain wind, scenes of the gloomy path, and scenes of the jade-like young man.

"Xiaoyan, I can't hold on any longer."

"Miss……"

"Let's surrender."

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The Lin Family Compound.

The scene of the Goddess Palace was played out in its entirety before Lin Wanjun. Only when Song Panning said those words to Leng Yan did Lin Wanjun finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"Love numbs people and makes them lose their will. Song Panning is no longer the Song Panning of her past life. She has lost her strength, and it is only natural for her to surrender. After all, from her perspective, I have no blood feud with her and there is no reason for me to persecute her."

Temple politics has its own rules.

The position of goddess is rotated, but no matter who it is, everyone will leave some bottom line and will not go to the point of killing each other. Lin Wanjun speculated that Song Panning's thinking should still be stuck at this point. After all, in her perspective, she is still a goddess, and even if the temple's controller dies, Lin Wanjun does not necessarily have to kill her.

"It's a pity," Lin Wanjun said with her hands behind her back, looking at the stars in the sky and sneering, "I have to kill her."

She was reborn, and while power was important, revenge was undoubtedly her top priority.

After a short while, the image gradually disappeared, and Lin Jinxuan came out from behind. She lowered her head, not daring to look up at Lin Wanjun, and said in a suppressed voice, "Sister, I have completed what you asked me to do."

"Hmph, you're not bad. If it weren't for your strong management skills, and the fact that you didn't inform me immediately that the spy was on the roof, I would have taken your will as well," Lin Wanjun glanced at her and said coldly.

Lin Jinxuan was timid and hesitant, keeping her head down and not daring to speak. Lin Wanjun was annoyed by this and waved her away.

Now, Lin Wanjun has controlled all the clan leaders, and through these clan leaders, she indirectly controls the temple's power. Song Panning may have her own trump cards, but under these circumstances, it will be difficult for her to cause any trouble.

“…Song Panning has surrendered, but I no longer have an excuse to kill her. Should I use the Soul-Seizing Array to seize her will? No, this girl is determined to surrender, but she will probably keep some tricks up her sleeve to protect herself and her family. I have to think of another way.”

She re-entered the dark room, and ever since she had been following the scroll's guidance and things had gone smoothly, she had grown to like the place more and more.

The scroll was reopened, but unlike the previous prompts, this time the scroll emitted a dazzling light, and suddenly, a remnant soul reappeared.

"Lin Wanjun, we meet again."

"you……"

Lin Wanjun's pupils suddenly contracted: "You're that mysterious person!"

Unbelievable! The mysterious man's soul was reborn along with the scroll. No wonder the text could be displayed depending on the situation; this guy had never left at all.

Seeing Lin Wanjun's shocked expression, the remnant soul didn't care at all. It could only appear for a short time, so it had to hurry up and get down to business.

"You want to take revenge on Song Panning and wish she were dead, but let me tell you, if you kill her, it will attract the attention of the heavens. You should think carefully about whether it is worth it to kill her and risk everything."