The improved female villains regained their memories.

It has many uses; it can seize another's mind, invade another's mind with its own will, or even exchange souls with another.

The value of this formation is absolutely immeasurable.

Leaving aside this world, once it spreads to the main world, it will surely shock the Heavenly Guardian Sect, change the entire cultivation landscape, and countless immortals will go crazy to study and research this formation.

The fact that more and more immortals are studying it means that the era when true immortals crushed celestial immortals is completely over.

Why?

Once you step into the Spirit-Seizing Array, the array can perform different functions according to the will of the person who set it up. Note that it only requires following the will.

In other words, if the person who sets up the formation has a strong enough will, it can even influence a true immortal!

Imagine this: you've spent hundreds or thousands of years, squandered countless resources, and finally ascended to the level of a True Immortal, condensing the traces of the Great Dao and comprehending the truth. However, a mere Earth Immortal directly swaps bodies with you. Your reputation, cultivation, and body, accumulated over the years, no longer belong to you. Your soul enters an unknown body. How terrifying would that be?

Of course, this situation is rare. After all, people who can cultivate to the level of a true immortal have strong wills that are not easily broken. Ordinary people simply cannot seize the will of a true immortal. But who is the person standing in front of Song Panning? It is her ancestor, Song Qihao, who is an awakened person who defies orders.

“I am a dead man, but before I died, I implanted part of my will into the ruler of the temple.”

"This guy is shrewd and calculating, but he is extremely afraid of death. On the one hand, he carries out the orders of the main world, and on the other hand, he is trying to maintain his lifespan and prevent his body from collapsing. This gave me an opportunity to take advantage of him."

“A thousand years of planning is too far in the past. The things that were planned are not enough. I also need a part of my will to take control at the critical moment.”

“Your name is Song Panning, right? Although you didn’t follow the steps I deduced, you’ve already come this far, so those plans are useless now. The body of the temple’s controller is the key to unlocking the world’s origin. The switch is located in the temple. After I commit suicide, you can use my body as a sacrifice to draw out the world’s origin.”

As Song Qihao spoke, he glanced at Leng Yan, who looked somewhat lost beside him: "If I'm not mistaken, you are a descendant of the Leng family, and you must have received an inheritance, right?"

"Yes, it is!"

"Did you bring it?"

"Uh-huh!"

Leng Yan took out a piece of green jade from her pocket. As soon as she took it out, the jade emitted a huge light.

Rumble!

The walls of the cave suddenly changed the terrain, extending into a secret passage. However, this passage seemed impassable, as it was filled with spiritual and demonic energy. A demonic beast egg was "spit out" and gently fell into the pit, carried by these currents of energy.

It slowly fell, eventually landing in front of Qingtian's corpse. This scene, ironically, was filled with an aura of holiness.

Song Panning was shocked: "This is..."

"Do you think your ancestor didn't prepare anything? Did you really just obediently wait to die in your old age?" Song Qihao laughed loudly. "In my old age, I did many things. First, I set up a formation within a formation, setting up many special mechanisms on the mountain city formation. Second, taking advantage of the old codger's unpreparedness, I planted my will in him, which is what I look like now. Third, I transferred the power of Qingtian's origin, allowing her to be reborn."

“You…” Song Panning couldn’t speak for a long time before finally managing to squeeze out a single word: “You saw the light of day in your later years.”

"Otherwise, why do you think I chose to settle down by that cliff in my old age? Never mind, you haven't found it, so there's no point in talking to you anymore."

"This junior did not attain the position of goddess, therefore..."

"Alright, alright, I set up those arrangements according to the calculations. I don't know why you didn't go that way. Maybe I miscalculated. Come on, look over here."

Song Qihao channeled spiritual energy, and the snake egg immediately burst forth with spiritual light. At the same time, the demonic energy and spiritual energy spreading around were all absorbed by the snake egg, and Qingtian's original corpse aged completely, turning into a pile of white bones.

"The reincarnation of Qingtian is here. If you go to the main world, it will surely be able to help you."

"Yes, ancestor."

Song Panning respectfully accepted the snake egg. Song Qihao looked at the snake egg with obvious reluctance in his eyes, but considering the important matter, he couldn't care less about that: "Heaven's will no longer bless Qingtian. The reincarnated her is no longer the female villain. You are my descendant, so you must take good care of her for me."

"I will remember this."

“Alright, I’ll tell you the locations of the things I left for you now, then I’ll commit suicide. You take those things, and then use my corpse to connect to the temple’s array core, draw out the world’s will, and destroy it with the mountain city array.”

Just as Song Qihao was about to make a move, Song Panning stopped him, saying, "Please wait a moment."

"what happened?"

"If I'm not mistaken, I'm the villain, right?"

"Yes."

"In that case," Song Panning asked, "Where is the human chess piece?"

Song Qihao immediately stopped, his brows furrowed.

Even he overlooked this point: there must be human pawns to stop the villains. If Song Panning is the villain, then who is the chosen human pawn?

"Hmph, you're quite clever to have thought of that."

A person's voice came from the cave entrance.

"who!?"

Song Qihao turned around abruptly, only to see the person who had come from the cave entrance walking over unhurriedly. Who else could it be but the mysterious person hidden in the hood?

"It's you!" Song Qihao's cold voice rang out. "Visitor from another world, do you really want to die?"

"Tsk, don't treat me like that, Song Qihao. You really have some ability. I never expected that the Temple Controller would be taken over by your residual consciousness. Even if you can't hold on for long, just for this endurance, you deserve the title of a hero."

The mysterious man sighed and walked forward.

He hadn't expected that the Temple Controller, who was clearly a lackey of the main world, would have gone to such lengths to kill Du Wanli, only to find out that Song Qihao had actually raided his base. This was truly beyond his expectations.

There are so many heroes in the world! So what if some people aren't protagonists or villains? Song Qihao, playing chess alone, has actually achieved this level. How can we not say that there are always people more capable than us, and that there's always something beyond our understanding...?

Having orchestrated this scheme for a millennium, using future generations as pawns and the mountain city as the chessboard, leaving behind numerous contingency plans, controlling the chosen henchmen of the main world, and then decisively killing the protagonist at a crucial moment, the mysterious figure, an outsider, was shocked simply by hearing about it.

When he gave Leng Yanran the brocade pouch, it was based on the trajectory of those people's plan. His original intention was just a casual move to see how far Song Qihao would go after knowing his identity. He never expected that Song Qihao would actually transcend time and space and orchestrate the plan to this day.

The mysterious man possesses time-space-related killing moves, so he doesn't care about time. Song Qihao, on the other hand, doesn't. Most of the time, he can only wait patiently, which requires extremely high foresight and patience.

That's why the mysterious person sighed, if Song Qihao were to enter the main world and attack the Guardian Heaven Sect, the future scene would surely be even more exciting.

It's a pity that Song Qihao was ultimately a historical figure who had been dead for many years. What now controls the temple is merely his lingering resentment.

As the mysterious figure approached, Song Qihao quickly shielded Song Panning and Leng Yan, and said coldly to the mysterious figure, "Visitor from another world, I have no intention of inquiring about your purpose. If I could, I wouldn't even want to start a war with you."

"You say that, but you're just using a fake body to fight me. What's wrong with you two, grandfather and grandson? Do you like using fake bodies so much?" The mysterious man curled his lip in disdain. "Don't worry, Song Qihao. The reason I fought you before was because I thought you were the temple's controller. But now that I see it's you, I naturally won't fight you anymore. Not only will I not fight you, I'll even help you."

At this point, he changed the subject: "Back then, the brocade pouch you received was actually given to your wife by me."

"It's you!" Song Qihao exclaimed in surprise. "So that's how it is. I guessed that someone was orchestrating this, but I didn't expect the orchestrator to be an extraterrestrial. Who are you? What is your purpose in telling me all this?"

“You don’t need to worry about that. All you need to know is that you are in deep trouble.” The mysterious man said, his tone becoming serious: “The will of the world has discovered what you’ve done, and it’s coming to destroy you.”

"What? Why is that?"

“Song Panning didn’t come in through the entrance. Instead, she broke the formation and entered through its weakest point,” the mysterious man explained. “It’s true that you, Song Qihao, designed this formation, but don’t forget that the temple’s controller is backed by the main world. The entire formation is filled with a lot of human will. Once it’s broken, the main world will receive the message and then control the world’s will.”

"You've painstakingly planned and schemed for many years, which is indeed impressive, but no matter how impressive you are, you can't beat the main world. How many years has the temple's controller lived? Don't you think that even if your actions can fool him, how can they fool the eyes of the main world?"

“This…” Song Qihao hesitated, “Even if you say so, what do they want? Song Panning is the villain. If she dies, fate will surely shine upon others.”

“That’s true, but we also need to consider the danger assessment. If the World Will determines that the villains in this world have already threatened it, then it would rather kill the villains outright. At worst, the new villains can be carefully planned.” The mysterious man spread his hands and said, “The World Will is basically a program set up by the Heavenly Guardian Sect, specifically for assessing suppression. Ugh, you wouldn’t understand even if I explained it to you. In short, you two are in big trouble now.”

The grandfather and grandson exchanged a glance, and finally, Song Qihao asked, "Isn't it better that it's here? It saves me the trouble of luring it out. I can then work with my descendants to destroy the will of this world."

The mysterious man almost rolled his eyes, and explained helplessly, "What are you going to use to kill it? Your formation? Or your incomplete Immortal Slaughtering Formation? You've already deduced it yourself. To destroy the world's will, you have to upgrade your Immortal Slaughtering Formation. Song Panning's talent is just right to make up for this deficiency, so you've kept it until now, haven't you? You just didn't expect that Song Panning didn't even bother to take it."

Song Qihao looked at Song Panning, who could only continue to explain with the same reason as before: "I didn't manage to snatch the position of Goddess..."

She really had no choice. Du Wanli had already intervened and was desperately trying to stop her. What could she do?

“Oh, right, there’s one more thing,” the mysterious man said. “Du Wanli isn’t dead. You killed him, which alerted him. He’s probably already contacting people in the main world.”

"Impossible!" Song Qihao shook his head violently. "I killed him with one blow, and I repeatedly confirmed that he was dead. How could he not be dead?"

"Your methods are indeed ingenious, because the mountain city itself is a grand formation, and you are the creator of that formation. You used the power of the formation to kill him, so theoretically, it should have been foolproof." The mysterious man said, but as he said this, his sigh deepened.

"Because the person who died wasn't Du Wanli at all..."

Du Wanli, a true old dog, somehow managed to gather a bunch of people to work for him.

From the time she became famous until now, she has always been Du Wanli's double. Du Wanli himself stays behind the scenes, using immortal techniques to build a psychological link with his double and teach her how to act.

This guy has never appeared on screen.

“Du Wanli possesses the immortal killing move [Thousand Faces], and no one knows what his true appearance is,” the mysterious man said. “I think that Du Wanli has already transformed into the appearance that everyone has seen before and has run back to find Lin Wanjun.”

"Damn it." Song Qihao couldn't help but swear.

He was familiar with the villainous protagonist and controlled the entire mountain city, so he naturally paid extra attention. However, he was a remnant of the past and couldn't keep an eye on things all the time. Therefore, no one knew what Du Wanli looked like when he was born or when he became connected with the main world.

The protagonist is the protagonist; even if he doesn't have the extraordinary talent of a villain, he still has some skills.

"There is only one way forward now."

The mysterious man said:

"I have a powerful immortal technique called [Reversal of Time], which allows one to travel through time and live a second life. However, because it reverses time, the events that occurred on that timeline will not exist. Since they will not exist, there will be no memory of them."

“But! If we add your Soul-Seizing Array, it will be different.” The mysterious man said, “The Soul-Seizing Array can seize other people’s consciousness. If it is combined with my Reverse Current of the Cosmic Water killing move, it may be able to unfold the timeline and seize the will of one’s past self. In this way, one can achieve the goal of being reborn and retaining memories.”

"With my current abilities, even with the best coordination with the Soul-Seizing Array, I can only send back one person's will. So you should discuss whose will it would be better to send back."

Chapter 267 A Resolute Heart

The mysterious man left his words brief and then said nothing more.

Boom!

Just then, a muffled rumble of thunder suddenly sounded in the sky outside, and the entire cave shook precariously, as if something had been provoked and was awakening.

“Song Qihao, the world’s will has already noticed your attempt to kill the protagonist of this world,” the mysterious man urged. “Make up your mind quickly, or the world’s will will kill you immediately.”

Song Qihao fell silent.

He had planned for a thousand years, but he never expected that a moment of carelessness would lead him to such a desperate situation.

He has faced countless desperate situations, but he has never yielded. When the Divine Sect demanded that he hand over the Heavenly Mandate, he married into the Zhang family. When Heaven gave him the identity of a chess piece, he plotted for a thousand years, attempting to fight back.

Even now, his eyes remain resolute.

[Desperate situations may defeat a cowardly warrior, but they cannot break a resolute commoner.] The distorted face on the chest suddenly opened its eyes, and the fierce aura it exuded made even the mysterious man retreat repeatedly.

Song Panning was slightly taken aback: "Ancestor, you..."

"No need to say more, I've already thought it through. Since we can only send one person back, it's undoubtedly best for you to go back. Perhaps I understand the meaning behind those arrangements; they weren't prepared for you right now." Song Qihao spoke quickly. "Listen, I'll tell you the core application of the Mountain City Grand Array, the Spirit-Seizing Array, and the locations of the things left for you."

He spoke extremely quickly, without concealing the fact that the mysterious person was right there, transmitting energy through his hands, transferring the core application of the Mountain City Grand Array and the Soul-Seizing Array to her.

"Listen, you need the structure of the mountain city formation, and the things I left you..."

However, before he could finish speaking, a terrifying aura came from above.