The improved female villains regained their memories.

"This is just how things appear. Don't you feel that the world is getting increasingly strange lately?"

Chen Ziyun scratched her head: "When you put it that way, you are right."

Li Tianfei's eyes lit up, and he asked, "You felt it too?"

Chen Ziyun nodded, raised a finger, and said seriously, "For example, you don't just peep into the women's bathhouse. Recently, I've discovered that you're not only peeping into the men's bathhouse either. Not only that, but you seem to have your legend and presence in all sorts of shady places, such as restaurants, changing rooms, and brothels. If you want me to point out something wrong, then I can only say that you're getting more and more perverted."

Li Tianfei rolled his eyes.

The better the weapon refiner, the more perverse their mind becomes. They will always have some inexplicable hobbies. On the one hand, they urgently need to express the frustration of weapon refining, and on the other hand, they also want to find new inspiration in these great stimuli.

Despite Chen Ziyun's righteous words, Li Tianfei knew that his wife was Lin Xueyao. The two got together because Lin Xueyao thought this dwarf looked like a cute boy. Later, she got tired of him and started going door to door under the guise of being a wet nurse or helping to take care of children, "borrowing" children. At first, they were ten or eleven years old, but later they got younger and younger, eight years old, six years old, five years old, three years old... Li Tianfei suspected that if Lin Xueyao became any more perverted, she would probably move the weapon-refining room into the delivery room.

Needless to say, Chen Ziyun himself has never eaten a meal cooked by his own wife since he got together with Lin Xueyao. He steals food from beggars every day. This couple is a pair of perverts opening the door for a pervert—perverts to the extreme.

Of course, Zhang Yijian, who was practicing below, wasn't a good person either. Just like his name suggests, this guy was truly despicable. Others might not know, but these renowned weapon refiners knew that this broken sword formation wasn't meant to prevent others from challenging them at all; it was purely something Zhang Yijian used to torture himself. Li Tianfei once visited this guy and discovered that he had linked a celestial array to create a "Self-Torture Comfort Type 5" chair, covered in torture devices that Li Tianfei couldn't understand. Most importantly, this thing was actually a seventh-grade magic artifact. He wasted his useless inspiration on creating these junks. Li Tianfei frowned at the sight, and Zhang Yijian even invited him to experience it for himself, which made Li Tianfei take his leave on the spot, and he never visited alone again.

Li Tianfei glanced at Chen Ziyun one last time, thinking to himself that they were all perverts, but he was much better. At least he didn't play as many tricks. These people either tormented him or others. In comparison, he was just a voyeur, which was much better.

Zhang Yijian still needed to torture himself for a while. At this time, Li Tianfei was too lazy to communicate with Chen Ziyun. This little brat never said anything serious. He would wait until everyone was gathered together before talking to her.

So he simply sat on the tip of the bamboo, spread his hands, and revealed a magical artifact.

The ritual implement resembles a miniature window model, with a small vortex of spiritual energy in the very center.

Li Tianfei channeled his spiritual energy into his breathing, and unconsciously, his breathing became heavy.

Curious, Chen Ziyun immediately climbed onto Li Tianfei's shoulders. Watching this mysterious scene, she exclaimed, "Huh? You old man, when did you become interested in such mysterious magical artifacts?"

Li Tianfei chuckled, unconcerned about Chen Ziyun's offense, and said, "This is a magical artifact I created based on the inspiration I gained from reading 'The Record of Cultivation of the Heavenly Dao,' and it is named 'Beyond Heaven.'"

He raised his palm, placed it on the window, squinted, and peered through his fingers at the vortex in the middle. Then, he murmured softly:

"Peeping into the past three hundred years in the palm of your hand, show me the world beyond the heavens."

After reciting the incantation, a certain burden in his heart seemed to disappear. In order to build this eighth-grade magic artifact, Li Tianfei spent a lot of time and energy, and combined with the inspiration from his spying, he was able to achieve the scene he was in now. The reason why he put in so much effort was just for his own guess.

Li Tianfei closed his palms, leaving only a small gap, and waited for the result. He was filled with mixed feelings, thinking, "I hope I was just mistaken back then. It's good that I wasted decades. I just hope it's not what I think it is..."

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly felt a heat in the center of his palm, and he knew that the result was coming.

He took a deep breath, widened his eyes, and leaned down to look through the gap.

At the center of the vortex, mystery begins to emerge.

Strands and wisps of primordial energy emerged from the chaotic darkness, spreading out like the patterns on a shattered vase.

The light, the sphere of light, shone exceptionally brightly in this chaotic darkness.

Sitting in a well and looking at the sky, is this how one becomes?

Cold sweat spread across Li Tianfei's back.

He completely covered the ritual implement with his palm, looked up, his eyes vacant, lost in confusion.

Chen Ziyun became curious, patted Li Tianfei's head, and urged loudly, "What the hell? What did you see?"

"...My guess has come true."

"???"

"It's true, what I saw that year wasn't a hallucination, it was real..."

"Hey, what are you talking about?"

"It's true, hahaha, it's true!!!"

"What do you mean, 'what's real?' If you don't speak like a human being, I'll hit you."

"...Get down, I have something very important to say."

Li Tianfei's serious attitude left Chen Ziyun wondering what had happened. After all, this old guy had done the same thing before, only to be told in the end that the bathroom manager had blocked the hole through which he was peeping.

Having witnessed such a precedent, he certainly couldn't believe it completely, but he still jumped down with some skepticism, flew on his own, and stood next to Li Tianfei: "Speak."

Li Tianfei hesitated for a moment, his expression solemn: "This is a long story, but Chen Ziyun, I can tell you very clearly now that our world is nothing but a cage. The real world is outside... no, that's not quite right either. In short, there is another world outside our world, and that is the real world."

Chen Ziyun blinked: "What the heck?"

"Next, no matter what you see, stay calm. I will explain the details to you all once we are all gathered. But I must tell you, this is a matter of life and death. Because it means that the so-called Heavenly Way, the so-called Heaven, is fake. Do you understand what I mean? It is fake. So what exactly have the royal sacrifices, including the sacrificial vessels we have been making all this time, been offered to?"

Li Tianfei spoke each word softly, yet his words carried such weight that it made it impossible for anyone to lift their head.

Chen Ziyun's thought was that Li Tianfei had gone mad.

But then, sensing the aura of the eighth-grade magic weapon in the other person's hand, he realized that perhaps he was the one who had gone mad.

"……show me."

Li Tianfei nodded, reached out his hand, but still covered the window. He closed his eyes and began to channel spiritual energy back into the window.

He suppressed his distracting thoughts, muttered to himself, and the hand holding the window model began to turn red, his palm began to tilt slightly, the movement almost imperceptible.

A mysterious aura spread through Li Tianfei's hands and gradually expanded.

Chen Ziyun's eyes widened. He was all too familiar with this aura; it was the aura of the Heavenly Dao Mark. Although it was very weak, only a trace, it was definitely there.

What exactly did Li Tianfei learn?

Just as Chen Ziyun was still in shock and hadn't reacted, the next second—

A terrifying golden light shone from the gap in Li Tianfei's body, followed by a massive aura that spread out and even triggered the sword formation here.

"Come and see."

As Li Tianfei spoke, he removed his hand that had been covering the area.

The scene inside the window was thus revealed and came into Chen Ziyun's view.

He stared blankly, somewhat surprised. After a moment, his shock turned into bewilderment, and then into intense fear. He plopped down in the air, gasping for breath.

Through the window, there was a scene of a sect.

The sect towered into the clouds, resembling a giant immortal mountain. The mountaintop was shrouded in mist, creating a beautiful, fairyland-like scene that was breathtaking. However, the atmosphere was solemn and filled with mystery.

The sect's internal buildings were arranged in a harmonious and orderly fashion, with upturned eaves, carved beams and painted rafters, exuding grandeur and magnificence. Some mysterious structures—such as palaces floating in the air and temples radiating strange light—were dazzling, and a magnificent radiance enveloped the entire sect. The largest palace's plaque bore three large characters—

——【Guardian Heaven Sect】

If that's the case, Chen Ziyun naturally wouldn't need to be afraid. What terrified him was what happened next. The view from the window was constantly condensing, as if it were being pulled up to the sky. First, it was the entire sect, then the entire ground, and finally, it towered into the clouds, and the whole world became a ball of light.

Darkness, chaos, and a cracked void were revealed.

Then, the perspective shifted to a small sphere of light in the void, and began to zoom in and zoom out on the scene...

Then, from a bird's-eye view, Chen Ziyun saw the bamboo forest, Zhang Yijian, Li Tianfei beside him, and herself looking out the window.

He looked up, and his reflection in the window also looked up.

"It's broad daylight, it's fucking haunted," Chen Ziyun thought. "Either there's something wrong with the eighth-grade magic artifact that Li Tianfei made, or—"

There's something wrong with this world.

Chapter 334 Countdown: Twenty-Three Days

This morning, when Shi Guijia woke up, she had a bad feeling.

The town was shrouded in thick fog today. She went out early to buy breakfast and almost bumped into a vendor because she couldn't see the road clearly.

"This bad feeling..."

Perhaps the death of Zhi Zixun left her with a bad psychological shadow, because she was particularly depressed today. So much so that she didn't feel like talking to Yang Luoyi while eating breakfast. It wasn't until Yang Luoyi finished eating and said, "Mother, I'm going to school," that she came back to her senses and called out to her.

"Luo Yi".

Yang Luo turned around and looked at her: "Mother?"

"I need to leave town for a while. During this time, I'll give you the house keys. You can take care of yourself, right?"

Yang Luo didn't speak, and Shi Guijia, not receiving a reply, asked again, "Is there a problem?"

"But Mother, didn't you say..."

Shi Guijia looked up, and the shadow cast by the sun through the window covered the child's cheek. In addition, Shi Guijia often looked down, so her expression was not visible.

What did I say?

"...It's nothing, Mother. When are you coming back?"

"I don't know, he might come back after he finishes his business."

Having just taken over Lonely Garden, things there were tedious and numerous. Moreover, the murderer who killed Zhi Zixun was still unknown. If possible, Shi Guijia did not want to involve her daughter.

"so……"

Is there a problem?

Yang Luo shook her head, then forced a smile: "No, Mother, I'm leaving, hehe..."

"...The key is over there on the table, remember to get it."

It wasn't until the door closed that Shi Guijia came to her senses.

Instead of getting closer to his daughter after spending a few days together, they are now growing further apart.

After packing her luggage, Shi Guijia, who was not particular about such things, only brought some portable magical artifacts.

Last night she contacted her younger sister again, but as always, no one answered.

She planned to go to her sister's house, so she packed her things, pushed open the door, and went out.

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Early in the morning, the town was still not fully awake. Apart from the breakfast stalls, the streets were deserted, with only a few birds singing merrily in the branches. In the distance, the mooing of cows and the crowing of roosters could be heard, the prelude to the townspeople starting their new day. The sky gradually brightened, and the orange-red sunrise shone on the houses and trees of the town, exuding a tranquil and beautiful atmosphere.

The fog today is indeed terrifyingly thick. Without special methods, it would be difficult to conduct unrestricted experiments on flying magical artifacts in the sky.

To see Shi Guiyan, Liu Shaoheng got up very early—you see, he was used to skipping school and never got up this early before, this was the first time. Carrying freshly baked pastries and some gifts, he went out, his destination being Shi Guiyan's place.

Passing by a mansion, the red gate opened, and a mature, beautiful woman leaned against the doorway. She had a classic oval face, with well-proportioned and harmonious features. Her eyes were large and bright, her eyebrows long and thick, and her skin was fair and delicate, as soft as cream, exuding a captivating fragrance. Her figure was graceful and shapely, with a slender waist and shapely hips. Her hair was styled in a bun, adorned with a golden phoenix feather hairpin, adding to her refined appearance. Seeing Liu Shaoheng pass by, she casually winked at him.

Liu Shaoheng shuddered. He recognized the person as Lin Xueyao, one of the five renowned weapon refiners. He didn't know her age, but she had been harassing him since he was a toddler, and now she was even more brazen. That was why he had decisively eliminated her when screening people yesterday.

This person's residence is never fixed; she usually stays at whichever family has a baby. Because she is a famous weapon refiner, the people in the town dare not provoke her and can only silently pray that this old lady will lose interest and leave soon. The family behind her is the one where a baby was born yesterday, and she came to celebrate and also to see what the baby looks like, so she stayed here.

Because she found little kids too boring, Lin Xueyao, who was eight or nine years old, bumped into the handsome little boy she had been longing for as soon as she came out. She couldn't help but wink at Liu Shaoheng.