The improved female villains regained their memories.

The girl's body began to age; her hair turned white, and wrinkles appeared on her skin. She gave a wry smile and said, "Sorry, I seem to be getting ugly..."

She smiled gently again, just like when they first met.

"I won't allow you to die before me."

"Because I love you too, I love you, so how could I allow you to die in front of me?"

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you this time..."

"However, we made a promise that next time, we will be together forever."

"forever……"

Before she could finish speaking, the girl's aura vanished, and she lowered her head.

The boy suddenly sat up, his trembling hand reaching out to touch the girl.

There was no breath.

"what!!!!!"

In an instant, something shattered.

The boy let out an angry and sorrowful roar, and at the moment the girl died, something within him shattered as well.

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"There's not much more to the story, and besides, it's getting late, you should go home."

The fog remained thick into the night.

Yang Luo returned home to an empty house where she was all alone.

She called out "Mother," but no one answered. Disappointed, she lowered her head, changed her shoes, and walked in.

She ran to Shi Guijia's room, where the bouquet of gardenias she had brought back earlier was placed on the windowsill. Shi Guijia had planted it in her specially made flowerpot and watered it.

Under the moonlight, white petals bloomed there, emitting a faint fragrance.

Just as Jiuwu said, gardenias are beautiful and smell wonderful. Yang Luo, who hadn't paid much attention to gardenias before, carefully approached and stood in front of the flowers.

She watched quietly, as if she could see that older sister standing there gently, smiling at her.

He was a very gentle person, Yang Luo thought, she really liked gentle people.

Does someone like this, who also likes gardenias, fit the meaning of the flower that Jiuwu mentioned today?

Will she also have that fate?

She then remembered that she had brought back some dandelion seeds when she returned from her trip with her mother.

Dandelion...

What is the meaning of its flowers?

Chapter 340 What goes around comes around

The Heavenly Guardian Sect.

Ling Tianxin stood alone in the depths of the sea of ​​clouds.

This is her own main hall. Ever since the incident in Nine Heavens City, she has locked herself in here. Others only think that she is grieving for the death of her whole family, but only she knows that she is doing this on purpose to avoid the Demon King's interrogation.

During this time, old monsters such as Jiu Ba Huang came to visit her at the door, but she refused them under the pretext of seclusion and cultivation. She knew that after the incident in Jiutian City, she could no longer hide many things.

For example, that pill is said to give people the strength of a Celestial Immortal, but it is actually made from extraterrestrial energy. Its essence is to mutate people into Celestial Immortal level monsters, causing them to lose their rationality and become unable to use immortal killing moves. This is why, even though so many Celestial Immortal level combatants went berserk, Nine Heavens City was only damaged and not destroyed.

The support from the Heavenly Guardian Sect was swift. Moreover, once a True Immortal arrived, these monsters were essentially powerless to fight back. However, the advantage was that, due to the effects of the elixir, once the monsters died, they would vanish from the world, and even a Demon King could not obtain any clues from them.

"Ah……"

She chuckled softly, clapped her hands, and a soul-suppressing stone rose up where the magic circle lit up, suppressing Zhi Zixun's soul within it, unable to escape.

Looking at the curled-up soul of Zhi Zixun inside, she asked, "Zhi Zixun, even now, you still refuse to tell the truth?"

Zhi Zixun did not answer, remaining silent and not uttering a word.

"You can't figure out why I came to you, can you?" Ling Tianxin smiled slightly. "It's because of my deduction that you have ulterior motives and are secretly hiding some kind of heaven-defying object. You claim to be living in seclusion, but in reality, you've been waiting for an opportunity."

Zhi Zixun remained silent.

"You're a chess player all alone, and a native of that world, how would you know about the main world and the Guardian Heaven Sect?" Ling Tianxin's eyes narrowed slightly. "Besides, do you think that just because you don't say a word, I can't do anything to you?"

"How ridiculous. Since I can send someone across the world to kill you, the person who brought your soul here must have a way to deal with you."

She clapped her hands, and the Soul-Suppressing Stone emitted a dazzling light. The Gardenia Xun within the Soul-Suppressing Stone let out a painful sound as her memories of the past were being continuously extracted.

Even though she tried her best to stop it, it was to no avail. The past scenes became projections, shown in front of Ling Tianxin.

It was a huge lake, Shenlong Lake.

In front of Shenlong Lake, Zhi Zixun was talking to a mysterious person wearing a hooded jacket.

"So there are so many reasons behind the human chess game," Zhi Zixun sighed.

The mysterious person nodded, and then said in an androgynous voice, "Because the struggle between human will and divine will has reached its peak, and in order to prevent divine interference, the next generation of human chess players will shoulder the heavy responsibility of facing ten female villains. If the plan of the Guardian Heaven Sect proceeds smoothly, I'm afraid the villains will be defeated by the human chess players before the main world's protagonist even appears."

“I’m not interested in any of this,” Zhi Zixun said. “Right now, I just want to stay here quietly and not think about anything.”

"Hehe, is that true?"

"of course."

The mysterious man chuckled and said, "That's hard to believe."

"Thank you for telling me all this, but I really don't want to get involved in these things anymore."

"Heh, if that's the case, why did you steal the previous villain's masterpiece?"

Zhi Zixun's expression remained unchanged: "I don't understand what you're saying."

"I know what you're up to, but the previous villain's talent was in weapon crafting, but that might not be the case for the next one, unless something minor goes wrong in the main world."

The mysterious man laughed and turned to leave.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, he said, "You're right, aren't you, the one who's peering into my memories?"

boom!

Ling Tianxin slammed her palm onto the Soul-Suppressing Stone, releasing a terrifying lingering spiritual energy.

Her face turned terrifying, and she demanded sharply, "Who is this person?!"

Zhi Zixun's soul trembled, and she curled up in pain, whispering, "I don't know..."

She really didn't know.

Ling Tianxin began to repeatedly search through the memories in Zhi Zixun's soul, only to discover that there were traces of Zhi Zixun's memories being deliberately deleted.

That last part was clearly left intentionally by that person.

"Good, good, good."

She said "good" three times in a row, but a surge of anger gradually rose in her heart.

Ever since she traveled and saw the divine will stored in the orbs of light, she had a premonition that someone was eyeing the struggle between good and evil (Volume 5, Chapter 246).

This person set up a huge scheme, which even Ling Tianxin, who is good at deduction, could not fully understand. The ball of light that contained the will of heaven and the will of man seemed to have been deliberately left for her. The former made her constantly improve her deduction, and the latter made her successfully frame Ling Tiandu and inherit the protagonist's destiny (Volume 5, Chapter 247).

This person seemed to know Ling Tianxin's desires perfectly. Even though Ling Tianxin knew it was a trap, she had no choice but to jump in because she really hated her villainous fate.

"Calm down, I need to calm down. This person is trying to manipulate me, which is probably exactly what he wants to see. Maybe my sending people across worlds to kill the pawns in that world, the female lead, and driving the male lead crazy were all done by this person on purpose."

"I only have the key to the protagonist's inheritance, but I haven't received the inheritance itself. I also don't have the system's permission, so I have no idea where the Human Chess Project is at. Of the nine worlds, I can only confirm that the sixth world is complete. However, due to the influence of the Great Ruins, time is chaotic, which makes it impossible for me to deduce the Human Chess's whereabouts."

The decision to target the Sixth World was also based on Ling Tianxin's deduction.

She deduced that her own success and failure, as well as the failure of the Guardian Heaven Sect, all began with actions taken in the Sixth World. That was why she went to great lengths to target the Sixth World relentlessly.

With the help of deduction, she quickly located the Sixth World. In addition, she turned Ling Tiandu's body into a puppet, which allowed her to achieve her goal in the Sixth World.

That's right, she had already used Ling Tiandu's corpse for her own purposes. What the Demon King and the others saw of Ling Tiandu's corpse was just a collection of spiritual energy.

She managed to evade the detection of these true immortals and the system thanks to Ling Tianxin's self-created killer move—[Heavenly Will Concealment].

This is what she obtained from those two secret realms. It's as if the mysterious person knew what she needed and had prepared everything Ling Tianxin needed in the secret realms long ago, including killing moves, formations, secret treasures, elixirs, and so on.

The elixir that can turn people into monsters was also obtained in the secret realm.

“I can’t rely too much on those things. Since this person provoked me in Zhi Zixun’s memory, it means that he had already anticipated that I would act this way. The only things I can trust are the things I possess myself.”

That is, her innate ability to deduce.

Taking a deep breath and trying not to be distracted by distractions, Ling Tianxin slowly began to activate her deduced killing move.

Her deductive killing moves are a series, all created by herself, totaling nine moves: Big Dipper, Southern Star, Five Planets, Eight Winds, Twenty-Eight Mansions, Sun and Moon, Nine Provinces, Bright Jade, and Spirit Yarrow. At this moment, she is using the Twenty-Eight Mansions.

Her eyes became as vast as the starry sky, with twinkling stars around them, which were the stars of the Twenty-Eight Mansions.

"Rise!" she uttered softly, and the surrounding stars immediately began to rotate.

Spiritual energy and human energy are constantly being consumed as the stars revolve. This is the drawback of deduction: sometimes it consumes not only spiritual energy but also other things.

Soon, Ling Tianxin changed her mind again, slapped the ground with both hands, and the twenty-eight constellations were distributed according to the situation of the nine fields.

"Ok?"

Ling Tianxin felt a sudden emptiness in her heart and was filled with doubt: "I can't even deduce which world that mysterious person was born from."

This shouldn't happen in theory.

Ling Tianxin is a rare genius of deduction. She doesn't need much information. Sometimes, just a thought is enough to use her nine deduction techniques to figure out the opponent clearly, from the past to the future. As long as you are not afraid of exhaustion, they are even more useful than reconnaissance techniques.

She could deduce the Demon King, the Nine Eight Desolations, and even the unknown chess player currently in action. She could use the Twenty-Eight Constellations to deduce their birth locations and the nature of their birth. But now, she couldn't deduce anything about the mysterious person.

"How strange. Even if the world in which one was born is destroyed, there must still be a place of birth, right? Could this person have sprung up from the Great Ruins?" Ling Tianxin muttered. With a thought, the starry sky in her eyes disappeared in an instant.

Instead, a gentle breeze began to blow from all eight directions.

"Winds come from all directions."

She murmured a word, and the wind direction began to provide her with the answer.

This is also a very powerful deductive killing move, mainly for calculating the harm caused, from people to things.

For Ling Tianxin, the Eight Winds is also a very important killing move. From childhood to adulthood, she has relied on this killing move to avoid danger and escape many harms. Now, the Eight Winds has helped her repeatedly evade the Demon King's scrutiny, allowing her to reach this point without any major incidents.