The improved female villains regained their memories.

Shi Guijia did not linger in battle, but instead fought and retreated, trying to buy time.

An eighth-grade magic weapon can fight against a celestial immortal, and a superior eighth-grade weapon can even fight against a true immortal. The sword is a good sword, but Shi Guijia herself is not up to the task. Her spiritual root is shattered and she has hidden injuries in her body. Now, it is extremely difficult for her to activate it. If it weren't for the unique material of this sword, which relies not only on spiritual energy but also on the aura of the person wielding the sword, and can be enhanced by killing intent, making it invincible, Shi Guijia would have been defeated immediately.

However, being an eighth-grade magic weapon, its existence was extremely unreasonable. Ling Tiandu's corpse zombies repeatedly used killing moves, but they were all blocked by it. She even had to be wary of the blade light condensed from the opponent's killing intent. This thing could even break through her orange talisman.

If an ordinary eighth-grade magic weapon broke the talisman, there would be no strangeness about the corpse stiffness. However, she knew that the talismans she used were all made by the original owner in her previous life. Shi Guijia's eighth-grade magic weapon was not an ordinary magic weapon, but the orange talisman made by Ling Tiandu was not an ordinary talisman either.

She was a prodigy, a talent even the heavens envied. The defensive talismans she crafted weren't just for blocking attacks; their buffs, healing, and control-dispelling effects were countless, far exceeding ordinary talisman-making methods. Yet now, her talismans were actually countered by Shi Guijia's weapon-making skills, rendering her corpse-stiff and unable to use much of her abilities.

The reason the two were unable to determine a winner during the battle was not only due to Shi Guijia's own abilities, but also because the corpse zombie could only use one method of attack at a time. If the real Ling Tiandu were here, she would have used every possible method—killing moves, talismans, formations, even weapon crafting and beast taming—but the corpse zombie could not. When she was simply using spiritual energy to protect herself, she couldn't even spare any extra mental energy to execute a killing move.

The two fought back and forth for a full thirty rounds. Although they both possessed the pressure of celestial beings, they didn't have the destructive power of immortals. They were both feeling uncomfortable from the back-and-forth.

However, Shi Guijia, who was holding a knife to the ground, suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"Surrender immediately!"

The corpse grinned again, its smile ugly, and said, "You are injured, your spiritual root is broken, and you have limited spiritual energy to use. It's not that you don't have other eighth-grade magic weapons, or even ninth-grade magic weapons, but you only have this one and don't use anything else. It's because this magic weapon, in addition to spiritual energy, requires the user to maintain a high aura. But after fighting for so long, your aura has weakened, and the blade light has no power."

Shi Guijia remained silent, then raised her hand and unleashed another flash of blade light.

The zombie, having grasped the secret, was no longer afraid. She used the orange protective talisman again, and as she had predicted, it successfully blocked the attack. Then, she unleashed her spiritual energy and appeared directly in front of Shi Guijia, punching the blade and sending both Shi Guijia and the blade flying. However, Shi Guijia, who had been knocked away, steadied herself and turned to run away.

She seemed to have given up fighting the zombies, chose a direction, and began to flee.

Just as the zombie was about to give chase, it saw that the waist knife had actually broken free from Shi Guijia's hand, flew over, and started slashing at her automatically.

She was both shocked and furious. She slapped away the waist knife that was rushing towards her, but the waist knife was extremely powerful and unmoved. It tore through the talisman light of the corpse with its blade, pierced her shoulder, flew behind her, and then suddenly hovered in the air. The blade trembled violently, like a roaring tiger, and quickly turned around to kill Ling Tiandu's corpse.

The rigor mortis was taken aback, never expecting the blade to have such a function. He couldn't help but ask, "How did you forge this weapon? Are you being unreasonable? It even has an automatic ability to absorb spiritual energy and target enemies for attack?"

Unable to bear it any longer, in a fit of rage, she used the teleportation talisman, which was originally intended for a crucial purpose, here instead.

In the blink of an eye, Shi Guijia lost sight of the rigor mortis. Just as she came to her senses, she felt a burning pain on her face.

She was viciously punched by Ling Tiandu's corpse zombie, but she reacted quickly. As she leaned back, she used the Bagua Shield again to block the zombie's follow-up attack.

After landing on the ground, she rolled to her feet, ignoring her injuries, and switched back to her waist knife, holding it in her hand once more. However, this time it was different from before; the waist knife had lost its luster and became indistinguishable from an ordinary weapon.

Shi Guijia lowered the blade, wiped the part of her cheek that had been hit with the back of her hand, and looked fiercely at the zombie.

The zombie stood there, laughing like a child, "I was right, it really is like that. This waist knife is indeed magical. It not only absorbs spiritual energy and morale, but also takes into account a person's spirit. But no matter what, a magic weapon is still a magic weapon. No matter how mysterious it is, it will consume spiritual energy. Just now, the waist knife automatically chased me and switched to this mode, which consumed spiritual energy. The subsequent automatic attacks consumed spirit. It's a pity that your body was seriously injured and has not fully recovered, so you can't switch to this mode many times. Moreover, you used the last bit of spiritual energy on the shield to block my attack. I'm afraid you don't have much spiritual energy left in your body now, right?"

Shi Guijia narrowed her eyes and said, "You've become more talkative."

She sheathed her knife, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, and stood there motionless.

The moonlight shone on her, her golden hair fluttering, the scorching gold seemingly covered with a layer of white frost.

The zombie slithered forward step by step, like a cat catching a mouse, and said mockingly, "Mother is right, you are a great weapon refiner, but unfortunately, you possess unparalleled divine weapons, yet your own body is weak. It's like a child wielding a greatsword, a waste of talent. Who can you rely on now? That little brat who is also a weapon refiner like you? Heh, Mother foresaw all of this long ago. If he dared to come back to support you, he would be attacked by the giant bear I ambushed. Now, you might as well guess what the giant bear has done to that little brat. Also, you can guess what I will do to you as the price for your rebellion?"

Shi Guijia looked at her without saying a word, then suddenly revealed a strange smile, puffed out her chest, and said, "Since that's the case, then come and try it out."

The corpse stiffened her eyebrows. The other party's attitude made her suspicious, but she was certain that Shi Guijia's spiritual energy was really insufficient. If she forced the use of an eighth-grade magic weapon, she would probably only end up being drained dry.

"Heh, trying to scare me."

She sneered and was about to step forward when she suddenly heard a loud roar from the night sky.

Shi Guijia breathed a sigh of relief: "They've finally arrived."

The rigor mortis stood there, her already stiff face becoming even more rigid. She looked up and saw a flash of light streak across the sky.

boom!

A cluster of spiritual particles rained down from the sky, and she stood there, bathed in their energy.

In the silent night, a dazzling flash of lightning illuminated the scene, followed by the sound of an explosion.

The zombie reacted swiftly, summoning the talisman once more, but this time, both the zombie and the talisman were blasted into charred remains.

Under the moonlight, a white robot flew in mid-air, piloted by Liu Shaoheng.

He sat in the cockpit, stuck his head out, and shouted to Shi Guijia below:

"Master, I want to learn this!"

He was extremely excited, never having imagined that such a peculiar magical artifact existed.

Shi Guijia, who crafted this magical artifact, is simply a genius, no, a genius among geniuses!

Chapter 344 The Pain in My Heart

Generally, magical artifacts are powered by spiritual energy.

If one cannot control spiritual energy, then special spirit stones are needed. However, some magical artifacts, considering their shape and characteristics, are difficult to inlay with spirit stones, especially higher-grade artifacts.

For example, Shi Guijia's eighth-grade magic weapon, Qi Guan Chang Hong, has the characteristic of needing to absorb the user's aura and spirit. This alone is extremely difficult to make. If you add the gap for placing spirit stones, then the creation of this spiritual energy return force becomes quite cumbersome and complicated.

Most importantly, choosing one side means giving up the other. Choosing to embed spirit stones for combat means giving up other properties. Therefore, before crafting a magical artifact, a weapon refiner must first understand what kind of magical artifact they want to craft.

Shi Guijia's true villainous talent lies in her ultimate control over spiritual energy and the stability of her spiritual sea. However, Ling Tiandu's actions allowed her weapon-refining talent to surpass her own villainous talent, making her the number one weapon refiner in the world.

But this credit cannot be attributed solely to Ling Tiandu; Yang Pingsheng also played a part.

After all, weapon crafting also requires inspiration, and Yang Pingsheng provided Shi Guijia with a lot of inspiration in the early stages in order to complete the Human Chess Project.

These inspirations from other worlds took an increasingly skewed turn when they reached Shi Guijia, ultimately leading her down an unconventional path in weapon crafting.

So, in the end, it all comes down to the system.

The crucial turning point came on that day when the system showed Yang Pingsheng the task and told him, "To take something, you must first give it. So follow my advice, and you'll be right."

Yang Pingsheng, whose memories of the Fifth World had been altered, nodded and followed the system's instructions. The next day, he got up early, changed into simple clothes, ate breakfast, and set off to find Shi Guijia.

"She probably hates it when people set foot in her weapon-refining room. I've only met her a few times. If I go to her like this, she'll probably beat me up, won't she?"

On the way, Yang Pingsheng asked the system.

"Getting hit? It's okay, it's okay. Didn't we give you cultivation and a spacetime killing move? That guy has a bit of a temper, but if you're really scared, you can just pause time."

A spacetime type killing move, a forbidden killing move, which was successfully used to outmaneuver Luo Benmo in the Second World.

Time is an eternal river, and all people are just small fish in it. Whoever can control this river can control everything in it.

"The villain in this world is probably the easiest to deal with out of the nine. After all, she just can't control her temper and isn't as troublesome as the other five. Besides, we're following the plan now, and she's toned down her behavior towards you a lot, hasn't she?"

"..." Yang Pingsheng didn't speak, because what the system said was true.

Cold, domineering, split personality, shameless, and cunning—compared to the previous female villains, Shi Guijia is one of the better ones. She is sunny and cheerful, reasonable, easy to talk to, principled, and has self-respect. At the same time, she is a genius at weapon crafting. If the system hadn't called her a female villain, Yang Pingsheng would have found it hard to associate her with the word "villain."

"As for her, she's actually fine, but she's a weapon refiner, and weapon refiners often have some serious ailments. And a female villain's ailment is quite severe," the system said.

Shi Guijia's illness stemmed from her violent nature.

Her tyranny was uncontrollable. Once she lost inspiration for refining weapons, or if something went wrong during the refining process, she would become extremely violent and bloodthirsty. Her younger sister, Shi Guiyan, witnessed this when she was a child. Because she couldn't figure out a problem while refining weapons, and her pet cat accidentally wandered in, Shi Guijia directly dismembered the cat alive, in a cruel and inhumane way.

According to the system's deduction, Shi Guijia's inspiration for refining weapons will eventually run dry. Once it does, she, who possesses countless ninth-grade magic weapons, will transform into the most unstable element in the world, revealing her tyranny to the world. Moreover, she herself is the most powerful weapon refiner, and she finds it difficult to believe in the weapon refining inspiration of others.

The final result is the story of a crazed weapon refiner destroying the world.

But now, Yang Pingsheng has arrived. According to the plan, he will give Shi Guijia inspiration that is different from this world in the early stages. The tyrant, whose eyes have been opened, will become immersed in this inspiration that is different from the mundane world, and slowly develop a desire for and a desire to possess Yang Pingsheng. When she becomes like this, the system will decisively take action and completely destroy Shi Guijia's tyrannical heart through a series of operations, making her have a psychological shadow on the word "weapon refining".

A weapon refiner who cannot refine weapons poses no threat to this world or to the Heavenly Dao.

"While I can provide inspiration, isn't offering a Gundam a bit outrageous? This thing is simply impossible to build, isn't it?" Yang Pingsheng said.

"Who told you to help her create it? For this girl, inspiration for crafting is like an addiction. Not being able to create it is the end of the pleasure. She'll only feel uncomfortable, and the more uncomfortable she feels, the more she'll crave it, and the more she'll demand from you. That's how we have a chance!"

"..."

Unable to evaluate the system's words, but whatever it said, went without question. Yang Pingsheng, too lazy to argue, asked, "So where is that guy's weapon-refining room?"

"Let me see... wait, she's not in the weapon-refining room." The system released its senses. Because Shi Guijia didn't have Luo Benmo's intuition or any special abilities, the system was quite unrestrained in this world. "She seems to be... um, over there. You can go look for her there."

"Row."

Shi Guijia's weapon-refining workshop is located within the Royal Weapon-Refining Academy, but she herself is not actually a member of the academy. According to the system, Shi Guijia does not subscribe to the royal ideology; she has her own set of principles. Moreover, during her student days, she enjoyed traveling the martial arts world, inspiring many people with her weapon-refining philosophy. The difference between her and the male and female protagonists is that the protagonists desperately want to enter the weapon-refining academy through their own efforts, participate in weapon-refining competitions, and gain royal recognition, while Shi Guijia despises all of this and often makes boastful criticisms of it.

The reason she can stay obediently at the Royal Weapon Forging Academy now is due to her deal with Yang Pingsheng, and it is also the initial plan of the system.

Along the dandelion path, amidst the white snowflakes swaying in the wind, Yang Pingsheng walked, stepping through the light and shadow, and saw Shi Guijia not far away.

She was dressed in a school uniform, her beautiful blonde hair mixed with white, dancing in the wind along with it, as she squatted by the roadside, looking at a dandelion.

Her attire was conservative, but it couldn't conceal the grandeur of her chest. Her hair was tied up with a matching gold ribbon, with a few strands falling over her shoulders, revealing only beauty and tranquility.

Hearing footsteps, she turned sharply to look at the person approaching. It was Yang Pingsheng, whose handsome eyes narrowed into slits, revealing a calm and collected demeanor.

She stood up and said softly, "You've come. Are you here to give me new inspiration?"

very beautiful.

Yang Pingsheng had seen her energetic side, but now, standing quietly beside the dandelion bushes, she exuded a gentle beauty. If it weren't for her uncontrollable tyranny, no one would have imagined that this person would one day become a villain who would threaten the world.

"Well, since it's the agreed-upon day, I'll naturally come."

"Hmm? Is today the day we agreed upon?"

Shi Guijia blinked in confusion. Having spent so much time among the weapon refiners, she had no concept of time. But who cared? Yang Pingsheng was willing to provide inspiration for weapon refining, and she was overjoyed.

How did you know I was here?

"I don't know, I was just passing by. I was thinking of coming to find you this afternoon, but I didn't expect to run into you."

Having experienced five previous lives, Yang Pingsheng could basically speak fluently without hesitation.

"That would be great. Let's find a place to talk and see what inspiration you've given me this time."

She grabbed Yang Pingsheng's hand and, without saying a word, led him to a quiet place.

"..." Yang Pingsheng did not struggle and let the other party pull him.

Blonde girls always get straight to the point.

"Alright, here it is, go ahead and say it."

Under the shade of a tree, the two sat on the lawn. Not far away were a stream, a wooden bridge, and dandelions. The atmosphere was somewhat enchanting. Yang Pingsheng was about to speak, but seeing Shi Guijia's expectant eyes, he stopped himself and began to complete the task assigned by the system.

"……【robot】?"

"That's right, that's roughly the idea."

Yang Pingsheng described it carefully, and Shi Guijia listened quietly. By the end, she went from being completely puzzled to being a fangirl.

"It's a brilliant idea. If it were to be implemented, it would be beyond imagination."