The improved female villains regained their memories.

"Hehehe, don't waste your energy." On the other side, the old Taoist priest reassembled his scattered consciousness, flew back, and laughed loudly: "Shi Guijia's soul has been shattered, Yang Pingsheng, your plan has failed. Without Shi Guijia, the eight female villains are one less, and you can't become king!"

"Is that so?" Yang Pingsheng's eyes were calm, but he was slightly troubled.

The old Taoist priest was right; without the auspicious time of return, the future of the invisible ruler reigning supreme will never arrive.

"Yang Pingsheng, don't count on Jiang Mochang. The Guardian Sect already has a presence in Taixu, and with the Lord's strong support, even for Jiang Mochang, it won't be easy to activate the cycle of reincarnation."

The old Taoist priest stepped forward and sneered, "Even if you have now merged with the Taixu Soil and regained your memories from your previous reincarnation, Shi Guijia is already dead! She is dead! With one of the eight great female villains dead, the Invisible One will reign supreme. Don't even think about it!"

"Take a good look at this!" The old Taoist priest took out the ball of light and laughed loudly, "Her seed has been refined. This is the beginning, to create a stairway to heaven for you, sir. This is your destiny!!"

Yang Pingsheng remained unmoved and began searching his body.

The old Taoist priest's heart skipped a beat: "What are you looking for?"

Yang Pingsheng ignored him, waiting until he found what he was looking for before smiling slightly:

Hehe, well done.

He reached into his robes and pulled out a magical artifact.

The old Taoist priest stood there, stunned.

"What is that? What is that?!"

"Hehe, didn't your master tell you that since I've made so many arrangements, how could I not have considered the possibility of Shi Guijia failing and dying?" Yang Pingsheng laughed. "There are two future paths: one is that the villains attack the Guardian Sect together, and the other is that I become king. Your master is so afraid that he insists on going against the will of heaven. Have you ever thought about whose side the will of heaven is on?"

"You!" The old Taoist's pupils constricted.

What is the will of Heaven?

The will of Heaven is symbolized by the rotation of the sun and moon, which is the Yi (易). The Yi is the will of Heaven!

The sun and moon revolve through the heavens, hence the name Zhouyi (Book of Changes)!

Those who grasp the essence of things grasp the will of Heaven!

The movement of lines, the interplay of weather and earth energy, led to human actions, and ultimately, culminated in the present.

"Stop him!!" the old Taoist priest shouted angrily, and the three immediately attacked Yang Pingsheng.

"Too late! Although you intervened in the Sixth World in time and placed shackles on Shi Guijia's soul, how could you possibly know the mysteries of the Hidden Realms?!" Yang Pingsheng laughed loudly and roared, "Soul, return!!"

A burst of light erupted!

The ball of light in the old Taoist priest's arms flew out and went straight into Yang Pingsheng's magical artifact.

The previously dissipated fragments of the soul reappeared, gathering one by one on the magical artifact.

The golden figure reappeared; Shi Guijia's soul had been resurrected a second time!

The old Taoist priest stared wide-eyed, utterly shocked.

Before he could react, Yang Pingsheng skillfully unleashed his time-based killing move. Blood Pigeon and Spirit Concubine were unable to resist and their bodies began to regress, transforming into infants.

The situation has reversed!

The Taixu Soil is extremely suitable for Yang Pingsheng's Earth Spirit Root, and the spacetime-type killing move is the killing move he is most familiar with. The two work together to create a heaven-defying effect.

The old Taoist priest was covered in traces of the Great Dao, yet his age was regressing, eventually settling at eleven years old.

He has been rejuvenated, yet he is still powerless to even kill a chicken!

Yang Pingsheng gently waved his hand, collecting Shi Guijia's soul.

"it's all over."

Yang Pingsheng sighed softly, glanced at the God of Wine and the Nine-Eight Desolations below, and waved his sword, shattering their will and lives.

Then, he went to the old Taoist priest and lifted him up by one hand, now that he had turned into a child.

"I am the winner."

He looked at the old Taoist priest, his eyes deep and unfathomable, like an abyss.

Realizing he was powerless to reverse the situation, the old Taoist priest understood that he had failed and lowered his head.

There's no chance of turning things around.

"Yang Pingsheng, I..." He wanted to say something more, but his body suddenly shattered.

His body, marked with the traces of the Great Dao, seemed to have become a sacrifice, activating some kind of program.

The clouds began to flow backwards.

The dead god of wine and the Nine Eight Desolations were also resurrected.

Time is flowing backward.

"What!?"

Yang Pingsheng was shocked.

"How is that possible? I blocked the Taixu Soil in advance this time. I am the master of the Taixu Soil now, and the Taixu energy of the main world is also here with me. How could these people still reverse time?"

"Could this old man be hiding Taixu energy? No, his expression doesn't seem faked. He knows he's lost, but..."

"Jiang Mochang? No, if Jiang Mochang had already lost, things wouldn't be like this now, and her phantom wouldn't have descended. Damn it, where exactly did that woman pull the strings?"

While Yang Pingsheng was shocked, his mind was racing.

In this round, he painstakingly planned and, with the help of Jiang Mochang and Li Chumo, guided Shi Guijia to intercept the Taixu Soil and save Shi Guijia's life. But the opponent was still able to use Time Reversal.

He knew that with that woman's methods, once time went back, she would never again give him the means to intercept the Taixu Land, nor would she restore his past memories.

"Heh, never mind, I knew it wouldn't be that simple."

In the end, Yang Pingsheng shook his head with a helpless smile.

How could a king who treats all living beings as pawns possibly allow a madman like himself to easily achieve victory?

Yang Pingsheng realized that before the old Taoist priest exploded, he had used many traces of the Great Dao as sacrifices, which caused the time reversal phenomenon. It was not surprising that the woman, who possessed countless forbidden killing moves, had such methods.

"Alright, after this reversal, this woman definitely won't give me another chance to remember her," Yang Pingsheng muttered to himself, rapidly calculating his plans in his mind.

One place, two places, three places... Now that Shi Guijia's arrangements here have been exposed, and Taixu Soil and his memories have been restored, he probably can forget about getting it.

There will be Taixu soil, and there will be opportunities to achieve it after the memory is restored. The key is Shi Guijia; he must protect her life.

"Hmph, let's see who has the best skills."

Yang Pingsheng sneered. The game between the two sides had reached this point, and it all came down to who had more tricks up their sleeve.

The next moment, his consciousness faded, and his entire body began to recoil.

Time travel!

The timeline of the main world has changed again!

The old Taoist priest opened his eyes. He had thought he was dead, but he was jolted awake. Looking around, he realized that he had arrived at Taixu.

The desert land was shrouded in darkness, emptiness, and desolation.

"How...how did I get back?"

He was completely bewildered and clearly had no idea what had happened.

"……Ugh."

A sigh, just like Yang Pingsheng's, echoed throughout Taixu.

A phantom emerged from the darkness and appeared before the old Taoist priest.

The old Taoist priest immediately became excited: "My lord! Was it your true form that made the move?! Is the one standing before me now your true form?!"

The phantom shook its head: "No, no, I am also a set of arrangements left behind by the original body. You had already lost, but I used your body to activate a forbidden killing move, which turned back time and allowed you to return to the Great Ruins."

"So that's why you bestowed so many traces of the Great Dao upon me, sir." The old Taoist priest suddenly realized. "In that case, let's go back to the sixth life and stop Shi Guijia from creating the Soul Returns, or devise another plan to kill the female villain when her destiny leaves her body, thus severing that future line!"

The illusory figure sighed helplessly and said, "It's impossible, Zhiyuan. These traces of the Great Dao are only enough for you to return to a not-so-distant past. Moreover, with each side holding the other back, it's difficult for us to make any other big moves. Now it's a battle of who has more tricks up their sleeve."

“This…” The old Taoist priest, Zhiyuan, stood there stunned.

For this person to say such a thing, one can imagine the extent to which she had been pushed.

If the phantom before him did not indeed possess the aura of that great being, Zhiyuan would never have believed that such words could be uttered by that proud King of Heaven.

“In that case, let’s just give up on Shi Guijia and go kill other female villains. Anyway, their fates have already been scattered, so they should be easy to kill!” Zhiyuan said.

"Don't utter such narrow-minded words again. They're too foolish and an eyesore. As long as Jiang Mochang is still in Taixu, as long as she can help Yang Pingsheng regain his memories, and as long as Yang Pingsheng remains the villain, then no matter how many times you kill him, it won't matter. You can kill a female villain today, but tomorrow he can control the variables and resurrect her. Matters of the hidden realm must be handled with utmost caution. Otherwise, how can Heaven's will be on my side, and how can I become the King of Heaven?"

The illusory figure paused for a moment, then continued, "The Way of Heaven, the Way of Man, the Will of Heaven, the Will of Man—this struggle has lasted for a long time. Because of this, neither the Way of Heaven nor the Way of Man, neither the Will of Heaven nor the Will of Man, wants Yang Pingsheng and me, these two unexpected individuals, to reap the rewards. But whether it is the Way of Heaven or the Will of Heaven, as long as it is Heaven, it must abide by its own rules. As long as it continues to abide by them, people can take advantage of them. The reason Yang Pingsheng and I have been fighting for so long is, frankly speaking, to seize the initiative in this struggle."

"He created a false world to implement peace of mind, while I aim to rule the heavens and transform the real world. Regardless of who we are, we must first seize the initiative to achieve our goals."

Chapter 401 Failure is nothing new; in the end, the madman lost.

“I understand a little now. You and Yang Pingsheng both intend to use the Way of Heaven, which goes against the will of Heaven. But since you also occupy the villain's slot, it can't completely kill you. It even has to rely on your power to eliminate those people’s intentions,” Zhiyuan said thoughtfully.

The illusory figure did not directly agree with Zhiyuan's words, but instead replied, "The Way of Heaven cannot be defied, but it can be seized; the Will of Heaven cannot be reversed, but it can be manipulated. The so-called change of fate is nothing more than grasping the threads of destiny. Yang Pingsheng initially had no will of Heaven, but through a scheme, he received the help of the female villain, gained control of the Will of Heaven, and regained his villainous identity. This is enough to show that the Way of Heaven and the Will of Heaven can both be altered and manipulated."

"Thinking back, Yang Pingsheng, as a human chess piece, was deceived by the system. Logically, he should have died alone somewhere like the other chess pieces. However, the first five female villains gathered around Yang Pingsheng under Yang Luoyi's guidance, and he was once again possessed by the will of heaven, regaining his villainous identity. He has obtained two of the four great treasures: Sword Soul Heart and Dust-Shaped Light. If his original body had not made arrangements in advance, he would probably have already recovered all his memories of the timeline and obtained the Taixu Soil to reunite with Li Chumo."

"Don't you find it strange? Ling Tiandu is good at divination. Although she deduces the future line of the invisible one becoming king, she cannot completely end this future line. Every time she tries to kill Yang Pingsheng, there is always an unexpected event that makes her fail at the last minute. Take the battle of Tianren Mountain for example. Since Ling Tiandu already knew Yang Pingsheng's future, why didn't she send a true immortal to kill him directly? The root cause is that Ling Tiandu is concerned with seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune. As long as her divination does not show the symbol of great fortune, she will not kill Yang Pingsheng. But when she deduces the symbol of great fortune and wants to kill Yang Pingsheng, it is all in vain, and she fails at the last minute."

"You mean..." Zhiyuan realized something and couldn't help but feel a chill.

“That’s right. Since the will of Heaven can be used, then the good and bad fortune that can be deduced can certainly be used as well!” the illusory figure said. “Yang Pingsheng has undoubtedly reached the same level as the original body. The two of them are vying for the initiative, and they both start from the hidden places. It’s like as long as they make some small moves, the fluctuations of fate will change drastically.”

“I am merely a placeholder for the main body, so I don’t know how many rounds they have fought. But since the main body has placed me here, it means that our conversation at this moment can also tip the scales of fate and steer the situation in our favor.”

"In that case, sir, what should I do?" Zhiyuan asked hurriedly.

The phantom remained silent for a long time before speaking:

“I don’t know where the original body is now or what happened, but I trust the original body. Since she arranged for me to be here, she must have considered the limits of what I can think of. Moreover, I have exhausted my energy in driving you to rebirth. Once you are reborn, I will definitely dissipate. Let me think... Hmm, I can probably push you to the time when Guijia just escaped from here. Well then, since that’s the case, you can listen to my arrangements.”

“I don’t know if Yang Pingsheng has any other plans, but I know that we must not let Yang Pingsheng get the Taixu Soil. That woman Jiang Mochang has been stationed in Taixu, and this Taixu Soil was given to Li Chumo to pass on to Shi Guijia. In other words, this Taixu Soil also contains Yang Pingsheng’s memories. After you are reborn, your first task is to prevent Yang Pingsheng from getting the Taixu Soil. Here’s what we’ll do: capture Shi Guijia and throw her to those people from the Guardian Heaven Sect.”

"The Guardian Sect still has many arrangements made by its main body. If you throw Shi Guijia and Taixu Tu to the Guardian Sect, Ling Tiandu will certainly not sit idly by. Yang Pingsheng has no memory, and when he sees Shi Guijia being captured by the Guardian Sect, he will naturally be anxious. At that time, the disaster will be shifted eastward, and Heaven's Will will also encourage Yang Pingsheng to attack the Guardian Sect and liberate the Heavenly Dao. Under the influence of Heaven's Will, there is a high probability that Yang Pingsheng will fall into the arrangements made by the main body in the Guardian Sect."

"Are we really going to let this opportunity slip by?" Zhiyuan gritted his teeth. "This is a golden opportunity to kill Shi Guijia!"

The phantom shook its head and said, "You've tried many times before. Even if the female villains didn't have divine intervention, you still couldn't kill them because Yang Pingsheng tampered with things in the hidden place. I've explained this many times already. Just do as I say."

As soon as he finished speaking, the phantom flickered and seemed to disappear immediately.