The improved female villains regained their memories.

As he walked out of the main hall, he suddenly felt a pang of nostalgia and remembered something Ye Buxin had told him years ago.

"When I first started cultivating, the test results showed that my spiritual root, spiritual sea, and spiritual veins were all ruined. The person who conducted the test told me that if I were to cultivate immortality, I would find it difficult to achieve the right path."

Her words made Zhiyuan's mind flutter.

"Unfortunately, I won't listen, because he's not qualified to define me."

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Inside the palace, Song Panning sat in a chair, looking at the letters on the table with a cold expression.

Su Murong was playing a game of smashing pillows (made of jade) with Zhuque when he saw Song Panning sitting there frowning and looking at something. He curiously came over and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Song Panning blocked her way, pushing her away with disgust: "Can you please not get so close to me?"

The goddess was noble and disliked Su Murong, who had a roguish air about him, from the bottom of her heart.

Su Murong looked at her strangely: "Didn't you say you were afraid the great formation would be blocked by special means, leading to my assassination by the Guardian Heaven Sect, so you made me follow you all the time? It's not like I'm going to sleep in the same bed with you, can't I even get close to you?"

"Get lost, stay away from me, don't disgust me." Song Panning was too lazy to waste words with her, picked up the book on the table and got up to walk out the door.

Su Murong called out to her retreating figure, "If you won't let me go with you, can't I go find Yang Pingsheng instead?"

"He needs to cultivate, don't bother him, go play with your pillow."

The letter was sent by Leng Yan.

After helping Song Panning investigate the situation in the capital and complete the basic deployment, she began to travel around to gather intelligence from all over the world for Song Panning.

The information she presented this time was quite bizarre, containing a lot of inexplicable information, including but not limited to: immortals were scattering money among the people just to solicit offerings; a popular story about a silver-haired girl saving the capital, who was called the "Nine Heavens Guardian, Divine Might, Demon-Suppressing, Spirit-Responding, Universal Salvation Heavenly Venerable"; and some places were starting to become restless, with ambitious people frequently active, gathering followers, seemingly planning something big.

Leng Yan also mentioned that the attitude of the surrounding sects was also very strange. One moment they would cooperate with the people to shout "The divine power of the Nine Heavens Guardian is magnificent, suppressing demons and monsters, and the spirit of universal salvation is manifest." The next moment they would use gold and silver as bait to get the people to build temples for them and burn incense.

Song Panning was completely dumbfounded. What use is a bunch of cultivators to the incense offerings of ordinary people?

And what kind of bullshit is this Luo Tianzun? Who was the shameless one who wrote it?

If Su Murong hadn't stayed in the capital, Song Panning would have thought he'd gone out and written this nonsense.

Although the information in the letter was very confusing, Song Panning still sensed something was wrong. She was about to go to Xu Baxian to ask him to make preparations, but she unexpectedly ran into Xu Baxian who was rushing over on the way.

"Your Highness."

"gentlemen."

"Your Highness was looking for me?"

"Yes, something happened."

Xu Baxian said, "The envoy from the Heavenly Guardian Sect has arrived."

The one who brought the envoy from the Heavenly Guardian Sect was Xu Nianren, the Second Prince, also known as His Highness the Crown Prince.

This morning at court, His Highness the Crown Prince suddenly said that the Heavenly Guardian Sect had sent an envoy to sue for peace. He had found one of his men and had him contact the envoy, who was now located about ten miles outside the capital.

Everyone was stunned by these words. They had all been somewhat dismissive of His Highness the Crown Prince, but now that he had said this, the situation had changed.

Song Panning sneered: "The capital is under the control of me and Xu Anlu. The Guardian Heaven Sect dares not enter the city. They used this method. They are quite good at choosing people."

Xu Baxian nodded: "Second Brother's people are all mortals. The Guardian Heaven Sect can only send mortals into the city to deliver messages so that they won't be detected by your great formation. However, in this way, it's hard to guarantee that the court officials won't have some ideas."

Song Panning said, "Have your people increase the intensity of the inspection. After I wiped out the spies of the Guardian Heaven Sect in the capital, they will definitely send people again. This time they will not send immortal seedlings, but only real mortals."

Xu Baxian said, "Okay."

Song Panning opened the letter again, told Xu Baxian about the local affairs, asked him to convey some messages to the Emperor, and then watched him leave.

She stood there for a while, feeling somewhat uneasy. She sensed that the Heavenly Guardian Sect had already made its move, but she hadn't yet figured out how it was doing.

She knew Ling Tianxin well; she relied on deduction for everything she did and would never act unless she was absolutely certain.

Moreover, she is inherently arrogant, and her deductions are limited to the allocation of the Guardian Heaven Sect's strength at most. This kind of combination of immortals and mortals, sending envoys, seems to be the first time.

Seeking peace? Song Panning snorted coldly. Seeking peace my foot! She'd kill that envoy if he dared to come in.

Then she turned away, her eyes narrowing slightly.

What if these things weren't orchestrated by Ling Tianxin, but by the Heroes Alliance?

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Wonton stall.

Before she arrived, Luo Benmo had a feeling that something was wrong. But after arriving and seeing the pale faces of Lone Wolf and Iron Bull, she realized just how bad things were.

She ordered a bowl of wontons, sat down, and asked, "Didn't we tell you to move all the villains' dens to the vicinity of the capital? Why are there only two of you?"

Tie Niu remained silent. Lone Wolf hesitated for a moment before speaking, "The brothers from the Villain's Den have all moved here and are stationed in Immortal Valley, but... some of them have left."

Luo Benmo frowned: "Why are you running? And why are there only two of you? Where's the spirit monkey?"

"...The monkey ran away too."

"?"

Luo Benmo slammed his hand on the table: "Are you kidding me?"

I'm not kidding.

In fact, the monkey really did run away.

Lone Wolf smiled bitterly and said, "It was Blood Pigeon. She secretly contacted Spirit Monkey and, I don't know what she said, but the next day Spirit Monkey took some of his old brothers and ran away."

Luo Benmo asked again, "He dares to run? He has my blood spirit root within him, he dares to run!?"

Lone Wolf sighed and said, "Blood Pigeon brought several immortals with him. Those immortals have the means to purify the blood spirit root you implanted."

He added, "In fact, Blood Pigeon also came looking for me and Iron Bull. Of course, we refused. As a result, they laid an ambush, and Iron Bull and I escaped with our lives on the line."

Luo Benmo grabbed Lone Wolf's arm and realized that the other was not in good condition.

The entire spiritual vein was completely destroyed, and the spiritual sea was poisoned. Once spiritual energy is used, the poison will cause death.

She grabbed Tie Niu's arm again, only to discover that Tie Niu, like Lone Wolf, had his spiritual veins destroyed and his spiritual sea poisoned.

They didn't escape at all; the other side deliberately let them out.

Luo Benmo's eyes immediately reddened, and he roared, "Spirit Monkey, Blood Pigeon, I swear to kill you all!!"

Dark clouds gathered in the sky.

Lone Wolf gave another bitter smile and said, "Boss, don't get angry yet. I have something bad to tell you. There's internal strife in our Blood Spirit Cult."

"?"

Following Luo Benmo's instructions, the Blood Spirit Cult had already spread a red population to the east.

But for some unknown reason, a religion inexplicably appeared in the east, claiming that only in their land could people find salvation, master the true methods of cultivating immortality, and even have the means to cleanse their blood and spiritual roots.

The Blood Spirit Cult ruled by force and seduction, and this move caused it to lose a large part of its base.

Most importantly, there are claims that the leader of the Blood Spirit Cult is the "Nine Heavens Guardian, Divine Might, Demon Suppressing and Subduing, Spiritually Responsive and Universally Beneficial Heavenly Venerable." This title could be attributed to anyone, but when it was attributed to the leader of the Blood Spirit Cult, it nearly caused internal turmoil within the den of villains.

"What kind of bullshit Celestial Venerable is this? Where did all this come from?!" Luo Benmo was furious. "Do you even know where the source is?"

"It seems to have come from the south, originating from a folk tale," Lone Wolf said, hesitating whether to continue.

But seeing Luo Benmo's murderous gaze, he still said, "It tells the story of how you resisted the calamity and saved everyone in the capital."

Luo Benmo's expression improved slightly, but he didn't expect Lone Wolf to say again: "But the storybook also says that you are good in every way, except that you are short and have a penchant for polishing mirrors, and you like to target five- or six-year-old girls."

Luo Benmo was furious.

"I'm going to kill that author!"

Chapter 503 Marriage Certificate

Not long after Song Panning left, Xuanwu rushed over.

Her arrival brought Su Murong bad news: "Qinglong has escaped."

"?"

Su Murong stopped what he was doing, put down the pillow, and asked, "Where did you run off to?"

Xuanwu smiled wryly: "That guy went out of the city to mess around with men, and then, for some reason, he ran off with one of them."

The four spirits can communicate with each other. Before the Azure Dragon left, it didn't pass on a message to anyone else, but instead passed it on to the Black Tortoise.

She only said one thing: [Go solo, don't worry about me.]

Unlike Luo Benmo, Su Murong didn't get angry. Instead, he stroked his chin and pondered.

After a long pause, she finally asked Xuanwu, "What do you think?"

Xuanwu answered without hesitation: "It is obvious that this is a trick by the enemy. They want to lure you out of the capital and then try to assassinate you."

She added, "The White Tiger has been staying at the execution ground, which is located in the capital. It is protected by Song Panning's formation, so the people of the Guardian Heaven Sect couldn't find an opportunity to strike. Therefore, they set their sights on the Azure Dragon."

Su Murong was speechless: "So how did this guy manage to take his womanizing to the outskirts of the city?"

Not to mention that there are only Li Chumo's orc alliance outside the city and no men at all, the message she left behind is also strange. How could Qinglong elope with a man and leave behind such a message?

Suzaku sighed, "Could it be that Azure Dragon is truly bewitched by the other party?"

Xuanwu and Su Murong looked very grim.

Who the hell can say for sure?

She stood up, and Zhuque hurriedly stood up as well, following her. Xuanwu saw Su Murong walking out and couldn't help but advise again, "My lord, it would be better if you didn't act impulsively."

Su Murong said coldly, "Qinglong is in such a state, what can I do?"

So he wasn't planning to go find her after all. Xuanwu breathed a sigh of relief, but then asked in confusion, "Then, my lord?"

Su Murong said loudly, "Go find Song Panning. The other party obviously started with someone close to us. I'll inform her quickly, just in case something really goes wrong!"

Villains must not fight amongst themselves; they must stick together.

Song Panning understood this principle, and so did Su Murong.

However, not everyone understands this, or even if everyone does understand it, there will still be more or less problems when it comes to actual implementation.

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Meanwhile, Xu Anlu received the message and discussed it with Xu Anyin in the consciousness space.