The improved female villains regained their memories.

"After all, she's good at deduction, so she might have actually deduced something."

"It's that serious."

The Demon King calmed down and looked at Ling Tiandu: "No matter how serious it is, I will never allow you to joke with human lives and solve problems by any means necessary. Such behavior is no different from that of a villain."

"Master!"

"Stop talking, get out of here!"

Ling Tiandu glanced at the Demon King, then at the surrounding divine beasts, unable to hide the disappointment in his eyes.

"Humph!"

She turned and left without looking back.

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Time: 651st cycle

"Ahhhh!"

The tengu screamed in agony, nearly fainting.

Ling Tiandu stood in the darkness, watching with cold eyes.

"After fifty-one cycles of effort, we finally caught a test subject."

She waved her hand and conducted the experiment on the tengu according to her memory.

"Hmph, if we want to analyze it, we really need to use divine beasts as test subjects."

Ling Tiandu narrowed his eyes, ignoring the celestial dog's screams, and continued his experiment.

"Every plague must have a source, so where did this plague come from?"

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Time: 741st

"Heaven is jealous..."

Looking at her lover lying on the bed, calling out to her repeatedly, Ling Tiandu did not go forward, but instead put her hands behind her back and pondered.

"Heaven is jealous, I can't hold on any longer, I..."

Yi Changcun on the bed gradually stopped breathing.

Ling Tiandu still didn't step forward, watching coldly.

"This time, I isolated the Guardian Heaven Sect, but the Guardian Heaven Sect still suffered an outbreak of plague."

"The plague of the Heavenly Guardian Sect did not originate from the lower realm, and similarly, the plague of the lower realm was not spread by the Heavenly Guardian Sect."

"The plague has an incubation period, and the incubation period can be quite long. I need more experiments."

"But I am certain of one thing now: this was man-made."

A fierce glint appeared in her eyes, as if she had gone mad: "Xiao Yun..."

Chapter 559 Heaven's Jealousy

Time: 800th time

Long cycles of reincarnation, repeated failures.

Xiaoyun no longer appears, but for a period of time it seems to be frozen, and as long as the node is reached, the cycle will start.

The strategist watched coldly as the chess piece named Ling Tiandu struggled incessantly.

By the eight hundredth time, Ling Tiandu's heart was in complete chaos. Her conscience was still there, but it was barely tainted by darkness.

This sudden plague was like an insurmountable obstacle; no matter how much Ling Tiandu struggled or tried to prevent it, it was all in vain.

She gradually changed; she stopped explaining herself to people and became too lazy to do anything unnecessary.

She no longer had any reverence for life, and those so-called natural laws and ethics gradually faded from her mind.

finally--

Yi Changcun opened his eyes.

The pain of the plague tormented his body; he coughed and slowly got up.

"Little Bell".

He called out his lover's name, but no one answered in the vast palace.

He walked out of the palace gate, and the once-powerful Guardian Sect was now a blood-red mess.

Someone rode on a blood-red auspicious cloud, descending from the sky.

"Small......"

Yi Changcun's voice was swallowed up in mid-air before he could finish speaking.

What did he see?

A blood-red mass, twisted and swallowed by darkness...

......monster?

"Why are you up?" the monster asked, its voice identical to that of its Daoist partner. "It seems my pills are still somewhat effective, allowing you to move around for a few minutes before you die."

"...Xiaoling?"

"I look ugly right now, don't I? It's okay, I'll be better next time, next time..."

"Xiaoling, what, what are you saying?"

As Yi Changcun was speaking, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart, which made him curl up on the ground.

He could only use his spiritual sense, so of course he couldn't see the mountain of corpses behind Ling Tiandu.

"Little, Little Bell..."

In the moment before his death, facing the undisguised Ling Tiandu, Yi Changcun finally saw the darkness that had been accumulating for so long in the other party.

That was the deepest darkness, deeper than the darkness of anyone he had ever seen.

"Xiaoling, you must be exhausted, I..."

He died before he could finish speaking his last words.

Ling Tiandu watched coldly and sighed helplessly, "Although they can move around for a while, they will die at a fixed time."

This is certainly not an ordinary plague.

Ling Tiandu coldly stared at her lover's corpse, then at the corpses strewn all around her from the Guardian Sect.

After eight hundred reincarnations, she already possessed all the intelligence on the Heavenly Guardian Sect. It would be incredibly easy for her to use the plague to scheme against these divine beasts and immortals.

"Hard......?"

She silently recited Yi Changcun's last words, her heart unmoved.

From which cycle does it begin?

Nothing seemed to stir her heart anymore; her heart was as if it were dead, devoid of anything but darkness.

Through countless reincarnations, she witnessed life and death, greed, joy and sorrow.

She became numb, she understood, she... got used to it.

So she became a stranger, so unfamiliar that she didn't even recognize herself.

Now, she possesses a wealth of knowledge and information. She is no longer that naive little girl. Even if all her talents were taken away, she could still make a name for herself with them.

The questions I once had seem to be unimportant now.

She stood in the middle of the dilapidated Hutian Sect, like an old woman on her deathbed.

She had no expression at all, yet two tear tracks slid down her cheeks.

Habit is a powerful force.

She was so powerful that she acted subconsciously instead of thinking about why she was doing it.

Master, sister, father, mother, Changcun, Xiaoqian... no one has changed.

In this endless cycle of time, the only one who changes is herself.

Yi Changcun used to be her outlet for venting, but with the appearance of Xiaoyun and the outbreak of the plague, this outlet was also blocked.

She wanders alone in the river of time, never able to escape.

The many emotions hidden in that chaotic darkness were something even she couldn't explain.

She just stubbornly stared into the darkness, just as the darkness stubbornly stared back at her.

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Time: 915th

"Hahahaha, I did it! I did it!"

Ling Tiandu stood in the main hall and burst into laughter.

"It turns out this plague is a delayed-effect killing move. Centered on Yi Changcun, it begins to infect those around him the moment he is born. That's why there are infected people in both the Guardian Heaven Sect and the lower realm, because the source is Yi Changcun!"

She laughed heartily, like a child.

Deep within the main hall, Yi Changcun looked at her in horror: "Who are you? Where is this place? What do you want?"

Ling Tiandu completely ignored Yi Changcun's words and instead laughed wildly like a madman.

Starting from the 811th reincarnation, she became too lazy to follow the usual procedures.

From the moment of birth, they constantly strengthen themselves, practice killing moves, and then devise traps, capture people, and conduct experiments.

Yi Changcun's attitude? It doesn't matter.

Whether you know him or not is not important.

Importantly, after experiencing the 915th cycle, she finally cracked Xiaoyun's time-delayed killing move.

"That's amazing, that's amazing! I should have thought of that long ago, before I was infected!" Her face was flushed, and she said to herself as if she were drunk, "This delayed killing move involves many aspects: time, space, life, and many powers that I don't understand. And my body may have been tainted by that unfamiliar power because of reincarnation, which is why this killing move is useless against me."