The improved female villains regained their memories.

Ye Buxin's lips curled up slightly, and she raised her hand to use a clever technique. The green enveloped the two of them, and the scene in front of them shattered, turning into a green space.

This time it was Yang Pingsheng's turn to be astonished: "You really did it? Those forbidden killing moves, could it be that you...?"

"Yes." Ye Buxin nodded: "So, Pingsheng, do you know why I took on this mission?"

Yang Pingsheng took a deep breath: "You're after the books, Ye Buxin, you're really bold."

When Prince Chao fled to Chu, he brought with him a large number of royal cultivation manuals. Logically, those manuals should have been in the hands of the Chu royal family. However, King Ping of Chu died that year, and Chu fell into internal strife. Prince Chao did not enter the capital of Chu in time, but instead lingered in the surrounding areas. As a result, those manuals were not brought under Chu's control in time.

The one who truly controlled the classic texts was Prince Chao. After Prince Chao died, these classic texts disappeared without a trace. What followed was Laozi writing the "Record of Cultivation of the Heavenly Way" and going into seclusion, and the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" being published. From then on, the unified path of cultivation disappeared, the Dao split into a hundred, and various schools of immortal cultivation methods emerged one after another.

The State of Chu salvaged some ancient books from the common people, which later became part of the State of Chu's library.

Ye Buxin was a noblewoman from the State of Chu and had access to the Chu State's collection of books. The forbidden killing techniques she studied were the ultimate secrets of the Chu State's collection of books.

"If Qin were to unify the world, I would definitely collect all the cultivation manuals in the world." Ye Bu thought to himself, "Fusu has just agreed that, in order to help with the research, we can freely browse the books in the Prince's mansion and the Qin Palace. Pingsheng, do you know what this means?"

"It means we can finally find the answers we're looking for," Yang Pingsheng said in a deep voice.

Why does the immortal body have drawbacks?

Where does destiny come from?

What is the way the Heavenly Dao operates?

What lies beyond the world?

What kind of path should a person take?

Yang Pingsheng and Ye Buxin both had many similar questions, and they were eager to find the answers.

That is why Ye Buxin readily agreed to Fusu's request.

As for the so-called path to immortality...

"I've looked at that cultivation path, and I completely don't understand the purpose of this arrangement." Ye Buxin frowned. "The three nodes of soul, spiritual energy, and reality are arranged inexplicably. Since when have soul techniques become the standard for distinguishing between immortals and mortals?"

There is no unified path to immortality cultivation in this world; there are only the unique methods of various immortal sects.

Take immortal artifacts for example. These are weapons that are actually created from one's own soul, representing the person's "essence". They are completely different from spiritual energy methods (such as killing moves, spiritual energy protection, etc.). Ye Bu wondered why the Guardian Heaven Sect would choose this path.

One is about the use of the soul, and the other is about the use of spiritual energy; the two are completely unrelated. From Ye Buxin's perspective, this path first involves developing a celestial body, absorbing spiritual energy, cultivating spiritual roots, and tempering the body to remove impurities. Then, suddenly, it switches to developing celestial artifacts. What was the point of all that going through all that?

While immortal artifacts can indeed create their own killing moves based on their characteristics, the ancients have already created many killing moves through other means. Later generations can directly connect to the celestial immortal realm, so why add the earth immortal level?

It's so weird.

"And this description of the Immortal Realm, is it directly copied from 'The Record of Cultivation of the Heavenly Dao'?" Ye Bu thought to himself, "Jumping from the real to the origin of the Heavenly Dao, unless the Heavenly Dao itself descends to bestow the origin, I can't understand what the end of this path is like."

The Record of Cultivation of the Heavenly Way was written by Laozi, the librarian of the royal library of the Zhou Dynasty. It is said to record the general outline of cultivation, but the descriptions in it are extremely mysterious. It has been altered in many ways since it was passed down to the present day, making it impossible to distinguish its authenticity.

In short, upon first glance at this path of cultivation, Ye Buxin would find many problems and flaws.

“The Guardian Sect has its own considerations,” Yang Pingsheng said. “But as you said, this is our opportunity to access the library. The library is our goal, so we don’t need to take this path too seriously.”

Ye Buxin shook her head: "That's not what I think."

"Oh?"

“Think about it, all the major events in the world can be summed up in just a few things. Now, we’ve taken on one of them.” Ye Bu thought to himself, “This path is one we’ve tested, so of course we can modify it based on the parts that are not right.”

"Do you understand? We can instill our will."

"As long as Fusu's side approves, and the Heavenly Protection Sect and the Prince of Qin agree, then from now on, the people of the world will follow our ideas, and we can guide them correctly."

Yang Pingsheng smiled helplessly: "What is right or wrong? Bu Xin, even we ourselves are not sure if we are right or wrong."

"We must be right."

Ye Buxin said firmly, "Even if it's not right, we must make it right. That's the path we've walked all our lives."

Yang Pingsheng fell silent.

"In short, this matter is settled." Ye Buxin made her decision as usual. The green world shattered layer by layer, and as she returned to the real world, she suddenly remembered something and asked, "What did you and Third Senior Sister talk about last night?"

Yang Pingsheng looked at her: "I thought you would listen."

“I listened until she said ‘I live for you,’ and at that point I couldn’t listen anymore and left. In my life, did you ever feel like you could scold her?”

Am I really that unreasonable?

He smiled, then his expression turned serious as he replied, "I just told her that I wouldn't live for her."

Hmph, that's more like it.

Ye Buxin couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, her lips curving upwards again: "I thought you would go along with it."

"Don't joke around, I don't like that line either."

Yang Pingsheng sighed: "Living with the burdens imposed by others, living for others, is not as easy as dying."

"What, you don't like it?"

"Yes, I don't like it."

He only wants to live for himself.

Chapter 601 I Have No Regrets

Since receiving Fusu's mission, Ye Buxin often lingered in the royal palace and the prince's mansion's library. By the time Yang Pingsheng realized that this might not be a good thing, a month had already passed.

For the past month, Ye Buxin has been studying various classic texts like a starving person seeing food.

When Yang Pingsheng went to see her, she no longer discussed things with him as before, but instead buried herself in the pile of books and muttered to herself.

"My former subordinates have replied to me. It's now basically confirmed that the King of Qin has involved Li Si in designing the new roads. Although he's heavily relying on his senior brother, he hasn't given up on Li Si after all."

Inside the room, a spiritual fire burned, and a spiritual energy barrier isolated everything. Yang Pingsheng sat on a chair nearby, munching on fruit as he spoke.

Ye Buxin, who was engrossed in his books, gave an "oh" sound, his mind elsewhere.

Yang Pingsheng looked at her for a few seconds, took a bite of fruit, and continued, "I'm also investigating those three strange people. The one named Wang Jingxing is nothing unusual. Senior Brother basically uses him to run errands. The two sisters are a bit strange. There's a strange power around them that my reconnaissance-type killing moves can't penetrate at all."

"Ah."

"My senior sister has also started to get busy. Since I refused her invitation to dinner last week, she hasn't made any moves, but she hasn't stopped monitoring me."

"Ah."

"Second Senior Brother has connections with the Li family. The Li family's spies have infiltrated the young master's residence. I've seen Second Senior Brother have had quite a bit of contact with these spies, but I don't know if Eldest Senior Brother is aware of it."

"Ah."

"Speaking of Senior Brother, I saw him take Meng Ying to the outskirts a couple of days ago, and he did it openly. He's about to marry the eldest daughter of the Wang family, but now he's taking Meng Ying with him under the guise of being a bodyguard. I don't understand what he's trying to do."

"Ah."

"..."

"Ah."

"The weather's nice today, how about we go for a walk?"

"Ah."

Yang Pingsheng raised an eyebrow, picked up a new fruit, and subtly used a magical technique. His illusory body remained in place, while his true body transformed into spiritual energy. He then stuffed the fruit into Ye Buxin's mouth.

"!?"

The sudden obstruction in her mouth finally interrupted Ye Buxin's reverie. Annoyed, she took the fruit out of her mouth, looked up at Yang Pingsheng who had reverted to his true form and was pretending to be fine, and said, "Are you bored?"

“Let’s go for a walk,” Yang Pingsheng said, pointing outside. “You just promised me.”

The sun was shining brightly outside. For the past month, the capital had experienced several days of light rain and overcast skies, but today was a rare sunny day.

Ye Buxin shifted her gaze from the window back to Yang Pingsheng and said somewhat seriously, "Pingsheng, have you finished what you were supposed to do?"

Yang Pingsheng looked at the ceiling guiltily.

Ye Buxin gave him a bunch of killer moves and asked him to try to combine and improve these moves with their ingenious applications, which was really asking too much of him.

Using clever techniques was his weakness to begin with, and combining them with lethal moves was even more difficult. He locked himself in his room for several days, scratching his head in frustration, before finally giving up.

"How about we have some fruit?" He smiled at Ye Buxin, his eyes crinkling, as if he hadn't heard her.

"Humph."

Ye Buxin snorted coldly, picked up the fruit in her hand, and took a bite.

"How is it? Juicy, crisp, and sweet?"

"generally."

She said that, but she showed no sign of stopping.

Yang Pingsheng stood up and, as if by magic, produced another fruit and placed it in front of her, continuing, "Let's go for a walk."

"Don't change the subject."

Failed.

"Improving the killing move is simple, but the new ingenious applications you gave me are too difficult. I need to familiarize myself with them first," Yang Pingsheng said vaguely.

"Alright, then I'll keep you company for a day." After finishing the fruit, Ye Buxin magically produced a handkerchief and wiped her mouth.

"Look at today... um?" Yang Pingsheng was about to come up with another excuse, but he didn't expect Ye Buxin to agree.

He thought Ye Buxin would be sarcastic as before, or at least scold him a few times, but he didn't expect her to agree so easily.

"We need to go out for a walk." Ye Buxin looked out the window: "Staying cooped up in the room isn't a good thing."

"..."

This left Yang Pingsheng speechless.

"What are you still doing here?" Ye Buxin glared at him. "Get out, I'm going to change my clothes."

"You look fine in this outfit."

"go out."

"Tsk."

Yang Pingsheng went out and stood at the door to wait. During this time, he noticed that the spies around him were constantly watching this side.

"Isn't that too blatant?"