The improved female villains regained their memories.

She suddenly covered her face and knelt down.

"My lady?" Zhiyuan and the others looked at her with concern.

"I'm fine, don't stop the ceremony."

"Yes."

As the energy of Heaven changes, changes begin to occur in the earth, sky, ocean, the three realms, time, and space.

Ye Buxin lowered her hand, her eyes widening dramatically due to the twitching.

"But it's true!" Wen Shihan's words kept echoing in Ye Buxin's ears, stirring up her memories.

She looked down at the unconscious Yang Pingsheng and cursed inwardly:

"asshole......."

Chapter 663 Rain, Fish, Chongqing

Everything is shattered here.

Before rebirth comes destruction.

Golden threads entangled the villains, then spread throughout the world, eventually leading to world domination.

A new world was born, and consequently, a sage was born.

Ye Buxin looked down at the masses from his high vantage point, showing no sense of triumph whatsoever.

She was walking on this road.

Having already embarked on this path, she had no choice but to continue.

Once you've left, there's no going back.

This is a path that belongs only to Ye Buxin.

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Yang Pingsheng opened his eyes.

When the blade pierced his heart, he thought he was dead.

Unfortunately, he didn't die. Not only did he not die, but when he opened his eyes, it seemed as if he had returned to the Valley of Immortals.

That was where he went into seclusion after his mission ended, near the outskirts of the capital. He stood on a path in the valley, surrounded by lush greenery.

He had been on the battlefield of the Heavenly Guardian Sect just moments before, but in the blink of an eye he found himself here. This feeling of being in another world left him in a daze.

"Xiao Han?" he called softly.

No response.

He knew that Wen Shihan always liked to hide in his shadow. When he finally regained consciousness, he saw the villain named Ye Buxin slash at Wen Shihan with a sword, but he didn't think Wen Shihan would die. That kid was the most cunning. Although he wasn't strong, he had a lot of tricks up his sleeve. How could he possibly die like that?

Unfortunately, there was no response.

The girl who would passionately reminisce whenever he spoke was now completely forgotten, as if she had truly died.

"Sister, Xiao Lu, Xiao Rong..."

He read them aloud softly one by one, but there was no response.

The tokens given to him by the female villains had all become inanimate objects. Yang Pingsheng examined himself and found that his spiritual sea was dry, his spiritual veins were blocked, and he could not even absorb spiritual energy.

He turned back into a mortal.

The air around him became restless, and a lot of noise appeared in his ears. The greenery no longer represented vitality, but instead became a prison that confined him.

He felt a little short of breath, so he sat down on a nearby rock and took deep breaths.

Suddenly, Yang Pingsheng sensed something, looked up sharply, and saw a black cat sitting on a tree branch.

The person and the cat stared at each other, and the air was very quiet.

"Hi?" The system greeted him somewhat awkwardly.

Yang Pingsheng didn't say anything, he just looked at it.

He didn't think encountering the system at this time was a good thing.

Besides a nameless despair, there was also an unspeakable sigh.

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"Wait, wait, Pingsheng, listen to me first!!"

The system, pinned to the ground by Yang Pingsheng, kicked its limbs wildly and howled, "A new world has been created, and the fate of the world and your fate have been woven together. If you try to kill me, fate will stop you!"

"Besides, only I know the situation. Only I know what those female villains are like. What's the point of you killing me and then being trapped here aimlessly?!"

The system struggled desperately, its tone pleading for mercy.

Yang Pingsheng didn't say anything, but kept holding it, only slightly loosening his grip.

The system got a chance to catch its breath and quickly placed its two front paws on Yang Pingsheng's hands, saying in a fawning tone, "Yes, that's it. Pingsheng, calm down first. Trust me, I won't hurt you."

Yang Pingsheng recalled the past, and the phrase "the net of heaven is vast" that it used to constantly use, and almost crushed it to death.

"How dare you say that?"

"..." The system was embarrassed and at a loss for words.

"Well, I was deceived before too. Believe me, I really meant no harm. Besides, you were already killed in the car accident back then. If I hadn't chosen you, you would have died long ago. Don't you want to see Xiaoyu? I couldn't before, but now I promise you. Xiaoyu is waiting for you there..."

Yang Pingsheng was too lazy to understand what the system was trying to convey; he only heard the words "little fish."

Small fish?

His hands were trembling slightly. Was Xiaoyu here too?

Memories surged wildly, and his head throbbed with pain. Was she resurrected? Or was her death also a hoax? Yang Pingsheng could no longer believe it.

"What exactly happened?"

Seeing that Yang Pingsheng was about to increase the pressure on his hand, the system quickly said, "Really, I'm not lying to you. She's ahead. Just follow this road and go back to the place where you used to live in seclusion. She'll be waiting for you there!"

"I'm asking you, why is she here?!"

"Ah... she's always been there."

"Always?"

"Always."

The cold wind made the surrounding greenery creak and groan, like an eerie mockery. The noise around him subsided, and after a long while, Yang Pingsheng finally asked:

"Always been there? You told me she couldn't be resurrected, but now you say she's always been there. Was it all a lie from the beginning? No, you can't say that. Or rather, from the beginning, you never intended to target those female villains. Your target has always been me?"

The system, which was trying to bluff its way out, stiffened. It wanted to deny it, to change the subject, but in the end it lowered its head and said yes.

"...The plan to change the other female villains was devised by another system. In the beginning, you were accompanied by two systems, one responsible for others, and I was responsible for you."

The system hurriedly added, "Of course I didn't know at first. I always thought I was sending you to restrict other female villains, but I never expected... who knew you would end up becoming a villain yourself."

Hidden places, kept secret, are the beginning of everything, the choice of crucial moments. Only when people look back will they discover their significance.

The system's words to him, the things it made him do, and the person it ultimately gave him—all of this was not for any human chess player, Yang Pingsheng, but for the future villain, Yang Pingsheng.

This is the real human-chess plan.

"...You want to control me with your emotions."

Yang Pingsheng held the system up to him: "Is there anything else you're hiding from me?"

"It's gone, really gone, I swear!"

"All the mission completion and rewards are fake. What you really want is to trap me here, right?"

"..."

"say."

"Hahaha, right? I... I really don't know..."

He threw the system on the ground, clapped his hands, and stood up: "In that case, lead the way."

The system stared at him blankly.

Yang Pingsheng calmly said, "Since you want to restrict me, there's no need to say those false things."

"Take me there, to see my chess piece, to see... Little Fish."

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A lush forest, with tall and straight trees whose branches and leaves sway gently in the breeze, making a rustling sound.

The system led the way, and Yang Pingsheng followed it uphill.

"The villains are all fine, Pingsheng, you can rest assured about that." The system spoke intermittently from the front. It turned its head and saw sunlight filtering through the leaves and falling on Yang Pingsheng, who remained silent.

It suddenly remembered that Yang Pingsheng was no longer a human chess piece, but a villain, so it simply shut its mouth.

The sunlight was dazzling, and all around was an inescapable expanse of green. The only difference was a winding stream, its waters babbling and shimmering with silver light. Occasionally, a small fish would leap out of the water, splashing tiny droplets and making a crisp sound.

Yang Pingsheng suddenly asked, "Why does it have to be me? If you hadn't chosen me, how could I have ended up like this, becoming the villain?"

The system remained silent for a long time before finally saying, "I... I'm not quite sure either."

From its perspective, it had no choice but to select Yang Pingsheng, but now, upon closer reflection, the so-called "no choice" might actually be a form of guidance.

The true plan of Heaven is not even revealed to itself.

It couldn't answer Yang Pingsheng's question, so it thought it might be better to let someone else answer it.

Just then, they arrived.

“Look at my life.”

Yang Pingsheng looked up and saw a familiar courtyard not far away.

Big Yellow bounced around, wagging its tail at the doorway. A thin layer of mist hung above, like the earth's gentle breath. The woman from Jiangnan stood quietly beside Big Yellow, her feet on soft grass, the tips of which still held the morning dew, like tiny crystal fragments.

It's drizzling.

Yang Pingsheng walked up to her, stopped, and looked at her seriously for the first time.