The improved female villains regained their memories.

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Hong Lingyi suddenly widened her eyes: "Did you sense anything?"

Black Horned Mang looked at her: "What?"

"that is......"

Before he could finish speaking, Xu Baxian spoke up from above.

"My beloved ministers," he said with a smile, "I have reached a cooperation agreement with the Heavenly Dao, sacrificing the lives of all the people in the city to give my mother, the Empress Dowager of Qian Kingdom, a chance to live."

"Of course, my dear ministers, there is no need to panic. I have already entrusted the people of the Heavenly Dao to bring your families into the palace. As long as they are in the palace, they will be fine."

"Alright, that's all I have to say. Envoy, you may begin."

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The court was silent, and everyone stared wide-eyed.

"Your Majesty, you mustn't!" A man rushed forward, but before he could finish speaking, he fell to his death in the court.

No one expected that a mere "no" would trigger the power of fate to annihilate them.

His head was bleeding from the blow, staining the ground below red.

The palace maid watched calmly and said, "If there are no objections, then we..."

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boom!

A burst of spiritual energy struck, sending the palace maid flying backward.

"puff!"

Hei Jiao Mang spat out a mouthful of blood. A dignified True Immortal had actually damaged his foundation due to the circulation of spiritual energy.

Is this the power of destiny? He sensed it carefully, then straightened up and walked out step by step.

Hong Lingyi stared in horror, and even Bai Lingling, who usually bickered with him, covered her mouth and stared in shock.

Black Horned Mang walked step by step to the center of the court and stood next to the dead minister.

He looked coldly at the emperor sitting on the throne, as if he were seeing him for the first time.

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"Xu Baxian, you son of a bitch."

He started cursing.

"We served you with utmost loyalty, only to find you to be such a heartless scoundrel who disregards the lives of living beings."

“When you were in trouble, we were already immortals. It was because of our support and assistance that you were able to gradually contend with the Crown Prince, deal with the villains, and fight against the Heavenly Guardian Sect!”

“We are both your elders and your subjects. In any case, we are both your teachers and your friends.”

"But I never imagined that you, you bastard, would resort to such unscrupulous means to resurrect your mother. You didn't learn the good things from those villains, but you learned to disguise, conceal, be obsessed, and be ruthless. If we had known this would happen, we would never have let you have any contact with those people."

"Hmph, sacrificing the living to save your mother's life? Bullshit! The dead cannot be brought back to life; it is the natural order of things. Even the will of Heaven cannot disregard this natural order!"

He pointed at Xu Baxian, then at the palace maid who had gotten up, and shouted:

"You are not some Heavenly Way or Emperor, you are just a bunch of beasts..."

boom!

Before he could finish speaking, his spiritual root and spiritual sea exploded due to the disorder of spiritual energy.

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A piece of bloody flesh flew onto Xu Baxian's face.

A once unparalleled immortal self-destructed right before his eyes, yet he remained completely calm, even though the one who self-destructed was his closest confidant.

He reached out and calmly touched it.

That indifferent voice echoed through the court: "Is there anyone else who objects?"

Silence.

Hong Lingyi clenched her fists tightly, her eyes bleeding as she stared upwards.

Bai Lingling is the same; the three of them have been through so much time and have the best relationship.

But no one expected that Black Horn would die like that.

"Calm down!" Bai Lingling gritted her teeth and transmitted her voice to Hong Lingyi, "We can't make any moves. The power of destiny is too domineering. We have to endure!"

"I know I know."

Hong Lingyi replied "I know" twice. Bai Lingling looked up and saw two lines of bloody tears streaming down her face.

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Xu Baxian sat there, and the court was completely silent, with no movement.

The palace maid got up, dusted herself off, and walked to his side.

"Hmm, it seems there are no objections." Xu Baxian nodded and looked at the palace maid. "Then let's begin."

The palace maid nodded, her expression stern. She slowly raised her hands, her wide sleeves fluttering in the wind like two black clouds.

As she raised her hands, the ground inside the palace began to tremble violently, and beams of dark blue light surged out from the depths of the ground, rapidly spreading along the pre-carved rune patterns.

It was almost morning, and the sudden tremor had overturned the goods that the merchants had just displayed on the street. Fruits and vegetables rolled to the ground, and streaks of blue light emerged from the ground, wrapping around people's ankles like ropes.

The house began to shake, and roof tiles fell one after another. An elderly woman had just opened her door when, before she could react, a beam of blue light struck her, instantly enveloping her. The young couple clung to each other, trying to protect one another, but the blue light mercilessly separated them, pulling them in different directions.

The guards on the city walls were not spared either. They had been watching the outside world warily when the walls beneath their feet suddenly began to glow. Blue energy flowed along the walls, enveloping them. Their weapons fell from their hands, and they stood stiffly, their resolute eyes replaced by fear.

Inside the palace, in the main hall, the palace maid continued chanting obscure incantations. As the incantations progressed, the blue light grew stronger, beginning to coalesce into a massive vortex of energy. The city's inhabitants were continuously sucked into these vortices, their figures twisting and struggling within them before finally disappearing.

The river in the city, which had been flowing peacefully, now seemed to be boiling, its waters churning and bubbling with eerie blue light. The weeping willows along the riverbank were uprooted and swept into the sacrificial energy by the whirlpool.

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"Ok?"

The palace maid frowned.

Xu Baxian looked at her: "What's wrong?"

The palace maid said, "It seems like there's something there."

Boom!

The sky suddenly trembled.

The sky, covered in golden threads, suddenly twisted, and tens of thousands of insect-like threads spread up to fight against it.

"Oh no, the Fate Bureau!"

The palace maid was startled, but then she heard another rumble in the sky.

The sun rises at dawn.

At the entrance of the main hall, a figure stood there, the rising sun behind her casting a long shadow.

She held a long spear in her hand, and the tuft of hair on her head swayed in response.

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The eerie blue light began to flicker erratically, as if it had encountered an invisible obstacle.

In the city's central square, one of the core hubs of the grand formation, the eerie blue light, which had been surging and converging like a tidal wave, now seemed to have crashed into a solid dam.

A faint red light appeared quietly, initially as thin as a thread, but it quickly grew and spread. The red light, like a hungry flame, began to devour the dark blue light little by little.

The dark blue runes made a sizzling sound when touched by the red ones, like ice and snow melting away when exposed to fire.

In the city's residential area, the eerie blue energy had been binding the residents like ropes, preparing to drag them into the abyss of sacrifice. But then, a red light spread out, engaging in a fierce struggle with the eerie blue light.

The red light, like a nimble snake, snaked its way into the dark blue prison. Wherever the red light touched, the binding force of the dark blue began to weaken.

On the city wall, the protective barrier formed by the dark blue energy began to crumble, and red light emanated from the foundation of the wall, like magma gushing from underground.

The light climbed along the city wall, rapidly disintegrating the eerie blue glow wherever it went. Although the guards on the wall remained trapped in the blue energy, upon seeing the red light and sensing its familiar aura, they instinctively thought of someone.

That's the person who comes to mind subconsciously.

On the city's edge, the forest, once shrouded in a ghostly blue light, was now permeated by a red glow. The ghostly blue light was like receding tides, while the red light was like rising flames. The ghostly blue membranes on the trees were shattered by the red light, and the leaves rustled in the interplay of the two lights, echoing the wind.

The sun's light slowly rose, illuminating the capital.

Even the deep blue light had to submit to the sun's radiance.

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"Xu Anlu!!"

The palace maid's eyes widened, and she cried out in terror.

"How could it be you? Didn't you lose your memory? How could you possibly..."

How could it possibly be here?

Xu Anlu did not answer.

She wore armor that gleamed with a cold light, the scales of which reflected a dazzling light in the sunlight, as if she were a war goddess who had walked out of the light. She held a long spear, the tip of which pointed to the sky, and seemed to still retain the aura of past battles.

The long shadow, like a giant phoenix, stretched across the floor of the hall, like a silent declaration.

The ministers looked up in astonishment, their eyes all fixed on the doorway. Their expressions were filled with surprise, curiosity, and a barely perceptible hint of anticipation.

"Xu Anlu, how could she...?"

"This guy, he remembered it a long time ago."

Hong Lingyi and Bai Lingling watched, their grief mixed with shock.

They are true immortals, so of course they see more than others.

They saw that behind Xu Anlu, countless traces of the Great Dao spread out from her back, reaching straight to the sky.

The golden threads of fate and the traces of the Great Way clashed with each other, gaining a brief respite.

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