We made you practice martial arts, and you've mastered the Great Golden Body?

"Master, there is a short message you need to know."

"What?" Shen Bailian frowned slightly, his eyes suddenly narrowed, and he looked at Xiao Wu, who was projected in the air, with a rather unfriendly expression. He was ready to take out the Dragon Slayer from his storage ring at any time.

This has never happened before.

Could it be that the changes in the world caused Xiao Wu to develop an intelligence that shouldn't have been there? Or, to use a more fitting term for this world, it is that he formed a spirit.

Either outcome is something Shen Bailian cannot bear.

After all, this world currently lacks the fertile ground for technological development. A single misstep could expose it, and might even reveal the Zhenyuan Universe.

Therefore, if reality is as Shen Bailian imagines, there is only one way to deal with it: to humanely destroy Xiao Wu, the artificial intelligence.

That is, to destroy the body and cover up the evidence.

Fortunately.

"According to Article 23 of Category 3 of the Interdimensional Exploration Regulations, and based on data deduced from the portable intelligent hub carried by the general's battle armor, if the original Plan A is executed, your exposure risk will increase dramatically from the original 15% to 30%. If you use..."

"I see." Shen Bailian said thoughtfully.

According to the original plot of the Legend of the White Snake, Fahai also used some special means to force Bai Suzhen to reveal her true form in the middle of the night.

After that, the decoration that Bai Suzhen transformed into frightened Xu Xian, causing him to faint immediately.

If it's just fainting, that's not so bad.

However, Xu Xian's fainting was far from ordinary; he had lost one of his three souls and seven spirits, a condition commonly known as soul loss.

This scene is meant to test Xu Xian's love for Bai Suzhen, whether it's physical attraction or emotional love.

The most important factor in making this plot possible is that Xiaoqing cannot appear beside Bai Suzhen, at least not during the story's progression.

Otherwise, it would have been just a smokescreen to fool Xu Xian into becoming crippled.

As for the original plot, Shen Bailian has almost forgotten what happened to Xiaoqing that caused her to be absent when Bai Suzhen revealed her true form.

Therefore, in order for the storyline of the Legend of the White Snake to proceed normally, Shen Bailian specially devised several patch plans.

His original Plan A was to use a humanoid robot to attract Xiaoqing's attention and trap her, so that Xiaoqing would not appear when Bai Suzhen revealed her true form.

But now, this could actually increase the risk of exposure.

Should we continue taking the risk?
This is a difficult choice!

After a long time~
Inside the underground chamber, apart from the barely perceptible hum of the instruments, there was no other sound, as if the whole world had fallen into silence.

Even the air seemed to have frozen.

"Master, would you like to continue with Plan A as originally planned?" Xiao Wu reminded him as usual, perfectly performing its task as an artificial intelligence.

"Yes." Shen Bailian's eyes narrowed slightly. He gritted his teeth and made up his mind. In the end, he chose to implement the plan as originally planned.

On the lake where dragon boats race, the daytime hustle and bustle has faded away, and the lake has quietly returned to its former tranquil embrace.

The entire West Lake is like a tranquil painting, with only the croaking of frogs and the soft sounds of fish leaping and splashing on the water echoing gently under the bright moonlight, adding a touch of liveliness to this peaceful night.

Suddenly—

"Wow!"

Accompanied by a series of clear and melodious splashes, one, two... hundreds of dark figures suddenly emerged from the deep water, their eyes flashing with a chilling crimson light.

But in just a moment, the scarlet light disappeared, and he returned to his normal appearance.

Just for a moment.

The hundreds and thousands of dark figures vanished with a whoosh onto the shimmering surface of West Lake, moving with incredible speed and almost silently, leaving only ripples that gradually spread outwards.

Mimicry bee swarm, a simplified version of mimicry robot.

“Connect to shared vision.” Shen Bailian sat on a futuristic-looking floating chair. As soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of light screens suddenly appeared.

The images appearing on those light screens were what the mimicry swarm robots saw.

On the streets of Lin'an City.

Xiaoqing hummed softly as she strolled along the cobblestone path, enjoying the gentle evening breeze. As darkness fell, the number of pedestrians on the road dwindled.

But every now and then, you can see some children playing and frolicking in the streets, even though you can hear them calling from home, they are reluctant to go home.

I don't want to spend this beautiful day asleep.

"Eh~" After a long while, Xiaoqing stopped in a pavilion by the West Lake. Looking at the rippling water, a sense of melancholy welled up inside her. She pouted her cherry-like lips and murmured softly:

"When will this ever end?"

There was an indescribable melancholy in his words.

Xiaoqing's original thought was that although Xu Xian was the reincarnation of Xu Xuan, if Xu Xuan's luck wasn't very good over the course of several hundred years...

That's enough to make an ordinary human like him reincarnate dozens of times.

Two similar flowers are ultimately two flowers, not the same flower.

Therefore, according to Xiaoqing's original guess, Bai Suzhen would most likely get tired of this inexplicable marriage soon and leave Xu Xian.

But she never expected that Bai Suzhen would fall for this marriage.

Xu Xian wasn't as bad as she thought. Although he seemed weak, he was quite reliable in crucial moments. Sometimes, he would even go to the cliffs to retrieve a precious medicinal herb.

It has a charm that is gentle on the outside but strong on the inside.

If we could continue living such ordinary lives, it would be quite good, at least much better than fighting and killing in the mountains and forests.

Working at sunrise and resting at sunset, simple and pure, is a rare kind of happiness.

But is this possible?
Xiaoqing is a snake demon with aspirations. Her goal in cultivating is to transcend the mundane and become an immortal, rather than living such a bland and uneventful daily life.

She gazed at the bright moon in the sky, emptying her mind, her heart becoming incredibly clear, her thoughts racing, the soft and pure moonlight filling her soul.

At this moment, she was completely clear inside and out, as if she had returned to the dark forest. Her senses were exceptionally sharp, and even without using her magic, nothing around her could escape her perception.

"Decided!"

"That's fine..." Xiaoqing looked at the green mountains not far away, a dark forest where the strong prey on the weak, but also her home:
“Since my sister is unwilling to leave, it is not impossible for me to go alone. With my sister’s cultivation level, even if she cannot deal with that old bald monk, she can still escape.”

Xiaoqing, with her strong will, simply couldn't bear such a bland and uneventful life.

Therefore, after thinking it over, Xiaoqing made up her mind to leave Lin'an City for a while. With Bai Suzhen's cultivation level, she didn't need a snake demon like her with only a few hundred years of cultivation to protect her.

On the contrary, most of the time, Bai Suzhen had to multitask to protect Xiaoqing.

Suddenly, "Hiss~" Xiaoqing's eyes abruptly changed from normal human eyes to vertical pupils, and contracted violently. She felt her forehead throbbing, as if it were about to be pierced by a sharp weapon.

She was terrified; the attack was incredibly fast. Instinctively, she tilted her head slightly, relying entirely on her fighting instincts to dodge the attack by the slightest margin.

boom!
With a crisp sound, Xiaoqing saw that the pillar of the pavilion behind her had been pierced by an unknown sharp weapon. The air currents made a sharp explosion, and the friction with the pillar produced a burnt smell.

"who is it?"

"Old bald monk?" Upon hearing about this sneak attack, many thoughts immediately flashed through Xiaoqing's mind as she guessed who the attacker was.

However, the next moment.

shhhhhh!
As sharp explosions continued to ring out, the previous attack seemed to have been just a fuse, and a tidal wave of attacks came again.

The bright moonlight was obscured by a dark curtain, giving Xiaoqing no chance to catch her breath.

It seemed like a fatal blow was imminent.

After feeling the surging attack, Xiaoqing sensed the extraordinary speed and saw the true nature of those weapons—teardrop-shaped iron objects resembling tiny fish fry.

The howling wind, the speed, the destructive power.

This wasn't an attack at all! It was murder!

Who is it? Who is it?!

They attacked inexplicably, targeting vital points with utter recklessness, treating Lin'an City like a main road, coming and going as they pleased.

but.

Just for a moment.

Xiaoqing's magical power surged, and with a wave of her hand, the water in West Lake was instantly stirred, forming a thick, transparent barrier that wrapped around her.

Xiaoqing's expression brightened after confirming that it wasn't that old bald monk Fahai. Her tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

She even had the mind to wonder who or what had attacked her.

"bass!"

With a metallic scraping sound, Xiao Qing's eyes flickered slightly, quickly locking onto an exceptionally dazzling pale blue beam of light. In an instant, she traversed hundreds of meters and arrived before the Water Shield.

"This is?"

Before Xiaoqing could react, the terrifyingly high temperature carried by the high-energy particle beam could melt steel, let alone the small water shield.

Therefore, in just a moment, the high-energy beam of particles vaporized all the surrounding water and passed through the misty white water vapor.

"Bang! Crackle!"

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" Xiaoqing turned to the side and saw a deep pit with a diameter of ten feet behind her, in which red lava flowed slowly.

There was also a constant flash of lightning.

Her chest heaved violently, her breathing was extremely heavy, and her eyes were filled with fear of the attack.

"What...what is this?" Xiaoqing was filled with lingering fear. Fortunately, she did not become complacent in this mundane life and remained highly vigilant.

Otherwise, she would probably have been pierced through by that terrifying attack by now.

Such terrifying high temperatures and destructive power are difficult for even some centuries-old demons skilled in fire magic to unleash.

Not to mention the thunderous power that is faintly mixed in with it.
For demons like them, it is an innate form of self-restraint.

"Found it." Stimulated by the life-or-death crisis, Xiaoqing's magical power surged wildly, her eyes were dyed a deep blue under the influence of the magical power, and her perception was enhanced to an extreme.

For swarm robots, the high-energy particle beam is like a powerful attack, consuming most of their energy after firing it.

And the temperature will also increase dramatically.

Therefore, Xiaoqing easily discovered the swarm robot that was in an optically invisible state.

"This is... a puppet?" Xiaoqing wondered, because after observing the swarm robot, she was certain that it was not any kind of living being in this world.

She discovered that her vision could penetrate the skin and see inside, and that the interiors of the puppets were incredibly intricate.

Xiaoqing went through her past memories in her mind, carefully recalling the enemies she had encountered.

However, I have no recollection of this at all. Puppetry was extremely rare in this era, even hundreds of years ago.

As for before that, she hadn't yet taken human form, so how could she have provoked such an enemy?
These swarm robots are described as puppets, but they don't quite resemble puppets. They don't have any array patterns on their bodies, and the source of their power seems to be a crystal that shines with a pale blue light.

"Trying to escape?" As Xiaoqing was going through the relevant information in her mind, she suddenly noticed that the swarm of robots was actually fleeing towards the depths of West Lake.

The surprise attack was a deadly move; then they suddenly ran away without explaining any reason.

Can this be tolerated?
Xiaoqing, with her fiery temper, could not tolerate such behavior. Her face turned icy cold, and anger welled up inside her. She dashed out of the lakeside pavilion in one stride.

Then it suddenly transformed into a green snake tens of meters long, and followed the direction in which the swarm of robot bees fled in the water.

Shortly after Xiaoqing left.

"Another third-party force has intervened?" Fahai's figure suddenly appeared at the edge of the pit. Looking at the scorching magma and crackling lightning at the bottom of the pit, a strange chill suddenly rose in his heart.

Things have now developed in a way that has exceeded his expectations.

Fahai's original plan was to force Bai Suzhen to reveal her true form in front of Xu Xian, and then make Xu Xian repent and cooperate with him to capture Bai Suzhen.

After all, one has to tie the bell to untie it.

In this plan, Fahai's task was to protect Xu Xian and keep an eye on Xiaoqing, preventing her from appearing when Bai Suzhen revealed her true form.

Up until a minute ago, the plan was going perfectly.

However, Fahai never expected that the plan would go wrong at the most critical moment. But by a twist of fate, it did not affect the normal execution of the plan.

Since Xiaoqing has already been lured out of Lin'an City, he no longer needs to keep an eye on her movements.

"However, why do I always feel like something is missing?" Fahai placed his hand on his chest. This was clearly a good thing, but for some reason, he always felt a sense of loss that he couldn't explain.

It felt as if I had lost something extremely important.

Sudden.

"Ah!!!" A hysterical scream filled with terror suddenly echoed through the silent city of Lin'an.

"The time has come." The moment Fahai heard the voice, he recognized it as Xu Xian's scream, which meant that Bai Suzhen had already begun to reveal her true form.

Let's rewind to fifteen minutes earlier. (End of Chapter)