The improved female villains regained their memories.

There are nine worlds, and the cultivation method in each world is the same: first, one must form an immortal body, then gather spiritual energy to nurture spiritual roots, temper the body to remove impurities, and cultivate immortal killing techniques. Starting from learning immortal killing techniques, one must first become an Earth Immortal, then a Celestial Immortal, then a True Immortal, and finally a Divine Immortal.

Luo Benmo's uniqueness lies in her innate immortal body and her talent for devouring. She can choose to devour the spiritual root of an Earth Immortal, skipping the previous steps and directly becoming an Earth Immortal. Once she becomes an Earth Immortal, her talent will undergo a qualitative change, allowing her to strengthen her own spiritual root by devouring others' spiritual roots.

During the Second World, Yang Pingsheng spent countless days and nights alone at home, waiting for Luo Benmo to return.

Waiting for the sister covered in blood to come back.

Many times, he wondered, what kind of person is Luo Benmo?

She was stern and ruthless, leaving nothing but devastation in her wake and stirring up a bloodbath. Behind her was a group of followers, all of whom were heinous criminals.

The righteous fear her and suppress her, but she cares nothing. Doing as she pleases is her defining characteristic, and acting without restraint is her style. No one likes her except the wicked; even the wicked are drawn to her ruthlessness.

The system said that Luo Benmo was a bad person, an evil person, and a born bad seed. She was the hardest to change, and even in the Heavenly Dao's plan, changing this plan had the lowest success rate, so much so that Yang Pingsheng was forced to choose another plan.

Luo Benmo was born extremely evil; both the righteous path and the system said so.

But Yang Pingsheng thought Luo Benmo was quite good.

Because that year, ten-year-old Luo Benmo carried three-year-old Luo Benmo on his back, struggling to survive in the mountains.

She said, "I will not abandon you unless I die."

She said it, and she did it.

Luo Benmo will not abandon Yang Pingsheng unless she dies.

Book Two: The Savior of the Wicked

Chapter One: Siblings

A drop of water fell onto Yang Pingsheng's nose.

He struggled to open his eyes. His useless black cat was lying on his stomach. Seeing that he was awake, it greeted him weakly, "Awake?"

"...Where is this?"

"Isn't it obvious? We've both been locked up."

As darkness gradually faded and his throbbing mind slowly cleared, Yang Pingsheng found himself lying on a stone bed, surrounded by uneven mountain walls. Not far away, the prison cell doors, made of stone pillars, were crackling with lightning bolts.

After scanning the surroundings, his gaze finally settled on himself.

She changed into a set of dry clothes, and wore iron rings on her wrists, which were connected to chains leading to a corner. An array pattern was drawn on the floor, and there was not a trace of spiritual energy in the surrounding air.

This is the Immortal Imprisonment Formation, which, as the name suggests, is used to imprison immortals.

Clearly, although they had confirmed that Yang Pingsheng was a mortal, the other party was still not careless and even drew a "Immortal Imprisonment Formation" as a precaution.

After determining the general situation, Yang Pingsheng grabbed the black cat by the neck and lifted it up.

"So, why did Luo Benmo come looking for me?"

"...Hehe~"

"If you keep acting cute, I'll eat you up."

"Hey! You can't eat cats!?" The black cat was shocked. "Besides, I'm your old partner. We've been through so much together. How can you bring yourself to eat me?"

"How could you be so heartless?" Yang Pingsheng squinted at it. "I wish I could travel back in time and give the old you a good beating."

"...I didn't expect that either."

"I still prefer your old, confident self. Please try to revert to that."

In the past, the system was full of confidence, and its strategies and plans were readily available.

The current system is prone to making a fuss and howling, looking like it's just giving up.

Yang Pingsheng felt a sense of disappointment and frustration, and sincerely wanted to beat him up.

"Explain yourself clearly. What exactly is going on? Didn't you say that Heaven's plan was foolproof?"

"...That's right, the net of heaven is vast, its meshes are wide, yet nothing escapes it."

"Is this what you mean by being 'discreet yet not losing anything'?"

"I don't know either, meow~"

The black cat hung its head dejectedly: "I'm out of energy, and I can't contact anyone. You're all I have left, meow~"

They look so pitiful.

Yang Pingsheng suspiciously put the black cat down. He had a feeling that the system was hiding something. However, the most pressing matter at hand wasn't the time to think about such things. He could settle accounts with the system later, but now that the female villain from his second life had come looking for him, and Wen Shihan and Xiaoyu were both there, he needed absolute power to control the situation.

The time has come to break the seal.

Yang Pingsheng's sealing artifact was a jade pendant. If he could break the pendant, his strongest abilities from his nine lifetimes would return. But at this moment, he discovered a problem: the jade pendant was gone.

He always kept the jade pendant close to his body, and now that his clothes had been changed, it was obvious who had taken the jade pendant.

Luo Benmo was too fast, so fast that he didn't give Yang Pingsheng any time to react. Perhaps, as Wen Shihan said, Yang Pingsheng was indeed an indecisive person, and the distant memories had slowed his actions, causing him to be trapped and unable to escape.

"...This is getting a bit tricky."

Luo Benmo came to find him just like Wen Shihan, but how much of her memory she had recovered, and why she came to find him, remains a mystery.

Frankly, in Yang Pingsheng's view, the way the Second World handled things was the worst. Luo Benmo was a born villain, and because of this, the Heavenly Dao's plan was far more ruthless than those of other worlds.

Because of her ruthlessness, Luo Benmo was the least likely to escape. Unlike other female villains, the world's will placed numerous shackles on her, so many that it could be described as despairing. Yang Pingsheng couldn't even imagine how Luo Benmo would break through so many shackles to cross worlds to find him.

The most important question is, what motivated Luo Benmo to come to him?

Is it love? Is it revenge? Or is it an obsession similar to Wen Shihan's?

Long-forgotten memories kept surfacing, and he began to rethink Luo Benmo.

In the original timeline, Luo Benmo was the most formidable of all the female villains. She had a younger brother named Luo Benqing, the male protagonist of that world. When they were children, their hometown was raided by bandits, and only Luo Benmo and Luo Benqing survived. A celestial being named Lingfeizi happened to pass by; she was skilled in divination, especially in predicting people's destinies. She divined that Luo Benmo was a born villain destined to bring disaster to the world, while Luo Benqing was a born benevolent savior destined to save it. For the sake of all living beings, Lingfeizi initially wanted to kill Luo Benmo to eliminate the scourge, but ultimately couldn't bring herself to do it, saving only Luo Benqing and letting Luo Benmo fend for herself.

No one knows how Luo Benmo, only ten years old, survived. All that is known is that when Luo Benmo reappeared before the world, she had become the city lord of Lingquan City. She killed the original city lord, turning Lingquan City into a garden of villains, indulging in unrestrained pleasure and doing whatever she pleased. Ling Feizi, filled with remorse, came to challenge Luo Benmo, wanting to atone for her past mistakes, but was brutally murdered by Luo Benmo. At this time, Luo Benqing had already become Ling Feizi's disciple; upon hearing of his master's brutal death, he was devastated. The siblings became sworn enemies, completely at odds.

This is what the system told him, and of course, it also told him the final result.

One righteous, one wicked; one loses, one wins. The righteous one is Luo Benqing, the wicked one is Luo Benmo. But in the end, Luo Benqing loses, and Luo Benmo wins.

The idea that good triumphs over evil is ultimately just a fairy tale. Luo Benmo didn't even spare his own younger brother, still brutally murdering him.

At that time, there was no one in the world who could rival Luo Benmo, and the female protagonist was growing too slowly. The world's will had no choice but to intervene, which led to Yang Pingsheng's intervention.

Having spent so much time with Luo Benmo, Yang Pingsheng believed he had a general understanding of Luo Benmo's personality. If she truly remembered everything, given her intelligence, she would definitely become suspicious of him; whether she loved him or not was hard to say.

Just then, footsteps sounded outside the stone pillar.

Tap, tap

The black cat darted into Yang Pingsheng's clothes with lightning speed, trembling and meowing incessantly.

The newcomer appeared, completely unconcerned about the black cat's behavior, and simply snapped his fingers. The lightning on the stone pillar vanished, and the pillar automatically parted to make way for a path.

Yang Pingsheng looked at the other person with complicated feelings until the other person stood in front of him.

"sister……"

he shouted.

Tick.

Inside the cave, condensed water droplets fell.

With familiar silver hair falling down, Luo Benmo looked at Yang Pingsheng expressionlessly, then suddenly hugged him.

"younger brother……"

Crystal-clear tears fell, and her petite body trembled slightly.

"I miss you so much."

Yang Pingsheng was stunned.

He was somewhat bewildered, his empty heart at a loss, not expecting this reaction from the other person. But in the end, he still placed his hand on the other person's head, sighed softly, and said:

"Sister, I miss you too."

Chapter Two: Memories

The familiar embrace brought back long-forgotten memories.

The first time the two embraced in the video was when they first met.

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A village was looted.

The village is poorly located, situated right on the border between the north and south. Since the country split, numerous feudal lords have risen up, and the number of displaced people and bandits has also increased.

Immortals do not concern themselves with mortal affairs, yet they use mortals as pawns in their games. Behind every powerful feudal lord, there is the shadow of an immortal.

Warfare and slaughter ensued, rivers of blood flowed, corpses littered the ground, and life was cheap as grass. A band of rebels passed through and looted the village.

Just doing it on a whim.

A raging fire swept through the village, but a celestial being passed by, summoning rain and dew to annihilate the bandits. However, only two people survived in the entire village.

That happened on the original timeline; now, there's one more person alive.

Three-year-old Yang Pingsheng struggled to peek out of the jar, looking at the scene not far away.

Not far away, the fairy landed, her face compassionate. In front of her lay two children, a boy and a girl.

"Those are Luo Benmo and Luo Benqing," the system announced at the opportune moment.

Dark clouds filled the sky, and a light rain was falling. The surrounding flames had died down, and the air was filled with the smell of blood and burning. Together with the ruins, they created a tragic scene.

The smell made Yang Pingsheng somewhat uncomfortable. He opened his mouth, wanting to communicate with the system, but couldn't speak for a long time.

The discomfort from being transported here hasn't subsided yet; at least for now, he can't really control his body.

"I know what you want to ask, why it started at age three this time, right?" the system said in its usual deep voice. "Don't worry, this appearance of yours is calculated by the Heavenly Dao. Only in this way can you get close to Luo Benmo. The Heavenly Dao has made its plan. Just follow my instructions later."

Yang Pingsheng gave him the middle finger.

Ignoring Yang Pingsheng's resentment towards it, the system began to explain the scene: "That's Consort Ling. She's about to begin her calculations."