Nobody knows how to be a villain better than me.

Laws Imprison!

As they suddenly lost control of their bodies, the three men's pupils contracted and the hairs on the back of their necks stood on end.

"Speaking of reason..."

Samael raised his right hand, carefully moving away the spear tip and sword blade that were almost poking his face. His deep gaze swept over the contrasting curves of Akuta Hinako and Qin Liangyu, and he sighed helplessly.

"Do I need to spy? If I want to, I can look openly anytime."

As they pondered, a pair of jet-black, snake-like vertical pupils scanned the three of them up and down, their flickering gazes seemingly revealing a peculiar interest.

"Or, could we do something else?"

The meaningful whispers in their ears made the three of them tense up, and fine beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads.

Two slender hands reached out to Mustard Seed and Qin Liangyu, who were in the spring, respectively.

Slow and extremely oppressive.

Is he going to...

The two stared intently at the approaching claws, their faces draining of color as they involuntarily moved their throats.

"Goo!"

"Snapped……"

As the suppressed groan came from the throat, two hands, one on the left and one on the right, rose a few inches and landed on the two men's shoulders.

"Don't be nervous, it's just a joke."

Samael smiled gently and kindly, offering his earnest advice.

"By the way, let me prove that if I want to do something bad, no one can stop me, right? If you think I'm right, just blink."

Looking at the smiling face before them, Akuta no Hina and Qin Liangyu blinked repeatedly to show their agreement.

Although it was very reluctant, the absolute gap brought forth an undeniable fact.

After calmly explaining the situation to the victims, Samael once again solemnly assured them.

"So, it's all a misunderstanding. The spying thing is really someone trying to frame me!"

As he spoke, his dark, vertical pupils cast a long, unsettling gaze toward the culprit who was holding a wooden basin by the pool.

"Who said that?! No matter how strong you are, it doesn't stop you from having this unique fetish! There's a saying, 'A wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as a stolen one, and a stolen one is not as good as one you can't have.' Who knows what you men are thinking? Maybe you just have this kind of thing in your heart."

However, the fox spirit by the pond immediately found loopholes in Samael's explanation. While struggling against the suppression of power around her, she stubbornly resisted and continued to confuse right and wrong.

"Sisters, if I hadn't discovered it in time and stood up for you, your innocence would be in jeopardy! Think about it carefully, only women will truly help each other. We can't be fooled by that guy's sweet talk!"

The deafening shouts and fervent cries of shared hatred made Jie Chuzi and Qin Liangyu hesitate again, their gazes towards Samael becoming even more wary.

Girlhelpsgirl? Boxing, huh?

Faced with Tamamo-no-Mae's desperate struggle, Samael pursed his lips and smiled coldly, speaking slowly and deliberately.

"You may not be very clear about the identity of this good sister. Let me introduce her. She is the incarnation of Meixi of the Xia Dynasty, Daji of the Shang Dynasty, and Baosi of the Zhou Dynasty. She is an infamous concubine who wreaked havoc in three dynasties of China."

Upon hearing this, Hinako's face stiffened, and her expression gradually turned cold.

Moxi... Daji... even Baosi is her?

Who was the culprit that led to the decline of the Zhou Dynasty, the rise of numerous warlords during the Spring and Autumn Period, and the prolonged chaos of the Warring States Period?

Hinako's clenched teeth creaked as she glared at Tamamo-no-Mae with eyes that seemed to spit fire.

She had only heard of the name "Daji," but was unaware that Bao Si, who had been overthrown in two weeks and then fled, was also this woman.

In this way, the doubt that had troubled Hinako for so long was finally resolved.

The vixen before her was the biggest black sheep among the celestial maidens! She was also the unscrupulous predecessor who was extremely irresponsible, deserted his post, and then brought disaster to the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, ultimately leaving her with a huge mess of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, as well as the Qin and Chu-Han periods.

Samael glanced at the murderous look on Akuta Hinako's face, then turned to Qin Liangyu on the other side and added with a smile.

"Oh, by the way, she later fled to Japan to avoid trouble and was revered as Amaterasu..."

"So it was a wicked and malevolent god worshipped by the Japanese pirates!"

Instantly, Qin Liangyu's gaze sharpened, and intense national hatred brewed and rose in her heart.

During the Ming Dynasty, which lasted for 276 years, from the second year of the Hongwu reign until the death of the Chongzhen Emperor, Japanese pirates constantly invaded the borders, committing all sorts of atrocities, including burning, killing, and looting. The Japanese pirate problem was repeatedly suppressed but never stopped.

During this period, she also dispatched her own White Spear Soldiers to cooperate with Qi Shaobao's Qi Family Army in eliminating these foreign enemies.

The more than two hundred years of Japanese pirate raids during the Ming Dynasty had already etched this loyal marquis's hatred for the Japanese pirates into his very bones.

The intense gaze fell upon Tamamo-no-Mae, the heat contained in that gaze almost burning through her fox fur.

What do I care about the Japanese pirates during the Ming Dynasty?

Amaterasu, frozen in place, was on the verge of tears.

During the Heian period, she was tricked by a group of shameless Onmyoji and had to flee to Japan for refuge. By the time of the Ming Dynasty, she had been away for five or six hundred years. Even if her entire family was to be executed, it seemed unlikely that it would be her turn.

However, Samael gave the fox spirit no chance to explain herself, pointing to the partition next to her and continuing to add to the explanation.

"By the way, the men's bath is next door. Why would she, a woman, suddenly come to my bathing area? Doesn't that mean she has ulterior motives?"

Upon hearing this, Akuta no Hinako and Qin Liangyu's expressions became even more suspicious.

Seeing that the time was right, Samael gave a heartfelt reminder.

"So, you two, would you rather believe a treacherous vixen who lies endlessly and brings ruin to the country, or a scourge worshipped by Japanese pirates? Don't be fooled by some scheming instigators..."

In the midst of a sincere confession, his dark vertical pupils flickered subtly, and the corners of his lips turned up.

Besides comparing what's good, debates can also be about comparing what's bad.

The saying goes, "It's better to smear the enemy than to prove yourself," and that's the point.

His character is certainly not very noble, and he hasn't been cleared of suspicion of peeping, but as long as he has more integrity than that dead fox on the other side, that's fine.

One was a wise and virtuous foreign monarch, the other a notorious and wicked goddess and concubine.

It goes without saying whose testimony is more credible.

In fact, this is precisely the intangible asset that comes from maintaining a bottom line and preserving a good public image.

Under the influence of a moral halo, people are always willing to trust and sympathize with a "good person" in the secular sense.

Whether it's a morally upright person with genuine good intentions, or a hypocrite whose dark side hasn't been exposed...

That's why capitalists who are tainted from head to toe are so keen to use charity to whitewash themselves.

Seeing that the two victims were deep in thought, the ancient serpent snapped its fingers, dispelling the surrounding dominance.

Freed from their restraints, Akuta and Qin Liangyu first glanced at Samael, then turned around simultaneously, carrying their longswords and white-handled spears, and gazed intently at the opposite side.

"Haha, you guys chat first, I won't disturb you."

Seeing that things were not going well, the fox spirit who was furthest away immediately broke free from the suppression of the power with a stiff smile and transformed into several golden arcs of light to escape.

"You filthy fox, stop right there! Don't even think about running away!"

Without a word, the hot-tempered Old Mustard followed closely behind, carrying his twin swords.

Just as Qin Liangyu was about to chase after her, her gaze fell upon another victim behind her who had almost been wrongly accused. She stopped, turned around, and clasped her hands in apology.

"I was misled by slander and misunderstood my esteemed guest. I'm so sorry..."

"It's alright, the innocent will remain innocent, and the guilty will remain guilty."

Samael smiled and waved his hand, displaying elegance and magnanimity.

This made Qin Liangyu feel even more guilty, and she immediately made a solemn promise.

“I will report this matter truthfully to His Majesty and seek justice for you.”

"Let's wait until we catch that Amaterasu before we talk about right and wrong."

Samael responded calmly, displaying an air of integrity that showed he had nothing to fear.

Qin Liangyu's eyes showed even more admiration and goodwill. She immediately nodded in agreement, then apologized and summoned three thousand White Spear Soldiers, preparing to dig three feet into the ground to find that evil god with a completely corrupt conscience.

Watching the female general walk further and further away until she completely disappeared from sight, Samael, who had been maintaining a composed demeanor, couldn't help but slump down and let out a sigh of relief.

Finally, I got rid of them...

Although the accusation of peeping was framed by that dead fox, he had indeed seen the entire bodies of Akuta Hinako and Qin Liangyu.

Not only did he watch it, but it seems he even tried it out...

If you really want to nitpick, this is another messy affair.

Therefore, when it came to suppressing Tamamo-no-Mae's power, Samael secretly let her off the hook, watching the fox spirit escape.

With such a hate-inducing target around, you can finally relax, right?

Plans are in place! I can finally take a quiet bath.

Having once again successfully manipulated people's hearts, the ancient serpent snapped its fingers in satisfaction, got up, walked out of the women's pool, and jumped back into the adjacent men's pool to wash away its physical and mental fatigue.

After enjoying himself for a while, Samael opened his eyes, sat on the steps by the pool, looked at the raised curve in his palm, and seemed to be deep in thought.

Although he was tricked by that dead fox, he also unexpectedly solved another mystery in his heart.

For example, the true nature of that celestial maiden next door...

In China, there is a flower called the poppy (Papaver rhoeas), which is sparsely hairless, has an erect stem, alternate leaves with lanceolate or narrowly ovate leaf outlines, and extremely thin, delicate petals that are mostly scarlet. It belongs to the poppy family.

Therefore, it is also called poppy, peony, spring flower, fairy wormwood, young poppy...

—And, [Hinamusaji].

Yu Meiren... Yu Ji...

Mustard seed... Mustard seed...

It turned out to be the case.

Unexpectedly, she was actually the incarnation of a flower and plant fairy.

The ancient snake arrived at the answer, but secretly shook its head, inwardly grumbling.

But Old Mustard's personality is anything but gentle, much less like a plant.

However, since it belongs to the poppy family, it seems understandable.

A drug addict who's high is bound to be irritable, easily angered, and unable to control himself.

Samael rolled his eyes, mentally labeling the poppy as a poisonous weed.

Just as the ancient serpent was pondering this, the surging mist behind it reflected a blurry human figure. Smooth, jade-like bare feet lightly stepped over the stone platform and quietly approached the edge of the pool. Snow-white, lotus-like arms reached out to Samael's shoulder.

However, just as the lotus-shaped arm fell, a sinister, low laugh suddenly echoed.

"You dare come back? You damn fox, I've put up with you for far too long!"

Samael shrugged and raised his hand, swiftly grabbing the arms of the uninvited guest behind him, and then threw him into the spring with a beautiful and smooth over-the-shoulder throw.

"Wow!"

Water splashed high into the air, and the ancient snake pressed its advantage without hesitation, its raised arm lashing the fleshy buttocks that had risen from the water like a whip.

"Clap clap clap!"

The crisp sound created ripples, followed by suppressed yet clear cries of sorrow.

"It hurts! Ouch...no..."

The unfamiliar voice and the completely different sensation on his buttocks made Samael freeze, and he quickly scooped up the small figure in the water.

"Cough cough..."

As she opened her mouth and spat out the spring water that had entered her trachea, her pale face, shrouded in mist, looked utterly pitiful.

At this moment, Samael suddenly realized that what was in front of him was a small, delicate girl with jet-black hair, bangs, a bun, dressed in a dark blue palace dress, and seemingly flames dancing in her azure eyes.

"you……"

"Ah, no!"

The young girl in palace attire instinctively crossed her arms over her chest, her face deathly pale. She broke free from Samael's grasp and retreated in terror to a corner of the spring, trembling.

Upon seeing this, Samael immediately coughed in embarrassment.

"Ahem, sorry, I mistook you for someone else, it was an accident..."