The villain, Xiao Nanliang, caused the female lead excruciating pain.

Jiang Ying nodded: "Unless I use immortal-level techniques, it will take a lot of effort to kill him."

However, the power of the Immortal Realm is obviously unusable.

If Jiang Ying dares to use it, she will be killed by heavenly tribulation in the next second.

It's not worth paying such a price for a mere black snake.

"What about the other three? The Holy Land and the Ancient Clan should have taken action as well, right?" Su Qi remembered that the Hidden Cult had three other spies, one of whom was the Primordial Saint Lord.

A day has passed since Ye Feng deliberately leaked the information. No matter how slow the Holy Land and the ancient clans are, they should have some results by now, right?

“Apart from the Primordial Holy Lord who was injured and escaped, the other two were dealt with.”

Su Qi nodded: "In this way, the core members of the Hidden Cult have lost a total of five people, and one has been captured. Having suffered such a major blow, the Holy Land and the ancient clans, unless they are fools, will not let this opportunity pass, right?"

"Definitely not, now it's time to sit back and watch the show!" Jiang Ying grinned mischievously on her youthful face.

Looking at her, Su Qi suddenly spoke.

"You've had enough; it's time to tell me the truth."

"What truth?" Jiang Ying tilted her head, her little head full of questions.

"What is the truth about this world, and what is your true purpose?"

Su Qi remembered that the being behind the scroll had mentioned winning and losing.

Jiang Ying and that person seem to be competing with someone, or perhaps playing a betting game?

"Huh? He didn't tell you? I thought you knew!" Jiang Ying exclaimed in shock.

Su Qi: ...

It doesn't sound like it's that important.

If that's the case, wouldn't I have gotten the answer if I had asked earlier?

Why be so cautious, waiting until victory is assured before asking?

"Actually, it's nothing major. It's just that Heaven and the Underworld are fighting for ownership of this world. And I, the great Lord Jiang Ying, am representing the Underworld in this struggle. The guy behind the scroll is kind of a coach. As for you... well, you can be considered an outside helper!"

Su Qi nodded, not appearing too shocked.

"So in your world, the Heavenly Court and the Underworld are equal entities?"

"Of course, the Heavenly Court represents the Way of Heaven, and we, the Underworld, represent the Way of Earth. Those mythological novels that say the Heavenly Court rules over the Underworld are just rumors spread by those bastards in the Heavenly Court to fight for faith!"

Jiang Ying gritted her teeth as she mentioned this.

"Then... what about the human path?" Su Qi asked tentatively. According to the myths and legends he knew, there should be three paths: Heaven, Earth, and Humanity.

Now that both the Heavenly Way and the Earthly Way are involved in the struggle for this world, there's no reason why the Human Way shouldn't even get a sip of soup.

"Humanity has shattered, shattered into countless small worlds. The world beneath our feet, including the world of your past life, is one of those fragments of humanity." Jiang Ying stamped her foot and pointed to the ground.

Su Qi's lips twitched slightly: "How could humanity be broken for no reason?"

"That's not something you can know."

Jiang Ying looked flustered and slightly embarrassed, and quickly changed the subject.

"In short, we and the Heavenly Court are both collecting fragments of humanity in an attempt to complete the human way. Only when the three paths of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity are complete can our world evolve to a higher dimension."

"If that's the case, why don't you cooperate with the Heavenly Court?"

Seeing her guilty look, Su Qi guessed that the breakdown of her virginity was probably related to this scoundrel, but since she didn't want to say, he didn't press her for details, figuring he would find out sooner or later anyway.

"Because the Heavenly Court wants to reduce humanity to a subservient position to the Heavenly Dao, which we in the Underworld naturally cannot agree to, the two sides started fighting over it!"

"So... your underworld also wants humanity to become subservient?" Su Qi narrowed his eyes.

"How could that be? We just don't want the Heavenly Court to monopolize talent. Nowadays, almost all innate beings are extinct. Both the Heavenly Court and the Underworld need to absorb fresh blood from the human realm. If the Heavenly Dao controls the human realm, then our Underworld will lose its channel for recruiting talent and will be doomed sooner or later."

That night, Su Qi asked many questions, and Jiang Ying told him everything she could.

This gave Su Qi a basic understanding of that world.

As expected, the rest of the time went on.

After eliminating the spies, the Primordial Holy Land quickly elected a new Holy Lord.

Upon learning that the Hidden Cult had suffered heavy losses, the Holy Land and the Ancient Clan mobilized all their forces to encircle and annihilate it.

As for Ye Feng, Su Qi received the news again half a month later, saying that... he had cracked open.

A physical split.

It was all because of that insane inner demon who actually practiced the Chaos Yin-Yang Technique in reverse.

Refining in accordance with the natural order is to integrate the two energies of Yin and Yang.

Reversing the process involves separating the Yin and Yang energies.

Then he split into two individuals, Yin and Yang.

The commotion that day was enormous, attracting many forces. In the end, the one who split off from Ye Feng, the one belonging to Yin, escaped and his whereabouts are now unknown.

The one who belonged to the Yang element was taken away by the Hermitage, resulting in another loss for them.

The Hermitage is now searching everywhere for Shadow Leaf Maple.

Without him, Yang Yefeng's Yin and Yang energies were severely imbalanced, making it impossible for him to circulate the Chaos Yin-Yang Technique, resulting in a significant loss of combat power.

Three more months passed, and the Hidden Order not only failed to find Yin Yefeng, but also showed signs of decline under the suppression of the Holy Land.

At this point, something unexpected happened.

In order to restore his combat power, Yang Yefeng has become reckless and has even begun to capture female cultivators to extract their innate Yin energy.

Now he is even more evil than evil cultivators.

However, ordinary female cultivators have limited innate Yin energy, so Yang Yefeng and the Hidden Cultivation Society set their sights on those female protagonists.

The first person they targeted was Yue Siyi, who had the lowest cultivation level.

However, when they made their move, they discovered it was a trap.

Ying Muxue and the other female protagonists had long anticipated that they would make a move against them.

The Secret Order paid a heavy price, with members suffering further losses.

After that, both the Hidden Cult and Ye Feng fell silent, disappearing completely and retreating into seclusion.

The anti-holy land cultivation alliance, abandoned by them, was besieged and annihilated. Many people, in order to survive, joined the ranks of the female protagonists.

Anyone with eyes can see that this is a conspiracy by the Secret Order.

If the anti-holy forces were to join the heroines, the holy land would naturally object, and then the heroines would clash with the holy land.

Logically speaking, the female protagonists shouldn't have missed such an obvious trap, but they still recruited those people into their ranks.

The reason is simple: they are also dissatisfied with the Holy Land.

During the turmoil, the Holy Land repeatedly tried to recruit them.

The Holy Land, probably used to being arrogant, spoke to them in a condescending tone when recruiting them.

They even shamelessly proposed marriage alliances, allowing the female protagonists to bring their respective powers and marry into their holy land.

This scheme was so clever that even Su Qi, hiding in the Western Regions, was riddled with bullets.

The Holy Land and the female protagonists had a very tense relationship and soon started fighting.

At this time, a change occurred.

Many monsters rushed out from the ancient battlefield of Hengyuan.

These monsters, like Xiao Yichen before them, were like madmen. Those they killed all became nutrients for them to improve their cultivation.

This unexpected turn of events caught everyone completely off guard.

In order to stop the disaster from spreading, the Holy Land and the Female Alliance had to first cease hostilities and deal with these mad armies.