After Defying the Villain’s Fate for Nine Lifetimes, the Heroines Turn Mad!

The next day, all the missing disciples of the Ghost Controlling Sect returned to the sect.

This delighted the higher-ups of the sect, as among these hundred disciples were many with great talent, including several true disciples.

But soon, the sect leader Tu Zheng realized something was wrong.

These disciples… they had all gone mad!

Not only were their eyes filled with malice, but their emotions were also extremely volatile.

Sometimes they were furious, sometimes they burst into tears.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Some disciples even asked others if they wanted to defy the heavens together!

What was even more bizarre was that these missing disciples occasionally took normal disciples out with them, and when they returned, the normal disciples were also driven mad!

And in just a few days, the number of mad people soared to several hundred!

It didn’t take much thought to know that someone must be behind this.

Tu Zheng immediately conducted a thorough investigation.

He summoned the third true disciple, Gao Long, to inquire about the specifics of the disappearance.

“I forgot,” Gao Long said without thinking.

“Why do you want to defy the heavens?” Tu Zheng asked again.

“Because the heavens are unjust!” Gao Long answered.

“How are the heavens unjust?”

“That’s a bit complicated to explain, but if Sect Master is interested, you can come with me to see something!”

“What is it?”

“The truth of this world!”

Tu Zheng was speechless, thinking to himself that a madman is indeed a madman.

But he also sharply sensed that this so-called “truth of the world” might just be the root cause of the madness of the disciples.

After a moment of thought, he immediately took several elders from his sect and followed Gao Long outside.

The group left the sect and entered a dense forest.

Occasionally, birds and beasts flitted through the dense forest, but no human figures were seen.

Gao Long took a deep breath and shouted, “Senior, I have brought the Sect Master!”

Senior?!

Upon hearing these two words, Tu Zheng and the others immediately prepared for battle.

However, before they could see who this so-called Senior was, they were bound by some powerful force.

They couldn’t move at all, and they couldn’t even close their eyes.

Then, suddenly, a silver screen appeared out of nowhere, with the three large characters 【First Life】 prominently displayed.

After watching several nine cycles of reincarnation, Tu Zheng and the others roared in anger.

“Heavens, how unjust!!”

Despite their roars, their cultivation was far superior to the other disciples of the sect, and since the matter didn’t concern them personally, they still retained a lot of their rationality.

This caused Jiuyan Old Ancestor, who was sitting cross-legged above and projecting memories, to frown immediately.

“Senior, it seems that the higher one’s cultivation, the less likely they are to be affected, especially when it doesn’t concern them,” Billowing Clouds Old Ancestor said from the side.

Jiuyan Old Ancestor nodded and made a mental note of this.

His visit to the Ghost Controlling Sect was not impulsive but part of continuous experimentation.

The reaction of the Jiuyan Sect to the nine cycles of reincarnation was intense because it involved themselves and they had kindness in their hearts, which allowed them to feel the pain of Jiang Chen’s nine lives, but if the subjects were of higher cultivation and the matter didn’t concern them, they could resist to a certain extent.

Take Billowing Clouds Sect Old Ancestor Fan Tong, for example.

At the beginning of watching the nine cycles of reincarnation, he too was using his cultivation to resist, and he only went mad because he had watched it too many times.

After all, it was him who kept projecting the retrospective memories.

With each projection of memory, he would watch the nine cycles of reincarnation again with others.

Therefore, in terms of the number of times, Fan Tong had watched the nine cycles of reincarnation even more times than Jiuyan Old Ancestor!

With this thought, Jiuyan Old Ancestor glanced at Fan Tong.

The latter’s eyes were full of malice, and he looked as if he had been possessed, occasionally letting out strange laughter.

“Fan Tong, you are doing well! In this world, you are the one who can best feel my pain!” Jiuyan Old Ancestor praised.

“Senior flatters me!”

Fan Tong gave a ferocious smile and suggested, “Senior, I think we should intensify the effort, play it in a loop a hundred times! Let Tu Zheng and the others also feel our pain!”

“Good! This suggestion is very good!” Jiuyan Old Ancestor nodded in agreement.

Immediately after, Fan Tong operated the “Memory Reflecting Mirror” and initiated the loop playback.

Time flew by rapidly.

Each projection of the nine cycles of reincarnation, fast-forwarded by the “Memory Reflecting Mirror,” felt like only a few hours in reality, but because they were immobilized, Tu Zheng and the others were completely immersed and felt as if thousands of years had passed.

They could no longer remember how many times they had watched the nine cycles of reincarnation or how long this prison-like situation had lasted.

The only thing they could feel was pain and torment!

Although only a few days had passed in reality, they felt as if they had been imprisoned for tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years!

Another round of the nine cycles of reincarnation ended.

Tu Zheng was now sporting dark circles under his eyes, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was utterly exhausted.

The mental torture made him consider suicide several times.

But helplessly, they couldn’t even commit suicide in their immobilized state.

This time, he was truly tired.

Since he couldn’t commit suicide, he could only give up resisting and let the inner demons erode his Dao Heart.

Only in this way could he find release.

“Let it be destroyed…”

Tu Zheng murmured.

He should be destroyed, the world should be destroyed.

As the thought settled,

“Hahahaha!!”

Tu Zheng suddenly burst into loud laughter, his malice surging like a tidal wave, shooting straight into the sky!

It wasn’t just him, the other elders of the Ghost Controlling Sect could no longer hold on either, and while emitting surges of malice, they also let out wild, crazed laughter.

It was clear to any discerning eye that they were completely mad, and it was a madness with little to no rationality.

Seeing this, Jiuyan Old Ancestor smiled with satisfaction.

Another group of people had experienced his pain!

Through this event, he also obtained the results of his experiment.

The people most easily affected by retrospective memories were cultivators below the upper four realms.

These cultivators only needed to watch a few times before they developed inner demons due to emotions like unwillingness, frustration, and anger and found it difficult to resist.

But for cultivators of the upper four realms, it was much more difficult.

Most of Tu Zheng and the Ghost Controlling Sect elders were in the first two realms of the upper four realms, and they were able to resist for so long.

If the subjects were cultivators of the last two realms of the upper four realms, the effect would likely be minimal.

“This ‘Memory Reflecting Mirror’ is ultimately just a fragment of a magical treasure, and the immersion is slightly lacking. To achieve a stronger effect, we still need to collect other fragments,” Jiuyan Old Ancestor analyzed.

After speaking, he stopped projecting and began the final cleanup.

The cleanup involved placing a seal of silence in the sea of consciousness of all those who had watched the nine cycles of reincarnation.

The purpose of this was to keep the operation secret.

After all, if this matter were to get out, others would be on guard, which would affect the process of “making the world feel pain.”

Besides, this matter could not be known to Jiang Chen.

The reason was simple.

Setting aside other factors, just one point: Who would want to let others watch their memories for no reason? Isn’t it embarrassing?

After some thought, Jiuyan Old Ancestor personally took action and directly erased all memories related to the “nine lives” from Tu Zheng and the others.

Compared to silencing, this method was undoubtedly more direct.

After all, given the cultivation of Tu Zheng and the others, it was better to be safe.

Of course, although the memories were erased, the inner demons still existed, so Tu Zheng and the others remained completely mad.

And unfortunately for them, it was madness without reason…