Having regained her memories, Tao Yao naturally remembered her real name.

He is not Tao Yao, but Tao Yaoyao.

It is the Peach Blossom Demon lineage of the Wood Clan in the Wood Spirit Domain. By order of the clan elder, a wisp of divine thought was sent to attach to an ordinary peach tree in the cultivation world to search for clan members who had been separated from their clan.

Unexpectedly, the strange phenomenon of the Wood Clan's clan tree in the Wood Spirit Domain was not due to any clan members being stranded elsewhere, but rather a trap set by the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion targeting the Wood Clan.

During her battle with the disciples of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, Tao Yaoyao was accidentally stranded in the mortal realm and lost her memory.

Tao Yao, who had lost her memory, could not see through Sima Huan's treacherous intentions and wolfish ambitions.

Having cultivated for thousands of years, Tao Yaoyao naturally couldn't fail to see through it and immediately decided to sever ties with him and cease all contact.

Tao Yaoyao secretly rejoiced that Sima Huan hadn't done anything to this wisp of divine thought, otherwise he would have had to abandon it.

Sima Huan harbored deep resentment, but maintained his usual amiable demeanor, politely inviting Tao Yaoyao to sit down, intending to negotiate terms and gain benefits.

Tao Yaoyao saw through his disguise at a glance. Not wanting to waste time with someone as hypocritical and scheming as him, she gave him the cultivation techniques and resources to settle their karmic debt. Then, her divine sense couldn't wait to return to the Wood Spirit Domain. She needed to soak in the Azure Pool to get rid of the bad luck.

After Tao Yaoyao's divine sense left, her body returned to the peach tree she had been possessing.

After his divine sense departed, the ordinary peach tree that remained was uprooted and chopped into pieces by the enraged Sima Huan in order to vent his hatred.

Afterwards, relying on the cultivation techniques and resources left by Tao Yaoyao, plus the resources he painstakingly acquired, Sima Huan spent several hundred years cultivating to the peak of the Golden Core stage.

Sima Huan was determined to seek revenge on Tao Yaoyao once his cultivation level was high enough. He was determined to make her pay the price for her previous actions, making her wish she were dead and forced to grovel at his feet, barely clinging to life.

Just thinking about that scene makes him feel excited and exhilarated.

Sima Huan was a master strategist who could manipulate the world at will.

To him, everyone else was just a pawn.

He had always been the one to discard others, but who would have thought that after hunting geese all day, he would be the one who got pecked in the eye by a goose, and suffer a great setback at Tao Yao, whom he had never taken seriously. How could he swallow this insult, and how could he let it go?

In Sima Huan's mind: "He can betray the whole world, but how dare the world betray him?"

"Those who have wronged Sima Huan shall be punished no matter how far they may go, from the highest heavens to the deepest hells, until they are dead."

Thinking of this, his hatred for Tao Yao deepened, and his obsession with obtaining the dragon energy and faith power of the dragon vein to break through his cultivation level intensified.

Sima Huan left the desert in just a quarter of an hour, and headed straight for the capital, arriving at the city gate in half a day.

Along the way, he learned that the dynasty had changed hands twice.

His plan to gather the faith power of the Sima Dynasty and the dragon energy of the dragon vein upon his return to the Canglan Continent and break through to the Nascent Soul stage was thus aborted.

Sima Huan was initially furious, but he quickly calmed down.

He spent several days exploring various places near the capital, but unfortunately, the magical artifacts used to probe the dragon veins did not react.

After confirming that the dragon vein was not near the capital, they did not delay and flew away immediately.

Although Sima Huan had been in the cultivation world for hundreds of years, he was impatient for quick results in his cultivation and focused solely on improving his cultivation level. He didn't even know the most basic technique of observing qi.

Otherwise, if he could see the golden dragon's aura swirling above the capital and the dense imperial purple aura above the palace, I wonder what he would think.