[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-really-am-a-villain":3,"chapter-i-really-am-a-villain-i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-1076":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Really Am A Villain",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1433951,1885,"Chapter 1076 - Heavenly Court Descends","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-1076",1076,"\u003Cp>The storm gradually subsided, revealing an immense, bottomless crater in the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At its center lay the Dao Source itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo’s cold gaze fell upon it, yet he sensed no trace of the Hidden Ox Emperor within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly turned, only to find the Hidden Ox Emperor standing right behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With both hands raised, the Grand Emperor radiated an immense power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From within the great pit, an endless torrent of Dao Source energy erupted, surging skyward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It became a river filled with Dao Resonance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That celestial river burst forth with unprecedented force, pouring ceaselessly into the Hidden Ox Emperor’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a wave of his hand, the Dao Source flowed into him completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Seriously? Again?” Xu Zimo asked flatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hidden Ox Emperor’s eyes deepened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Godly Power of Grand Derivation,” he intoned, and the Dao Source in his hands began to change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of Thousand-Ox Dao Court trembled, and within the territory covered by Dao Source, heaven and earth were overturned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saplings of immortal trees instantly grew into towering giants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>God beasts broke through one after another, their roars reverberating through the land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All things between heaven and earth transformed in myriad ways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at the end of all this derivation stood the Hidden Ox Emperor himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Dao Source and the Godly Power of Grand Derivation empowering him, the aura around him grew thousands of times stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The void had already collapsed into black holes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding millions of miles land lay in utter ruin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo strode across the sky to meet him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hidden Ox Emperor shouted lightly, his voice like the very sound of heaven and earth, spreading wave after wave, shattering the void wherever it passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All of you, fall back a hundred miles!” Dongfang Li shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half of the Thousand-Ox Dao Court was destroyed. Yet with the Dao Source present, no matter the devastation, it seemed always able to restore itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A punch came flying forward, like a cannon shell, too fast for the naked eye to follow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo met it head-on, their figures twisting the void itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nomological Truths of Space and Time erupted without pause.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavens churned, nothing remained intact, save for the sun still hanging in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re still not strong enough!” Xu Zimo roared. Infernal energy surged from his body, empowered further by billions of Power Vortexes within him spinning violently. Heaven-Shattering Power burst forth little by little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is that so?” the Hidden Ox Emperor chuckled. And then, the same terrifying infernal energy erupted from his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It rolled across the infinite void, annihilating everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soaring upward, it merged seamlessly with Xu Zimo’s own infernal energy, as if both came from the same source.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is this?” Xu Zimo frowned slightly. “You too… are of the Ancient Demon Race?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no, that couldn’t be. He felt no true infernal essence from the Hidden Ox Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Though all men claim to hate the Ancient Demons, sometimes this power is truly enviable,” the Hidden Ox Emperor laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He struck down with a punch, an explosion of carnage spreading between them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their figures split apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Xu Zimo once again sensed what had vanished before, the Infernal Heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze locked on the Hidden Ox Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of thump, thump, thump, so close it seemed right at hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You fused with the Infernal Heart?” Xu Zimo said in astonishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So, you’ve discovered it,” the Hidden Ox Emperor replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I thought the Heavenly Court held no regard for us,” Xu Zimo said coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I am not of the Heavenly Court. I merely repaid their kindness,” the Hidden Ox Emperor answered again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It doesn’t matter. You should never have fused with the Infernal Heart,” Xu Zimo said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I knew it was wrong,” the Hidden Ox Emperor admitted. “But the power was before me. I guarded it for countless years… in the end, I just couldn’t resist.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the influence of the Infernal Heart, the Hidden Ox Emperor’s body began to change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heart pulsed as the core of his being, his blood turned black, and faint infernal energy seeped from his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well?” the Hidden Ox Emperor asked. The green ox beside him had transformed into a black ox, like a world-devouring infernal bull, bellowing madly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo only smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lifted Shadow Tyrant and sliced across his palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood streamed forth, forming a crimson line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood flowed faster and faster, until it became a roaring river.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a wave of Xu Zimo’s hand, the blood river swept across the sky, surging toward the Hidden Ox Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is this?!” the Hidden Ox Emperor roared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ancient Demon blood,” Xu Zimo smiled. “You already have an Infernal Heart, let me gift you something extra.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hidden Ox Emperor tried to escape, but suddenly found he could not move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Infernal Heart within his body seemed summoned, it ceased to beat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His organs, meridians, everything infected by the heart’s power, fell into deathly stillness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hidden Ox Emperor could no longer move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Struggling, he realized only his head still obeyed him; the rest of his body was lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What did you do to me?!” he demanded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even his Dao Source seemed tainted by infernal energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousand-Ox Dao Court, sustained by the Dao Source, now suffered corruption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immortal trees and beasts mutated, cloaked in infernal energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even an Infernal Archon of the Ancient Demon Race can barely withstand the Infernal Heart, what chance has a human?” Xu Zimo said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped forward, reached into the Hidden Ox Emperor’s chest, and pulled free the heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Infernal Heart throbbed in his palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black and red, it pulsed with evil and corruption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I wondered why I couldn’t sense it and why you survived devouring it. Turns out it was sealed.” Xu Zimo smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Infernal Lord of the previous age was a supreme existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could a mere Grand Emperor devour his heart and live?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the Heavenly Court would never leave the Infernal Heart guarded so simply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cultivation is not easy. To ascend to the throne of a Grand Emperor is hardship enough,” Xu Zimo said quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you want?” the Hidden Ox Emperor asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I have two friends. Let them stay in Thousand-Ox Dao Court to cultivate in peace,” Xu Zimo replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s all...?” the Hidden Ox Emperor asked in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You were never my enemy. You don’t deserve to be,” Xu Zimo shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He studied the heart in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sealing power swirled across its surface, forming a barrier against his infernal energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clenched his fist and smashed down hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seal remained unbroken, yet it activated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A beam of light shot upward from the seal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo looked up sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beam pierced the heavens, scattering the infernal energy, tearing the clouds apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above, a celestial image appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Millions clad in golden robes stood in the firmament.\u003C\u002Fp>",1147,"2026-06-06T01:07:09.694Z",1,"novelbin.me","be9f4d4f605cd27bf42e02ae31d52b19e46b27b680a7502e97e6a6e08cabd7fe","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-1077","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-1075",1822,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-really-am-a-villain-cover.jpg"]