[{"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-1083":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},1433958,1885,"Chapter 1083 - The Reaper & The Stone Stele","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-1083",1083,"\u003Cp>“Then let’s split up,” Xu Zimo said. “You take the ancient tree, I’ll take the stone stele.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just don’t die, at least not before the formation is broken,” Bai Tihe chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even if you die, I won’t,” Xu Zimo replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two parted ways. Xu Zimo headed southeast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He soon realized the so-called labyrinth only existed in the central region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The further he went, the more open the terrain became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light began to appear ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stepping out of the tunnels, the oppressive atmosphere vanished, replaced by a desolate, abandoned land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking up, Xu Zimo saw a dark sky, shrouded as though by heavy black clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ahead, beneath his feet, stretched a barren wasteland of yellow earth, deathly still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few claw-like trees stood there, eerie and sinister. Their trunks seemed long dead, peeling bark dropping away in flakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several crows, with gloomy eyes, glared sternly at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They rustled their wings, scattering black feathers that drifted down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo advanced. Dry leaves crunched beneath his boots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next instant, the crows lunged at him like death itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their wings were like blades, their feathers like razors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each slash through the void was like cutting tofu, space splitting into fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo drew Shadow Tyrant, slashing out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shrieks filled the air as countless crows were annihilated under his blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the next moment, the black mist of their remains condensed into new crows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One became two. Two became four.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endless, multiplying, impossible to kill off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo couldn’t be bothered to waste time. He sprinted forward, aiming for the stele.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him, the swarm of crows pursued. Ahead, towering pines began to rise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each tree stood over ten meters tall, with ferocious faces on their trunks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing Xu Zimo, they tore free from the ground, surging toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that in this Nine Heavens Ten Earths Interwoven Formation, all Lich were truly unkillable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo ignored them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nomological Truth of Space-Time surged. His right hand clenched tight, seizing the surrounding void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next moment, time froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence fell all around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo stepped through the still void, bypassing the layers of encirclement, and pressed forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him swarmed the crows and claw-trees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At last, he reached the end of this small world.ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ n̷o̷v̷e̷l̷f̷i̷r̷e̷.net\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stopped before a field of graves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of tombs stretched into the horizon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From them, bloodstained hands clawed out of the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soil split open as corpse-like monsters crawled forth, mangled flesh, horrific visages, eyes like bloody holes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They shrieked and rushed at him, joining the pursuit of the crows and trees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Truly undying?” Xu Zimo snorted coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clenched his fist again, freezing the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, with one hand, he summoned the infinite power of fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Casting it into the sky, flames engulfed the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blaze consumed everything in sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how many times they revived, the flames burned them down again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo walked forward toward the gravestones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were thousands of them. Searching one by one would take too long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he took out the Heaven-Derivation Astrolabe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starlight spread across the land. He didn’t need the exact stele, only its general range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a sudden boom, a mass of black fog struck the star disk in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It fell to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flames above were torn apart, and from the sky descended a creature like the Reaper itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had a human body, but the head of a dog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wielded a scythe, the Dao of Death surging around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“An Emperor?” Xu Zimo muttered in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sensing the terrifying aura, his brow furrowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed like an Emperor, but something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Death’s power poured outward in waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dog-headed creature wasted no words, lunging at Xu Zimo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its scythe fell, harvesting countless unseen lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shadow Tyrant clashed against it. The ground split, soil exploding into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vortex of power within Xu Zimo spun wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shadow of the Heaven-Shattering Giant roared, charging the dog-headed Lich.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Explosions thundered through the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re not enough,” Xu Zimo said firmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shadow Tyrant erupted with power, blasting the creature backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He advanced in a flash, blade gleaming bright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each step cracked the air with sonic booms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The curved blade fell again, lightning flashing, thunder roaring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dog-headed beast raised its scythe to block.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Shadow Tyrant’s blade flared with the Aryan-Swastika God-Seal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vast mark branded its body, then detonated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dao of Death around it grew denser.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo smiled faintly, his own aura of Death erupting as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His strikes came faster, each slash more domineering than the last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beast could only retreat, fresh wounds carved into its body each time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At last, Xu Zimo’s blade-work overwhelmed it, hacking its body into minced flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Death’s energy wrapped the pieces, carrying them away until nothing remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A false Emperor,” Xu Zimo scoffed. “Just a remnant shadow dares block me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He picked up the fallen Astrolabe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starlight spread again, bathing the stone steles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He approached one, sheathed Shadow Tyrant, and grabbed it with both hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a mighty pull, he uprooted it completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stele rose into his grasp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as soon as it was removed, another appeared in its place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo understood. This was the nature of the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Interwoven Formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next person to escape would also need to collect these medium objects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as the formation endured, the mediums would never vanish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carrying the stele, Xu Zimo stepped through the void toward the rendezvous point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, no Lich blocked his way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He arrived smoothly at the appointed place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Tihe was waiting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he wasn’t alone, beside him stood a Lich.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clad in black robes, the figure stood calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve come,” the Lich said with a smile, looking at Xu Zimo.\u003C\u002Fp>",983,"2026-06-06T01:07:09.694Z",1,"novelbin.me","11e0b8b477baf386a597462c0e6a8155c9c944d4ff2b76b06144c2c8a398475f","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-1084","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-1082",1822,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-really-am-a-villain-cover.jpg"]