[{"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-1088":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},1433963,1885,"Chapter 1088 - Journey To North River City","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-1088",1088,"\u003Cp>When that immense pressure descended, Xu Zimo’s body was instantly suppressed in place. Boundless power poured down from the heavens without end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His five viscera and six organs, his limbs and bones, all seemed to freeze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even his True Fate felt as if it were congealing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lifted his head slightly, above was nothing but darkness, the sky empty and indistinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though no figure had appeared, this oppressive force alone suppressed everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Paimon and Seven-Face were about to emerge, but Xu Zimo stopped them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gazed calmly at the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no doubt, this was a Saint Sovereign, a true Saint Sovereign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since you’ve made a move, why not dare to show yourself?” Xu Zimo asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You should be fulfilling your mission, not wasting time here on matters irrelevant to you,” came a faint voice from the dark sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then come out and speak to me,” Xu Zimo said. “I won’t converse with one who hides his head and tail.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Leave this place. Do not meddle in the affairs of the liches. It will bring you no benefit. Leave,” the voice continued, ignoring his demand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo suddenly felt the weight upon his body loosen, his spiritual energy beginning to circulate again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That suffocating terror vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you won’t face me, do you think I’m too weak?” he muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But all around, there was only emptiness, the endless winds stirring sandstorms across the desert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master, it should be them,” Paimon’s voice echoed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If he hadn’t struck, I would have doubts. But with that strike just now, it’s a hundred percent certain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo stayed silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, he was the one telling others such things. But this time, it was he who sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This world is really damn vast.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the world before him began to distort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sweeping sands faded, and countless cracks split across the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavens collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Particle World is shattering,” Paimon said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The void ahead fractured. Cracks split across the ground, which then collapsed piece by piece.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo’s body plummeted downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom… boom… boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heaven and earth wailed. Thunder roared, lightning flashed, visions burst forth across the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was Xu Zimo’s first time witnessing the collapse of a Particle World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shattering of a Particle World meant only one thing. Bright Emperor had fallen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before, Bright Emperor still had a sliver of life remaining, enough to speak his last words, to beg others to kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he had likely fallen forever, becoming a lich.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also the question Xu Zimo had been pondering all along. Liches were not a natural race, but something created.Get full chapters from n0velfire.net\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the one behind it all was tied closely to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world collapsed, all laws thrown into chaos. Xu Zimo felt heaven and earth overturned, explosions flashing like fire before his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, boundless darkness engulfed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not know how long had passed before he slowly awoke from the abyss of blackness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opening his eyes, he found himself once again back in the valley where he had first entered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Around him lay many people, others expelled after the Particle World’s destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What happened?” someone stirred awake, bewildered. “Has the Particle World been destroyed?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo also spotted Jiang Yun and his group. They had woken earlier, and their faces were grim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s wrong, friends?” Xu Zimo asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ve been deceived,” Bai Tihe replied. Then he glanced at Xu Zimo and asked, “Fellow Daoist, do you know something of this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What could I possibly know?” Xu Zimo shook his head slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Those liches must have…” Yu Huang sighed, leaving his words unfinished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had thought the liches wanted to reignite the calamity of ages past, and they sought to stop it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the truth had left them all deeply shaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Particle World had not shattered, they likely would not have escaped alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now the situation was dire, and they no longer knew the liches’ whereabouts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you plan to do?” Xu Zimo asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We discussed it,” Jiang Yun replied. “We want to unite with other Dao Courts and form an alliance. Would Brother Daoist like to join us?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No,” Xu Zimo shook his head. “I plan to go to North River City to find Gongyang Ce.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The matter of the Grand-Pivot God-Sword was paramount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the liches, he already understood enough, and there was no need to entangle himself further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you know anything about the liches’ origins?” he asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ve investigated before, but found nothing,” they shook their heads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They appear as if from thin air, and vanish the same way. Saint Sovereign Brahma might know something, but he never told us.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you do know anything, please share it,” Yu Huang said earnestly. “For the sake of the entire Mortal Ascension Heaven.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Saint Sovereign,” Xu Zimo answered softly with just two words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the rest, whether he explained or not, they would understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To fight the liches, they would need to find Saint Sovereign Brahma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, their Dao Courts alone would not be enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you,” Yu Huang nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had suspected as much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were liches at the level of Saint Sovereigns. In the past, Brahma had slain them, shattering the liches’ forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, things were not so simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re going to North River City, let us escort you,” Yu Huang offered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need. I can manage myself,” Xu Zimo shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He asked for directions, learning that heading northwest, the second city along the road would be North River City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A city vast and renowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Until we meet again,” they said their farewells and departed the valley one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo checked his bearings, then mounted the Seven-Winged Demon Dragon and set out for North River City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not stop along the way. Perhaps the events he had witnessed made him feel an increasing sense of urgency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Seven-Winged Demon Dragon flying at full speed, after thirty days, he reached the territory of North River City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a distance, the city stretched beyond the horizon, seemingly without end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like the Great Wall, stretching all the way to the edge of the sky, with no boundary in sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ancient green bricks formed its unbroken walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An ancient, oppressive aura emanated from it unconsciously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was one of the greatest cities in the Azure Frontier, famed throughout the land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gates were rusted with age.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet the city had no ruler.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though North River City lay within the territory of the Unified God Sect, even they had no authority to govern it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no true sovereign here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, its powers were many and entangled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of residents alone was in the billions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daily traffic exceeded hundreds of billions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vastness of the city was unimaginable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo now stood before its gates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merging with the endless crowd, he entered North River City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, Yu Huang and the others had already told him where Gongyang Ce resided.\u003C\u002Fp>",1169,"2026-06-06T01:07:09.694Z",1,"novelbin.me","d5759394cdce7ede4b60bc6263340ffa2f0b4e573f7f447ec667ffdbdeff6ba9","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-1089","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-1087",1822,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-really-am-a-villain-cover.jpg"]