[{"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-203":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},1432928,1885,"Chapter 203 - Demon Puppet","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-203",203,"\u003Cp>📢 New Novel Launch!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mad Blood Demon’s face twisted with rage. The blood-colored river above his head surged, its hue growing even more sinister.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the river churned, boundless spiritforce gathered around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The river and spiritforce twisted together, stirring up the surrounding storm clouds until the entire space began to collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mad Blood Demon let out a furious roar and charged directly at Paimon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Futile resistance,” Paimon said coldly. Demonic energy condensed around his fist. With one punch, he tore through the sky like a raging river severing the sun. The strike drove the Mad Blood Demon deep into the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, more and more grotesque faces poured out from above, turning Hunyuan Ancient City into a sea of blood, a living hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary martial artists couldn’t survive anymore. The only ones still standing were beings at the level of the One Leaf Ancient God and the Five Ancestors of Stone Tablet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stench of blood filled the air. In the heart of the city, the arena remained eerily silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mad Blood Demon emerged from the ground, his face pale, blood at the corner of his lips, and faint traces of demonic aura swirling around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His True Fate had been injured, and the demonic energy in his mind could no longer be suppressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a furious roar, his vision turned pitch black as the demonic aura consumed him, dragging him into the most despair-filled memories of his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mortal had taken the Heaven's Will. The Mad Blood Demon swore he would remember that sword strike for the rest of his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It shattered all his pride, cast him from the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He watched that man shine across the ages as he carried the Heaven's Will, and in that moment, the Mad Blood Demon was utterly crushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The memory shifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was back home. His family’s corpses lay in pools of blood. That moment too was filled with despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If living hurts this much, why not end it? Death is the only release.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A voice in his mind kept tempting him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, the Mad Blood Demon raised his right hand, reaching toward his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Demonic energy gathered around him. The blood-colored river above flickered as bloodlight and demonic aura intertwined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His expression flickered. Then, with a furious roar, he forcefully expelled the demonic aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though disheveled, his eyes now shone with clarity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If this world hadn’t suppressed my cultivation, you wouldn’t have escaped my Domain of Despair,” Paimon said coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the Mad Blood Demon was about to speak, he felt a sting in his back. He turned with a frown to see several people stabbing him from behind with weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were the ones who had earlier gouged out their hearts under demonic influence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, like puppets, they attacked without consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mad Blood Demon, an Arcane Immortal realm powerhouse, was unfazed. Their attacks did nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He waved a hand. Infinite spiritforce gathered and vaporized them instantly, ashes in the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But more and more came. Growing impatient, he summoned the raging blood river above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sea of blood surged and drowned them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pfft!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, another blade pierced his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mad Blood Demon turned, only to see the little girl standing before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Qi’er…” his voice trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she had no awareness. She simply stabbed him again and again with the blade in her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s Grandpa’s fault… I couldn’t protect you…” the Mad Blood Demon said, his body shaking, eyes misty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the blood river swelled, the little girl’s figure slowly vanished within it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lifted his head, eyes calm as he looked at Paimon, yet in that calm, madness lurked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You must be in so much pain,” Paimon said flatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had remained expressionless from the start. “Let me end that pain for you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he finished speaking, the demonic aura in the sky surged once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, the Mad Blood Demon didn’t fight back. Instead, the blood river roared and struck at the barrier surrounding the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A deafening explosion shook the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barrier rippled. Pale blue light flickered, but it remained intact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His expression darkened. He struck it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still no change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s useless. Stop wasting your strength,” Paimon said, shaking his head. Demonic energy swirled in his hand as he lunged at the old man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I die, you’re coming with me!” the Mad Blood Demon bellowed. The blood river surged toward Xu Zimo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Paimon let out a cold snort. He raised his other hand, and two streams of demonic energy came at the Mad Blood Demon from different directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An explosion of energy tore through the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like a mushroom cloud rising overhead. The space around them shattered completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the dust settled, the Mad Blood Demon lay dying on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood river, his True Fate, had shattered into countless fragments. His body was mangled beyond recognition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worst of all, his soul had been fractured. Cracks spread across it like shattered glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light footsteps echoed in his ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo slowly walked up to the dying Mad Blood Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ll get what’s coming to you,” the old man said weakly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Life is like a book full of ups and downs. Until the last page, you never know how the story ends,” Xu Zimo replied calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, boundless demonic aura surged and consumed the Mad Blood Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the darkness, grotesque faces shrieked and howled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the demonic fog finally faded, the Mad Blood Demon stood back up, like a puppet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master, I’ve etched a demonic mark into his True Fate,” Paimon said respectfully. “He’s no different from a puppet now. But due to the severe damage to his soul and True Fate, his strength is limited to the Empyrean Meridian Realm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked around, the entire city was now shrouded in demonic mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fog smothered everything, swallowing the entire city in darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone here had been branded with the demonic mark, turned into puppets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Paimon by his side, Xu Zimo stepped over broken walls and shattered ruins until he reached the Five Ancestors of Stone Tablet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The five men stood frozen in place, their eyes hollow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo opened their storage rings and searched them thoroughly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing he wanted inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Looks like they were afraid of retaliation from the Imperial Lineages and didn’t dare carry it with them,” he muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What about the Ye Clan?” he asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They’re trapped inside their estate. I didn’t touch them,” Paimon replied quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>",1099,"2026-06-06T01:06:40.721Z",1,"novelbin.me","4a06a113d0c25322ab9d8cb5d6b4d05731d3614a2dadcc010f65855dc6b79ac0","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-204","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-202",1822,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-really-am-a-villain-cover.jpg"]