[{"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-252":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},1433127,1885,"Chapter 252 - Obtaining The Fate-Reversing Pearl","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-252",252,"\u003Cp>When Xu Zimo opened his eyes, he found himself back in the Elden Lands, though he didn’t know when or how he had returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo closed his eyes gently, sensing the immense boost from mastering the War God’s Nine Transformations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This divine art greatly amplified his power, but it came with a price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each time it was used, his body would enter a weakened state for a period afterward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stepping out from the evolving illusion of the Elden Lands, Xu Zimo returned to the Divine Gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You really came out?” the God Emperor asked in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, in all past evolutions of the Elden Lands, only Grand Emperors had ever come out alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Xu Zimo was merely an Imperial Meridian Realm cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I need you to do something for me,” Xu Zimo said calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, deep within the Elden Lands...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With every shift in the evolving scenes, heaven and earth rumbled, and endless spiritforce roared throughout the land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a hidden pocket of absolute darkness, a coffin floated silently in mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time was frozen around it, no one knew how long it had remained there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the coffin hovered the image of a clock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had twenty-four ticks, and with each new evolution in the Elden Lands, the clock’s hand would move one position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, as a “click-click” echoed clearly through the still darkness, the clock reached its final mark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Crack.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The coffin lid slowly opened. As it vanished, a woman in a blue dress suddenly sat up from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stepped out gently. Her long blue gown spread out over the land like a field of blooming flowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, that clock, which had just completed its cycle, began rotating backward at high speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A beam of light shot out from the clock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within it, the faint image of a man slowly formed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman looked around in confusion. But when she saw the silhouette clearly, she cried out in shock:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tianshi!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Qing’er, it’s been a long time,” the man smiled affectionately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tianshi, what’s going on?” the woman, Lin Qing, asked in confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a wave of his hand, Tianshi (the Time Emperor) revealed a scene filled with countless time-reversal currents in the dark space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A river of time, glowing in five-colored light, descended from the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tianshi smiled and said, “Go ahead. This is the inheritance I prepared for you. Once you receive it, you’ll understand everything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Qing nodded and stepped fearlessly into the River of Time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching her enter, Tianshi finally sighed in relief and murmured, “It worked.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, footsteps echoed nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tianshi’s expression sharpened. He waved his hand, and the power of time surged through the space. The darkness trembled with overwhelming force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Please, don’t act rashly, Time Emperor, I come on someone else’s behalf,” the figure said urgently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the shadows dissipated, it was revealed to be the God Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tianshi looked him over and said coldly, “You’d better have a good explanation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The God Emperor smiled, reached into his robe, and took out a jade pendant, offering it to Tianshi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xu Zimo… my junior brother,” he said softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the sight of the pendant, Tianshi fell into thought, closing his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He murmured, “Something left behind by our ancestor…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The God Emperor continued, “Time really is amazing. In the blink of an eye, so many years have passed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tianshi nodded in agreement. Then he reached into the void and pulled out a round pearl, handing it to the God Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take it. This is the Fate-Reversing Pearl. It has a small chance of altering someone’s destiny. I trust you to use it wisely.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The God Emperor stared at the pearl in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked ordinary, but up close, there was something deeply unnatural about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tianshi added, “If you truly manage to change Xu Zimo’s fate, tell him I’ll be waiting in the Upper Realm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The God Emperor nodded. With a wave of Tianshi’s hand, the darkness vanished, and the God Emperor was returned to the Elden Lands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back at the Divine Gate, the God Emperor looked at Xu Zimo and asked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How do you know the Time Emperor? That man existed many eras ago.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo just smiled, not answering. He held the Fate-Reversing Pearl in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The God Emperor persisted, “What does the Ancient Remnant Curse of the Elden Lands have to do with him? You owe me at least that answer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo replied, “It doesn’t concern you. You just need to know one thing: From today on, the Ancient Remnant Curse will vanish.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The God Emperor fell silent. After a long while, he said quietly, “You’re even more mysterious than I thought.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About the Elden Lands…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people knew that it was once the ruins of the Greensky Tribe, a tribe from the Legendary Era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long ago, the Time Emperor had conceived the idea of the Fate-Reversing Pearl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But an accident had caused him to be thrown back into the Legendary Era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a pivotal chapter in his life, where he also fell in love with a woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Qing!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they belonged to different eras.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After returning to the present, he worked tirelessly on the Dao of Time, determined to change fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finally accepting the mantle of destiny, he made his idea real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the Fate-Reversing Pearl was born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With it, people could travel back in time to alter someone’s past, which would, in turn, change their future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This artifact was truly defiant of Heaven’s Will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, when Tianshi tried to create more pearls, the Heavenly Dao itself intervened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he neared the creation of the fourth Fate-Reversing Pearl, heavenly tribulation rained down to stop him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a severe violation of natural law.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, he was forced to stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only three Fate-Reversing Pearls now exist in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was used to change Lin Qing’s destiny.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything else, the Elden Lands, the Ancient Remnant Curse, were protective layers he placed to shield himself while reversing fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The evolution of the Elden Lands was just a side-effect of that process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before performing the reversal, Tianshi had set countless false worlds as traps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one world, the true Legendary Era, was real. The rest were filled with hidden dangers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who entered blindly died within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Xu Zimo, having glimpsed the truth through the River of Fate, was able to locate the correct world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When a person tries to reverse another’s destiny, their own fate becomes intertwined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo’s arrival didn’t change the outcome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply added himself to the story.\u003C\u002Fp>",1092,"2026-06-06T01:06:40.721Z",1,"novelbin.me","08468e9b82395014e6094967aa35b1dac3ad6b43ae9d43a86d41ebefdbaa3861","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-253","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-251",1822,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-really-am-a-villain-cover.jpg"]