[{"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-253":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},1433128,1885,"Chapter 253 - Maple Leaf City","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-253",253,"\u003Cp>People set up the arena, and performers took turns on stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this grand play, Xu Zimo neither opened the show nor ended it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was just a minor, insignificant character, entering quietly, leaving silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the Time Emperor was altering Lin Qing's destiny, Xu Zimo, in order to obtain the Fate-Reversing Pearl, made an early alliance with the Time Emperor and ultimately sacrificed himself heroically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped on stage, performed, then exited flawlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After putting away the Fate-Reversing Pearl, Xu Zimo looked at the God Emperor and said, “Your Divine Sect has been silent for far too long. It’s time the world remembered you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you planning?” the God Emperor asked, puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving the Elden Lands behind, Xu Zimo headed straight toward Maple Leaf City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Gui and Yao Shengnan had previously gone to retrieve the Mother Leaf of the Tree of Life from Maple Leaf City, but hadn’t returned yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, Xu Zimo needed to check on them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tree of Life was crucial to Xu Zimo, an integral part of his Power of Creation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, Little Gui might have encountered danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After emerging from the transformation of the Elden Lands, Xu Zimo could already sense the presence of Paimon and Chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maple Leaf City was under the control of the Mo Imperial Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the Formation Emperor bore the Heaven's Will, this family had risen like a new star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They became one of the foremost families in the entire Primordial Heartlands specializing in formation arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hexa-Genesis Immortal Formation left behind by the Formation Emperor was still hailed as one of the most powerful formations on the continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It also served as the Mo Imperial Clan’s protective formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most members of the Mo Imperial Clan were pioneers with strong spirits of innovation and exploration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their descendants continued to study all kinds of formations. Naturally, there were successes, and failures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Xu Zimo arrived at Maple Leaf City, it was already evening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The architecture of the city was highly unusual, shaped like a giant upside-down maple leaf pressed against the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the buildings were crimson, red bricks, red tiles, with red as the dominant color.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xu Zimo stepped inside, taking in the physical buildings all around, one would find it hard to imagine that this city had originally been formed through the evolution of a formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the ancestors of the Mo Imperial Clan, there was an eccentric.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was not bound by the traditional killing, illusion, or trapping formations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He enjoyed studying what were known as \"lifestyle formations.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A formation that could evolve into a city, a long river, a forest…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He liked using formations to project countless real-world objects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, many in the Mo Imperial Clan considered him a disgrace to formation masters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The formations he developed were seen as having no offensive capabilities or practical use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But many years later, this eccentric was inspired by that process of evolution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He ultimately achieved mastery in formation arts, able to evolve all things with a glance: sun and moon cycles, seas turning into mulberry fields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maple Leaf City was a city he created through formation evolution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this world, many other things he had evolved still existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After entering Maple Leaf City, Xu Zimo noticed the city’s defenses had become much stricter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every person entering or leaving had their identity thoroughly checked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the streets, many people in blue robes patrolled throughout the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo found an inn and walked in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Welcome, sir! Are you staying the night or dining?” the innkeeper’s assistant hurried over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bring out your best food and wine,” Xu Zimo smiled. “I have a question.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Please ask,” the assistant nodded quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m new to Maple Leaf City,” Xu Zimo said with a smile. “While walking over here, I saw lots of people in blue robes on the streets. It's kind of intimidating. Did something happen in the city?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The assistant looked around cautiously. Seeing no one nearby, he leaned in and whispered, “I don’t know much myself. But I heard they’re looking for two people.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And who are these blue-robed people?” Xu Zimo asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I heard they’re from the Middle Continent. Not something we can interfere with,” the assistant replied with a chuckle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo fell into deep thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People from the Middle Continent coming to the Eastern Continent to apprehend someone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t hard for him to connect this to Yao Shengnan and Little Gui.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After dinner, Xu Zimo returned to his room and had Paimon start searching for signs of Little Gui and Yao Shengnan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sat cross-legged on the bed, letting his consciousness enter the God World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This land was vast and empty, seemingly lifeless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Chaos patrolled the world, watching over the gestation of the nine God Beasts’ bloodlines, hoping for the day they would be reborn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the slow gestation of the nine beasts, the only tree on the continent, the Dragon Tree, was growing rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It absorbed the world’s life energy and had now grown into a towering tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its branches were lush and vast, extending into the void. The thick, green leaves densely covered the massive tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On it hung nearly a hundred glowing fruits, glistening and translucent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside each fruit, dragon-shaped shadows faintly appeared, incredibly lifelike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spring had come, and the breeze blew in from ten thousand miles away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It lifted the dust, then let it fall again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the spring breeze, the faint sound of dragon roars echoed from the tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo observed, while the God Beasts would take more time to be reborn, the Dragon Tree looked like it would bear fruit soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After cultivating in the True Fate World for a night, Xu Zimo began considering the Empyrean Meridian Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The appearance of one’s True Fate marked entry into the Imperial Meridian Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In contrast, the defining trait of the Empyrean Meridian Realm was the manifestation of one’s soul, a complete God-Soul of their own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the next morning, Paimon had returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well?” Xu Zimo asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Absolutely no sign,” Paimon shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even you couldn’t find them?” Xu Zimo asked in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They’re either hiding in a very special place, or they’ve already left Maple Leaf City.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo thought for a moment and then pulled out a Life Leaf he had obtained earlier from his storage ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you want, kid?” the Leaf of Life asked warily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you want your freedom?” Xu Zimo smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I do, but I’m a leaf with principles. I would never sell my body!” the Life Leaf quickly replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“....I don’t want your body,” Xu Zimo said, exasperated. “I want you to sense whether the Mother Leaf of the Tree of Life is nearby.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You mean that leaf from the Celestial Race?” the Life Leaf asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve seen it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Back when I was still part of the Tree of Life, someone from the Celestial Race brought the Mother Leaf to visit. Of course I remember,” replied the Life Leaf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That Mother Leaf is also the only way to connect with the Tree of Life.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then hurry up and see if it’s nearby,” Xu Zimo urged.\u003C\u002Fp>",1195,"2026-06-06T01:06:40.721Z",1,"novelbin.me","e4d30ea837c567a82a951b6c443d4bfa3a017731c2141bdcf72adbf69041544f","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-254","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-252",1822,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-really-am-a-villain-cover.jpg"]