[{"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-266":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},1433141,1885,"Chapter 266 - A Game With Ants","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-266",266,"\u003Cp>“Do you want to live?” Xu Zimo scanned the crowd and asked calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd gulped hard and nodded frantically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In that case, let’s set some rules,” Xu Zimo smiled, turning to the remaining disciples of the Death God Palace. “From now until this time tomorrow, exactly twenty-four hours, anyone who kills 1,000 members of the Death God Palace will be spared.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t even think about escaping Dark Corner Capital. Don’t think about hiding either. It’s useless. Also, Ghost Yama’s head is worth 1,000 kills by itself. Alright, the game begins now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Xu Zimo finished speaking, the remaining disciples of the Death God Palace immediately turned on Ghost Yama, rushing toward him in a frenzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Death God Palace had tens of thousands of members, this small crowd was only a fraction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some who knew they couldn’t win rushed off to hunt down other uninformed members of the Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo smiled and casually walked toward the bald fatty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How do you want to die?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t want to die!” the fat man shook his head desperately, trembling with fear. “Spare me! I’ll serve you like a dog, I’ll be your slave!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re not even worthy of being my slave,” Xu Zimo sneered, then looked at Spare Tiger beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Relax, we have no grudge,” he said with a grin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, yes, it was my fault, I didn’t know who I was dealing with,” Spare Tiger said quickly, smiling awkwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dissect him, cut him into a thousand pieces, and you can leave,” Xu Zimo said, pointing at the bald fatty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spring wind blew through the street littered with corpses. The trees on both sides swayed gently, as the fat man’s screams echoed like a slaughtered pig.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo looked forward at Dark River and asked with a smile, “Do you want to live?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course,” Dark River nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t seem particularly afraid. For a true warrior who’d walked the martial path, anyone who had reached this level had faced death countless times. Simple fear of dying no longer shook them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you know the Heaven-Severing Sacred Ground?” Xu Zimo asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s little in the Holyflower Region that I don’t know,” Dark River nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then lead the way,” Xu Zimo said indifferently. “I’ve rarely come to the Middle Continent.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This life marked his first proper journey to the continent. Though he had visited briefly in a previous life, the vast land, divided into four major regions, still held many unknowns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dark River nodded. He didn’t object. He understood this was the price of survival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo spent the night in the Mo Imperial Clan’s teahouse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Early the next morning, he prepared to head toward the Heaven-Severing Sacred Ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mo Zhan’s attitude had noticeably shifted to one of deep respect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo had never revealed his identity, he’d only shown Mo Canghai’s token before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, after witnessing his power, Mo Zhan knew this was no ordinary man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sunlight spread across the earth, casting multicolored rays from the eastern sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just before leaving, Dark River asked curiously, “You gave the Death God Palace a 24-hour deadline. Why leave now, before it ends?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo looked at him with a hint of surprise and shrugged, “Why take a game with ants seriously?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…True. I got caught up in it,” Dark River froze for a second, then nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Holyflower Region, though just one-fourth of the Middle Continent, was still quite vast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had more Imperial Lineages than even the core of the Eastern Continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to being shunned, Dark Corner Capital sat on the region’s fringes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Dark River, even at top speed, it would take them five days to reach Heaven-Severing City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo wasn’t in a rush. Leaving Dark Corner Capital, the two of them began heading south.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after setting out, they unexpectedly ran into the group from the Martial Zenith Sacred Ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had decided to leave Dark Corner Capital due to its brutality and were exploring other cities for training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief chat, they all decided to travel together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo didn’t mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kept Dark Heaven Tiger with him at all times. His spatial ring was split into two compartments, one for living creatures and one for non-living items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This type of ring was rare and expensive, but Xu Zimo had never lacked resources since childhood,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He laid back on the Darksky Tiger’s back and entered his True Fate World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, something significant was happening on the God World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon Tree planted there had grown to the height of the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its entire trunk trembled, and the roars of dragons echoed across the land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the dragon fruits, the baby dragons began to stir, cracks started to appear on their surfaces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the tree trembled, the skies rumbled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene continued for a while until finally, loud shattering sounds rang out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cracks on the dragon fruit grew larger, and tender dragon cries emerged from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, nearly 100 dragon fruits fell to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each one cracked open, and baby dragons about a meter long crawled out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These newborns hadn’t even opened their eyes yet, but they instinctively reached out with tiny claws to nibble on the dragon fruits that had nurtured them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With each bite, their bodies grew, their eyes slowly opened, and their scales hardened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nearly a hundred dragon hatchlings crawled across the ground, and Chaos, acting as the elder of the group, was clearly overjoyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It clumsily tried to care for the little ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the dragon fruits had fallen, the Dragon Tree quickly began to wither.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Green leaves turned yellow and fell off, the height of the tree diminished, its bark split and fell away, revealing a new sapling growing from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This new tree was half the height of the original.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its trunk and branches were misty gray, as if made from fog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It rapidly absorbed the God World’s life essence and began to grow strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It soon bore nearly 100 fruits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These fruits came in all colors, black, white, red, yellow, green, purple...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each fruit had a unique elemental attribute, wind, rain, lightning, gold, wood, water, fire, earth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were food for the baby dragons. By eating the fruit corresponding to their attribute, they would gain matching powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo had to admit, the Dragon Race had planned everything meticulously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even without his intervention, the dragonlings would’ve survived in Nether Dragon Ravine, feeding on these fruits and growing over time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Newborn Dragon Gods weren’t very powerful yet. Xu Zimo gave Chaos some brief instructions to take care of them, then exited the True Fate World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in the real world, the group hadn’t traveled far when a figure suddenly blocked their path ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>",1121,"2026-06-06T01:06:40.721Z",1,"novelbin.me","c7efb178ad24dffd2a15922d921311682f51b290d8f967d943471eccb23ed0e6","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-267","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-265",1822,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-really-am-a-villain-cover.jpg"]