[{"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-429":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},1433054,1885,"Chapter 429 - Phoenix Perch Empire","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-429",429,"\u003Cp>“I don’t know what use this treasure cloth has either, so it’s up to you to explore,” Liu Changfeng said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo nodded slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they talked, the two arrived at the entrance to the Sea Serpent Race’s vault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vault was also a simple and unadorned palace. Most of the race’s accumulated treasures over the years were likely stored inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Passing the guards at the entrance, the two walked in slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vault was large and had three levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first level held various strange items, the second level contained books.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Changfeng led Xu Zimo directly to the third level and retrieved a long-dusty purple box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Xu Zimo saw the box, for some reason, his heart began to beat faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took the box and slowly opened it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside was a piece of purple cloth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He picked it up, it was unclear what material the cloth was made of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt heavy in his hands and slightly warm to the touch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cloth wasn’t large, and it was covered in dense black lines, drawn both horizontally and vertically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo couldn’t make out anything else from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Any clues?” Liu Changfeng asked from the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo examined it for a long time, then shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He put the cloth away and said, “I’ll study it later when I have time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I advise you not to get too obsessed with it,” Liu Changfeng added. “Many of my talented ancestors spent their whole lives on it and got nothing in the end.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo nodded slightly and said, “For this cloth, I’ll do you a small favor. Want full control over the Sea Serpent Race? I can help you eliminate the remaining elders.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you,” Liu Changfeng said sincerely. “But they still care about the race. Whatever conflicts exist, we’ll work them out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo didn’t say anything more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Changfeng originally wanted Xu Zimo to stay and explore the race for a few days, but Xu Zimo refused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving the Sea Serpent Race, he headed straight back to Brightsky City to see whether the teleportation array had been repaired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Halfway there, Xu Zimo looked around and, seeing no one nearby, slowly took out the treasure cloth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he retrieved a black-purple stone from his True Fate World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stone was glowing faintly, something Xu Zimo had never seen before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This stone was one he had acquired in the city of Fireflow in the Holyflower Region, after a reaction from the Supreme-Yin Nether-Glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been dormant ever since, but now, with the treasure cloth, Xu Zimo sensed a connection between the two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already noticed something strange when he was still at the Sea Serpent Race, but didn’t bring it out because Liu Changfeng was present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, as he brought the stone and the cloth into contact,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the stone began to tremble, glowing intensely before transforming into a stream of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This light shot into the sky, dyeing the heavens above black-purple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A vast, torrential light poured down like a waterfall and flowed entirely into the treasure cloth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, the cloth began to shine with radiant brilliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To Xu Zimo’s surprise, the horizontal and vertical lines on the cloth started to rearrange themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, they formed a map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at it closely, it was a miniature, simplified map of the Primordial Heartlands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What shocked Xu Zimo was that the map only showed one landmass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant the map was extremely ancient,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>so old that when it was drawn, the continent hadn’t yet split into five regions as it had today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thought deeply unsettled him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Red lines marked paths on the map, as if guiding him somewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red trail ended at a specific point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If this map is related to the Supreme-Yang Solar-Illumination, then that endpoint must be where it is,” Xu Zimo speculated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He studied the map carefully. Since the layout was very different from the current continent, he had to compare it piece by piece.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, he realized the map’s endpoint wasn’t on any of the five regions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, it was located in a hidden area within the Endless Sky Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo didn’t know if the location had shifted over time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But once he finished his business in the Northern Continent, he would head there immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He carefully stored the map in his True Fate World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he arrived in Brightsky City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In one night, so many people had died in Brightsky City that it caused a small uproar within the Celestial Tiger Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The empire quickly sent people to take control of the now-chaotic city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An investigation into the incident was also launched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time Xu Zimo arrived, a new city lord had already taken over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Order had been restored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo guessed that the teleportation array must have been repaired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new city lord likely used it to arrive, otherwise, he couldn’t have gotten there so fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sea Serpent Race had destroyed the formation earlier to prevent interference from the Celestial Tiger Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, things went smoothly as Xu Zimo entered the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He paid the required fee and used the teleportation array to head toward the Bright Moon Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the Thirty-Six Empires, the Bright Moon Empire ranked near the top.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After another journey through space and time, Xu Zimo arrived in Violet Moon City of the Bright Moon Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Violet Moon City was one of the more prosperous major cities in the empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The empire itself was ruled by the Shadow Moon Race.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo didn’t linger. He immediately used another teleportation array to head to the Phoenix Perch Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a human empire, the Phoenix Perch Empire had a strong reputation in the Northern Continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was one of the most powerful empires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the east lay the Bright Moon Empire, to the west the Wild Ox Empire, Phoenix Perch stood as the undisputed overlord of the region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its territory and overall strength were both among the best.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly, ever since Grand Emperor Zhen Wu ushered in the Imperial Era, humans had reached their golden era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The consensus among all races was that the human race could not be provoked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was said that in the lands now ruled by the Phoenix Perch Empire, a great battle once took place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Divine Phoenix tore through the void and descended upon the land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It underwent its tribulation here and ascended, its flames scorching the land for years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No grass grew. It was desolate and lifeless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the empire was finally founded, people named it “Phoenix Perch”, Phoenix Perch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tranquil Heaven City was an obscure town under the Phoenix Perch Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the many cities, it alone had an independent teleportation formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This puzzled many, and several other cities had opposed it before the empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was useless, the empire gave no explanation.\u003C\u002Fp>",1143,"2026-06-06T01:06:40.721Z",1,"novelbin.me","f1652ae7b51c66e48adab2accf6e84c6eafa7c97ddbcfb8c3366d8b4e32245bc","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-430","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-428",1822,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-really-am-a-villain-cover.jpg"]