[{"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-483":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},1433208,1885,"Chapter 483 - The Iceberg Gate","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-483",483,"\u003Cp>The pale light of dawn glowed beautifully on the horizon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the sky just began to brighten, the two of them left Seaside City and headed toward the Endless Sky Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They walked and talked along the way. Li Zhizhong was actually a very reserved person. Unless Xu Zimo asked a question, he could stay silent the whole time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they arrived at the dock by the sea, Xu Zimo saw the same old man as before, holding the yellow sack and tossing something into the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Be careful of him,” Li Zhizhong glanced at the old man and warned Xu Zimo briefly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo frowned slightly. He had suspected before that the old man was suspicious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he was retrieving the Supreme-Yang Solar-Illumination, no mistakes could be allowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was thinking about whether he should just kill the old man ahead of time to remove any future threat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go,” said Li Zhizhong beside him, stepping onto a small boat without saying more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo thought for a moment, then got on the boat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the small boat slowly drifted away, the old man's cloudy eyes seemed endlessly deep. No one knew what he was thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sea remained calm. The deep blue ocean wasn’t very clear, in fact, it seemed somewhat murky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Strange, we haven’t been attacked by any flood dragons,” Li Zhizhong said, shaking his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo paused for a second. Everyone said the sea was full of flood dragons, yet he hadn’t seen a single one even when he came yesterday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two arrived at a certain stretch of water. Li Zhizhong looked around, then slowly stopped the boat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He nodded at Xu Zimo and jumped into the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo was slightly surprised and guessed that maybe the iceberg was underwater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had always imagined the iceberg floating on the surface, never thinking it could be submerged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following Li Zhizhong into the water, they didn’t notice anything unusual at first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhizhong stayed at the seabed for a long time before taking out a small insect from his spatial ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is a Firebug. It’s highly sensitive to fire-related objects,” Li Zhizhong explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo found all of this quite interesting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the Firebug touched the seawater, it began to struggle and swam rapidly toward the north.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The iceberg’s location is never fixed, but it always stays within this part of the sea,” Li Zhizhong said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After swimming for about half an hour, the Firebug seemed exhausted, and its speed clearly slowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that point, Li Zhizhong put it away and took out a new one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this way, they followed the bugs for nearly two hours, until the outline of a triangular iceberg appeared ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The closer they got to the iceberg, the more Xu Zimo felt the Supreme-Yin Nether-Glow inside him start to tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the tremors and pulses were becoming stronger and more frequent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is it,” he thought to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this what you were looking for?” Li Zhizhong turned and asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo nodded slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They stepped onto the iceberg. It wasn’t particularly large, and its surface was pure white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when Xu Zimo touched it, he felt a slight warmth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the front of the iceberg stood a large fiery-red door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door was tightly shut, and in the center was a slot shaped like a circular sun, carved with runes Xu Zimo had never seen before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he approached the door, he felt a power boiling inside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Demon Physique seemed to stir, as if it were awakening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How did you find this place?” Xu Zimo asked Li Zhizhong curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhizhong smiled faintly, then gazed silently at the endless sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of winters ago, a baby was abandoned by the shore of the Endless Sky Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A couple who had gone fishing at sea found him and, feeling pity, took him in and raised him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They named him Li Zhizhong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the boy grew older, he needed more food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That same year, flood dragons began to occupy the Endless Sky Sea, and food was in very short supply in Seaside City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unwilling to see the child go hungry, the couple tried many ways to find food. In the end, they decided to go fishing in the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They never returned. At the age of twenty, the orphan went out in the rain to search for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sea was stormy and wild, and the sky looked like it could collapse at any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His small boat was overturned, and he was thrown into the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he woke up, he found himself lying on a warm iceberg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside him, his blood felt like it was burning, and he gained immense strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He drifted in the Endless Sky Sea for days, but never found the couple again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he returned to the city, he encountered a flood dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What seemed like certain death turned unexpectedly when he, in panic, smashed the flood dragon’s head with a punch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He brought the flood dragon’s corpse back to Seaside City and became instantly famous, known as the Dragon-Slaying Hero.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After telling his story, Li Zhizhong smiled and said, “Since then, I’ve come back here often. Because the closer I get to this door, the more my blood seems to boil. But no matter what I try, I’ve never been able to open it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo nodded slightly. He placed his hand on the door, but couldn’t tell what material it was made from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, the map in his spatial ring, the one that had led him here, began to emit a brilliant light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light floated into the air, shining brightly like a blazing sun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its radiance shot up to the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then it transformed into a beam of light and surged into the circular slot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a loud rumble, the heavy door slowly began to open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the door was a void, no one could see what was within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the moment the door opened, the entire iceberg seemed to tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the roar of dragons echoed around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo turned and saw that the whole iceberg was surrounded by a massive group of flood dragons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were at least hundreds of them, each exuding terrifying power. Among them were even some at the Imperial Meridian and Empyrean Meridian realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And riding atop a black-purple flood dragon was none other than the old man from the dock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How many years... I’ve waited so many years... This withered old body has finally opened the door,” the old man shouted wildly from atop the flood dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Li Zhizhong roared in fury, “So you were the one raising all these flood dragons!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo suddenly recalled seeing the old man feeding something into the sea, so it was food for the flood dragons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need to be so angry,” the old man laughed loudly. “Even your arrival was part of my plan.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you mean?” Li Zhizhong asked angrily.\u003C\u002Fp>",1170,"2026-06-06T01:06:40.721Z",1,"novelbin.me","dc2346ae314e6a586f789b7fe995a751de8bfee85ab80462eb02bd65ae4263f6","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-484","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-482",1822,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-really-am-a-villain-cover.jpg"]