[{"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-674":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},1433449,1885,"Chapter 674 - The Great Tonic Mist","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-674",674,"\u003Cp>Hearing Xu Zimo’s words, Liu Yiyi asked puzzled, “Junior Brother Lin, what are you talking about?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who’s your junior brother?” Xu Zimo replied. “I think it’d be better if you all went down to accompany your Senior Sister Huangfu.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You!” Yin Rong gasped and immediately reacted. “You were the one who killed Senior Sister Huangfu!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can ask her yourself,” Xu Zimo said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his voice fell, inside the formation, the giant monster once again raised its foot to stomp down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo chuckled and his figure disappeared into the mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He’s gone,” someone among the musicians in the mist exclaimed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No rush. Kill his companions first, then we’ll deal with him,” another replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Fang Xiang’s eyes filled with despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood in front with his spear and shouted, “Junior Sisters, I’ll hold them off. You two run back to the sect and tell Master everything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spear shone brightly, but was ultimately crushed beneath the monster’s foot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Fang Xiang fall, Liu Yiyi and Yin Rong, the only two remaining girls, were stunned in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Junior Brother Lin, we’ll give you whatever you want. Please save us!” Yin Rong cried out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knowing they had no ability to resist, the two could only scream for help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, when the monster’s foot came down again, all around fell into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Could that guy have run off?” someone murmured in the mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Probably just hiding,” another voice answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mist began to disperse, and only the corpses of Liu Rufeng and the others remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three musicians looked around cautiously and exchanged glances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If he escaped, how do we explain it? The House of Fury paid us a lot for this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Looking for me?” Just as the flute player spoke, a voice suddenly rang out behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came a squelch as a long blade pierced his abdomen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When did you...?” the flute player turned his head with difficulty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other two immediately began shaking the bell and strumming the zither.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s useless. Stop playing,” Xu Zimo said casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two loud explosions rang out. The zither strings snapped, the bell shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is this monster?” the two’s eyes bulged as they shouted, “Run!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their bodies darted off in different directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pointless,” Xu Zimo shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Heaven Demon Bow in hand, two “whoosh” sounds echoed. Two magic arrows shot out faster than the speed of sound, nailing them to trees in the Misty Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to look at the corpses of the World Sovereign Empyrean Sect disciples, shook his head, and said, “I didn’t want to kill you, but I already got the fusion method. You’re just not useful anymore.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo clapped his hands and walked straight into the Misty Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the outside, this vast forest exuded dampness and mystery, like an ancient giant lying in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside, the trees were all ancient. Even in the withering autumn season, they remained lush and vibrant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The forest was shrouded in a mysterious mist, rendering everything inside invisible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unknown carried a faint fear, that was the initial feeling the Misty Forest gave off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo chose to enter from the southeastern entrance. He took out the map he’d prepared earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The map was very detailed, helping him reach the Swamp Lands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond the Swamp Lands, however, the map had very little detail, as that place was near certain death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of years ago, one morning, World Paragon Fury entered and never came out again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After stepping in, Xu Zimo immediately felt a chill in the surrounding air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air was thick with moisture. The mist engulfed everything, obscuring both sight and path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To Xu Zimo’s senses, this mist felt more like a kind of energy, a very special energy, not ordinary fog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the map, he pressed on. There were no cardinal directions here. It felt like he was the only person left in a vast, white world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After walking for a long while, Xu Zimo noticed his internal spiritforce was circulating sluggishly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed the mist, once inhaled, clung to his meridians like a membrane, slowing his energy flow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then he discovered something strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he couldn’t absorb spiritual energy normally, when he activated the strange meridian technique, he could easily absorb the mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more surprising, the fifth strange meridian, the Root Chakra, which had long been blocked, began to operate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo sat cross-legged and calmly absorbed the mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while, a muffled “bang” came from within him as the fifth meridian was opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Root Chakra activated, his spiritforce began circulating at more than twice the speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly, after reaching the Godly Monarch realm but before stepping into the Immortal Path, Xu Zimo had thought he’d reached the limit of the human body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But judging from this, the human body held endless possibilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d only glimpsed a small part.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five strange meridians made a single minor cycle. Just opening that had already benefited him greatly. What if all thirty-six were activated?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo wasn’t in a hurry to fuse with the Blood Lizard. He sat where he was and continued absorbing the mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the more he absorbed, the more he realized that the amount needed to open each meridian was immense. The mist in the outer area wasn’t enough anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was about to continue deeper, a loud boom sounded as a huge shadow descended from above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked up and saw a massive mountain falling down to crush him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thunderous roars echoed above, but Xu Zimo didn’t flinch. He raised his fist and smashed it upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a “boom,” the mountain shattered into countless pieces of falling debris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strange hissing sound came from nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw a one-meter-tall rock creature flailing its limbs angrily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its head was irregularly shaped, but it had two arms and two legs, just like a human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When it had been curled up, it looked like an ordinary rock, and Xu Zimo hadn’t paid it any attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that it stood, its uniqueness was clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apparently frustrated that its sneak attack failed, the rock creature shouted wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A spirit beast?” Xu Zimo looked at it with interest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stretched out his right hand and grabbed the stone creature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing escape was impossible, the creature retracted its limbs and turned back into an ordinary rock.\u003C\u002Fp>",1056,"2026-06-06T01:06:54.961Z",1,"novelbin.me","556f2a90724fce69a1bdb0e877a79e1b7228273645a98422b4dd5765f7378fbc","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-675","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-673",1822,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-really-am-a-villain-cover.jpg"]