[{"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-863":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},1433588,1885,"Chapter 863 - I Know I'm Handsome","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-863",863,"\u003Cp>From a very far distance, Xu Zimo could already see the other party.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn’t pay her any attention and instead continued stepping through the air straight ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a metallic clang, the sound of a sword’s cry rang through the surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An immensely powerful sword intent, like a torrential flood, slashed down just one meter in front of Xu Zimo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rumbling explosions followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if the heavens themselves had been torn apart, a short-lived chasm appearing ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It blocked Xu Zimo’s path forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo looked up at the other party.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fight me,” the woman said proudly, chest held high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not interested. Are we that close?” Xu Zimo replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shouldn’t the strong challenge even stronger opponents, and by doing so climb all the way up to the clouds to become even stronger?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This woman was Ji Ruobing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes burned as she looked at Xu Zimo. “The way you’re acting, you seem a bit afraid of death.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I just think you’re too weak,” Xu Zimo shook his head with a helpless laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I accidentally kill you, your Immortal Extinction Sacred Ground will come bother me. And I hate trouble the most.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t worry, my sect won’t interfere in my matters,” Ji Ruobing said lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fight me. If you win, I’ll unconditionally agree to do one thing for you. If I win, you don’t have to give me anything in return. How about it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re that confident?” Xu Zimo smiled faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the way she was acting, she clearly wouldn’t give up until she had fought him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she was very confident in her own strength, so confident it bordered on arrogance, otherwise she wouldn’t dare say such words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is my style,” Ji Ruobing said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You dare or not? I won’t even make you sign a life-and-death contract, just a normal spar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, if you can kill me, I’ll have no complaints.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You say you want to challenge me, and I have to agree? Wouldn’t that make me look bad?” Xu Zimo said with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then what do you want?” Ji Ruobing asked seriously, without getting angry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you know Mo Tianming?” Xu Zimo asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I do,” Ji Ruobing nodded without hesitation. “He was the one who, along with you, passed the tenth floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go challenge him. If you can beat him, then you’ll qualify to fight me,” Xu Zimo said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You said it,” Ji Ruobing snorted coldly. “That was my intention anyway.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With her status as the Saintess of the Immortal Extinction Sacred Ground, she had already challenged the Holy Sons and Saintesses of other imperial lineages in the Overlord Region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These people were not unfamiliar to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was instead Xu Zimo and Mo Tianming, these two newly emerged prodigies, that had caught her interest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A martial fanatic,” Xu Zimo muttered as he watched her stepping into the air and leaving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She’s really easy to trick. I guess Mo Tianming will have to take the trouble for me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped into the air and went straight into the Heavenly Dao Academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the academy there was a library, a place dedicated to storing books.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These so-called books naturally included cultivation methods, meridian techniques, secret arts, as well as miscellaneous records and strange tales…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, every book the Heavenly Dao Academy possessed was stored here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the largest academy of the human race, the books it recorded were vast beyond measure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No other power, not even an imperial lineage, could compare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo needed to prepare some things, but there were certain matters he had to investigate beforehand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had tried looking them up in the True Martial Sacred Ground before, but unfortunately, even that sect didn’t have these records.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Xu Zimo could only search in the Heavenly Dao Academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entering the library, he found it extremely vast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of grand halls rose high from the ground, towering majestically. Each hall had a unique style.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some halls had giant dragons coiled above them, green lions roaring, and the wind whistling in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some halls depicted scholars holding scrolls, ten thousand volumes read, ten thousand miles traveled, the sea of learning without end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some halls were shrouded in mist, and in that hazy illusion, immortals seemed to ascend, or supreme beings descended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, each hall had its own unique design.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The library bustled with activity, with many students coming and going, talking in groups of three or five.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the entrance to the library sat a reclining chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On it lay an old man wearing a brown-green robe, a book covering his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zimo tapped the armrest of the chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man sat up, yawned, and looked at Xu Zimo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m looking for some books and wanted to ask you,” Xu Zimo said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What topic?” the old man asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Emperor’s Fall,” Xu Zimo said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperor’s Fall was something Xu Zimo was familiar with, it was the war concerning the God Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The God Emperor had attempted to rule the entire Primordial Heartlands, going so far as to destroy several imperial lineages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, he angered others, and on that day, three Grand Emperors forcibly descended upon the Primordial Heartlands and destroyed the God Emperor’s Heaven’s Will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the first recorded time in Primordial Heartlands’s history that a Grand Emperor had fallen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was also the first recorded time that Grand Emperors had descended from the Outer Heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were some matters that perhaps even the God Emperor himself did not know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Xu Zimo wanted to investigate were the lesser-known aspects of that battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These details were important and would directly affect his future plans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Emperor’s Fall?” the old man was momentarily stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then looked at Xu Zimo strangely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you have the principal’s token?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I can’t read it without one?” Xu Zimo asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ordinary students naturally don’t have permission to read that,” the old man shook his head slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can only access the first five halls’ books. The Emperor’s Fall battle records are in the eighteenth hall. You’re new here, aren’t you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Xu Zimo frowned slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He left the library and headed to Vermilion Bird Island to find Venerable Nu for a solution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was something he hadn’t considered before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But halfway there, that white-dressed woman from before appeared again, haunting him like a ghost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m not in the mood to make a deal with you right now,” Xu Zimo said flatly. “Don’t provoke me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I never said I wanted to make a deal,” the white-dressed woman smiled. “I was originally going to help you get into the library, but it seems you don’t need me anymore.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You have a way?” Xu Zimo frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He began to suspect that her status in the Heavenly Dao Academy was quite high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman extended her arm, and on her pale wrist, a white token swayed gently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Here, the principal’s token,” she said with a proud smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How do you have that?” Xu Zimo asked in puzzlement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s not something you need to know,” the woman smiled. “Just say whether you want it or not.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you’re giving it for free, I’ll take it,” Xu Zimo said. “I don’t accept any conditional deals.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing that, the woman froze for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She then looked at Xu Zimo very seriously from head to toe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?” Xu Zimo asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know I’m very handsome,” he said. “You don’t have to keep staring at me.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1251,"2026-06-06T01:06:58.319Z",1,"novelbin.me","bd48cff4f9ddf6fff6ae4f82ff30ed89c481311541eff6f427039d15f981eb88","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-864","i-really-am-a-villain-chapter-862",1822,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-really-am-a-villain-cover.jpg"]