[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-mother-is-the-villain":3,"chapter-my-mother-is-the-villain-my-mother-is-the-villain-chapter-19":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Mother is the Villain",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1163343,1508,"Chapter 19: Be Caged","my-mother-is-the-villain-chapter-19",19,"\u003Cp>Victor stepped out of his room only to find his mother sitting on the sofa, legs crossed, gazing at a bottle containing a black pill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emma stood behind her, gently massaging her shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his cultivation, Victor could sense a faint trace of his grandfather’s aura lingering in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had likely just left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that was the case, the pill inside the bottle probably came from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Victor grew slightly uneasy. The pill was now in his mother’s hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman gestured for him to approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You seem to enjoy fooling around,\" she said with a faint smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Victor didn’t know how to respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was most likely referring to what he had done at the Heavenly Lightning Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you know your weakness, Victor?\" she asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shook his head, a bad premonition rising in his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your life has been too easy,\" she said calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You need to suffer at the beginning of your path.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Victor’s eyes widened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pill inside the bottle had already appeared in his mouth and slid down his throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Until you become a Sage, you are not allowed to eat, nor will you see light again. Keep absorbing Spiritual Energy so you grow and do not die.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She appeared beside him and grabbed his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next instant, the scenery changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Victor found himself inside a cramped space—so low he couldn’t stand, only sit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His arms were pinned tightly to his sides. The air was thin; even a single breath required effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He began to tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moments later, cold sweat poured down his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An overwhelming discomfort flooded him—restlessness, boundless frustration, thoughts jamming into a dead end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That woman was insane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it seemed she intended to drive him insane as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Victor regretted returning, but this had clearly been her plan all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until he became a Sage... two or three years might not even be enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just reaching the Lord Realm required ten thousand Spiritual Energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And from Lord to Sage—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t merely require one hundred thousand Spiritual Energy. He also had to create his own technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps Earth- and Sky-Class techniques were easier to create. But to maintain a solid cultivation foundation, at minimum it had to be Saint-Class. That was considered the best a Lord could produce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the future, a Saint-Class technique could be upgraded into a Heaven-Class one—his strongest technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, what he needed to create was a Saint-Class technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Accumulating enough Spiritual Energy to reach the Sage Realm could likely be done within a year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Creating the technique—that was the difficult part.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But right now, none of that mattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He first had to strengthen his resolve, form another strand of Will Power to neutralize the Misery Pill’s effects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without that, he couldn’t think clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even absorbing Spiritual Energy wouldn’t be easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clawed at his hair, overwhelmed by stress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Margaret, you damned bitch!\" he roared, unable to suppress his fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He even hoped she could hear him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BANG! BANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slammed his fists against the walls—walls made of solid iron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of relief, the metallic echoes only intensified his frustration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>DING!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>DING!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>DING!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Host unstable. Strengthen your resolve. Strengthen your resolve!)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The System’s voice rang repeatedly in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes cleared for a brief moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strengthen his resolve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was what he needed to focus on—continuously reinforcing it until a new Will Power was formed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He forced down the suffocating discomfort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Earth, he had known frustration, anxiety, panic. But this pill magnified everything to another level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was worse than drugs—yet its effect was the opposite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If drugs felt like this, even the most addicted person would quit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Victor gritted his teeth and continued absorbing Spiritual Energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could not waste time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once he reached the Lord Realm, everything would become easier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occasionally, he still screamed, cursing Margaret with words that grew increasingly vulgar over time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t stop, even as the System kept reminding him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hair grew long, and his body seemed to grow as well—the narrow space feeling increasingly suffocating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had broken past the Xiantian Realm and become a Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the dreadful sensations remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something was forming within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Will Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had formed a second Will Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet somehow, the pill’s effects had not vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was the dosage too high? Was one additional Will Power not enough?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Victor could only curse Margaret again and continue strengthening his resolve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His absorption of Spiritual Energy accelerated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Less than a year later, it was complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Realm: Lord]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Spiritual Energy: 100,000\u002F100,000]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Spiritual Energy Accumulation: 114,000]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Body Realm: Lord]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Soul: Mortal]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Physique:]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diamond Skeleton (Heaven Talent)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lifespan: 900 Years]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Will Power: 2]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His lifespan had increased to nine hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet despite his Spiritual Energy being full, he still couldn’t break through to the Sage Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed a self-created technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could he attempt it now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze fell on his clenched fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he couldn’t see it in the darkness, he could feel it—a fist filled with boundless rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He made his decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fist of Wrath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That would be the technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would pour his fury into his fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumble—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fist began to vibrate, responding to his anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes, techniques could indeed be created like this—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>by relying purely on emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>",884,"2026-06-03T12:49:08.808Z","2026-06-03T12:49:16.024Z",1,"novelbin.me","d82833a0429350188b2758c3c3b2ae58e92311c805bf8845b1fae45b1d6de4de","my-mother-is-the-villain-chapter-20","my-mother-is-the-villain-chapter-18",74,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-mother-is-the-villain-cover.jpg"]