[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-villain-is-too-self-destructive":3,"chapter-this-villain-is-too-self-destructive-this-villain-is-too-self-destructive-chapter-164":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","This Villain Is Too Self-Destructive",{"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},2282531,4465,"Chapter 164: Backlash of Demonic Intent","this-villain-is-too-self-destructive-chapter-164",164,"\u003Cp>\"Chaos... Return to Ruins... Tribulation!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan's Dao voice was like the first peal of thunder at the dawn of chaos—low, grand, and containing the supreme will that defines the beginning and end of all things. As his arms slowly closed inward, that \"Chaos Domain\" covering thousands of feet of sea and sky suddenly shifted from calm turbidity to violent inward collapse and compression!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heaven and earth lost their color; all things lost their voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was not absolute darkness or silence, but rather the \"boundaries\" of all colors, light, sound, energy, and even material existence were being forcibly blurred, mixed, and disrupted, ultimately hurtling toward a common end—\"Return to Ruins\" and \"Void\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bearing the brunt of this were the massive spatial rift and the dark purple summoning altar, as well as the Giant Axe Demon Marshal who was desperately fleeing toward the rift but was tightly entangled by the Chaos Domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Creak—Snap—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark purple summoning altar emitted a teeth-grinding, terrifying sound as if metal and bone were being crushed simultaneously. The eight supporting energy pillars cracked and collapsed inch by inch, and the demon-fire skulls at the top were completely extinguished, turning into fly ash. Countless blasphemous runes on the altar's surface curled, charred, and dissipated like burning paper. Most fatal of all was the pitch-black vortex rotating at the top of the altar—the most violent energy outlet of the spatial rift—which began to twist, deform, and collapse inward under the compression of the Chaos Domain! It was as if an invisible giant hand were forcibly pinching shut this wound that had torn the world apart!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No! My altar! The channel for my Lord!\" the Giant Axe Demon Marshal let out a desperate and frantic roar. He was closest to the rift entrance and bore the most terrifying chaos compression. The thick bone armor covering his body peeled off and dissipated like weathered rock, his giant eyes burning with dark red flames rapidly dimmed, and his massive demon body \"shriveled\" and \"withered\" at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if the foundation of his very existence were being drained away. He swung his giant axe desperately, hacking out streaks of dark red axe light that tore through the void, attempting to cleave open these invisible chaos shackles. However, the moment the axe light left his body, it was like a clay ox entering the sea, quickly swallowed and decomposed by the surrounding chaos currents, failing to stir even a ripple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The tribulation is set; struggle is in vain.\" Lin Xuan's voice calmly pierced through the clamor of the Chaos Domain and clearly entered the Giant Axe Demon Marshal's consciousness, which was on the verge of collapse. His closed arms did not pause in the slightest; the Chaos Tribulation Pupils reflected the scene of the altar collapsing and the rift twisting, devoid of joy or sorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumble—!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spatial rift finally could not withstand the terrifying pressure of the internal and external pincer attack and began its final collapse! The edges of the pitch-black rift were like a shattered mirror, spreading countless fine, spiderweb-like cracks from which chaotic, destructive void turbulence erupted! The moment this turbulence appeared, it was swept up and assimilated by the Chaos Domain, which in turn accelerated the disintegration of the rift itself!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark purple summoning altar exploded completely with a sound of unwillingness, as if billions of vengeful souls were shrieking at once! It turned into countless dark red fireworks containing filthy demonic energy and spatial fragments, but the next moment, these \"fireworks\" were all swallowed and annihilated by the contracting Chaos Domain, returning to nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having lost the anchoring and energy supply of the altar, the already precarious spatial rift was like a piece of torn cloth that had lost its support, and it began to shrink and mend rapidly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No—!!!\" The Giant Axe Demon Marshal let out a final roar filled with endless resentment and fear. His demon body, which was about to dissipate completely, suddenly exploded, turning into a mass of the purest, most violent origin demonic energy. Instead of attacking Lin Xuan, it lunged like a venomous snake in its death throes toward the center of the rapidly mending spatial rift!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to sacrifice himself at the very last moment, using the origin demonic energy of a Soul Transformation Demon Marshal as a catalyst to attempt to detonate the remaining void energy of the rift, creating a destructive spatial collapse to drag Star Fall Island and even this entire sea area down with him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chaos vortex in Lin Xuan's eyes suddenly accelerated its rotation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Obstinate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pressed his right index and middle fingers together and pointed into the air toward the mass of violent demonic energy lunging at the rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Point of Tribulation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gray, condensed ray of light, so fine it was almost imperceptible, struck first despite being launched later, instantly piercing the core of that mass of origin demonic energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no earth-shattering explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the gray light touched the mass of origin demonic energy—which contained the Giant Axe Demon Marshal's final frantic will and all his power—the trajectory of the violent and chaotic energy within it was forcibly \"nudged\" and \"corrected\" by an invisible hand, pointing toward a completely different, more \"orderly,\" yet also more \"thorough\" end—not an explosion, but... the most extreme \"inward convergence\" and \"collapse\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demonic energy mass suddenly shrank inward, collapsing from an irregular sphere into a tiny \"point\" that emitted an aura of absolute darkness and nothingness. Then, this \"point\" silently... vanished. Along with it, the Giant Axe Demon Marshal's final will and traces of existence were forcibly \"defined\" as \"non-existent\" by the Chaos Tribulation power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this, the three great Demon Marshals guarding the altar were all executed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the spatial rift, having lost its final obstacle, finally emitted a low hum like a sigh of the world under the continuous compression of the Chaos Domain and the complete severance of its internal energy source, before mending and disappearing entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the sky, only a gradually calming, slightly turbid airspace remained, along with slowly dissipating chaos currents, proving that a terrifying wound connecting to the Demon Abyss had once existed here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky to the southeast of Star Fall Island returned to... relative normalcy. Although still polluted by demonic energy and blood, that heart-palpitating sense of spatial tearing and the pressure of the endless Demon Abyss reinforcements suddenly vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the battlefield, both the allied cultivators and the Demon Abyss monsters were stunned for a moment by this sudden, drastic change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately afterward, earth-shaking cheers and desperate roars erupted simultaneously!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The rift has closed! The altar is destroyed! The Demon Marshal is dead!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Consultant Lin! It was Consultant Lin who struck!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heaven bless the Alliance! Kill! Drive these demon spawn back to their home!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Alliance's morale soared. The cultivators, who had been exhausted by the bitter battle, felt as if they had been injected with a stimulant, and their offensive suddenly became fierce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conversely, the Demon Abyss side, having lost its stable rear support channel and witnessing the three great Demon Marshals (especially the Soul Transformation-stage Giant Axe Demon Marshal) being wiped out so easily, saw their military morale instantly shaken. Many low-level monsters began to fall into chaos, and some of the more intelligent demon cultivators even harbored thoughts of retreat; their offensive was no longer as fearless as before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>High in the sky, the three Demon Abyss Soul Transformation Demon Marshals (avatar projections) who had been entangled with Wei Gongshen, seeing the channel destroyed and the altar annihilated, and their side's high-end combat power instantly lost, knew that the situation was beyond saving. They simultaneously let out roars of anger and unwillingness, and their phantom images began to blur and fade, clearly preparing to withdraw their projections and abandon this operation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph! You think you can come and go as you please? It's not that easy!\" Wei Gongshen's hair and beard stood on end, his dragon aura surging. Seizing the moment when the opponents' minds were shaken and their projections unstable, he pushed his palms forward violently!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Imperial World-Suppressing Seal!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive dragon seal, brilliant with golden light and entwined with nine dragon-shaped Qi energies, condensed out of thin air. Carrying the magnificent imperial might to suppress mountains and rivers and rule over all directions, it slammed into the three fading Demon Marshal phantoms!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden light flashed, and the demonic energy dissipated! The three phantoms let out muffled groans and became even more illusory. One of them was even directly shattered by more than half, leaving only a faint trace of demonic intent that fled in panic into the void and disappeared. Clearly, even if only the projections were damaged, it was by no means without cost to their true bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Gongshen did not pursue; he knew these were only avatar projections and difficult to destroy completely. The top priority was to clear the remaining enemies on the island and stabilize the situation. His gaze swept across the battlefield, and he saw Lin Xuan slowly withdrawing his Chaos Domain and nodding slightly in his direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pass the order! All units are to fully mop up the remaining enemies, restore the formations, and treat the wounded! Elder Ling Shuang, Elder Yan Gang, coordinate with Eunuch Wei to stabilize the entire island as soon as possible!\" Wei Gongshen's booming voice resounded across the battlefield once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the order, the Alliance cultivators began to organize and encircle the remaining Demon Abyss forces, who had lost unified command and reinforcements. The battle began to tilt in a one-sided direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan did not participate in the subsequent mopping-up. Closing the rift, executing the Demon Marshal, and unleashing the Chaos Return to Ruins Tribulation seemed easy, but for him, having just awakened and with his Dao foundation not yet fully stabilized, the consumption was immense. At this moment, his face was several shades paler than before, and the chaos halo around his body was slightly dim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took one last look at the battlefield, which was gradually regaining order, and with a flicker of his figure, he returned to the Star-Fixing Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the palace, Zhao Yuan was still unconscious by the jade pool, but his aura had stabilized significantly. Nourished by the lingering charm of the chaos aura, the cracks in his Nascent Soul had stopped expanding and even showed faint signs of healing. Only his brows were slightly furrowed, as if he were still experiencing something deep within his consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan walked to his side, his Chaos Tribulation Pupils scanning him, and his brows furrowed. He could clearly \"see\" that the \"Demon Seed\" heavily sealed within Zhao Yuan's sea of consciousness, although temporarily dormant due to the shock of the external Chaos Tribulation power, seemed to have combined its \"roots\" more tightly with Zhao Yuan's Nascent Soul and even parts of his inherited memories. Just now, when he unleashed the Chaos Return to Ruins Tribulation, this \"Demon Seed\" seemed to have taken the opportunity to absorb a trace of the escaping, extremely weak chaos aura? Although it was immediately suppressed by sword intent and star power, this was by no means a good sign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This thing has become a hidden danger; it must be resolved as soon as possible,\" Lin Xuan pondered. In his current state, if he were to forcibly use the Chaos Tribulation power to extract the Demon Seed for Zhao Yuan, the risk would be immense. It would very likely damage Zhao Yuan's foundation or even trigger a desperate counterattack from the Demon Seed, polluting his Dao foundation. A more secure method was needed; perhaps... the origin purification power of that \"Star Essence\" fragment, combined with a specific formation and Zhao Yuan's own sword intent...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, a sudden change occurred!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It did not come from the outside, but from... Zhao Yuan himself!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unconscious Zhao Yuan's body suddenly began to tremble violently, the veins on his forehead bulged, and beads of sweat the size of beans kept seeping out. His knuckles turned white from the force with which he gripped \"Silent Shadow.\" He emitted unconscious, extremely painful muffled groans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, an extremely obscure yet venomous, frantic, and greedy dark purple intent fluctuation, like a venomous snake breaking through a seal, suddenly erupted from his forehead (the location of his sea of consciousness)! This intent was not an attack, but... a kind of intense, directional \"call\" and \"resonance\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its target was not anyone in the palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was... deep underground on Star Fall Island! That \"Return to Ruins Sea Eye\" which the Demon Abyss had once tried to utilize, and which, although its threat had slightly diminished, was still surging with filthy energy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More accurately, it was deep within the Sea Eye, the \"Blood Fiend Resentment\" and \"Decaying Star Fiend\" of the same origin that were still slowly radiating after the destruction of the Blood Skeleton Star God's remains!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This \"Demon Seed\" had actually forcibly triggered its own origin, which was partially fused with Zhao Yuan, at the moment when Zhao Yuan's defenses were weakest due to his severe injury and unconsciousness, sending out an evil resonance that spanned most of Star Fall Island and pointed directly at the Return to Ruins Sea Eye!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What did it want to do? Trigger a mutation in the Sea Eye? Summon the remaining filthy power? Or... send a signal to other Demon Abyss back-up plans that might be lurking even deeper?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Evil creature! How dare you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cold light flashed in Lin Xuan's eyes, and his reaction was extremely fast. He pointed his fingers like a sword, and a wisp of condensed Chaos Tribulation power instantly struck Zhao Yuan's forehead, acting like the sturdiest floodgate, forcibly cutting off the spread and resonance of that evil intent!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the momentary resonance fluctuation had already been transmitted!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep within Star Fall Island, in the formation hub responsible for monitoring the Return to Ruins Sea Eye's energy, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded! On the monitoring compass, the index representing the stability of the Sea Eye's core energy plummeted wildly! An energy pulse, chaotic and violent, mixed with blood fiend and decaying star fiend, was slowly raising its head from the depths of the Sea Eye like a startled beast!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this pulse did not form a truly catastrophic eruption due to the distance and the timely interception of the Chaos Tribulation power, the \"restlessness\" and \"response\" signals it transmitted clearly showed—deep within the Return to Ruins Sea Eye, there was still something that had a secret connection with the \"Demon Seed\" in Zhao Yuan's sea of consciousness, or more accurately, with some kind of Demon Abyss arrangement!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Sea Eye... is having another anomaly!\" the Star Palace cultivator responsible for monitoring exclaimed in horror, \"The nature of the energy... has a faint match with the 'Past Life Sect' evil power and 'Sunken Star Relic' pollution characteristics recorded previously!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The news reached Wei Gongshen and Lin Xuan immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Gongshen's face turned ashen, and his heart, which had just eased slightly after repelling the main Demon Abyss force, sank again. One wave had not yet subsided, and another had already risen! The Demon Abyss's infiltration and back-up plans were simply pervasive!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan looked at Zhao Yuan, who was still struggling in pain while unconscious, and then \"looked\" toward the direction of the obscure restlessness deep within the island. In his Chaos Tribulation Pupils, the gray vortex rotated slowly, as if deducing something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He realized that the \"Demon Seed\" in Zhao Yuan's sea of consciousness and the potential hidden danger deep within the Return to Ruins Sea Eye were likely deep-seated, interconnected dark chess pieces planted by the Demon Abyss long ago. The previous exploration of the Sunken Star Relic and the defense of Star Fall Island might have all been just appearances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The true crisis might have only just begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the key to solving all of this might lie with Zhao Yuan, in how to safely extract the \"Demon Seed\" and cut off its connection with the Return to Ruins Sea Eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before that, he had to immediately stabilize Zhao Yuan's state to prevent the Demon Seed from acting up again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan did not hesitate. He pressed his hands lightly on Zhao Yuan's head and dantian, and pure, gentle Chaos Tribulation power slowly poured in, helping him calm his churning blood and sea of consciousness, and reinforcing the precarious seal. At the same time, he sent a voice transmission to Wei Gongshen:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eunuch Wei, the hidden danger in Zhao Yuan's body may be related to the Sea Eye anomaly. We must immediately strengthen the monitoring and suppression of the Sea Eye. Once Zhao Yuan is slightly more stable, we must explore the Sea Eye again to find the root cause.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the palace, the night deepened. The flames of war on Star Fall Island were gradually being extinguished, but a heavier, more obscure sense of crisis was quietly spreading like an undercurrent in the deep sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chaos had returned, and the tribulation waves were not yet over. Beneath the deeper water, the shadows... were gathering once again.\u003C\u002Fp>",2874,"2026-06-20T01:44:26.720Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","22a054332667de4f8da2fbfe16c87b59cbaf69724b8312b11238316925d2d362","this-villain-is-too-self-destructive-chapter-165","this-villain-is-too-self-destructive-chapter-163",182,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-villain-is-too-self-destructive-cover.jpg"]