[{"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-182":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","This Villain Is Too Self-Destructive",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":12,"novelImage":21},{"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},2282549,4465,"Chapter 182: Final Chapter","this-villain-is-too-self-destructive-chapter-182",182,"\u003Cp>The sword light faded away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sense of stagnation in time and space slowly dissipated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those final two streaks of strange sword light, fused with the \"Silent Star Chaos Qi,\" the \"Return to Ruins Dao Rhyme,\" and the ancient guardian star power, had completely submerged into the roots of the fifty-first and seventy-third hub chains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no earth-shattering roar, no eruption of an energy tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were only two extremely faint sounds, yet they seemed to resonate throughout the ages of time and space—\"Clang,\" \"Clang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like two strings that had been taut for countless eons, bearing the weight of endless resentment and the duty of guardianship, they finally snapped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the point of rupture, there was no gushing of filthy energy, nor any flying fragments of chains. Those two dark golden chains, as thick as mountains, began to silently dissolve from their roots—where they connected to the giant egg, the void, and this twisted space—into the finest dust, shimmering with starlight and chaotic light spots, drifting upward like a silver sand waterfall flowing in reverse, dissolving into nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the complete snapping of these two most critical \"load-bearing cables,\" the entire massive and evil \"Imprisonment-Nurturing\" system, composed of eighty-one filthy contract chains, had its final core support and energy circulation hub pulled out by the roots!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hum—!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the remaining chains, whether they had been severed by Zhao Yuan and were struggling to repair or slowly disintegrating, or were still intact and fiercely resisting the suddenly erupting silver guardian star power, all emitted a tremor of agony at their limit! On the surface of the chains, those twisted \"filthy contract runes\" flickered crazily, dimming and brightening like candles in the wind, rapidly becoming dull and blurred!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And those final silver guardian star lights, sealed deep within the chains by the ancient Star-Fallen people, flared with great brilliance like beasts breaking free from their cages! They no longer merely coiled around and bound the Evil God's body, but transformed into countless sharp silver light blades and torrents of starfire that purified everything, crazily eroding, purifying, and disintegrating inward along the energy veins of every chain!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire chain array was being ignited and dismantled from within!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Awoo—!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Star-Remnant Evil God let out the most miserable roar since its birth, one that came closest to \"fear\"! Its massive body, which had just barely managed to coalesce and was not yet fully stable, suffered unprecedented damage due to the total collapse of the chain system and the full-scale eruption of the guardian star power!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The power binding it was disappearing, but at the same time, the energy source that nurtured it and allowed it to exist and \"gestate\" was also being severed and purified! Even more terrifying was that those silver guardian star powers had an extremely strong restraining and purifying effect on its filthy essence!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark red crystals on its body cracked and peeled off in large swaths, its rotting tentacles charred and snapped in the silver starfire, and in its hundreds of shattered star-eyes, the light of madness and brutality was replaced by pain and chaos. It struggled, wanting to completely break free from the disintegrating chain remains, wanting to pounce on the culprit who had brought it to such a state, wanting to devour everything to make up for its own depletion...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, having lost the stable energy supply of the chain system and being eroded and purified from the inside out by the guardian star power, its strength was rapidly flowing away, and its movements became sluggish and clumsy. That evil pressure that reached the heavens and the earth faded rapidly, like a deflating balloon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scales of victory had tipped irreversibly at the very moment the chains snapped!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strike while the iron is hot!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan did not hesitate in the slightest. After swinging that sword to sever the final chain, his face was already as pale as paper, his aura had fallen to a low ebb, and the vortex within his Chaos Tribulation Pupils had almost stalled. But his eyes remained as cold as ice, even sharper than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not look at the wailing, disintegrating Evil God, but instead immediately turned back to Zhao Yuan's side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Zhao Yuan's condition was indescribably dire. His right arm was gone up to the shoulder, the wound barely sealed by a thin layer of gray-blue airflow, yet it was still slowly leaking specks of his life essence. His complexion was ashen, his breath was as thin as a thread, and the cracks in his Nascent Soul had spread to the core, almost completely shattering into pieces, held together only by the wisp of Chaos Origin and Return to Ruins Dao Seed power that Lin Xuan had channeled into him. His sea of consciousness was silent, and the fire of his soul was so faint it seemed it would extinguish in the next second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan reached out and hovered his hand over Zhao Yuan's forehead, his brows furrowing imperceptibly. The severity of Zhao Yuan's injuries and the total destruction of his foundation far exceeded his estimates. Never mind recovering his cultivation base; even preserving his life and keeping his soul from dissipating was already an incredibly difficult task. The bit of power he had previously channeled could only temporarily sustain his last thread of life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Senior... the Evil God...\" Zhao Yuan seemed to sense Lin Xuan's return, his lips fluttering as he emitted a sound as weak as a mosquito's, his eyes holding only a glimmer of obsession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The chains are broken, the situation is settled,\" Lin Xuan said in a deep voice, his tone carrying a rare trace of exhaustion, but more so an unquestionable firmness. \"For now, just take care of yourself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said no more, his hands forming seals. The remaining Chaos Tribulation power was no longer used for offense, but transformed into the purest and gentlest nourishing force, slowly seeping into Zhao Yuan's broken body and sea of consciousness like spring rain, carefully combing through the rampaging and chaotic remnants of the \"Silent Star Chaos Qi,\" reinforcing the Nascent Soul that was about to shatter completely, and warming the flickering, dying fire of his soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, his gaze swept over Elder Ling Shuang, True Person Beichen, and the Hunyou Ancestor. Elder Ling Shuang was heavily injured but her foundation remained intact; True Person Beichen's soul was damaged and his array disk was completely destroyed; the Hunyou Ancestor was the most miserable, his soul body nearly transparent, his origin severely damaged, and he was on the verge of exhaustion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan diverted a wisp of his aura to protect the three of them as well, saying in a deep voice, \"Focus your minds and regulate your breathing, guard your origins. The filth here will dissipate, but the space is unstable and may collapse at any time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, the three immediately braced themselves, sat cross-legged, and each operated their cultivation techniques to heal and stabilize their foundations. They knew that the final crisis might not have completely passed, and they had to recover a sliver of self-preservation power as quickly as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at this moment, at the center of the battlefield, the doomsday catastrophe of the Star-Remnant Evil God had entered its final and most tragic stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chain array completely disintegrated. The eighty-one heaven-reaching chains, whether intact or broken, had now turned into energy dust dancing across the sky, mixed with dark golden filth and silver-white starlight, like a bizarre meteor shower. The evil framework supporting this \"absolute blind zone\" no longer existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having lost the binding and nourishment of the chains, and being continuously purified and weakened by the guardian star power, the Star-Remnant Evil God's massive body began to collapse and shrink uncontrollably. Dark red crystals peeled off in sheets, turning into powder; rotting flesh tentacles turned to fly ash in the silver starfire; those hundreds of shattered star-eyes dimmed and cracked one after another, the mad will within them dissipating along with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It roared and struggled unwillingly, waving its remaining limbs, attempting to gather its final strength for a last counterattack. The tide of filthy energy erupted time and again, but like a tree without roots, it grew weaker each time. The silver guardian starfire, however, burned ever brighter, like gangrene, coiling around and purifying every inch of its body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, in a shriek that contained endless resentment, despair, and final madness—a sound that almost tore the soul apart—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Star-Remnant Evil God's massive, twisted body, which symbolized the fall of ancient stars and the conspiracies of the Demon Abyss, erupted from within with a final, destructive light of filth, like a paper mountain being ignited, and then... it collapsed inward and annihilated with a boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a \"silent annihilation\" akin to the end of the universe, where all things returned to the ruins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An extremely tiny \"void black dot,\" which radiated a chill that made even Soul Transformation cultivators tremble, flashed and vanished at the center of the Evil God's annihilation. That was the trace of its final core, its most essential \"Evil God concept,\" being completely erased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately following, centered on the point of its annihilation, a ring of pure, silver-white light containing the meaning of rebirth expanded rapidly like water ripples! Wherever the ring passed, the remaining filthy star-evil, blood-resentment power, spatial folds, and twisted laws... every trace belonging to that Evil God and its creations was rapidly smoothed out, purified, and assimilated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"absolute blind zone\" that had been polluted for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, and even this entire area at the deepest part of the Return to Ruins Sea Eye, began to undergo a slow and firm \"purification\" and \"repair.\" Although it was impossible to return to its original state immediately, that suffocating evil and despair were receding at a speed visible to the naked eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This battle to sever the chains, which started at Star Fall Isle, involved the entire Tianyuan Continent, and gambled with the lives and futures of countless people against the \"Star-Remnant Evil God embryo,\" finally drew to a close with the complete annihilation of the Evil God, the total disintegration of the chain system, and the initial purification of the deepest pollution in the Return to Ruins Sea Eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The price, too, was heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cough, cough...\" The Hunyou Ancestor finally could not hold on, his soul body fluctuating violently like a candle in the wind, on the verge of complete dissipation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan raised his hand, channeling a wisp of pure Chaos Origin power into his soul body, temporarily stabilizing his trend toward disintegration, but to recover would likely require long ages and special opportunities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fellow Daoist Lin... great kindness...\" A complex expression of bitterness and relief intertwined on the Hunyou Ancestor's illusory face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True Person Beichen looked at the completely shattered, spiritless remains of the array disk in his hand, then looked at the space being purified by the silver-white ring, hot tears welling in his old eyes as he murmured, \"Ancestors... fellow Star-Fallen people... the contingency you left behind... was not in vain... the evil filth... has finally been cleansed...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elder Ling Shuang stood up silently and walked to Zhao Yuan's side, looking at Zhao Yuan, whom Lin Xuan was trying his best to save but whose life remained slim, a deep sadness and helplessness flowing in her cold eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan continued to heal Zhao Yuan, fine beads of sweat already seeping from his temples. He could feel that Zhao Yuan's life was temporarily hanging by a thread, but the situation inside his body remained terrible to the extreme. His Nascent Soul was shattered, his Dao foundation destroyed, his meridians broken, his soul incomplete... what was more troublesome was that the newly born, high-essence \"Silent Star Chaos Qi\" remained out of control within his body, creating complex and dangerous conflicts and entanglements with his own Chaos power, with the remnants of Zhao Yuan's own vitality, and even with the purifying star power that was spreading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To save Zhao Yuan and give him a chance to step back onto the path of the Dao was by no means an easy task; it would even require means akin to defying heaven and changing fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This place is not suitable for a long stay.\" Lin Xuan looked up at his surroundings. Although the Evil God had been destroyed and the filth was being purified, the energy turbulence and spatial instability caused by the collapse of the chain system were still ongoing; this area was extremely unstable and could suffer a large-scale spatial collapse at any time. \"Return to Star Fall Isle first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swept his sleeves, using his Chaos power to carefully protect the heavily injured Zhao Yuan, Ling Shuang, Beichen, and Hunyou, transforming into a dim gray stream of light, and followed the path back, cautiously and quickly returning upward in the direction of Star Fall Isle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Traveling through the energy turbulence that was still chaotic but no longer lethally threatening, Lin Xuan remained silent. He knew that although the greatest threat had been removed, the subsequent effects had only just begun. The purification of the Return to Ruins Sea Eye would not be a one-day task, the Demon Abyss's plan had suffered a heavy blow but might not give up, the changes in the landscape of the continent's various forces after this battle, and... Zhao Yuan's life, death, and future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The continuous high-intensity battles, especially the mental and origin energy consumed in fusing multiple powers to sever the chains and in saving Zhao Yuan, made him feel a long-lost, deep exhaustion. Deep within his Chaos Tribulation Pupils, the Dao Seed symbolizing the \"Return to Ruins\" seemed to have become somewhat dim due to overuse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when he looked down at Zhao Yuan in his arms, whose vitality was weak but who still stubbornly retained a spark of life, a light that was hard to describe flashed in his tired eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the firewood is small, it has not been extinguished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The inheritance continues, and hope remains forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gray stream of light pierced through the deepening darkness of the deep sea, moving firmly toward that island—Star Fall Isle—which had experienced the baptism of blood and fire and would surely welcome a new birth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Volume Ten: [The End of the Star Fall Tribulation])\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Volume Afterword (Epilogue Message):\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Star-Remnant Evil God at the deepest part of the Return to Ruins Sea Eye was finally completely annihilated in the snapping of the chains and the guardian starfire. This world-ending crisis that swept across the vast sea and affected the continent has, at the most tragic cost, temporarily come to an end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Yuan is near death, his Dao foundation destroyed, his path ahead uncertain; Star Fall Isle is in ruins, waiting to be rebuilt, with heroic souls sleeping in peace; undercurrents are surging in the continent's landscape. However, the evil filth has been cleansed, and hope has been rekindled. Lin Xuan turned the tide, his Chaos Dao path appearing even more unfathomable; the legacy of the Star-Fallen has reappeared, and the spark of civilization is quietly being passed on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A true ending is also a new beginning. Scars need time to heal, the departed need years to be mourned, and the living will carry memories and hope as they continue to move forward. The Return to Ruins stars are silent, yet the spark burns forever. The fates of Lin Xuan and Zhao Yuan, and the future of Star Fall Isle and the Tianyuan Continent, will slowly unfold in the new chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Please look forward to the subsequent chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>",2624,"2026-06-20T01:44:26.720Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","b94136b0e5dd909ea9d2756a38e01855ab9977d023a3b2494974e2e1d9775bc2",null,"this-villain-is-too-self-destructive-chapter-181","https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-villain-is-too-self-destructive-cover.jpg"]