[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan":3,"chapter-turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-379":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Turns Out, I’m In A Villain Clan!",{"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},60537,84,"Chapter 379 Return of the Endless Tide","turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-379",379,"\u003Cp>The next few days passed in an unsettling calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battlefield that had once been a devouring maw of smoke, blood, and roars now lay still beneath the gray morning skies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Desolate Heaven Empire's cultivators patrolled the perimeter in rotating shifts, tension woven deep into their expressions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every snapping twig made someone grip their weapon; every rustle in the tall grass had a guard narrowing their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because everyone knew, a Beast Tide never ends like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not without price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not without a final frenzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not without a last, desperate push.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Great Wilderness remained silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than letting down the guards due to such rare peace, it made things the opposite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guards doubled and scouts tripled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no roaring tide came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No beasts charged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing moved within the first ten miles of the Wilderness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gossip and speculation had been spreading among the cultivators, especially the young who loved nothing more than gossip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many thought that perhaps the Bai Zihan massacre had scared off the Demonic\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others speculated that perhaps they were waiting for them to let down their guard so that they could launch a surprise attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway, there was no need for more speculation since after three days, the Beast Tide continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Grade-10 demonic beasts joined from the start and led the Beast Tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, in response, the Great Ascension Realm from their side also joined from the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The return of the Beast Tide was not dramatic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no earth-shaking roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No thunderous stampede.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scouts burst back through the treeline, panic twisting their faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They're coming!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Beast Tide has returned!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grade-10s-multiple Grade-10s-leading the front!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the Desolate Heaven Empire's cultivators were brought out to confront the Beast Tide again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Grade-10 Demonic Beasts were joining the battle, the Desolate Heaven Empire did the same by having their Great Ascension Realm join them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of Demonic Beasts was similar to what it had been when they had run away with their tails between their legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the only thing was that it seemed like more Grade-9 Demonic Beasts had joined in since Bai Zihan killed many of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made others a bit nervous since it was like Bai Zihan's massacre had no effect on the overall Beast Tide, while on the other hand Bai Zihan couldn't be\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>happier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More Grade-9 Demonic Beasts, more points that he could gain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Infinite Grade-9 Demonic Beasts were equal to infinite points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, it wasn't too big of a deal. At least the Grade-10 Demonic Beast was still missing one which had been killed by Bai Zihan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On their own side, one crucial pillar was missing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Azure Sun Holy Sect's Leader-one of the few Great Ascension experts strong enough to hold back a Grade-10 beast-remained unconscious, locked in deep recuperation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But strangely enough, the morale didn't falter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because one figure was still fresh in their minds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zihan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the situation remained the same, wouldn't this just be a repeat of what had happened in the previous confrontation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zihan would obviously start mowing down those Demonic Beasts, and no\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one could stop him since even Grade-10 Demonic Beasts failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second wave began much like the first-an ocean of techniques and killing\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>intent spilling out of the Great Wilderness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even without words, every cultivator felt it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Beast Tide rolled forward in coordinated layers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The weaker beasts formed the front line, charging like a living tidal wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind them, the Grade-8s and Grade-9s marched with frightening discipline,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as if some unseen force were arranging them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Grade-10 Demonic Beasts remained in the rear, their oppressive auras sweeping outward like the slow opening of a monstrous eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human forces moved in response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Commanders gestured, Elders stepped forward, formations lit up across the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Great Ascension Realm experts rose into the air, preparing to intercept the monstrous leaders of the horde.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zihan was in the same position as previously; however, it was clear as daylight that he wouldn't cooperate with Bai Lumei's group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not like they could keep up with him. Even a Void Refinement Elder found it hard to keep up with him, so cooperation would only slow him down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps only with Great Ascension Realm experts could Bai Zihan cooperate\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for now, it was better that Bai Zihan acted alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after the previous battle, no one had the qualification to stop him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had killed fifty-plus Grade-9 beasts on his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had decapitated a Grade-10 beast in full view of the entire army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had saved thousands, probably tens of thousands, simply by existing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So even if Bai Zihan were to break from his group and act on his own, there was no one who could stop him-nor did they have a reason to stop him when he was making such a huge contribution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him, cultivators felt their earlier anxiety ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not because the Beast Tide was weaker-it wasn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If anything, there were more Grade-9 beasts this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But because Bai Zihan was there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he had been last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he would be now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first collision began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The opening wave-hundreds of Grade-6 and Grade-7 beasts followed by the stronger ones who rushed forward with thunderous force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zihan moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He disappeared. A streak of cold brilliance sliced through the front lines, cutting apart\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>everything in its path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beast corpses were flung into the sky like shredded leaves caught in a gale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battlefield trembled from the sheer violence of the opening exchange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human cultivators carved their own paths through the horde, but their gazes kept drifting toward the lone figure who had already plunged deep into enemy\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ranks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even from afar, they could see it:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wherever Bai Zihan passed, the Beast Tide broke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lines collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Momentum shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grade-8 beasts fell before they even realized he had reached them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grade-9 beasts lifted their heads, instincts screaming danger, but their\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>reactions were always a fraction too slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the beginning of the massacre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like the last battle. However, it seemed the demonic beasts had learned something from the\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>previous fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike before-when a single, prideful Grade-9 had charged in alone-this time five Grade-9 Demonic Beasts surged forward together, their auras intertwining like a storm of feral wills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn't bother with subtlety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They came straight for Bai Zihan,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if the entire Beast Tide had been reorganized around a single objective, to\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>kill Bai Zihan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground cracked beneath their combined pressure, shockwaves rippling\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human cultivators staggered back, blood qi rattled, and even seasoned Elders felt their hearts squeeze under the crushing presence of five apex predators\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>moving in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Bai Zihan?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just stood there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than fleeing because of Grade-9 teaming up to kill him, he rather wants to give thumb up to whoever came up with such a plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hunting down Grade-9 beasts one by one was tedious, not to mention wastage\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they wanted to come together and save him the trouble of searching for\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>them, even better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So as the five colossal monsters lunged at him, Bai Zihan stepped forward with\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>genuine appreciation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good beasts,\" he said softly, sword rising. \"Come die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the slaughter began anew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clash was instantaneous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five monstrous bodies crashed down with enough force to collapse mountains,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but Bai Zihan's sword tore through the incoming shockwaves as if splitting fragile mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A spray of beast blood erupted into the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battlefield shook as the massive figures staggered-some skidding, some\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>roaring, some caught completely off guard by the sheer sharpness of Bai Zihan's opening counterattack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grade-10 Demonic Beast also made their moves and the Great Ascension Realm experts moved as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They intercepted the Grade-10 beasts scattered across the battlefield, meeting them mid-air in clashes that made heaven and earth tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light and shadow danced as titanic auras collided, the sky itself warping under\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the power released.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was, once again, the same dance of destruction as before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Great Ascension against Grade-10!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many battles fell into slow, grinding stalemates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Bai Zihan?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demonic beasts had brought what could only be described as an endless\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>supply of Grade-9 beasts-far more than last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And disturbingly, a frightening number of them focused solely on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One group of five died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another five immediately took their place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No instinct for survival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They came at him without retreat, without pause, without even the instinctive\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>terror beasts should have felt after witnessing his slaughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, Bai Zihan had already amassed more than thirty Grade-9 kills-and\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>barely an hour had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They kept coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endlessly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zihan titled slightly-not out of worry, but confusion. Demonic beasts, for all their savagery, possessed raw animal instinct. After\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>seeing their brethren reduced to heaps of mangled flesh, they should have fled. Instead, they threw themselves at him like moths into a blazing inferno.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He assumed, for a moment, that perhaps they hoped to exhaust him by giving\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>him no space to breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the truth couldn't have been farther from that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Bai Zihan didn't complain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, the corner of his lips pulled upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too Good!\u003C\u002Fp>",1553,"2026-05-28T18:17:14.491Z","2026-06-01T04:28:34.960Z",1,"novelbin.me","fe7f3cfe984f284d5a327acf1b106e1585697cf31d3bcd03e4e9d20e2f5e838d","turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-380","turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-378",580,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fturns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-cover.jpg"]