[{"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-380":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},60538,84,"Chapter 380 Demonic Cultivators Join in!","turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-380",380,"\u003Cp>At this point, the atmosphere among the Desolate Heaven Empire's forces had shifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Beast Tide no longer felt like an apocalyptic calamity-because Bai Zihan had turned it into a harvest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look at that!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One junior cultivator whispered as Bai Zihan cut down another Grade-9 beast with casual elegance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They just keep lining up to die.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do these beasts not learn?\" another snorted. \"Throwing more bodies at him won't change the result!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Honestly, are we sure this is a High-Level Beast Tide?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A spear-bearing inner disciple chimed in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laughter spread through the ranks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Elders cracked faint smiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last time, they had been terrified by just the sheer numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Bai Zihan massacre wave after wave of Grade-9 beasts made them relax-perhaps too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some began treating the battle like a spectacle between their own attacks, shouting comments that bordered on playful:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, the next group is coming! Guess how long he'll take to kill this batch?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I put my allowance on ten breaths!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ten breaths? You dare underestimate Young Master Bai? Five breaths at most!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tension that had suffocated them for days was finally loosening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, after all there was not much pressure for them to kill their enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as they could just stall them enough, Bai Zihan would reduce the number of Grade-9 Demonic Beasts making it easy for elders to come help them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it continued this way, it was for certain that this time too would be their absolute victory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sound tore across the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SLASH-SLASH-SLASH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Multiple sharp cracks ripped through the eastern flank, each one followed by a spray of blood and a body collapsing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"AAAHHHHH!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Screams erupted instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivators who had been talking just moments before were suddenly cleaved apart-some falling in halves, others dropping like puppets with severed strings. Limbs hit the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood mist rolled through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The formation lines buckled as dozens of Desolate Heaven Empire cultivators crumpled without even seeing the attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Panic rippled outward in a wave as the survivors stumbled back, staring in\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>horror at the carnage blooming among their ranks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one understood what had just happened immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battlefield, already tense, seemed to freeze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every gaze whipped toward the eastern flank, where corpses lay scattered, freshly cut, their blood steaming in the cold air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of demonic qi tendrils burst forth like a blooming flower of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hehehe... what easy prey...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look how fragile they are...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Slice them apart-leave none standing...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voices were sharp, layered with madness and bloodlust, like broken glass scraping across bone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A chill ran through the Desolate Heaven Empire's forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did everyone finally understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These deaths were not caused by beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Demonic Cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had infiltrated the battlefield, hiding in the shadow of the Beast Tide, waiting for the perfect moment to strike-and now their malicious laughter spilled into the open as their silhouettes emerged fully from the inky haze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had arrived without warning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without being sensed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Commander Wei Zongyuan's expression twisted from relaxed confidence into shock and fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What... what are the scouts doing!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He roared, Qi flaring violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How did such a large number of Demonic Cultivators get into our formation\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>without-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Commander Wei wanted to blame the scout for failing to do their duty but he realized something and was truly shaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only had the scouts failed since Demonic Cultivators that too in such numbers managed to infiltrate, then it meant even Immortal Realm cultivators hadn't sensed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they had sensed them, they would have at least warned them beforehand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which meant that whatever method that they used, they were able to hide\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>their Qi even from Immortal Cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was when a scout, drenched in blood, staggered into view, gasping, half-kneeling before Commander Wei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"R-report!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Zongyuan ordered, \"Speak!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scout's voice shook uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Commander... we-the forward scouting units-we... we just discovered...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swallowed hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even speaking the next words seemed to terrify him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...multiple large groups of Demonic Cultivators... surrounding us from all sides.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Commander Wei's expression hardened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who would have thought that Demonic Cultivators were nowhere to be seen\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but in a blink, without their knowledge they had managed to surround them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although they knew that the Demonic Cultivators wouldn't just sit and watch the Beast Tide get slaughtered again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, their long-awaited plan would amount to nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although they had already prepared countermeasures for this exact scenario, Commander Wei Zongyuan still couldn't stop the unease gnawing at him-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>especially after seeing how the Demonic Cultivators had slipped so close\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>without anyone noticing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Zongyuan exhaled slowly. Anyways, they had to just go with the countermeasures that they had prepared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then his commanding voice rang out like a war horn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Reserve units-MOVE!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the reserve forces that had been waiting for this moment surged forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As expected,\" Wei Zongyuan muttered, voice low and biting, \"the Demonic Cultivators wouldn't just sit and watch their beasts die.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swept his arm toward the spreading demonic mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They wanted to use the chaos to seize the Desolate Heaven Empire's\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>territory... to steal the title of strongest force.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He laughed once-short, humorless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But now they've walked right into our jaws.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at their force, he was filled with confidence again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, they had the best of the best of Desolate Heaven Empire and there is\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no way that they would lose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Commanders barked orders, reorganizing the formation to brace for a\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>two-front war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The atmosphere-once relaxed, careless-tightened like a bowstring drawn to\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>its limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scouts scrambled into position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immortal Realm elders surged forward, however, they didn't join right away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had to wait for the Immortal Realm opponent from their opponent's side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reserves filled the gaps in the eastern flank where bodies lay strewn across the grass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Zongyuan raised his sword high, qi radiating like a blazing pillar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Today,\" he roared, \"we eliminate BOTH scourges of the Desolate Heaven\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Empire!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His killing intent exploded outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"BEAST TIDE AND DEMONIC CULTIVATORS—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"WE WIPE THEM OUT TOGETHER!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The troops, shaken but rallying, shouted back with renewed fervor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>War drums thundered from the rear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi surged like a rising tide. This is time for real war!\u003C\u002Fp>",1037,"2026-05-28T18:17:14.491Z","2026-06-01T04:28:34.960Z",1,"novelbin.me","e53dbda0a3491909eb7da63af9d0d58cc88138ae2884242182bf57757d7216aa","turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-381","turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-379",580,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fturns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-cover.jpg"]