[{"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-425":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},60483,84,"Chapter 425 Mu Yuelan Hears The News","turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-425",425,"\u003Cp>The Mu Clan didn't participate in Beast Tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike martial clans that thrived on bloodshed and battlefield glory, the Mu Clan's value lay in pill refinement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, the Mu Clan had never been required to participate directly in the war against the Demonic Beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as they contributed a fixed quota of pills-healing pills, recovery pills, detoxification pills, and emergency life-saving elixirs-the Empire was more than satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, sending alchemists onto the battlefield was foolish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An alchemist's life was worth far more than a single cultivator's.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With one high-grade alchemist working safely behind the lines, thousands of cultivators could be kept alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lose that alchemist, and even an army would crumble sooner or later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, while countless clans were dragged into brutal Beast Tides and bloody fronts, the Mu Clan continued their regular routine:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pill refinement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Herb cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Formula research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life within the Mu Clan proceeded with calm precision, almost detached from the chaos consuming the rest of the Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until a letter arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was delivered personally, bypassing the usual channels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sealed with the Bai Clan's insignia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was for Mu Yuelan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before that, it landed in Mu Clan Leader Mu Yuelan's brother, Mu Qingyuan's, hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mu Yuelan was in seclusion and couldn't read it herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But seeing that it was from the Bai Clan and marked urgent, Mu Qingyuan read\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it to determine whether he should disturb his sister.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he read, his eyes widened in shock and worry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He moved swiftly through the quiet halls of the Mu Clan, his footsteps filled with urgency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He barely paused before reaching the heavy doors of his sister's seclusion chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knocked once, sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is it?\" Mu Yuelan's voice called out, tinged with annoyance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, interruptions irritated her, but she knew one thing: Mu Qingyuan would never disturb her without a very good reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... I apologize, sister,\" Mu Qingyuan said, his tone unusually tense. \"But an emergency situation has arisen. You should read this letter-it was sent personally by your brother-in-law.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mu Qingyuan carefully handed over the letter, bowing slightly in respect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seal of the Bai Clan gleamed faintly under the soft light, the urgency in its design unmistakable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mu Yuelan took the jade slip into her hands, her gaze sharpening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could feel the subtle weight of the message-its power, its importance. She opened it slowly, scanning the contents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her expression darkened in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Bai Clan... Zihan?\" she muttered under her breath, her calm composure cracking just slightly. \"Impossible... how could this happen?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mu Qingyuan swallowed nervously. \"Sister... I thought you should know immediately. It seems... it's about Zihan'er's condition.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She read it again. Then again. And then, without a word, she crushed the jade slip in her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Prepare my ship.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice was calm-but anyone who knew Mu Yuelan understood how terrifying that calm was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm leaving immediately.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within hours, Mu Yuelan was already on her way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stood before Bai Tianheng, her eyes sharp, cold, and blazing with suppressed fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tianheng,\" she said again, her voice low and dangerous, \"how could you let something like this happen to my son?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Tianheng, who had come to receive his wife, was stunned by her the moment she descended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yuelan, calm down, I can explain!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Tianheng stepped forward hastily, holding his hands up in a placating\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>gesture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Calm down, my foot!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mu Yuelan's voice cut through his words like a blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tianheng, you let Zihan'er become crippled? How can you explain this to me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Tianheng swallowed hard, opening his mouth to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yuelan, it's not-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Explain clearly! How did this even happen?\" Mu Yuelan said angrily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-he... Bai Zihan went off to face the Demonic Cultivator Leader,\" Bai Tianheng\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>finally blurted, trying to explain, his voice strained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mu Yuelan's eyes snapped to him, fiery and sharp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And? You didn't stop him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It isn't that I didn't, but I couldn't!\" he said, his voice rising slightly under her\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>gaze. \"What do you mean? You? A Peak Great Ascension Realm couldn't stop a Spirit Severing Realm child? Tianheng, I've heard better excuses than that!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice cracked like thunder, every word laced with disbelief and fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Tianheng's throat went dry. He wanted to explain, wanted her to\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>understand, but the truth was difficult to admit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, he should have been able to stop him... but Bai Zihan... he was stronger than a typical Spirit Severing Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't bring himself to say it outright-not to his wife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His pride, his dignity as a Peak Great Ascension Realm, weighed on him. How\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>could he admit that his son was stronger than him in certain ways and that he couldn't stop him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were anyone else who had witnessed Bai Zihan's feats during the Beast\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tide, they would have understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, Mu Yuelan didn't know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hadn't heard the rumors, hadn't followed the news of Bai Zihan killing Great Ascension Realm Demonic Elders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before receiving the letter, she had been in seclusion, and the Mu Clan in general didn't keep up with such rumors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after being informed by her brother did she understand the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Tianheng opened his mouth again, trying to explain more, but every word seemed like an excuse in her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew Mu Yuelan wasn't in the mood to listen, so before he could continue,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he tried to calm her down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yuelan, please cal-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Mu Yuelan's patience had run out at what she deemed only excuses from\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Tianheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her Qi surged outward as her aura rose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Tianheng's eyes widened. \"Yuelan... you... you broke through?!\" he muttered excitedly, almost forgetting the crisis at hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason Mu Yuelan had been in seclusion was because she had broken\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>through to the Great Ascension Realm and was stabilizing her cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her sharp glare snapped him back to reality. She wasn't in the mood for\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>congratulations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't change the topic, Tianheng!\" she snapped silently in her mind, her focus entirely on her son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few tense moments, her breathing steadied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, she reined in her Great Ascension Realm aura, letting it settle back\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>around her like a controlled storm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Enough,\" she said finally, her tone firm but calmer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's go! I want to see my son.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1047,"2026-05-28T18:17:14.491Z","2026-06-01T04:28:34.960Z",1,"novelbin.me","af3cf7abd921a1604643c17659744746c4335b1d4e21fed3900a22f56deae085","turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-426","turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-424",580,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fturns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-cover.jpg"]