I Really Am A Villain

The stone wall exploded apart.

At the instant of the explosion, Ye Qingcheng shouted, “Get back!”

Because behind the wall was a surging corpse river.

This was not a river of blood, but a river of corpses.

Countless bodies were soaked within it, and the river was putrid and filthy beyond measure.

The stone wall had originally blocked the corpse river.

Now that it was shattered, the corpse river came roaring down like a flood.

Ye Qingcheng raised her right hand and instantly activated the Night-Illuminating Pearl in her grasp, forming a transparent barrier around her body.

The barrier blocked all of the corpse river outside.

She immediately looked toward Xu Zimo.

Xu Zimo’s expression was calm and deep. He had no defenses raised at all. Instead, he slashed out with a blade, cleaving through layers of heaven.

As the blade fell, the surging corpse river ahead was split apart, as if cut cleanly in two.

The river flowed off to both sides, while directly in front of Xu Zimo, a clear, empty path appeared.

Xu Zimo did not even spare the corpse river a glance.

He walked straight forward. Along the flowing riverbanks, countless corpses drifted past.

“What kind of place is this?” Ye Qingcheng exclaimed in shock.

“How could so many people have died here?”

“Who knows,” Xu Zimo shook his head.

“Look, that corpse is Fairy Moon Lotus. And that one looks like Moving Mountains Emperor. They were all once famous prodigies. To think they vanished years ago and all ended up dying here.”

Ye Qingcheng felt dazed.

She sensed that she had stumbled into a massive secret.

This place was absolutely not simple.

At last, the two reached the end of the corpse river.

There, they found an experimental laboratory.

Rows of experimental platforms filled the space, with corpses laid upon them, each body pierced by countless tubes and needles.

Though these corpses could not speak, the terror in their eyes was impossible to describe.

It was hard to imagine what kind of torment they had endured in life.

Moving among the platforms was a dried-up corpse of an old man.

He appeared to be the caretaker of this place.

“Oh, more newcomers,” the desiccated corpse lifted its head, its gaze falling on Xu Zimo and Ye Qingcheng.

It grinned and said, “Are you here to become experiments too?”

Its smile was chilling, looking more like crying than laughter.

“What experiment?” Xu Zimo asked.

“An experiment to make you undying and immortal,” the old corpse replied with a grin.

“Come. As long as the experiment succeeds, you’ll be qualified to inherit Lord Upper Corpse’s legacy.”

“Do you know someone named Lin Ruhu?” Xu Zimo asked.

Hearing the name, the old corpse froze.

Its expression turned strangely reverent.

Almost worshipful.

“Lord Ruhu is the goal I revered my entire life. I conducted experiments my whole life, believing they would always fail. But unexpectedly, Lord Ruhu became the first to pass my experiment.”

“What are you talking about? What kind of experiment is this?” Xu Zimo frowned.

He felt the corpse spoke vaguely, never explaining the experiment itself.

“Where is Lin Ruhu now?” Ye Qingcheng asked.

“Lord Ruhu is undergoing inheritance,” the old corpse replied with a smile.

“When he emerges, he will be the ruler of all ages.”

“And you? Do you want to try as well? Lord Lower Corpse’s inheritance is still undecided. You might have a chance too.”

“I just want to see Ruhu,” Ye Qingcheng said.

“I’m afraid that’s not possible,” the old corpse shook its head.

“Until the inheritance is complete, no one may see him.”

“We only want to take a look. If the inheritance won’t harm him, we won’t interfere,” Xu Zimo said.

“No means no,” the old corpse shook its head again.

Xu Zimo frowned.

He recalled the two diverging fate lines he had seen for Lin Ruhu.

This so-called inheritance felt… deeply wrong.

What if it turned Ruhu into something neither human nor ghost, like these things?

“In that case, don’t blame us for forcing our way in,” Ye Qingcheng said, taking the initiative.

Her aura surged as she struck the old corpse with a palm.

Boom.

The power of the palm was immense, shaking the entire cave.

Yet when it landed on the old corpse, it caused no harm at all, as if it felt nothing.

“Too weak,” the old corpse shook its head.

Looking at Ye Qingcheng, it said, “Why not try my experiment? Even my weakest creations are stronger than you.”

With a wave of its right hand, powerful energy rippled outward.

The power seemed to carry a strange summoning force.

The corpses on the experimental platforms began to twitch and rise, one by one.

Roar, roar!

The bodies let out hoarse howls.

“What are these things?” Ye Qingcheng frowned.

There were at least dozens of corpses, and every single one carried the aura of an Infinite Dao cultivator.

This shocked Xu Zimo.

What kind of existence was an Infinite Dao cultivator?

He himself had worked tirelessly just to reach that realm, and he was already among the fastest of his generation.

Even someone like Ye Qingcheng, a peerless genius from a superpower like Jade Court, was only at the Saint Sovereign realm.

From this alone, one could see how formidable the Infinite Dao realm was.

Countless cultivators will never reach it in their entire lives.

If this desiccated corpse could endlessly produce Infinite Dao cultivators, that would be utterly terrifying.

Hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of Infinite Dao cultivators appearing together.

They could probably conquer even the Heavenly Court.

At this moment, these Infinite Dao corpses surrounded Ye Qingcheng like zombies.

Even though Ye Qingcheng was powerful and protected by countless treasures from Jade Court, she was still pushed into danger, grabbed several times by the zombies.

Xu Zimo was about to step in.

But the hidden Ancient Heaven Dao Lord finally made his move.

A massive hand twisted the void and blasted away all the zombies around Ye Qingcheng.

An old man with white hair and beard slowly emerged.

He looked at Xu Zimo and said, “Young man. We must work together. This is our only chance. These zombies are strong, but they have no consciousness.”

Xu Zimo nodded. He had noticed that as well.

Though these zombies had the strength of Infinite Dao cultivators, they lacked any self-awareness.

They only fought mechanically.

Xu Zimo snorted coldly.

With a single slash, several zombies were cut cleanly in half.

Ordinary Infinite Dao cultivators were nothing more than ants to him.

But immediately after, something troubling happened.

These Infinite Dao zombies were also immortal.

Just like the earlier monsters, they could not be killed no matter how many times they were destroyed.

Xu Zimo and the Ancient Heaven Dao Lord exchanged a glance.

Both understood the gravity of this matter in the other’s eyes.

If this continued, they would eventually be exhausted.

The zombies, however, had no such concern.

Xu Zimo looked at the old corpse and said, “Capture the leader first. Cover me. I’ll grab it.”

The Ancient Heaven Dao Lord nodded.

Behind him, a divine phantom slowly appeared.