I Really Am A Villain

“It’s a pity I already gave you a chance, and you didn’t cherish it,” Xu Zimo said as he grabbed Tian Xingzi and violently slammed him to the side.

The force of the throw was tremendous.

With a loud boom, blood splattered across the ground. Tian Xingzi lay there in a pool of blood, his flesh mangled and indistinct.

Wang Ya and her brother were struck dumb.

“You killed him. It’s over. You’ve caused huge trouble now,” Wang Ya said anxiously.

Earlier, humiliating Tian Xingzi could still be considered a conflict between disciples.

But openly killing someone within Jade Court was an entirely different matter.

“Dragging down our Plant Lineage would be a small issue. After all, we only have two or three people left. It doesn’t really matter,” Wang Ya continued.

“The key point is that Jade Court won’t let you off.”

“It’s fine,” Xu Zimo replied calmly, shaking his head.

“How can it be fine?” Wang Ya grabbed his wrist and said urgently.

“You need to leave Jade Court immediately. If you wait any longer, it’ll be too late. Leave before anyone discovers this.”

“Relax. I came to Jade Court on the orders of the Lord of Death. Jade Court won’t dare act lightly against me,” Xu Zimo said after some thought, using this reason to reassure them.

After all, Jade Court was already in conflict with the Azure Mystic Heaven, and a major battle could break out at any time.

At a moment like this, Jade Court could not afford to also antagonize the Mirage Tides Heaven.

Offending two domains in succession would be more than even Jade Court could withstand.

Hearing this, the siblings were still uneasy.

“You’re not lying to us?” they asked.

“Why would I lie to you?” Xu Zimo said, shaking his head with a smile.

“Find a way to let me board Goosefoot Tower and take a look?”

“Our Plant Lineage has a quota. On the day of the Peach Banquet, I can bring you in,” Wang Ya said.

“Then does Jade Court have any special places worth visiting?” Xu Zimo asked with a smile.

“We’re idle anyway.”

Participating in the Peach Banquet was just a pretense. His real goal was the inheritance of the Ice God Xuanming.

Wandering around with the two of them as local guides would save him a lot of trouble.

“Interesting places…” Wang Ze lowered his head in thought.

Suddenly, he looked up and said with a grin, “Do you want to go to the Immortal Peach Garden?”

“The Immortal Peach Garden?” Xu Zimo paused.

“Don’t tell me it’s directly related to the Immortal Peach Tree.”

He knew very well what the Immortal Peach Tree meant to Jade Court.

Even core disciples had no right to approach it, let alone Wang Ya and her brother.

After all, it was one of the Three Great Wondrous Trees, the only one of its kind under heaven.

Wang Ze laughed. “It’s related to the Immortal Peach Tree, but you could also say it isn’t.”

“When the founding ancestor transplanted the Immortal Peach Tree to Jade Court, its effects made everyone envious. From very ancient times, Jade Court has been thinking of ways to graft the Immortal Peach Tree. They wanted other trees to become Immortal Peach Trees as well. Think about it. If Jade Court could have hundreds, even thousands of Immortal Peach Trees, why would they worry about cultivating powerful cultivators?”

“So it still failed?” Xu Zimo asked.

“Half success, half failure,” Wang Ya added.

“Grafting the Immortal Peach Tree isn’t that easy. We managed to develop new Immortal Peach Trees. But whether in effectiveness or lifespan, they’re far inferior to the true Immortal Peach Tree. As these defective Immortal Peach Trees increased in number, Jade Court eventually planted them all together in a special garden.”

“Even defective Immortal Peaches aren’t simple,” Wang Ze explained.

“How about I take you to the Immortal Peach Garden? If you’re lucky, you might even get some peaches.”

Xu Zimo nodded.

As one of the Three Great Wondrous Trees, the Immortal Peach Tree undoubtedly possessed spiritual intelligence.

It had thinking ability comparable to that of humans.

Trying to create more Immortal Peach Trees meant the biggest obstacle was intelligence itself, which was nearly impossible to replicate.

Because creation itself was something meant for the heavens.

This was something the heavens would not tolerate.

Jade Court was fortunate to have failed. If they had succeeded, disaster would likely have followed.

Creating half-finished Immortal Peach Trees was, for Jade Court, actually a blessing in disguise.

The Immortal Peach Garden was open to Jade Court disciples.

As long as you had the ability to pick an Immortal Peach, Jade Court would not interfere.

But the peaches in the garden were not easy to pick.

Aside from exceptionally gifted individuals, many disciples had suffered losses here.

Because of the failure in spiritual intelligence, these half-finished Immortal Peach Trees were themselves incomplete.

Their consciousness was flawed.

This made the trees irritable. Some even knew nothing but slaughter.

All kinds of strange behavior gave the Immortal Peach Garden an eerie atmosphere.

Even so, countless disciples still came here every day.

After all, even a defective Immortal Peach possessed effects that made people flock to it.

Led by Wang Ya, the group arrived at the Immortal Peach Garden.

From the outside, the garden was still shrouded in swirling immortal mist.

For a sacred land like Jade Court, immortal mist seemed to be a constant presence.

Protective formations surrounded the Immortal Peach Garden.

These weren’t to protect the garden, but to prevent the Immortal Peach Trees from escaping and causing harm to Jade Court.

Through the mist, one could see vague, swaying shadows within the garden.

It looked as though thousands of troops were surging back and forth.

Demonic energy surged in Xu Zimo’s eyes as he pierced through everything to see the source.

“Oh? Even the Plant Lineage is willing to come out now?”

A teasing voice sounded from the side.

Xu Zimo turned his head and saw a man in a crimson robe walking over.

“Eighteen Lineages, the Fire Crow Lineage,” Wang Ya explained quietly.

The founder of the Fire Crow Lineage was called the Golden Crow Dao Lord.

He was once a Fire Crow. Later, through a stroke of fortune, the bloodline within him awakened and returned to its origin, allowing him to evolve into a Golden Crow.

After he became powerful, the Queen Mother invited him to establish a lineage within Jade Court.

The Golden Crow Dao Lord was very humble.

He named the lineage the Fire Crow Lineage rather than the Golden Crow Lineage.

He knew well how arduous and perilous the path from Fire Crow to Golden Crow was.

He hoped every Fire Crow would cultivate step by step, firmly grounded.

As an aside, the Golden Crow was one of the sixteen beast races of the Azure Mystic Heaven.

The Fire Crow Lineage was neither beast race nor human race.

More precisely, they were half-beast, half-human.

They looked very much like humans, but had a pair of red wings on their backs.

There was also a unique Fire Crow mark on their foreheads.

Even before approaching, one could already feel the heat surging from their bodies.

“May I ask how this senior brother is addressed?” Wang Ya asked politely.

Although they were all disciples of Jade Court, the eighteen lineages were not closely acquainted.

Each lineage had thousands of disciples. It was impossible to know everyone.

“My name is Zhao Jinwu. My father hopes I can achieve the Golden Crow bloodline,” the young man said with a smile.

“Zhao Jinwu? Could it be the one who recently rose into the Top Ten Elites?” Wang Ya asked in surprise.