I Really Am A Villain

“Is there really not a single clue about the origin of the Goddess of Xuanming? Or does your Jade Court have some forbidden grounds or something?” Xu Zimo asked curiously.

Wang Ya shook her head and smiled. “Jade Court has plenty of forbidden areas. The place where the Peach Trees grow is a forbidden land. The Immortal Realm is also a forbidden area. Even most places related to the Queen Mother are forbidden. If you want to find the Goddess of Xuanming, don’t even think about it.”

“You said before that the Goddess of Xuanming only appears when Jade Court faces a life-and-death crisis, right?” Xu Zimo asked to confirm.

“That’s what the records say,” Wang Ya nodded.

Xu Zimo said nothing more. Inside, however, he began to pray that the demon race of the Azure Mystic Heaven would put up a decent fight. If they could draw out that so-called Goddess of Xuanming, he would know whether she was an Ancient God or not.

He wasn’t in a hurry. Things had to be done step by step. At the very least, he had gathered some information now, and that was progress. He estimated that the war between the Azure Mystic Heaven and Jade Court was not far off. Otherwise, the Queen Mother would not be in such a hurry to hold the Peach Banquet to seek reinforcements.

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On the road deeper into the Peach Orchard, they began encountering more and more Jade Court disciples. Xu Zimo would casually make a move, plucking some peaches along the way for Wang Ya and her brother. These were the only two people he was familiar with in Jade Court.

At this moment, Xu Zimo waved his hand, directly enveloping five nearby peach trees within his palm. The peach trees that had been struggling instantly became unable to move, allowing Wang Ya and Wang Ze to happily pick peaches.

Just then, a thunderous sound came from the northern side of the Peach Orchard. The sound moved extremely fast. It had been far away at first, but within a few breaths, it had already entered their field of vision.

The three of them looked up and saw, beneath rolling dust, a bizarrely shaped peach tree actually running on legs, barefoot and sprinting wildly. Behind the tree, a large group of people chased through the air.

A group of people and a single tree chased one another like this. The scene was extremely strange, and the strangest part was that the peach tree was running while cursing at the same time.

“These idiots are so fun. Come chase me. Hit me if you can. You can’t catch me. Are you mad?”

A tree behaving like this was truly eye-opening.

“Brother Xu, hurry and catch it. That’s the Spacetime Peach Tree,” Wang Ya said urgently.

“That’s right. It’s the strangest tree in the entire Peach Orchard,” Wang Ze followed up loudly. “It’s said that it only bears a single peach. If you eat it, you can gain an enormous amount of spacetime power, far beyond what other peach trees can offer.”

It was clear that both of them cared a great deal about this peach tree.

Xu Zimo nodded. The direction the peach tree was charging toward happened to be his.

He waved his hand again. Boundless suppressive force surged out, and amid a roaring sound, the power locked down this entire area of space. Even the void itself was sealed.

Seeing this, the peach tree was not panicked at all. Instead, it burst into laughter. “Another idiot trying to catch me.”

It laughed loudly as an invisible force suddenly erupted from its body. In an instant, it passed straight through the sealed space Xu Zimo had created and ran straight out.

“Spacetime laws?” Xu Zimo was surprised.

He knew very well that his sealing of space was no simple restriction. He had frozen an entire region of the void itself. Unless someone was stronger than him, it would be extremely difficult to break through that spatial constraint.

Yet this peach tree had escaped with ease, and its strength was clearly not greater than his.

That meant only one thing. This peach tree’s comprehension of spacetime power had already reached a pinnacle, surpassing even his own. That was why his casually arranged spatial lock had been broken so easily.

“Interesting,” Xu Zimo said.

He had originally thought that the peaches in this orchard would be of no use to him. He hadn’t expected such an unexpected gain.

“The peach tree is getting away. Brother Xu, hurry and chase it,” Wang Ze shouted.

Watching the peach tree escape right in front of them, Xu Zimo simply smiled and said, “No rush.”

He raised his hand, and the Shadow Tyrant in his grasp drew itself from its sheath.

At this moment, the group of Jade Court disciples chasing the peach tree from behind also revealed their abilities, trying to stop it.

Some were immensely strong, wielding giant axes. With each swing, the axes cleaved heaven and earth, as if to cut down everything.

Some disciples grew a pair of wings on their backs. Immortal qi wrapped around the wings, and with feathers flying, their speed became like streaks of light.

Some disciples formed arrays with a single glance. Tens of thousands of formations appeared in an instant. Surrounded by grand teleportation formations, they could travel ten thousand miles in a single step.

The one who caught Xu Zimo’s attention the most was a woman in white robes.

Her brows carried a hint of heroism. She wore a veil that covered everything below her eyes, yet even so, her beauty radiated from the inside out.

She held an ice-blue longsword in her hand. The sword’s presence was terrifying. Even without any power being channeled into it, it still emitted shocking frost energy, freezing the surrounding space.

The ice sword was cold, and the woman was even colder.

She raised the sword with both hands. A dazzling beam of icy light shot straight into the sky from the blade. Immediately after, cracking sounds echoed through the void.

Snowflakes actually began to fall from the heavens.

A weapon capable of such might was certainly no ordinary weapon.

Wang Ya cried out in surprise beside him. “It’s the Innate Absolute Zero Sword of the Ice lineage. This sword is the sacred treasure of their entire lineage. That woman must be the Ice lineage’s saintess, Zhao Qiuyi.”

“You’ve never seen her?” Xu Zimo asked.

Wang Ya could recognize the person just by seeing the weapon, which showed that the Innate Absolute Zero Sword was even more famous than Zhao Qiuyi herself.

“I’ve lived in Broken Wolf Valley for a long time, so I don’t meet many people,” Wang Ya explained. “And Zhao Qiuyi is said to rarely leave seclusion herself. It’s not easy to see her.”

When boundless frost turned into a surging torrent that froze everything, countless snowflakes drifted through the sky. A broad and majestic ice-and-snow path formed between heaven and earth.

The peach tree’s roots were directly frozen, causing its speed to slow down.

“Interesting, but little girl, you can’t bring out the true power of this sword. You can’t trap me,” the peach tree said as it struggled violently, directly shattering the void.

Laughing loudly, it continued, “Let your ancestor come. If they wielded this sword, maybe it would work.”

“Damn it, this peach tree is way too arrogant,” one disciple cursed angrily.

Yet there was nothing anyone could do. The peach tree might have a sharp mouth, but its strength was undeniable.

Just as everyone thought the peach tree was about to escape again, an ancient blade aura suddenly descended from the sky.

The entire peach tree went utterly still.

Because even before the blade aura landed, many people felt a chill on their backs, as if needles were pricking them. It was as though that strike was aimed at them, as though their heads had already been severed.

“If you take one more step forward, you’ll be cut in two.”