I Really Am A Villain
Ch. 354 - Whoever Offends The Blood-Devouring Evil Race, Dies!

But later, I figured it out.

My strength alone was too weak to change anything.

If I can’t change this world, why not become part of it?

Become one of the monsters.

My name is Gu Ze. I’m not a hero.

……

When Gu Ze finished speaking, he looked at the now-silent village chief and lowered his head slightly.

“I’m sorry.”

“Chief, I’ll leave this person to you,” Death God Qin said calmly.

Gu Qingyun was silent for a long time. In that moment, he seemed especially old and defeated.

“Thank you,” he bowed deeply to Death God Qin in gratitude.

Then he walked over to Gu Ze and personally helped him and the other two enforcers up.

“Take the twenty or so enforcers you selected and leave.”

“Chief…” Gu Ze looked at Gu Qingyun in disbelief.

“Leave,” Gu Qingyun growled, leaving no room for argument.

There was a complex emotion on his face, and his skin trembled slightly.

Gu Ze remained silent for a moment before dragging his weak body out of the courtyard, leaving Gu Yu Village with the twenty enforcers selected that morning.

Seeing this, Death God Qin stood stunned in place.

He didn’t stop them. He had said earlier he would leave the matter to Gu Qingyun.

The villagers began bringing out the food they had prepared.

Gu Qingyun grabbed a wine jar next to him and took a few deep gulps, then turned to Death God Qin with a bitter smile and said, “Tasteless.”

“I need an explanation,” Death God Qin replied quietly.

“Groups after groups of people were sent off to become enforcers, become heroes, and none of them ever came back.”

Gu Qingyun stared into the distance at the setting sun.

The sunset dyed half the sky in colors as beautiful as a painting.

“I never saw any of them again. People said they died, died fighting evil spirits. Died heroically, died gloriously. At first, I believed that too. Until one night, decades ago, a villager who had been sent off as an enforcer came back, covered in blood. He told me it was all a lie. We are birds in a cage, wings broken, wildness erased, just waiting for death. From then on, I understood everything.”

“Then why didn’t you resist?” Death God Qin asked.

“Resist? With what? There’s no spiritforce between heaven and earth. We’re just mortals. Even if we barely started cultivating, we’re just ants at the Spirit Meridian or Meridian Forging Realm.”

Gu Qingyun laughed bitterly. “If we don’t resist, only a few dozen people die every few years. If we resist, we’ll be wiped out. So tell me, should we resist? We’re caged birds. Birds that have seen through everything, resigned to being slaughtered.”

After hearing this, Death God Qin turned to look at Xu Zimo, who had been sitting calmly to the side.

He remembered what Xu Zimo had said earlier:

“There are no real fools in this world. Some are truly smart. Some pretend to be fools out of necessity.”

“You saw through everything a long time ago, didn’t you?” Death God Qin asked, looking at Xu Zimo.

“All right, it’s time for the real show to begin,” Xu Zimo said with a smile.

Just as he finished speaking, a loud explosion boomed.

“Who dares intrude on the Law Enforcement Hall?” a roar echoed from the sky in the distance.

Everyone looked toward the southeast, toward Vast Violet City.

“Someone is attacking Vast Violet City’s Law Enforcement Hall,” Gu Qingyun said, focusing his gaze.

“The Buddha Realm is making their move,” Death God Qin replied.

“Chief, I think it’s time for us to go too,” Xu Zimo smiled and said his goodbye.

“You…” Gu Qingyun looked at the two in shock, clearly realizing something.

“Even though we’re doing this for our own reasons, taking down the Blood-Devouring Evil Race is still helping you all in a way,” Xu Zimo smiled.

He and Death God Qin rose into the air and left.

The villagers of Old Jade Village watched the two figures disappear into the sky, minds filled with unrest.

……

There was an anti-flight barrier in the sky, though it was much weaker than the one in the Buddha Burial Temple.

The people of the Buddha Realm had begun attacking Vast Violet City’s Law Enforcement Hall, and Xu Zimo and Death God Qin were ready to reap the rewards.

When they arrived, they found the Law Enforcement Hall completely destroyed.

Two powerful cultivators had taken to the sky.

One was the Luminous Master, the other, surprisingly, was Liu Zongfang.

The same person who had chatted with Xu Zimo earlier in the monastery.

Everyone knew of his famed Liu Blade Technique, but no one expected he had already stepped into the immortal path.

“He sure hid that well,” Xu Zimo smiled.

With two Immortal Path cultivators present, the Law Enforcement Hall had been utterly crushed.

Just then, the spiritforce of heaven and earth began to stir.

In this Ancient Realm, where spiritforce was extremely rare, even a little was precious.

Everyone looked up and saw the source of the gathering energy.

A blood-red eye had appeared in the sky.

It radiated endless killing intent and eerie energy, just floating there silently.

“The descendants of those ants from back then?” the blood-red eye spoke.

Its voice seemed to come from nowhere.

Sensing the aura on the people of the Buddha Realm, it instantly connected them to the group of Sage Yicheng from long ago.

“You deserve to die,” the Luminous Master said coldly.

“Since you’re here, little ants, you’ll never leave again.”

The blood-red eye laughed wildly.

Then, a massive rumble echoed across the entire Ancient Realm.

People looked around and saw a vast blue barrier suddenly rise around the edges of the Ancient Realm.

It covered the entire space, blocking off the sealed entrance they had used to get in.

The original inhabitants of the Ancient Realm looked up, unsure what was causing the massive change in the sky.

……

A sky-piercing path began to descend from the heavens, filled with killing intent.

It seemed to cut through layers of void, reaching directly to the other shore.

It appeared before the crowd.

And from the endless darkness within the path, three figures slowly walked out.

“There are four Ancient Ancestors in the Blood-Devouring Evil Race,” Luminous Master explained from the side. “We killed one outside already, so there should be three left.”

As the three figures emerged from the sky path, a storm of evil energy blanketed the sky.

Heaven and earth trembled and cracked.

Endless spiritforce surged and echoed like crashing waves.

“My name is Martial Earth.”

“My name is Hidden Shadow.”

“My name is Ghost Feather.”

“Whoever offends the Blood-Devouring Evil Race, dies!”

As the word “dies” was spoken, waves of blood energy and overwhelming immortal might surged into the sky.