I Truly Am The Villian

"If you want the real answers, just keep moving forward," Xu Zimei smiled.

"The answers lie ahead and are getting closer."

King Qinyou always felt that Xu Zimei was holding back, but he nodded nonetheless.

After walking for three days and nights, they finally emerged from the vast expanse of ruins at dawn on the fourth day.

It was only when they reached the boundary of the ruins that they realized the ruins were sealed off by a formation on all sides.

However, the formation was not completely sealed, and there was a light gate intentionally left open in front.

Xu Zimei and his companion stepped out of the light gate, and their view brightened considerably.

Their gaze rested on a vast plain.

The endless sky vanished into the horizon.

And standing beside the light gate they had just passed through were two guardians.

When Xu Zimei and his companion emerged, the two guardians didn’t even react in time.

Then came two panicked shouts as the two guardians fled desperately into the distance.

They were shouting, "Evil spirits have come out.

Evil spirits are attacking."

King Qinyou was confused and looked at Xu Zimei with puzzlement.

Only after the two guardians had run a safe distance did they launch the flare they had prepared into the sky to alert others.

"What do we do now?" King Qinyou asked.

"Let’s wait and see," replied Xu Zimei indifferently.

Although he had a fairly clear understanding of the affairs of Burial Buddha Temple,

he didn’t have all the details.

Neither did he know where exactly they were now.

Just as they were about to leave, a group of people rushed over from a distance at breakneck speed.

The leader of the group was an old man in a blue robe.

In his hand, he held a curved blade engulfed in black mist.

At the sight of the Curved Blade, King Qinyou frowned slightly.

He remembered the black mist, as it was identical to the evil aura previously wielded by the Evil Ancestor.

At that moment, the old man held the Curved Blade in front of him, looking warily at Xu Zimei and his companion.

The others who had followed also hid behind the old man, looking at the two with a mixture of fear and curiosity.

"Is there a problem?" King Qinyou asked, his tone indifferent.

"Are you evil spirits?" the old man took a deep breath and asked in a subdued voice.

"What evil spirits?" King Qinyou was slightly taken aback.

"Evil spirits from beyond the sky. The Law Enforcers have warned us that any creature emerging from these ruins is likely to be related to evil spirits,"

the old man said hastily.

King Qinyou gave Xu Zimei a look then turned and said, "We are not any evil spirits,

and we don’t know what you are talking about with these evil spirits."

"Then let me slash you with my blade. If you’re not afraid of the sacred light on my blade, it will prove you’re not an evil spirit,"

the old man asked tentatively.

"Sacred light?" King Qinyou laughed in amusement and replied, "With such heavy evil aura on your blade, I’m afraid only a real evil spirit wouldn’t fear its corruption.

Where is this sacred light from?"

"Nonsense, this is the Evil-Slaying Blade issued by the Enforcement Hall; how could it be wrong," retorted the old man with a cold snort.

"I think the problem is with you two."

The cultivation levels of these people were pitifully low, with only a few being in the Spirit Vein Realm, and many were not even cultivators.

King Qinyou, visibly agitated, seemed rather inclined to slap these people to death.

Xu Zimei quickly shook his head and said, "Just let them slash you. It won’t hurt you anyway.

I have some questions for them!"

King Qinyou pondered for a moment. He knew why he had come here.

For the entire Ancient Nether Tribe, this wasn’t too much to ask.

"Alright, then go ahead and slash," said King Qinyou as he stepped forward and stretched out his right arm.

The old man hesitated for a moment, but eventually he swung the curved blade down viciously.

With a "pfft" sound, the curved blade chopped into King Qinyou’s flesh.

However, there was no response, and the injury on King Qinyou’s arm recovered in an instant.

In fact, with King Qinyou’s strength, such a low-level weapon couldn’t even penetrate his skin.

He had only done so deliberately, to cooperate with the others.

...

Seeing this scene, the old man finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The cautious look he gave Xu Zimei and his companion also relaxed a bit.

"As long as you are not evil spirits, that is good," said the old man.

"Where are you from? How did you appear from the Ruins Forbidden Land?"

Seeing that King Qinyou was about to speak, Xu Zimei hurriedly interjected, "We come from Liuhuo City.

We were traveling together at one point and, while walking, we got lost.

Then, somehow, we ended up in the Ruins Forbidden Land."

"Then you must have strayed into the Forbidden Land by mistake," the old man nodded and replied.

"After all, our Light Realm is so vast that many people could not traverse it in a lifetime."

Xu Zimei smiled and nodded his head.

The Light Realm, Enforcement Hall, he had obtained several important pieces of information.

The people here are mostly mortals, unable to fly.

It would indeed be difficult to cross this realm.

The old man probably thought they were from the Light Realm as well.

...…

"Where exactly is this Liuhuo City you speak of?

Is it far from our Guyu Village?" continued the old man.

"We also don’t know where this place is. Do you have a map that I could look at, elder?" Xu Zimei asked with a smile.

"I have a map, but it only shows routes near our Guyu Village.

We’ve never been to other places, so naturally, we can’t draw maps of them," the old man nodded and said.

"Then, elder, may we stay in your village for a while?" Xu Zimei asked with a smile.

"As soon as we find our way back, we will leave immediately."

"Well," the old man looked back at the group of people behind him, hesitating slightly.

"We are willing to pay," Xu Zimei quickly took out a few spirit stones.

At the sight of the spirit stones, the people around them exclaimed in surprise.

The reason these people couldn’t cultivate was not because their aptitude was so poor.

It was because the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was limited.

Many places had no spiritual energy at all.

And even if they learned cultivation, the lack of spiritual energy doomed them to not reach very high realms.

...

"It is a pleasure to have friends come from afar," the old man said, taking the spirit stones from Xu Zimei with a smile.

Together, the crowd started walking toward Guyu Village in the distance.

Along the way, King Qinyou curiously looked at the old man and asked, "Why do you call the ruins a Forbidden Land?"

"A long time ago, a group of evil spirits came into our world from a different space in the Different Dimension, wanting to take over our world," the old man replied.

"Later, it was the heroes of the Enforcement Hall who defeated them.

So we call the place where the battle was fought the Ruins Forbidden Land.

The Enforcement Hall left a warning that the evil spirits might reappear after a number of years."

King Qinyou frowned slightly upon hearing the old man’s words.

He felt even more confused in his head.

If World Venerable Yicheng had once led the people of the Buddha Country to fight against the Bloodthirsty Evil Clan there,

and they had failed,

then who were these so-called evil spirits mentioned by the villagers?