Great Villain: Starting by Humiliating the Son of the Heavenly Fate - Chapter 469

Chapter 469: Sect Reports in Disarray

Nangong Wan, still masked as the woman from the Blue Whirlpool Sect, tore through the ground and pulled the entire Spirit Jade Vein from beneath the earth.

In an instant, it was like a dragon made of pure spirit jade burst into the sky, glittering with dazzling light.

Jiang Chen’s plan was working—soon, the whole vein would be his.

“Bastards! Give me back my Spirit Jade Vein!” Lu Yi roared, charging straight at her like a madman.

But before he could get close, Jiang Chen and Shangguan Ning closed in, trapping him completely.

To his horror, Nangong Wan sliced the massive vein into countless pieces, storing each one in a flash.

Lu Yi’s chest tightened as if his heart were being carved open. “No!” he gasped, his voice cracking with despair.

I can’t lose. I won’t lose. If I lose even with the system, what am I? Nothing! His thoughts spun wildly, rage twisting through every nerve.

Fine—if they’re going to tie me down, I’ll drag them down with me. Once their secret arts fade, they’re dead. And when the system’s fusion resets… I’ll kill them all.

His blood-red eyes burned with that vow.

Abandoning the Spirit Jade Vein, he threw himself into the fight with Jiang Chen, swinging with reckless fury.

But he never realized the truth—Jiang Chen wasn’t fighting for survival.

He was playing with him.

All those secret arts and sudden bursts of strength? Just bait.

Even if Lu Yi broke through to the Nirvana Cleansing realm, he still wouldn’t be a match for Jiang Chen. Unless he made several breakthroughs in a row—something impossible with the resources he had.

While the fight raged on, Nangong Wan had already finished cutting the entire Spirit Jade Vein apart and stored every piece away.

“Let’s move!” Jiang Chen shoved Lu Yi back with a quick strike, pretending to look drained before darting toward Nangong Wan with Shangguan Ning close behind.

He could have absorbed the two women’s remaining souls into his Void Tribulation Soulring right then, but not in front of Lu Yi. That would raise too many questions.

“Don’t even think of escaping!” Lu Yi roared, face twisted with fury as he launched himself after them.

“Catch us? Keep dreaming.” Jiang Chen smirked over his shoulder. “Lu Yi, half-demon scum—just wait. A Nirvana Cleansing realm powerhouse from my sect will soon arrive. When he does, you’re finished.”

He let the words hang in the air, then pretended to trigger a secret art and shot ahead, widening the gap between them.

“What—impossible!” Lu Yi’s eyes went wide. He’d thought Jiang Chen, disguised as a disciple of the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace, was reaching his limit, but instead the man shot forward even faster.

Right then, the flaws in Lu Yi’s cultivation became painfully clear. He had no secret art that could boost his speed.

All he could do was watch as Jiang Chen and the others pulled farther and farther away.

“Damn it! Let’s see how long you can keep that up!” he growled, teeth clenched, forcing himself to keep chasing.

He convinced himself that even if Jiang Chen had used a speed-enhancing secret art, it couldn’t last long. That would’ve been true—if Jiang Chen were really at the Half-step Nirvana Cleansing realm.

But Lu Yi was dead wrong.

Heh, such stubbornness… how pitiful. Jiang Chen glanced back, amusement flickering in his eyes at the sight of Lu Yi still in pursuit.

“Jiang Chen,” Nangong Wan’s voice brushed against his mind, “should we keep leading him on?”

“No,” he replied through soul transmission. “I’ve already destroyed the Blue Whirlpool Sect’s teleportation array, but others from the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace might be heading this way. If they recognize us, that’ll be trouble.”

“Understood.” Nangong Wan nodded slightly.

“Good. Once we’ve opened a bit more distance, we’ll pretend to use a teleportation talisman and disappear,” Jiang Chen said with a faint smile.

…

Elsewhere, Liang Youwen and his team—who had been scouring the region for any sign of Jiang Chen—received shocking news.

The Blue Whirlpool Sect had been completely wiped out.

At the same time, word spread that during Lu Yi’s clash with the sect, a Half-step Nirvana Cleansing realm cultivator had appeared out of nowhere.

Everyone was stunned.

The first thing that came to mind was Lu Yi’s strength—or rather, his supposed lack of it.

They all knew his reputation: a failure who’d barely reached the Transcendence realm thanks to pills, not talent.

That information came straight from Xin Tong, and no one had ever doubted it.

But now Lu Yi was showing power close to the Nirvana Cleansing realm—maybe even stepping into it.

It was unthinkable.

The difference between the Transcendence realm and the Nirvana Cleansing realm was like that between a lamb and a tiger.

In just a few days, Lu Yi had gone from a helpless lamb to a raging tiger—a change so drastic it was almost hard to believe.

But his sudden rise wasn’t the only thing that shocked them. The appearance of a Half-step Nirvana Cleansing realm evil cultivator sent ripples of fear through everyone.

With their wide-reaching intelligence networks, both sects knew about the existence of such dark cultivators. Some were even secretly kept as tools—used for the kind of dirty work no sect wanted to admit to.

Yet none of them had ever seen one this powerful before.

After recovering from the shock, the groups from the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace and the Purple Crest Immortal Sect could only guess that a hidden evil cultivator had been overlooked somewhere—one who had quietly grown to such terrifying strength.

Meanwhile, the Nirvana Cleansing realm powerhouses of the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace began to suspect the worst: that this Half-step Nirvana Cleansing realm evil cultivator might actually be the Purple Crest Immortal Sect’s creation.

Otherwise, why would he slaughter four Nirvana Peering realm elders of the Blue Whirlpool Sect and fight Lu Yi with such fury?

“Send word to everyone—move at full speed, no matter the cost! Lu Yi must be captured. And that evil cultivator… kill him on sight. He’s clearly a pawn of the Purple Crest Immortal Sect.” Liang Youwen’s message rippled through the minds of the other Supreme Elders, sharp and decisive.

Across the field, members of the Purple Crest Immortal Sect traded uneasy glances and whispered among themselves.

“Who is that evil cultivator supposed to be?”

“Could he really be some wandering rogue from the Evil Dao, not tied to any sect?”

“Either way, Liang Youwen’s people must think he’s one of ours. They’ve probably already sent reinforcements.”

“Tch. If only he actually was one of ours…”

None of them bothered to correct the misunderstanding. Even if they tried, no one would believe them.

With no other choice, they focused back on their search for Jiang Chen.

At the same time, Liang Youwen’s group pressed on as well, chasing Jiang Chen’s trail while keeping a close watch on the chaos near the Blue Whirlpool Sect—and on Lu Yi.