Great Villain: Starting by Humiliating the Son of the Heavenly Fate - Chapter 470

Chapter 470: Counting Gains

The two great sects had no idea that the mysterious prodigy from the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace had resurfaced.

Before he appeared, the Blue Whirlpool Sect had already fallen to the so-called leader of the evil cultivators. Those few who escaped through the teleportation array knew nothing of what had truly happened.

If they had, news of the prodigy’s return would have shaken these high-ranking members of the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace and the Purple Crest Immortal Sect even more.

By now, Jiang Chen had already put more distance between himself and Lu Yi.

Lu Yi, breathing hard, forced his anger down until his thoughts cleared.

Hmph. Run all you want. Let’s see how long you can keep it up. He wasn’t worried about the gap widening—so long as he kept them in sight. When they finally wore themselves out, victory would be his.

Not only would he reclaim the Spirit Jade Vein, he’d also wipe out three rising cultivators on the verge of the Nirvana Cleansing realm.

The gain would have been enormous.

But just as Lu Yi was savoring the thought, the so-called prodigy from the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace ahead of him pulled out a talisman. At first glance it looked like the sect’s usual teleportation talismans—but this one was massive, as if someone had turned a scroll painting into a charm.

Lu Yi froze, stunned.

What is that? How could he have something like this? The spatial ripples rolling off it were far stronger than anything he’d seen before. That thing could carry them halfway across the continent!

His stomach twisted. No… am I really about to lose everything? The Spirit Jade Vein, the chance to kill them all—and turn a sure victory into nothing?

The thought was unbearable. Rage clawed at his chest as he howled inside, Damn these silver-spoon immortals! Damn them all!

The talisman lit up with a sharp hum, space itself rippling outward in waves.

Jiang Chen threw him a cold smile over his shoulder. “Wait for your doom.”

Then he and the others vanished into the swirling light.

“No—!” Lu Yi’s roar split the air.

He pushed his divine sense to the limit and caught sight of the three figures reappearing far in the distance—tens of millions of kilometers away.

Before he could even process it, they pulled out another talisman and vanished again, leaping even farther through space.

Then, their presence disappeared completely. Concealed, gone.

“No…! Ahhh!” Another raw scream tore from his throat.

His muscles bulged, veins twisting under his skin, eyes red and glaring as if they’d burst. His mind teetered on the edge of collapse.

He had failed again.

The Spirit Jade Vein he discovered—every last piece of it stolen. Not a single shard left for him. Nothing but humiliation.

Lu Yi sank into a crushing sense of defeat, doubt gnawing at him for the first time.

Meanwhile, Jiang Chen, hidden from sight, circled back toward Lu Yi’s position.

System prompts rippled through his Sea of Consciousness:

[Ding! Plot alteration detected! You’ve successfully seized Protagonist Lu Yi’s opportunity. Lu Yi’s Heavenly Fate Value has decreased by 10,000 points!]

[Ding! You’ve struck Protagonist Lu Yi’s mental state. Lu Yi’s Heavenly Fate Value has decreased by 2,000 points!]

[Ding! You’ve gained 24,000 Villain Value points!]

So that’s 12,000 Heavenly Fate Value points gone this round, Jiang Chen calculated. Adding the 3,000 from before, he’s lost 15,000 in total. That leaves him at 30,460.

My killing threshold is 12,690… getting close. But the safest way is still to grind his Heavenly Fate Value down to zero first, cut off his protagonist status, and then finish him.

If I force it now, there might not be a fatal backlash from Heavenly Fate, but it could still cause problems.

He chuckled inwardly. No rush. I can keep using him to farm Villain Value. And if things ever go wrong—well, I can just kill him then.

A faint smile tugged at his lips.

As he moved closer to Lu Yi’s position, Jiang Chen began sorting through the gains from the battle.

Four Nirvana Peering realm cultivators down… plus three more from the evil path, and that batch of Transcendence realm trash after Chao Xin. The qi and blood energy I’ve collected this time is quite a haul.

Not quite enough for a top-tier Nirvana Cleansing-level cultivation method, but more than enough for a solid one.

And with the Space Dao fully grasped, I can start working on the other Great Dao laws—step by step toward the Void Tribulation realm.

After a moment’s thought, he sent a message into the Void Tribulation Soulring. “Wan’er, Ning’er, find me a suitable Nirvana Cleansing-level cultivation method.”

“Yes!” Both women answered at once and immediately began searching.

Before long, they returned with a choice: the Light-Shadow Moon-Sun Axis Scripture.

The scripture was tied to the Daos of Light and Darkness, with links to Yin and Yang, Fire and Ice, and several others.

It wasn’t especially difficult to cultivate. After some quick calculations, Nangong Wan and Shangguan Ning confirmed that the qi and blood energy Jiang Chen had gathered was more than enough to push it all the way to perfection.

The Dao is formless, yet takes shape through the practitioner. When suffused with golden light, it fills within and shines without. The golden light, unseen by most, drifts like a cloud that sometimes parts to reveal its brilliance. Its sudden flare today shows the deep strength built up over time…

Jiang Chen committed the scripture’s words to memory, engraving them in his Sea of Consciousness.

With a flicker of divine sense, he roused the Wordless Heavenly Jade to begin cultivation.

Qi and blood energy surged and was instantly refined into a strange, profound power that fused into his body and soul.

In that instant, insights flooded his mind. Mysteries of the Light Dao unfolded one after another in his Sea of Consciousness, and he grasped them all with ease.

His body, too, moved as if it had trained in the scripture for tens of thousands of years, every motion instinctive.

In the span of a breath, Jiang Chen had cultivated the Nirvana Cleansing-level cultivation method all the way to perfection.

Good. My grasp of the Light Dao has deepened, he thought, pleased. With the pure cultivation base I seized from Chao Xin, I can push it further and master the complete Light Dao.

After that, I’ll pick up methods tied to other Great Dao laws.

Turning his focus, he began tallying the rest of his spoils.

First came the Spirit Jade Vein.

A sweep of his divine sense told him it wasn’t especially large. Counted together, the different grades of spirit stones and spirit jades came to only a few hundred thousand low-grade spirit jades.

There were only a few dozen high-grade spirit jades.

But the true value of the vein lay elsewhere. It could draw in the energy of heaven and earth, refine it into spiritual qi, and slowly compress that into spirit stones and spirit jades.

Though the vein had been cut into countless pieces, Nangong Wan was no ordinary cultivator. Once a peak Void Tribulation realm powerhouse who ruled the Everlasting Baseless Immortal Domain, her knowledge of Spirit Jade Veins was unmatched.

When she divided it, she’d used a secret art that allowed the vein to be restored perfectly once reassembled.

Spirit jades aren’t of much use to me right now. Better to store the vein itself, Jiang Chen mused, stroking his chin. He gave the order: “Wan’er, go into the Immortal Martial Mustard Seed. Reconnect the Spirit Jade Vein and bury it somewhere suitable.”

“Alright!” Nangong Wan nodded.

Jiang Chen then sent both her and the vein into the Immortal Martial Mustard Seed.

With that taken care of, he moved on to check what else he had gained this time.