Great Villain: Starting by Humiliating the Son of the Heavenly Fate - Chapter 483

Capítulo 483: The Answer They Overlooked

Liang Youwen’s sudden shift in expression drew the attention of the other Nirvana Cleansing realm powerhouses around him. One by one, they turned toward him, confusion written all over their faces.

A cold, murderous pressure rolled off Liang Youwen. “Forget searching for Jiang Chen. Come with me to Roaring River Martial City—we’re killing Lu Yi and that evil cultivator.”

He pulled out a bundle of space teleportation talismans, tore one open, and activated it on the spot.

Boom!

Space rippled violently as a vortex tore itself open. Liang Youwen and the six other Nirvana Cleansing realm powerhouses from the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace vanished into the swirling distortion.

The cultivators from the Purple Crest Immortal Sect stared at the spot where Liang Youwen and his group vanished, trading puzzled looks.

“What was that about?”

“Why rush off all of a sudden?”

“Did they track down Jiang Chen somewhere else?”

They whispered among themselves, unsettled by how strange it all felt.

Just then, a message arrived from their sect headquarters—intelligence sent back by spies stationed in Roaring River Martial City.

After reading the report, they all froze in disbelief.

“The pride of the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace… was actually that evil cultivator? And he’s already at the Nirvana Cleansing realm?” Lu Tingguang blurted out, completely stunned.

“And he killed all five of their Half-step Nirvana Cleansing experts in one move…”

“Heavens, that’s insane,” he muttered, struggling to wrap his head around it.

“What do we do now, Sun Xiangyuan?” Sun Anming asked.

Sun Xiangyuan fell silent for a moment, then let out a long breath. His expression had turned heavy.

“The Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace is furious. They’re going after that evil cultivator no matter what.”

“With seven Nirvana Cleansing realm powerhouses moving together, that evil cultivator won’t survive—and Lu Yi will end up in their hands as well.”

He paused, thinking it through. “Since we’ve lost our chance to get rid of Lu Yi, and Liang Youwen’s group is no longer pressuring us, we should focus our efforts on finding Jiang Chen.”

“Alright, we’ll go with your plan. Jiang Chen has to die,” Sect Master You Shaojun said.

“He’s been hiding for so long—I don’t believe he can stay hidden forever. We’ll track him down sooner or later.”

He paused, his expression darkening. “But if we still can’t find him after another sweep, we’ll have to pull back. We need to strengthen our headquarters before the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace decides to attack it.”

Everyone nodded, agreeing with both Sun Xiangyuan and You Shaojun.

Just as they were about to spread out again, Lu Tingze suddenly stepped forward, looking like an idea had just struck him.

“Hold on. Has it occurred to any of you that the evil cultivator might actually be Jiang Chen?”

“We’ve searched this whole area without finding a single trace of him. Maybe he was never here at all.”

“I think we’ve been tricked—and we’ve wasted all this time for nothing,” he said, brows furrowed.

His words made everyone stop in their tracks.

“Yes! Elder Lu Tingze makes a good point,” Sun Ancheng said quickly. “Why didn’t we think of that earlier? How many Nirvana Cleansing realm cultivators could even exist on this planet?”

“And that evil cultivator just happened to appear now of all times… it’s definitely suspicious.”

“It is,” You Shaojun agreed, eyes narrowing in thought.

“Since he showed up, the person he’s helped the most is Lu Yi—mainly by killing the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace pursuers.”

“When you connect all the pieces, it fits. The evil cultivator is likely Jiang Chen in disguise… and Jiang Chen has already broken through to the Nirvana Cleansing realm.”

The more the Purple Crest Immortal Sect group thought about it, the more convinced they became that the evil cultivator had been Jiang Chen all along.

It was hard to believe he could move from his hiding place to Lu Yi’s side so quickly, but if they ignored that one detail, everything else lined up.

For instance, impersonating a genius from the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace would be a perfect way for Jiang Chen to stir up conflict between the two sects.

And pretending to be an evil cultivator who acted against Lu Yi? That would simply be a trick to throw everyone off his trail and keep anyone from guessing his true identity.

When they stepped back and looked at everything as a whole, the pattern was hard to miss. Ever since Jiang Chen first crossed paths with Lu Yi, he had been clearing obstacles and killing experts in Lu Yi’s way. And after the so-called evil cultivator appeared, he did the exact same thing.

The overlap was too obvious to ignore.

“Can that really be it?” Lu Tingguang blurted out, stunned. “Jiang Chen is the evil cultivator? We’ve been fooled this whole time?”

“Jiang Chen was never here, and we’ve been running in circles like idiots?”

“So many of us… tricked so easily?” he muttered, his face burning with humiliation.

His words hit the others hard. He’d said exactly what the rest of them were trying not to face.

For the strongest cultivators on Prosperous Stone Immortal Star, being tricked as a group was a humiliation they would never forget.

“Damn it! Jiang Chen must die by our hands!” Sun Xiangyuan exploded, eyes blazing red as he shot off toward Roaring River Martial City.

You Shaojun, Sun Anming, Sun Ancheng, Lu Tingze, and Lu Tingguang rushed after him.

But with their shallow grasp of the Space Dao, none of them could use spatial movement. The six could only rely on sheer speed and physical flight.

The distance ahead was enormous, yet their fury pushed them forward. They wouldn’t rest until Jiang Chen was dead.

Meanwhile, Liang Youwen and his group were already jumping through space again and again.

Halfway through their journey, the group from the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace began having the same doubts as the Purple Crest Immortal Sect. Once they brushed aside the smaller details that didn’t quite fit and looked at the overall pattern, their suspicion only grew stronger.

“That’s it! The evil cultivator has to be Jiang Chen!” one of them burst out. “Su Xiangcai and the others must have died by his hand too!”

“He’s wiped out almost all of our elites below the Nirvana Cleansing realm!”

“That bastard deserves every cruel punishment imaginable—he should beg for life and still not be allowed to die until his lifespan runs out!”

The more they thought about what had happened to their people, the stronger their killing intent grew. They were dead set on tearing Jiang Chen apart.

What none of them realized was that every step they took and every word they spat out had already fallen under Jiang Chen’s terrifyingly sharp divine sense.

Oh? Figured out a bit, have you? Jiang Chen thought, a small smile tugging at his lips.

If he felt like it, he could teleport straight back to the area they had been obsessively searching, using his advanced mastery over the Space Dao.

Doing so, the cultivators from the Purple Crest Immortal Sect and the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace would realize they’d jumped to the wrong conclusion. They’d start second-guessing themselves, unsure whether to keep going or turn back.

But Jiang Chen wasn’t interested in that.

Lu Yi’s Heavenly Fate Value was already below the point where he could be killed.

One more clean cut would finish him off.

And those thirteen Nirvana Cleansing realm powerhouses were the perfect blade for that final cut.

Before using them, though, Jiang Chen planned to boost his own strength a little more.

Even if his peak combat power was already close to the Middle-stage Void Tribulation realm, no one could say for sure whether the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace or the Purple Crest Immortal Sect had some ancient, terrifying trump card—something at the Void Tribulation level, hidden away for emergencies.

The stronger I am, the safer I’ll be, Jiang Chen thought, a faint smile forming as he shifted his attention into the Immortal Martial Mustard Seed.