Fantasy: I Am the Villain.

Chapter Ninety-One: Return (Part 1)

With a sudden change of heart, Bai Ke understood why Sikong Xuan's attitude towards him had suddenly taken a complete 180-degree turn.

Without getting entangled with him any longer, Bai Ke smiled and ignored the embarrassed Sikong Xuan, who was scratching his head awkwardly, and walked towards Shennong Manor first.

Sikong Xuan inwardly groaned. Heaven help him, in all his forty-plus years of life, he had never been in such an embarrassing situation. He couldn't help but turn his head and glare fiercely at the disciples following behind him.

Normally, killing someone is just a matter of beheading them. Sikong Xuan has been navigating the martial world for so many years. If you threaten him with your life, he will become extremely fierce.

However, Bai Ke did the opposite. At the very beginning of their meeting, he used force to intimidate them, and then used incentives to subdue them without a fight, completely undermining the Shennong Gang's will to resist.

To put it more seriously, the disciples and elders of the Shennong Gang are now mostly led by Bai Ke, especially after news of Bai Ke's valiant achievements in the Battle of Shaoshi Mountain reached the Shennong Gang.

This idea reached its peak within the Shennong Gang. Even Sikong Xuan sometimes secretly hesitated about whether to completely submit the Shennong Gang to this mysterious Prince Tiance.

Sikong Xuanren was an old and shrewd man. Although he didn't know why someone of Bai Ke's status would personally come out to search for a place for the sect to enter the world, he was, after all, the leader of a sect.

Although the Shennong Gang is just a minor, insignificant gang, in any power structure, how much distinction is there? It's simply a matter of ruling from above and befriending distant powers while attacking nearby ones.

He thought to himself that if he were Bai Ke, as the direct disciple, he would personally come out to find a suitable place for the sect to enter the world.

Or perhaps it's to pave the way and arrange the journey for those junior brothers and sisters who are about to enter the world for cultivation and experience. What is the purpose of all this hard work?

Sikong Xuan pondered for a moment and then realized what was going on. His purpose was self-evident: to establish his authority among his junior brothers and sisters.

On a larger scale, it means cultivating one's own power within the sect. Back then, before Sikong Xuan took over as the leader of the Shennong Gang, he also cultivated relationships among the disciples in this way, which is how he smoothly inherited his master's position.

Putting himself in Bai Ke's shoes, Sikong Xuan felt that he could understand Bai Ke's actions very well, and that he himself would not have done better in the same situation.

"This is the demeanor of a disciple from a prestigious family..." Sikong Xuan sighed inwardly. This Young Master Tian Ce was a top-notch choice in terms of both martial arts skills and cunning.

If the strong remain strong, how can other mediocre sects, or even second-rate gangs like our own Shennong Gang, possibly find a way to advance?

Fortunately, the young master Tian Ce ultimately chose Wuliang Mountain, and although he and the young master Bai were not exactly bosom friends, they at least had a good relationship.

If my guess is true, then he is a huge benefactor. As long as we get along well with Young Master Tian Ce, why should we worry about not being able to rise to prominence in the future?

Personal honor and disgrace are secondary. If the ancient glory of the Shennong Clan can be restored, no matter what means are used, Sikong Xuan will be able to give an account to his mentor in the afterlife.

Bai Ke went ahead, unaware of the many thoughts that Sikong Xuan, who was following behind him, had. After nearly forty or fifty days of not seeing him, he never expected that the once-famous Wuliang Sword Sect had undergone such a great change.

Aside from the Wuliang Back Mountain and the Jianhu Palace area that he had seen when he first arrived, the rest of the buildings were quite different from what they were back then.

Perhaps because the Shennong Gang was adept at using medicinal herbs and poisons, all the magnificent buildings and decorations originally constructed by the Wuliang Sword Sect were demolished and replaced with various green plants.

In addition, this place is located at the location of the spatial rift connecting the small world of Tian Long Ba Bu to the outside world, so the spiritual energy is more concentrated than in other places, which is why the green plants are growing so well.

Bai Ke was already worried about how to cover up the various strange phenomena when the Tian Ce Palace would arrive in the future, but now it seems that it won't take much effort at all.

As long as I use my spiritual power to nurture it, the Boundless Back Mountain will soon become like the Front Mountain, with large trees providing shade, and I can also set up some illusionary formations to conceal its true nature.

In this way, the situation he feared—that the arrival of the Tian Ce Palace would be discovered and subsequently attacked by the masses—would not occur.

It wasn't that I was worried the disciples from Tian Ce Palace would be no match for them, after all, the difference in cultivation, vision, magic weapons and techniques between the two was too great. It was just that this world was special after all.

If all the martial artists in this small world were slaughtered, it would be a ridiculous act of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, which would diminish the value of Jin Yong's martial arts world.

Moreover, Bai Ke had been here for more than two months, and given his longing for Jin Yong's martial arts world from his previous life, he still wanted to maintain as much control over this world as possible.

Whatever happens during this time that could cause conflict between the Tian Ce Palace cultivators and the Tian Long Ba Bu small world, it is something Bai Ke would not want to see.

The cultivators from Tian Ce Palace wouldn't be as polite to the martial artists in Tian Long Ba Bu as Bai Ke was. To them, these martial artists were all local natives, no different from livestock.

Although this statement is somewhat cruel, it is indeed the truth. Throughout the entire world of mountains and seas, the process of various sects ruling over their subordinate small worlds was always filled with deafening battle cries and rivers of blood.

Even when Bai Ke was studying history in his previous life, he wondered how tragic the plight of the indigenous people who discovered the New World of America was.

Bai Ke didn't want the martial artists in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils to suffer the same fate, so when he returned to Tian Ce Palace, he was determined to persuade the sect leader.

Only by fully revealing the value of this world can we secure better treatment for the people in this small world.

This was his compensation to the natives for exposing this small world to the Tian Ce Palace.

Of course, Bai Ke could also choose to say nothing. After he leaves, this little world will continue to evolve according to the original plot, and it will have nothing to do with him anymore.

With the selection of the Holy Son imminent, Bai Ke was unsure whether his superior cultivation alone was enough to secure the position of Holy Son of the Heavenly Strategy. There were too many variables involved, so he had no choice but to prepare for both possibilities.

If everything goes smoothly, Bai Ke actually prefers to use the Tian Long Ba Bu world as his secret base, in case he has nowhere to go when he needs to run away.

After all, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Besides the small icy world he once lived in, Bai Ke wanted to find several more places to stay. He couldn't entrust his entire life and fortune to one place.

Unlike those protagonists destined by fate, he is a villain destined to be a villain, so he has to be fully prepared to survive longer than those so-called "protagonists".

Having three burrows is too simplistic for Bai Ke; he wants to be an unparalleled genius who is impossible to kill no matter how hard he tries.

With the help of the Villain System of All Realms, as long as he doesn't die, he is confident that one day he will stand proudly at the pinnacle of everyone.