Saved by the Villain Boss?

After Tang Yan lost consciousness, a gentle breeze swept past, rustling the leaves in the forest.

The next instant, a tall, elegant man in an ink-black brocade robe slowly appeared in midair.

He looked about twenty-five or twenty-six. His smooth silver hair was gathered high beneath a jade crown, with loose strands swaying languidly behind him in the breeze.

His face was exceptionally handsome, his exquisite features unforgettable.

His eyes were a silvery black, cool silver mingled with deep, mysterious ink, making him seem like the silver moon hanging high in the heavens, remote and ethereal.

A tiny cinnabar-red mole beneath his right eye added a touch of breathtaking, otherworldly beauty.

At that moment, his cool gaze rested on the unconscious Tang Yan below.

His elegant brows drew together slightly in puzzlement.

Xiao Jixue flexed the hand at his side, a cloud of confusion gathering over his normally unruffled heart.

He had never been one to meddle.

Yet when he had spotted what was happening here from his Spirit Boat, he had acted without a second thought and saved this man.

Even after pondering it for a while, Xiao Jixue could find no explanation.

When he came back to himself and noticed the man's breathing growing weaker, he hurriedly flashed down to Tang Yan's side.

He bent down and scooped him into his arms, bridal-style.

Carrying Tang Yan, Xiao Jixue flew back toward the spirit vessel. Before leaving, he made two hand seals and burned the two lackeys who had been hunting Tang Yan to ashes.

Not long after Xiao Jixue left with Tang Yan, another group arrived.

The girl in pink at their head frowned and surveyed the area for quite some time.

A follower beside her looked baffled. "Miss Zhenzhen, what's wrong? Is there something strange about this place?"

Suppressing her inexplicable sense of loss, Xu Zhenzhen shook her head. "Nothing." She simply felt that she should have obtained a tremendous fortuitous opportunity here.

But there was nothing unusual here now.

"Miss Zhenzhen, we've picked up a trace of Wei Lianyi!"

Xu Zhenzhen's eyes lit up, a fierce chill flashing through them. "After all these days, we've finally found that bitch Wei Lianyi. That wretched little slut certainly knows how to run. Hmph!"

"After her!"

"Yes!"

When Xiao Jixue returned to the spirit vessel with Tang Yan in his arms, everyone waiting aboard was startled.

They exchanged furtive glances, their eyes communicating furiously.

What was going on? Wasn't their eldest senior brother's obsession with cleanliness downright outrageous?

Once, a female cultivator who admired him had accidentally touched his hand, and he had nearly scrubbed the skin off it.

So what was this?

Their eldest senior brother had actually brought a man back in his arms—and a ragged man covered in blood and dirt, at that!

Everyone sucked in a breath and glanced up at the sky in unison.

The sun hadn't risen in the west today.

Zhu Hua stepped forward. "Eldest senior brother, let me help. I happen to know a little medicine..."

Before he could finish, however, Xiao Jixue cut him off.

"No need. I'll handle it myself."

Ignoring their varied looks, he carried Tang Yan straight into his room.

Behind him, Zhu Hua's mouth fell open in an O, his eyes full of disbelief.

The others wore much the same stunned expression.

Inside the room.

Xiao Jixue carefully laid Tang Yan on his bed.

He sat beside the bed and checked his pulse. Once he had determined the man's condition, his brows knitted tightly.

His spiritual root had been extracted, his Golden Core dug out, and his cultivation destroyed. Every last bit of his strength had been exhausted, leaving him struggling on the brink of death.

With no time to consider anything else, Xiao Jixue hurriedly took a sixth-grade healing pill and a Fasting Pill from his Sumeru Ring and placed them in Tang Yan's mouth.

Pills on the Immortal Spirit Continent were ranked from first to twelfth grade, with each grade further divided by efficacy into low, middle, high, and supreme quality.

The sixth-grade healing pill Xiao Jixue gave Tang Yan was of supreme quality, refined by his own hand.

Only when Tang Yan's pulse and breathing gradually stabilized did Xiao Jixue finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Then he thought of the man's empty, shattered dantian. After a moment's hesitation, he slowly reached out.

A little while later, Tang Yan's robes hung wide open, his belt loosely draped around him. His lean waist was firm and muscular, as though brimming with explosive strength.

His exposed skin was as fair and smooth as the finest cool jade. The red marks and wounds covering it did not make it ugly, instead lending it a decadent, pitiful beauty.

Only the bloody black hole in his abdomen spoiled the beauty of his body.

Had Tang Yan been awake, he probably would have gone pale with fright again, thinking another pervert had come to lust after his ass.

Although they were both men and had the same anatomy, Xiao Jixue felt strangely ill at ease.

He glanced at the half-naked man, then looked away and expressionlessly placed his hand over the bloody hole in Tang Yan's abdomen.

Pure spiritual energy slowly flowed from his hand.

Tang Yan's tightly furrowed brows relaxed a little, and color gradually returned to his face.

Suddenly, Tang Yan's alluring thin lips parted, and a soft moan escaped them.

Xiao Jixue stiffened, feeling even more uncomfortable.

He had healed his junior brothers before, but never had he felt as ill at ease as he did now.

After treating Tang Yan's injuries, Xiao Jixue made a hand seal and used the Dust-Cleansing Art to clean him, then took out his own clothes and changed him into them.

He was slightly taller than Tang Yan, though the difference was negligible. Tang Yan was less muscular, however, so his enchanted robes were a little loose on him.

But the moment the robes were on Tang Yan, they automatically adjusted to fit.

Only after everything was done did Xiao Jixue move to the window, take out his usual meditation cushion, and begin his daily cultivation.

The Spirit Boat traveled at a steady pace above the Outer Divine Seclusion Mountains.

The sun and moon traded places, the stars shifted, and several days quietly passed in the blink of an eye.

Tang Yan finally stirred awake.

He opened his eyes and surveyed his unfamiliar surroundings.

Had Xu Zhenzhen really saved him?

The system, which had been silent for several days, spoke.

[Host, Xiao Jixue saved you.]

Tang Yan looked surprised. [Xiao Jixue? The novel's main villain?]

Some of the information about the main villain, Xiao Jixue, automatically surfaced in his mind.

Why only some? Because he had skipped around while reading.

Xiao Jixue was the chief disciple of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, a peerless talent whom ordinary people could only look up to. He had broken through to nascent soul at twenty-six and taken the Daoist title True Lord Jilin.

With his Lifebound Sword, the Trace Snow Sword, he had no equal within his cultivation realm. He had even fought several late-stage Nascent Soul True Lords above his level and defeated every one of them.

Every one of those opponents was a prodigy of the new generation whose name had long been renowned across the continent.

Rumor had it that he could even hold his own against someone at the peak of Nascent Soul, just half a step from Deity Transformation.

His many brilliant victories had kept him firmly atop the Heavenly Prodigy Rankings for years, his position unshakable.

If such an unparalleled prodigy were allowed to reach his full potential, barring any mishaps, the Immortal Spirit Continent would gain another Mahayana Heavenly Venerable.

Unfortunately, he had never reached that point.

For various reasons, he had turned completely evil and become the novel's main villain boss.

The system replied:

[That's right~]

[Host, you now have a wonderful opportunity to return to the pinnacle of life. It all depends on whether you can seize it.]

Tang Yan asked, [What opportunity?]

[Win over the villain Xiao Jixue. Reform him and warm his heart with love, and stop him from becoming the villain boss.]

Tang Yan: *[???]*

He covered his ass in horror, his eyes wide with fright.

[Fuck! You useless system, I'm straight as an arrow!!]

Tang Yan put particular emphasis on "straight as an arrow."

His face filled with fury. He had never imagined that the biggest menace was right beside him!

The system... was speechless.

[...There are many kinds of love. It doesn't have to be the kind you're imagining, host. Reforming him through brotherly affection works just as well. As long as he doesn't turn evil and become the villain in the end, the mission counts as complete.

Besides, host, why did you think of sacrificing your virtue instead of being the one on top?]

Then the system added shamelessly:

[But if you really do want to offer yourself up, host, I don't mind.]

[Think it over carefully, host. Completing this mission will let you return to your original world. If you fail, you'll have to stay here forever.

Think of your family back in the modern world, your fans, your manager, and all those people who love you. Can you really bear to spend the rest of your life here?]

[Winning over the villain has another major benefit. The affection you earn can be converted into points. Once the points shop opens, you can redeem anything there.]

Tang Yan frowned and thought for a long while before finally deciding to swallow the system's pie-in-the-sky promise.

[Fine. I'll take it.]

All he had to do was become buddies with Xiao Jixue and keep him from turning evil. It actually sounded pretty easy.

Just then, footsteps sounded outside.

[Host, a friendly reminder: Xiao Jixue isn't human. He's a dragon~~]

Tang Yan instinctively looked toward the approaching figure. Not understanding what the system meant, he nodded absently. [Got it.]

Watching its host's reaction, the system secretly gave a lewd little grin.

In this novel's setting, dragons were just like snakes...

And when Tang Yan got a clear look at the man's face, he froze on the spot in astonishment.