I Like Being a Villain

A silent night.

An icy wind.

Jun Jingyi walked quietly. The waves of bloody stench around him annoyed him a little, but he didn't really care.

He was still thinking about what Bai Ruoli had once told him.

The strong preyed on the weak.

The strong preyed on the weak indeed. He couldn't refute it.

He hadn't liked that phrase before.

But now he rather liked it.

Just look at the terror on the Li Family patriarch's face.

If he hadn't relied on such a simple reason, he really wouldn't have been able to deal with him here in Great Yan.

The law... Heh...

What trials? What rules? What justice? What nonsense about it being only right for a murderer to pay with his life!

In this chaotic world, in these chaotic times, none of it was worth a fart.

The old order had already lost its reason for existing.

Before a new order emerged, he wasn't stupid enough to keep trying to reason with a bunch of unreasonable people.

Since they wanted the strong to prey on the weak, he would give them the strong preying on the weak.

He would let those fellows have a taste of what it truly meant for the strong to prey on the weak!

Wasn't it just a matter of being unreasonable? Who couldn't do that? He would let them see whether they could accept the consequences of the strong preying on the weak!

Hmm...

The way he did things was pretty villainous!

But...

Jun Jingyi was amused.

Wasn't he a villain to begin with?

Good. He rather liked being a villain. It felt great.

"All taken care of!"

Sikong Ye caught up from behind and spoke calmly.

"You're sure there are no survivors this time?"

Jun Jingyi looked at Sikong Ye with a smile.

That made Sikong Ye feel awkward. He lowered his head, unwilling to speak.

"Haha..."

Jun Jingyi chuckled, then shook his head. The two walked side by side in silence, looking like devils in the dead of night amid their surroundings.

Behind them, a great fire blazed in the Li Family's residence.

Originally, he hadn't wanted to bother with the corpses.

But Jun Jingyi had thought it over afterward.

If he left them alone, the authorities would definitely throw the corpses into a mass grave...

Forget it. He wouldn't let those fellows go underground and disturb those poor people.

Those people were so weak that they would be bullied by them again, and heaven knew whether the King of Hell existed in this world.

Besides, he felt that fellows like them shouldn't leave any trace in this world in the first place.

It was good for them to disappear just like that.

The next day.

The jianghu battle had raged all night, and the county magistrate could only hide in the county yamen, trembling.

It wasn't until the next day, when the nearby military camps brought an army into the city and stabilized the situation, that the magistrate dared come out and take action.

Calling it taking action was generous; all he did was clean up the aftermath.

The corpses were carried out of the city one by one and thrown into a mass grave.

Then the streets were washed clean.

As for holding anyone accountable...

They were all jianghu desperadoes, and there might have been plenty of deathsworn among them. They weren't even on the household registers, so how could anyone be held accountable?

Besides, the Yan Kingdom was going through troubled times, and it was already struggling to keep the jianghu under control.

He was only a county magistrate. Why should he offend such powerful people for a bunch of... commoners? It wasn't worth it!

This was all he could do.

He sealed off the city gates with heavy guards and strictly forbade jianghu people from entering again!

And then the matter seemed to come to an end.

Everything went on as usual for the ordinary people of Tianfu City, as if nothing had happened, except for the Li Family residence, now a heap of ruins.

The Eighth Prince's residence.

"Your Highness, we've found out. The Dragon Slaying Saber was obtained by a force called the Azure Dragon Hall!"

The guard spoke cautiously.

The Eighth Prince clenched his fists.

He was furious.

He himself was fine after the night's battle, but eighty percent of his guards had died!

Those jianghu people had some nerve!

On ordinary days, every one of them was like a mouse, yet now they had dared to attack his guards.

More importantly, after all that, he still hadn't obtained the divine weapon!

He had paid such a great price!

"Azure Dragon Hall!"

The Eighth Prince frowned and was just about to say something.

Suddenly, a commotion broke out in the courtyard.

"What's going on?"

A guard rushed in, flustered, and replied cautiously, "Your Highness, the Heaven Reliant Sword!"

"What?"

The Eighth Prince's eyes widened.

"The Heaven Reliant Sword, it's the Heaven Reliant Sword! Just now, a man in black at the gate said he was presenting a sword to Your Highness, and then..."

As he spoke, the guard presented the longsword in his hands.

The two characters for "Heaven Reliant" on the hilt seemed to hold a magical power, drawing the Eighth Prince's gaze and holding it fast.

After a long while, he picked up a guard's saber and struck the two weapons together.

"Clang..."

"Hiss..."

The many guards in the room all widened their eyes, gazing fervently at the sword in the Eighth Prince's hand.

"Haha, the Heaven Reliant Sword! A divine weapon! It really is a divine weapon!"

The Eighth Prince was immensely excited.

Then his eyes flickered, and he looked at the guard. "Where did the man who delivered the sword go?"

"He ran... ran away..."

The guard answered fearfully.

"His qinggong was quite good, and we were in a hurry to protect the sword, so..."

The Eighth Prince frowned and looked at the Heaven Reliant Sword.

He wasn't stupid.

The fire at the Li Family residence yesterday in particular, and the extermination of the family, had already brought him somewhat to his senses. No matter how he looked at this, something was wrong.

The Heaven Reliant Sword had actually been brought to his door.

But... the divine weapon was in his hands...

After a long silence, the Eighth Prince sighed softly and chose to ignore the question, turning his thoughts to another.

According to legend, only by striking the Dragon Slaying Saber and the Heaven Reliant Sword against each other could one obtain the peerless divine art within them and unite the world.

Now he had the Heaven Reliant Sword, so the Dragon Slaying Saber!

"Phew..."

The thought excited the Eighth Prince.

Originally, because the matter concerned only the Dragon Slaying Saber, which he still hadn't obtained,

and because of the heavy casualties yesterday,

and because the Li Family's fate had brought him to his senses, he had already been thinking of withdrawing. But now...

Opportunity knocks only once!

No matter who was behind this scheme,

he had the Heaven Reliant Sword and knew the Dragon Slaying Saber's whereabouts. It was only a minor jianghu sect, after all.

He could obtain it with a little effort.

No matter what the person behind the scheme wanted, the two divine weapons were within reach. There was no way he would give up.

And what if...

What if that legend was true? Then...

Even if it wasn't, he wouldn't lose out by obtaining both divine weapons!

He had already paid such a great price. Surely he couldn't walk away empty-handed?

"Phew!"

With that thought, the Eighth Prince hurriedly said, "Pass on my order..."

The Jun Residence

"See? I won again. That's how human greed and desire work!"

Jun Jingyi smiled.

"Ordinary people all develop a gambler's mentality when profit is at stake."

"Let alone a prince who has spent years in a high position, whose life has always gone smoothly, and who holds the power of life and death, suddenly suffering such heavy losses...