Great Villain: Starting by Humiliating the Son of the Heavenly Fate - Chapter 389

Chapter 389: Sorting the Spoils
After flipping through the Formless Nature Immortal Scripture, Jiang Chen didn’t waste any time. He fired up the Wordless Heavenly Jade buried deep inside his heart.

Almost instantly, all the qi and blood energy stored inside the Wordless Heavenly Jade turned into a huge wave of enlightening energy, rushing straight into his body and soul.

In just a blink, Jiang Chen completely mastered the Formless Nature Immortal Scripture.

It wasn’t just reading and understanding it, either. It felt like he had spent years practicing it, polishing every move until there was no room for improvement.

As soon as the scripture reached perfection inside him, Jiang Chen felt it — his body became lighter, almost like he could float if he wanted to. And his senses? It was like the whole universe suddenly got a lot closer, its mysteries just waiting for him to reach out and grab them.

Looks like I’ve hit a bottleneck, Jiang Chen thought, his eyes gleaming. Time to push through to Middle-stage Nirvana Peering realm.

With the help of his Death Calamity Dark Star Moon Dao Embryo Bloodline and the Burning World Red Lotus, he was ready to break through.

He sent his divine sense into the Cosmic Mustard Seed. In a flash, mountains of spiritual plants appeared before his mind’s eye—spoils from Bo Luncang, the demon armies, and even the human cultivator armies.

And of course, he hadn’t forgotten about the loot he stole from Sun Tianlin.

Cosmic Mustard Seed, devour.

With a simple thought, the Cosmic Mustard Seed sucked in Sun Tianlin’s storage bracelet, breaking it down inside the seed’s space.

New mountains of treasures appeared right away. Compared to what he’d collected from the armies, Sun Tianlin’s private stash was richer — both in quality and quantity.

A smirk tugged at Jiang Chen’s lips. Sun Tianlin had been filthy rich, no doubt about it.

Without hesitating, Jiang Chen grabbed a handful of spiritual plants from the seed and started eating them like snacks.

His eating speed was insane. One bite, two bites, hundreds of different spiritual plants disappeared into his mouth in no time.

As soon as the plants hit his stomach, a crazy amount of medicinal energy exploded inside him, rushing through his body like wildfire.

It raced along his meridians, pooling into his Dao Palace, where the Burning World Red Lotus sat.

The lotus greedily sucked in all the energy, its color growing deeper, its flames burning hotter.

Even though the Burning World Red Lotus had already recovered from its half-broken state, it had never been complete in the first place. When Jiang Chen first got it, it only had one thin layer of petals, and even that layer had a lot of missing spots.

But now, thanks to all this incredible nourishment, new petals started sprouting.

By the time Jiang Chen was done devouring all the spiritual plants, the missing petals were fully restored. The lotus itself had climbed back to the Nirvana Peering realm.

At the same time, the power of the Burning World Raging Flames inside it also shot up — easily outclassing even other Perfect-level Fire Dao techniques of the same realm.

A flood of pure cultivation energy poured out from the Burning World Red Lotus, soaking into every cell of Jiang Chen’s body.

And just like that, he broke through — stepping straight into the Middle-stage Nirvana Peering realm!

“Another breakthrough. Nice,” Jiang Chen whispered, his smile easy and bright. He called up his status panel to check his progress.

A semi-transparent panel popped up in front of him:

[Host: Jiang Chen

Aptitude: Perfect Grade

Innate Talent: Eternal Boundless Body

Realm: Middle-stage Nirvana Peering

Great Dao: Sword, Fire, Metal, Wood, Earth, Wind, Thunder, Water, Ice, Darkness, Soul (Complete)

True Combat Power: Middle-stage Nirvana Peering (++)

Cultivation Methods: Supreme Pure Creation Heart Sutra (Primordial Chaos, Main Technique), Myriad Changes Hidden Void Sword Technique, Formless Nature Immortal Scripture (Nirvana Peering, Perfect-Level), Bright Spirit Pure Heart Art, Mysterious Body Locking Primordial Technique, Falling Sun Nine Heavens Mystic Art, Titan Body Forging Ancient Scroll, Death Attraction Nine Tribulations Sword Technique, Golden Cicada Umbra Shield Skill, Ten Thousand Soulseed Art (Transcendence, Perfect-Level)…

Main Equipment: Cosmic Mustard Seed (Primordial Chaos, Top-Grade), Nine Pointed Radiant Star Ring (Void Tribulation, Top-Grade), Silver Immortal Sword (Nirvana Peering, Lower-Grade/Nirvana Cleansing, Upper-Grade), Purple Heaven Immortal Sword (Transcendence, Lower-Grade)…

Villain Value: 1,477,800 points

Black Heavenly Fate Value: 126,904 points

Heaven-Defying Fate Changers: Villain Eye, Burning World Red Lotus, Eternal Vows Binding Ring, Wordless Heavenly Jade, Void Tribulation Soulring, Death Calamity Dark Star Moon Dao Embryo

System Mall: Level 4]

My combat strength is already brushing up against Late-stage Nirvana Peering realm, Jiang Chen thought, satisfied. Once I stack a few more techniques, fighting higher-level enemies will be a breeze.

Next, he turned his attention to the mountain of weapons and artifacts sitting in his Cosmic Mustard Seed.

After killing over a hundred demons in the Transcendence realm, taking down Bo Luncang, and robbing Sun Tianlin blind, Jiang Chen was swimming in immortal tools.

A quick scan showed thirty-three artifacts at the Transcendence rank alone.

Most of the best stuff came from Sun Tianlin and Bo Luncang—high-grade, battle-tested immortal tools. Strong, sure, but nothing Jiang Chen really needed right now.

He already had the Silver Immortal Sword.

It might not be a pure offense weapon — it was mainly meant to help its master recover energy fast — but it was in the Nirvana Cleansing tier. Even though it was currently at the lower end of Nirvana Peering rank, it could still outclass any so-called top-grade Transcendence-level artifact without breaking a sweat.

He remembered how easily he’d sliced off a chunk of Bo Luncang’s meteor hammer with it.

Looks like I’ll use the other artifacts as spares, gifts, or maybe reforge them later, Jiang Chen mused. The Silver Immortal Sword works just fine for now. If I find an even stronger weapon later, I can always get one from the System Mall.

That thought lit a fire in his chest.

He had over 1.4 million Villain Value points now!

And after the system’s recent upgrade, each Villain Value point had become even more valuable.

Curious, Jiang Chen opened up the System Mall to see what changed.

First, he checked the straightforward option: Directly Raise Cultivation.

What he saw made his eyebrows jump.

If he wanted to, he could blow all his Villain Points right now and jump straight to the Peak-stage Nirvana Peering realm!

“Damn,” Jiang Chen grinned. And the system said that’s the least efficient way to spend points.

Still grinning, he clicked into the Redemption Choices.

This section was mostly the same — tons of categories like Cultivation Methods, Pills, Artifacts, and Other Resources. Everything a cultivator could dream of.

When he checked out Cultivation Methods, his heart raced again.

Martial techniques and secret arts at the Void Tribulation rank were now priced at only one million Villain Value points!

He quickly skimmed through the Pills, Artifacts, and Others tabs too. Most Nirvana Peering-level items cost under one hundred thousand points.

It felt like the gates of treasure had just swung wide open.