Can a Scholar Be Called a Villain

Chapter 43: The final two pieces

Everyone was going insane!

While they couldn’t resent the fact that yet another Dragon God Crystal had fallen into the hands of the stronger influential forces, they were still envious.

And then, on this already eventful day, two more beams of light appeared yet again!

Heavens!

There were only a total of nine Dragon God Crystals, and now, all of them have emerged.

Excluding the pieces in the hands of the influential forces, the only two remaining were the ones that had just appeared.

That also meant that this was their last chance.

If they didn’t obtain these two pieces, then they were doomed to be fateless with these Dragon God Crystals.

The clamouring crowd quietened down instantaneously as they started rushing over to the source of the beams.

The Black River Cult were almost completely annihilated, with Hei Lao San nowhere to be seen. On the other hand, Murong Jue stared at the lights in the sky as he spoke with agitation, “The last two pieces! Let’s go! We’ll take them for ourselves!”

Glancing at each other, Liu Xing Mang and Le Qing Qing left as well.

The Dragon God Crystal dug out by the South Village army was now in the hands of the Liu clan, which meant that the imperial court, the Liu clan and the Moon Fire sect each had two crystals.

Now that the final two pieces appeared at once, they could only hope to be faster than the rest.

Jiang Tian Sheng and the other princes followed behind Murong Jue as they rushed forwards.

Surveying the surroundings with furrowed brows, Tang Can took out a silver needle from his hair and pricked them into his right palm.

Confirming that the silver needle’s appearance remained the same, his expression relaxed as he mumbled with a lowered head, “I’m not poisoned, damn it, the last two Dragon God Crystals have already emerged, what are they planning?”

He was already sure that these Dragon God Crystals were purposefully buried by someone.

If not, the crystals wouldn’t appear every single time one was taken, and now that it had happened three times, it was definitely the work of someone hidden in the shadows.

He decided to take a look.

This time, the red beams had caused everyone in the valley to be completely consumed by desire.

Everyone knew that this was their last chance.

They ran madly towards the source.

The final two Dragon God Crystals were at the centre of the valley, the deepest part of the valley where it was surrounded by cliffs and mountainous walls. Countless people rushed in, with no end in sight.

The Dragon God Crystals had suddenly emerged from the dirt by themselves, unlike the previous crystals that were dug out. With the red beams emanating from them piercing the skies, anyone could see them within a few kilometres.

The first to arrive were wandering cultivators and members of smaller influential forces.

They weren’t very powerful, and they could only try their best to kill each other.

As a result, the Dragon God Crystals changed hands constantly, with no one capable of holding on to them longer.

And as the people of great influential forces arrived, more murderers flooded the area.

People that were once afraid of irking the great influential forces were now furious, their once-suppressed resentment exploding as they attacked everyone in sight.

“Fuck! I’ll kill you, you damned gigolo! If it weren’t for the support of your clan behind you, who would suck up to you?” A simple and honest-looking muscular man had a vicious expression as he swung his weapon down onto a disciple of the Liu clan.

“Kill them! What right do you all have to take all of the good stuff for yourselves? Are we, the smaller clans, only allowed to take the scraps that all of you don’t want?” A lanky young man had red eyes as he pounced onto a disciple of a large influential force, biting into his flesh relentlessly despite his own injuries.

From great friends to complete strangers, or even nobles with unattainable prestige were viciously attacked left and right.

“I never liked you! Come!” Two friends with over ten years of friendship were beating each other in fury.

“What are you looking at? Die!” The eyes of two strangers briefly met before they started hacking away at each other.

It was as if the deepest, darkest parts of their mind were being unsealed, and even the strongest Manifestation realm experts were massacring countless weak cultivators of the Flesh Refining realm with a sneer on their faces.

Lights reflected on countless blades as flesh and blood soared in the skies.

Hundreds, or even thousands, died with every breath.

But the battlefield only became more and more intense.

Hundreds of Manifestation realm experts were furious, no longer caring about the Dragon God Crystals as they sought after human punching bags to vent their frustration.

“You cultist thieves! Come and die!” Jiang Tian Sheng was a bold and skilful man, attacking the Manifestation realm cultists of the wanted lists with red eyes and an unparalleled fighting spirit.

On the battlefield, there were the five elders of the Liu clan, the five elders of the Moon Fire sect, the three elders of the Xue clan, the three elders of the Wang clan, the three elders of the Du clan, two elders of the Hundred Flower sect, the two elders of the Mo Shan sect, and there were a few more Manifestation experts of other great influential forces scattered around.

The battlefield was forming a gigantic vortex that sucked in everyone that dared to come closer, turning them into messy piles of blood and flesh by the others trapped within.

Murong Jue’s eyes were also reddened from killing, he was brutally murdering the common folk he had despised, together with the second-generation youths that came with him.

Murong Zhan was full of battle intent as his clothes were ripped off his body, releasing his Manifestation Transformation, the ‘Earth-shattering Overseerer Tiger’ to suppress the surrounding people.

Murong Jing unleashed the Dragon God’s bloodline he had previously absorbed to deal with the surrounding people, which only further incited their envious eyes.

Murong Xing attacked carefully as he hid on the sidelines, but he still couldn’t avoid the eyes of the people around him.

Liu Xing Mang of the Liu clan didn’t even have any time to show off his prowess before he was relentlessly targeted by a Manifestation realm cultivator, leaving him no choice but focus on defending with all his might.

But Le Qing Qing of the Moon Fire sect was the most pitiful, surrounded by quite a number of disciples due to his past behaviour of using his clan’s influence to torment others.

The Lu brother and sister from the Zong Xiang Gang couldn’t even retreat before they were forced to scatter and join in on the madness by the oncoming waves of cultivators.

As Tang Can threw out his hidden weapons, he mumbled to himself, “Why is this happening?”

Even as a person that had lived two lives, he had never seen such a crazed and frenzied massacre in his life.

More than a hundred thousand people were slaughtering each other in a frenzied craze, with the number of casualties rising beyond thirty thousand. There were even cultivators with grave injuries continuing to fight relentlessly, even at the brink of death.

But they seemed completely unaffected even despite their injuries, with eyes filled with greed and resentment, not a single shred of pain or fear could be seen.

This……

They were like beasts, commanded to kill, tearing into each other.

Tang Can didn’t dare to think any further as he pierced his palm with his silver needle again and again, repeatedly checking if he had been poisoned through the circulation of his cultivation method as he started to panic.

He believed that the culprit behind all of this was undoubtedly a peerless villain.

Despite being an expert of the Tang sect in his previous life, he was a child that was recently reborn and didn’t have time to familiarise himself with the spiritual medicines and poisons of this world. In such a predicament, he felt powerless.

At this moment, a blood-drenched man staggered to him, trying his best to speak, “Save…..save me!”

But a sword was pierced into his back the moment he finished speaking.

Powerless, Tang Can glanced at the corpse’s face, it was the Zong Xiang gang’s young master, Lu Ting Chao.

A beam of red light shot towards the skies the moment he died.

The eyes of the surrounding people immediately turned to the source, each filled with a fiery gaze of desire that seemed to burn away everything in Tang Can’s vicinity.

“The Dragon God’s bloodline! Die! Snatch it!”

“That person absorbed the Dragon God’s bloodline, quick, refine the energy!”

“Die! Everyone that blocks my path will die!”

The crowd rushed over to Tang Can with reddened eyes and complexions, each covered with blood that drenched their bodies and dyed their clothes as a red mist veiled the entire valley.

Waving his arm, Tang Can circulated his cultivation method and threw out his hidden weapons. After a round of Storm Chrysanthemum needles, the surrounding death toll surpassed a hundred effortlessly. But even despite the blood and corpses strewn about, the greed-stricken cultivators remained completely unfazed as they continued to rush over, resembling walking corpses.

Tang Can had a pale complexion and a bitter smile on his face, his spiritual powers were almost depleted.

He had been moving ever since the sixth Dragon God Crystal appeared, and by now, he was exhausted. Just as he was about to unleash a forbidden move as his final dying attempt, a figure rushed before him.

The person looked sloppy.

And yet, there was an unpassable aura that followed his silhouette.

He roared:

“How dare you people try to harm my son?”