While I was chanting a curse, the system said I was Xiao Yan?

Chapter 164 Why Be a Villain If You Can't Lie?

With a slight smile, the wicked man extended his left hand, hooked his finger, and a thin line of blood dripped from his fingertip, spreading down the exterior wall of his building, reaching into the window and precisely wrapping around the ankle of an office worker who was watching the commotion from the window, before suddenly pulling him upwards.

"what!"

The office worker was pulled up, arcing through the air, and pulled upwards by the bloodline, landing on the edge of the rooftop where Bad Guy was. He crashed onto the concrete ground, letting out a cry of pain, and tried to get up, but Bad Guy had already grabbed him by the back of the neck, lifting him up in his hand and dangling him over the edge of the high-rise building.

The villain lowered his head, looking at Tianyan, a twisted smile appearing on his pale face.

The voice came from high above, carried by the wind to Tianyan's ears: "Don't move!"

"If you move again, I'll throw him down!"

Tianyan's wings folded slightly, hovering about ten meters above the ground. His gaze shifted from the wicked face to the office worker being lifted into the air, and then back again.

"You're from a vocational college, right?"

A sinister voice boomed down from above, tinged with a smug sense of control: "Those sorcerers at the academy, aren't they always saving people? Aren't they always talking about 'protecting ordinary people'? Well, you should know what to choose!"

"As long as you don't fight back and let that cursed spirit hit you a few times, I'll let him go! How about that? Fair enough!"

Tianyan looked at him, his brows twitching slightly, but he didn't say anything.

The bull demon's fist came crashing down again, but this time Tianyan didn't dodge. His body shot upwards like lightning before the bull demon's fist arrived, heading straight for the rooftop where the evil spirit was.

His purple-gold wings left two dazzling streaks of light in the air, moving so fast that the air behind him exploded into a white shockwave.

The villain's expression changed, his pupils suddenly contracted, and he grabbed the man's collar with his only remaining left hand, lifted him to the edge of the rooftop, and waved him downwards.

"I told you not to move! Or I really will throw him down!"

Tianyan neither slowed down nor changed direction, like a straight spear thrusting straight at Huaixiang's face.

Bad Guy gritted his teeth, released his left hand, and the office worker let out a long scream as he fell from the edge of the rooftop, which was dozens of meters high.

Tianyan didn't look at the falling person. His body didn't turn at all. He walked straight through the empty space and reached the rooftop in the instant before Huaixiang could react.

With his right hand outstretched and fingers spread, he precisely gripped the head of the villain. His entire hand was like an iron clamp, firmly holding the thin head. The villain tried to struggle, but the strength in that hand was astonishing, as if he were being crushed by a mountain. His body was lifted off the edge of the rooftop by the enormous impact!

Tianyan's wings flapped suddenly, and he and his monstrous form rose higher and higher in the blink of an eye, reaching a position much higher than the bull demon's head.

A loud crash came from behind. Niu Gui's fist slammed into the building where Huai Xiang had just been standing, shattering the entire top floor and sending shards of glass and debris flying in all directions.

Huai Xiang was held up in mid-air by Tian Yan with one hand above his head. Several bone spurs protruded from between his fingers, piercing Huai Xiang's shoulders and collarbone, fixing him in place.

The villain struggled, blood gushing from his wound, but he still managed to squeeze out a voice through clenched teeth: "You bastard...you really aren't going to save that person?!"

Tian Yan glanced down at him, his tone indifferent: "You arrested him, why should I stop?"

He paused, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly: "Moreover, why do so many people assume that people with a college degree will definitely save lives?"

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"How can the bad guys survive if they're all so naive?"

The scoundrel panicked and began to plead, "You seem to get along quite well with us. I don't think it's necessary to be so tense. We could sit down, have some tea, and chat!"

Tian Yan declared righteously, "Shut up! A righteous person like me has nothing to talk about with villains!"

The wicked man gritted his teeth: "Say that again while looking at that guy who just got punched into a pulp by the bull demon?!"

Tianyan punched Huaixiang in the stomach, almost knocking him unconscious: "You and the Cursed Spirit conspired to kill someone and then tried to frame me?!"

"Stop talking nonsense. I have a question for you: Have you ever seen a blond foreigner and an energetic young boy?"

The wicked look: "Will I live if I answer this?"

His response was another punch.

"Stop, stop hitting him!"

The man with the bad appearance said haltingly, "I... I saw them once to the west. They headed towards the center."

Tianyan looked at the wicked look in his eyes as he spoke and felt speechless. How could someone who lies so obviously be a villain?

He didn't know that although the evil form was actually several hundred years old, it had spent most of its life as the "Nine Phases of Cursed Fetus" cursed object. In reality, it was less than a month old, so it wouldn't lie.

"You're no longer useful to me."

The villain opened his mouth as if to say something, but Tianyan didn't give him a chance to speak.

A deep orange light shone from the palm that was pressed against the head of the villain. It was a faint orange at first, and then it quickly turned into a dazzling white. The temperature rose to its limit in a very short time, like a sun compressed to the size of a thumb, releasing all its energy between the palm and the skull.

The villain's body froze for a moment. White light overflowed from his seven orifices, seeped through every crevice of his skin, and then his entire body was engulfed in flames.

There were no screams, no struggles, only a brief hissing sound, like paper being burned. Hair, skin, flesh, bones—everything was burned to ashes in less than a second.

Tianyan loosened his grip, and a few wisps of ash drifted from between his fingers, scattering in the wind and disappearing into the orange-red sky.

"Five additional points."

At the same time, Tianyan felt the rose-colored patterns on his arm fading rapidly. Starting from the edges of the petals, the color faded layer by layer, as if faded ink had been washed away by water. In just a few seconds, the entire pattern disappeared completely, leaving only a faint pink trace, which also completely disappeared in the following moment.

Below, the bull demon, having lost its target, turned the giant bull's head towards him, its red eyes locking onto the figure in the sky once more.

The massive body of the bull demon rampaged between buildings, each movement causing the ground beneath its feet to crack with large spiderweb-like patterns. The body, which was as tall as a ten-story building, turned towards Tianyan, and its two thick, rock-like arms were raised once more.

Tianyan swooped down, his purple-gold wings folded, and he landed precisely on the top of the broken lamppost behind Niugui, like a high-speed falling cannonball. Niugui sensed the movement behind him, his huge body suddenly spun around, and his right arm swept across with a whooshing sound, aiming precisely at Tianyan's location.

Tianyan's body suddenly tilted to the side just as the fist was about to hit him. The wind from the punch grazed his shoulder, and the force of the wind made his hair fly backward.

Instead of retreating, he followed the edge of the fist's wind, leaping upwards along the bull demon's arm. His purple-gold wings provided a precise acceleration with each step, allowing him to leap from the giant arm's elbow onto the bull demon's shoulder in a mere second.

"Explosive Steps!"

The moment his feet landed directly above the bull demon's shoulder blades, Tianyan's right fist was already fully charged with power. Purple-gold curse power condensed into a dense armor on the surface of his fist, and then he slammed down, striking the weakest point where the giant beast's skull and cervical vertebrae connected.

"Bang!"

The sound was deep and heavy, like a ten-thousand-ton anvil smashing into another anvil, and the shockwave spread from the point of contact between the fists to the entire head of the bull demon.

Its massive body trembled violently, its eight lower limbs bent simultaneously, and a spiderweb-like crack appeared on the ground beneath its feet. Purple-black blood flowed from its nostrils, yet it still did not fall. A fierce light even re-condensed in its yellow pupils, and its two giant arms slammed towards Tianyan.

Tianyan raised an eyebrow slightly. This thing was more resilient than he had expected. He jumped onto the bull demon's head, raised his right elbow from his side, and a burst of blazing white flame suddenly shot out from the gap in the bone armor behind his elbow. The intense recoil from the high temperature pushed his entire right arm downward like a cannonball.

The acceleration, thrust, and the combined power of his entire body weight and magical energy made this punch more than twice as powerful as the previous one!

"Bang!"

The second punch landed right in the center of the bull demon's skull. This time, the sound was muffled and deep, as if something heavy had broken inside.

In that instant, the massive bull's head seemed to be struck by a mountain, its entire skull sinking downwards, causing its entire body to lose its balance. The bull demon's eight legs slid outwards simultaneously under the violent impact, its knees bending, and its massive body tilted forward like a collapsing building.

Dark purple blood gushed from its enormous bull mouth, and blood also seeped from its twisted nostrils and the corners of its mouth, dripping onto the ground and emitting a pungent, fishy stench.

After that blow, the bull demon could no longer withstand it and collapsed forward, his eyes rolling back in his head.

The massive, ten-story-high structure collapsed with a deafening roar, crashing into the center of the commercial street and creating a huge dent in the middle. The signs and facades of the shops on both sides were shattered by the shockwave, with glass shards scattering like snowflakes and dust rising up, shrouding the area in a murky, grayish-white haze.

The bull demon lay motionless on the ground, but its body did not begin to dissipate. After the cursed spirit was killed, it would turn into black mist and dissipate into the air. However, the bull demon's body remained in a solid state, but it no longer moved.

Tianyan landed on the ground, standing next to the giant head of the bull demon. He looked down at its still intact body. It wasn't completely dead, or rather, it had just been knocked unconscious. It was just one last blow away from death. Its super-grade level of vitality was indeed much more tenacious than that of an ordinary cursed spirit.

"I need to finish him off." Tianyan raised his right hand, and a deep orange flame began to condense in his palm.

Just as he was about to go down and deliver the final blow, his senses detected an unusual fluctuation.

The sound came out first.

A dense, fragmented sound, like countless tiny shells rubbing against each other, came from somewhere on the back of the bull demon. It grew louder and clearer, as if thousands of things were crawling at the same time.

Then, the bull demon's back exploded.

It wasn't a crack, nor a small hole; rather, like a balloon bursting from the inside, the entire carapace on its back was instantly ripped apart, torn, and shattered, fragments flying in all directions. From that gaping hole, countless dark brown figures poured out, each the size of a fist, covered in a glossy carapace, its antennae and tiny legs thrashing wildly in the air. They were cockroaches, thousands upon thousands of them, erupting from the corpse of the demon like a raging brown torrent.

They moved incredibly fast, surging out of the bull demon's body and spreading outwards, clinging to the ground, walls, and shop signs, like a living brown carpet, spreading and covering the surroundings at an astonishing speed.

What's worse is that not only the corpse of the bull demon, but also countless cockroaches swarmed out of the nearby dilapidated shops, collapsed office buildings, and dark alleys at the same time, as if it were a pre-arranged unified action.

Tianyan's pupils contracted slightly, and his gaze quickly shifted to the office workers who had been nailed to the wall earlier. They had been hanging on the wall the whole time. Although they were pale with fright from the aftershocks of the previous battle, they were at least still alive. However, now, the cockroaches had climbed up that wall.

Before the first cockroach could even scream, the second, third, and tenth cockroaches had already covered his upper body. The cockroaches' mouthparts began to tear at his skin the moment they touched it, moving with incredible speed, as if they were born to devour flesh and blood.

In less than three seconds, his body was completely covered. Five seconds later, the swarm of cockroaches dispersed, and only a skeleton covered in bits of flesh fell off the wall.

The others were not spared either. Tianyan's bone spikes were still hanging on the wall, but the ends of the spikes no longer held living people; instead, they held the carcasses being eaten by a swarm of cockroaches.

The entire process takes no more than ten seconds.

Tianyan immediately flew back into the air, looking down at the commercial area that had been completely covered by swarms of cockroaches. His purple wings fluttered gently behind him. His self-glow swept over the brown torrent that was devouring all living things, and then looked at the distant streets submerged by the torrent, confirming one fact: there could be no survivors in this area.

Then he saw a cursed spirit.

It slowly emerged from the central area where the cockroach swarm was most concentrated. It was tall, about two and a half meters long, and its overall outline resembled an elongated human figure. It had long limbs and its body was covered with a layer of dark brown carapace that was so shiny that it looked like it had just been painted. Its head had compound eyes like those of a cockroach, and two thin antennae extended from the sides of its mouthparts, swaying back and forth in the air.

Its compound eyes were fixed on the sky flame, and a dry, chirping sound, like carapaces rubbing together, came from its mouthparts: "I like... the taste of iron."

Its voice was intermittent, with a rough, metallic quality, but it wasn't fluent. The small cockroaches around it seemed to be aware of their surroundings, gathering at its feet to form an undulating brown tide.

Then he suddenly raised his right arm and pointed it at the sky flames. As if receiving a charge, the swarm of cockroaches surged towards the sky in an overwhelming manner.