I am the villain in the book

"Presence."

The superior exerts, the inferior labors, implying an intangible force.

Wei Changtian had not reached the Upper Three Ranks, so he naturally couldn't comprehend the essence of this power.

However, he had asked Qin Zhengqiu about this matter.

The latter's answer was simple—

In the minds of ordinary martial artists, "presence" seems to be a power only those in the Upper Three Ranks can master.

But in reality, under certain fortuitous circumstances, any martial artist can achieve this.

For example, during the great battle on the summit of Misty Cloud Mountain, Wei Changtian and Xiao Feng each unleashed their final moves.

One side was the Guichen of Thirty Blades.

The other was the perfected move of the Heavenly Rank martial art, "Eternal Sword"—Emerging Dragon.

Both moves actually contained "presence", but Wei Changtian was in a life-or-death situation at the time and didn't notice it.

Therefore, it's not impossible to unleash an attack with "presence" while at the Middle Three Rank.

“..."

"Grandpa, do you mean..."

After listening to Qin Zhengqiu's words, Wei Changtian asked with a face full of astonishment, "This move of the Moon Picking Sword Art inherently possesses presence?!"

"It seems that way for now."

Qin Zhengqiu hesitated for a moment, "But the specifics will only be known after you've practiced it."

"Glug~"

Subconsciously swallowing a mouthful of saliva, and then turning his head to look at the crack in the white stone, Wei Changtian wished he could go home and practice his sword immediately.

Good heavens!

Not only is it simple and easy to learn, but it also comes with "enchantment" attributes!

And Qin Zhengqiu has only practiced it to the Entry Realm. If he were to practice it to perfection...

Old Zhang is awesome!

His evaluation of this cheap master instantly took a 180-degree turn, but after a moment, he calmed down a bit.

Calm down! Don't get too excited!

This matter may not necessarily be true. What if there are no special features after he finishes practicing it?

Anyway, there's no rush to practice the sword. He has the "Dream Dao", so he should be able to practice it to the Entry Realm in a few days.

Hmm... Speaking of which, what was he looking for Qin Zhengqiu for just now?

Oh, he remembered.

"Ahem, Grandpa, I'll also practice this sword art after I go back and try it out."

Putting away the expression of someone who hasn't seen the world, Wei Changtian coughed lightly and said seriously, "I came to you today mainly for another matter."

"Among the five Second Rank experts we killed on Misty Cloud Mountain before, there was one named Wu Tianqing."

"Now his wife has come to seek revenge..."

“..."

Around noon, Wei Changtian left Nine Pinnacle Mountain in a carriage, and also left the "Demon Identifying Compass" he had looted from Xiao Feng to Qin Zhengqiu.

This compass had never worked since it fell into his hands.

It's not that Wei Changtian didn't want to use it, but he really couldn't use it.

The function of the Demon Identifying Compass is to indicate the direction of demons and beasts within a five-mile radius. If there are multiple demons and beasts, it will indicate the closest one.

Such a function could originally have many wonderful uses...

But the problem is that a fox demon has been living in Wei Changtian's home for a long time, greatly interfering with the compass's "signal".

No matter when, as long as Yang Liushi is around, this compass always points to Yang Liushi's location, which is equivalent to directly rendering most of the "demon seeking" function useless.

So it's better to leave it to Qin Zhengqiu, at least it can serve as a warning.

Since Yu Lian is a fish demon, she will definitely be sensed by the compass.

In this way, if the former runs to the Heavenly Net Church for revenge, Qin Zhengqiu will be able to detect it in the first time, so that he can call himself over in time to "earn" system points.

[Note 2: After killing the "Child of Destiny", you can obtain all of his Heavenly Dao luck and a huge reward of system points]

Tsk tsk tsk, it has been so long since the system was upgraded, and he has only plundered part of the luck of Shen Ran and Ning Yongnian at the Spring Dragon Poetry Meeting.

Could it be that this time he will set a record? Earn a big wave?

Although he already knew that Yun Lian would avenge Wu Tianqing, Wei Changtian was not worried that the former could cause any trouble.

Nine people went to Misty Cloud Mountain that night.

Qingxian, as a demon king, would definitely not be unable to defeat a fish demon.

Qin Zhengqiu is even more impossible.

Wei Zhaohai is far away in the capital.

Liang Zhen is no longer in Shu Prefecture either.

As for himself...

Hehe, if that Yun Lian dares to come and make trouble for him, he will definitely greet her with a "Divine Strike" without saying a word.

Wei Changtian never shows mercy to enemies with such a great life-and-death feud.

He doesn't care whether the other party has a "tragic and beautiful" love story with Wu Tianqing, and he never thought about "turning hostility into friendship" like Xiao Feng would do.

Wu Tianqing was entrusted by someone to kill him, so he deserved to die.

Yun Lian wants to kill him to avenge the former, so she also deserves to die.

"Heh~"

The carriage bumped slightly along the road. Wei Changtian, who hadn't slept all night, yawned and prepared to go back and sleep first, and practice the Moon Picking Sword in his dreams by the way.

Thinking of the Moon Picking Sword, he couldn't help but think of the poem written on the first page of the sword manual—

Carrying a round moon on the shoulder, the body shines in all directions.

Repeating these ten words full of righteousness in his mind, Wei Changtian suddenly felt that he didn't seem to fit with this sword art.

After all, judging from the various "evil deeds" he had done before, he couldn't be considered "the body shines in all directions".

Alas, he was originally a good young man who had received modern civilization education and abided by the rules...

Huh?

Speaking of which, when did he start to become so indifferent to things like "killing", "scheming", and "deceiving"?

Spring Dragon Poetry Meeting?

Killing Liu Yuanshan?

No, it seems to be even earlier.

Suddenly, scenes popped up in Wei Changtian's mind.

At the beginning, he had just transmigrated, and then he encountered the matter of Lu Jingyao refusing marriage.

He tried to go with the flow and cancel the engagement, but it was abandoned because of the entreaties of the Lu family.

Thinking about it now, there were actually many ways to force the Lu family to agree to cancel the engagement at that time, and he could even directly kill or rape Lu Jingyao to forcibly change the plot.

But at that time, he had never thought of such a bad approach.

It was not until Xiao Feng's threat of "snatching the bride" was imminent that he reluctantly ran to find Wei Xianzhe and Qin Caizhen, determined to eliminate future troubles forever.

It was near dusk at that time, and the two were drinking tea in the lakeside pavilion.

The two first talked about the great truth of "I would rather betray others than let others betray me" like a cross talk, and then he interjected a sentence.

"Dad, I want to kill someone."

That's right.

That was indeed the first time in his past and present life that the thought of "killing" came to him.