Villain Cultivator (Web Novel)
chapter-231

Chapter 231 – Being Hunted Like a Weak Protagonist

Cao Mao gritted his teeth. These people had overvalued his abilities, and they wanted to forcefully make him their subordinate.

He had had enough serving as Xu Xiuying's guinea pig. Being a villain's lapdog might have been a good idea when he had been weak, but living as a villain's underling mob after he had gotten a lot stronger wasn't worth it.

Cao Mao had planned to create an organization that could go toe-to-toe with protagonists and villainous clans. If he was going to get captured by these people, he would end up enslaved. Then, his life goal would be ruined forever.

'Yuan Hua! I thought you wouldn't interfere with my business! What's the meaning of this!?'

Ding

<Yuan Hua shakes her head, saying that she honestly doesn't know anything about this..>

<Yuan Hua has promised to have a talk with Yuan Shaoqing to call off the pursuit.>

Yuan Hua immediately used the system function to inform Cao Mao that she was not a part of this conspiracy, which was odd since Zhang Junyi should have been loyal to Yuan Hua. However, there might be something fishy going on in Myriad Cauldron Sect.

'If Yuan Hua isn't involved in this mess. Who else can order that tranny around? Is it Yuan Shaoqing on his own?'

Cao Mao glanced at Zhang Junyi, who was in hot pursuit behind his group. He chose not to reply to either Fu De or Zhang Junyi and kept increasing his speed.

Mao Xueyan and Dandan were not in their prime state. They also chose to flee from the pursuers.

"YOU CAN'T ESCAPE, XU MIAO!!"

Fu De also got serious. He merged with his dao avatar and transformed into a heinous bald crimson demon with large wings, increasing his power and speed. He also pointed his palm and aimed at Cao Mao.

Several drops of blood leaked out from Fu De's fingernails and condensed into 100 small balls. Then, these blood bullets chased after Cao Mao!

Sensing the incoming bullets, Cao Mao turned sharp right, heading directly toward the Blood Sea.

The blood bullets also turned 90 degrees and pursued the target.

Cao Mao took out an essence core and absorbed all its energy to fuel his life essence. Then, he added more life essence into his feet, creating an energy vortex to propel him forward faster.

At the moment, Cao Mao was flying at the speed of 600 km/h.

Unfortunately, the bullets' speed was 1,000 km/h. He couldn't escape the faster bullets!

"DAMMIT!"

Without a choice, Cao Mao turned around. He unsheathed Killer Queen and unleashed his sword skill.

Atomic Slash!

Within a second, Cao Mao slashed 100 times, deflecting all blood bullets.

Despite being in mid-air without a footing, Cao Mao could still perform the half-heartedly mimicked skill. Also, Killer Queen corrected his form and posture, making the technique easier to perform.

As such, Cao Mao seemed like a swordmaster from the perspective of onlookers. Even Fu De admired how skillful Cao Mao was.

"Xu Miao, this is your final chance. Join me, or die here! Have you forgotten that I can easily detonate your blood at will?"

Cao Mao's face was ashen. He turned to Dandan and Mao Xueyan, who had also stopped running away and had come back to help him.

Mao Xueyan finally transformed into a humanoid form. The small white cat with two tails changed into a naked 140cm-tall young girl with white cat ears, short silver hair, sharp eyes, and two fluffy long tails.

Her face and body were so erotic that she resembled a silicone sex doll. Her flat chest, perky hips, and slim waist were also seductive to the point that several vampires got an erection by looking at her naked body.

"SCRAM, YOU PEST! IF YOU WANT TO MAKE AN ENEMY OF TIAN LONG FOREST, GO AHEAD AND TRY!"

Mao Xueyan's killing intent exploded, and her domain expanded, covering the radius of 2 kilometers around her.

Zhang Junyi, who was following the group, didn't even bother using his domain to counter Mao Xueyan. He simply sneered at the beast's domain power as if it was nothing in his eyes.

As for Fu De, he was unfazed by the domain power despite being weaker than her.

"Hah! I can tell that you're not in your prime condition," Fu De licked his lips. "I can also tell that you are a virgin! Oh, wait... That woman is a virgin, too! What a great haul! How about both of you surrender along with Xu Miao, and we'll allow you to serve us as our blood bank! If you behave well, we'll give you the honor of being my seedbed!"

Mao Xueyan couldn't stand Fu De anymore. She bore her little fangs and unleashed her domain power.

A hundred giant white tiger spirits manifested within Mao Xueyan's domain. They roared and pounced at the vampire group.

Several vampires in front of Fu De were caught and eaten by the tiger spirits. The ones behind Fu De were also scared stiff. Since their blood abilities only affected mammal creatures, they didn't know how to fight against spirits.

Yet, Fu De laughed. He flew away from the tigers and took a thick bundle of yellow talismans from his spatial ring.

"I've done my homework, little beast! Beast Cage Formation!"

Fu De injected his blood element Qi into the talismans. As soon as the Qi entered the papers, they glowed in red light and flew from Fu De's hands as if they were alive.

Over a thousand papers scattered and formed an array around Mao Xueyan, Cao Mao, and Dandan. They slowly linked blood Qi together and formed a net or a cage, trapping everyone inside.

Unfortunately, Mao Xueyan couldn't move since she had just activated a unique domain ability. As she had summoned guardian spirits to protect her, she couldn't move until the spirits had been unsummoned. She only glanced at the talisman while she focused on commanding the guardian spirits to kill all the vampires as soon as possible.

Cao Mao also reacted as he didn't want to let the unknown array complete itself. He seized ten of the talismans and tore them.

Dandan also copied his action. She caught five and crushed them to pieces.

Both of them wanted to destroy the papers faster, but each of the talisman papers almost made their hearts stop beating because of the blood Qi. They had a hard time expelling the sinister Qi from their bodies as they moved around.

Still, they were optimistic. As long as the formation was incomplete, Fu De shouldn't be able to activate the unknown array.

That was what they had thought.

"Too bad, Xu Miao," Fu De tapped his temple with his index finger. "This old man has a brain! One set of array talismans can be easily broken if one of them is missing. Therefore, I used 400 extra talismans as decoys and 400 talismans as backup! You can't stop my array!"

Despite their attempts to stop the talisman array, the formation completed itself. The ones that Cao Mao had destroyed were replaced by the other spare talismans!

As soon as the array had been completed, it released a high-frequency noise, which kept echoing inside the cage.

Cao Mao didn't feel anything other than hearing an annoying high-pitched sound. However, Dandan and Mao Xueyan covered their ears with their hands and screamed in pain.

The tiger spirits dispersed as Mao Xueyan had lost her focus and canceled her domain power. She also bled from her eyes and ears.

Dandan was in better shape. Her transformation was closer to a human than Mao Xueyan's form since she had human ears. Thus, the sound frequency attack only dizzied her.

Seeing that Mao Xueyan was not in a good shape, Dandan grabbed her sister and attacked the talisman array, trying to break through from the trap and bring her sister out of here.

Yet, the blood Qi bounced Dandan back.

The beast blood inside Dandan's body went out of control because of the blood Qi in the talismans. Her veins inside her hands, which had touched the talismans, were busted while all blood vessels in her arms became black. Her heart also shook and was about to burst as well.

Just like that, the beast girls were severely injured!

Cao Mao's eyes were bloodshot. He wasn't frustrated because of the girls' uselessness or Fu De's talismans. On the other hand, he was angry with himself because he had panicked earlier.

Had he reacted properly when the talisman array had been forming, he could have unleashed many skills to destroy the papers instead of ripping them with his hands.

"You're pissing me off, Fu De."

But in the end, Fu De was the culprit of everything. Cao Mao directed his anger at Fu De for harming his potential yin slaves. He also blamed Zhang Junyi for staying idle while a vampire clan was about to capture these poor beast girls.

"You're pissing me off, too, Zhang Junyi!"

Zhang Junyi sneered, "Ara, ara. You shouldn't be so frustrated when I've come to help you. You know, my invitation stands. If only you accept my invitation, I can easily kill Fu De and his men right here and save everybody. But if you keep being obstinate, I can only observe."

Cao Mao took a deep breath. Then, he smiled at the tranny, "Then, help me. I'll join you if you can bring me out of here."

"Swear by your dao oath that you'll forever be Myriad Cauldron Sect's slave for the rest of eternity, and I'll save you."

"..."

The corner of Cao Mao's mouth twitched, but he didn't give up. He turned to Fu De.

"Hey, Fu De. You heard it, right? That sissy said he will kill you if I join him. Are you okay with that?"

Fu De snorted, "As I said. I've come here prepared. I've done a lot of homework for this day! I don't care if I have to fight whoever I come across. None of them can be my opponent when I'm serious!"

"Then, how about you two fight each other first. I'll join the winner's side."

"Hahaha! Nice try. But no. Surrender to me and swear by your dao oath that you will be my slave forever. Then, I'll kill Zhang Junyi for you."

"..."

The corner of Cao Mao's mouth twitched again. These villains were only smart when there was no protagonist around, but they got stupid as soon as they faced one. Unfortunately for him, there was no protagonist nearby.

Cao Mao stopped negotiating with them. He circulated fire element Qi into Killer Queen and his hands. Then, he threw a fireball at the talisman net behind him.

BOOM

The talisman net burned up and the formation was broken.

Cao Mao's anger soared, realizing that he could have destroyed this array sooner. He kept getting angry at himself for having been stupid.

He had been neglecting combat practice for too long. He had gotten so rusty that now his battle senses took this long to warm up.

Since there was no point in getting angry at himself forever, Cao Mao controlled his temper and turned to Dandan.

"Dandan, can you still move?"

Dandan nodded. Currently, she had carried Mao Xueyan, who had fainted from the sound attack previously.

"Good. Keep going south toward Siren City. Ma Ping and the others are there. Just tell them that you're my friend, and they will help you."

As Cao Mao was saying that, he touched their shoulders and sent a strand of fire element Qi into their bodies.

Dandan squinted her eyes, confused about what Cao Mao was doing. But he gave them a warm smile, "That's a good luck charm from me. They will protect you from your enemy once. You go first, and I'll follow you girls later."

"... Okay."

Cao Mao put his right hand in his sleeve pocket and touched his J-Phone, circulating his life Qi in it and sent text messages to someone reliable at home.

Then, he turned to Fu De and Zhang Junyi.

Zhang Junyi and Fu De sneered. They turned to their underlings, "Go after the beast women. Capture them alive."

10 combat alchemists and 10 surviving vampires chased after the two women.

However, Fu De and Zhang Junyi stayed behind. They smiled at Cao Mao, looking forward to getting their hands on him and his treasures.

Unbeknownst to them, Cao Mao had planned to do something drastic that would make them both speechless.