Chapter 1 Borrowing Someone's Head

  Outside Luoyang City.

  Deserted village, ancient temple.

  The stars shone brightly, and the moonlight was like a gentle wash.

  The bonfire crackles and pops, the flames illuminate, a majestic eagle spreads its wings on his chest, as if ready to take flight.

  Flying eagle uniform, Fan Yang hat, high to knee black leather boots, everyone's dress is the same.

  The silent people stared at the orange flames, as if they wanted to gain some insight into life's philosophy from them.

  "Maitreya's cultists, how did you know we would be taking action tonight?"

  A hoarse voice filled with emotions of suffocation and anger, as if questioning, yet muttering to oneself.

  "Who knows? Hmph! This gang of scoundrels, in the south we can't even reach them with a whip, and now they're causing trouble in Luoyang City! If this continues, won't they eventually make it to Chang'an too? What do they want? Are they looking for death?"

  The people around the bonfire stood up one by one, their faces twisted, with cruel intentions in their eyes.

  "Nanliang will be destroyed by the Empire precisely because of these demonic creatures that deceive people's hearts! As the Emperor's personal guard, we cannot ignore this. However, for now, let us consider the current situation! We have only just discovered the stronghold of the Maitreya Sect, and from discovery to decision-making, it has not been even half a day. Including Baihu Daoren, there are only four of us who know about this. How could they have found out? It seems we've been duped... Hmm? Where is Wu Fan and Wu Xiaoqi? The message was sent by him, where is he?"

  "Didn't you just say you were going to see Lord Baihu, and now you're back?"

  Behind the ancient temple, in front of a broken Buddha statue, stood a man wearing a flying eagle uniform, a Fan Yang hat, and knee-high black leather boots. He was standing upright with both hands holding onto a large black box about five feet long. Under the moonlight, under his hat, it was his face, very pale, pale to the point of being sickly. His eyes couldn't be seen because his head was slightly bowed forward.

  In front of him, there was another person standing, about thirty years old, with a short mustache and no hair, looking very fierce. The same attire, but this man wore a white eagle robe embroidered with black eagles, exactly the opposite of the others. White brocade and black eagles represented identity, representing the identity of Baiyangwei's hundred households.

  Guang Tou Bai Hu leaned against his mouth and smiled: "Wu Xiao Qi, what are you looking for me? Is there something to report?"

  "The subordinate came over just to ask - why did the destruction of Maitreya's teaching site not succeed, but Hundred House Master is so happy and laughing so heartily?"

  Wu Xiaoqi and Wu Fan slowly lifted their heads, revealing a slightly handsome pale face, as well as those slender and bright eyes.

  The smile on Guangtou Baihu's face solidified, his eyes widened in an instant, and he was clearly furious.

  "Hahaha..."

  With a low chuckle, Wu Fan said: "I'm joking with you, I've actually come to borrow something from General Baihu!"

  Although he didn't think much of the young man, considering that he was his top subordinate, he couldn't help but cater to his wishes. With a cold hum and an expressionless face, he asked: "What do you want to borrow?"

  Wu Fan pursed his somewhat thin pale lips, his voice trembling slightly, and said seriously and with some reserve: "Human head!"

  "What?"

  His smile unchanged, Wu Fan's serious tone repeated: "Your head!"

  When the speech is finished, people move.

  "Rustle rustle......!"

  A black wooden box opened, a flash of light flashed from the throat of Guang Tou Bai Hu...

  "You... you... ahahahaha!"

  The bald-headed hundred households covered their own throats and could no longer spit out complete words.

  Take away Fan Yang's helmet, Wu Fan shook off the blood on the hilt of his treasured steel knife, squatted on the ground, staring at the bald-headed Bai Hu with an expressionless face, and said: "I know that you, sir, are not a traitor, really! I can tell you... there is no such thing as a traitor or a demon from the Maitreya cult. In fact, this is just a trap set by me for you. Not for anything else, but because I need you to die! If you don't die, how can I take your place? It's all because you're too stupid and incompetent! Goodbye! Respected Bai Hu!"

  "Oh! I forgot!", Wu Fan pulled out a white jade Maitreya Buddha pendant from his pocket, and smiled as he put it on Guang Tou Bai Hu's body: "I've even prepared this for you! This was taken from the mansion of that 'Marquis of Yi Water' five days ago! I didn't think I'd be able to use it here. Anyway, see you later!"

  "Whoosh——!"

  A flash of knife light, heads rolling.

  Carrying the head, picking up the jade pendant, and carrying the black box on his back, Wu Fan strode out of the Zen temple and came to the ancient temple's great hall. He shouted loudly: "Huang Yang Wei Bai Hu Chen Yu granted amnesty to the Maitreya cult heretics who colluded with them, has been beheaded by me! I hope you all will go with me to the Thousand Households' place as witnesses!"

  ……

  Half an hour ago.

  Alone, Wu Fan sat in the corner of the hundred households, motionless and not chatting with anyone, just leaning against the wall with his head down, lazily basking in the sun, looking very isolated. Under the brim of his hat was his dull and expressionless face.

  Wu Fan was not spacing out, but had entered a wonderful space that he had brought with him from another world months ago. The name was quite interesting, called the "Great Villain Cultivation System".

  In the vast space, only a small area of about 20 meters around him was illuminated, Wu Fan was concentrating on practicing martial arts, because... if he didn't practice, he might die.

  It's strange that this body with the same name, surname and even 80% similar appearance used to be "The Great Sui Empire, The Imperial Front Commander's Office, The Eagle Guard, The Luoyang Thousand Households Office, Under the Small Flag", a very long string of identities, which can be summarized in four words - Imperial Eagle Dog.

  In this new world, there are many things that are the same as in Wu Fan's time and space, and many things that are different from Wu Fan's time and space. According to the system's explanation, it is roughly a chaotic parallel space. The reason lies... on Dong Zhuo's body, no mistake! Dong Zhuo, the Governor of Xiliang at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

  Originally, this world and the one Wu Fan was in were completely parallel. Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States, Qin, Han, all no problem. It wasn't until the end of Eastern Han that things took a turn for the worse.

  That Dong Zhuo, the governor of Xiliang, had been secretly plotting for many years and finally seized the opportunity to enter Luoyang. He was enchanted by the prosperous scenery, but according to the original historical trajectory in Wu Fan's time-space, this guy would have fallen further and further into depravity with increasing pleasure. However, in this time-space, when surrounded by the eighteen vassals, he suddenly became anxious and enraged, and unexpectedly rose up! He resolutely mobilized all his forces from Xiliang, turned around and killed more than half of the eighteen vassals, then used the emperor as a puppet to control the vassals. In just ten years, he swept away the chaotic world, donned the yellow robe, and usurped the Han throne! History records: Wei.

  Although Dong Wei's rule lasted only three generations, it completely reversed the course of history. Many historical figures familiar to Wu Fan were actually erased from the annals of history, and only a handful of famous individuals remained in obscurity... Indeed, the wheels of history rolled forward, but as the front wheel didn't turn, the rear wheel did, and they ended up running off track~~~

  Since the collapse of the Dong Wei Empire, the Jin Dynasty made a brilliant debut, and then... skipped over the Northern and Southern Dynasties, fast-forwarding to the Great Sui Empire. As of today, the Great Sui Empire has been passed down for two hundred years, completely different from that short-lived Second Dynasty. The current emperor is surnamed Yang, named Jian, and he is already the eleventh generation of emperors in the Great Sui Empire.

  Let's get back to the Imperial Guard Command, which is the emperor's personal army. Its duties include "commanding the imperial guard, patrolling and arresting". The Hawk Guards are one of the three guards under the Imperial Guard Command. But in Wu Fan's eyes, this is simply a military special operations agency, very similar to the Embroidered Uniform Guard! They can easily create a prison, confiscate property, or even exterminate a family...

  "Hoo-hoo!"

  Wu Fan leaned on his treasured sword, panting non-stop. This body's martial arts foundation wasn't bad, but he still relied on the system and external triple-speed time acceleration to practice desperately, and his recent skills had improved dramatically. He was so desperate because when he first arrived in this time and space, he was shocked.

  Scared out of my wits, I'm about to pee.

  Wu Fan witnessed a robust man, over nine feet tall, effortlessly lifting a stone lion weighing over 1,000 catties above his head and hurling it at the carriage of Ying Yang Wei's commander, Eagle General. The man shouted "You dog! Die!" before being hacked to death by random knives. Although he was later killed and scorned by the Eagle General as "having only strength but no brains", Wu Fan realized that in this time and space, there existed some truly frightening things.

  Later, Wu Fan only found out after inquiring that the strong man was nothing, like a small shrimp. The truly formidable super masters were those who could condense their energy to form a powerful aura, and single-handedly sweep through thousands of troops like a whirlwind! For example, one of the three imperial gods of the empire, the majestic general who had just destroyed the Southern Liang, with one strike, cut the largest warship of the Southern Liang in half... It was said that the Lou ship was as high as six zhang and as long as twenty zhang. Wu Fan calculated it and then decided to work hard at practicing martial arts. Not for anything else, but because he was now wearing the Flying Eagle uniform representing the imperial eagle dog's skin! Who knows when he would be ambushed and assassinated by Jianghu people? Just like what those older Hawk Guards said, if you become a personal soldier of the emperor without being assassinated a few times, your life is simply not complete.

  This is why these non-human entities are also related to Dong Zhuo, who was known as Emperor Wu of Wei in this world's history. His grandson, Wei San Shi, was eager for fame and fortune, and went to Mount Tai to perform the Fengshan ceremony. Unexpectedly, while building a palace on Mount Tai, they unearthed the "Huangdi Neijing" left behind by Huangdi, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of ancient times. From then on, this scripture began to circulate, and was constantly revised and expanded upon by some high-ranking martial artists, giving rise to many mysterious techniques. By now, a system has taken shape: there are killing techniques for the battlefield, striking techniques for the jianghu, and numerous door-opening techniques.

  "First, you need to open up all 365 acupoints in the body and cultivate internal breathing. Then, you need to expand your dan Tian and give birth to your own inner energy, gathering Qi into the sea. Furthermore, you need to accumulate internal breath until it can be released externally. After releasing internal breath externally, you still need to be able to condense Qi into a halo... isn't that too many requirements?"

  Wu Fan lay in the system space muttering non-stop.

  "Ding! System space update completed, exchange business is now open."

  "Exchange business? No lottery? ", Wu Fan a carp jumped up, facing the light screen that suddenly appeared on his head: "Explain?"

  The screen was blank, but a voice came out: "Ding Dong! This space is called 'Great Villain Cultivation System', and the host is the person who needs to be cultivated. The host can refer to Cao Wei Wang in the original time and space of the Three Kingdoms, obtain evil points, and exchange them. The lottery business will still exist, initially set at one lottery per year on Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Spring Festival. Subsequent system updates will consider this matter, please pay attention."

  "What's the point of evil points? Are you forcing me to be a bad person?" Wu Fan's mouth twitched for a long time, and suddenly his eyes lit up, shouting: "Your meaning is... as long as there are enough evil points, everything in the system can be exchanged?"

  "Ding dong! Correct understanding! You're indeed a born villain! In the Great Villain Cultivation System, any item can be exchanged for enough evil points. Additionally, the Great Villain Cultivation System has other businesses being updated, please stay tuned."

  The screen flickered and the sound disappeared, and a tempting picture appeared on the edge of the screen. It was a roulette-like picture divided into six pages: "Famous General Page", "Divine Soldier Page", "Skill Page", "Pet Page", "Miscellaneous Page", and "Kung Fu Page". Among these six pages, pictures kept flashing, including "Overlord Spear", "Rejuvenation Pill", "The 36 Stratagems", "Red Hare Horse", "Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Gun Technique"... everything was there. It just felt a bit pricey, with prices marked in ten thousand characters.

  Staring blankly at the historical famous general, under the pattern marked as Xiang Yu was written a staggering 130 million evil points. Wu Fang's whole person felt somewhat collapsing, no need for the system to explain, he could understand with just a glance that it meant something extremely valuable, so expensive that it made people gnash their teeth!

  Still holding a thread of "those things are very cheap" in his heart, Wu Fan asked: "That... what kind of bad thing can I do to exchange for Xiang Yu?"

  "Ding Dong! The historical figure that the host sees, Xiang Yu, was at the pinnacle of this time and space, even if placed in this time and space, although not possessing internal energy, relying solely on innate divine power and unparalleled skills, is still the world's top. At the same time, he is equipped with the top-grade divine weapon "Bawang Qinglong Ji", the top-grade precious horse "Wu Zao", the top-grade armor "Dunyin Tunjin Jia"..."

  "That is to say, the generals in the system are actually different from the generals in this time and space? The reason is that after Dong Zhuo's reversal of history, there was a change in the internal breath? In that case, the generals in this time and space are also divided into two stages? Wu Fan interrupted the system's words, pondering and saying: "It's really troublesome! Just tell me what level I need to reach to have enough points to exchange for Xiang Yu!"

  "Ding Dong! With just one person, it's enough to control the emperor and order the vassals... As for the previous question, yes! But not necessarily, you only need to exchange points with the host, and you can exchange top-level skills on the 'Skills Page' and add them to the exchanged general!"

  "Ah!!!! You're a money-grabbing moron!!! No way! Using the emperor as a pawn to control the vassals, you think anyone can play with that?! It's going to get someone killed!!!"

  "Ding Dong! Supplement a sentence, full set of equipment, need to plan for usurping the throne..."

  "Huh!!!! I've never asked for this!!"

  Wu Fan covered his chest: "Suddenly there's a feeling of both palpitations and fear..."

  After a long while, Wu Fan let out a sigh and weakly quipped: "A treacherous hero... can someone explain to me what kind of person is considered a treacherous hero? Don't tell me it's Cao Cao, I'm not Cao Cao, and I couldn't possibly imitate everything he does, right? And besides, the Cao Mengde in this world isn't even a treacherous hero in a chaotic era, but rather a capable minister in a peaceful era! He was appointed as the General Who Conquers the West, wasn't he?"

  "Ding Dong! Villain, roughly means lowering the moral bottom line of a hero by three or thirty notches."

  Wu Fan's mouth twitched, speechless and stuck: Is this also considered an answer?

  "Can I just live an ordinary life? Like my name, Wu Fan, implies," Wu Fan suddenly said sincerely: "I don't want to be a hero or a champion, can you go find someone else?"

  "Ding Dong! The host has grasped the hypocritical truth of evil, and intends to use themselves as leverage. Excellent insight, rewarded with 300 evil points! Congratulations!"

  "Ding dong! A vulnerability has been found in the system, and a short-term update will be performed to fix it. From now on, the host's self-interest will be completely cut off, putting an end to the despicable purpose of seeking benefits from the system by holding itself hostage."

  "Ding dong! Auto logout, auto logout, auto logout..."

  Withdrawing from the system space, Wu Fan's consciousness returned to his body. He was somewhat at a loss for words, his original intention was really not to become some kind of nurtured villain, but unexpectedly the system thought he wanted to slack off and not do anything, so it hastily gave him some benefits and directly exited to make up for this loophole, thoroughly preventing such things from happening in the future. In other words, the system would soon give Wu Fan an absolute reason that must be nurtured...

  What's the point of evil points? Can they be exchanged for anything? Evil...

  Wu Fan looked down at the box in his hand, this box was another prize he got from the system welfare on the first day he came to this time and space, aside from the "Language Package", it was called - Great Ming 14th Style.

  Yes! That's right, it's the thing from the movie "Brocade Guard". According to the system's explanation, within the system, any divine weapon will exist, but only limited to cold weapons.

  His back had already been nicknamed the "Fourteen Postures" by his own organization, Wu Fan narrowed his eyes and suddenly a restless idea emerged in his mind! It was like a fierce tiger that had been awakened!

  Pursing his lips, Wu Fan gazed at Chen Yu, the Eagle Guard Captain, who was approaching him. He slightly curled up the corners of his mouth and sighed to himself: "I'm really a born bad guy! Since I definitely can't be a good person, I might as well be a carefree bad egg! Let me climb up first and see what the view is like from above..."

  "Lord Baihu, I have something to report!"

  ……

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