Jiang Chengyu was a villain, the one and only officially designated villain. Throughout the ages, he had served as a stepping stone on the path to godhood for every protagonist in the cultivation world.
He was perfectly happy living deep in the mountains, but the protagonist's crew insisted on coming to his home to hunt for treasure. The poisonous miasma and the wards were his front door, and the guardian beast was his pet. The protagonists showed up and immediately tore down his door and killed his pet.
They stole flowers he'd spent tens of thousands of years cultivating, and took the kindling he'd painstakingly kept alive by drilling wood, claiming they were rare heavenly treasures and thanking nature for its gifts. Who could put up with that?
So he lost his temper and fought the protagonists. That was how he became a villainous demon lord and died horribly at the protagonist's hands.
Every protagonist's crew came into his home like bandits and stole his things, then called him a demon!
After being killed as a villain countless times, Jiang Chengyu had had enough.
Why does everyone use me as a stepping stone? Is it just because I'm a rock?
As a stone left behind when Nuwa repaired the heavens, Jiang Chengyu cultivated himself into human form once again. Looking back on hundreds of thousands of years spent playing the villain, he decisively found a dilapidated cave and resolved never to leave again.
I'll hide in here and see who can drag me out to play the villain now!
And then... a handsome man with white robes and black hair walked into the cave. He was Xie Chuhuai, a protagonist from the previous generation of the cultivation world, who had failed to graduate and ascend, and had spent ten thousand years in seclusion as an Immortal Venerable.
Hiding in a corner, Jiang Chengyu screamed in despair: Protagonist, go away! Don't come any closer!
Xie Chuhuai had spent ten thousand years searching for a way to ascend. One day, he finally received guidance from the Heavenly Dao: his chance to ascend lay in killing a great demon.
He went to great lengths to find the demon. After spending day and night with him, he discovered that the man's cultivation was profound and his looks bewitching, yet he never harmed anyone or beguiled anyone. He was simply spectacularly unlucky, plagued by the worst misfortune imaginable.
He hid in a cave, and somehow the mountain collapsed. People said the demon had appeared in the world, and rushed over to kill him.
He fled, only to run into a man-eating beast. The beast suddenly became affectionate toward the great demon, so the onlookers assumed it was his spiritual pet, and another mob set upon them...
In short, wherever the great demon went, he did no evil at all, yet somehow kept getting blamed for everything.
The most evil thing the legendary world-destroying demon ever did was steal a spirit stone from Xie Chuhuai to buy candied hawthorn.
Xie Chuhuai: ...
Jiang Chengyu: This great demon is exhausted! I'm going to be crushed to death under all the blame!
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