Turns Out, I’m In A Villain Clan! Chapter 469 Identity of Yun Mo Kou Sky Pirate's Leader

Bai Zihan chose to press on toward the Bai Clan, figuring that even if another trap lay in wait, it wouldn't trouble him much.

No Top Clan or Sect could truly threaten his present power unless they committed everything to his destruction.

Yet no such danger emerged, and they arrived at the Bai Clan without incident shortly after.

The flying ship landed gracefully on the primary platform.

Once it came to a steady halt—

Bai Zihan disembarked.

"Greetings, Young Master!"

The guards on duty bent low in respect.

Bai Zihan skipped the formalities. "You!"

He gestured toward a servant close by.

"Locate Jin Yuanzhan and escort him here."

His voice stayed even.

But urgency filled it without question.

The servant jumped a bit.

"Yes, Young Master!"

Off the servant dashed right away.

Time ticked by.

Silence hung over the courtyard.

Suddenly—

Footsteps echoed along the stone walkway from the inner quarters.

Jin Yuanzhan hurried into view.

A young woman trailed him, her locks secured with elegant jade ornaments.

They halted a few paces distant.

Each offered a deep bow.

"Jin Yuanzhan pays respects to Young Master Bai."

His tone held steady respect, free of haste or shakes.

At his side, the girl echoed the gesture.

"Jin Yuelin pays respects to Young Master."

Bai Zihan observed them with composure.

His eyes paused just a touch longer on Jin Yuanzhan.

"It seems your wounds have fully mended,"

Bai Zihan remarked.

Jin Yuanzhan dipped his head once more, a spark of thrill crossing his features.

"All due to Young Master's kindness!"

Gratitude rang true in his words, brimming with honest warmth.

Bai Zihan's attention turned to the girl.

"And you. It appears you're putting in real effort."

"Hehe... I aim to return the favor to Young Master without delay."

Jin Yuelin answered, a shy note coloring her response.

Chu Ziyan shot Jin Yuelin a look, displeased by her demeanor around Bai Zihan.

Bai Zihan, though, picked up on none of the tension.

He advanced leisurely, pausing a short distance from Jin Yuanzhan.

"Down to business. I summoned you for this very reason."

With those words, Bai Zihan raised his arm.

Space warped.

The atmosphere rippled as if an immense weight pulled through a hidden rift.

Then—

Thud!

A mangled corpse dropped onto the courtyard's smooth stones.

The Sky Pirate Leader.

Or whatever was left.

Limbs hacked away. Meridians scorched and ruined. The mighty aura of a Great Ascension Realm

was now little more than a dim, wavering spark.

Still—

His features stayed whole.

On purpose.

Jin Yuanzhan's eyes narrowed—but just for an instant.

"We faced an ambush on the return journey from—"

His voice remained composed.

"Sky Pirates."

Jin Yuanzhan's forehead creased.

"Sky Pirates...?"

He eyed the figure sprawled on the ground. The outcome of targeting Bai Zihan's flying ship was all too clear.

"This individual pushed his cultivation to half-step Immortal Realm in the

clash."

He stated it flatly.

"The method he employed..."

A brief hesitation.

"...bore a striking similarity to the one you displayed at the Dragon and Phoenix Competition."

The breeze grew still.

"I figured," Bai Zihan went on, "you might know who he is."

Jin Yuanzhan held back his reply.

He moved closer.

He dropped to one knee by the wrecked Sky Pirate Leader. With utmost care—he tilted the man's jaw upward.

He examined the visage.

The skeletal frame.

The spiritual traces clinging near the dantian.

His face shifted from puzzlement...

To intense focus.

He pressed two fingers gently to the pirate's pulse.

Shut his eyes.

His spiritual sense probed inside.

As soon as it touched the fractured meridians—

His breath hitched.

The design—

The scorch marks.

The sun-like crystal shards buried in the vital channels.

His chest tightened.

Sun Core Dao Stone.

Or better yet—

A piece of Sun Dao merged straight into the cultivation base.

Just like his.

The setup teetered on collapse, wilder than his own.

Even the rebound wounds—

Matched nearly perfectly.

Jin Yuanzhan's eyes fluttered open gradually.

His fingers shook lightly as he pulled back.

He bowed low.

"Forgive me, Young Master. I don't know him."

His tone stayed firm, if softer now.

"If he was once an elder or a famed cultivator in the Azure Sun Holy Sect, I

would have known his face at once—particularly at Great Ascension Realm."

If that was the case, then it was more likely that the Sky Pirate Leader wasn’t

from the Azure Sun Holy Sect, as Bai Zihan had initially thought.

Bai Zihan stayed quiet.

Jin Yuanzhan pressed on, his demeanor growing weightier:

"That said..."

He glanced down at the shattered pirate again.

"No question about it."

"This person endured the identical forced fusion trial as me. Of that, I'm sure."

The term "experiment" echoed faintly.

"The Sun Core Dao Stone—or to be exact, a shard of Sun Dao—was

implanted in his form."

His eyes sharpened a fraction.

"But his merging was rougher than mine. He depended solely on outside forces

to trigger it."

"That's why his meridians buckled so fiercely once the boost wore off."

Bai Zihan's face showed no change.

"Then," Bai Zihan murmured gently, "the Azure Sun Holy Sect recognizes this man?"

Jin Yuanzhan bowed even deeper.

"Yes!"

After all, only they could perform such trials, and they ought to identify anyone who had fused a Sun Dao Stone fragment.

But just because the Azure Sun Holy Sect knew him, it wasn’t certain that they were the ones behind the attack on Bai Zihan—and he knew that.

However—

"The Azure Sun Holy Sect has been a thorn in my side for too long. Time to pay them back."

From the conflict with the Demonic Forces to their alliance with Li-Zhao, the Azure Sun Holy Sect had clearly set itself against him fully.

With this chance arisen, he planned to seize it and resolve all old scores.

"Jin Yuanzhan, prepare yourself! We're heading to the Azure Sun Holy Sect!"