Can a Scholar Be Called a Villain

Chapter 1: Reincarnating as the third prince

Chapter 1: Reincarnating as the third prince

The state capital of Yan, Chi Lin Fang, the third prince’s palace “Faith Palace”.

It was a luxurious palace, revealing its majestic appearance illuminated by the lanterns in the night, its pavilions standing tall and surrounded by a bamboo forest and a round river. Servants walked inside busily, as the guards stood watch in the surrounding.

In the centre of the Faith Palace was a rectangular house, and currently inside the house was a casually-dressed young man seated cross-legged on a futon. His expression was gloomy, and his face was pale, devoid of any blood. On his body was a blood-red garment that was irradiated by the surrounding red lights, making it seem even more eerie. Mu Rong Lin’s eyes were tightly shut, his hands were held together and his legs were crossed on the futon. After a long time, he opened his eyes, and the sliver of blood inside was now dispersed.

And the once wavering lights became still, the terrifying aura of blood in the surroundings slowly dispersed, leaving only a quiet house and Mu Rong Lin.

“Finally, I’ve fully absorbed the memories, how detestable.” He hatefully yelled out in his mind as he stood up, surveying his surroundings. While he circulated his spiritual power and adjusted his body, he walked towards the desk in the room.

That was right, Mu Rong Lin was a reincarnator, and he was from Planet Blue.

He was a useless bottom feeder on Planet Blue, and he suffered through the ravage of society, living each day in sickness before dying eventually. He was a man from the twenty-first century who had read all kinds of reincarnation novels, and as an orphan with no ties to the world, he was naturally hopeful about this reincarnation.

And of course, the identity of the body he had stolen wasn’t ordinary.

Yan’s third prince Mu Rong Lin, a royal descendant with the same name and appearance as him. He was 19 and had a decent face, but it was extremely pale due to his cultivation method.

And since last night, from when he had reincarnated into this world, Mu Rong Lin had swallowed the defenceless third prince’s soul. It took him a day to fully absorb his memory, and it was rather interesting as he had watched his entire life play out as if it were a movie.

In Mu Rong Lin’s memory, this was a Xuan Huan world where cultivators that absorbed spiritual power were unfathomably mighty, and they had reached a flourishing state where the powerful could destroy an entire city with just a thought, and even extinguishing millions of lives, moving the mountains or filling a sea wasn’t impossible. The art of alchemy, refining artifacts and drawing talisman arrays was developed to the extreme, and the joint development of the Great Daos had led to creating of such a mystical world.

“System.” Mu Rong Lin had a thought flash past his mind.

Instantly a virtual screen filled with rows of blue text appeared in his mind. By focusing, he could inspect the words on the screen, and this was his golden finger, the system that he had brought along with him from his reincarnation.

Undefeatable Villan SystemOwner: Mu Rong LinVillan score: 0

Age: 19

Cultivation: Third layer of the Origin Realm

Innate talent: Bloody Poisonous Insect Acupoint

Cultivation method: ?Bloody Heaven Art?

Skills: ?Blood Refinery?, ?Descendant of the Bloody God?, ?Blood Demon’s Escape Method?, ?Blood Human Pills?

Pet: Bloody Poisonous Insect

With the resources from his third prince status and his maternal clan, Mu Rong Lin had cultivated to the Origin Realm before he turned 20. Even without the resources he was provided, his achievements were still strongly influenced by his schemes. And all of this, was now within the palms of the new Mu Rong Lin.

“Ding! I’ve detected that master had completely absorbed the memories, the reward is a new player gift bag!”

“System, can you change your name, the undefeatable villain system sounds too cringy.”

“Anti doesn’t understand what master is saying, can master please repeat himself?”

“I said, can you change your system name, how could it be called villainous when I’m just acting as a scholar?”

“Anti doesn’t understand what master is saying, can master please repeat himself?”

“Forget it, just leave it, help me open the new player gift bag.”

“Ding! Congratulations to master for receiving a ‘Little villain halo’, ?Lifelessness Law?, and the ?Must-read Villain Instruction Manual?.”

“Check it.” Mu Rong Lin raised his eyebrows, his tone laced with curiosity.

“The ‘Little villain’s halo’: Intensifies your villainous aura, and the hate value from protagonists. Within a small area, it can make your underlings more reckless and idiotic, passersby more afraid and respectful, and your backings more doting and blind.

?Lifelessness Law?: An immeasurable cultivation method that allows you to absorb any and all cultivation method skills to evolve, absorbed lives are converted into cultivation methods, and the use of imitation skills from absorbed methods.

?Must-read Villain Instruction Manual?: It contains all kinds of methods to harm protagonists, from bullying men and dominating women, to forcing their mothers into prostitution, creating adverse effects on them.”

Mu Rong Lin looked at the last line speechlessly, and he asked the system with the corners of his mouth twitching, “Anti, what exactly am I supposed to do? Play the villain?”

“Kill the protagonists! Kill the protagonists! Kill the protagonists! The system will identify the protagonists of this world, and all master has to do is shatter their protagonist halos and kill them to get rewards and increase the villain score. The villain score can be used to purchase the items in the shop, and the villain value that master gains is proportionate to the amount of protagonist value they possess. When their protagonist value drops to zero, their protagonist halo will shatter. There will be more than one protagonist, and they might not even be human. There are protagonists being created at any point in time, and as long as they are a protagonist, you have to kill them! Other than going against protagonists, any other action that you take will be deemed as meaningless.”

“I got it, so I’m the main villain, right?”

“Master has yet to become the strongest, so you are not considered as the main villain. Master has the ‘Little villain halo’, and reaching a certain threshold will result in becoming the main villain.”

“Is that so?” Mu Rong Lin inspected the system world, and the 0 written inside was especially glaring, “Will killing protagonists make me stronger? With this golden finger, am I not the protagonist?”

“Anti, continue to check my personal information, be a bit more detailed.”

“Bloody Poison Insect Acupoint: A kind of inherent acupoint, absorbing human blood allows you to raise bloody poison insects.

?Bloody Heaven Art?: Advanced Earth level cultivation method, it allows you to cultivate to the Manifestation Realm.

?Blood Refinery?: Intermediate Earth level spiritual skill, extremely vicious.

?Descendant of the Bloody God?: Elementary Earth level spiritual skill, for compact hidden weapons.

?Blood Demon’s Escape Method?: Elementary Earth level spiritual skill, consumes blood essence.

?Blood Human Pills?: Elementary Earth level pill-making method, it is extremely vicious. At lower grade Yellow level, you will be able to refine ten Blood Human pills, a hundred Blood Human pills at higher grade Yellow level, a thousand at lower grade Black level, ten thousand at higher grade Black level, and a hundred thousand at lower grade Earth level.”

Bloody Poisonous Insect: The poisonous insects are created by the absorption of blood in the Bloody Poisonous Insect Acupoint, its strength will correspond with its owner, and it is capable of swallowing human blood to restore the owner’s strength and blowing itself up to save its owner’s life.”

“Not bad, it looks just like the traits of a villain. Anti, will my strength deteriorate if I cultivate ?Lifelessness Law??”

“It will not.”

“Alright, send it to me, I’m going to cultivate!”

“Ding! ?Lifelessness Law?has been sent to master, and it is detected that master has cultivated ?Swallow Returns to its Nest?, ?Snow Cover? and ?Bloody Heaven Art?, do you wish to combine and absorb them?”

“Yes.” Dozens of cultivation methods flashed past Mu Rong Lin’s mind, and he said to Anti, “Combine these as well.”

?Swallow Returns to its Nest?was the foundational cultivation method for the royals of Yan, ?Snow Cover? was the inherited cultivation method from the family of Mu Rong Lin’s birth mother. However, these two methods were not fully imparted to Mu Rong Lin, and none of the methods he had cultivated was above the Crystalline Realm. As a result, the fortuitously obtained ?Bloody Heaven Art?was his main cultivation method.

Furthermore, in Mu Rong Lin’s memory, the power in this world was divided between Fetal Enigma Realm and the Nature Enigma realm.

The Fetal Enigma realm was divided into four realms: Body Refinement, Spirit Oblation, Condensation and Crystalline, each realm divided into 9 layers.

The Nature Enigma realm was divided into 4 realms: Origin, Manifestation, Reaching the Skies, and Cognizance, each realm divided into 9 layers as well. (TL: Don’t really like ‘Sky Reaching’, it means to have direct access to the highest authorities in the sky, if someone has a better phrase/word to recommend, please feel free.)

The Yellow and Black levels were the resources within the Fetal Enigma realm, and the Earth and Sky levels were resources belonging to the Nature Enigma realm.

The current emperor of Yan, who was also Mu Rong Lin’s father, was an expert in the Sky Reaching Realm, and there were less than ten experts known in the country that was in the same realm. As such, it was obvious that Mu Rong Lin’s strength in the Origin Realm wasn’t considered ordinary either.

The distinct differentiating factor of the Origin realm was the possession of divine senses, allowing one to observe a ten-mile area, and at the same time, a primordial spirit would be formed in their consciousness. A bundle of red light existed in Mu Rong Lin’s consciousness, and that was his primordial spirit.

Circulating his spiritual power once, Mu Rong Lin couldn’t find any blockage, it was as if he had been cultivating ?Lifelessness Law?from birth. With a smile, his hand knocked on the table as he circulated his spiritual power in his other hand, releasing a gyrating ball of red spiritual power in his hand.

Right now, he had enough time to think about how he had died on Planet Blue.

Wow, this was tough. I’m going to shoot myself.

I am translating this novel as a teaser-ish thing, I may or may not continue it, depending on how interesting it gets in maybe about 10 chapters. If you have read this before, please do reach out to me or comment if your thoughts about this novel!

Currently, if every chapter is as gross as this one to translate, I’ll do about maybe a chapter a week at least.