The Villain Saint is my secondary account

The walls were still a gray blur.

For some reason, Ye Xiao subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness, if there were someone who existed in both the future and the past at the same time... that would be a bit terrifying.

Wait a minute...?

Ye Xiao looked at the wall through the crow familiar's vision and suddenly felt a chill.

wrong……

He had the raven familiar on the ghost ship approach the wall, and then flew up and lightly brushed the wall with its wing.

Some dust fell, and a triangular scratch appeared on the wall.

Chapter Fifty-Nine: Edward the Pirate

"WTF?"

Ye Xiao found it hard to believe. He leaned against the wall and slowly carved a vertical line in the middle of the triangle with the blade in his hand.

Almost simultaneously, from the raven familiar's perspective, he saw a vertical mark slowly emerge from the triangular symbol on another wall, following the trajectory of his hand moving the blade.

Ye Xiao witnessed himself changing history. Is this something that humans can do?

"hiss."

Ye Xiao suddenly twitched his finger. He turned his gaze to his index finger and found that it had been cut by a blade and was bleeding.

Did I accidentally scratch myself?

Ye Xiao frowned. He had at least twenty years of experience using this blade in his two lifetimes, but this was the first time he had accidentally injured himself.

It doesn't make sense.

Ye Xiao scratched his head, starting to wonder what would happen if he met Ella at this point in time or killed him.

Just like how the first thing every time traveler wants to do after returning to the past is to stab his grandfather, even though he couldn't run into his grandfather these past two days, he might still be able to run into himself.

But with Ella around, it's unlikely they could win.

Ye Xiao then abandoned his plan to spar with his past self from two days ago. Besides, the merchant ship and the Aslan sailing ship were separated by an unknown number of nautical miles, and despite his curiosity, he had no way to verify it.

He turned around, wanting to think of another way to open the cell door, when he suddenly heard footsteps beside him.

"Boss, this should be where they imprison the merfolk."

It was that familiar voice again. Ye Xiao peered through the cell bars and saw a frail-looking man wearing glasses.

Wu He was the henchman of the "merchant" who tried to make a deal with Ella at the auction.

However, since we've met here, it's clear that Edward isn't the so-called "merchant."

Ye Xiao turned her gaze to the burly, rugged man with a thick beard behind Wu He.

The other person was no longer wearing that tight-fitting, luxurious businessman's suit that didn't suit his temperament, but instead a shiny, imposing overcoat and a brown fitted vest.

Edward Teach, if I'm not mistaken, is the infamous legendary pirate currently wanted by the Kingdom of Valen.

But weren't the Aslans a bit too weak? A royal ship was captured by pirates so easily?

Ye Xiao thought he would hear some earth-shattering battle coming from the deck, but there was no commotion and the person in the cabin was someone else.

"Is this a merman?" Edward glanced at Ye Xiao in the cell. "Doesn't look like one?"

"Boss, this is just an ordinary person. The merman is in the cell next door."

Edward then noticed that there was a short figure imprisoned in the cell next to Ye Xiao's.

“Bring it to the ship.”

"Yes, boss." Wu He hurriedly ordered his henchmen to pry open the cell next door.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ye Xiao leaned against the door and said, "Can I come with you too, boss?"

"Who are you?" Edward frowned. "Do the Aslans also engage in the slave trade these days?"

“I’m not a slave, boss. I’m just an unlucky adventurer who got shipwrecked.”

Ye Xiao started rambling, "The Aslans have no sense of martial ethics; they even steal from the survivors."

“You look suspicious.” Edward didn’t believe Ye Xiao’s nonsense and waved to the henchmen next to him, “Tie him up too and drag him out.”

Tie me up again?

As Ye Xiao watched the pirate henchmen, armed with ropes and scimitars, approach him after his cell was pried open, his lips twitched. He had just managed to break free, and now he was going to be tied up again.

"what!!!"

Just then, a scream suddenly came from next door.

"It's biting me! It's biting me!! Help!!!"

Then came a sudden, unusual commotion.

Captain Edward turned to look at the cell next door, where a group of pirates were beating their companion, who had been tackled by the merman boy, with the hilts of their swords. His expression changed slightly. "You bunch of idiots, don't go too far and kill the merman!"

While the pirates were distracted by what was happening next door, Ye Xiaoben's usually kind eyes suddenly turned fierce. He suddenly punched a nearby pirate henchman in the face with his left hand, and with his right hand, he grabbed the man's wrist and twisted it to snatch the scimitar from his hand.

The commotion immediately attracted the attention of the nearby henchmen, but the moment Ye Xiao got the knife, their fate was sealed.

The two henchmen at the door immediately raised their muskets. At the same time, Ye Xiao's scimitar instantly drew a sharp arc, severing the metal barrel in the blink of an eye. Broken parts flew everywhere along with the sparks from the firing.

As the two henchmen tried to draw their swords to defend themselves, Ye Xiao's ghostly figure had already flashed behind them.

The next second, two streaks of blood splattered on the wall. They didn't even see when Ye Xiao swung his knife before their heads were severed.

What a quick knife!

Edward's expression changed instantly upon seeing this. He considered himself a master swordsman, but he couldn't even keep up with Ye Xiao's two strikes with his eyes.

The burly man who had been following him immediately stepped forward and stood guard in front of his captain.

In the confined space, the massive body with its armored arms crossed, glowing with a faint white light, withstood a fierce slash from Ye Xiao that followed closely behind.

The blade pierced his arm armor, leaving a deep gash that spurted blood, before shattering under the weight.

The powerful aftershocks of the blade still managed to push the burly man, along with Edward who was being protected behind him, back two meters.

Edward was immediately horrified. What kind of monster was this? If it slashed him, wouldn't he die on the spot?!

Ye Xiao, who was holding the broken sword, frowned and realized that he had made a mistake. The opponent actually had a master-level shield guard who had blocked his sword-drawing slash.

However, two mere masters were no match for him. He raised his foot and flicked the curved blade of another dead henchman on the ground, ready to continue, when the merman who had been being beaten by the other pirates suddenly let out a shrill and ear-piercing scream.

"what--!!!"

Like a demonic sound piercing his ears, Ye Xiao felt as if his eardrums were about to burst when he heard this ghostly howl up close in the enclosed room.

This caused his knife to pause for a moment, and the entire cabin began to tremble.

"What is that?!" Edward exclaimed in astonishment.

"boom"

As his words fell, the walls around the cabin were crushed and cracked, and the world spun around them. The people in the cabin were scattered everywhere like cookies from an overturned can.

"Run!" Edward didn't care about the merfolk anymore and grabbed Shield Guard and Wu He as they ran towards the upper deck of the ship.

Ye Xiao also tried to escape, but as the cabin suddenly flipped, his body fell to the bottom. He was too slow and failed to reach the cabin door.

Chapter Sixty: A Long Night

The next moment, the bottom of the ship was torn apart by sharp and huge fangs, the keel that made up the bottom of the ship was broken into pieces, the tough wooden planks collapsed, revealing a huge, pitch-black hole below.

This was an enormous, colossal maw covered in rings of fangs, which bit through the hold of the Aslan sailing ship from underwater.

There really is a sea monster here!

This was what Ye Xiao was thinking at the last moment as he fell into that abyss-like maw.

……

A moment later, Ye Xiao felt himself fall into a very strange state.

He must have fainted, but he was still conscious and even sharing his vision with Ella, able to feel everything Ella saw and touched in the cabin.

This means that he still exists here as an avatar, but for some reason, he can't feel his own body here.

It's like a lucid dream; you're aware that you're dreaming, but you can't wake up.

In my dizziness and lightheadedness, a faint and ethereal voice appeared in the darkness.

"Accept my will."

"...Who are you?" Ye Xiao asked subconsciously.

“I am your supreme queen, your mother, and the one you will forever obey.”

"What the hell? Get lost."

"...How dare you defy me?"

Ye Xiao vaguely saw a faint light shining in the darkness before him.

It's like being in a deep, quiet cave, looking up at a huge, dark, spherical statue made up of tentacles.

The statue was enormous, like a majestic sun, with a deep red and large pupil at the center of its clustered tentacles.

Below, rows of figures dressed in black robes prostrated themselves, as if kneeling in worship to the statue. Ye Xiao stood out among the countless kneeling figures, like a crane among chickens, staring into the huge eyes of the statue.

"How is this possible!?" the voice appeared again. "How could you...!?"

Ye Xiao vaguely sensed that his spirit was connecting with the countless kneeling figures, like a tree slowly taking root in their souls. He could gradually sense the vague thoughts of these figures.

“Curse… Mermaids…” “Save… the family…”

A jumble of thoughts poured into Ye Xiao's brain from all directions like a stream, their meaning unclear, mostly just fragments of words.

"go out!!!"

The next moment, accompanied by a roar, Ye Xiao felt his consciousness being bounced like a ball outside the cave, disappearing into the boundless darkness once again.

……

"Pooh!"

When Ye Xiao regained consciousness, his body was once again churning in the icy seawater.

But this time, Ella on the merchant ship found that she could lock onto Ye Xiao's spatial anchor point again, so she quickly opened a spatial gate and pulled Ye Xiao out of the seawater.

This time, Ella was smarter. Instead of opening the door in her own bedroom, she teleported to an open area on Valondril Hill to pick up Ye Xiao.

It was still night in Loren, and Ye Xiao, soaking wet, lay in a puddle, spitting out seawater.

It seems we've traveled back two days into the future, but what caused this?

Ye Xiao took the towel from Ella and dried his head while checking the system panel.

Sure enough, the Miracle Mage's "Death Rewind" skill was on cooldown.

In other words, he should have died in the timeline two days prior, after being swallowed by the sea monster.

However, because the death rewind was triggered, he was resurrected in the normal timeline.

It has to be said that the mechanism of these time spells is truly unfathomable.

However, the scene he saw before he died seemed quite interesting. He had a premonition that this time travel was just the beginning, and he would most likely have to deal with the thing that had tried to invade his consciousness in the past.

Ye Xiao pondered.

It was just unexpected that the merman boy could summon a giant sea monster that could swallow Aslan's sailboat whole. It was really outrageous. In other words, if this guy hadn't been ambushed and killed on the escort ship, Ye Xiao might have had to fight that sea monster again.

However, with Ella here, he wasn't scared. Besides, the guy who ambushed him back then... Ye Xiao didn't see him, but there were only a few people on the ship. Apart from the bodyguard of Councilor Wendt, he couldn't think of any other possibility.

The intensity of the explosion was very much in line with the power of dragon fire magic.

Unfortunately, this journey back in time was rather short, and the whole story was rather confusing.

However, despite this, Ye Xiao had already deduced some clues.

This merman boy... might be even more special than he imagined.

As mentioned before, the tadpole-shaped characters were likely the internal script used by the ancient family that served the god of life. The fact that the merman boy, a demon, could write such characters suggests that his identity was not so simple.

Considering the time travel that suddenly occurred without warning, and the scenes he saw in the darkness afterward... Ye Xiao probably already had the answer in his mind.