I Woke Up and Found I Had Become the Villain

Day 1

“Ah…”

Cheon Seoa let out a low sigh.

It was good that she had boldly crossed over to Earth, but had she made a mistake somewhere in setting the time?

What was before her eyes was clearly Earth, but it wasn’t the Earth that Cheon Seoa had wanted.

That was because the sight of hot lava flowing like an ocean on the ground and toxic gases gathering to form clouds floating in the sky was, no matter how you looked at it, not the modern Earth that Cheon Seoa had wanted.

If I had to define the Earth before my eyes…

“I suppose I should call it primitive Earth.”

In any case, it was an undeniable fact that I had arrived at too early a time period on Earth.

“This time, I must not make a mistake.”

Kiiing-.

From Cheon Seoa’s fingertips, an immense magical energy that could envelop the Earth burst forth, and soon it gathered back into her fingertips, forming a small sphere.

The sphere floated up and left Cheon Seoa’s fingertips, moving forward.

How far had this sphere traveled?
Suddenly, the space where the sphere had settled cracked with a sharp sound and then collapsed with a rumble.

Beyond the collapsed space was nothing but an endlessly swirling, deep abyss, but Cheon Seoa threw herself into the hole without any hesitation.

* * *

Kiing-.

With a strange sound, space split open, and Cheon Seoa walked out from beyond it.

“Hmm, it seems I’ve arrived well this time.”

Looking around, Cheon Seoa nodded with a satisfied smile.

However, she doesn’t know exactly where on Earth she has arrived.
She didn’t want to know in the first place.

Originally, before being reborn in the Suseongye world, Cheon Seoa was a young person from a country called South Korea on Earth.

However, that doesn’t mean she has any longing for Korea.

After all, the time she spent in Korea was just over twenty years.
In contrast, Cheon Seoa has lived in the Suseongye world for over three hundred thousand years, so Earth holds no meaning for the current Cheon Seoa.

Then, the simple reason why Cheon Seoa returned to Earth was:

‘Because I want to.’

Cheon Seoa had reached the level of a master through Mado cultivation techniques.
As a result, Cheon Seoa tended to act according to her own whims.

“By the way, the spiritual energy is quite polluted.”

If the spiritual energy spread in the atmosphere is this polluted, it would be nearly impossible for even a talented cultivator to achieve any significant accomplishments.

Unless, of course, it’s the Mado cultivation technique that cultivates in extraordinary ways.

It was then, as Cheon Seoa was appreciating the scenery of Earth that she hadn’t seen in a long time.

Not far away, there was a terrible scream along with all kinds of curses, and soon after, a person brushed past Seoa. Following that, dozens of people on horseback rushed in.

“Ca-Captain! There’s a person ahead-!”

“Just trample over them! It’s too late to turn the horses around now!”

At the shout of a man riding at the front, the middle-aged man called the captain answered.

Cheon Seoa’s appearance looks to be only about mid-teens at most.
To leave such a young girl to be trampled under the hooves of war horses.

Well, well.

“To kill even a child like me without hesitation for your own benefit. If you were born in the cultivation world, you’d have the perfect mindset to become a cultivator.”

Neigh-!

As Cheon Seoa smiled and spoke, the madly galloping horses all cried out at once and raised their front legs.

As dozens of horses simultaneously raised their front legs and cried out, and furthermore started to go wild as if they had been frightened by something, the men riding on the horses were bewildered and fell off.

“Damn it! What’s suddenly going on!”

The leader of the first pursuit team abruptly stood up and shouted angrily.
Several tribesmen lost their lives, unable to withstand the shock of falling from their horses.
Even those lucky enough to survive were rolling on the ground, groaning with shattered arms or legs.

The only one who was relatively unscathed was the leader of the first pursuit team, who glared at Cheon Seoa with an enraged expression.

“Woman! Is this your doing?”

“I didn’t do anything, though?”

“I am the leader of the first pursuit team of the Great Blue Wind Tribe! Which tribe do you belong to that you dare interfere with our Great Blue Wind Tribe’s event!”

“Hmm…, I currently belong to the Great Magic Heaven. And I’m telling you, I didn’t do anything?”

As the leader of the first pursuit team identified himself as belonging to the Great Blue Wind Tribe, Cheon Seoa also revealed her affiliation without any hesitation.

Great Magic Heaven.
It was a new heaven created for Cheon Seoa due to her unique nature that prevented her from staying in the Great Luo Heaven.
Furthermore, it was also a heaven for cultivators who had reached a certain level in magic arts cultivation.

Of course, currently only Cheon Seoa belonged to the Great Magic Heaven, and it was likely that only she would reside there in the future.

However, the leader of the first pursuit team wore a bewildered expression upon hearing the unfamiliar name of Great Magic Heaven.

The Great Blue Wind Tribe, to which the leader of the first pursuit team belonged, was a truly great tribe that dominated the surrounding area.

And the leader of the first pursuit team was positioned at the pinnacle of such a great tribe.
Yet, he had never heard of this name before?

This must surely be that wicked woman trying to deceive him.

As soon as this thought crossed his mind, the leader of the first pursuit team’s expression changed to one of murderous intent, and a violent wind began to swirl.

“You-! Are you daring to insult me, the leader of the first pursuit team of the Great Blue Wind Tribe!”

“Wow! You even know how to use the word ‘contempt’? I’d like to be happy about that, but our conversation is only possible due to the supernatural powers I’ve acquired… So you probably can’t actually use such fluent vocabulary.”

“What have you been babbling about? I’ll kill you!”

Kwaaah!

The spear in the hands of the pursuit team’s first squad leader stretched out towards Cheon Seoa.
Along with it, the violent wind swirling around the pursuit team’s first squad leader enveloped the spear.

As the pursuit team’s first squad leader thrust the spear towards her while manipulating the wind, Cheon Seoa looked at him with a curious expression.

“There are only ordinary criminals on Earth, but you can control the wind? Then is this not Earth? Although I might have made a mistake with the time period, I don’t think I would have made a mistake with the location.”

“Nonsense!”

Jjeong-!

The moment the spear thrust by the pursuit team’s first squad leader pierced Cheon Seoa’s chest, an intense shock spread in all directions.

Simultaneously.

“Kuhek-!”

The pursuit team’s first squad leader coughed up a mouthful of blood and was thrown backwards, while the spear in his hand shattered into pieces, reduced to scrap.

“Wh-what-!”

Forcibly raising his trembling body, the pursuit team’s first squad leader looked at Cheon Seoa with disbelieving eyes.

His power!
The power of wind he was chosen by the heavens to wield didn’t work!

Just what on earth is this woman!

Towards the pursuit team’s first squad leader, who seemed to have received a considerable shock not only physically but also mentally, Cheon Seoa spoke carefully.

“Well… to inflict even a single wound on my body, you’d need to be at least an immortal who has entered the Dao foundation stage. Of course, I wouldn’t thoughtlessly allow myself to be hit by an attack from an immortal at the Dao foundation stage either.”

Dojo? Sage?
What on earth is this woman saying!

As Cheon Seoa continued to utter incomprehensible words, the eyes of the First Pursuit Team Leader gradually filled with terror.

Meanwhile, as Cheon Seoa and the First Pursuit Team Leader were in this standoff that wasn’t quite a standoff.
The man who had brushed past Cheon Seoa and fled far away returned.

“I thank the deceased for their help.”

“I don’t deserve any thanks. I didn’t do anything.”

Cheon Seoa replied to the man who was bowing his head as he spoke.

It wasn’t exactly wrong.

The horses going wild.
The riders falling off and losing their lives or suffering severe injuries.
The First Pursuit Team Leader in front of her sustaining irreparable wounds.

Cheon Seoa hadn’t intervened in any of those things.

Especially in the case of the First Pursuit Team Leader, it was truly because he had gotten excited on his own and recklessly attacked her.

To think he would attack her with just the realm of Yeongi 3-star.

The behavior of the First Pursuit Team Leader, who couldn’t even recognize the gap between them, was truly too pitiful to watch.

By the way.

“You are a ‘pitiful’ person.”

For a moment, a gloomy darkness flowed from Cheon Seoa’s eyes and disappeared.

Although she had only glanced at him once, Cheon Seoa understood why this man was being chased by them.
And they read all the reasons why they were so outraged and chasing this man.

Putting together what they had read, this man before them was, by Cheon Seoa’s standards, undoubtedly a ‘pitiful’ person.

His own power was so meager that he had his beloved woman taken from him.
Furthermore, his parents and siblings were horribly killed, and now even his own life was in imminent danger.

If Cheon Seoa had not appeared here.
If only that man, the leader of the pursuit team, had not attacked Cheon Seoa.

This man would have been caught by the leader of the pursuit team, had his arms and legs torn off, and met a terrible death writhing on the ground.

Perhaps the man knew this fact as well, as he once again bowed his head to Cheon Seoa in greeting.

“Hmm, I can’t leave such a pitiful person like you alone. So, I’d like to give you a small gift, if that’s alright?”

“What is there to say? I am simply grateful for your kindness, which is like the grace of the deceased.”

Cheon Seoa, who smiled faintly at the man’s response, pulled out a book from her bosom.

It was made by binding human skin, and the words written in it were written with human blood.

It was certainly not lacking to be called something horrific.

“This is a technique called the Nine Heavens Nine Demons Method. It’s a technique that allows you to borrow the power of nine demons residing in the nine heavens.”

…!

The man’s eyes widened at Cheon Seoa’s explanation.

To be able to borrow the power of demons! Could it be that this woman before him is a minion of demons?
However, even if the woman before him was a minion of demons, it didn’t change the fact that she was his benefactor who had saved his life.

Meanwhile, Cheon Seoa continued speaking, regardless of whether the man was surprised or not.

“However, you must be careful when borrowing the power of demons through the Nine Heavens Nine Demons Method. They are very greedy and selfish beings, and if there isn’t an appropriate price, they will do anything to extract that price from you.”

“I am once again grateful for your grace, which is like that of the deceased.”

The man who received the Nine-Layered Demon Subduing Technique from Cheon Seoa bowed his head again in gratitude.

Come to think of it, what if the other person was a minion of the devil? What if the “small help” offered by the other person was something that could borrow the power of the devil?

He had already lost everything to them, so perhaps it was only right to seek revenge for his beloved, his family, his brothers, even if it meant borrowing the power of the devil.

“Alright, alright. Then I’ll be on my way, so enjoy your sweet revenge. In my opinion, you deserve it.”

With those final words, Cheon Seoa soared high into the sky and disappeared in an instant.

Appearing like the wind, vanishing like the wind – that was Cheon Seoa.
The man, considering Cheon Seoa a heavenly maiden who descended from the sky unable to ignore his grief, turned to look at the fallen remnants of the Blue Wind Tribe.

“Wait a moment! Let’s resolve this through dialogue! Honestly speaking, I haven’t touched a single thing of yours!”

“Shut up!”

Crack!

In response to the desperate cry of the Blue Wind Tribe’s pursuit team leader, the man stomped hard on his head.

Simultaneously, as he opened the Nine-Layered Demon Subduing Technique given by the heavenly maiden Cheon Seoa, the contents written in that strange book were sucked into his mind and clearly imprinted.

“I see, so this is how one can borrow the power of demons.”

With a sinister smile, the man looked at those who had been chasing him, his eyes now emitting streaks of red, ominous light.