Dopey Guo Spiraling Into the Sky

What the Old Devil said was in fact true. Anyone could stand out in their respective field depending on how they measured up against their contemporaries.

There was some basis for this thinking, as every villain in history could demonstrate. Some tried to reach a deceitful compromise with the main character through a PY trade, but it backfired on them and got them killed; some pretended to accept disciples with the intent of devouring their souls and flesh, but in the end they failed and self-destructed; and some held their banners high before battle, thinking that they would definitely win, but in the end they were beaten up so badly that even their own mothers couldn't recognize them.

The Old Devil thought, moreover, that all villains shared a distinctive characteristic: they talked too much…

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