After breaking up with my girlfriend, I became a Great Sage of the Demon Clan.

The Chongming bird that had been circling and surveying the surroundings also landed. However, this little bird wasn't there to beg for food. The Chongming bird had eaten more than thirty catties of Gu worms today, and its belly was round. As soon as it landed, it lay down next to Zhou Yan to warm itself and digest its food.

Zhou Yan patted the Chongming bird's head, then took out disposable chopsticks and began to slowly eat the meat from the can. After a few bites, Zhou Yan picked up a piece of overcooked beef tendon. Su Xiaowan, who was happily eating beside him, looked up and stared intently at the beef tendon on Zhou Yan's chopsticks.

That was an intense longing.

Zhou Yan handed the chopsticks to Su Xiaowan, who ate the beef tendon in one bite. Zhou Yan then picked up a piece of meat from the boiling hot pot, and Su Xiaowan continued eating with a smile.

She didn't take human form to eat, just for this moment.

"Boom... Boom... Boom..."

The sound of vehicle engines approached from a distance, and Zhou Yan turned his head curiously.

This place isn't a human city; there are all sorts of strange songs and car noises everywhere. The wilderness is usually quite quiet, and since it's nighttime, Zhou Yan saw several off-road vehicles driving past on another hilltop, about five kilometers away.

This is not surprising. The Ten Thousand Miao Mountains are full of people who want to try their luck and awakened individuals. In the past few days, Zhou Yan has encountered several of his peers. These peers are also discerning. Seeing that Zhou Yan dares to appear alone in the Ten Thousand Miao Mountains, none of them have the courage to cause a conflict with him.

Of course, Zhou Yan felt the bigger reason was that there wasn't anything in his car that looked valuable or could be sold for a high price.

The sound of vehicle engines five kilometers away gradually decreased and finally stopped.

Lights began to appear from the distant mountaintops, and Zhou Yan guessed that the people on the other side were setting up camp and lighting bonfires to rest.

The safest way to explore the Ten Thousand Miao Mountains is to go out early and return late, taking risks in the morning and resting at the camp at night. However, this way you won't get very far, and it's difficult to find anything good if the surrounding area has already been searched by other explorers.

Experienced and confident Awakened Ones would form teams, camp outside at night, and then scavenge the next day. They would return to replenish their supplies when they ran out.

The team on the other side appears to be a highly experienced and professional one.

Zhou Yan finished the can of food quickly, dug a hole and buried it, then took out his phone by the warm campfire and started watching some movies and anime he had downloaded that morning.

The signal is bad here, and the network can be so laggy it's unbearable. I can only pass the time by watching movies and TV shows that I've downloaded in advance.

After eating her fill, Su Xiaowan crawled onto Zhou Yan's lap as he sat cross-legged, meditating. Zhou Yan stroked Su Xiaowan while watching an anime on his phone about a blonde, arrogant young lady whose entire body was seen by a certain protagonist, and then the two had to get married under the young lady's clan rules.

Then something strange happened: the blonde young lady's mother turned out to be the neighbor lady whom the protagonist had a crush on when he was a child. This neighbor lady was a slut who had a thing for sluts, and they had even made a promise when they were young that she would wait for the protagonist to grow up and then marry him.

So one time, while having dinner with his fiancée (who was also his mother-in-law), the protagonist deliberately dropped his chopsticks on the floor and then crawled under the table.

Zhou Yan was suddenly patted on the thigh by a furry wing. Looking at the wing, Zhou Yan saw that it was a Chongming bird that had eaten its fill and didn't want to walk anymore, which had climbed up to his side and pointed in a certain direction with one wing.

Zhou Yan looked in that direction and saw the hilltop where the professionals were stationed, the same hilltop he had seen before. As he descended the hilltop, a circle of warm, seven-colored light came from afar and gradually approached.

Perhaps light is inherently more welcoming than darkness. The more Zhou Yan looked at the light, the more comfortable he felt. However, Zhou Yan then thought that in the Ten Thousand Miao Mountains, this kind of light might be like an anglerfish luring its prey in the darkness and then eating the bait.

That group was large and made a lot of noise when they came over, so they probably caught the attention of some high-level predators in the 100,000 Miao Mountains, and now they're going to capture them.

Should we save them?

Zhou Yan curiously clicked on the attribute panel of the seven-colored light.

What kind of supernatural talent is this?

To save someone, you must first understand what your objective is.

Name: Auspicious Light and Wisdom.

Effects: Enhances luck, heals, soothes the mind, and exorcises evil spirits.

Zhou Yan: "???"

“Mah, ma, ma…”

In the distance, the faint cry of a deer could be heard, and the auspicious light began to move rapidly in response.

In the darkness in the distance, two figures rushed toward the direction of the auspicious light, followed by an old man's panicked cry.

"Quickly, quickly, catch her and kill her! Don't let her get away!"

The sound began to echo in the quiet wilderness, giving the area a feeling of being overwhelmed by sound.

……

Five kilometers away.

Lin Daoan, wearing glasses, and Fang Xiong, with a ferocious expression, caught up with the nine-colored deer, whose neck was bleeding profusely, one on each side.

When he reached ten meters behind the Nine-Colored Deer, Lin Daoan took deep breaths and then shouted.

"shock!"

It was like thunder.

Visible ripples spread outwards from Lin Daoan's head, causing the surrounding trees to shake violently, leaves to fall rustling down, and countless insects to crawl out from beneath the ground, only to turn belly up and die from the shockwave.

The nine-colored deer, ten meters away, also had its pupils tremble and slowed its escape.

Lin Daoan reached out and clapped his hands together, like a normal person clapping. But the sound of this demigod's clapping was neither dull nor crisp, but rather like slapping a ripe watermelon, with an indescribable echo.

The echo spread rapidly outwards, causing the surrounding trees to explode from the inside out, and the flesh, blood, and internal organs of insects emerging from the ground to burst open their outer shells, filling the environment with an indescribable stench.

Neither Lin Daoan nor Fang Xiong, who had not yet made a move, paid attention to the scent permeating the air. Instead, they stared at the nine-colored deer, which was running slower and slower.

Unlike the surrounding plants and animals, the nine-colored deer did not burst open from the inside when attacked by the clapping, but blood slowly flowed from its seven orifices. The auspicious light around it flickered, as if it would be completely extinguished at any moment.

"Pfft..."

The injured deer, unable to withstand the strain, lost its footing and tumbled to the ground, spilling blood all over its path.

Fang Xiong and Lin Daoru each flew to the head and tail of the Nine-Colored Deer and landed. After landing, Lin Daoru looked at Fang Xiong.

Lin Daoru's bloodline is not that of a ferocious beast, so he dared not kill the Nine-Colored Deer. Fang Xiong, on the other hand, is a ferocious beast. Xu Ruheng simply told Fang Xiong that he was going to hunt an auspicious beast, and Fang Xiong immediately couldn't control his bloodline impulse and followed Xu Ruheng to the Ten Thousand Miao Mountains to hunt the Nine-Colored Deer.

The hunt was surprisingly easy. This auspicious creature seemed completely oblivious to the wickedness of human nature, allowing Xu Ruheng to plunge the dagger into its neck. Now, the nine-colored deer can only lie on the ground, wailing in agony.

Just like the many people this auspicious beast had saved before.

"Brother Fang."

Lin Daoru nodded his chin toward Fang Xiong, pointing towards the Nine-Colored Deer.

Fang Xiong's smile was more ferocious than ever before. This beastly bloodline pulled out a thin boning knife from his waist and slowly approached the Nine-Colored Deer.

Unlike the Four Fiends that Zhou Yan had encountered before, who wanted to be good people and were therefore wary of their own bloodline, Fang Xiong became addicted to the pleasure brought by his violent bloodline after awakening.

For this reason, Fang Xiong liked to find some people every now and then, skin them alive, dismember them, and torture them to the extreme. Sometimes he also liked to eat the children or each other in front of the wife/husband in a family.

Experiencing the fear and despair of the weak has always been Fang Xiong's favorite thing to do. For this reason, this man is also the third most wanted Awakened criminal in the Eastern Xia United States.

Of course, Fang Xiong could also swear that the people he had killed and the things he had enjoyed in his life were insignificant compared to the nine-colored deer moaning mournfully before him.

This is an auspicious beast, a super auspicious beast that has a great presence in both legends and reality. Its existence represents good fortune and luck.

Now, this auspicious beast, favored by heaven and earth and worshipped by thousands, is about to be skinned, its tendons pulled out, and all its parts torn off by this ferocious beast, this monster.

This was absolutely the most glorious moment of my life.

Fang Xiong twitched his cheek muscles as he walked toward the Nine-Colored Deer.

The nine-colored deer was now half-covered in blood, but the bright red color could not conceal the innocence and purity on the little deer's face, making it seem like a product of this filthy world.

As Fang Xiong approached with the boning knife, he inexplicably thought of the girl next door who he had a crush on when he was a child. She was a beautiful girl, kind, pure, and friendly to everyone.

She is as gentle as an angel.

So Fang Xiong tortured the angel for a whole day and night, driving him completely insane before finally ending his life.

At that time, Fang Xiong, who had completely fallen into the clutches of his ferocious beast instincts, also killed his neighbor, and then killed his own parents as well.

As he killed, Fang Xiong felt his instinctive pain and profound sorrow, but these feelings only invigorated his violent nerves.

Fang Xiong had known for a long time that he was broken, but he was proud of it.

When Fang Xiong arrived in front of the Nine-Colored Deer, the muscles on the man's face were twisted to an inhuman degree, and his whole body was indescribably red due to extreme excitement.

"That's great..."

Fang Xiong's breathing quickened. He didn't rush to make a move, but instead stared intently into the innocent eyes of the Nine-Colored Deer and into the auspicious light on its body that had dimmed considerably. He could feel the beauty of the Nine-Colored Deer, a breathtaking beauty that made one's tailbone tingle.

Just as Fang Xiong truly loves his neighbor's daughter and his parents, this awakened individual, whose mind is completely broken, feels that love is never about protection, but about destruction.

Only by destroying beauty, kindness, and all the good things in this world can Fang Xiong truly find satisfaction.

Fang Xiong knelt on one knee with almost piety, worshipping the auspicious beast with all his energy and spirit, and then raised the boning knife in his hand.

Lin Daoru sighed and slowly turned her head away.

He is a state legislator from Dashan State. He was raised by Xu Ruheng with a lot of money and resources from a young age. Now he is married to one of Xu Ruheng's granddaughters. Their personal relationship is neither good nor bad, but their relationship of interests is very stable.

Therefore, after Xu Ruheng promised to give Lin Daoru half of his family fortune in the future, Lin Daoru came to the Ten Thousand Miao Mountains to hunt the Nine-Colored Deer.

Before the hunt, Lin Daoru hadn't thought much of it, but now, seeing the nine-colored deer about to be dismembered, he started to feel guilty.

According to classic records, those who are unfavorable to the Nine-Colored Deer do not have a good ending, but since it was Fang Xiong who wanted to kill the Nine-Colored Deer, it shouldn't be unfavorable to him... right?

"Boom!"

The entire world was suddenly illuminated.

Fang Xiong and Lin Daoru immediately turned their heads and saw a bolt of lightning, half a meter thick, explode from ten meters away, blasting a hole three meters wide and one meter deep into the ground.

The two men's expressions immediately changed.

Lin Daoru wondered to himself if this was a warning from God, but when he turned around, the nine-colored deer in front of Fang Xiong's legs was gone.

Chapter Six: Foolish

A hilltop where an SUV is parked.

A flash of light appeared, and Zhou Yan appeared carrying a nine-colored deer that was a meter long.

The nine-colored deer, its body half-covered in blood, turned its head slightly, its pure and innocent eyes fixed on Zhou Yan, and uttered a weak, soft, and incredibly soothing human voice.

"Who...who are you?"

Zhou Yan wanted to reply, but very quickly, he felt a chill rising from his tailbone up his spine.

Zhou Yan turned his head to look at the place where he had just rescued the Nine-Colored Deer, where a chilling sense of danger was constantly emanating from.

Damn it, I knew this wouldn't be as simple as it seems.

Zhou Yan called out to the Chongming bird that was still by the campfire.

"Stop lying there like a corpse, take the stuff out!"

The Chongming bird flew to the off-road vehicle and soon took out a backpack. Zhou Yan emptied the contents of the backpack.

……

One minute later.

Fang Xiong slowly walked from the foot of the mountain to the top of the nameless mountain where Zhou Yan's off-road vehicle was parked, and then he sniffed the air around him.

"There can't be any mistake."

Fang Xiong's lips were turned up very high.

"There's the smell of nine-colored deer blood here."

Lin Daoru walked out from Fang Xiong's side. Lin Daoru first looked at the off-road vehicle that Zhou Yan hadn't had time to take away, then looked at the campfire still burning next to the off-road vehicle, and the distinct aroma of spicy hot pot that permeated the entire environment.

Lin Daoru asked in confusion.

"The owner of this place hasn't been gone long. Is that person out of their mind? How dare they steal the Nine-Colored Deer right under our noses?"

An off-road vehicle drove from the foot of the mountain to the top. Xu Ruheng, who had recovered and was full of energy, got out of the car and hurriedly said.

"Where is the nine-colored deer? Where is my nine-colored deer?"

Lin Daoru looked at Xu Ruheng, whom he didn't respect and who often found an obstacle, and then spoke.

"They've been kidnapped."

Xu Ruheng's face flushed red with annoyance.

"Who is that person! What kind of brat dares to steal my things!"

Xu Ruheng turned towards Fang Xiong.

"Mr. Fang, I'll hand the thief over to you later..."

Xu Ruheng knew very well that Fang Xiong had a variety of methods for torturing people, and he would definitely make the guy who stole the Nine-Colored Deer wish he were dead.

Fang Xiong lowered his head and hesitated.

Can you smell it?