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

“There were some people who were eaten because I arrived too late. If I had arrived earlier, I could have saved them.”

Upon seeing the Nine-Colored Deer strike up a conversation, Xu Ruheng tried shouting.

"Yes, yes, you came too late back then. You killed all my brothers and uncles. Do you know how heartbroken I was after that!"

The nine-colored deer's four legs trembled as it stepped on the ground.

Xu Ruheng's eyes lit up. He had noticed this when he stabbed the Nine-Colored Deer. The Nine-Colored Deer seemed to be too naive, and even after being stabbed, it didn't know what was happening.

and so……

“Those uncles and brothers all have their own families and children. Since you didn’t save them, their families and children are all doomed. Some starved to death, some cried themselves to death, and some froze to death. Do you know how many people you killed if you had arrived a little later?”

The nine-colored deer gave a weak response.

"I...I didn't mean to. I was quite far away at the time..."

Xu Ruheng interrupted.

"What do you mean 'far'! That's just an excuse! You've killed so many people! You're a bad person!"

The nine-colored deer had tears in its eyes.

Xu Ruheng struck while the iron was hot.

"You owe me compensation!"

“My uncles and brothers died so tragically, you must make up for their suffering.”

Su Xiaowan, who was anxiously looking at Zhou Yan's phone beside the Nine-Colored Deer, suddenly spoke up.

How will compensation be provided?

Xu Ruheng grinned maliciously.

"Of course..."

Peeling off his skin and dismembering his bones was a way to ensure his family's lifelong wealth and prosperity, and even to make him emperor—that would be considered compensation.

Chapter Nine Take Away

Sticky, damp, and foul-smelling.

Zhou Yan replaced his external breathing with internal breathing, then closed his eyes and let his body drift. After drifting for a short while, Zhou Yan felt a lightness in his head, and the boy's head floated up from another piece of quicksand.

Zhou Yan rolled over a few times and walked from the quicksand to the ground.

"Oh shit……"

Zhou Yan wiped the mud off his face.

Before they could catch their breath, heavy footsteps approached from afar.

Zhou Yan saw the ferocious-looking celestial dog approaching from not far away.

This was the result of Zhou Yan's control. Zhou Yan was afraid that if he disappeared, the Heavenly Dog would turn back to kill the Nine-Colored Deer, so he could only quickly come out of the quicksand and let the Heavenly Dog continue to follow him.

"Oh shit……"

Zhou Yan lowered his body, licked his lips, and his breathing became rapid.

Perhaps because there had never been such a fierce war before, and the Tengu was an unprecedentedly powerful enemy, Zhou Yan's body began to feel the strain from using his Extreme Eye and various manipulations of probability.

Zhou Yan was a little tired.

Of course, facing an enemy whose physical attributes are more than five times his own, Zhou Yan's ability to fight for so long and only get a little tired is already a miracle.

Of all the billions of future scenarios Zhou Yan has simulated so far, this is the most perfect outcome. In over 95% of the other billions of scenarios, the characters died.

"Hoo-ho... Hoo-ho..."

Although covered in blood and severely injured, the Tengu was in much better condition than Zhou Yan and didn't even feel tired as it walked step by step toward Zhou Yan.

"I like you……"

The dog licked his teeth, and for some reason, he felt that Zhou Yan was the cutest and most heart-fluttering person he had ever met in his life.

"So...I'm going to...eat...you..."

The celestial dog once again transformed into a streak of light and rushed towards Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan closed his eyes, turned around, and ran away.

Five minutes passed, and Zhou Yan emerged unscathed thanks to a series of coincidences and good luck.

Ten minutes passed and it was still the same; twenty minutes passed and it was still the same.

Thirty minutes later, Zhou Yan managed to dodge two fatal attacks by using his second Taiyin Mirror.

Forty minutes passed...

At the fiftieth minute, Zhou Yan, who had been keeping his eyes closed, opened them.

The celestial dog swept past Zhou Yan. Zhou Yan turned around, waiting to create distance between himself and the celestial dog. Zhou Yan looked at his left hand.

The left hand was severed from the shoulder, and blood was flowing continuously.

Zhou Yan pursed his lips, realizing he hadn't even had a chance to use the Taiyin Mirror.

I can't really say anything. This Tengu is more than ten times stronger than me. If we're talking about individuals, even without luck or the ability to see far, a hundred of me could be killed one by one by the Tengu. And now, we've been killing time for almost an hour and a half, and I've only lost an arm.

Their luck has truly reached its peak.

The tengu opposite began to chew on the arm torn from Zhou Yan's body. As Zhou Yan's flesh and blood were crushed and broken, the wound on the tengu's hind leg healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The tengu that had swallowed Zhou Yan's hand grinned and slowly approached Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan felt a little dizzy. If he was a little tired before, he was very tired now.

Therefore, we need to change our strategy.

Hopefully, it won't be too late.

The tengu rushed in front of Zhou Yan, opened its mouth, and Zhou Yan lowered his body, bent his knees, and then sprang up.

Zhou Yan transformed into a streak of light and crashed into the Heavenly Dog's mouth.

The celestial dog, sensing Zhou Yan's advances into its mouth, quickly closed its mouth.

……

At the site of the collapsed hilltop.

Seeing that the innocent nine-colored deer had been persuaded by his tentative words, Xu Ruheng shamelessly waved his hand.

Xu Ruheng's bodyguards, each armed with firearms, surrounded the Nine-Colored Deer.

The Chongming bird walked to Su Xiaowan's side with its little claws and cooed.

Su Xiaowan shook her head.

The two auspicious beasts remained still.

Xu Ruheng on the other end continued speaking.

"Here's what we'll do: come back with me, and I'll see if you have anything valuable you can use to repay the debt. Hey, I'm such a good person. You killed so many people in my family, and I'm actually letting you repay the debt, so I won't blame you."

The nine-colored deer was actually somewhat moved.

"Yes, you're such a good person."

Su Xiaowan and Chongming Bird on the side both looked at the Nine-Colored Deer as if it were an idiot.

Xu Ruheng patted his leg and laughed.

"Alright, come here, I'll take you back."

The nine-colored deer raised its leg to go, and Su Xiaowan couldn't help but speak up.

"What did you and your brother (Zhou Yan) say? Have you forgotten?!"

Nine-Colored Deer paused. Zhou Yan had told it not to wander off later and to wait for him to return before discussing anything else.

Xu Ruheng said angrily.

"What are you doing? Are you not going to pay compensation? You naughty child!"

The Nine-Colored Deer was caught in a dilemma: to go or not to go. It could only weakly say...

"Wait, wait for Brother Zhou to come, then I'll go with you."

Xu Ruheng's eyes darted around. He wasn't very bright, after all, he had a smooth life and his brain hadn't been used for sixty years, but the malice in his heart didn't diminish because of his low IQ.

Xu Ruheng therefore made unfounded claims.

"That young man, right? He's a bad guy."

Xu Ruheng looked pained.

“That guy is a bastard who does all sorts of evil and kills people everywhere. I’m here to arrest him.”

The Nine-Colored Deer looked at Su Xiaowan with confusion.

The next second, a flash of light appeared on a tree in the distance, and a sniper fired a sniper bullet laced with anesthetic.

With a flap of its wings, Chongba, which was beside Su Xiaowan, blew away the tranquilizer bullet that was supposed to pierce the neck of the Nine-Colored Deer, causing it to fall to the deer's feet.

The nine-colored deer turned around upon hearing the sound, and Xu Ruheng shouted.

"Look, look, it's not just that young man who's a bad guy, these two are too!"

Xu Ruheng pointed at Su Xiaowan and the Chongming bird.

"If I hadn't protected you just now, this thing would have ended up on you."

Xu Ruheng pointed to the tranquilizer bullets next to the Nine-Colored Deer.

The nine-colored deer looked completely bewildered.

This silly kid couldn't tell the difference between the good and bad people Xu Ruheng was talking about. Zhou Yan saved him, pulled out the dagger, and bandaged him up; he was clearly a good person. These guys, on the other hand, chased after him to apologize for stabbing him; shouldn't they be good people too?

Why would a good person point at another good person and call them a bad person?

I don't understand, I don't understand at all.

The bodyguards were already five meters away from Su Xiaowan and the Chongming bird.

Xu Ruheng said confidently.

"Good boy, I'll help you deal with these bad guys!"

The bodyguards pointed their guns at Su Xiaowan and Chongming Bird, and then sparks flew from the muzzles of their guns.

The nine-colored deer shone with auspicious light, and the bullets lost their aim as soon as they came into contact with the light. Some of them fell directly to the ground, while others flew off into the distance. After a round of shooting, the bodyguards ran out of bullets, and the three auspicious beasts were unharmed.

Xu Ruheng was so angry that he cursed loudly.

"You bad kid! You actually went along with bad people! Do you want to hurt or harm people in the future?!"

"No, I, I didn't..."

The explanation for the nine-colored deer's panic.

"I think this isn't..."

"Nothing! You..."

"Snapped!"

A beam of light shot out from behind Xu Ruheng, illuminating the SUV he was in.

Xu Ruheng and the bodyguards around him all turned their heads to look at the source of the beam of light.

The source of the beam of light was a heroic man carrying a searchlight, suspended in mid-air.

The man's gaze swept over Xu Ruheng and the others, finally settling on the Nine-Colored Deer. Su Xiaowan, holding Zhou Yan's phone, stepped out and shouted.

"Are you one of Lord Suzaku's people?"

The man nodded, then asked in confusion.

Where is Zhou Yan?

Only an idiot would fight alone when he could call for reinforcements. After rescuing the Nine-Colored Deer, Zhou Yan called Zhuque. This was in the wild with poor signal, but Zhou Yan was lucky. With the help of the auspicious beasts, Zhou Yan managed to get through to Zhuque with almost no signal and asked Zhuque to find reinforcements to rescue him.

However, Zhou Yan's location was more than 500 kilometers away from the nearest stronghold, and with the difficulty of locating the enemy, it took them about an hour to reach Su Xiaowan, who was holding Zhou Yan's phone (Zhou Yan was afraid of losing his phone during the battle, so he had Su Xiaowan hold it to maintain contact with the reinforcements from the Vermilion Bird).