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

"If you're so good, come up here yourself! Let's see how many moves you can withstand from Junior Wu!"

Nan Batian possessed a unique bloodline, making him tough and resilient, and his wounds healed quickly. This allowed him to withstand Wu Shanfu's sword strikes and exchange blows with her. The other students were not as tough as Nan Batian, and in a real fight, they would be far more pathetic than him.

Wu Shanfu silently walked to the edge of the training field and sat down next to Lu Zhi.

The other top students went up one after another to team up with their classmates and train their combat skills.

Wu Shanfu glanced at it a few times and found it rather uninteresting.

Lu Zhi glanced at Wu Shanfu's face out of the corner of his eye and sneered.

"Thinking about that jerk from Suzaku Academy again?"

Wu Shanfu said seriously.

"Master Zhou is not that kind of person."

After the curse of Lin'an, Zhou Yan went to the Ten Thousand Miao Mountains under the protection of the White Tiger and the Vermilion Bird. Zhou Yan's sudden departure caused a huge uproar among the students of the Vermilion Bird Academy and the White Tiger Academy. Coupled with some rumors with only 1% truth, the students of the two academies began to spread rumors that Zhou Yan deliberately approached Chu Daoyun under the guise of the cursed Lin'an, and then took advantage of Chu Daoyun's unpreparedness to rape her.

Chu Daoyun immediately beat Zhou Yan up. Afterwards, Zhuque came forward and discussed the compensation with Baihu, then kicked Zhou Yan out of the Wu Family Taoist Temple.

Because Zhou Yan's interpersonal relationships within the Vermilion Bird Academy and the White Tiger Academy were not very good, everyone believed these rumors that belittled his character, especially the students of the White Tiger Academy, who routinely spoke ill of Zhou Yan to Wu Shanfu, the demigod beauty.

There was no truth to the claim that "three men can make a tiger." Wu Shanfu, who trusted Zhou Yan implicitly and even idolized him, believed that Zhou Yan could not possibly have done such a thing and that he had been framed.

It's a very simple logic. When Wu Shanfu heard that Zhou Yan and Chu Daoyun were getting close, the teachers and students at her school expressed strong dissatisfaction. Some teachers even threatened to sever the relationship between Zhou Yan and Chu Daoyun.

We can't let our own cabbages be trampled like this.

Given these words and attitudes, Zhou Yan was quickly kicked out. Wu Shanfu, judging from the black stockings she was wearing, knew that Zhou Yan must have been persuaded to leave by Bai Hu with reason (physical persuasion).

The students of White Tiger Academy could have figured this out with a little thought, but including Lu Zhi and Nan Batian, all of them, driven by strong subjective emotions, chose to believe that Zhou Yan had betrayed Chu Daoyun.

Zhou Yan is a complete scumbag.

This is like some magical girls who think they have a strong will and that even if they get captured, they will never lose to the villainous tentacle monster.

Just like a childhood sweetheart who feels that their position as the rightful wife is very secure and will never lose to someone who suddenly appears out of nowhere.

Just like some people firmly believe that sweet soy milk is the only authentic kind.

Wu Shanfu found it laughable that people's judgments were influenced by their own opinions, and that they even tried to impose their ideas on their classmates.

Two more pairs of students went up, and after they came down, a teacher from the White Tiger Academy walked out of the training ground and waved.

"Wu Shanfu, Lu Zhi, come here for a moment."

Wu Shanfu and Lu Zhi got up and went to the teacher at the door.

"Follow me."

The teacher led Wu Shanfu and Lu Zhi to the outside of the Wu Family Martial Arts Hall. The three of them got into the car, and the teacher turned the car around and drove onto a road.

Lu Zhi, sitting in the passenger seat, fastened his seatbelt and then asked.

"Teacher, where are you taking us?"

The teacher who was driving responded.

"To the Capitol Building."

Lu Zhi was taken aback, while Wu Shanfu in the back seat frowned slightly.

What are we going to the Capitol for?

Lu Zhi looked completely bewildered. As a top student at White Tiger Academy, he no longer needed to bully ordinary people to prove his superior class. So Lu Zhi could guarantee that he had not committed any crimes during this period, and that it was the Second Security Bureau that would arrest him for any crimes.

Why go to the Capitol Building?

The teacher explained.

Do you know about the recent flu outbreak?

Lu Zhi nodded.

"Is that the flu that kills 300 people a day?"

Every year, new strains of influenza emerge in the Eastern United States, and large numbers of people die from these new strains.

Therefore, when the time came this year and the flu was spreading, Lu Zhi, who had already been desensitized by the repeated stimulation, did not take this matter very seriously.

The teacher drove the car around a bend, then stopped at a red light, and then said...

"This flu is abnormal. The National Health Ministry has found that only 5% of current flu deaths are caused by the flu virus."

Lu Zhi nodded knowingly.

"So you want me to take action?"

Lu Zhi's bloodline is the Fei Niu, which, simply put, is a super poison bag carrying various toxins and viruses all over its body. Therefore, there is a legend that when the Fei Niu appears, a great plague will strike the world.

This flu is a bit tricky to deal with. Lu Zhi guessed that the government probably wanted him to get sick so that he could get flu antibodies.

However, human antibodies are scarce and expensive. Lu Zhi estimated that his side could only produce enough antibodies to supply a few hundred people per month at most. Large-scale vaccination would still require modern medicine.

Just ...

Fei Niu looked at the rearview mirror above his head.

If the goal is simply to get infected with the virus and develop antibodies, why bring Wu Shanfu along?

It is important to know that the physical fitness of awakened individuals is far superior to that of normal people. Many awakened individuals can survive many terminal illnesses that are incurable for normal people without needing antibodies.

In other words, it's impossible to increase antibody acquisition by infecting a large number of awakened individuals.

The teacher driving the car stared out the window at the traffic light that had started counting down from five seconds, and said something.

"Because this matter is very complicated, Lord Qinglong sent a message that one of his demon-level awakened individuals has died of illness."

Fei Niu and Wu Shanfu were both shocked.

While awakened beings at the Demon or Ghost levels might be defeated by normal diseases, at the Demon level, the human body can generate extraordinary powers such as sword energy and magic. These extraordinary powers are extremely powerful and condensed. For example, a fully awakened Sword Ape can slice a tank in half with a leaf imbued with sword energy.

Therefore, they are immune to diseases that are considered terminal by normal people, such as cancer and AIDS.

For a Demon-level Awakened to die from illness, it would have to be of the same level, such as an extraordinary disease concocted by Lu Zhi, to kill a Demon-level Awakened.

Lu Zhi guessed.

"Does the government believe that this flu outbreak is being controlled by a powerful awakened group?"

The teacher shook his head.

"I don't know. I just received a call from Lord White Tiger, asking me to take you to see Lord Black Tortoise. Lord White Tiger also instructed that you should do whatever Lord Black Tortoise asks you to do, and you must not shirk or slack off."

Lu Zhi and Wu Shanfu nodded.

The teacher drove for another eighteen minutes until the car arrived at the entrance of the Capitol Building. After the armed security guards at the entrance of the Capitol Building checked their identities, the teacher drove to the underground parking lot. The teacher left in the car, while Lu Zhi and Wu Shanfu took the elevator all the way to the fifteenth floor of the Capitol Building.

The elevator doors opened, and a secretary from the secretariat, who had been waiting, led Lu Zhi and Wu Shanfu to a conference room on the left.

The meeting room is open-plan, with an overall structure in the shape of a quarter circle. The seats for the members of parliament rise in tiers along the quarter circle, while at the very front of the meeting room, which is also the lowest point, Xuanwu sits with the president, vice president, and three demigod-level city gods, who are also core members of the House of Representatives, chatting about something.

Lu Zhi and Wu Shanfu quickly took their seats. Over the next half hour, more and more Awakened Ones arrived at the conference room. Xuanwu, who was sitting in the front seat, saw that almost everyone had arrived, so he turned on the microphone and spoke into it.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this situation is sudden, please forgive us for asking you to gather together."

Xuanwu wanted to get up and bow to express his apology, but after thinking about it, he didn't get up. He was a little proud and couldn't bring himself to lower his posture in front of a group of juniors.

Xuanwu clapped his hands.

Two people in full hazmat suits carried a stretcher containing a dead body and placed it in front of Xuanwu's main seat.

Xuanwu waved his hand.

The two men carrying the stretcher quickly left.

Xuanwu spoke again.

"About two months ago, the Ministry of Health realized that the time had come and a new flu was starting to spread. In the past two months, I have received many documents, all saying how many people have been infected with the flu and how many have died."

The awakened members of parliament gradually showed signs of impatience.

Most people would hate the three key points a leader makes, the five rules to follow under each key point, and the eighteen principles to follow under each rule.

The same applies to those who are awakened.

Xuanwu quickly cut off all the unnecessary words that were about to follow.

“Originally, these data were all normal. It’s the flu; every year people get infected and die. But then we realized something was wrong. This time, too many people died, and…”

Xuanwu looked at the dead man lying on a stretcher in front of the main stage.

"Most of the deaths were not caused by the flu virus."

Everyone knows that the flu comes every year, and everyone knows that the flu can kill people. So when large-scale deaths first occurred, even if the National Health Bureau found something was wrong, such as this flu clearly affecting the lungs, most of the deaths were sudden cardiac arrest.

At the time, all the medical experts in the health bureau felt that there might be many mechanisms of this virus that they had not yet fully understood, so they applied for a large amount of funding to start research on the virus.

After a month of research, a large number of medical experts suddenly discovered that even healthy people who had not been infected with the flu were beginning to experience large-scale cardiac arrest and death.

Medical scientists then brought these people who had died from cardiac arrest over for autopsies and compared them with those who had died from the flu.

Then, a month later, around this time, while the experts had applied for a lot of funding but still hadn't figured it out, the number of ordinary people suffering cardiac arrest increased exponentially, and even the awakened ones started dying.

Xuanwu briefly summarized his words, then pointed to the corpse in front of him.

“Everyone come and take a look. Who can figure out the cause of this person’s death? Who can find a solution? Putting everything else aside, I, Wu Ankang, will make sure that Xuan Shui will provide him with plenty of benefits in the future.”

The council seats erupted in commotion. Dong Dou Xingjun, who was sitting in the very center, suddenly stood up and said with a solemn expression.

"It's probably not that simple."

All eyes were focused on Dongdou Xingjun, the awakened true god. Dongdou Xingjun stared at the corpse in front of Xuanwu and spoke.

“Yesterday, that guy Lin Qingxuan told me he wanted me to do some divination.”

"result."

The chubby, somewhat cute-looking Dongdou Xingjun began to shake his head.

"I calculated that the Big Dipper was bright, and its starlight was dark and had an eerie red hue. This was an omen of an impending great calamity, with countless deaths and injuries. I then divined the fates of several dead people. Halfway through the divination, my three-thousand-year-old tortoise shell creation compass shattered."

Dongdou Xingjun shook his head even faster.

"There's more to this than meets the eye; we don't know who's behind it."

On the main stage, Xuanwu and the others looked at each other.

The bald and somewhat overweight Congressman Guo Chenghuang asked Xuanwu.

"Lord Xuanwu, the Eastern Dipper Star Lord has only been awakened for ten years and has not yet mastered his innate divine power. However, the Central Dipper Star Lord is extremely skilled in divination. Why don't you take the trouble to invite the Central Dipper Star Lord to perform a divination?"

Everyone's attention turned to Xuanwu's face again.

Xuanwu smiled wryly.

"I'd like to, but I don't know where that old blind man Zhongdou has gone lately, I can't find him."

"In short..."

Xuanwu nodded his chin at the corpse in front of him.

"Everyone, come and take a look. It's always good to pool our wisdom and efforts."

As a large number of awakened beings descended, Lu Zhi followed the flow of people to the body of the dead man. This awakened being, who was considered a virus king, did not mince words and went directly to the dead man, then began to touch the man's face and legs.

After touching it myself and then feeling it again with my innate supernatural power, an awkward thing happened.

No new virus or traces of the new virus were found in Luzhi.

The corpse appears to be from someone who died suddenly after a normal cardiac arrest.

……

Zhongzhou City, Daxing Hotel.

Little Yama stood on the roof of the Daxing Hotel, looking out.

The Eastern Dipper Star Lord divined that the Big Dipper Star was shining with an eerie red light, foretelling countless deaths and injuries in the future. Meanwhile, Little Yama, as the second-in-command of the Underworld, discovered a week ago that everyone in the entire Zhongzhou City had a deathly palpable on their face.

Including Wenquxing and Xuanwu, they all looked like they were about to die, as if it wouldn't be surprising if they died at any time.

"Ok?"

Little Yama looked in a certain direction and, relying on the authority of the Central Ghost Emperor, saw several people suddenly clutching their hearts and collapsing.

Beside Little Yama, an old man dressed as the God of Literature, looking in the same direction Little Yama was gazing, asked in confusion.