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

Zhou Yan scrutinized the Taoist's face and asked again.

Did you used to enjoy gambling?

The Taoist priest's eyes slowly widened.

Zhou Yan emphasized his words.

"Pai Gow, poker, Dou Dizhu, Thirteen Points, Mahjong..."

The Taoist priest suddenly spoke.

"Self-drawn pair!"

Zhou Yan: "..."

It seems they still remember things from the past.

Zhou Yan shook his head.

"You can go now, I have nothing to say to you."

The young Taoist priest left.

The nine-colored deer beside Zhou Yan approached, and the little girl asked in confusion.

"Brother, what are you doing?"

Zhou Yan sighed.

"I was just thinking about the hint given by the Goddess Nuwa. Never mind, I'll try again. I hope my judgment is correct."

Zhou Yan took a deep breath, stood up, and walked to the Taoist priest who was resting after finishing his Five Animal Frolics.

"Fellow Daoists."

The Taoist priests who were resting all looked at Zhou Yan, who spoke to them with a serious expression.

"This humble Taoist, ah, bah, Bai Ze was flying in mid-air earlier when he discovered a cave entrance in the back mountain of Shanyang Cave. After looking at it carefully, Bai Ze found that the cave contained a treasure. That treasure, it shone with auspicious light, and it was clear at a glance that it was not a thing of this world. However, it was timid and kept it hidden, afraid that it would be captured and used to do bad things."

A young Taoist priest gasped in shock.

"Treasure, in the back mountain? I've been in Shanyang Cave Heaven for fifteen years, how come I've never encountered one?"

The others on the path nodded in agreement. They had all been in this mountain cave for over ten or twenty years, so how come they didn't know there was a treasure in the back mountain of their own homes?

Zhou Yan responded cheerfully.

"That treasure has the ability to arrange the Eight Trigrams. There is an Eight Trigrams maze at the entrance. Normal people can only wander around the entrance of this maze and can never get in. But Bai Ze has a pair of them."

Zhou Yan pointed to his eyes.

"Those eyes, what can be hidden under those eyes? I can even see the ancestors of that treasure for eight generations."

The Taoist priests below all looked at Zhou Yan with envy in their eyes.

The old Taoist priest who had previously taught the Five Animal Frolics asked in confusion.

"Is there really a Bagua Bewitching Array? I've been in Shanyang Cave for sixty years, and I've walked through that back mountain at least a thousand times. I've never heard of such a treasure."

Zhou Yan said confidently.

"Bai Ze's eyes have surveyed all the heavens; how could he possibly deceive you Daoist masters!?"

The old Taoist priest and the other Taoist priests nodded in agreement. They believed Zhou Yan's words; Bai Ze's identity was too frightening.

Zhou Yan patted the head of the nine-colored deer beside him.

"Little one, do you want to go see what this treasure is?"

The nine-colored deer happily circled around Zhou Yan.

"Go away, go away! I want to see Qingcai! I want to see Qingcai!"

The other Taoists also showed expressions of longing, but Zhou Yan waved his hand and said...

"Esteemed Daoists, the Eight Trigrams Bewitching Array is extremely dangerous. Let Bai Ze take Qing Cai over there to subdue the treasure. You may all wait here for Bai Ze's return, and he will then share the treasure with you."

Zhou Yan looked at the old Taoist priest.

The old Taoist priest was reasonable and nodded.

"Rest assured, Immortal, I will keep an eye on these little ones."

Zhou Yan transformed the nine-colored deer into a little girl, picked her up, and walked towards the back mountain. Once the Taoists behind him couldn't see him anymore, Zhou Yan stepped on the void and flew into the air towards the back mountain.

This "stepping on the void" technique is quite practical, but it's too low-class. Being able to fly by stepping on space makes the movements too exaggerated. Think about how other people have wings on their backs, control the wind, or fly on clouds and mist, while you're just running around wildly with your legs swinging behind you.

The more Zhou Yan thought about it, the less classy it seemed, so he didn't dare to show his true colors in front of others.

The back mountain is three kilometers away from the hilltop where Zhou Yan was just now. This back mountain is not small, stretching for hundreds of miles, with countless hilltops and basins inside. However, there are no ferocious beasts or poisonous insects. For this reason, the group of Taoists from Shanyang Cave Heaven come to the back mountain every day to find some wild fruits and cut some firewood. Over time, this back mountain has become one of the places that the group of Taoists are most familiar with.

But these Taoist priests never expected that such a familiar place would actually hide a treasure.

Zhou Yanfei glanced at Baili Mountain from mid-air and then smiled.

In Zhou Yan's line of sight, there was a small ravine with a row of words hanging outside: "Bagua Maze".

Zhou Yan flew towards the Bagua Bewildering Array. This Bagua Bewildering Array mainly creates illusions and delusions. Normal people would unconsciously wander out of it if they walked in, but Zhou Yan ignored the illusions and even saw the terrain clearly in mid-air.

Zhou Yan landed at the edge of the Bagua Maze, then walked straight ahead, leaving clear footprints on the ground. After walking for about half a century, Zhou Yan arrived at a small cave about the height of a person.

So far, everything has been exactly as Zhou Yan described.

Zhou Yan took a deep breath and entered the cave.

A few seconds later, a small figure emerged from the edge of the Bagua Maze and followed Zhou Yan's footprints to the cave he had entered. The small figure peeked out, curiously examining the interior of the cave. Before the small figure could see clearly, a flash of white light appeared, and Zhou Yan emerged from the dark corner of the cave, walking up to the small figure.

The small figure trembled, about to run away, when Zhou Yan spoke.

"Since you're already here, how about I show you inside?"

The small figure paused, turned around, and the light shone on it, revealing it to be a young Taoist boy dressed in a Taoist robe.

The young Taoist priest said with delight.

“Immortal, I am a Taoist priest from Shanyang Grotto Heaven, with the Taoist name Beichenzi.”

Zhou Yan stared at the young Taoist boy's face for a moment.

What that kid just said was utter nonsense. When Zhou Yan came to Shanyang Cave, he summoned all the Taoists there and used his omniscient abilities to examine them, but he couldn't find this Bei Chenzi.

However, Zhou Yan believed that if he took Bei Chenzi back now, everyone in Shanyang Cave would probably recognize him.

Zhou Yan took out the nine-colored deer beside him, put his arm around the little guy's neck, and said wistfully.

"I discovered something in the Linshan Cave."

The nine-colored deer asked curiously.

"What did you find out, brother?"

"Why did all the Awakened Ones who disappeared from Mount Dawu go to the Linshan Cave Heaven?"

From the moment Zhou Yan entered Linshan Cave Heaven, eleven people were missing from the summit of Dawu Mountain, and all eleven of them were in Linshan Cave Heaven.

According to Zhou Yan's original estimate, the Taoist temples in this blessed land should all belong to the awakened ones who went missing in the past, so the missing awakened ones should have randomly gone to different blessed lands.

But the reality was beyond Zhou Yan's expectations. At that time, Zhou Yan had a feeling that it was because of his own personality that all of this happened.

Because Zhou Yan had been to Peach Blossom Spring before, he couldn't draw this conclusion. So Zhou Yan came to Shanyang Cave Heaven again and stayed there for a while. People from Shanyang Cave Heaven also came, five awakened beings from Dawu Mountain.

Five more Awakened Ones were also missing from Mount Dawu.

When Zhou Yan was in Linshan Cave Heaven, all the Awakened Ones who had disappeared from Dawu Mountain went to Linshan Cave Heaven. When Zhou Yan was in Shanyang Cave Heaven, all the Awakened Ones who had disappeared came to Shanyang Cave Heaven.

At this point, Zhou Yan could make a judgment: wherever he was, that was where the missing person was.

Even now, when Zhou Yan casually made up a story about a Bagua maze array and treasures in the back mountain, a Bagua maze array actually appeared there. As for whether there were any treasures inside the cave protected by the Bagua maze array, Zhou Yan couldn't be bothered to care.

Zhou Yan just wanted to find a random excuse to test the waters, even if the test was naive.

Zhou Yan stared at the young Taoist boy in front of him.

The young Taoist's true nature was also revealed.

Name: Bei Chenzi.

Age: 1205.

Bloodline: Dragon King - Mirage Dragon (Awakening Level 95%)

State: Soul detached, devoid of self and knowledge.

Bloodline Awakening Passive Skill.

A grand dream spanning millennia: all things in the dream continue to grow and exist.

Microscopic perception: Ability to transform the existence of living things from real to illusory (Don't worry, we're immune).

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Chapter Thirty-Five: Kaslan's Big Eyes Congratulate EDG on Winning the Championship

A white police officer once took on a case in which the victim was a woman who had been dismembered and dumped in a remote mountain area for a long time before being discovered. The woman's identity had been investigated and found to be that she was a married woman. Her husband and relatives had been thoroughly questioned and cleared of suspicion. Her social relationships had also been briefly investigated, but no problems were found.

Some police officers said that this was probably a case of murder committed on a whim by the perpetrator.

In fact, the police are not afraid of how sophisticated the murder method is, nor are they afraid of how meticulous the murderer's thinking is. There are no perfect people in this world, so there will naturally be no perfect murder method. No matter how carefully a murder is done, there will always be clues left behind.

Unless it is a spur-of-the-moment, unplanned, and unmotivated murder, this kind of random killing not only makes it impossible to identify the suspect through social connections, but even if some evidence is found, it is impossible to identify the murderer.

When the veteran police officer took over the case, it was defined as a case with no identification, no proof, and no evidence. However, the veteran officer was clearly more experienced than the young officer handling the case. He quickly learned from the case that the deceased had taken 500 yuan with him to buy things before his death, and that the 500 yuan could not be found after his death.

To be honest, 500 yuan is unlikely to attract the attention of a robber, and the victim is unlikely to risk their life for 500 yuan.

Yes, if the victim really lost his life because of this 500 yuan, then who would harm someone for such a small amount of money?

The veteran police officer turned his attention to the underage children.

Adults understand the consequences of robbery; it won't kill you. Only children don't understand the difference between what's important and what's not.

He quickly identified underage suspects during his investigation. After using intimidating language, these minors, who had no connection to the victims, confessed to their crimes.

In short, he ran out of money at an internet cafe, so he robbed one with a knife, but accidentally killed someone. To avoid being exposed, he dismembered the body and fled.

It was a very simple impromptu crime, but because it was unpremeditated, unplanned, and without any connections, the police investigated it for a long time until an experienced officer clearly sensed something was wrong and finally solved the case.

When the media interviewed this experienced veteran police officer, praising him for his brilliant strategies and far greater experience than his juniors, the veteran officer simply smiled and said so.

"I'm not much better than my juniors. The only difference between me and them is that I think from a different perspective."

Some things are simply a matter of changing one's mindset. Once you find the right direction, the difficulties you face can be easily overcome.

So when Zhou Yan saw the words "Wrong" left by Nuwa in the brazier where he burned the imperial edict, he began to ponder why it was wrong.

The mistake was that Nuwa couldn't give Zhou Yan the Map of Mountains and Rivers, so Zhou Yan made a mistake in his request, and things remain the same as they are now. This place is not inside the Map of Mountains and Rivers at all.

Zhou Yan's many doubts vanished with the appearance of Bei Chenzi.

This place is not a map of mountains and rivers, but an illusion created by a mirage dragon.

"I'm a little disappointed."

Zhou Yan looked at Bei Chenzi.

Bei Chenzi, the young Taoist disciple, tilted his head and asked in confusion.

"Why are you disappointed, Immortal?"

Zhou Yan said helplessly.

"I originally thought that something else would give me away."

Wenquxing and Zhou Yan had said that the cleansing mechanism on Penglai Island was no longer under anyone's control. The place was like a pre-programmed computer program that cleansed people back and forth according to time.

Zhou Yan thought so too, so his test was a test of the operating mechanism of this blessed land. As a result, he failed to find the program and instead a giant mirage dragon appeared.

and……

Zhou Yan stared at Bei Chenzi's status bar. Bei Chenzi's status was "soul detached, selfless and lacking knowledge." If the Omniscient were to explain these two sentences again, it would mean that Bei Chenzi's memories and rationality had been taken away by some unknown monster, and the entire dragon was in a daze, only able to act according to instinct.

Upon seeing this explanation, Zhou Yan understood. Modern automated design programs first require learning C language and various logics, then running them to check for bugs, and finally delivering the designed software to customers to run on computers or industrial equipment.