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

The school bell rang soon after, and Mi Qing's class entered the classroom. Without saying anything else, he wrote four words on the blackboard: "Four Schools Competition".

Then the homeroom teacher turned around and spoke to her child.

"Due to the recent epidemic, the Four Divine Beasts have decided to start the Four Schools Competition ahead of schedule, with the preliminary rounds scheduled for half a month later. In addition to the demigod-level competition, a competition area for demon-level awakened individuals will be opened for the first time, and participants from other states outside the four major academies will not be prohibited from registering."

An uproar erupted below.

This four-school competition has been reformed in a way that is completely different from what it used to be.

The homeroom teacher clapped his hands.

"My children, Lord Qinglong has spoken. In half a month, our entire school will go to Zhongzhou to watch the competition live."

"We want all the participants to know that our First Academy is number one among the four schools, and no one can challenge that!"

……

Xinxiang City, Zhuque Academy.

Zhou Yan and Lin An seemed to be walking on a pedestrian street.

While eating oden, Lin Anru mumbled something to Zhou Yan.

"Have you received the message? The school wants all of us to go to Zhongzhou City to observe the competition between the four schools."

Lin'an was in class today when the school teacher announced that they would be going to Zhongzhou in three days to observe the Four Schools Competition. The competition had been revamped and was completely different from before.

As someone who would inevitably participate in the four-school competition in the future, Lin Anru, this thick-skinned girl, listened carefully to the whole thing and was extremely surprised afterwards.

This four-school competition seems to be completely different from before.

Zhou Yan chuckled.

Two and a half months have passed since Zhou Yan returned from Penglai Island. To Zhou Yan's surprise, after he came out of the Mirage Dragon's dream, Zhongdou Xingjun disappeared. Zhou Yan successfully reunited with the Four Divine Beasts.

As for those awakened individuals who had their memories erased by the Mirage Dragon, they also woke up one after another and were interrogated by the Four Divine Beasts along with Zhou Yan.

The interrogation revealed a simple truth: Wenquxing had killed himself and utterly destroyed Zhao Wenhe.

After repeated interrogations yielded the same result, Zhou Yan was released. Afterward, Zhou Yan secretly gave the book "Qianqiu" to Xiao Yanjun, asking Xiao Yanjun to keep an eye on Zhao Wenhe.

Then the federal government rectified the chaos in the country.

After two and a half months, the federal government had taken control of its core territory, and the state governments outside of it had basically disappeared. The military, having committed various heinous acts, dared not surrender. So the four mythical beasts discussed the matter and decided to re-divide the pie.

The president, vice president, and defense minister of the federal government resigned to take responsibility, and Xuanwu temporarily took over as the head of the federal government. In addition, due to the death of many people in both houses of parliament from the plague, Xuanwu began to prepare to inject new blood into both houses of parliament.

Where does this new blood come from?

They were to choose from the strongest forces in those states that were still in turmoil.

The Four Divine Beasts plan to turn the four-school competition into a presidential election-like event, involving other states and using the results to determine the seats in the upper and lower houses of parliament.

Although this kind of election of members of Congress seems like a joke, given the current unrest in various states, Xuanwu can only find a way that is relatively simpler, better, and faster for everyone to distribute the benefits, and then use those benefits to get those members of Congress to suppress the unrest in their respective states.

Surprisingly, Xuanwu's idea of ​​distributing benefits by force quickly received a response from the demigods in other turbulent states.

Within a few months, Xuanwu had already made arrangements with the demigods in power in other states to settle their differences with fists at a later competition among the four schools.

Zhuque also specifically requested Zhou Yan to go to Zhongzhou City later to observe the weaknesses of the other contestants and make sure to secure more seats for Zhuque Academy in the upper and lower houses of parliament.

Zhou Yan had only one thought about this.

We should be able to see Mi Qing this time.

Chapter Two Requirements

Zhongzhou City, Wu Family Taoist Temple, Central Courtyard.

Chu Daoyun's driver stood in front of Chu Daoyun, who was sitting at her computer desk, and said gently.

"Dao Yun, the federal government has decided to redistribute the newly created power pie through the Four Schools Competition. You are undoubtedly the strongest in this competition, and Lord Baihu hopes that you can take up a position as a senator."

Chu Daoyun lowered her head.

"I am not interested."

The thought of so many men in the Senate sent chills down Chu Daoyun's spine and made her tremble. Chu Daoyun had never liked crowded places. Even when she was in the Capitol, she lived in a small room with no one else around and had never met the other members of Congress or wealthy businessmen who were under her protection.

The same is true now. Ever since defeating Leng Qing from the Vermilion Bird Academy, Chu Daoyun has stayed in her bedroom the only time she's been out, except when she was with Zhou Yan. She's been obediently staying at home.

The driver sighed.

“If this were in the past, Xiao Chu, I wouldn’t have thought anything of you saying this, but things are different now. At least half of the states in the country have fallen, and Xuanwu is eager to distribute its profits to appease the other states, while you, Xiao Chu…”

During the previous plague outbreak, Chu Daoyun lived alone in the Capitol Building. Thanks to her good fortune, none of the wealthy businessmen and high-ranking officials in the Capitol Building died. This was considered a favor done for these wealthy businessmen and high-ranking officials. As a result, all the wealthy businessmen and high-ranking officials at the time wanted to curry favor with Chu Daoyun.

In the event of another terrible plague in the future, having Chu Daoyun would be like having an extra life. Therefore, if Chu Daoyun could be appointed to the Senate and follow Xuanwu's lead, the new government team formed by Xuanwu would be much more stable.

Not many people/awakened individuals would be willing to offend Chu Daoyun.

As long as Xuanwu's government is stable, the state controlled by Baihu will be much better. At least the border areas will not see a large number of refugees every day that give Baihu a headache, and there will be no large influx of refugees that cause problems with the security of the cities.

A little-known fact is that a city's crime rate is linked to its unemployment rate. The lower the unemployment rate, the worse the crime rate. Some landlords and renters prefer to rent to people with stable jobs because people with stable jobs are less likely to commit crimes.

Therefore, when a group of refugees who have little or no jobs enter the city, it will inevitably lead to a huge increase in the crime rate, and when the crime rate increases, all sorts of problems will arise.

If things get out of hand big enough, everyone will have a headache.

When everyone is having a headache, all we can do is grit our teeth and cooperate.

Now White Tiger is cooperating with the federal government because without the federal government, it would be difficult for him to handle the current situation. He can't just set up machine guns on the border of his own state and fire a burst at any refugee who dares to come.

Chu Daoyun clenched her hands on her knees, then nodded.

"I understand, I'll think about it."

The female driver breathed a sigh of relief.

"Xiao Chu, think it over carefully. Although I also want you to live a carefree life, you can hold off in Congress for a while and wait for the situation to ease before resigning. At that time, Lord Baihu will support you, and Xuanwu won't dare to stop you."

After saying that, the female driver left.

Chu Daoyun's bedroom quickly fell silent. Chu Daoyun silently closed her eyes. In truth, Chu Daoyun had absolutely no desire to become a senator, but Baihu wanted her to go, and it could save lives.

A jet-black phoenix flew out and landed on Chu Daoyun's shoulder, the phoenix teasingly saying...

"What business is it of ours whether others live or die? As long as our little Daoyun lives happily, we don't need to care about other people's rights and wrongs."

A phoenix exuding ethereal beauty flew onto Chu Daoyun's other shoulder and scolded her.

"Putting aside the fact that Lord White Tiger has provided much support to our family and we need to repay him, how can we really turn a blind eye to the suffering of the other people and pretend we don't know anything about it?"

Then other sounds arose.

"In this world, the strong prey on the weak; the strong live and the weak die. Those who die are subject to the cycle of nature, so why bother with them?"

"I think we should help if we can. If too many people die, we won't have any movies, TV series, comics, or anime to watch."

"Waaaaah, it seems like one of my favorite artists has also died."

"You make it sound so easy. If we help, what will happen to all the mess that will follow?"

"Then let's just make excuses. We're not ordinary members of Congress. Which bastard dares to force us to listen to them?"

"If such a thing were to happen, would you dare to kill someone who is threatening you?"

"So what if he's killed? At worst, he can dress provocatively and wiggle his body in front of the TV cameras. Don't you know that six months ago, a man ran over and killed a mother and daughter, and because he was too handsome, countless netizens demanded a reduced sentence or even acquittal? We're much, much better looking than that stinky man."

A jumble of thoughts kept swirling in Chu Daoyun's head. After a while, Chu Daoyun herself spoke.

"enough!"

All other thoughts shut up. Chu Daoyun clearly felt that these thoughts were waiting for her to speak. Although these thoughts were all her own, they dared not contend with Chu Daoyun if she wanted to do something.

Of course, most of the time, Chu Daoyun was indifferent, so she didn't care what these thoughts wanted her to do and just did it.

Anyway, as a true god, and with the White Tiger as her backer, she usually has a bunch of people to clean up her messes when she makes mistakes.

It's different now.

Chu Daoyun's face flushed as she murmured.

"Lord White Tiger wants me to become a senator?"

Chu Daoyun picked up her phone from her computer desk and dialed Baihu's number.

The white tiger's voice came out quickly.

"Is it Daoyun?"

Baihu's voice sounded slightly tired, and Chu Daoyun suspected that he had just been sleeping and had been woken up by the phone ringing. However, as a true god in Baihu's camp, Baihu dared not show Chu Daoyun any displeasure, and even though he had been woken up, he didn't say anything.

Suppressing her guilt, Chu Daoyun spoke gently.

"Well, Lord White Tiger, there's something I'd like to tell you..."

"Is it about me wanting you to be a senator?"

On the other end of the phone, Baihu sighed. The states controlled by Baihu were currently under high pressure from military suppression. Baihu urgently needed to cooperate with the federal government, which was under the command of Xuanwu, to gradually reduce the pressure caused by the previous plague.

Therefore, it would be most suitable for Chu Daoyun to take action.

Many high-ranking officials and wealthy individuals are willing to listen to her.

"It's not just this."

Chu Daoyun bit her lip, her face turning even redder.

"Hmm, Lord White Tiger, do you still remember Zhou Yan?"

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone.

Chu Daoyun ignored all of that and told Zhou Yan about going to the movie theater earlier.

"...Actually, I knew that Xiao Yan poisoned my drink..."

"...I was thinking that if I poisoned him and we became intimate, then Lord White Tiger, you wouldn't be able to interfere with my relationship with Xiao Yan..."

"...I like Xiaoyan, and I want to be with him..."

Chu Daoyun took a deep breath.

"Lord White Tiger, if you could promise to postpone the four-school competition, Xiao Yan and I, um..."

Chu Daoyun was too shy to continue.

……

Inside a bedroom of a luxury villa.

Lying in bed, Baihu, who had just been woken up, held her phone, put it away, and sighed. This little girl doesn't know that Zhou Yan had already seen through her little schemes.

She still thought she was a pure and innocent white lotus flower in Zhou Yan's heart.

However, this matter is hard to say, so Baihu has been keeping it from Chu Daoyun, which is why Chu Daoyun is still indulging in wishful thinking.

"I see. There's such a story behind this. I was wondering how someone as capable as Dao Yun could be so easily drugged by a little poison."

"But...that thieving monkey is fickle..."

Baihu wanted to persuade her, but Chu Daoyun interrupted him.

"As long as Lord Baihu allows me to date Xiaoyan, I will become a senator. I will do whatever Lord Baihu asks me to do or say!"

White Tiger: "..."

It's not that I'm stopping you from doing this; it's that Zhou Yan is looking down on you.

Baihu's lips twitched. To be honest, he wanted Chu Daoyun to give him leverage in Congress, and he was quite eager to do so, but Zhou Yan's side...

That monkey never liked Chu Daoyun; in fact, he feared her like the plague.

and so……

Baihu changed his tone and said gently.

"Since Daoyun, you're so fond of that stinky monkey, how about this: when the four schools compete, I won't stop you from dating Zhou Yan, and I'll also talk to Zhuque to create opportunities for you. However, that stinky monkey has a temper, so I can't just tell Zhou Yan directly that my Daoyun likes him and wants him to do this or that with you. Let's just have a free love relationship."

White Tiger felt bitter.

Whether or not you can take down that stinky monkey depends on Daoyun herself.

That's right. If you take the blame away from yourself and push everything onto Chu Daoyun, then if you fail, it will be because Chu Daoyun didn't try hard enough, not because you didn't do your job well.

……