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

The camera pans closer to Xie Xin, who is training on a treadmill.

At this moment, Xie Xin was wearing a pair of comfortable sports shorts and a T-shirt, and sweat kept seeping from her skin, soaking her clothes.

This is where the gender advantage comes in. The previous comment by Biyanhu only got 5% viewership, but Xie Xin’s graceful and youthful figure immediately tripled the viewership to 15%.

"Miss Xie, what will you do once you become a member of the House of Representatives?"

A microphone was held up to Xie Xin's mouth as he ran, and Xie Xin said calmly.

"I will introduce a policy in the future that prohibits censorship of any type of anime series."

The interview ended there.

The host reappeared on camera, smiling professionally.

"Alright, our two congressional candidates have finished explaining their ideas. Now..."

The host reached out towards the ring.

"Let's enjoy this exciting and thrilling match!"

The camera then shifted to the competition field.

Having obtained the intelligence, Xie Xin drew his long sword from his waist, while the Green-Eyed Tiger charged towards him with a sinister grin.

The speed of the Blue-Eyed Tiger was close to the speed of sound, a speed that normal people could not see at all, while Xie Xin was merely swinging his sword.

The audience members present had seen too many fighting matches, boxing matches, and Sanda matches in their daily lives. However, since Awakened individuals have combat power far exceeding that of humans, and because Awakened individuals can easily find good jobs, they rarely appear in fighting matches.

Therefore, when Xie Xin swung his sword, directly cleaving the ground a hundred meters in front of him, and the sword energy even passed over the heads of many spectators despite the Awakened being outside who were deliberately restricting the aftershocks of the battle, the audience immediately began to applaud enthusiastically.

This kind of battle, which far exceeds human limits, is simply thrilling to watch.

"Ah……"

The blue-eyed tiger that charged toward Xie Xin sneered and, without a word, swung its claw. Its claw tore through the air, creating a wind-blade-like effect that directly split the ground around Xie Xin into three channels, each ten meters long and three meters wide.

Xie Xin immediately swung his sword. The sword energy, enhanced by the "Heart Sword," broke free from the limitations of space and attacked in directions that the Blue-Eyed Tiger could not predict. However, the Blue-Eyed Tiger was a fierce man who rose to power in Indiana through killing. Every time at a critical moment, the Blue-Eyed Tiger could rely on his intuition to avoid Xie Xin's sword energy and then attack with his own Tiger Claw Kung Fu.

To the audience, all of this appeared as if the Jade Tiger had vanished, Xie Xin was constantly moving and swinging his sword, and the ground was cracking and breaking, with huge trenches and delicate sword aura marks appearing one after another, before the turmoil stopped in the stands outside the arena.

If it weren't for the Awakened Ones outside the arena preventing the aftermath of the battle from spreading, these two highly awakened Demon-level Awakened Ones could easily have reduced the stadium to ruins.

VIP room on the fifth floor.

Zhou Yan closed his eyes and began to look into the future. In the next five seconds, Xie Xin and the Azure-Eyed Tiger were still evenly matched. In the next ten seconds, the Azure-Eyed Tiger suddenly shattered the entire arena with a single slap. The Azure-Eyed Tiger had the ability to control the wind, which allowed it to fly for a short time. Without the ground, Xie Xin, the sword ape who couldn't fly, began to struggle. According to the probability gap of "all things are illusory," Xie Xin's win rate would drop to 20% in the next ten seconds. The win rate would only recover when the Azure-Eyed Tiger needed to catch its breath and landed.

That does not work.

Zhou Yan began to manipulate the probability, making Xie Xin's sword energy faster and more cunning, and increasing the probability of the Jade Tiger's attacks going astray, as well as raising the likelihood of various negative buffs appearing.

After this series of actions, Xie Xin, who was originally evenly matched with Bi Yanhu on the field, suddenly began to suppress Bi Yanhu unilaterally. Bi Yanhu was caught off guard by several sword strikes and several gaps appeared on his body.

"Ah……"

Zhou Yan let out a soft chuckle.

Why bother?

It was the voice of Wuquxing. Suddenly, Xiao Yanjun on the other side of Zhou Yan snapped his fingers.

In Zhou Yan's eyes, three seconds later, the Green-Eyed Tiger's face suddenly darkened, and he slid to the ground. By the time the Green-Eyed Tiger got up, Xie Xin had already placed his sword against the Green-Eyed Tiger's neck.

The outcome was decided, and the whole stadium cheered.

Zhou Yan opened his eyes and looked at Little Yama.

Little Yama shrugged.

“I don’t like Indiana guys either; those guys only hinder my national moral rebuilding plan.”

On the other side, Wuquxing nodded slightly and then asked.

"Young man, were you secretly helping that girl fight against the Blue-Eyed Tiger just now?"

"Um……"

Zhou Yan looked at the arena, where the future the young man had foreseen was already unfolding. Xie Xin placed his sword against the neck of the Blue-Eyed Tiger.

The crowd cheered.

Wu Quxing stood up, walked past Zhou Yan to the glass wall, and looked at Xie Xin, who was raising his hand to express his gratitude to the audience on the competition field, and asked again.

"Young man, is it because Xie Xin said that no anime series of any type can be censored from now on that you're helping Xie Xin?"

Zhou Yan was shocked.

Do I look like that kind of person?

"Don't be shy."

Wu Quxing turned around, his face full of sarcasm.

"Six months ago, someone held a national wife election. The result was that the person who got the most votes was not a beauty like Shin-chan, Ichihara, or Nie Xiaoqian, but a stinky man dressed as Rei Ayanami."

Zhou Yan said awkwardly.

"Brother Sun's butt is indeed very perky."

Wu Quxing shook his head.

"Do you know Huangmizhou? That's my hometown. I saw on the news a few days ago that during the state assembly election a year ago, a state government employee got a brainwave and actually put an anime girl in the candidate's seat. Then, during the online voting, this girl overwhelmingly surpassed the other candidates."

Zhou Yan shrugged.

"Who isn't having fun these days?"

Zhou Yan recalled a beauty pageant held at a university near his home. A lot of pretty girls didn't get selected, but Billy Wang won the crown.

Honestly, if Zhou Yan were from that school, he definitely wouldn't choose those beautiful class beauties, school beauties, or department beauties; he would definitely give his vote to Billy King.

Simply put, it's fun.

Little Yama added a comment, overjoyed.

"Little guy, this isn't about whether you're a funny person or not. Have you realized that you've just been doing something that could influence the future of the country?"

Zhou Yan opened his mouth slightly, looking astonished.

Little Yama gave a look to a mummified eunuch, who then came over and handed Little Yama a glass of juice. Little Yama took a sip through the straw and said something meaningful.

"Many awakened individuals pursue greater power simply to do whatever they want, but I hope that those of us who possess greater power do so to refrain from doing certain things."

Chapter Five: Sincerity

Zhou Yan felt that after Xiao Yanjun said those words, the things he had just done seemed to have become somewhat... immoral and heavy.

"I just……"

"I don't think those guys from Indiana are good enough to be leaders in Congress."

That's why I helped Xie Xin.

Wu Quxing walked back to Zhou Yan's side and sat down, offering words of comfort.

"Don't overthink it, and don't give such a messy explanation. We're not criticizing you. Let me tell you a story. When I was a city councilor in my hometown, of course, the management team needed its own leadership team. In order to set an example for the city government, I decided that the leadership team would never include people with connections or those who used back channels."

"After that, I firmly rejected all the candidates recommended by my relatives and other city councilors, and went to find an old squad leader in my family. This old squad leader was amazing. He was an outstanding accountant with extensive connections at the grassroots level. Because he always had a bad temper, he only worked as a community accountant in a small community."

“I promoted him to the position of accountant and general affairs officer of the municipal government. I thought that by doing so I was promoting talent without being bound by convention, and that others would think I was handling things impartially, like a reincarnation of Bao Zheng.”

Wu Quxing began to shake his head.

"As a result, rumors circulated in the government that I was practicing nepotism and that I had hired my own former team leader as an accountant."

"That's when I realized that if someone wants to criticize you from every angle, they'll always find a way to do it. It's no use trying to explain; they won't listen."

Wu Quxing pointed to his chest.

"So only you know how honest you are."

Zhou Yan nodded secretly. He thought of Dongfang Yu, whose inner demons he had exposed before. In public, Dongfang Yu was a powerful and imposing figure, a high-level elite, a vice principal of a prestigious university, and a director of numerous companies. But in private, he had done many despicable things. Even if these despicable things only happened in a small circle, and even if these despicable things were kept secret for a long time, Dongfang Yu still slowly accumulated inner demons because of these things.

Isn't this inner demon simply because Dongfang Yu knows that what he did was wrong, shouldn't have been done, and was wicked, and then he fears retribution?

So when Zhou Yan summoned the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, Dongfang Yu could have blocked it with any of his internal energy, three-colored divine light, or mythical form, but he didn't, because he strongly believed that he was now being punished and that God was coming to kill him.

You can fool everyone in the world, but you can't fool yourself.

Only you know how kind you are, and only you know how despicable you are.

"You're right, I understand..."

Suddenly, Wu Quxing grabbed Zhou Yan's shoulder and winked at Zhou Yan, who was still halfway through his sentence.

"So just admit it, I actually want to write all kinds of anime series."

Zhou Yan: "..."

Little Yama agreed.

"Same here, same here. I hate mosaics more than anything in my life."

Zhou Yan turned around and angrily berated Little Yama.

"Didn't you say there are things you shouldn't do?"

Little Yama asked in return.

"Since when watching uncensored anime has become something we can do whatever we want?!"

Zhou Yan: "..."

What you said makes so much sense, I'm speechless.

Two more awakened individuals emerged from the arena beneath the glass wall, ready to make their move.

Zhou Yan refocused his attention on the competition field. This time, he watched for ten minutes before his phone rang.

When Zhou Yan took it out and looked at it, the boy couldn't help but sigh.

Jiufeng called to urge me.

Little Yama asked curiously.

"Is your mom pressuring you to get married?"

Zhou Yan said with a headache.

"I just turned 18 this month."

Zhou Yan is only eighteen years old this month.

The star Wuqu asked in return.

"Don't young people these days have babies at sixteen?"

Zhou Yan chuckled.

In the Eastern United States, because the education sector has been completely privatized, unless a student comes from a particularly wealthy family or is exceptionally good at studying and can receive a scholarship to enter university without paying tuition and fees, a normal student has to enter the workforce after graduating from high school.

In other words, for normal people, high school is the end of their education. As a result, high school students are quite relaxed. Some have children while still in their second year of high school, and they start looking for jobs to support their families when they are in their third year.

But this doesn't mean that Zhou Yan is that kind of person. In the past, because of his excellent academic performance, Zhou Yan actually wanted to go to university. Because of this, Zhou Yan rarely spent his time on women, and the only girlfriend he had was a scumbag.

"I have something to do."

Zhou Yan stood up.

Little Yama waved his hand.

“I’ll be here watching the games during this period. If you want to come and watch the games in the future, you can come here anytime.”

"Okay, goodbye."

Zhou Yan left the VIP room, went down the stairs, and exited the Zhongzhou City Gymnasium.

Jiufeng booked a table of dishes at Yangquan Private Kitchen, located at No. 211 Mingyue Street, five kilometers away, and was waiting for Zhou Yan to come and eat.

When Zhou Yan went there, he also looked up Yangquan Private Kitchen. The search engine showed that it was a private kitchen in Zhongzhou City known for its service and the taste was also okay. It mainly served seafood dishes, especially some wine-grilled seafood, which was absolutely delicious.

Jiufeng really came prepared for this dinner invitation.

When Zhou Yan arrived at Yangquan Private Kitchen, it was already noon. In the past few days, the military's vigilance in Zhongzhou City had been slightly relaxed, and there were hardly any soldiers to be seen on many streets. On Mingyue Street, where Yangquan Private Kitchen was located, there were not a single soldier to be seen, so there were quite a few people coming and going on this street.

Zhou Yan found Yangquan Private Kitchen by following the road signs. As soon as he walked in, a female waitress came to greet him.