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

Doesn't this mean there might only be two boys in a class?

Even just one!

Your school was originally a girls' school, right?

"We'll talk about it later."

Zhou Yan sat on the bed, and the little white fox put its two paws on Zhou Yan's shoulders and rubbed its little head against Zhou Yan's cheek. Zhou Yan stroked the fox's head and sighed inwardly.

"We don't even know if we'll live to see tomorrow's sun."

Bai Rusu, who had a lot to say to persuade Zhou Yan, fell silent upon hearing this.

……

The roof of the manor house.

Yingzhao slowly drank from a bottle of wine. After drinking half of it, Hun Dun, who was holding a teddy bear, walked out from a corner of the roof and walked to Yingzhao's side.

Yingzhao glanced at her daughter out of the corner of her eye and asked with a smile.

"What's wrong? Why aren't you sleeping so late?"

Chaos hugged the teddy bear tightly in his arms, burying half of his face behind the bear's head.

"mom……"

Yingzhao put on a stern face.

"Call me Dad!"

Even if you are my biological child, you can't call me Mom. This is Yingzhao's bottom line as a man!

Chaos asked in a weak and timid manner, a look he had never shown to others.

"Will it succeed this time?"

Yingzhao looked up. He was in the wild, with no light sources to disturb him, so the Milky Way above him was dazzling.

"Theoretically speaking, yes."

"As long as that person..."

"If you're willing."

Chaos slowly began to rise.

"Just because of Bai Ze?"

Yingzhao echoed.

"Hmm, my dear daughter, you have no idea why I call that child 'Nine Thousand Years Old'."

"He can definitely do it."

Yingzhao closed his eyes. In the darkness, he saw Chi You, Lu Wu, and Xiao Yanjun fall one by one. From then on, Yingzhao knew that what he wanted was not the absolute power to dominate the world, but the freedom to control his own destiny.

Chapter Thirty Breakfast

The next morning.

Zhou Yan, who was sleeping with the little fox Su Xiaowan in his arms, was awakened by a knock on the door, followed by the sound of Qiongqi.

"Get up, get up."

"Brush your teeth, wash your face, and go downstairs for breakfast!"

Zhou Yan rubbed his eyes and got up. He looked back and saw that the little fox Su Xiaowan was still sleeping. After thinking for a moment, Zhou Yan did not wake the little fox up. He went out of the bedroom and, led by Qiongqi, went to the bathroom at the end of the second floor with the celestial fox Bai Rusu, who had also woken up, to wash up. After that, he went downstairs.

The lobby on the first floor was chaotic. Taotie and Taowu sat on the sofa in the living room, chatting with each other. On the dining table, there were two Western-style breakfasts with fried eggs and bread.

Qiongqi pointed towards the dining table, and Zhou Yan and Bai Rusu walked to the table and sat down.

Wearing a cat-patterned apron, Yingzhao wiped her hands with the apron as she walked over from the kitchen, smiling.

"British handmade, fried egg bread."

Zhou Yan lowered his head, picked up his chopsticks, took a bite of the egg, and said, "Hmm, it's just a regular fried egg with a little soy sauce for flavor. The yolk is runny."

I took another bite of the bread, and it was just average—bread with some jam on it. But we're all just ordinary people, so we don't fuss over it.

Zhou Yan ate his breakfast expressionlessly.

Bai Rusu, standing to the side, frowned as she looked at the utterly ordinary breakfast. After Zhou Yan had eaten half of it, this pampered high-level awakened individual couldn't hold back any longer.

"This is all you're going to give me to eat?"

Bai Rusu pointed at the fried egg bread and stared at Yingzhao.

"Even if it's just to show respect to the lady, at least give me a steak for breakfast, okay?"

Yingzhao's face was full of gentleness.

"Did you find the breakfast too bland? I thought you, Ms. Bai, would prefer this kind of light breakfast?"

Bai Rusu pushed open the breakfast.

"I want to eat meat."

"Row."

Yingzhao went to the kitchen, and soon the sizzling sound of frying oil could be heard, followed by the aroma of melting beef fat.

Having almost finished his breakfast, Zhou Yan looked up and sniffed.

It smells nice.

However, Zhou Yan, who had almost finished eating, was too embarrassed to ask for a piece of steak, so he lowered his head and continued eating.

Half a minute later, Yingzhao walked out of the kitchen with a steak pan covered by a semi-circular iron pot lid. As she came out, the semi-circular iron pot lid was sizzling, which looked very appetizing.

Yingzhao said softly.

"Handmade by Yingzhao, a premium fillet cooked to medium-rare."

Bai Rusu straightened up with satisfaction and watched Ying Zhao walk up to her.

"This is still..."

Before Bai Rusu could finish speaking, Yingzhao turned around, walked away from Bai Rusu, and placed the steak in front of Zhou Yan, who had already finished eating.

Bai Rusu watched as Yingzhao walked to Zhou Yan's side, and then blurted out the next sentence at an inopportune moment.

"……almost……"

Zhou Yan was taken aback when he saw the steak placed in front of him.

Yingzhao opened the lid of the steak, and the strong aroma of butter burst out like a bomb towards Zhou Yan's face.

Zhou Yan looked at the perfectly cooked steak on the hot plate in front of him, then at Ying Zhao next to him. Ying Zhao blinked.

"Breakfast was bland; let's give His Highness a snack."

Zhou Yan: "..."

Bai Rusu couldn't hold back any longer.

"What about mine?"

Yingzhao glanced at Bai Rusu indifferently.

"Eat it or don't, it's up to you."

Bai Rusu glared at Ying Zhao with hatred. Although her reason told her that there was no benefit in fighting against a true god-level awakened being, the anger that surged from her instincts made her somewhat unable to control herself.

She was an awakened being who had been infected with a buff of stupidity and chaos by Chaos. Most of the time, she was unable to control her emotions and would even appear foolish.

Zhou Yan picked up the knife and fork from the steak grill, cut off a piece, and put it in his mouth.

It was quite delicious, but as an ordinary person, Zhou Yan could only think that the beef was tender and juicy. As for anything else, Zhou Yan wasn't a gourmet and couldn't say anything more.

Yingzhao walked over and sat down opposite Zhou Yan.

"Alright, Your Majesty, now that we've finished breakfast, it's time for us to get down to business."

Zhou Yan, who had eaten half of his steak, almost dropped his fork.

Zhou Yan swallowed the beef in his mouth and said in a trembling voice.

"What do you want to do?"

Chaos, the silver-haired loli sitting in the living room, interjected.

"Let me ascend to godhood."

Bai Rusu, already fuming, retorted sarcastically.

"The Uncertain Pearl that helped you ascend to godhood was burned by Lord Vermilion Bird long ago. Where did you get any divine artifacts or treasures to advance to godhood?"

Back then, the Star Lord of the Central Dipper cast a divination for Chaos, saying that Chaos's opportunity for advancement lay in a treasure called the Uncertain Pearl. Chaos found the Uncertain Pearl, but was then ambushed by the Vermilion Bird. The Uncertain Pearl was burned by the Vermilion Bird, and the silver-haired loli escaped with serious injuries.

Sitting on the living room sofa, the silver-haired loli Chaos hugged the doll in her arms tightly, looking somewhat fearful.

"You think that just because the Vermilion Bird burned the Uncertain Pearl, I won't be able to advance?"

Bai Rusu looked at Ying Zhao, who was smiling.

"The Central Dipper Star Lord and Lord Vermilion Bird said that there is only one Uncertain Pearl in this world."

Yingzhao snapped his fingers.

Bai Rusu felt a sharp pain in her ankle, and the Green Guardian Vine that had previously bound Zhou Yan extended from her feet, quickly binding and entangling her.

Yingzhao then looked at Zhou Yan, who had finished his steak.

"Your Excellency, are you full?"

Zhou Yan put down his knife and fork.

"I'm full."

Yingzhao stood up.

"Let's go then."

Chapter Thirty-One: Little Yama

Zhou Yan followed Ying Zhao out of the manor and got into Ying Zhao's taxi, which seemed to have come from nowhere.

After sitting in the passenger seat, Zhou Yan asked a question.

"Mr. Qiao, is the method you used to promote your daughter something that was passed down from Lu Wu?"

Zhou Yan remembered that Ying Zhao had said that Lu Wu had found a way to break the cycle of possession.

Yingzhao nodded.

Zhou Yan asked again.

"So, is this Little Yama King the great villain of that era? Does he not want the awakened ones to break free from their destiny of being possessed?"

Zhou Yan also remembered Ying Zhao saying that Lu Wu's research was interrupted by Little Yan Jun.

Yingzhao chuckled as he inserted the key and lit the fire.

"Little Yama's philosophy is that awakened beings possess power, not to do whatever they want, but to know what not to do."

"But Sister Lu Wu's philosophy is that the world should follow her ideas."

Zhou Yan opened his mouth slightly, somewhat puzzled.

Yingzhao drove out of the manor, speaking as he drove.

“Little Yama once told me that humans were originally wild beasts, like monkeys, and then they started to live together and build civilizations. Human history is a process of moving from animalistic instincts to suppressing them. Simply put, what makes humans human is their morality, which allows them to subdue their instincts.”

"Therefore, in the entire group of awakened beings, he is the only one who has not been possessed and has perfectly integrated into the human community by relying on his so-called morality."

"And Sister Lu Wu."

Yingzhao tilted her head to look at it like this.

"Does Your Excellency know who Lu Wu is?"

Zhou Yan certainly knew.