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

Su Xiaowan, nestled in Lin'an's arms, also whimpered to Su Bijun.

Su Bijun ignored him and turned to look at the congressman who had just thrown out the assassin. If nothing unexpected happened, this congressman should be one of Suzaku's gang.

Zhou Yan shook his head.

"No need. There's no need to bother Lord Suzaku with such trivial matters. Let's get straight to the point."

Su Bijun suppressed her surprise. Did Zhou Yan mean that he was willing to exchange benefits?

Indeed, if Zhuque intervenes, Zhuque gets the lion's share of the benefits; if Zhou Yan negotiates on his own, he will definitely get the lion's share.

Su Bijun spoke softly with an exquisite smile.

"Shall we talk in my study?"

Chapter Twenty-Three: Incense and Golden Body

Zhou Yan put his phone back in his shirt pocket and then took off his upper suit jacket.

"Need not……"

Zhou Yan rolled up his sleeves.

"Didn't you say you were the savior designated by that so-called Celestial Venerable Miro?"

"Didn't you say that a big shot like you wouldn't even want to participate in the four-school competition?"

Zhou Yan crumpled up his formal attire and tossed it behind him, which Lin Anru caught.

Zhou Yan pointed to himself with his thumb.

"Sorry, I feel like I'm God's real son, but I've never heard my dad mention taking you in as his goddaughter!"

"So let's have a fight and see who God's favorite son is. If I win, I'll pack my clothes and leave, and never pursue the matter of the murderer or hiring someone to kill again."

"We lost..."

Zhou Yan tilted his head.

"Forget it, I don't want anything anymore. Anyway, you lost, and you have nothing left."

Su Bijun's expression darkened.

Su Bijun came to Zhongzhou City with a political mission. Her goal was to defeat one strong opponent after another in the Four Schools Competition and ascend to the throne of the strongest in the Four Schools, or rather, the strongest in this generation.

So if Zhou Yan defeats them before the four schools even start, then there's no point in continuing the competition.

If you can lose, it means that God is not on your side.

"How can a saintess fight with a mortal?"

Dongfang Shuo stepped forward; this young Indiana native, second only to Su Bijun, patted his chest.

"I'll fight you."

Su Bijun cannot lose, but he can. Moreover, Dongfang Shuo believes that he is no less capable than any of the top students from the four academies, and he may not necessarily lose to Zhou Yan in a fight.

Zhou Yan turned around.

"Okay, I'll go call the police right now. You guys get ready."

"Wait a moment!"

Su Bijun spoke.

Zhou Yan stopped.

Su Bijun spoke again, her ethereal voice covering the entire Zhangjia community.

"I'll fight you."

Dongfang Shuo looked at Su Bijun, who shook her head.

There's no turning back now. For the sake of the bigger picture, she can't abandon the Zhang family, and Zhou Yan doesn't seem like someone willing to compromise.

So, let's fight.

He himself was aiming for the top spot in the four-school competition; Zhou Yan was merely an appetizer before the main event.

Zhou Yan turned around with satisfaction.

The congressman who had previously thrown out the killer's body took out four small flags from his pocket and threw them into the air. These four flags covered half of the square, and a faint halo spread outward from the four flags. The ground inside the flags began to expand continuously.

The member of Congress spoke up.

"Alright, everyone, make way for these four little flags."

Apart from Zhou Yan and Su Bijun, everyone else made way, and even the unconscious Awakened Ones who had been thrown to the ground were dragged away by Lin Anru.

The member of parliament explained this after arriving outside the Houtu Banner.

"This is the Thick Earth Banner, which can continuously expand the space and strengthen the boundary between the ground and the Thick Earth Banner. Saintess Su, Zhou Yan, you can fight to your heart's content. Don't worry about the aftershocks affecting us."

Su Bijun glanced at the members of Congress out of the corner of her eye.

Thick Earth Banner, ah, these guys have been ready to fight me for a long time.

It can't be called an accident. Su Bijun was well aware that the religious governance she was advocating was something the Four Divine Beasts disliked. In addition, she was also uniting with the Taisho descendants and holding banquets everywhere to win over members of parliament, local tycoons and high-ranking officials.

Given such a high-handed attitude, the Four Divine Beasts would normally need to suppress it at the appropriate time.

But now is not the right time. The country is in turmoil, and the Four Divine Beasts need to rely on local strongmen to help them govern the country. So as long as they don't reveal any weaknesses, the Four Divine Beasts will be hesitant to touch the Su family.

Unfortunately, the Zhang family, these idiots, did nothing but provoke the Vermilion Bird.

Once this matter is over, the Zhang family must give them a good talking-to and not let these idiots act recklessly just because they have the Su family as their leader.

Of course, before all that, the most important person is Zhou Yan, who is standing in front of us.

Golden, shimmering light began to emanate from Su Bijun's body.

Su Bijun asked Zhou Yan.

"In this competition, in terms of bloodline, the strongest should be Jiu Feng from the White Tiger Academy, right?"

Zhou Yan, who was standing with his arms crossed, exclaimed in surprise.

"You know Jiufeng?"

Su Bijun's tone was ethereal.

“I know, and I’m confident I can defeat Jiu Feng from the White Tiger Academy, the Long-Armed Ape from the First Academy, Feng Zheng Nong from the Black Tortoise Academy, and... you from the Vermilion Bird Academy…”

Intense holy light, so intense it seemed to dye the deep blue night sky gold, descended from the heavens and landed on Su Bijun. Then, a seated, smiling, and pure image of a fearless celestial maiden, whose beauty surpassed the limits of human imagination, appeared behind Su Bijun.

The high-ranking officials and wealthy people outside Houtu Banner were amazed. Every move and smile of this fearless celestial maiden was perfect in the way that humans could understand. The sacred aura emanating from her whole body was something that did not belong to humans. It was something that only gods and immortals should have.

This fearless celestial maiden truly embodies humanity's fantasies about deities.

Zhou Yan also looked at the fearless celestial maiden statue and sighed.

"Humans are both pathetic and laughable."

The fearless celestial maiden formed a thousand-arm seal in her hand.

In an instant, thousands of arms, each as big as a human, gleaming with golden light and as translucent as glass, appeared above Zhou Yan's head. These arms pressed down on Zhou Yan's head, as mighty and powerful as a raging tide bursting its banks.

Zhou Yan moved his feet lightly, and thousands of palms fell from around him, pounding the ground with a thunderous roar.

……

Zhang Ye's bedroom.

The handsome young man with a large pregnant belly struggled to get out of his bed, clutching his tablet with both hands and staring wide-eyed.

When Zhang Ye saw Zhou Yan accuse his grandfather and father of hiring someone to kill someone, he felt a chill in his heart. With the four divine beasts currently bound together, the incident of killing the Vermilion Bird's subordinate would mean that even if the other three divine beasts didn't care, his family would probably have to pay a huge price and offer too much compensation to get rid of the matter.

At that time, Zhang Ye began to feel guilty about his willfulness.

Zhou Yan then abruptly changed the subject, actually challenging Su Bijun.

He's actually going to challenge Su Bijun...

Zhang Ye couldn't help but chuckle for quite a while.

Is Zhou Yan such an idiot that he's drunk too much shit and piss, and his brain is full of filth?

He actually went and made things difficult for Su Bijun.

Including Zhang Ye, all the young people in Indiana felt that the top students of the four academies were inferior to Su Bijun. Even after the existence of Jiu Feng became known to the young people of Indiana, no one thought that Su Bijun would lose to Jiu Feng.

This is not arrogance, but rather the fact that the Su family is truly special compared to other Celestial caste families in Indiana.

Three thousand years ago, Su Bijun's family had two True God-level Awakeners as their ancestors who rose to power. Because these two True God ancestors were from the same family, they worked together to almost unify Indiana and three surrounding great countries with populations of over ten million, establishing the first intercontinental empire. Because the foundation they built was so dazzling, these two rulers still shine in the history of Indiana to this day.

Having acquired sufficient territory and status, these two ancestors established a religion with Mi Luo Tianzun as the supreme god, based on their supernatural powers. This religion widely recruited believers and collected faith. Under the transformation of the "Myriad Transformations Golden Body," a divine artifact created by these two true gods based on their supernatural powers, the faith of mortals was transformed into a tangible and enormous power that could appear in reality.

The fearless celestial maiden image behind Su Bijun is the golden body of incense, formed from the faith of hundreds of millions of people in Indiana after thousands of years of accumulation. Its power may not be comparable to that of the Four Divine Beasts, which are true gods with high awakening levels, but it can still hold its own against true gods with lower awakening levels, such as the Nine Phoenix.

Besides, Zhou Yan was just a minor demigod.

This is also why the Su family rushed out to spread their religion when they saw the world in such chaos. The more people who believe in the Su family's incense and golden statues, the stronger they become. If half of the Eastern Xia Federation worships the Celestial Venerable Mi Luo, then the Su family can cultivate one more incense and golden statue.

If the entire nation were to embrace this faith, the Su family could raise a Dharma-image deity comparable to one of the Four Divine Beasts.

If all 30 billion people in the world believed in the Celestial Venerable Mi Luo, with such immense faith, the Four Divine Beasts would be nothing but a joke.

Faith is the foundation upon which the Su family stands, and the basis upon which the Su family can be the undisputed leader in Indiana. Therefore, the Su family cannot afford to lose in this trip to Central City. The Su family must carry out its faith to the very end!

Just as Zhang Ye had predicted, Zhou Yan dodged left and right under the thousand-armed attack of the Fearless Heavenly Maiden's Thousand-Armed Seal. Although he was not in a sorry state, he could only defend himself against the attack of the Thousand-Armed Seal.

At this moment, the image of the Fearless Celestial Maiden formed a lotus mudra.

A dazzling, translucent golden holy light spread from the ground, and lotus flowers grew and bloomed from the ground, filling the air with fragrance. Sword energy shot out from the lotus flowers, intertwining with the Thousand Arm Seal around Zhou Yan.

There was lotus sword energy on the ground and a thousand-armed seal falling from the sky. With Zhang Ye's eyesight, even a demigod like him who could fly and fly very fast and easily would definitely be killed in less than five seconds. However, Zhou Yan actually flew in mid-air and dodged the attack of the thousand-armed seal and the lotus seal with unimaginable dodging skills.

Then, in the tenth second, Zhou Yan seized an opportunity, moved swiftly, and rushed towards Su Bijun, who was protected by the Fearless Celestial Maiden and whose entire body was covered in the Glazed Divine Light.

The fearless celestial maiden behind Su Bijun loosened her hands and formed a treasure bottle seal.

A hazy, mysterious bottle shadow enveloped Su Bijun and the image of the Fearless Celestial Maiden. Zhou Yan rushed to the bottle shadow and passed directly through it.

Zhang Ye burst into laughter.

Once the treasure bottle seal was formed, the space naturally enveloped Su Bijun and the Fearless Celestial Maiden. They were practically outside this space, so Zhou Yan had nowhere to attack them.

Fool, do you now know how powerful Su Bijun's Dharma form is?

You're not fighting a demigod anymore, you're fighting a god worshipped by hundreds of millions of people for thousands of years.

Zhang Ye had no doubt that Zhou Yan would lose to Su Bijun, and lose miserably, extremely miserably.

Chapter Twenty-Four: Vanga Mandala

Outside Zhangjia Community.

After the appearance of the Fearless Celestial Maiden, the citizens of Zhongzhou City who had opened shops outside came out and gradually arrived near the wall of Zhangjia Community, looking up at the Fearless Celestial Maiden under the golden pillar that pierced the sky.

A few minutes later, dozens or even hundreds of cars, bicycles, and electric vehicles drove over, and a large number of people came from different directions to the outside of Zhangjia Community, staring silently at the fearless celestial maiden.

As a family that makes a living through faith, and as a golden statue born from human faith, the Fearless Celestial Maiden is beautiful and flawless in every way. With each graceful movement, divine light gathers and then scatters, and her magnificent and solemn appearance perfectly matches human imagination of gods.

The fantasy was so real that even the common people surrounding the Zhang family community, who had seen many of the Four Divine Beasts, felt that compared to the Fearless Celestial Maiden, the Four Divine Beasts were like a princess compared to a poor girl.

Some citizens who already had faith knelt down one by one, put their palms together in front of the fearless goddess, and chanted Taoist or Buddhist scriptures.

They didn't know which deity this fearless goddess was, so they could only randomly choose a name.

The others either took out their phones or went to the entrance of Zhangjia Community to try to go in and take a look, but were stopped by security personnel.

Within Zhangjia Community, a place protected by Houtu Banner.

Standing inside the Treasure Bottle Seal, Su Bijun, relying on the power of the Fearless Celestial Maiden's Dharma Image, saw the hundreds of people outside the Zhang Family Community, some kneeling, some praying, and some taking pictures.

Su Bijun smiled faintly.

The Su family of Indiana has accumulated incense offerings for a thousand years, and currently only two golden statues have been erected. One of them is the image of the Fearless Celestial Maiden, which was specially prepared for the holy maidens of past generations. In the Miro religion, the Fearless Celestial Maiden is the representative of the feminine aspect of humanity, a female war goddess, the protector of women, and a great deity that all women in Indiana worship.

The other is the Great Fear God, prepared for the successive leaders of the sect, who is a male god of war, fear, destruction, and punishment.

These two golden statues were born from human imagination, perfectly matching the deities that humans fantasize about. Therefore, every time these two golden statues appear in front of believers, they make the Miro believers in Indiana tremble with fear, believing that their gods truly exist and are always protecting them.

Other states should be no exception.