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

Zhou Yan shook his head.

“There were people who used to keep me in suspense like you did. Later, he went out and was slashed more than 800 times. Every slash avoided vital organs. He went to the hospital and got more than 100 stitches, but none of them stitched up the wound.”

"Dongdou Xingjun said awkwardly."

“The Star Lord of the Central Dipper told me that we are not reincarnations after undergoing tribulations, but rather the offspring of the gods and Buddhas after their deaths.”

“A thousand years ago, a great calamity occurred, and all the gods and Buddhas perished one after another, and then we came into being.”

Zhou Yan's lips parted slightly, then closed again.

Zhou Yan remembered that a week ago, at his invitation, Little Yama captured Zeng Gui, who had escaped from the underworld. Zeng Gui said that Ksitigarbha was about to die and that he had come out to find reinforcements.

Previously, Zhou Yan had thought that this "Zeng Gui" was just something that the old fox Zhongdou Xingjun was using to fool his group, but now that Dongdou Xingjun has said this...

It must have been arranged by the Star Lord of the Central Dipper.

Moreover, this dying Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva should be a victim of the great calamity a thousand years ago. If we can rescue Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, we might be able to learn the details of that calamity.

But the credibility that Zhongdou Xingjun, that old man, forced upon him...

Zhou Yan always felt that there would be various dangers of female corruption waiting for him on the way to find the truth. Xiao Yanjun was already a girl, so his female corruption was nothing, but he couldn't do that. He loved beautiful girls the most.

I absolutely cannot become like Zhang Ye.

"so……"

Dongdou Xingjun clasped his hands in a fist salute to Zhou Yan.

"The search for Yinglong is not just about whether Lord Qinglong can create the world, but more importantly, if Yinglong is still alive, then He should know some secrets of the past great calamities."

Zhou Yan then thought of Zhongdou Xingjun and nodded.

"I understand, I will do my best to look for it."

"Then I won't bother you any longer, young master. I wish you a pleasant stay."

The Eastern Dipper Star Lord flew away in satisfaction.

Zhou Yan watched Dongdou Xingjun leave, his expression shifting.

If it were just Yinglong, Zhou Yan wouldn't mind putting in some effort to find him and maybe even get some food from Qinglong. But if Shangzhong Douxingjun gets involved...

Zhou Yan always felt that this matter was not very reliable. Zhongdou Xingjun's thoughts were too deep. Even Zhou Yan did not understand what the old guy was thinking.

……

The Abyss Underworld, the eighth level.

A team of Awakened Ones walked cautiously along the cliffs of a black mountain range.

The cliff was a thousand meters high, with only tiny protrusions that people could step on to walk on. The group of awakened individuals walked with difficulty on the protrusions.

The man at the front, clad entirely in black armor, kept turning his head as he reminded his companions behind him.

"There are many vengeful spirits and evil ghosts in this place. Everyone, watch your step and don't get caught by them."

The rest of the teammates looked down at their feet.

Apart from a few outposts at the beginning, there are no roads in the forbidden areas. The roads in these towering mountains are extremely difficult to travel, and only awakened individuals with physical abilities far exceeding those of normal people can search for valuable treasures in such places.

Of course, these treasures were obtained at the cost of lives. The leader, a man in black armor, would change his teammates almost every few years, and all the replacements died.

This batch consists of new teammates recruited in the last few months. The armored man doesn't know how long these guys can last, but he hopes they won't hold him back.

They had traveled a third of the way when suddenly, one of the awakened beings shouted.

"Over there, over there!"

Everyone looked in the direction the Awakened One had spoken, and there they saw tens of thousands of desiccated corpses clinging to the protruding rock face at the foot of the mountain, crawling over like four-legged spiders.

"The leader of the awakened ones said in a deep voice."

"They're just kids, everyone hurry up."

As they spoke, the little devils that had been clinging to the mountainside had already covered several hundred meters and were quite close to the Awakened Ones.

The Awakened Ones quickened their pace and ran towards the flat ground. Perhaps because they were running too fast, one of the Awakened Ones stumbled and fell off the mountainside.

Amidst the howling mountain winds, the fallen Awakened One managed to survive by slowing down thanks to the tree canopy at the foot of the mountain. However, as soon as he landed, countless little ghosts resembling human mummies rushed up and surrounded the fallen Awakened One like ants.

Those awakened still on the mountain felt as if a real-life zombie apocalypse was taking place on the ground.

With this encouragement, some people sped up, while others lost their footing and fell down the mountain.

The armored man at the head of the group looked back and realized that half of his newly recruited teammates were gone.

However, now is not the time to dwell on these things, because the mummified corpse that climbed up from the bottom of the mountain was already ten meters away from the armored man's feet.

Then came five meters, then three meters.

Before the armored man could reach the nearby flat ground, three desiccated imps crawled to his feet and grabbed his ankles.

Behind the armored man, the remaining half of his teammates screamed hysterically.

The "human" was caught up by the "zombies".

More mummified imps crawled onto the armored man's body, then opened their mouths and began tearing at the thick, yet weightless, armor on his body.

The armored man began to lose his balance, and his teammates, who were being entangled by the dried-up ghosts behind him, began to fall to the ground one by one, screaming.

Just as the armored man was about to fall,

The armored man suddenly felt the little ghosts on his body pause, then surge in like a tide, while the thousands upon thousands of little ghosts dispersed like a tide.

The little devils climbed down the mountain, and once they landed on the ground, they didn't even care about the living people who had fallen to the ground. They lined up neatly and squarely, then knelt down in unison and kowtowed repeatedly in one direction.

Those awakened beings who hadn't yet been eaten to death and had just fallen all looked in the direction where the little devil was kowtowing.

There was nothing in the direction the little devil was kowtowing, but if you went up in that direction, a carriage driven by three bone horses swept past in the sky above this abyss underworld.

The carriage was decorated with lifelike paintings of a hundred ghosts, each one exuding a profound aura and heavy yin energy. Even from hundreds of meters away, the awakened ones below could feel the powerful aura emanating from the carriage.

The vehicle sped past, and once it was gone, the mummified little ghosts who had been kowtowing stopped. As for the other awakened ones, they had already taken advantage of the kowtowing time to run away.

……

In the distance, the Imperial Carriage of the Netherworld, driven by Bai Qi, traversed the passages between hells. After driving for a full half-day, the Imperial Carriage of the Netherworld arrived at a deserted, dilapidated street in mid-air.

The Imperial Carriage of the Netherworld stopped, and Little Yama emerged from it.

The little guy looked down at the street beneath his feet, seeing from the very beginning to the very end of the street.

There's nothing much at the beginning of the street, but at the very end there's a small temple about the size of a human head, with the words "Ksitigarbha Temple" written on it.

This is the sacred site of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, a Buddhist temple about the same size as a local earth god temple.

However, those with great supernatural powers often prefer to perform rituals within the confines of a snail shell.

This temple, as big as a human head, must contain mountains and waters, and its Buddhist teachings are boundless.

Little Yama jumped off the Imperial Guardian Chariot.

She wanted to see what kind of help Ksitigarbha needed.

Chapter Seven: The Top Spy

One week later, at the Roman City power plant.

Zhou Yanfei carried several pieces of equipment weighing several tons or even tens of tons into the power plant while suspended in mid-air, and then worked with the professional team dispatched by Zhuque to place and organize the instruments.

After finishing his conversation with Dongdou Xingjun, Zhou Yan returned to Luomen City.

After returning, he didn't sit in his bedroom playing computer games all day. As Bai Ze, whose strength attribute was 13,000 times greater than that of a normal person, Zhou Yan spent his days cleaning roads that required engineering machinery and moving various large pieces of equipment.

After a week of this work, a power plant capable of supplying the entire city's electricity needs was completed.

"Sometimes I really admire you awakened ones."

Professor Wang, who was in charge of the power plant in this area, walked up to Zhou Yan and said with emotion.

“Normally, transporting equipment from the port requires tower cranes, engineering vehicles, and a large number of porters. It takes about a week to transport all the equipment to the factory, but you…”

The old professor carried the power generation equipment, which was being assembled by professional technicians, towards Zhou Yan on the other side.

"It only took one day."

Zhou Yan patted the old professor on the shoulder.

"I am a demigod. Do you know how much it costs to hire a demigod for work?"

The old professor nodded.

"I understand. It's great to have a state legislator like you who doesn't charge for his services."

Zhou Yan looked disgusted. Wasn't this just a way of saying he was happy to get something for free?

"Oh, right."

The old professor patted Zhou Yan on the shoulder.

"The power plant will be built the day after tomorrow. I have already invited the national journalists from Central City. Councilor Zhou, come here tomorrow and we will hold a power-on ceremony. I believe this ceremony will be a milestone for Luomen City, or rather, Eastern Yangzhou, for the next hundred years."

The old professor spoke in the tone of a narrator from a documentary.

"...That day, he came, when the country was in ruins, the people were displaced and starving, he came with hope and strength..."

"Stop, stop..."

Zhou Yan interrupted.

"Stop talking, that sounds really embarrassing."

Zhou Yan didn't know what some celebrities were thinking when they wrote their autobiographies, but he figured he'd feel a chill run down his spine every time he wrote one. So, he thought autobiographies were hard to write, and recipes were a better fit.

"I won't disturb you while you're working."

Zhou Yan patted the dust off his clothes from moving the equipment and turned to walk out of the power plant.

Outside the power plant was a road that had already been cleared. In the past few days, in addition to moving power generation equipment and various power lines, Zhou Yan had also been clearing large roadblocks, such as cars lying across the road and collapsed houses. Other people followed behind Zhou Yan to clear some scattered small items. Although there was still a gap between clearing the roads of the entire city and clearing them, at least several major traffic arteries had been cleared.

More people began to flock to Luomen City, and Zhou Yan's forces, which numbered 130,000 last week, now number 500,000 that needed to be managed.

The only good news is that Zhou Yan is not good at management, and the disaster victims are managed by elite civil servants whom Xiao Yanjun found to assist him.

The only problem is that these elite civil servants sit in offices, while he, the nominal supreme leader, has to go out and do the manual labor.

Damn it, what kind of boss goes out to do hard labor while the employees sit in the office eating and drinking, living a peaceful and carefree life?

Zhou Yan walked toward the municipal government, cursing and swearing.

Just after crossing a street, Zhou Yan saw and heard a deafening shout.

"We also want benefits!"

Next is...

"We also need doctors and houses!"

Zhou Yan flew towards the direction of the sound. After crossing two streets, he saw a parade walking on a street that had just been cleared before him.

Indeed, it was a grand procession of several thousand people, carrying wooden placards and holding banners made of cardboard.

The parade included men, women, and children of all ages, and a young man standing at the very front shouted loudly.

We demand fairness!

The others also shouted.

We demand fairness!

"We want welfare!"

"We want welfare!"

"We need to work!"

"We need to work!"

The marchers, shouting and yelling, marched to the square in front of the city hall.

The National Guard of the Eastern United States had seen many such marches and protests. The soldiers who were smoking outside immediately set up their weapons behind cover when they saw the marchers coming out.

This team is an elite force among the three thousand new troops in Zhongzhou City, with fifty members, including three Ghost-level Awakened. Due to their formidable strength, they were dispatched by Zhou Yan to protect the municipal government's administrative personnel.

The people marching here were experienced; once they reached the protective line, they stopped and simply held up banners and signs, shouting slogans.