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

"Don't be envious. Other cities will also need your efforts in the future, and then you will all have the opportunity to give speeches."

The people around them wanted this promise, and their faces lit up with smiles.

"Hey, Councilor Zhou, do you have a moment?"

Wearing a black trench coat, Liu Nanshan squeezed out from Zhou Yan's group of men and slowly walked up to Zhou Yan.

"Mr. Zhou, you look even more dashing than I have in the past two weeks."

Liu Nanshan extended his hand to Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan glanced at him and then grasped Liu Nanshan's hand.

Liu Nanshan is the richest man in Dongyang Prefecture. He owns half of Dongyang Prefecture. Because of his wealth, when Zhou Yan and others came to Dongyang Prefecture to quell the riots, Liu Nanshan was vacationing in the safest city in a nearby prefecture, indulging in all sorts of eating, drinking and having fun.

Now that Zhou Yan has brought Luomen City under control and the power plant has started generating electricity, this richest man can no longer pretend to know nothing.

Liu Nanshan shook the hand he was holding in his hand, and said with a smile.

“Councilor Zhou, I have already joined forces with other wealthy individuals in Luomen City to invest in building a factory here. I hope your government can provide some assistance when the time comes.”

Zhou Yan glanced at the group of his men behind the wealthy man.

"You can talk to Lao Wang and the others later."

Zhou Yan released Liu Nanshan's hand. He didn't understand these political affairs and was a little afraid of being fooled by Liu Nanshan, so it was more appropriate to hand them over to the team that Xiao Yanjun had recommended.

The Eastern United States once had a Minister of Health. At that time, a highly contagious infectious disease broke out in the Tulip State of the Eastern United States. In response, the Minister of Health listened to the advice of one of his expert advisors and purchased enough vaccines to be available to every resident of Tulip State.

Only after the purchase did some experts call the Minister of Health, saying that this vaccine should only be distributed to 30% of the population, and that any more would be a waste.

Later, the Minister of Health discovered that his expert advisors had been bribed by the vaccine company. What to do with the extra vaccines?

The only option is to send it out as aid to other countries.

In this era, the specialization of various professions has become very detailed. Even graduates from top universities cannot possibly understand all the classifications within their own industry. As a result, the high-ranking officials of the Eastern Xia United Kingdom have been deceived by their own consultants and experts more than once or twice.

Zhou Yan has no desire to become the Minister of Health.

"Wait a moment."

Liu Nanshan watched Zhou Yan leave, then quickly walked to Zhou Yan's side and whispered.

“Councilor Zhou, to be honest, I have something I’d like to talk to you about, something between the two of us.”

Zhou Yan looked at Liu Nanshan with a puzzled expression, and Liu Nanshan gritted his teeth and said.

"It's very important!"

Zhou Yan nodded, and Liu Nanshan led him away from the power plant square where the reporters were, to Liu Nanshan's car outside the site.

As soon as the two entered, Liu Nanshan spoke.

“Councilor Zhou, to be honest, the reason I was able to escape from Dongyang Prefecture was because I used to have a son-in-law with demigod blood.”

Zhou Yan understood.

"Indeed, you rich people really like to recruit Awakened Ones as your sons-in-law and daughters-in-law."

Most awakened individuals who commit crimes are bailed out by capitalists and made to work for them. It's especially normal for someone like Liu Nanshan, the richest man in a state, to have a demigod son-in-law.

Xu Ruheng, the richest man who wanted to kill the Nine-Colored Deer, also had a demigod son-in-law who was a state legislator.

Liu Nanshan's face was full of complicated emotions.

“That young man used to come from the slums. After he awakened his bloodline, I married one of my daughters to him, and I also gave him food and drink. Whatever he wanted, I gave him everything I could.”

Zhou Yan chimed in.

"Then, during the Dongyangzhou riots, your son-in-law also rescued your family safely. Your investment was well worth it."

Liu Nanshan waved his hand.

"Before arriving in Zhongzhou, I also felt that investing in my son-in-law was worthwhile, but after arriving in Zhongzhou, Councilor Zhou, do you know what happened?"

Zhou Yan tilted his head and thought back. He had been with Liu Nanshan and the others for several days. Fortunately, he hadn't seen any demigod awakeners or anything like that with Liu Nanshan during those days.

and so……

Zhou Yan guessed.

"Mr. Liu, your son-in-law had an accident?"

That demigod is dead?

Liu Nanshan sighed.

"It would have been better if I had died. It was in Zhongzhou City that someone approached my son-in-law, trying to use him to seize my assets. At that time, I still trusted my son-in-law a little. By the time I realized what was going on, I found that at least 3 billion yuan of my assets had already been swallowed up by my son-in-law and his gang. That's when I realized that Zhongzhou City was a glutton. If I stayed any longer, I was afraid that not even bones would be left."

Zhou Yan understood somewhat.

"And then you abandoned your son-in-law and came back?"

Liu Nanshan nodded vigorously, his teeth clenched.

Compared to being defeated by the enemy, it is harder for a normal person to tolerate being betrayed by a teammate. Liu Nanshan was no exception. Liu Nanshan believed that he had always treated his son-in-law very well, and even left him a share of the family business for the future. However, in Zhongzhou City, this guy actually betrayed him.

“Councilor Zhou…”

Liu Nanshan looked at Zhou Yan earnestly.

"I hope you will go and kill my son-in-law."

Zhou Yan: "..."

Liu Nanshan's expression turned serious.

“This is not retaliation, Councilor Zhou. Do you know what the Liu family’s biggest business is?”

Zhou Yan thought for a moment and then responded.

"Your Liu family is one of the pharmaceutical monopoly giants in the Eastern Xia United States."

If Indiana's pharmaceutical industry is a knock-off copy with no technological content, then the Liu family's pharmaceutical industry is a monopolistic company known for its development and complete industrial chain. It is the kind of capitalist that even Xuanwu had to summon to the Liu family back then, exchanging Xuanshui for them, and ordering them not to evade taxes.

Liu Nanshan said in a complicated way.

"Yes, my Liu family is a world-class pharmaceutical giant. Thanks to my son-in-law's protection, a large number of company executives and hundreds of core R&D personnel were rescued. In other words, as long as there is a safe environment, our Liu family pharmaceutical company will recover at an extremely fast speed."

Liu Nanshan narrowed his eyes.

“Councilor Zhou, do you know what this means?”

Zhou Yan remained silent.

Liu Nanshan answered for Zhou Yan.

“Once I die, and my sons and daughters die, my business and my vast wealth can only be inherited by my son-in-law.”

Zhou Yan countered with a question.

"Can't you make a will now? Like, who will you leave it to after you die? It definitely won't go to your son-in-law or anything like that?"

Liu Nanshan waved his hand.

"It's unlikely. My son-in-law isn't alone. There must be a large group of capitalists from Zhongzhou City behind him. If these capitalists join forces, the will might just be a piece of paper."

Zhou Yan chuckled.

It was a feud between wealthy families. Liu Nanshan's son-in-law sold out his father-in-law without hesitation. Liu Nanshan thought that he might be betrayed by his son-in-law in the future, so he immediately came to Zhou Yan for help and asked Zhou Yan to kill his son-in-law.

“Councilor Zhou, if you can help me resolve this concern, I can guarantee it.”

Liu Nanshan's expression was extremely sincere.

“I can give you 10% of my company’s shares.”

Zhou Yan remained silent.

Liu Nanshan added a sentence.

“I’m from Dongyangzhou, and I want to spend my whole life here. My son and grandson want to do the same, but my son-in-law and his group might not. They might want to break up my company and take over my patents in various ways…”

"The shares are no longer needed."

Zhou Yan thought for a moment and then responded.

"Isn't your family involved in pharmaceutical research? I don't care about other states, but anyway, um, you guys should issue an insurance policy. As long as citizens of Dongyang State buy this insurance, your medicines cannot be sold for more than double the cost price."

Liu Nanshan opened his mouth slightly, then smiled.

“Mr. Zhou, you are different from any other awakened person I know.”

Liu Nanshan shrugged.

"However, this condition is acceptable."

Before the pandemic, Dongyangzhou had only 80 million people, while Dongxia United State had 5 billion people and the world had 30 billion people.

It's just providing welfare to the citizens of Dongyang Prefecture, and it just means Liu Nanshan will earn a little less.

Zhou Yan opened the car door and turned back to Liu Nanshan.

"I can't guarantee I'll kill your son-in-law, but I can guarantee I'll make sure he won't dare to have any ideas about you."

Zhou Yan disliked killing, so when he went to see Liu Nanshan's son-in-law, he simply grabbed him by the neck and asked, "Do you want to die or live?"

People can only spend money and enjoy life if they are alive, so Zhou Yan believed that Liu Nanshan's son-in-law would understand the truth that money is not as important as life.

Inside the car, Liu Nanshan bowed to Zhou Yan.

"Then I'll have to trouble Councilor Zhou."

Whether the son-in-law lives or dies is not important. What is important is that he can persuade Zhou Yan to help him. In this way, Liu Nanshan will have a demigod backer. And the backer of this demigod backer is the Vermilion Bird True God.

Liu Nanshan felt that the people behind his son-in-law should probably also consider the consequences of offending Zhou Yan and Zhuque.

Although it may sound weak, someone like Liu Nanshan understands very well that law and morality are just a piece of paper, and only pure power can protect oneself.

Zhou Yan is such a pure force; if the government, led by him, can protect his group, then his group can be considered stable.

So once things settled down in Luomen City, Liu Nanshan immediately came to curry favor with Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan closed the car door.

Inside the car, Liu Nanshan watched Zhou Yan's figure disappear into the distance.

Chapter Ten: Entering the Wolf's Den Again

Zhongzhou City border.

A figure accompanied by thunderous roar swept through the air and stopped next to a road sign that read "Guanghua Road".

It took Zhou Yan twenty-five minutes to run from Luomen City to the border of Zhongzhou City.

After all, it had been almost a month. When Zhou Yan walked into Zhongzhou City from the border, he clearly noticed that there were far fewer people in the disaster-stricken areas outside.

Further inside, the citizens of Zhongzhou City came and went in a hurry, and it seemed that they had returned to their usual routines.

Walking a little further, Zhou Yan saw an outdoor advertising screen on the exterior of a commercial building in a commercial street, showing a scene of Su Bijun competing with the gibbon.

The four-school competition came to a perfect end as Zhou Yan worked as a laborer to help the disaster victims in Luomen City resume their daily lives as soon as possible.

Many classic match scenes emerged during the finale, and many Awakened Ones with high looks and extremely strong fighting skills became household names during this period.

In this competition, Su Bijun was the champion.

One reason for winning was that Jiu Feng didn't participate in the competition for some reason, and he didn't appear in the entire demigod-level confrontation of the four schools. The second reason was that after being tortured by Zhou Yan, Su Bijun mastered the Vanga Mandala. With the help of the Vanga Mandala, Su Bijun defeated the Long-Armed Ape, Leng Qing, and Feng Zhengnong of Xuanwu Academy.

In the advertisement screen that Zhou Yan was seeing, Su Bijun formed a Vajra Mandala mudra, forcibly immobilizing the Long-Armed Ape. Then, the Fearless Celestial Maiden Dharma Image behind her exerted its power, forcibly knocking the Long-Armed Ape unconscious.

When the video ended, Zhou Yan couldn't help but sigh.

To be honest, without Vanga Mandala, Su Bijun would actually be evenly matched with Mo Yu's monkey. But with Vanga Mandala's cheat-like ability, which even Zhou Yan could only win by relying on intelligence, the Long-Armed Ape couldn't withstand it.

In truth, he had defeated Su Bijun, but Su Bijun had also ascended to the throne of the top four schools through her own efforts.

But it doesn't matter. When my awakening level reaches 60% to 70%, I'll go to Indiana and defeat Su Bijun in front of everyone.

After turning his gaze away from the advertising screen, Zhou Yan turned and ran to another street.

Liu Nanshan's son-in-law is named Wei Bai, 31 years old, and his bloodline is Chiwen, the ninth son of the dragon. He lives in Jing'an Community in the East District of Zhongzhou City.

Jing'an Community is a well-known affluent community in Zhongzhou City, where residents are either superstars or stock market tycoons. Every year, more than ten documentaries, movies, and TV series based on the residents of Jing'an Community are broadcast to audiences across the country.

Therefore, everyone in Jing'an Community is a big shot of the same caliber as a leading actor on screen.