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

Anger immediately rose in his heart.

That bastard must know that the Five-Colored Stone, like the Five Mountains Ancestor Spirit, can help him stabilize the Little Western Heaven. Moreover, he was originally sent by Nuwa. Since Yinglong mentioned the Five-Colored Stone, it would definitely be easier for him to find the Five-Colored Stone than to obtain the Five Mountains Ancestor Spirit.

But this guy deliberately didn't mention the Five-Colored Stones, instead saying the Five Sacred Mountains Ancestor Spirits, forcing himself to stand between Houtu and Nuwa again.

You must choose one more from Nuwa and Houtu.

Damn it! Why?!

Yinglong, you've ruined me!!!

Are you happy to see me so conflicted?!

Chapter Three: Reunion with Bai Rusu

Suzaku Academy, swimming pool. (The rest of the text appears to be gibberish and unrelated to the main topic.)

Bai Rusu was swaying in the pool wearing a swimsuit. Because the four-school competition had ended, the top students in the school had been assigned by Zhuque to manage different states. Even someone like Lin Anru was grabbed by Leng Qing to be a state representative.

The Vermilion Bird Academy is now experiencing a rare talent shortage. Apart from two newly arrived demigods, the number of awakened students at the demon and demigod levels has been interrupted, leaving only awakened students at the demon and ghost levels who train every day.

Bai Rusu occasionally goes out to teach these students, and spends most of her remaining time recuperating and improving her awakening level.

After being cleansed of her ignorance and confusion by Chaos, Bai Rusu's energy and spirit recovered at a visible speed, and she has now reached 80% of her former peak strength. If nothing unexpected happens, Bai Rusu will be able to recover her full strength in another year or two.

Then, he can become Suzaku's right-hand man again.

As a sane leader, Zhuque knew very well that if you could protect your subordinates and provide them with benefits, they would listen to you and be willing to work for you.

Therefore, even though Bai Rusu's mind and body were not right because of Chaos, Zhuque did not show any disgust towards her. On the contrary, he provided all kinds of assistance, even using ginseng essence to help her when she was about to die.

Therefore, when Bai Rusu woke up, the woman realized that she would probably have to tie herself to Zhuque for the rest of her life in order to repay the favor.

Some students walked in through the pool entrance.

"Hello, teacher."

Good morning, Teacher Bai.

Bai Rusu nodded silently, then watched as each student whose talent lay in water went into the water.

Bai Rusu's expression changed several times, but in the end she couldn't help but get up and walk out of the pool.

As a high-ranking Awakened, Bai Rusu instinctively felt that she was reproductively isolated from the lower-level Awakened, to the point that she didn't even want to lie down where these lower-level Awakened were swimming.

Several students who came to swim walked past Bai Rusu. A little distance away, Bai Rusu heard their whispers.

"Teacher Bai is so beautiful."

"Well, after senior sisters like Lin and Leng left, isn't Teacher Bai the prettiest girl in the school now?"

"If I could marry Teacher Bai in the future..."

"What nonsense are you thinking? You're just a Ghost-level Awakener, who would respect you? If you're lonely, go out and find an ordinary person to be your toy."

"Luckily, Zhou Yan is gone, otherwise, based on those words alone, he could have twisted your head off."

Bai Rusu's expression changed slightly, but she quickly calmed down.

Zhou Yan...

Although she found it somewhat unbelievable, Bai Rusu remembered very clearly that after Lin Lei and Zhou Yan fought, she went to Zhou Yan's ward, and then Zhou Yan provoked her, and then she used illusion magic...

An unprecedented backlash erupted at that moment, and Bai Rusu almost died because of her own illusion.

Bai Rusu didn't think it was her fault. So, the illusion's counterattack was Zhou Yan's doing. Zhou Yan almost killed her, but later, it was Zhou Yan who contacted Chaos and helped her get rid of the cursed state of idiocy and confusion.

After waking up, Bai Rusu didn't know how to face Zhou Yan.

Back in her teacher's dormitory, Bai Rusu took a shower in her bathroom shower room and then changed her clothes.

As she was drying her head with a towel, her phone rang in the living room. Bai Rusu went over, picked it up, and saw a name that left her unsure how to react—Zhou Yan.

Bai Rusu answered the phone, and that voice, which made her grit her teeth even at this moment, came through.

"Teacher Bai?"

Bai Rusu said in an annoyed tone.

"Oh, so our family's Councilor Zhou still remembers his teacher?"

Zhou Yan's tone was even worse, even sarcastic.

"Of course I remember. After all, I'm the one who saved your life. I'm still waiting for you to repay my kindness."

Bai Rusu almost crushed the phone.

"You stinky monkey, you should be glad..."

Bai Rusu's breathing was heavy.

"You are not in front of me now."

If Zhou Yan were in front of her, based on what he just said, Bai Rusu would have given him a good beating.

Zhou Yan responded.

"You should be glad you're not in front of me, otherwise I'd be begging you not to die right now."

Bai Rusu slammed her hand on the table.

"You stinky monkey, don't think you have the right to talk tough to me just because you defeated Dongfang Yu."

After Bai Rusu woke up, she inquired about Zhou Yan. What she found out was incredible. She learned that Zhou Yan had gone to Zhongzhou City to watch the four-school competition. During the competition, he first defeated Dongfang Yu, the vice principal of the First Academy, and then defeated Su Bijun, the strongest Xinyuehu in Yindi Prefecture.

Su Bijun defeated the Long-Armed Ape from the First Academy and became the new number one among the four schools.

Without a doubt, based on Zhou Yan's behind-the-scenes record, he is definitely among the strongest of the new generation of Awakeners, at least in the top three, and most likely in first place. But this is no reason for him to be arrogant with a fierce fox like Bai Rusu.

Any special move is only powerful before it is used, and Zhou Yan has already revealed his ability to manipulate minds in order to deal with Dongfang Yu. Bai Rusu is confident that she will not be defeated by her inner demons like Dongfang Yu was when facing Zhou Yan.

And how much fighting power does Zhou Yan, who cannot win people's hearts, have?

It should be noted that when Zhou Yan faced Dongfang Yu before, he couldn't even break through Dongfang Yu's internal energy defense.

Zhou Yan said casually.

"Of course not, I'm here to find you and ask you to repay my kindness. You know where Qingqiu is, right? You're qualified to go to Qingqiu, right? Take me to Qingqiu, and once we get there, we'll settle all our scores."

Bai Rusu sat down on the sofa in the living room and said sarcastically.

"Do you want me to take you to Qingqiu?"

Bai Rusu raised her chin and spoke haughtily.

"Okay, beg me."

Bai Rusu leaned back on the sofa.

"You should obediently greet Teacher Bai, come over and kneel down in front of me, kowtow a few times, and maybe I'll be in a good mood and agree."

Even if Zhou Yan is a demigod, it has only been a year since he awakened and Bai Rusu lifted the curse. No matter how talented Zhou Yan is, how much stronger can he be in just one year?

You should know that if you enroll in Lin'an school for a year, you'll only be a junior student under the top students.

In total, Zhou Yan's awakening time is less than half the time it has been since Lin Anru entered the school.

So where does this stinky monkey get the confidence to act so high and mighty in front of me?

Bai Rusu grew angrier the more she thought about it. She didn't mind Zhou Yan's youthful arrogance, but he shouldn't have acted so arrogantly in front of her.

However, now that Bai Rusu has regained her senses, she won't go to Dongyang Prefecture where Zhou Yan is to find him and beat him up because of this anger. At most, she will only make sarcastic remarks.

"Teacher Bai, I only called you Teacher Bai because you did teach me a few times in the past. If you really want to put on airs in front of me, aren't you afraid of hurting your back with your big tongue?"

Bai Rusu hung up the phone and then blacklisted Zhou Yan's phone number.

Keep talking, I'm not going to listen to you.

"Ding dong..."

The doorbell rang.

Bai Rusu glanced at the doorbell in surprise. Why would someone come looking for her at this hour?

The doorbell rang again.

Bai Rusu got up, walked towards the dormitory door, and opened it.

As the door opened, Bai Rusu saw a familiar face—Zhou Yan's face.

Zhou Yan stood outside the door.

The young man smiled slightly at Bai Rusu.

"Teacher Bai, I'm giving you two choices now."

Zhou Yan held up two fingers.

"First one, come with me to Qingqiu now, second one."

Zhou Yan clasped his hands together and began pressing his knuckles, making them crackle and pop.

"I'll beat you until you're willing to come to Qingqiu with me."

Bai Rusu's answer was that her body quickly became transparent.

Bai Rusu is a highly awakened celestial fox. Celestial foxes are gifted in illusion magic. Bai Rusu is strong enough to use illusion magic to distort reality. Her body disappearing is not just becoming transparent, but actually transforming her body into another non-solid state similar to air.

In this state, Bai Rusu is almost physically immune.

As an awakened being of the Seventh Mage type, Bai Rusu would definitely not engage in close combat. When facing an opponent like Zhou Yan, the best course of action would be to first create distance and then kite Zhou Yan like a kite.

In response, Zhou Yan stepped forward and, with a punch so fast that Bai Rusu's dynamic vision couldn't even catch it, landed a blow on Bai Rusu's chest.

It would take 0.01 seconds for Bai Rusu to completely vaporize, but at 0.005 seconds, a punch was thrown at Bai Rusu's body before she had vaporized.

With a punch force exceeding 20,000 base attributes, Bai Rusu was sent flying. During the flight, half of Bai Rusu's body, which had been vaporized, was quickly pulled out of the void.

Zhou Yan interrupted Bai Rusu's attempt to become air with a single punch.

Of course, as someone with rich combat experience and a sound mind, Bai Rusu, after being punched by Zhou Yan, was not only preoccupied with why this stinky monkey's punches were so fast and his fists so hard, but also instinctively used illusion magic to distort space, covering the area in front of her with layers of space to ensure that Zhou Yan could not attack her whether he ran in a straight line or a curve.

But subtly, amidst this spatial distortion, Zhou Yan took a step.

As Zhou Yan's footsteps fell, the spatial distortion controlled by Bai Rusu changed from layers upon layers to a straight line.

Zhou Yan smoothed out a crumpled piece of paper.

Does this stinky monkey also have the ability to control space?

As Bai Rusu was retreating, a chill ran through her heart.

Spatial control is her most useful and highest-level defensive ability, and Zhou Yan has now demonstrated a sufficiently strong spatial ability as well...

Bai Rusu crashed into the wall of her living room. Zhou Yan used a clever technique, and the force of his punch did not break the wall through Bai Rusu, but instead returned to Bai Rusu's body. Bai Rusu was not to be trifled with either, and directly used illusion magic to distort the force, causing it to transform between reality and illusion.

From real to unreal.

Bai Rusu's illusion magic can turn falsehood into reality, and from Qingqiu's immortal arts, Bai Rusu also learned how to turn real objects into illusions.

In the instant the force vanished into nothingness, Zhou Yan had already reached Bai Rusu. The young man raised his fist and brought it down on Bai Rusu's face.

Bai Rusu's eyes widened as she watched Zhou Yan's fist approach from half a meter away, revealing the knuckles and individual hairs on his fist.

Then there's wind pressure.

It's unclear what kind of magic Zhou Yan used to deliver this punch, but the moment it hit, a massive amount of wind pressure pressed down on Bai Rusu's face, making her hair stick to the wall like it was glued with superglue. Her eyelids were forcibly opened, and she could only watch as Zhou Yan's fist reached her nose while enduring the piercing pain.

Then the storm passed and the clouds dispersed.

As Zhou Yan's fist stopped advancing, the small mirror that Bai Rusu had taken from her sleeve into her hand was also twisted, no longer reflecting Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan provocatively said, his fist still hovering in front of Bai Rusu.

"Teacher Bai, don't you think that repaying kindness is a virtue that everyone should have?"

Bai Rusu looked intently at Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan's two punches reminded her of Dongfang Yu, the vice principal of the First Academy, and the former strongest Tongbi Ape among the four schools. Both of them were typical examples of those who entered the Dao through martial arts, reaching the pinnacle of both unarmed combat and internal energy cultivation.

So why would someone who has only been awakened for a year possess such unparalleled martial arts skills?

After careful consideration, realizing that she would likely not fare well against Zhou Yan if she really made a move, Bai Rusu suppressed her arrogance and asked a different question.

What do you want to do in Qingqiu?

Zhou Yan breathed a sigh of relief. Bai Rusu and the others were actually easy to communicate with. When you put your fist on their heads and let them know that you can threaten these scoundrels, they will naturally lower their stance and communicate with you as an equal.