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

He was a deliveryman, and the Queen Mother of the West wanted him to deliver the Plain Cloud Banner to Nuwa.

Afterwards, Nuwa resurrected Lu Wu. Lu Wu's true form should have gone to Yaochi with the Plain Cloud Banner, and Zhongdou Xingjun was probably also there as an assistant.

Zhou Yan asked Zhu Jiuyin a question.

"Yaochi, something happened?"

Zhu Jiuyin hesitated.

"I'm not entirely sure, but something definitely happened. Lu Wu even went to the Candle Dragon Palace where my body is to retrieve the fire essence."

Lu Wu assured Zhulong that He would go to Yaochi and that it would not affect Zhujiuyin's plans, and only then did Zhujiuyin give Lu Wu a portion of His Fire Essence.

The idea of ​​buying peace with money is something that a great deity like Zhu Jiuyin, who has lived for tens of thousands of years, knows very well.

Zhou Yan didn't know what to say, so he could only remain silent.

The Plain Cloud Banner is a secret treasure guarding Yaochi, so it's suspicious that it could be taken from Zhongdou Xingjun's possession.

Zhou Yan suspected that something had happened at Yaochi. The Plain Cloud Banner had been lost and found by Zhongdou Xingjun. Now, Zhongdou Xingjun had delivered the Plain Cloud Banner to Nuwa on his own.

After Nuwa saw the Plain Cloud Banner, she must have understood something, so she asked Lu Wu to take the Plain Cloud Banner to save Yaochi.

Wait, why not ask your own Bai Ze to save it?

Zhou Yan chuckled.

It seems that Nuwa said she should stay away from the Queen Mother of the West and Houtu Niangniang, because if she went to rescue Yaochi, she would become closer to the Queen Mother of the West.

Even when the Queen Mother of the West gave herself the plain-colored cloud banner, it was as if she was telling Nuwa that she wanted her Bai Ze to go and save Yaochi.

So Nuwa found someone to take her place and warned herself not to get too close to the Queen Mother of the West.

Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable! Sending a plain cloud-shaped banner can cause so much trouble?

It's really hard to guess what these big shots are thinking. As someone with only 70% awakening, Bai Ze is completely clueless when he gets involved in the plans of these Heavenly Emperor-level big shots.

"Do you understand?"

Zhu Jiuyin stretched out his hand holding the lady's cigarette, and a bodyguard with an ashtray came up and placed the ashtray under Zhu Jiuyin's cigarette.

Zhu Jiuyin shook the cigarette ash on the ashtray, then took it back and smoked it.

9. "Lu Wu is on his way to Yaochi right now and has no energy to deal with the affairs of Mount Tai. You can use Lu Wu to pressure me, but I don't feel any pressure at all."

Zhou Yan: "..."

8 “Okay…”

After finishing the last bit of the lady's cigarette, Zhu Jiuyin put it aside, where it was extinguished in an ashtray held by his bodyguard.

4. "I know Bai Ze, you're a proud and arrogant guy, and you won't agree to things so easily."

Zhu Jiuyin threw a cell phone at Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan caught it.

Zhu Jiuyin made a phone call gesture with one hand near his ear.

5. "My phone number and WeChat are in your phone. Call me whenever you've figured things out. Remember, since the collapse of Mount Tai's pillar at Beitianmen, it's not surprising that it will collapse at any time. If you keep dragging your feet, the people who die in the future will all be your responsibility."

Zhou Yan retorted sarcastically.

"You're good at shirking responsibility."

Zhou Yan had once seen a movie where a serial killer kidnapped dozens of people, gave a young man a gun, and told him to choose who to kill.

Every five seconds, the killer would kill one person. The young man wouldn't kill anyone, but the killer would kill one of the young man's relatives.

When the first five seconds had passed, the young and kind man still didn't dare to kill anyone, so his father was killed by the killer with a blow to the head.

The young man immediately collapsed to the ground, weeping and embracing his father's body. The serial killer, meanwhile, was gloating, saying that the young man was the one who killed his father, and that it was because he refused to kill that his father died.

The young man is the murderer.

This sounds logical, but Zhou Yan thought about it again. The killer is a serial killer, and the one who kidnaps people is also a serial killer. How come the one who kills is the young man?

This serial killer is really good at shirking responsibility.

The current strategy used by Zhujiuyin is roughly the same.

Zhu Jiuyin smiled and walked back to his luxury car. The other bodyguards got back into their seats, and the car turned around and drove away from Dahuang Village.

Chapter Seventeen: The Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden

The Arctic, Darnen Iceberg.

A team of researchers, wearing professional glacier boots, walked on the ice, their bodies bound together by ropes, resembling a string of centipedes with each person as a joint.

The most dangerous thing about icebergs is not the slippery ground or the low temperature, but the unstable ground.

Who knows, someone might take a step forward, and the ground might instantly crack open and swallow them up.

Therefore, when walking in the undefined and even undefined ice mountain area, people need to be connected by ropes. This way, even if someone breaks through the thin ice and falls to the ground, the others can still use the ropes to rescue that person.

That's how dangerous the polar regions are.

The expedition leader, who was walking at the front, shouted as he went.

"The Darn iceberg we are on now is the world's largest iceberg. It is about 173 kilometers long and 25 kilometers wide. It is shaped like a long and narrow plank of wood. Satellite measurements show that its area is about 4320 square kilometers."

"This area is equivalent to four times the size of our capital, Zhongzhou City, 130 times the size of the Greater Ao Special District, and six times the size of the Lesser Zhongzhou Special District..."

The members of the expedition team responded one after another.

“I know, I know. When I was studying geology, my teacher said that the Darn iceberg is very young, only 30,000 years old, and very strangely, it has never moved since it was discovered.”

Some icebergs drift globally due to ocean currents and melting caused by rising temperatures.

However, the Darn iceberg has remained undisturbed since its discovery, leading many scientists to suspect that only a small portion of the iceberg is visible above the water, with a much larger portion hidden beneath.

"Yes, yes, I've heard that too. Some people who have come to the polar regions for exploration have said that they have seen auspicious lights and immortals on this iceberg, and some have even seen ancient and magnificent mansions under the ice."

"These are all hallucinations caused by the explorers who came here and were so cold that their minds went blank."

The Darnen Icefield is the most dangerous area of ​​all the polar regions, with a mortality rate of over 50 percent for explorers who come here.

Of course, 50% of these people die because they brought it upon themselves. For example, the scientific expedition team that came to do scientific research this time didn't have so many ideas. They would just explore and conduct research in a safe place, collect data, and then return to the polar base.

The captain, who was walking at the front, echoed this sentiment.

"Isn't the Darn Iceberg rumored to contain treasures from a lost civilization? It attracts many explorers to search for these treasures. Once people are controlled by greed, they lose their minds, and those explorers are no exception."

"We are different. We are a professional scientific research team. Everyone should just collect data in a safe place. Nobody should go into those unknown dark areas, understand?"

"understood!"

"understand!"

"Curiosity is not as important as life."

The group of research team members behind him responded one by one.

The captain nodded in satisfaction, then cautiously continued walking forward.

During the incident, two team members fell into an ice hole. Fortunately, the people around them were tied with ropes to the team members who had fallen into the ice hole, so they did not fall down.

After navigating the mountain without incident, the team leader spoke up as soon as he reached the summit.

"Alright, everyone go look..."

A gust of cold wind mixed with snow blew by, silencing the captain who had just opened his mouth.

In this environment, at this temperature, this gust of cold wind feels like a huge block of ice being stuffed into your mouth.

Not only his mouth, but also the captain's eyes, which he felt were chilled by the cold air, made him close them and press his gloved hand against his eyes.

The captain was a little worried that the wind would make his eyes water; at this temperature, tears could freeze.

After a while, the captain took his hand away from his eyes. A light gust of wind and snow brushed against his cheek, and a series of colors appeared in his blurred vision.

The captain tilted his head in confusion.

This wasn't the first time the team leader had been to this place. Looking out from this hilltop, there should be vast expanses of snow-white, without any other messy colors.

Could it be that there's something wrong with my eyesight?

As a scientist who has been conducting scientific research in the polar regions for a long time, the team leader has encountered many special diseases that only occur in the polar regions, such as snow blindness and permanent blindness caused by frozen eyes.

Am I...blind...?

The blurry vision began to clear.

The captain suddenly realized that he wasn't blind; he was probably hallucinating.

He saw a vast complex of buildings appear below the mountain where he was standing. The complex stretched across the ground and was arranged in a row in the sky, with auspicious lights of various colors spreading outwards from the complex, turning the surrounding area into a land of good fortune.

"There, there are people..."

A teammate who walked up behind the BA captain pointed to a courtyard in the building complex below and shouted. ×→＼∩贰●」

Everyone looked in the direction the team member was pointing.

They saw three figures meet in the courtyard of the complex, and then leave.

……

The buildings and courtyard below.

Zhongdou Xingjun, who was holding an erhu, exhaled a breath, and white mist was exhaled from his mouth.

Lu Wu, standing to the side, looked around and asked in confusion.

"It doesn't seem very dangerous?"

Beside Lu Wu, a woman dressed in a white long-sleeved shirt and long skirt, with an elegant and clean face and a very dignified demeanor, stepped out and spoke.

"Like the moonlit lake, it is merely a reflection."

"The real Jade Pool."

The dignified woman looked down at the ground. This woman was different from Lu Wu and Zhong Dou Xing Jun. Whenever Lu Wu and Zhong Dou Xing Jun spoke, large wisps of white mist would come out of their noses when they breathed, but when this woman spoke, not a single wisp of white mist came out.

Lu Wu understood somewhat.

"Is the Jade Pool beneath the ice?"

The woman nodded without saying a word.

Zhongdou Xingjun reached out and cracked his knuckles, then reached out to Lu Wu.

Lu Wu took out the plain-colored cloud-shaped flag from his bosom.

Zhongdou Xingjun caught it and threw it to the ground. The surrounding scenery immediately collapsed and disappeared one after another like falling dominoes.

During this process, Lu Wu secretly glanced at the goddess beside him, and a strange feeling welled up in his heart.

This elegant and pure goddess, untouched by worldly dust, is called the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady.

He was a colleague of Bai Ze during the time of the Yellow Emperor.

Now, I'm here with Lu Wu and Zhong Dou Xingjun to save Yaochi.

……

Central City, Black Palace, Presidential Office.

Zhou Yan sat at the president's desk, behind which Xuanwu sat leaning back in his chair, with the vice president and secretary of state standing on either side.

"...That's basically the situation."

Zhou Yan shrugged.

"That old fellow Zhu Jiuyin said that the collapse of Mount Tai's pillar would be no less dangerous than the collapse of Mount Buzhou, and that the pillar itself is already in danger of breaking and collapsing due to the fall of the North Heavenly Gate."

The Vice President and Secretary of State standing next to Xuanwu showed slight changes in their expressions.

Only a few months have passed since the last fall of the North Heavenly Gate. As the human elite who almost witnessed the destruction of the Earth, they are relieved that the fall of the North Heavenly Gate did not cause any damage and that the apocalypse predicted by the technical staff of the National Space Administration has not come.

On one hand, they were worried about what kind of catastrophe could cause the North Heavenly Gate to fall, and whether it would endanger their own planet.

Before the great disaster even arrived, their own Optimus Prime was about to fall.

Although they were all major disasters, they were not quite what we had expected.

The Vice President and the Secretary of State looked at Xuanwu.

Xuanwu said expressionlessly, "＜〗∝々羓`?誀♂∥肆弎@｝牾susu：."