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

Zhou Yan said with disdain.

"That's enough. If I wasn't afraid of losing you... Okay... Stop taking advantage of me. It hurts when you pull my fur."

"Attention, I'm going in."

Zhou Yan extended one of his paws into the doorway.

The moment he reached in, Zhou Yan's hand began to twist.

Zhou Yan poured the rest of his body into the Tailu Temple.

Both of them, including Little Yama, saw their bodies twist like noodles.

Both of them fell into a black hole.

……

It hurts, my head hurts.

Little Yama, whose vision was still in darkness, turned over. However, after turning over, Little Yama did not feel the warm and soft bed he used to have, but the cold, hard, and rough cement floor.

"Ok?"

Little Yama opened his eyes and got up in a daze.

The vision went from blurry to clear.

Little Yama saw a house, a modern house with bookshelves and a desk, but the house had no floor, the floor was pure cement, and there was no bed.

This looks like a... very old style of study that only became popular a hundred years ago, when Little Yama was about to die...

Little Yama's palm swept across something warm, followed by a cry of "Holy crap!"

Little Yama turned his head in confusion and then saw a child who looked about seven or eight years old.

The child seemed to have just been awakened by being patted by Little Yama's hand, and now when he got up, his face was full of blankness.

However, the bewildered look quickly disappeared. The child hugged his arms and his teeth chattered.

"Is it winter now? It's so cold..."

Little Yama exhaled and nodded.

"The temperature seems to be around freezing."

The child beside him, Zhou Yan, trembled.

"You're Brother Yan, right? Aren't you cold?"

Zhou Yan was covered in goosebumps from the cold, but he noticed that Xiao Yanjun was dressed even less than him, yet he seemed perfectly fine.

Little Yama shrugged.

"I am a being of the spirit, so let alone zero degrees, even if I took off my clothes and went to the Arctic in a bikini, I wouldn't get cold."

Zhou Yan was a little envious and began to change his bloodline.

Zhou Yan's Bai Ze bloodline hasn't awakened yet, but he can use the Thunder Essence given by the Antarctic Longevity Emperor and the Avatar given by Nuwa. In particular, if Zhou Yan uses Nuwa's Avatar well, it can add a lot of ice resistance to himself.

Of course, this will take time.

"Alright..."

Little Yama took off his coat and draped it over Zhou Yan.

"Xiao Yan, wait here for a moment. This place... isn't right. I'll go take a look..."

Zhou Yan struggled to get up.

"I'll go with you."

Zhou Yan waved his hand, and the Shengwu Sword, which had been hidden in his sleeve, emerged.

Zhou Yan is no burden. As the owner of the Shengwu Sword, Zhou Yan possesses all martial arts skills above average, as well as the Gouchen Sword Qi, which can be used three times.

Even though Zhou Yan's physical abilities are currently weaker than the average person, he wouldn't falter even against four or five dozen adult men.

"Cheng... Xiao Yan, you'll stay behind me and keep me company..."

Zhou Yan slipped into the Little Yama's clothes, rubbing his hands as he agreed.

The body of Little Yama was originally created by the Emperor of Fengdu. Now that he has arrived in this unknown environment, his body has not changed and he still looks like an adorable little girl.

However, this little girl is a bit older than Zhou Yan's current body, and the Little Yama's clothes are a bit too big for Zhou Yan.

The two left the study.

Outside the study is a corridor leading to the staircase, with several decorative paintings hanging in the corridor.

Little Yama walked ahead, looking left and right. The more he looked, the more solemn his expression became. He stopped in front of an artwork in the corridor and paused.

Zhou Yan, who was behind Little Yama, stopped and asked.

"what happened?"

"Wearing only a T-shirt, Little Yama stroked his chin and said..."

“This painting... I remember now, this place looks like the community government building where I used to work.”

Zhou Yan pondered.

"Brother Yan, you used to..."

Little Yama smiled wryly.

"About 130 years ago, I was a ghost messenger, a ghost-level awakener."

Little Yama looked at Zhou Yan again and said meaningfully.

"I just remembered, you're a piece of trash."

Zhou Yan: "Σ(゜ロ゜;)"

Little Yama pointed to himself.

"Also, according to our relationship, I might be your older sister." ⊥零(`∈←八/◎零ˉ∪

Zhou Yan took a step back.

"elder sister?"

Little Yama recalled the past.

“That was something I found utterly disgusting. 130 years ago, I finally became a community councilor, ready to govern my community well. But before long, the police came looking for me. They said they had received a case, and the details of the case were very…”

Little Yama sighed.

“There is a family in the community I manage. The husband died in an accident, leaving behind his wife and two children.”

"Because there was a large sum of compensation after the male head of the household died, their relatives started to consider taking advantage of the family's wealth."

"Eating the dead" is a phenomenon that only existed in rural areas or remote cities in the old days of the Eastern Xia Federation. It means that if the head of your family is gone, and you can't keep your property, they will try to take your money, land, and other assets.

Of course, this kind of thing is not common now, but it happened a lot in Little Yama's time.

"Even the lady of the house's son was secretly kidnapped by a relative, who planned to sell him."

Little Yama's words made Zhou Yan's expression uneasy.

This is not an uncommon occurrence. When Zhou Yan was in high school, the extracurricular reading materials assigned by the school mentioned several cases of relatives abducting their relatives' children.

The most outrageous case involved an aunt who lured a woman to a room in a certain place, closed the door, and said that she (the aunt) thought her niece was getting old and needed a husband, and that she (the aunt) had found a good man and wanted them to get married now.

"Fortunately, the woman of the house called the police in time and got the child back."

Zhou Yan understood somewhat.

"So, did the relative who abducted the child not want to go to jail, and threw a tantrum to beg the woman of the house to forgive him?"

Little Yama shook his head.

"If only it were that simple, the woman refused to accept any forgiveness after getting her child back and had the police arrest the relatives who had abducted the child."

"After that, this woman began to develop a morbid, well, nurturing desire towards her son, in order to cultivate his animalistic nature and temper."

Little Yama pointed to himself.

"That mother made her daughter a punching bag and let her son beat her."

Zhou Yan was dumbfounded.

Little Yama began to shake his head, a look of pity on his face.

"After that, the lady of the house instilled in her son every day that this house belonged to him, that he would inherit the family in the future, and that he would be the pillar of the family. She also taught her daughter to give way to her younger brother, who was the most important person in the family."

"Then, in order to get a nice bicycle, this younger brother gave his sister's virginity to one of his classmates."

Zhou Yan took another step back.

Little Yama spoke to himself. 8

"After discovering that his sister could make money, the younger brother went even further, forcing his sister to sell herself for money. Once, when his sister scolded him a few times, he couldn't take it anymore and beat her to death."

Zhou Yan said angrily.

"Is this a person?"

Little Yama agreed. Lu

"Yes, this is something no human being could do. The most terrifying thing is the child's mother. To cover up her son's crime, she helped him bury their daughter together. After the daughter's body was discovered by the police, she even said that her daughter was a whore, her son was a good boy, and that her daughter deserved to die; she couldn't let her son go to jail."

Zhou Yan: "..." Temple

Little Yama stared at Zhou Yan's body.

"You look exactly like that younger brother."

Zhou Yan: "..."

"OK OK."

Little Yama clapped his hands.

"That's all in the past. If I'm not mistaken, we are now..."

Little Yama walked towards the stairs.

"It should be the time when the Eastern Xia Federation was at its most powerful and its people were happiest."

Zhou Yan followed Little Yama upstairs.

"The happiest?"

"The case I just mentioned is an isolated incident. You find it unbelievable, insane, and disgusting precisely because such things don't happen often, to the point that they shouldn't exist in your worldview. That's why you have such a strong reaction when such a crazy thing actually happens in front of you."

Zhou Yan nodded.

"Indeed, when I first started reading some hardcore doujinshi, it took me a long time to get used to it."

Now, Zhou Yan is an expert reader who is immune to all kinds of novels, so much so that ordinary pure love novels have no flavor for him at all.

As Xiao Yanjun descended the stairs, he suddenly stopped, and Zhou Yan, who was behind him, also stopped.

Zhou Yan didn't ask why Little Yama had stopped, because Zhou Yan also saw a skeleton lying on the landing of the stairs leading down from the stairs, dressed in tattered clothes and covered in dust.

Zhou Yan said in a low voice.

"This……"

"Nine Little Yama Kings said in a low voice."

4. "The appearance of these remains... suggests they've been there for at least several years."

For 0 to rot a person into bones, it must have taken quite a while.

Fourthly, a skeleton, rotten for who knows how many years, lay inside the community government building…

"Xiao Yan..."

"Um, what's wrong, Brother Yan?"

"Go turn on the light and take a look."

There are light switches at the top and bottom of each floor of the four staircase.

Zhou Yan walked to the exit on the second floor of the stairs, pressed the switch, but none of the nearby lights came on.

Little Yama muttered to himself in confusion.