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

Zhou Yan reached out towards the hot pot.

"Sit down, let's talk while we eat."

Lin'an, with her mature and sophisticated image, remained unmoved.

"You are not Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan went to Mount Tai with the Four Symbols Divine Beasts, Bixia Yuanjun, Huobu Zhenjun, Dongdou Xingjun, and Jiufeng in order to stabilize the flow of Qi."

"After the pillar of heaven collapsed, they never returned!"

Countless shimmering water droplets emerged from the air, transforming into streaks of emerald green water arrows, their arrowheads pointing at Zhou Yan and Little Yama.

Seeing this, Little Yama placed his hand on the back of Zhou Yan's hand and said meaningfully.

"Need Brother Yan to teach you how to pick up girls?"

Zhou Yan shook off Xiao Yanjun's hand, looking disgusted.

"You're not the God of Literature."

Zhou Yan then looked at Lin Anru.

"Senior, do you remember when we first went to Zhongzhou City to participate in the Four Schools Competition, the Zhang family from Indiana hired assassins to kill you?"

The mature and elegant Lin Anru remained expressionless.

"The eldest daughter of the Zhang family does indeed have a grudge against me; it was indeed me who stole her boyfriend back then."

Zhou Yan shook his head.

"Forget about testing him. Zhang Ye is pregnant, but he's a man. If he has a grudge against you, it's because..."

Zhou Yan pointed to himself.

"The trouble I caused in the Abyss Underworld is what dragged you into."

Lin Anru fell silent.

Zhou Yan added another weight.

"Senior, do you remember what happened when we first met?"

Zhou Yan shrugged.

"You brought a group of people to question me, asking if I had the purity to put my ideas into practice, and then I used..."

7 Zhou Yan reached out, and the Shengwu Sword sprang out from Zhou Yan's arm.

"This has pierced your Achilles' heel, senior. Do you need me to tell you where your Achilles' heel is?"

Zhou Yan looked at Lin Anru's lower abdomen.

Lin Anru spoke expressionlessly.

"You've returned from Mount Tai?"

Mio paused for a moment, then shook her head.

"Impossible. With the power of you true gods, if you were to return, why would you need to go around trying to contact people like this..."

8. Lin'an, do you remember? Back when Zhou Yan and the other true gods went to support the Heavenly Pillar, Zhou Yan was already someone who could easily crush a demigod.

If a monster like Prism were to truly revive, it could simply come to the Great Xia Organization to find him.

Why stay cooped up in one place, needing someone else to relay messages to you?

Zhou Yan sighed.

"This isn't a question of recovery or not. My current situation is also quite delicate. Anyway, senior, you can rest assured, I am Zhou Yan, I am the Bai Ze from back then, and..."

Zhou Yan patted the seat next to him.

"Senior, could you tell me how the Heavenly Pillar collapsed? We need to understand the situation of this era."

Zhou Yan circled his fingers around his temples.

Lin Anru walked over.

Zhou Yan noticed something was off again. In the past, when Zhou Yan was with Lin Anru, Lin Anru walked with a carefree and unrestrained manner. This mature and elegant Lin Anru walked with a graceful and charming figure, showcasing the beauty of women to the fullest.

Over the past three hundred years, Lin'an, this tomboy, has actually developed an indescribable femininity.

Lin Anru walked over and sat down next to Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan picked up a plate of tripe and beef aorta and asked with a smile.

"Of these, you like them the most, right?"

Lin'an's expression shifted slightly.

She remembered three hundred years ago, when Zhou Yan accompanied her to stroll along the pedestrian street in Zhongzhou City, and then bought her a few skewers of oden, choosing her favorite ones.

At first, she wondered how Zhou Yan knew what she was thinking.

Zhou Yan put the beef tripe and beef aorta into the hot pot, then gave a look to the maids around him, and the maids brought Lin Ba Anru a glass of juice.

Lin Anru looked at it and asked.

"No beer?"

"Sorry, brewing beer here is a bit complicated. You'll have to make do with some juice."

Zhou Yan picked up his juice glass and placed it in front of Lin Anru. Lin Anru took her juice glass and clinked it against Zhou Yan's.

Zhou Yan downed the juice in his glass in one gulp, while Lin Anru took a small sip and exhaled a breath of air with the sour taste of juice.

Zhou Yan smiled and placed his hand on Lin Anru's shoulder. Lin Anru's expression changed, but she did not stop him.

When she was only 19 years old, Zhou Yan had already been seen with her and her brother, with their arms around each other's shoulders.

Zhou Yan's actions reminded Lin An of her childhood.

"Tell me about it."

Zhou Yan patted Lin Anru's shoulder with the hand that was around her shoulder.

"What exactly happened to Tianzhu? Did I not even manage to save Bixia Yuanjun?"

Little Yama also peered over.

Lin'an felt a pang of sadness.

"She was rescued. I heard from Lord Zhuque that you went through great lengths to rescue Bixia Yuanjun, and then took Zhujiuyin and Bixia Yuanjun to stabilize Tianzhu Mountain."

Little Yama asked in astonishment.

"And then Tianzhu Mountain couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed?"

Nuwa did say that even with the stability of the Five Sacred Mountains' ancestral spirits, Tianzhu Mountain only has an 80% chance of not collapsing; if luck is against them...

Lin An shook his head.

"No, it's stable. I personally witnessed the Tianzhu Mountain stabilize, and Zhu Jiuyin ascended to become the Mountain God of Mount Tai."

Lin'an will always remember that on the day he fell from the Western Heavenly Gate, Zhou Yan took too many gods with him to Tianzhu Mountain.

As the future leaders of the Vermilion Bird Academy, Lin Anru and Leng Qing are qualified to know about Tianzhu Mountain and watch its live stream.

As Lin'an witnessed, Zhu Jiuyin and Bixia Yuanjun worked together to stabilize Tianzhu Mountain, and Zhu Jiuyin even became the new mountain god of Mount Tai.

Zhou Yan and Little Yama said in unison.

"and then?"

Lin'an said he saw Tianzhu Mountain as stable, but now Tianzhu has collapsed, so many unexpected things must have happened inside.

"I have no idea……"

Lin'an looked bewildered.

“I personally witnessed Mount Tianzhu stabilize, but not long after it stabilized, and only a few days after Zhu Jiuyin became the mountain god of Mount Tai, the pillar began to shake again. Even after Xiao Yan and the other true gods joined forces, they couldn’t stop the pillar from toppling over…”

"After the Heavenly Pillar collapsed, Dabie Prefecture, where Mount Tai is located, was shrouded in black mist. No one who went inside ever returned, not even the demigods from our school."

Zhou Yan: "..."

Little Yama: "..."

Lin'an seemed to have recovered somewhat from her confusion.

"Later, I discussed it with Senior Sister Leng Qing and a few other teachers. We felt that with the presence of Bixia Yuanjun, the Four Symbols Divine Beasts, and Zhu Jiuyin, and considering that the accident happened after Tianzhu Mountain had stabilized, rather than during its stabilization, it suggests that the accident could not have been orchestrated by other true gods or a conspiracy."

Zhou Yan and Little Yama nodded without saying a word.

According to Lin Anru, the true gods who went to Mount Tai to support the pillar of heaven were the Four Divine Beasts, Zhou Yan, the Fire Department True Lord Wang Xuan, Zhu Jiuyin Er, the Eastern Dipper Star Lord, and Jiu Feng. Coupled with the fact that the name Yan Shenglin does not appear in history, it is estimated that Little Yan Jun himself went there.

Ten true gods went, and this happened afterward, when everyone had already freed up their hands.

With this lineup, unless a top-tier expert like the Heavenly Emperor intervenes, any other god-like being, while not necessarily able to defeat them, can certainly hold their own.

"so……"

Look at Zhou Yan in Lin'an, he's like a little Yama.

"Senior Leng Qing speculated that the reason why the Heavenly Pillar collapsed again might be that the East Heavenly Gate also fell down."

Zhou Yan/Little Yan Jun: "Σ(°△°|||)"

Did the East Heavenly Gate also fall?

Following the West Heavenly Gate, the East Heavenly Gate collapsed as well...

Wasn't it said that Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun's condition was just not good?

This isn't bad enough, is it? When the Eastern Heavenly Gate fell, Zhou Yan guessed that the body of Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun was still lying in one of the temples of the Eastern Heavenly Gate.

"Master, the beef tripe and beef trachea are ready."

A short-haired, energetic maid scooped beef tripe and beef aorta from the hot pot and placed them in front of Zhou Yan, Little Yama, and Lin Anru.

Lin'an picked up her chopsticks, took a bite, and ate.

The exact same taste as in her memory filled her mouth, and Lin Anru almost cried. However, being over three hundred years old, she managed to hold back her emotions.

"No... things aren't that simple..."

While holding chopsticks, Little Yama put a few slices of fatty beef into the hot pot, then turned to Lin Anru and said.

Lin An swallowed the yellow throat in his mouth.

"We indeed couldn't find the East Heavenly Gate."

Leng Qing guessed that after the West Heavenly Gate fell, the East Heavenly Gate also fell, causing the Heavenly Pillar to shake again. This idea is very reasonable and also fits the severity of the Heavenly Pillar tilting, even though several great gods joined forces.

The only problem is that the Western Heavenly Gate, the Northern Heavenly Gate, and the Southern Heavenly Gate can all be found on Earth, but the Eastern Heavenly Gate has not been found since Leng Qing proposed this idea.

Little Yama shook his head.

"That's not what I meant..."

With his other hand, Little Yama scooped the cooked beef slices out of the hot pot and put them in his mouth to chew.

Little Yama didn't speak, but a hoarse voice came from beside him.

"Lin'an, right? Did you see the Central Dipper Star Lord present when he stopped the Heavenly Pillar from collapsing?"

Lin Anru thought for a moment and then responded.

"No, ever since the Four Divine Beasts and other officially recognized True Gods were trapped in Mount Tai, we have been searching for a new True God to stabilize the situation. We have been searching for the Central Dipper Star Lord for hundreds of years, but we have not found him."

Zhou Yan also asked.

"What about the God of Literature? Has He not yet been resurrected at this point?"

Lin'an smiled bitterly.

"It has been resurrected, but it was said a hundred years ago that it was going to Fengdu, and it never came back."

Something's not right.

Little Yama said as he poured the other five pieces of meat into the hot pot. ＞％3＠♂肆∫.∝er‖

“The Central Dipper Star Lord is different from me. He is naturally exposed to the public. If he wanted to support the Heavenly Pillar, there was no need to hide it. Even if he didn’t go, he wouldn’t have done nothing afterwards and just stayed hidden for hundreds of years to watch the show.”

Zhou Yan echoed this sentiment.

"And Lu Wu, Senior Lin, do you know Lu Wu?"

Lin An looked completely puzzled.