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

"Don't tell me about your research process, I don't want to hear it..."

3. Lin'an just couldn't understand why these technicians always liked to add technical terms and various logical procedures that no one else could understand when they gave reports.

Can't we just state the result as zero?

Do you know that if you recount all your professional processes, it will only increase the presentation time tenfold or more, and that's all it will do?

The voice coming from the phone sounded a little disappointed.

"Okay, we've found the latitude and longitude of the Darn Iceberg, but according to the records, there seems to have been a huge explosion there a long time ago."

Little Yama's expression changed drastically, and he even stood up from his chair.

"Explosion? What explosion?!"

Lin Anru glanced at Little Yama and spoke into her phone.

What happened during the explosion?

"Yes, it was reported by the polar researchers at the time. They said that one day, they saw the Darn iceberg break apart and a pillar of light shot into the sky. Upon closer inspection, they found that the pillar of light was actually composed of countless light birds. After shooting into the sky, the light birds quickly dispersed, and countless light birds fell to the ground, like a cluster of falling stars."

"Then came storms and explosions, which shattered the largest ice continent in the Arctic. Several countries' Arctic research stations woke up the next day to find themselves adrift in other oceans."

"time!"

Little Yama walked up to Lin Anru and asked while staring at his phone.

When did the explosion occur?

"Hmm, let me check..."

"Found it, it's May 27th of the Jia Chen year."

Little Yama asked again.

When did the pillar of heaven collapse?

Lin'an replied.

"It was the third day of the sixth month of the Jia Chen year."

Lin'an Ru witnessed the collapse of the Heavenly Pillar with his own eyes back then, and therefore has a vivid memory of that day.

Zhou Yan chimed in from the side.

"Brother Yan, do you suspect that the collapse of the Heavenly Pillar was caused by a problem with Yaochi?"

"Hmm, a place that could trap even those old fogies like Zhong Erdou, if something goes wrong there, that would be too much of a problem. And then there's that bird-shaped pillar of light."

Little Yama walked back and forth in front of Zhou Yan and Lin Anru.

What can you think of?

Lin'an asked in surprise.

"I've been wanting to ask this since earlier, Yaochi? The Arctic?"

Lin Anru was certain that she knew things that Zhou Yan and Little Yama did not know, and that Little Yama and Zhou Yan also had things that she did not know.

For example, Yaochi and the Arctic—these two things sound like they contain a lot of information.

Zhou Yan explained.

“Back then, several true gods went to the North Pole to search for the ruins of Yaochi. One of them was Zhongdou Xingjun, but these true gods never returned after they went to find it.”

Lin'an seemed to understand somewhat.

"So you suspect that the collapse of the Heavenly Pillar is related to Yaochi?"

Little Yama clapped his hands.

"Alright, alright, guess what that bird-shaped pillar of light was?"

Lin'an guessed.

"Could it be some kind of restriction on Yaochi?"

Within the forbidden zones of humanity, there are countless restrictions; the number of people who have died over hundreds of years may not even exceed the number of these restrictions.

As the former residence of the Queen Mother of the West, Yaochi (Jade Pool) has strange restrictions, which is understandable given Lin'an's situation.

Little Yama looked at Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes.

Judging from Zhou Yan's expression, Little Yama could be certain that Zhou Yan understood.

Little Yama laughed.

"You've figured it out?"

Zhou Yan shook his head.

"If it really is that, then the collapse of the Heavenly Pillar is possible, no, very possible."

Lin'an, standing to the side, remained silent for a few seconds before uttering two more words.

"The Magpie Bridge?"

Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun both looked at Lin Anru and nodded in succession.

Legend has it that there was an old rogue who happened to see a celestial maiden bathing in the lake behind his mountain. After that, he would sneak off to the back mountain every day to watch the celestial maiden bathe.

Once, the old Tauren chieftain, a seasoned love expert in my family, said that one of the fairies who came down was your wife, the one wearing a certain color dress.

So the old rogue wasn't satisfied with just looking at her, and he stole the celestial maiden's clothes and ran away. When the celestial maiden caught up with him, he teased her, saying, "If you don't marry me, I won't give you your clothes."

Afterwards, the fairy "voluntarily" married the cowherd.

A few years after their marriage, after they had tried everything and even had two children, the Heavenly Emperor discovered that his fairy had run away and ordered his heavenly soldiers and generals to capture her and bring her back.

The Heavenly Emperor was kind and didn't do anything to that old rogue, the Cowherd.

But the old rogue thought, "No way, this is my wife, she has two children. You can't just take her away like that, what gives you the right?"

So he cried in front of the skull of his own dead, pure-love-themed Tauren chieftain, saying that if the old Tauren were still here, he would surely have a way.

While crying, I accidentally dropped the ox skull on the ground, and a miracle happened.

The two ox horns miraculously transformed into two baskets. The Cowherd placed his two children into the baskets, preparing to carry them on his shoulder to find his wife. A gentle breeze blew by, and the two baskets, like two powerful wings, suddenly soared into the sky, flying swiftly through the heavens. His beloved wife was right in front of him.

At this moment, the Queen Mother of the West casually drew a line in the air with her golden hairpin, and a galaxy appeared to block the way.

The Cowherd was a mortal, and the Milky Way blocked his way, so he could only gaze at his wife across the Milky Way and express their love to each other.

When the bird god of the human world saw this scene, tears streamed down his face. He was deeply moved by the love between the couple, so he summoned his children and grandchildren and flew into the sky to form a magpie bridge, allowing the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to cross the Milky Way and meet.

Putting aside these myths, the effect of the Magpie Bridge is quite simple: it connects different celestial buildings, allowing people to freely enter and exit between the stars.

Yaochi was probably connected to other parts of the Heavenly Court by the Magpie Bridge back then.

Then, when Zhongdou Xingjun and the others were searching for Yaochi, they did something and triggered something, and the Magpie Bridge broke.

After the Magpie Bridge broke, it may have triggered a series of domino effects in the main body of Heaven. The pillar connecting Heaven to the Heavenly Court, Mount Tai, swayed and eventually collapsed.

Chapter Sixteen: The Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden

The Arctic, above the Dahln ice sheet continent.

A circular magical artifact fell from the sky, and the cold wind and low temperature struck the area around the disc like blades. Zhou Yan, who was wearing a cold-proof suit on the disc, couldn't help but shiver.

Three days ago, after Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun confirmed that Yaochi was the culprit behind the collapse of the Heavenly Pillar, they arranged a time for them to go to the Arctic to see Yaochi together by bus.

Now that the time has come, Lin Anru, carrying a magical artifact, along with Zhou Yan and Little Yama, arrived at Yaochi.

In the heyday of humankind, this place had a large number of polar research teams, but now human civilization has regressed, and the population may even fall below one million in a hundred years, so these extravagant polar research teams are naturally no longer necessary.

Along their journey through the Arctic, Zhou Yan and Little Yama had not seen a single living person.

Dressed in summer clothes, Little Yanjun put his arm around Zhou Yan's shoulder and teased him.

"So young and with such poor firepower, how will you provide for your wife in the future..."

Little Yama looked at Lin Anru, who was standing beside him, staring down at the scene below.

"A warm embrace."

Lin'an turned back and said.

Why must it be men who give women a warm embrace?

Lin Anru deliberately stretched out her hand so that Zhou Yan could see her biceps.

"Women can also give men a warm embrace."

Lin Anru has done everything she could over the past few centuries, including working out, which is why she now has a fit and slender physique, with every muscle brimming with health and vitality.

In comparison, Zhou Yan's figure was rather thin.

Zhou Yan touched his frozen nose and muttered something under his breath.

"Once my awakening level is higher, this little bit of cold is nothing."

The disk began to descend.

Zhou Yan moved closer to the edge of the disc and looked down.

The polar regions are too cold, and the explosion occurred 6 years ago. The ground is now devoid of any trace of the explosion, including the Darnen Iceberg; all that remains is a flat expanse of ice.

However, at this moment, Zhou Yan, relying on his previous judgment that it was the Magpie Bridge that caused the Heavenly Pillar to collapse, and after informing Lin Anru, his auspicious energy surged, and his awakening level reached 25%.

With his vision at 25% alertness, Zhou Yan swept his eyes across the ground and saw what he wanted to see.

"The Jade Pool is beneath the ice."

Zhou Yan pointed down. To a normal person, the ice below would only appear as a flat plain, but Zhou Yan's gaze swept across the ice and revealed the ruins of a building.

Lin'an, standing to the side, nodded in agreement.

"You always manage to surprise me."

The frisbee began to descend rapidly and soon landed on the ground.

Zhou Yan was the first to get off the frisbee. Following his memory, he walked one kilometer to the east and then pointed to an iceberg.

"Senior Lin, please help me move this mountain."

As soon as Lin'an glanced at the iceberg, the iceberg, weighing tens of thousands of tons, automatically flew up and landed on the other side.

Lin Anru's awakening level has reached 100% at this moment. He has not advanced to the level of a true god because of a lack of materials, but through years of training, Lin Anru has already surpassed the peak of ordinary demigods by a large margin.

Zhou Yan walked to the center of the iceberg that had been moved and pointed to a spot.

"Dig this side open, dig fifty meters, and make it into a stepped shape going downwards."

As if snapping his fingers, Lin'an caused the area Zhou Yan pointed to to rapidly melt, boil, and turn into steam, while the unmelted parts transformed into steps leading downwards.

At the end of the steps, fifty meters below, stood a mountain gate with the two large characters "Yao Liu Chi" inscribed on it.

Lin Anru walked up to Zhou Yan's side and walked away without saying a word.

Zhou Yan and Little Yama followed Lin Anru down the steps together.

The fifty-meter height gradually shortened in silence, and Lin'an, who was walking at the front, kept focusing her attention on the "Yaochi" mountain gate opposite.

Yaochi fell to the Arctic, but unlike the mammoth, various animals that fell into the polar regions were frozen solid and could be eaten thousands of years later.

After Yaochi fell, the shape of the fall resembled an egg. The yolk and egg white were the buildings and ground of Yaochi, while the eggshell was the protective barrier of Yaochi.

Therefore, although Yaochi is clearly submerged under the polar ice, it is actually suspended in a giant vacuole.

If you use magic to enhance your eyesight along the transparent outer shell of the bubble, you can see several fairy mountains, countless palaces, dense forests and rivers intertwined within the Jade Pool, exuding a strong fairy aura.

The only problem is...

Lin An's eyes lit up as he stared at Yaochi for a while before speaking.

"Inside the Jade Pool, it seems..."

"Someone made a move..."

Zhou Yan, standing behind Lin Anru, nodded.

"Something is definitely not normal."

When Zhou Yan came down, he stared at the ice for a while, and the entire Yaochi was reflected in his eyes.

At that time, Zhou Yan noticed that there seemed to be a fight going on in Yaochi.