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

Mu Yuan thought for a moment, then stepped forward and said.

"Grand Uncle, things have come to this, what should we do next?"

The old man, with white hair and beard, looked worried.

"After my second uncle died, I couldn't keep things under control at the ancestral temple anymore. It's better that it was blown up now; let the state government handle it. We..."

Grand Uncle looked down at his juniors.

"We're leaving this place to live somewhere else."

The men, women, and children below all wore sorrowful expressions, but no one said anything.

Mu Yuan walked out and said.

“We’ve lived here for so long, and now we’re just leaving like this. Who knows how many cold shoulders and hardships we’ll face if we go out to make a living…”

Grand Uncle was also helpless.

“We might get arrested by the government if we stay here.”

Grand Uncle sighed.

“A lot of people have died now, and the state government is in dire need of a scapegoat. If we go up there, I'm afraid everyone will end up in jail and never get out again…”

Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Demon King

Mu Yuan: "..."

As a government official, Mu Yuan was unable to refute this for a moment.

Because of the act of using victims as scapegoats, their own government did indeed have some reservations.

Grand Uncle felt increasingly helpless.

"Alright, everyone, pack up. We'll leave tomorrow. Let's not let the government find us."

The villagers of Fengyang Village nearby sighed and parted ways, each going to prepare to pack their belongings.

Only Mu Yuan went up and spoke to Grand Uncle, who was about to leave.

"Great-uncle, wait a moment."

Grand Uncle glanced at Mu Yuan and asked in confusion.

"Er Gouzi, what do you want?"

Mu Yuan said in a low voice.

"Great-uncle, what's under the ancestral temple... won't many people die from it?"

Grand Uncle grieved incessantly.

"The Nine Dragons Trapped in Water Formation was broken by fate, and there was nothing I could do about it. Each generation in Fengshan is worse than the last, and by my uncle's generation, they can't even repair the Nine Dragons Trapped in Water Formation."

Mu Yuan pretended to be bitter.

“But now that monster has appeared, Great-Uncle, why don’t you tell me everything you know, and I’ll write an anonymous letter and send it to the government, as a way of saving more lives.”

Grand Uncle's eyes widened.

"Aren't you afraid of getting arrested by the FBI? Kid, if you want to save people, you should first consider whether we can survive. Okay, go pack your things, we'll run away tomorrow."

Grand Uncle walked up the stairs to the second floor, muttering to himself.

"More trouble than it's worth."

“Mingmingyi↓〃奺驷丝］…￣＿_№⌒『刺∷猬△≤4%$代＋购↓：If you leave it upright, there won't be any problems…”

Watching his great-uncle leave, Mu Yuan took out his phone and dialed a number.

……

Grand Uncle went upstairs to his bedroom.

Great-uncle didn't have many possessions, just some ancestral ritual implements, some clean clothes, and some small, inexpensive but sentimental items he had carried since childhood.

As he packed these items into his suitcase, his great-uncle's face would darken with each item he took out. Who would willingly leave their homeland if they had no other choice?

"Dong dong dong..."

There was a knock on the door.

Grand Uncle looked at the door to his bedroom with a puzzled expression.

"Who?"

No one responded.

Grand Uncle arrived at the door of his bedroom and opened it.

"...Is it Er Gou? I told you..."

A pistol was thrust through the open door and then pointed at the great-uncle's forehead.

Grand Uncle fell silent.

An investigator in an FBI uniform walked in, grinning maliciously.

"Hey, my esteemed sir, you have been arrested for criminal offenses."

The investigator waved to the great-uncle, and two investigators came in, one on each side, and carried the great-uncle downstairs.

Downstairs, it was even worse. More than a hundred people were all being held at gunpoint by investigators, squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands, completely motionless.

These FBI investigators are not breaking the law to kill, but if anyone dares to make the first move, these ruthless investigators will not hesitate to strike.

A large number of police cars began to appear outside the building, and a large number of villagers from Fengyang Village were taken out and put into the police cars one by one.

……

Da'an City Police Department, interrogation room.

Two interrogation experts sat behind the interrogation table, while Great Uncle sat in the calming chair, handcuffed.

"Leng Qing, Mu Yuan, stand behind the one-way glass on the other side of the interrogation room," Leng Qing said, tilting her head to look at Mu Yuan.

"Xiao Zhou isn't wrong?"

Mu Yuan adjusted his glasses and nodded.

"Yes, that's amazing. You actually found it. You deserve credit for that. Why don't you let this kid come work for me? I happen to need an assistant."

Being able to become Mu Yuan's assistant is considered a promotion for Zhou Yan.

Leng Qing sneered.

"You dare steal food from my mouth?!"

There's never enough talent anywhere; Mu Yuan wants Zhou Yan, and Leng Qing wants him too.

The interrogation expert outside the one-way glass tapped the table and began to speak.

"Wu Yuantong, right?"

Grand Uncle nodded.

The expert continued.

"We investigated your records and found no evidence that you are from Fengyang Village. Four." Three''◇←Four∨＼

Grand Uncle sneered.

“You guys only care about licking the capitalists’ asses, how could you possibly respect us people who live in the slums?”

The interrogation expert coughed a few times.

“We won’t talk about these things. I hope you can tell me everything that’s going on in your village.”

Grand Uncle closed his eyes.

“It’s fine to talk about it, but I have one request. I’m the one who made all the mistakes, and I’m the one who did them. You have to release my children, and I’ll take responsibility for everything.”

Behind the one-way glass, Mu Yuan couldn't help but laugh out loud, but a sadness lingered in his heart.

They've shown how little public trust their own government has, and the other side is already prepared to be the scapegoat.

Mu Yuan took a communicator.

"Tell this old man that we agree."

The interrogation expert nodded upon hearing Mu Yuan's instructions.

"We can agree to any of your requests."

Being under someone else's roof, Grand Uncle couldn't very well tell these people to "write a contract," and besides, he knew he couldn't withstand severe torture, so he spoke up.

"About three hundred years ago, our Fengshan Sect was a very powerful cultivation sect. Several of our founders held positions in the Heavenly Court..."

"Once, our ancestor foresaw a great calamity in the world, so he led all the ancestors of the sect to the land of disaster and captured a ferocious beast. This beast was extraordinary. Our ancestor used the full strength of the sect to capture it, but its divine power was not diminished. After being trapped, it even killed several of our ancestors. The remaining ancestors had no choice but to find a mountain where nine dragons were trapped in water and suppress this ferocious beast."

　0‰￡娰傘《＼·陆∵蒐索）】n： Taishu Gong’s words were filled with sorrow.

"After that, our entire sect moved to Fengyang Village."

The interrogation expert asked, puzzled.

"Is this sealed beast a ferocious creature called a sheep?"

Grand Uncle shook his head.

“The name of that ferocious beast is malevolent. If it were to hear it, disaster would befall us. So we dared not say the name of the beast and simply used the word ‘sheep’ as a substitute.”

The interrogation experts understood.

"Okay, you can continue."

Grand Uncle continued.

"I don't know if it's because suppressing the ferocious beasts exhausted the strength of our Fengshan Sect. Over the past few hundred years, our Fengshan Sect has become weaker with each generation. By the time of my uncle's generation, apart from my uncle, no one else could draw talismans and cultivate."

"Afterwards, a torrential rain fell from the sky, washing away one of the mountains where the Nine Dragons were trapped in the water. The seal loosened, the statue of Wang Lingguan shattered, and various strange phenomena appeared. My uncle led all the strong men in his family to make statues of the Twenty-Eight Constellations, the Nine Luminaries, and the Six Ding and Six Jia, attempting to suppress the evil with the power of the gods. The suppression seemed to have been successful, but the evil aura still appeared faintly."

Grand Uncle lowered his head.

"If you stay in this evil aura for too long, you'll go crazy. We had no choice but to leave the village and find a new place to raise our children."

Behind the one-way glass.

Mu Yuan said to Leng Qing.

》娰汃ˇ→贰∩＃四． ★散-。 糁｝》∫“啎刺蝟折代购★∑：“No wonder the style of Wang Lingguan's statue is so different from other statues; it turns out the other statues were added later.”

Leng Qing nodded without saying a word.

Mu Yuan spoke into the communicator.

"Ask this old man if he knows that the sealed thing actually escaped a long time ago?"

"The interrogation expert behind the one-way glass asked."

"Old sir, do you know that the things you sealed in your house have actually already escaped?"

Grand Uncle's expression changed drastically.

"They escaped? Didn't they just come out?"

The interrogation expert shrugged.

"Old sir, you may not believe it, but the information I have is that this thing actually came out a long time ago. What remains is only its aura, not its true form."

Grand Uncle's face darkened.

"Wait, they came out a long time ago? Why?"

"That thing can destroy the world, how could it have come out a long time ago? If it came out a long time ago, how come nothing has happened for so long..."

Grand Uncle muttered in a panic.

The interrogation expert tapped on the interrogation table.

"Sir, we've said our piece. Could you please tell us the most important information from this interrogation?"

Grand Uncle lowered his head and remained silent.

The interrogation expert said unhappily.

"Sir, I hope you understand that if this matter is not resolved, many people may die in the future. We can guarantee that if you can tell us everything you know, we will absolutely not do anything to harm you."