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

The Prince Zuo's eyes were wide open, his veins bulged outwards, and sweat gushed out again, soon covering his entire body in sweat.

But the Left Prince did not call out.

The Prince Zuo was in so much pain that he no longer had the strength to cry out.

Half a minute later, Little Yama stopped and said coldly.

"You don't think that someone came to the underworld just for some worthless gold and silver jewelry and useless elixirs of immortality, do you?"

The Prince Zuo made a series of gurgling sounds in his throat, and after a long while, he finally spoke weakly.

"You, you want... one of our Chu clan's... divine artifacts... or you want me to kill... someone..."

They don't like gold and silver treasures, nor do they want rare and precious materials.

What kind of appetite does this guy on the other side have?

Surely you can't afford to have a grudge against a high-ranking member of your own Chu royal family and then have to become a spy to kill someone?

Little Yama reached out and touched the sweat-drenched shoulder of Prince Zuo.

"You're being dishonest..."

Little Yama could feel the muscles in the shoulder of his subordinate, the Left Prince, tighten.

Little Yama's voice was cold and sharp.

"You keep rambling on and on about things to appease beggars. Do you think someone like me can be easily fooled by you with just a few words?"

In ancient times, rulers implemented a policy of "fishing for the people," meaning that in most rural areas, if you could read, you could get a job in the village, and the more capable ones could even become clerks in the government office.

Therefore, during peasant uprisings, a few simple slogans like "The Blue Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven shall rise" or "The Unborn Mother, the Empty Homeland" could easily sway the people, causing them to gamble away their wealth and lives for nothing.

So all that talk about gold and silver, rare and precious materials, and elixirs of immortality is just a way to fool Little Yama.

Little Yama knew very well that even though Prince Zuo was now in his hands and could be manipulated at will, the guy still looked down on him deep down.

They rarely keep their word.

"You'll find out what happens when you offend me!"

Little Yama twisted the muscles of the Left Prince's shoulder. Beneath the thick skin and flesh, it seemed as if a snake was growing, the twisted bulge constantly writhing back and forth, and this back and forth brought extreme physical pain.

Little Yama tortured Prince Zuo for a full minute.

Before the Prince Zuo could roll his head back, the torture of dismembering his bones stopped, and the Prince Zuo was thrown to the ground.

Prince Zuo, whose whole body was so weak that he could barely breathe, was breathing weakly. His once sharp eyes were now filled with grievance and pity, to the point that he was making ridiculous, puppy-like whimpering sounds from his nose.

Little Yama kicked the Left Prince's lower abdomen with the tip of his shoe.

"Want to try my dislocating technique again?"

Prince Zuo instinctively curled up. At that moment, he had only one thought: as long as he was not tortured anymore, he would say or do anything.

"This king..."

The Left Prince spoke in a voice that even he found weak.

"I can tell you the secret of Luo Fengyin..."

Little Yama nodded in satisfaction.

That's right. All that talk about gold and silver treasures and rare and precious materials was just to fool fools and idiots.

The greatest secret of this Chu capital lies in this Luo Feng seal.

Little Yama examined it and found that the Luo Feng Seal was a fragmented magical artifact of the Six Heavens of Luo Feng. Because the Six Heavens of Luo Feng were the third most powerful figures in the Underworld pantheon, second only to the Five Ghost Emperors and the Great Emperor of Fengdu, their authority was even higher than that of the Ten Kings of Hell. Therefore, their magical artifacts naturally possessed the power of a true god, and not a weak one at that.

The only question is, why is this incomplete magical artifact of the Six Heavens of Luofeng in the hands of the Chu people, and how could these Chu people possibly possess and use the magical artifact of the Six Heavens of Luofeng?

This is a big secret, possibly even the core secret that Chu, a member of the Chu clan, can live in the underworld.

As for the rest, they are all external things, and it's not worth mentioning them.

Just now, Prince Zuo tried to appease Little Yama with some material possessions, thinking that Little Yama's interests were limited to gold, silver, jewels, elixirs of immortality, and rare and precious herbs.

"Speak..." ba

Little Yama picked up the corner of his robe and wiped the sweat from his hands.

Prince Zuo slowly turned his head, not daring to look Little Yama in the eye. (Qi)

"Back then, the capital of Chu fell, plummeting from the mortal realm to the underworld..."

Little Yama hummed in agreement. He had suspected this before, and now it was simply being repeatedly confirmed. (Sulfur)

Prince Zuo swallowed hard.

"When it plummeted, the sky was dark and gloomy, and the people of Chu died in droves. The Imperial Advisor and the Emperor, in an effort to save the people, went outside Chu. Fortunately, Heaven did not forsake the people of Chu; on an unnamed mountain outside the city, the Imperial Advisor and the Emperor discovered the corpse of a death god."

Little Yama continued.

"Is it from Luo Feng Liu Tian?"

Prince Zuo took several deep breaths and recovered somewhat before speaking.

"Yes……"

"My brother and the Imperial Advisor took over that mountain, but when they returned, there were hardly any survivors left in the capital..."

Luo Feng for six days... corpse...

Take over the mountain...

This is interesting.

Little Yama kicked Prince Zuo again.

"So your so-called Luo Feng Seal was separated from the Six Heavens of Luo Feng?"

The Left Prince looked somewhat embarrassed.

Little Yama gently knelt down, then took the left prince's hand.

Do you know?

Little Yama winked at Prince Zuo.

"I've heard that if you pull your nail out quickly enough, the person whose nail is being pulled out will see blood fly out of their finger before they even feel the pain."

The little bit of unease in Prince Zuo's heart disappeared completely.

“My royal brother… did do something with the corpses of the Six Heavens of Luo Feng, but it was for the sake of the people of Chu Du to survive. Since the Six Heavens of Luo Feng are all dead, can’t we use their corpses to protect us mortals?”

Prince Zuo looked very serious.

Xiao Yanjun agrees with this statement. Legally, there is a concept called emergency avoidance, which means that when you face a real survival crisis, it is not illegal to eat protected animals.

People are at the brink of life and death, so it's nothing to talk about taking the corpses of gods and reusing them, or even directly killing gods.

But Prince Zuo still didn't tell the truth.

Little Yama pulled out the thumbnail of the Left Prince.

The Left Prince convulsed, wailing and covering his hand as he wept uncontrollably.

After a while, Little Yama spoke again.

Do you want me to pull out the remaining nine of your fingernails?

"I can't believe it," said the Prince Zuo, his voice choked with emotion.

"...My royal brother told me that our Chu capital has fallen, and not a single one of our people survived. Even the Nine Phoenix True God was defeated back then and could not protect us. Even if the Nine Phoenixes were to carry our Chu capital back to the mortal realm one day..."

The Left Prince trembled as he gasped for breath.

"...Nine Phoenixes may not be able to protect us completely."

"If we want to survive and rebuild the Chu people and Chu land, we must..."

The Left Prince paused for a moment; this was considered a core secret of their Chu royal family.

Having just been repeatedly tormented and beaten by Little Yama, Prince Zuo tried to divert Little Yama's attention with other topics.

The purpose was to keep this secret from being revealed.

As it turned out, Little Yama was much more experienced than Prince Zuo had imagined. Little Yama had his eye on this secret and wouldn't let go, forcing him to reveal it.

"...to become a god myself..."

After saying those words, Prince Zuo felt much more relaxed.

He no longer had a bigger secret than this one.

Little Yama was delighted.

"For example, being in Luo Feng for six days?"

The Left Prince remained silent.

Little Yama spoke.

"I'm a bit of a perfectionist, actually. Since I pulled out the nail of your thumb on one hand, shouldn't you leave it on the other hand too? Look, two hands without nails make a perfect pair."

The Left Prince covered his hand and spoke in despair.

“I don’t know. My royal brother only told me that he wanted to become a god, a great god of the underworld, so that when he returned to the human world, he could not only rebuild the Chu Kingdom, but also avoid being controlled by the Nine Phoenixes.”

Little Yama asked curiously.

"Control? Doesn't Jiufeng cherish you all very much?"

The Nine Phoenixes are going to carry the Chu capital from the underworld to the human world. Who knows how many mortals will die and how much karma they will incur from killing?

This is like a family where the eldest son has poor grades and dropped out of elementary school to work, but the parents are biased and give the eldest son all the good things.

The younger son was clever but didn't please his parents, so they never gave him a kind look. However, he worked hard, took out loans, and struggled to graduate from university and become a social elite. Within a few years, he bought several houses and married a beautiful and wealthy woman.

A few years later, my parents came over and said that their eldest son was not married and the family had no money. They asked their younger son to help them out, offering to give them a house, a car, and a good job where they could earn a lot of money without having to work.

Ideally, one could raise their eldest son so they could live comfortably without having to work hard.

The younger son refused, arguing that he had worked hard for his life and shouldn't have to share it with others.

Besides, I haven't even lived this comfortably myself, so why should I let my older brother, who has lived a more comfortable life than me since childhood, enjoy it?

The parents were unhappy, so they used their parental authority to force their youngest son to agree.

This is what Jiufeng did.

For the sake of the people of Chu, He was willing to risk karmic consequences to bring the capital of Chu from the underworld to the human world, regardless of whether the other living people (his youngest son) were willing or not.

This favoritism towards the Chu people has reached its extreme. If this kind of behavior isn't considered good, then Little Yama doesn't know what behavior would be considered good.

"That's what Prince Zuo explained."

"Nine Phoenixes cannot be relied upon..."

"I... I don't know why either, but my royal brother and the imperial advisor both secretly told me that Jiufeng is good, but she has too many requirements. She forbids this and that. If you put everything on Jiufeng, people will die. This is why our Chu capital fell."

Interesting.

Little Yama stroked his chin.

It seems that the royal family of Chu is not of one mind with Jiu Feng. Although they rely on Jiu Feng, they still want to establish their own independent power.

However, it is unlikely that they will set up their own business.

Putting aside the small chances of mortals becoming gods, just the fact that the Five Ghost Emperors must get the Great Emperor of Fengdu's approval to become emperors of the Six Heavens of Luofeng means that the people of Chudu cannot become emperors.

Little Yama, after all, rose through the ranks from a demon-level zombie to become the Central Ghost Emperor, following a detailed and rigorous process of promotion from ghost messenger to ghost general, White Impermanence, and King Qin Guang.

The king of Chu didn't go through any formalities. He just wanted to perform a ritual, say some nice things to the Emperor of Fengdu, and send some fun gifts. Then he could naturally sit on a divine position at the level of Luo Feng Liu Tian.

Do you think the Emperor of Fengdu is a fool?

If the Emperor of Fengdu would even glance at these mortals, then Little Yama would consider it a loss.

Are there any others?

Little Yama kicked Prince Zuo again.

"I can't believe it," said the Prince Zuo, his voice choked with emotion.

"I have already told you everything I know. The rest is nothing more than that. If you have any other questions, please ask. I will answer them to the best of my knowledge."

Little Yama asked a few more questions, and after he finished, he knocked the Left Prince unconscious and threw him under the bed in the bedroom.