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

"Pfft..."

Zhou Yan's skin, resembling the Little Yama King, fell into the water without making a splash.

After falling into the water, Zhou Yan's skin switched from external breathing to internal breathing, and he opened his eyes, enduring the stimulation of the cold water, and looked down at his surroundings.

Perhaps because he had obtained Zhou Yan's body, Little Yama also saw rays of light surging out from beneath the turbulent waters, dyeing the riverbed with vibrant colors.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

However, we shouldn't assume things too easily.

Zhou Yan's skin, Little Yama, thought to himself.

"This place might be similar to the Baige Valley Basin."

There are traces of the Longevity Society holding sacrifices in the Bai'e Valley Basin, but these traces have been mostly cleaned up. After the slightly plump young woman version of Little Yama checked, she found nothing. Everyone thought that it might be because Sun Wukong defected from the Longevity Society, forcing the people of the Longevity Society to abandon the original sacrificial site.

Relocating the core position is one of the best ways to deal with traitors.

Chapter Forty: The Search

Zhou Yan's skin version of Little Yama and the slightly chubby young woman version of Little Yama walked out of the presidential office and the Black Palace, and boarded Si You's imperial carriage at the gate outside the Black Palace.

Dongdou Xingjun 7 provided a total of fourteen or fifteen suitable locations for performing the Lu Secret Technique, and Zhou Yan followed the search method from best to relatively worst.

First, there's Longshou Peak in Dadong Mountain, then the eastern part of the Third Ring Road in Hanshui City, and finally the basin of Baie Valley.

The first peak to arrive at is Longshou Peak in Dadong Mountain.

This is a place that was originally a national first-class scenic area, but it gets crowded with people every holiday. It has a cable car, restaurants that are neither good nor cheap, and a bunch of deliberately created "Instagrammable" spots.

However, eight years later, the place has become a ring of ruins.

The ruins were littered with various skeletons. Some ignorant and mindless patients of the spiritual plague wandered aimlessly in various corners. Occasionally, they would walk up to one or two human remains, step on them, lower their heads, and a few traces of humanity would slowly appear in their eyes before they quickly left in a daze.

Si You is patrolling the chariot.

The slightly plump young woman, now a miniature Yama, sighed as she watched all this.

“I have personally witnessed these patients with mental plagues picking up kitchen knives and killing their wives and daughters when they first contracted the disease. I have also seen a normally gentle and kind husband bite his own daughter to death.”

The corpses scattered among the spiritual plague patients below might very well be their relatives or children.

The little Yama King with Zhou Yan's skin chimed in.

“The mere stripping away of the foundation of existence should not lead to this kind of spiritual plague.”

The slightly plump young woman's version of Little Yama had a hint of murderous intent in her eyes.

"So all these mentally ill patients were created by those beasts from the Longevity Society!"

The divine status of the Longevity Society is a collection of subconscious thoughts. Just like the immortality of the Buddha of All Beings, which allows for infinite rebirth as long as there is a person dreaming and a living Buddha of All Beings, these spiritual plagues are very likely created by the Longevity Society in order to consolidate their divine status.

Previously, members of the Longevity Society had also told Dongdou Xingjun that if Dongdou Xingjun wanted to kill them, he would have to kill all the mental plague patients.

There is only one way to ensure the complete eradication of all patients suffering from the mental plague.

That would be to cleanse all of humanity on Earth.

4. The wealthy members of the Longevity Society bound themselves to all mortals in order to force other true gods, such as Dongdou Xingjun, to acknowledge the status of the Longevity Society.

However, the wealthy members of the Longevity Society did not anticipate one thing: that new true gods like Zhou Yan would join the ruling institutions of the federal government.

They had made no contingency plans whatsoever when faced with the newly emerged true god.

The Imperial Carriage of Siyou circled the mountain once, and after Zhou Yan confirmed that there were no problems, it proceeded to the East Third Ring Road of Hanshui City.

Wuhanshui City is a relatively well-known agricultural city in the Eastern Xia Federation. Normally, the area around Wuhanshui City is full of farmland and orchards, with a large number of farms scattered around the city. If you come in autumn, you can see thousands of acres of rice swaying in the wind.

But now these farmlands have been neglected for eight years, with all sorts of wild animals and weeds mixed in. Occasionally, one or two people suffering from mental plague can be seen walking on the road. Wild animals don't need to hunt quietly; they can just pounce on these people suffering from mental plague and eat them to their heart's content.

They also checked the Hanshui City, but found no trace of the sacrificial ceremony.

The last one was at the Bai'e Valley basin. As soon as Si You's patrol arrived, without Zhou Yan even needing to scan the area, Zhou Yan's skin as Little Yama and the slightly plump young woman version of Little Yama could see that there were signs of clearing in the center of the Bai'e Valley basin, with a large area of ​​vegetation missing in the center.

Si Youxun descended from the basin, and the two little Yama Kings stepped out of the carriage. Zhou Yan didn't even need to observe to see that the ground had been leveled, some corners had blackened red ropes, and most of the road in the distance had been submerged by time, but occasionally one or two human footprints could still be seen.

People have been here before, and judging from the number of footprints and traces, quite a few people have been here.

The only problem is that this place seems to have been cleaned up. Although it wasn't cleaned up very thoroughly for various reasons, and there are still some traces that can be found, the most important thing is gone.

The slightly chubby young woman version of Little Yama begins digging.

The soil, measured in cubic meters, was dug up and thrown away in chunks.

There is a slight possibility that the person who left traces here, when cleaning up the traces, did not drive them away, but instead dug a pit and buried the things that left traces underground.

……

Central City, Black Palace, Presidential Lounge.

Dongdou Xingjun sat in front of a monitor, gripping the controller with both hands, his fingers moving up and down rhythmically like a storm, displaying a large amount of data and images on the monitor.

These images show neighborhoods being sealed off, villas being stormed by the military, and elderly people in their seventies and eighties, as well as able-bodied people between thirty and fifty, being dragged out and shot one by one.

The footage is filled with scenes of bullets exploding in the head and blood flowing everywhere.

Dongdou Xingjun watched all of this with a blank expression.

In order to survive, this bunch of bastards have gone so far as to collude with foreign countries to drop nuclear bombs on their own territory. Some have even managed to bypass the military's control and directly manipulate the weapons depot to launch missiles at Wanshou Mountain.

Dongdou Xingjun could see that if he did not suppress them forcefully, in a day or two, he might be completely sidelined by these audacious fellows. At that time, the real person controlling the federal government would not be Him, the true god, but the group of wealthy and evil people from the Longevity Society.

Therefore, killing is necessary, the heads must roll, the blood must flow like rivers. Only by showing that those who have pledged allegiance to him (Dongdou Xingjun) will not die now, but those who have attained immortality will die now, can this evil trend be stopped.

There was a knock on the door at that moment.

The Eastern Dipper Star Lord said indifferently.

"Come in..."

The door to the lounge opened.

The assistant of Dongdou Xingjun led three old men in.

The three old men knelt down in unison upon seeing the Eastern Dipper Star Lord.

"president……"

"Give us a way out..."

"I……"

Before the three could speak, a sharp pain shot through their hearts. They all collapsed, clutching their chests, their eyes wide with disbelief. After a while, they were no longer even breathing.

"Dongdou Xingjun said expressionlessly."

"Drag these three old guys away."

The assistant, looking troubled, dragged the three elderly people away.

Not long after they went downstairs, there was another knock on the door. This time it was the young man in white from the Longevity Society who had met Dongdou Xingjun before.

Without Dongdou Xingjun's permission, the young man opened the door and walked in.

Dongdou Xingjun, who was watching the slaughter of his own army, glanced at the members of the Longevity Society who had entered and said unhappily.

"You are very rude."

The young man in white who came in was delighted.

"I don't think Your Excellency the President, who is currently acting as an executioner, has the right to say that about me."

The young man in white looked at the monitor in front of Dongdou Xingjun. The monitor was divided into twenty-five small screens, each showing a living person being shot in the head.

To date, Dongdou Xingjun's side has shot more than a thousand people, including more than twenty powerful political families in Zhongzhou, and many wealthy families have been wiped out.

The reason is that this group of people hope that Dongdou Xingjun will not pursue the Longevity Society, and even hope that Dongdou Xingjun will recognize the status of the Longevity Society.

There's no way around it; for a large number of elderly people who have already seen their own death date, the temptation of immortality is too great, so great that it might make them take a desperate gamble.

Dongdou Xingjun was too lazy to waste words with this member of the Longevity Society. He simply continued to watch the scene on his screen, while thinking about how to write a self-reproach edict after this incident and who should replace him as president.

Seeing that Dongdou Xingjun remained silent, the young man in white from the Longevity Society had no choice but to speak up himself.

"Your Highness, do you know that the will to pursue freedom cannot be suppressed by tyranny? When the torch of thought spreads throughout everyone's heart, everyone will fight for justice!"

Dong Douxingjun paused for a moment while pressing the controller, and the monitor, which was originally divided into 25 small screens, suddenly changed, switching from the original shooting scene to various streets and schools in Zhongzhou City.

At each of these schools and along the streets stood some elderly people, some of whom were university professors and others were teachers with countless students. They each held up signs and shouted to the people of Zhongzhou City who were passing by.

We've discovered the truth!

"The spiritual plague is all caused by the government's spiritual practices!"

“We have been deceived, my fellow citizens. The federal government is the culprit…”

Dongdou Xingjun sighed.

This scene wasn't entirely unexpected.

It's not just the wealthy and high-ranking officials of Zhongzhou who have a strong desire for immortality; the common people and middle class of Zhongzhou also have an extremely strong desire for immortality.

To this end, Dongdou Xingjun used his authority to separate Zhongzhou City and simultaneously imposed military control and suppression in various places, but such actions could not suppress those who craved immortality.

The young man in white from the Longevity Society smiled at the monitor.

“We contacted some professors, teachers, and experts in many fields in your city. After we demonstrated our ability to grant them longevity, they were inspired and naturally came to our side.”

The teachers, professors, and even experts in some fields selected by the Longevity Society are all on the verge of death, some having been bedridden for years. These people, who have been worn down by death and have lost all their temper, become indifferent to everything once they learn that they can easily achieve immortality.

For them, if they don't struggle now, they will surely die within a year or so. If they struggle, as long as Dongdou Xingjun is slightly afraid of the impact being too great and is willing to compromise, then what awaits them is naturally an incomparably bright future.

Of course, there are also some bright spots among these people. Some professors and experts realized that since the Longevity Society wanted to confront the government and force the government to recognize their status, they probably had ulterior motives. Therefore, they were unwilling to cause trouble for the federal government for their own selfish reasons. However, such people are in the minority.

More people will choose to take to the streets, using their fabricated truths to deceive the public, and then unite with the people to put pressure on the government.

Dongdou Xingjun put down the handle and said helplessly.

"Is this your plan?"

The Eastern Star Lord has already imposed military control over the entire city, and now that things have escalated to such a great extent, it's easy to see that many people in the army are no longer obedient.

It's no exaggeration to say that from the top to the middle levels, people are actually becoming increasingly disloyal to Dongdou Xingjun. These people are still trying to deceive the common people and prepare to unite to suppress Dongdou Xingjun.

The young man in white opened his hands and spoke in the most respectful tone.

"I don't understand either, Your Excellency. You are immortal, and those who have died are dead. Why do you care about them? Will they become ghosts and bite you, or will they tell you every day how much they suffered and beg you to avenge them?"

"No, none of that is true!"

The young man in white waved.

"So, is it really that difficult for you to acknowledge us?"

Dongdou Xingjun shook his head.

"I think it's really that difficult."

The young man in white was getting angry.

"Yes, we admit that we stole the power of all living beings, and we killed many people, but so what? When you eat pork every day, do you think about whether the meat in your mouth wants to be eaten by you? When you eat fried chicken wings and fried chicken legs every day, do you think about whether these chickens actually want to be treated this way?"

"Mr. President, the law of the jungle is the ironclad rule of this world. Those who were killed by us, those who were devoured by us as nourishment, can only blame themselves for being too greedy and weak. Otherwise, it should be them, not us, standing here with you discussing the truth of this world."

Dongdou Xingjun was beaming with joy.

"I once saw a work of art in which there was a golden-haired, arrogant vampire who had turned from a human. When her adoptive sister asked her how many people she had killed, this arrogant vampire who was no longer human replied with a question."

Dongdou Xingjun took a breath.

"Can you remember how many loaves of bread you've eaten?"

The young man in white applauded.

“That’s right, I don’t remember how many loaves of bread I’ve eaten either. And, Your Excellency, you don’t think…”

The young man in white looked proud.

"...Aren't we still human?"

The young man in white placed his hand on his chest.

“We have broken free from the shackles of mortals and have all become gods.”

Dongdou Xingjun looked like he had eaten shit.

Who the hell do you think you are, to call yourself a god in front of yourself?