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

Normally speaking, a house like this would probably have serious problems inside.

Zhou Yan walked to the palace gate and then stealthily reached the window. The window was made of paper, but this paper was not ordinary paper. It was a paper magic artifact that was opaque, soundproof, and protected by various restrictions.

However, these things were still a bit too little for Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan used the energy of the Gouchen Sword to pierce through the paper covering the windows, and then shoved one eye into the hole.

Inside the window was a large hall, with a row of seats on each side. At the very front of the hall was a main seat, indicating that before the incident at this military camp, there were probably generals sitting in the left and right rows of this hall, with the leader of the generals naturally at the front.

However, now, the divine generals on the left and right are gone, leaving only a three-meter-tall, burly mummy with a beard reaching his chest sitting on the main seat.

Zhou Yan opened the attribute panel of the mummified corpse.

Name: Li Jing.

Zhou Yan: "??!!"

Li Jing!?

Nezha's father!?

Zhou Yan remembered that when he first came to the South Heavenly Gate, he was besieged by the Four Demon Generals. At that time, the Heavenly King Duowen, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, used the Seven Treasures Exquisite Pagoda to capture him. This Seven Treasures Exquisite Pagoda was really a good thing. If he hadn't opened his eyes wide at that time, the Seven Treasures Exquisite Pagoda probably would have captured him.

At the time, Zhou Yan didn't notice it, but now that he thinks about it, isn't the Seven Treasures Exquisite Pagoda Li Jing's standard equipment?

Why didn't Li Jing keep his treasure, but instead let the Heavenly King Duowen take it away?

Looking at Li Jing now, who looks like a dried corpse, could it be that Li Jing cooperated with Bai Ze back then and participated in Bai Ze's plan for a glimmer of hope?

But judging from Li Jing's appearance...

It seems it didn't work?

Zhou Yan gently patted his thigh.

Zhou Yan suddenly remembered that Li Jing had never seemed to have a very good impression of Nezha. When Zhou Yan watched TV series and movies before, he always thought that Li Jing was too heartless as a father, but now that he put himself in Li Jing's shoes, what was Nezha?

When Nezha was born, he was a ball of flesh and looked very evil. After his birth, he caused trouble everywhere. After going to sea, he even went and destroyed the Dragon King's lair. When the Dragon Prince came out and said, "Stop making trouble," Nezha immediately skinned and dismembered the Dragon Prince.

The Dragon King was furious and came over to demand an explanation. Li Jing asked his son to apologize and admit his mistake, and he would accept some compensation, since he was in the wrong. As a result, Nezha cut off his bones to return to his father and his flesh to return to his mother.

What good is it if you cut off your bones to return to your father and your flesh to return to your mother?

What I want is your apology. If you apologize, everything will be fine. But you go and return your bones to your father and your flesh to your mother and enjoy yourself. What am I supposed to do then?

Even the Dragon King had to grovel and beg for mercy!

It's no exaggeration to say that Li Jing's dislike for Nezha wasn't because he was a bad father, but because Nezha was too self-centered and too violent.

So, Li Jing actually enjoyed Bai Ze manipulating Nezha?

Did Li Jing actually have a good relationship with Bai Ze?

The logic makes sense now.

Bai Ze came to the South Heavenly Gate seeking a glimmer of hope, probably because he had a good relationship with Li Jing, who would participate in his plan and work together.

Li Jing is, after all, the nominal ruler of the Southern Heavenly Gate, and the Four Heavenly Kings are merely his subordinates. As long as Li Jing can cooperate with Bai Ze, many things will be simple.

But this simple task did not achieve the desired result.

Zhou Yan walked to the palace gate, reached out and pushed it open. The palace gate had no bolt; Zhou Yan simply reached out and the gate slowly opened.

Fermented for who knows how many years, but with no smell, air rushed out from behind the door. Zhou Yan walked in, enduring the stench, and stepped up to Li Tianwang's burly, mummified corpse.

Chapter Ten: Li Tianwang

The door opened, but only halfway. Zhou Yan walked in, glancing behind the door as he went in.

Sure enough, there was a door bolt behind the door. The outer layer of the bolt was coated with a layer of black paint, while the part cut by the Gouchen sword energy inside the Shengwu sword was pure gold. Judging from the gap, it seemed to be a high-grade magic weapon material called gold essence.

It is indeed the South Heavenly Gate; a simple search reveals many valuable finds.

Withdrawing his gaze, Zhou Yan turned to look inside the temple. Although it was called a temple, it was actually more like a lounge. There was a grand master's chair, a set of standard tea table and chairs, and a decorative cabinet next to it. On the cabinet were some high-end magical artifacts that would be extremely valuable in the mortal world, but now they were just decorations.

There were no living creatures or remains of deities inside, but Zhou Yan walked to the tea table and looked down to see a few white hairs lying in a corner of the seat.

Name: Su Zhaojun's hair. Wine

Little Yama stepped out from behind Zhou Yan.

"hair?"

Little Yama looked at Zhou Yan. Four

Zhou Yan shook his head. (San)

"This is not mine, it belongs to Su Zhaojun. It seems that Su Zhaojun was not in good condition at the time."

As a fox princess of Qingqiu, Su Zhaojun would certainly not retain ears or a tail—characteristics that distinguish her as a demon—after transforming into human form. 6

But now there's fur or something similar hidden inside this chair, which clearly indicates that Su Zhaojun wasn't sitting here in human form at the time, but most likely in fox form, which is why fox fur was left behind.

Little Yama added a sentence.

"Thinking further ahead, maybe Old Bai Ze is sitting here holding Su Zhaojun. Also, this place might be Old Bai Ze's safe house or something."

Little Yama looked at Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan pondered the sentence carefully for a moment, then nodded.

Zhou Yan had visited the houses of other deities, and they were basically spotless. This was because most of the deities there would use simple spells to clean their houses, or the houses themselves had self-cleaning functions.

However, the fact that Su Zhaojun's fox fur could still be found inside the temple indicates that the deity in the house had not cleaned his room after receiving Su Zhaojun.

Under what circumstances would it be impossible to clean the house? Either the owner of the house is dead or missing, or the house belongs to Bai Ze, who was so desperate for a chance to survive that he probably didn't care whether the place was dirty or not.

However, that's not important. What's important is that if Bai Ze was really in a hurry back then, why did he bring Su Zhaojun to this place?

Is there something He absolutely needs to take from this place?

Zhou Yanzi carefully scanned his surroundings, from the ground to the ceiling, from the walls to the decorative shelves, from the chairs to the floor, where there was a layer of dust that was almost invisible and could only be felt by touching it with his fingertips.

Zhou Yan is currently at 91% awakening level. He can trace the bloodline of mortals and see mortals up to fifteen years into the future. But even with this level of awakening, Zhou Yan cannot see anything wrong with his surroundings.

The little Yama King beside him also stared at the surroundings for a while, but he didn't notice anything wrong with the number four. [Three] #Zero℃5]⌒

"Xiao Yan, we can actually think about it in a different way."

Zhou Yan looked at the little Yama who had spoken.

"Perhaps the significance of this place itself is greater than the significance of some things within it."

Little Yama thinks that the existence of this temple might be equivalent to a quest PC in a game; you can only continue the quest if you find this quest PC.

This temple serves this purpose; its significance lies in the fact that its appearance allows us to continue searching for further clues.

That is, to gradually unfold the hidden history of Lao Bai Ze.

"Makes sense."

Zhou Yan withdrew his gaze from the surroundings. In fact, he didn't need to care whether there was any useful information hidden in this place that he couldn't even see. Since other things appeared in sequence when this thing appeared, he could simply abandon this place and move closer to the place where the second thing appeared.

So what is the next place?

……

Outside the temple.

Lin'an was walking around in a clean place. When he saw a few stones on the ground, he couldn't help but kick them away.

After kicking it a few times, in a corner surrounded by ruins, a familiar face from Lin'an walked out.

"Senior..."

A slender young woman walked up, followed by two men, one of whom was a man in his fifties who appeared thin and handsome.

These four people are the students and instructors of the Vermilion Bird Academy who are currently undergoing training at the Kunlun Immortal Palace.

The slender young woman's eyes shone brightly.

"You said Lord Bai Ze is here, is that true? I've only ever seen him on TV and on the computer before. Can I get his autograph?"

Lin'an smiled bitterly.

"It should be fine, my junior isn't that stingy."

The other two students with demonic bloodlines also had slight changes in their expressions. Bai Ze, the world's biggest gossip king. If they could build a good relationship with this gossip king, and he could give them some information in the future, they might be able to rise to prominence.

"Squeak..."

The closed temple gates in the distance opened, and Zhou Yan and Little Yama walked out together.

Everyone in Lin'an naturally turned their attention to the direction from which the sound came, and then their faces showed excitement.

Bai Ze is here!

As for the little Yama King beside Zhou Yan, every protagonist needs a supporting character, so no one cared who this little girl was.

Zhou Yan walked up to Lin Anru, who then reached out to her classmates and teacher.

"Xiao Yan, this is Teacher Li who is leading the team this time. The students behind him are your juniors from the next year."

Besides the instructors, the other junior students bowed in unison.

Hello, senior!

Zhou Yan shook his head.

"No need to be so polite."

Zhou Yan looked at Lin Anru with confusion, and Lin Anru said helplessly.

"I don't think I can help you much, so I brought the teacher and junior students who are leading the team. They've been here for over a year, especially Teacher Li, who practically considers Kunlun Immortal Palace his home. They should be able to help you a bit."

Zhou Yan nodded and looked at the teachers and students of Zhuque Academy.

Teacher Li walked up and extended her hand to Zhou Yan. Zhou Yan grasped Teacher Li's hand, and Teacher Li smiled.

"Actually, we shouldn't have come. Lin Anru also told me that Bai Ze could have known what we were talking about with just one glance. However, we noticed something amiss half an hour ago, and thinking that we still had value in providing information, we discussed it with Lin Anru and came over."

Zhou Yan's heart skipped a beat. Had he discovered something and then come looking for him?

What did you find?

Zhou Yan asked.

Teacher Li released Zhou Yan's hand and pointed in a direction.

"Does Lord Bai Ze know what's in that place?"

Zhou Yan shook his head in agreement.

Teacher Li said proudly.

"That place is a military camp, filled with all sorts of murderous aura and malevolent energy. A demigod once went in, but he couldn't withstand the murderous aura for even ten minutes and came back in a panic."

Barracks? Search №=:er九∝'隣死、′∴舞溜牭

Zhou Yan thought of the East Heavenly Gate. There were also a lot of heavenly soldiers and generals guarding the East Heavenly Gate. If the East Heavenly Gate was like that, then the South Heavenly Gate should also have a large number of heavenly soldiers and generals, and it would be understandable that there were military camps there.

Teacher Li continued.

"Those who have been to Kunlun Immortal Palace for a long time know that the most important thing in such a place is to suppress one's greed. Kunlun Immortal Palace has all kinds of treasures, but most of them are beyond the reach of ordinary people. This military camp is the same. There are many heavenly soldiers' weapons on the outer ring of the military camp."

Zhou Yan thought of Lin Lei, who had the bloodline of Ya Zi. This senior, who had been defeated by him, seemed to have the sword of a Heavenly Soldier. If he was not mistaken, he should have obtained it from the vicinity of this military camp.

"The weapons on the outer perimeter are of lower quality; the further in you go, the better, but no one dares to go deep. We bypassed this military camp before; I originally intended to give them to these children..."

The instructor reached out his hand to the three students from Suzaku Academy behind him.

"We were going to explain the past of Kunlun Immortal Palace, but halfway through, we realized something was wrong."

The supervising teacher then fell silent.

Zhou Yan spoke up.

"I'll go to this barracks later. I'll give it to the junior students as a gift if there are any treasures inside."

The supervising teacher then smiled.

“In the center of the barracks, a huge palace appeared, something that had never been seen before.”

Here it comes, here it comes! The effects of my strong luck and my auspicious beast identity have combined to create a completely new piece of information, which is why I was presented with this information the moment I left the temple.

Luck is really useful; I don't even need to wander around, and information is automatically delivered to me.

"A palace? Interesting."