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

Wu Song must have realized that something seemed off about his older brother, and that his earlier words were a test. Unfortunately for him, he was Bai Ze, and such a simple test was far too easy.

Zhou Yan's faint smile made Wu Song's scalp tingle. He remembered when he first entered the police station, he was led by an old policeman. Whenever the old policeman patrolled or questioned some local thieves or criminals, if the thieves or criminals dared to tell a lie, the old policeman would smile faintly like Zhou Yan.

This is a smile from someone who has seen through everything and has perfect insight.

Did my brother discover my little scheme?

The topic of Wu Song was then changed.

“Brother, you are now an Awakened One whom even Lord Qinglong takes notice of. To put it bluntly.”

Wu Song walked up to Zhou Yan.

"My sister-in-law is shameless... She's had affairs with quite a few men in the neighborhood, the most notorious being the old director of the Yang family's clothing company."

Wu Song lowered his voice.

"The reason why that old man from the Yang family was so eager to marry your sister-in-law to you, and why he prepared all sorts of wedding gifts for you and gave you a big red envelope, was because he had been playing with your sister-in-law. He was afraid that his wife would find out, so he forced your sister-in-law to marry you."

When Wu Song was still in junior high or high school, Wu Dalang went to work odd jobs in a nearby town to support his younger brother's education. It was during this time that he met Pan Jinlian and they got married with the help of the boss at the place where he worked.

With Wu Dalang's financial support, Wu Song finished high school and became a local policeman. He occasionally visited the place where his elder brother had worked, only to learn that Pan Jinlian had been having an affair with the boss and was then dumped by him.

This was a sensitive matter, and Wu Song kept it to himself, never telling his good-for-nothing brother.

Zhou Yan joked.

"Is it the master's mission?"

Wu Song found it strange that his elder brother wasn't angry at all after hearing these words; in fact, he seemed quite amused.

“Brother, your sister-in-law is not a clean person. I have seen that you love her, so I can only keep some things to myself. But now you are different. You have made something of yourself. It’s better not to keep your sister-in-law around.”

Wu Song didn't want to mention that Pan Jinlian had tried to seduce him in the past, but because Wu Song was very loyal and deeply grateful to his elder brother, he felt nothing but anger and resentment at the advances of a mature young woman, let alone any romantic feelings.

Her own brother treated Pan Jinlian so well, yet this woman was so ungrateful!

If it weren't for his brother's constant protection, Wu Song would have captured Pan Jinlian long ago, had her filled with cement, and drowned in the river.

Zhou Yan shook his head.

"I have my own considerations on this matter."

Zhou Yan knew he wasn't Wu Dalang, and Xiao Yanjun wasn't Pan Jinlian, so he didn't want to bother with or care about the sordid affair between Wu Dalang and Manager Pan.

“Alright, brother, you can think it over yourself. However, since I'm going back to Qinghe City this time and becoming a policeman, how about…”

Wu Song's tone was as cold as a drawn sword. 5

"Little brother, did you help your brother get rid of your sister-in-law's past lover?"

Zhou Yan looked at Wu Song in surprise.

Wu Song's smile was cold.

“Brother, you may not care in the past, but your brother can’t not care about his elder brother. I saw what your sister-in-law did to you in the past. I didn’t dare to do anything about it before, but now you are a big shot. It’s time for those adulterers to pay the price for the accusations your sister-in-law made against you in the past.”

That's ruthless...

Zhou Yan thought of Ximen Qing from before. Wu Song had twisted the young master's head off without saying a word. After confirming that he was completely dead, Wu Song told Zhou Yan that he was going to kill several powerful members of the Ximen family.

At that time, Zhou Yan only thought that Wu Song was ruthless enough. Now he realized that Wu Song's ruthlessness was the kind that was suppressed. The deeper you dig, the deeper the violence and ruthlessness of this person become.

Of course, in contrast, Wu Song was truly devoted to his own people. After all, when this brother saw his elder brother kill someone, his first thought was to help his brother settle the murder case and even to disrupt the avengers' family for his brother.

"Need not."

Zhou Yan said nonchalantly.

"Let those people live, let them die and make them feel more pain."

Wu Song thought for a moment and shook his head.

"I understand, brother. Shall I go back to Qinghe City?"

Zhou Yan nodded.

"Have a good trip, call me when you get there."

耙柒'ˇ榴鑥…叁，佴更新(群$◎：“哥你就是我个小成年的小孩子。”

Wu Song smiled and left Zhou Yan's study.

Not long after Wu Song left, Little Yama, holding a crepe, walked in. The little guy still had a bit of high-grade cream on the corner of his mouth, and he was chewing and mumbling something indistinctly.

“I saw Wu Song leave, and the way he looked at me when he left was very strange.”

Zhou Yan said with disdain.

"You know what kind of person Pan Jinlian is. Wu Dalang used to be a coward and didn't dare to do anything to Pan Jinlian. Now Wu Dalang has risen up."

Zhou Yan pointed to himself.

"Wu Song just told me that he wants me to kill you and replace you with someone better."

Little Yama said happily.

"This Wu Song is something else, his methods are ruthless enough."

A normal person, faced with a wife who's a scoundrel, would divorce her and that would be the end of it. But Wu Song wanted to kill his wife.

Zhou Yan lowered his hand.

"Of course, Wu Song is a demon star descended to earth. His way of life is definitely to repay kindness with kindness and revenge with revenge. He doesn't mince words."

Little Yama walked up to Zhou Yan with a grin, and Zhou Yan smelled the strong aroma of crepes.

Little Yama raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, you're drooling! Do you want some?"

Little Yama shook the crepe that was still a third of the way from being finished in her hand.

Zhou Yan shook his head.

"We can talk about food later. Brother Yan, you didn't come here to ask me what Wu Song thinks of you, did you?"

Zhou Yan didn't believe that someone as clever as Little Yama wouldn't see that Wu Song wanted to get rid of her as soon as possible.

Little Yama found a chair, sat down, and swung his little feet as he spoke.

"No, I was thinking about how to speed up the cultivation of that old man Xu Sheng while I was hungry."

Zhou Yan asked, puzzled.

"Isn't giving this old man some pills enough?"

The immortal plants and herbs personally cultivated by the Azure Dragon, the pills refined by alchemy experts, and the daily guidance from his own Bai Ze all helped Xu Sheng correct his cultivation mistakes.

It's no exaggeration to say that Xu Sheng has the best resources and teachers he has in the current environment.

Little Yama put the last bite of the crepe into his mouth.

“Cultivation isn’t something you can achieve just by using pills and working hard. It’s about overcoming tribulations, understand? The more tribulations you overcome, the more powerful you become.”

Since ancient times, demons have cultivated in cycles of one tribulation. In the words of the Daoist patriarch Ge Hong, it is said that wood takes one thunderbolt as one tribulation, beasts take one death as one tribulation, fish take one drought as one tribulation, and insects take one fire as one tribulation. Twenty-one tribulations make one a demon, and thirty-six tribulations make one a demon ancestor.

Humans who cultivate themselves can become immortals by passing through three calamities, six tribulations, and seventy-two lightning tribulations.

Cultivation is not about time or who is more ruthless; it's about who has endured more tribulations, and that's who is stronger.

Therefore, the gods and Buddhas of the heavens descend to undergo tribulations every so often, not only to increase their understanding of the human world, but also to increase their cultivation and magical power.

Little Yama swallowed the crêpe in his mouth, licking the cream off his hand. ∑ △6№〉4#♀

Zhou Yan fell silent for a long time before finally speaking with a wry smile.

"Brother Yan, do you mean we should deliberately create trouble for Xu Sheng?"

Little Yama nodded.

"Yes, create tribulations. As long as we find a few tribulations for Xu Sheng to overcome, his cultivation and magical power will increase rapidly."

Zhou Yan asked in surprise.

"Aren't you just fooling God?"

Little Yama said disdainfully.

"What do you know? When the time comes for cultivation on the mountain, the patriarchs and elders of the sect will find their disciples and tell them that they can go down to the mortal world to gain experience. What we are doing now is similar. We are finding things for Xu Sheng to do so that he can gain experience as soon as possible and increase his cultivation."

Zhou Yan countered with a question.

"Can these be considered the same?"

Little Yama also asked a question in return.

Why are they different?

Because his current level of awakening is low and he lacks omniscience, Zhou Yan could only ask the question.

"Alright, let's assume you're right, Brother Yan. So, what's next?"

What should we do?

Zhou Yan had absolutely no idea how to proceed with the path of creating calamity that Little Yama had mentioned.

"We've arrived at a place Little Yama is familiar with," Little Yama called out loudly.

"We don't need to do anything, Xiao Yan. Do you know that the most important thing in cultivating immortality is opportunity?"

"With a stroke of luck, you might encounter an old man with a white beard, a peerless master begging for alms, survive falling off a cliff, and even receive a beautiful woman and unparalleled martial arts skills for free."

Zhou Yan clicked his tongue. (The rest of the text appears to be gibberish and unrelated to the preceding sentences.)

"Isn't this just artistic embellishment?"

Little Yama interrupted.

"What artistic embellishment? This is reality. If you want to become an immortal, you definitely need good luck and deep opportunities. Especially this Xu Sheng. Now we've designated this person as Maitreya Buddha, and we're going to fulfill Maitreya Buddha's great vow. Xiao Yan, do you believe it or not? This old guy's opportunities, the heavens of this world."

Little Yama pointed to the top of his head.

"It's all been arranged for him. We're just waiting for the right time to trigger it. If nothing unexpected happens, these opportunities will be tribulations. Once obtained, they will not only enlighten Xu Sheng, but also grant him a large amount of cultivation power."

Zhou Yan began to understand what Little Yama meant.

"Brother Yan, do you mean I should go out and wander around, looking for any opportunities that fate might have left for Xu Sheng in this world?"

Little Yama nodded vigorously.

“Yes, Xiao Yan, if you have any free time these days, take a stroll around outside the First Academy. With your abilities, you should be able to find a way to help Xu Sheng improve his strength quickly.”

Zhou Yan shrugged.

"Brother Yan, you really know how to cause me trouble."

Little Yama smiled broadly.

"There's no other way, everyone has to make do in order to save the world."

Combat:

Chapter 710, Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Late History of Nantong

One week later, at the Xu family villa.

Xu Sheng got up early and walked from his bedroom to the roof of the villa.

The morning sunlight streamed down through the clouds, beams of golden light separating the heavens and the earth. Xu Sheng saw a great deal; he even took off his reading glasses and looked down at everything beneath his feet with trembling excitement.

Xu Sheng's eyesight had deteriorated significantly due to his long-term research work; without his glasses, he was practically blind. However, now that he had taken off his glasses, his eyes, which now faintly shone with a Buddhist light, could see every mottled detail on the surrounding buildings and the emotional changes on the faces of every ordinary person on the streets.

6 days of clairvoyance.

After receiving a wake-up call from Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun, Xu Sheng attained enlightenment in the Womb Realm and saw his own Buddha-nature. At this time, Xu Sheng's Buddha-nature was only a small wisp, but after receiving the "Diamond Guardian" method from Zhou Yan, Xu Sheng began to refine his Buddha-nature.

Unlike the standard practices of Han Chinese Buddhism, the practice of "Diamond Guarding the Mind" consists of sixteen steps from beginning to end, symbolizing the practitioner's sudden enlightenment of sixteen kinds of insight.

These sixteen kinds of insight are: the insight into name and form, the insight into conditions, the insight into the three characteristics, the insight into arising and ceasing, the insight into decay, the insight into the arising of fear, the insight into faults, the insight into aversion, the insight into the desire for liberation, the insight into careful observation, the insight into equanimity, the insight into conformity, the insight into lineage, the insight into the four paths, the insight into the four fruits, and the insight into reflection.

During the week that followed, Xu Sheng attained enlightenment in the Garbhadhatu Mandala, realizing the wisdom of distinguishing between name and form. Correspondingly, a pair of eyes grew in Xu Sheng's Buddha-nature within the Garbhadhatu Mandala, and Xu Sheng immediately gained the divine eye.

Of course, Er's Heavenly Eye is still relatively weak; at present, it can only be used as a telescope and to enhance dynamic and static vision.

"Ok?"

"Old Xu, you're up so early today?"