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

Zhou Yan hesitated for a moment before tentatively asking.

"Even if your daughter isn't, well, a non-human beast?"

Yingzhao turned the car around, and halfway around the corner, he spoke.

"You haven't been awakened for very long, have you, Ninth Thousand Years Old?"

Zhou Yan did not reply.

Yingzhao waited a while, and when Zhou Yan didn't speak, he continued.

"If you wait too long to awaken, you'll be the same. Oh no, you're a mythical beast, so you might still have empathy, but we guys have completely lost our human understanding."

That's an interesting statement.

"Human nature cognition? What does that mean?"

Zhou Yan asked curiously.

Yingzhao lit a cigarette, took a puff, and exhaled the smoke. Zhou Yan himself hated secondhand smoke, but the smoke Yingzhao exhaled had a light and elegant smell that made his mind clear and his body feel comfortable. Upon seeing the properties of the cigarette, Zhou Yan was surprised.

Name: Banana Leaf

Age: None

Height: None

Weight: None

Category: Celestial Plants, Plants from the Heavenly Emperor's Garden.

Weakness: Salt.

Method of consumption: Dry in the sun, ferment with salt and other substances for three years, take it out, chop it up, light it and inhale. After inhaling, you will feel refreshed and resistant to external evils and cold.

Is this smoke actually a divine plant?

As expected of the Heavenly Emperor's gardener, all the plants in his hands are of high quality.

Yingzhao looked dejected.

"People can go to the market to watch fishmongers gut fish, and they can watch chickens and ducks have their throats cut and be bled, but they cannot bear to see their fellow human beings being gutted and bled. People can also look at the expressions and experiences of other human beings, feel sympathy and pity, and then have the idea of ​​wanting to give and sacrifice for their fellow human beings."

"This is empathy, and people with antisocial personality disorder do not have this kind of empathy. They cannot empathize with the physical pain, experiences, and emotions of their fellow human beings. For this reason, they can kill, torture, and even devour their fellow human beings without any emotion."

Zhou Yan hummed in agreement.

Zhou Yan had heard of this before. Almost all psychopathic killers are antisocial because they lack emotional resonance with their own kind, and they can inflict any cruelty on their fellow human beings.

Yingzhao added a sentence.

"Then, almost all the demon beasts, immortal beasts, and divine beasts lacked empathy for humans."

Zhou Yan was taken aback.

Yingzhao turned her head and stared straight at Zhou Yan.

"As the bloodlines of divine beasts, demonic beasts, and immortal beasts are developed to a greater extent, they will gradually confuse the awakened one's own human perception. Therefore, any high-ranking awakened one is an antisocial personality, at most to varying degrees."

"Your Excellency, although it sounds cruel, if killing 10,000 people could save my daughter, I would do it without hesitation. It's like a father killing 10,000 pigs to save his daughter. Do you think this is a praiseworthy story or something to be criticized in the human world?"

how to say?

If it weren't for those extreme animal rights activists, Zhou Yan felt that if this story were posted online, most netizens would be moved by this fatherly love.

only……

Zhou Yan's head hit the back of the chair.

"So, I'm one of those ten thousand pigs?"

Yingzhao turned her head back.

"How could that be? It's just that you, Your Excellency, are very useful to my daughter, which is why I came here. You are not like those ants."

Yingzhao laughed.

"You are among the top-tier even among our divine beasts."

"My daughter is not worthy of your sacrifice."

Chapter Twenty-Six: Arrival

Antisocial personality disorder is not the absence of humanity, but rather the absence of feelings for one's fellow human beings. In other words, in the eyes of antisocial individuals, and in the eyes of those awakened individuals who have developed their bloodline power to an extremely deep level, humans are no different from cats, dogs, and domestic animals.

Let's continue thinking along these lines.

Zhou Yan spoke somewhat fearfully to Ying Zhao beside him.

"In the future, will there inevitably be a war between humans and the Awakened?"

Yingzhao exhaled a puff of smoke from its nostrils. This mythical beast, who had lived for over a hundred years, spoke with a touch of emotion, a complex expression, and an indescribable feeling, as it revealed the secret that had been buried deep in its heart for so long.

"The war started long ago and ended long ago. The current era of peace is the result of compromise between the awakened and humanity after the war."

Zhou Yan was dumbfounded.

Yingzhao threw the cigarette butt he had finished smoking out the car window.

"Your Majesty, have you ever heard the saying that when you find one cockroach in your house, there are definitely 1999 more cockroaches hiding elsewhere?"

Zhou Yan nodded slowly.

"You don't actually think that Bifang from fifteen years ago was the first awakened one, do you?"

Yingzhao offered the cigarette pack to Zhou Yan's mouth again, and this time Zhou Yan did not refuse, but took the cigarette butt into his mouth.

Yingzhao ignited Zhou Yan's anger.

"The appearance of Bi Fang is just that the government can no longer cover it up. In the past, the government forcefully suppressed all awakened people, forcing them not to fight against public power. It's a pity."

Yingzhao also lit a cigarette, took a drag, and exhaled. Disgust lingered on Yingzhao's face, shrouding the face of this peerless beauty in a dreamlike state.

Yingzhao squinted her eyes, her expression hazy.

"Those four little brats, Azure Dragon and White Tiger, are no match for that invincible Little Yama King. They have all betrayed their original vows. Fifteen years ago, the government couldn't control the Awakened Ones supported by the Four Divine Beasts. Now, these Awakened Ones have wielded a great deal of power and become born superior beings."

Zhou Yan took a drag of his cigarette. The smoke felt cool as it entered his throat, and the coolness permeated his entire body like ice water, making Zhou Yan shiver comfortably.

I remembered.

Zhou Yan glanced at Ying Zhao out of the corner of his eye. This man was already 123 years old. Normal people couldn't live that long. In addition, with his 87% awakening level, this man must have awakened the divine beast bloodline a long time ago, at least earlier than Bi Fang fifteen years ago.

Furthermore, Zhou Yan had never heard of Chi You or anything like that.

To be able to forcefully suppress Yingzhao and even get her pregnant, one must be an awakened being at least a true god.

Therefore, many crucial things are not recorded in normal history books?

And who is that Little Yama King?

Dominating the world?

That sounds really impressive.

Yingzhao, who was driving, waited for more than half an hour, until the car had driven far into the suburbs, before she couldn't help but ask Zhou Yan.

"Your Excellency, aren't you going to ask me more questions?"

Because he had a cigarette in his mouth, Zhou Yan spoke indistinctly.

"It's no good for an ordinary person like me to know so much."

Anyway, once my bloodline awakening level is high, I'll definitely know about this Little Yama King, Chi You, and the First Great Battle, and maybe even more than Ying Zhao. What if I get fooled by listening to Ying Zhao's nonsense now?

Zhou Yan no longer trusts anyone but his own gossip skills.

I am Bai Ze, and I never read tabloids, street vendor history books, or idle gossip.

Ying Zhao was so happy that he took the cigarette out of his mouth.

"Why bother?"

"Is there any point in pretending like this now?"

Yingzhao turned the steering wheel and onto a side road.

At the beginning of its founding, the Eastern Xia Federation was an infrastructure fanatic, like to build railways, highways and airports on its continent to ensure that all citizens could travel to all places cheaply, conveniently and quickly. However, over the past hundred years, industry has begun to shift towards the financial industry, and industrial outflow has become serious. Even though century-old bridges, roads and airports have aged to the point that local architect associations have issued crisis notices, the government does not have the courage or money to repair them.

The road that Yingzhao is now driving on is a road built a hundred years ago. However, after a hundred years, without maintenance or digging, the road is now riddled with cracks, and weeds are growing in the cracks.

Driving along this road to its end, you'll come to an old house in the countryside with lights on. This old house is a courtyard house, meaning it's surrounded by a wall, with a front yard and an artistic iron gate in front of the main building. However, due to years of disrepair, the iron gate is covered in rust and entwined with ivy.

A middle-aged man with a sinister look stood at the entrance of the old house. When he saw Yingzhao drive up, the middle-aged man waved and smiled.

"Boss Qiao, you're back? I was about to fall asleep if you didn't come soon."

The middle-aged man pressed a button with his other hand, and the rusty iron gate covered with ivy creaked open, allowing Yingzhao to drive inside.

Upon reaching the main building, the vines covering Zhou Yan fell off.

Yingzhao opened the car door, got out, and then went to the passenger seat where Zhou Yan was. She opened the car door for Zhou Yan, and as if that wasn't enough, Yingzhao knelt down on one knee and reached out to Zhou Yan, who had gained his freedom.

"Madam, please help me down."

Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Fool

Although it's embarrassing, Zhou Yan is still wearing women's clothing.

As a man, and not even one who makes money through live streaming, it's still a bit problematic for Zhou Yan to walk around in women's clothing. He took off his hat, mask, wig, removed the beauty mark from the corner of his eye, and finally took out the breast pad from his chest and threw it aside.

"No need for Yingzhao's help," Zhou Yan said as he got out of the car and stood beside Yingzhao.

"Alright, now do everything you want to do for me."

Yingzhao stood up with a look of regret.

"What a pity, Your Excellency, why couldn't you be like a girl, smiling and grabbing my hand to come down? That scene would have been so interesting."

Zhou Yan looked disgusted. Did he really think he liked women's clothing? If it weren't for escaping for his life, would he have dressed like this?

Yingzhao nodded her chin toward the main building's entrance.

"Your Excellency, come with me. Let me introduce you to my daughter and some of my, well, little ones."

Yingzhao walked up the stairs between the main building and the courtyard. As she went up, the double art doors of the main building opened inward.

Light shone through the crack in the inward-opening door.

Yingzhao entered through the double doors, followed by Zhou Yan.

Inside the gate was a large hall. Unlike the outside of the manor, which was weathered and mottled by time, the hall had brightly colored carpets with clear patterns, no mold or water stains on the wallpaper, and no dust on the glass of the art frames.

It looks like an old manor that is kept very clean every day.

To the left of the front hall is a living room with three sofas around a coffee table. Four people are sitting on the sofas in the living room: two little girls, a mature woman in a cheongsam, and an acquaintance of Zhou Yan.

Bai Rusu, the Heavenly Fox, was tricked to the point of near death by Zhou Yan.

This demigod-level immortal beast now had its hands tied behind its back, and its thighs and upper body were bound with thin ropes. Zhou Yan didn't know if it was intentional, but he felt that the binding was a bit stiff, and some parts were deliberately pulled out by the ropes.

After Yingzhao entered, the four women in the living room turned their heads at the same time. Yingzhao put her arm around Zhou Yan's shoulder, pushed Zhou Yan against her chest, and proudly showed off.

"I've brought the child back, my darlings. Our plan has completed the final piece of the puzzle, and we're just waiting for success."

The silver-haired loli, Chaos, slightly curled the corners of her mouth, but quickly suppressed it. At the same time, she seemed to snort disdainfully, turned her head to the side, and hugged her polar bear plush toy even tighter with both hands.

The gluttonous beast, with its blank expression, remained unchanged. Only the elegant woman in the cheongsam, Taotie, stood up and said with delight.

"If this succeeds, Xiaoying will definitely follow Lord Qiao's lead from now on!"

Bai Rusu, the celestial fox sitting opposite the three ferocious beasts, couldn't hold back any longer and turned to shout at Yingzhao.

"I am Lord Suzaku's second-in-command. I advise you to release me, or you will all be burned to death when Lord Suzaku arrives!"

Yingzhao put her arm around Zhou Yan and walked forward, talking as they went.

"Zhuque? Sixty years ago, your bird leader was still the little guy who followed me around calling me Brother Qiao, jumping around in front of me every day, hoping I would give her a second glance."

Bai Rusu's expression changed, and she said angrily.

"you……"

Does this shameless guy even know who Suzaku is?