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

"I know, I know. Don't say anything yet. This child might still be saved. I'll go stop the bleeding!"

He Tao roared.

"I told you, no, I was forced!"

The PE teacher hesitated as he looked at the fruit knife in He Tao's hand.

If He Tao were alone, he was confident he could subdue him with one hand, but with a knife, the retired physical education teacher might also die if he wasn't careful.

Having weapons and not having weapons are two different things, especially since He Tao seems so emotionally unstable right now.

The PE teacher patted Zhou Yan on the shoulder, and Zhou Yan understood what the PE teacher meant.

Zhou Yansan smiled.

“Hey, He Tao, I know you’ve been bullied a lot, but, but, well, you might kill someone right now. How about we rescue Lin…Han Yuting first, and then…”

He Tao roared hysterically.

"You have no idea what I went through!"

He Tao's eyes were bloodshot and brimming with tears.

“I was once dragged out of the classroom by Zhao Gang and beaten in the hallway. I was also dragged to the girls’ restroom by Han Yuting and forced to kowtow to her.”

"They even wrote 'slut,' 'idiot,' and 'moron' on my body, and made me say insulting things to myself in front of the camera!"

He Tao pointed a fruit knife at the Painted Skin Demon, whose life was hanging by a thread.

"Back then, who among you helped me?"

Zhou Yan: "..."

PE teacher: "..."

He Tao couldn't stop crying, and the student pointed the fruit knife at Zhou Yan again.

"Now, this woman has brought me to this classroom, wants me to take off my pants, takes pictures, and then accuses me of raping her. I've never done anything to her, but she wants to accuse me of rape! She's trying to drive me to my death!"

"And now you want me to step aside and save this slut!"

Do you know what would happen if she were alive?

He Tao pounded his chest hard, the thumping sound echoing in the empty classroom.

"She'll sue me for attempted rape, she'll sue me for malicious murder. She, the bully, will become the victim, comforted and loved by everyone, even becoming the nation's princess for a while. And me? I was bullied for a whole semester, I even drank their urine..."

He Tao burst into tears.

"They will become murderers whom everyone can hurl insults at with an air of superiority!"

"Why!"

"Tell me, on what grounds!"

He Tao's features scrunched up, and tears streamed down his chin.

He Tao's tone softened.

"Why……"

"I... I just want to live a good life..."

"Why are you forcing me like this..."

Zhou Yan: "..."

PE teacher: "..."

Chapter Six: Qiongqi - New Book - Please Add to Favorites

"That's not how it's said."

The PE teacher, being a veteran, had seen a lot in his life. While Zhou Yan was still hesitating, the teacher pointed at the bleeding demon and shouted.

“He Tao, calm down. Attempted murder and malicious murder are two different crimes. Don’t you want to ruin your future…”

He Tao interrupted angrily.

"Why didn't you say anything when I was being bullied? Now I've taken my revenge!"

He Tao pointed the tip of the fruit knife at the PE teacher.

"They started trying to persuade me not to do it?"

"Why are you siding with the perpetrators! I am the most innocent one, and I am the one you should be comforting!"

The physical education teacher remained silent in the face of the students' roars.

"And you too!"

He Tao stared at Zhou Yan with bloodshot eyes.

"Zhou Yan! You're so great, so wonderful! You excel in your studies, are good at sports, and are also good at games. Teachers and classmates all like you. You even have a girlfriend named Mi Qing, but your girlfriend has become an Awakened One..."

He Tao's mouth split open, and a ferocious smile began to appear on his face.

"She just threw you away, she just threw away trash like you! Someone like you doesn't deserve to be an Awakened One at all!"

Zhou Yan asked tentatively.

"Have I done anything to offend you?"

He Tao exhaled a breath so hot that he could feel the heat on his upper lip, and he felt his whole body burning up.

"Zhou Yan, why am I bullied every day, while you are praised by teachers and liked by classmates? Even when Mi Qing gave up on you, you still had people to comfort you, while I, even when I am bullied, have no one to care about me."

Zhou Yan: "..."

how to say?

If I had known He Tao's attitude, I would have been foolish enough to save him.

"Ok?"

Zhou Yan suddenly noticed that black stripes, resembling spider legs, slowly crawled out from the collar of He Tao's shirt. The term "Qiongqi Evil Pattern" appeared next to these black stripes.

More and more black stripes emerged from under He Tao's collar, until they covered the young man's neck.

The PE teacher noticed something was wrong and yelled.

"He Tao, you are now..."

"I'm fine now..."

He Tao raised his hand, and black stripes began to crawl out from it, staining his hand a mixture of black and flesh color.

He Tao stared blankly at his hands.

He Tao will always remember yesterday after school, when the young man was dragged to the back hill of the school by Zhao Gang and Han Yuting, who had always bullied him.

After being beaten by Zhao Gang as usual, Zhao Gang grabbed He Tao's hair, who was kneeling on the ground, and pointed at Han Yuting.

"Yuting is pregnant. Her family will come to ask later. Just say that you raped Han Yuting, understand?"

He Tao, who was so badly beaten that he couldn't even stand up, looked at Zhao Gang, who was grabbing his hair, in disbelief and asked a question.

"Han Yuting's child, is it yours?"

Zhao Gang beat He Tao again, then grabbed He Tao's hair and said viciously.

"Just admit it if I tell you to! Stop with all this nonsense!"

Han Yuting said casually as she smoked a cigarette.

"You're a minor, so the sentence for rape won't be long."

He Tao struggled to speak.

"Anyone over the age of fourteen is criminally liable!"

Han Yuting nodded.

"So Zhao Gang from my family can't go to jail. You go ahead. This is the only time a good-for-nothing like you can be of any use."

Zhao Gang patted He Tao's face.

"Either I beat you to death right here, or..."

Zhao Gang couldn't continue speaking because He Tao pulled out the fruit knife he had been carrying for the past few days and stabbed it into Zhao Gang's stomach.

Zhao Gang wasn't as reckless as he appeared. At least after being stabbed in the stomach, the man knelt on the ground, staring intently at his wound without moving.

He Tao drew his knife amidst Zhao Gang's despairing gaze, then looked at the stunned Han Yuting.

Amidst Han Yuting's screams and despair, He Tao grabbed her and stabbed her dozens of times.

After killing Han Yuting completely, He Tao looked at Zhao Gang, who was lying on the ground behind him and seemed to have no chance of being alive.

He had taken his revenge, but he had no future left. He held his own fruit knife to his neck, intending to commit suicide. But before he could, a soft laugh filled the quiet back mountain.

He Tao saw a dark figure walking over.

"Do you have the courage to kill, but not the courage to live?"

The shadowy figure was a middle-aged man in sportswear. He grinned maliciously, as if he had witnessed a sinister, bizarre, yet satisfying scene. This man, whose personality was so different from that of a normal person, revealed a twisted expression that even three bottles of air freshener couldn't suppress.

He Tao suddenly felt that this middle-aged man was terrifying, but now that he was about to die, what was this little thing?

He Tao sniffed.

"What do you know? I... I killed someone. I'm going to jail, and my family has to pay compensation."

He Tao couldn't even imagine how much pressure he would face in the future, or how long his parents would be troubled by the compensation issue.

"It's alright, it's all a small matter."

The sinister-looking man walked up to He Tao and covered He Tao's head with one hand.

The next moment, the man lifted He Tao's skull.

He Tao's brain was exposed to the air.

The man, looking completely entranced, brought his nose closer.

"What a wonderful smell of blood, anger, hatred, despair, oh, and my favorite, the intoxication with violence."

The man took out He Tao's brain. He Tao watched as the man gestured with his brain a few times before putting it back into his skull.

"Go and kill someone."

The man then put the top of He Tao's head back on.

"The more people you kill, the faster you awaken. Once you become an awakened one, you can kill without consequence."

"The security bureau, which desperately needs manpower, will protect you. What are the worth of even a fraction of an awakened being if hundreds or thousands of these mortals die?"

After speaking, the man turned around, his figure gradually disappearing into the darkness of the night.

He Tao didn't know how he got home or how he came to school the next day. But he had witnessed Han Yuting and Zhao Gang die at his hands, so when Han Yuting reappeared in his classroom, He Tao was terrified.

Afterwards, Han Yuting led him to the classroom on the next floor, where He Tao struck first, then took out a knife and stabbed Han Yuting.

Later, Zhou Yan, the physical education teacher, discovered all of this.

But it's okay.

He Tao saw the black lines on his hand; this must be proof of awakening, that he was an awakened one.

He felt he was innocent of murder and a born superior being.

Since murder is not a crime.

Killing one person isn't enough.

He Tao looked at Zhou Yan and the PE teacher with a smile. He couldn't see that his smile was exactly the same as the sinister smile of the middle-aged man in the sportswear that he had seen last night.

Chapter Seven: Weaknesses (Please add to your favorites and vote!)

The physical education teacher and other teachers didn't help him; they just watched him being bullied by Zhao Gang and his gang without saying a word. So he deserves to die.

Zhou Yan had excellent grades, was popular, had a beautiful girlfriend, and came from a better family than me. He had everything I wanted, so Zhou Yan deserved to die.

And those classmates too.