Lu PingAn's version of the trip to Siberia:
A cheerful sightseeing trip—taking in the northern scenery southerners had never seen, building Snowmen and having snowball fights with friends, casually killing a few things along the way, then bringing some local specialties home. Brothers, time to eat!
The Siberian trip that had already become headline news:
Propaganda reports from a major northern power: A large-scale live-fire military exercise was currently being organized in the southern Siberian region of our country by the Southern Military District's 317th Special Operations Brigade. Uninvolved civilians were advised not to approach. This exercise was led by the Northern Military District and the Sloan Garrison District, with one marshal and two generals personally providing guidance.
Put simply: the battlefield here had been laid out. One quasi-god and two Tier 8s from the north had entered the fray. Anyone who didn't want to die should get lost.
Rumors circulating through certain channels in the Eastern Kingdom: Some kind of "divine treasure" seemed to have appeared in the north, and they were fighting themselves bloody over it. Our people also seemed to be brawling over there. It supposedly had something to do with the resurrection of an ancient evil god, with righteous figures gathering to encircle and suppress it. A legendary tale was unfolding around that revived evil god and the divine treasure, and it was said that even the authorities had stepped in.
Reality and rumor always differed in subtle ways. Lu Mouren, the "evil god himself," had probably never imagined before setting out that his casual scouting trip would become a major political and Jianghu incident.
He was only one factor in it. After all, someone had surely been pursuing Moon God's Legacy already. But his appearance had drawn in far too many pursuers and Hunters. At