At that moment, Five Poisons looked like a rabbit chased by dogs, charging straight through the teleportation array into the enormous city on Great Snow Mountain—a city still unfinished, with only its teleportation array newly constructed.
"Things are troublesome!"
Stepping out of the teleportation array, Five Poisons wore an ugly expression. Though he had always excelled at schemes and could be called resourceful and ingenious, the current situation truly gave him the feeling that the sky was falling.
Earlier, he had asked to see Madam Lu, only for Grandpa Huang to press him into labor and make him protect that fake Yue Shan for nine days. Now that he had finally met Madam Lu, he wanted to tell the truth—but he suspected Madam Lu would tear him apart alive.
After all, Madam Lu had even brought out an Enlightenment Divine Talisman, a treasure he had only ever heard of!
And she had actually used it on the fake Yue Shan. That alone showed just how seriously the entire Lu Family took this matter.
It also showed how immense the external crisis facing the Lu Family had become.
The bitter fruits produced by their efforts to develop the Western Wilderness over all these years were now coming back to bite them.
"The Heavenly Pride Ranking! Fucking Heavenly Pride Ranking!"
Five Poisons sighed and forced himself to calm down. Better than anyone, he knew what the Heavenly Pride Ranking meant. Since Yue Shan had already registered, not even the Heavenly King himself could change it.
Even if he knew the truth, he had to help cover it up—at least until the Heavenly Pride Ranking's final rankings had settled.
"So the biggest problem now is confirming two things."
"First, did Xiong Wu come here to stir up trouble? How could it dare? It