"I told you to leave, now!"
Snake Nineteen's eyes bulged.
But Wang Wu shook his head and said rapidly, "This is only a strand of my fur, a wisp of Divine Sense. It won't harm my true body, so it doesn't matter. You're the one who needs to leave—go thirty thousand li and find my true body. I can protect you!"
But Snake Nineteen gave a bitter laugh. "Too late. Everything's too late. This plan was deduced by Five Poisons and my father. Now Five Poisons has vanished, and my father has even forgotten who Five Poisons is. That alone proves that we've been manipulated all along. Every plan we made was a joke."
"Little Nineteen, and you, little Bear Cub—what strange things are you two talking about?" The old, haggard Snake Emperor was deeply puzzled.
Wang Wu looked at him. It truly was still the Snake Emperor, yet he would bet that it was no longer the Snake Emperor it had once been.
"Possessing a jade invites trouble!"
Wang Wu's brows drew tightly together. When he had arrived earlier and failed to see Five Poisons, he had already felt that something was amiss.
Now, he understood completely.
Something had happened to Five Poisons, and the reason was that possessing a jade invited trouble.
A level 25 Precognition Divine Ability. The Snake Emperor's Precognition Divine Ability was probably not low either, so the relevant bloodline had likely been extracted. Wang Wu and Snake Nineteen thought of that at the same time.
But the truth hidden behind it was even more terrifying.
Because it could only prove one thing: Wang Yue, the Vermilion Bird Immortal Lord whom they had regarded as an ally, had sold them for a very good price!
Whether she had done so willingly or under coercion made