The instant An Bulang saw Little Piggy, he froze.
"Little Piggy, you still haven't left?"
He knew that Little Piggy had always followed him around in the past, mooching this and that, but lately it had had no presence at all and had not even said a single word. He had nearly forgotten about the thing.
Only now, when his mother fished it out, did An Bulang realize that Little Piggy had never left.
"Grunt grunt grunt! Empress, spare me! I've only been quietly following Imperial Son Bulang. I truly never harmed Imperial Son Bulang. Imperial Son Bulang can testify to that!" Little Piggy was terrified and frantically explained itself.
The Vermillion Bird Empress stared at Little Piggy, a strange expression appearing on her face.
At that moment, An Bulang said, "I can indeed testify to that."
But that was not what the Vermillion Bird Empress cared about. She stared at Little Piggy and scrutinized it carefully. Only after a moment did she say, "I sense a familiar fluctuation from you... You are... that Immortal Venerable Zhu Peng from the Heavenly Court?"
Little Piggy's struggling little hooves stopped moving, and its entire body seemed to have stiffened.
After a long while, perhaps realizing that it could no longer hide it, it answered uneasily, "Yes..."
The other members of the Lang Alliance who had seen Little Piggy were all dumbfounded. An Bulang was equally stunned.
An Immortal Venerable?
An Immortal Venerable of the Heavenly Court?
So when Little Piggy had kept calling itself an Immortal Venerable before, it had been telling the truth?
What the Vermillion Bird Empress said next shook countless people even more.
"During the Ancient Era, the one that ruled the entire Primordial Universe was the Never Falling Heavenly Court. Within that Heavenly Court were three Emperor-level figures: