Beneath the Curtain

(P.S. This month's updates have really been lacking, and I'm ashamed of it... I've happened to be resting these past few days. Starting tomorrow, I'll try to update more.)

Wu Pifu was stunned once, twice, then three, four, five, six times...

He knew Chu Minghao and Liang Min might be on their way. He knew those great demons definitely had no good intentions and were plotting something. He had also seen with his own eyes that every one of these Ascendant Bodies was exceptionally good at running away. Even that second-tier Ascendant Body he had considered incredibly powerful had fled. He either knew or had witnessed all of that.

But wasn't this situation just too damn full of twists and turns?

When he heard that Wu Pifu was about to go berserk, their first reactions were...

"No!"

"Bro, don't leave!"

"Big Brother, take us with you! Take us with you! We're willing to acknowledge you as our boss!!"

"How can you leave?!"

To Wu Pifu's surprise, the crowd of Ascendant Bodies directly crowded toward him. Yet they were afraid he would cut them down, so from afar they began cheering him on in a "bro, you're amazing" fashion, circling around him in an attempt to make him stop.

What Wu Pifu had encountered today was already bizarre enough, but this scene shocked him all over again. He could not help saying, "What the hell is wrong with you people? I'm trying to kill you!"

But the Ascendant Bodies ignored him and continued pestering him. "Don't! You have no idea what's beneath the curtain. This curtain is absolutely beyond saving. When the time comes, we'll all be grasshoppers tied to the same rope. We're on the same side!"

"Who the fuck is on the same side as you? You aren't even