"Wutong Mountain..."
At those words, the Great Demon Ape furrowed his brow, his eyes flickering. He spoke with considerable hesitation:
"Is there really no other way?"
Seeing this, Ape Two's gaze flickered slightly.
Big Brother... still has something else on his mind after all!
He sighed softly, then abruptly said something seemingly unrelated:
"Big Brother, in this Primordial Sea, no one's orders are absolute."
"If Ye Li truly has the ability to wipe out a Transcendence forbidden land, I imagine even [Wutong Mountain] won't punish you too harshly afterward for failing in your duties."
"Conversely, if you do as I say and report the news promptly, not only will they not make things difficult for you, they might even credit you with a major contribution!"
At those words,
the Great Demon Ape's heart jolted. He forced himself to remain calm and asked:
"Second Brother, what do you mean by that?"
"Big Brother, how many years have we been brothers?" Ape Two sighed helplessly.
"In the past, whenever something this serious happened, once I laid out the pros and cons, you would have immediately decided not to provoke that walking disaster."
"But today, even though you know Ye Li is an anomaly, you still can't bring yourself to back down..."
"Who besides [Wutong Mountain] could make you this apprehensive?"
"Well..."
With Ape Two exposing his secret to his face, embarrassment surfaced on the Great Demon Ape's expression. He scratched his head and said in a rumbling voice:
"I wasn't deliberately trying to hide it from you."
"It's just... I already promised that young master of [Wutong Mountain] that I would take Cangyuan's and Ye Li's heads, and I accepted a rather generous advance payment."
The Great Demon Ape rubbed his brow with a headache.
"Wutong Mountain's money isn't so easy to