“Forget it, I’m just guessing wildly.” Earth-Monkey waved his hand. “Don’t worry about it, let’s go back and eat.”

Man-Monkey decisively caught some key point from Earth-Monkey’s words, so he also turned his head to look toward the end of the corridor.

If that place was where all the “Heavens” rested… could it be that Earth-Monkey had sensed something just now?

“How do you know they would ‘fail’?” Man-Monkey asked. “Did you hear someone mention it?”

“This…” Earth-Monkey seemed to know he had misspoken a bit, and quickly thought of something, changing his words. “Haven’t you noticed… neither ‘Qinglong’ nor ‘Heavenly-Dog’ have any way to monitor the ‘Train’?”

“Seems like it…” Man-Monkey nodded and quickly thought it over. “But that’s not right either. Both Qinglong and the ‘Heaven-levels’ have released ‘immortal arts’ on the ‘Train’ before, right? This means their ‘immortal arts’ haven’t failed.”

“Damn, of course I know that.” Earth-Monkey said. “So I didn’t say ‘all immortal arts fail.’ I only said the ‘Divine Sense’ parts would fail.”

“What…?” The eyes under Man-Monkey’s mask furrowed slightly. “Then Teacher… how do you know only ‘Divine Sense’ fails…? It’s only that they don’t monitor the ‘Train’… maybe their focus is all on below?”

“Kid… why are you suddenly so talkative today?” Earth-Monkey said. “That’s true, but have you considered that ‘below’ is farther away for them? The ‘Train’ is right next to them. If they can monitor below, why wouldn’t they monitor the ‘Train’?”

“That’s true too…” After Man-Monkey finished speaking, he thought of something else, slowly leaned forward, and asked in a low voice, “Teacher, what does ‘fail’ mean? Does it mean the ability can’t be released, or does it mean even if it can be released, you can’t sense other people’s ‘immortal arts’ at all?”

“It’s…” Earth-Monkey was slightly stunned. “Damn it, didn’t I tell you not to ask what you shouldn’t ask?”

“Okay… okay… sorry.” Man-Monkey nodded, and his expression quickly became silent.

He always felt this information was somewhat important, but he couldn’t say exactly where it was important.

Even if Earth-Monkey himself had “Divine Smell,” he absolutely couldn’t possibly admit it.

In that case, how could he obtain detailed information?

The two walked past an unusually noisy room. Although the room door was closed, huge sounds still came from within.

It seemed many “Earth-levels” were having a gathering inside.

“How very strange recently.” Earth-Monkey sneered. “The ‘Earth-levels’ are starting to organize parties now. Are they so idle?”

Man-Monkey shook his head without speaking, and the two figures passed by the wooden door before them, then gradually moved into the distance.

Inside the noisy room sat a neat row of “Earth-levels.”

This group of “Earth-levels” looked very casual—some leaned against the sofa, some leaned against the wall, and some were wolfing down food at the table.

Although the lineup was formidable, it looked like no one respected anyone else.

“How very strange…” A Black Sheep at the dining table said. “Pei Qianhu… haven’t you noticed something weird?”

“Huh?” Earth-Tiger responded in a muffled voice. “What’s strange? We’ve always been this complete. After all, Brother Sheep said…”

“Said your uncle.” Black Sheep said. “Who the hell asked about that…”

“Then what are you talking about?”

“Sheep Leader is right, it is indeed a bit strange…” Earth-Mouse nearby also said. “Tiger Leader, you’re really too tiger-headed, so you probably haven’t reacted yet.”

“What exactly is it?” Earth-Tiger asked. “You all feel something’s wrong? What’s wrong?!”

Earth-Mouse slowly stood up and said to everyone in the room, “To be honest with all you leaders, today I even brought a knife when I came.”

He lifted his suit jacket and pulled out a short knife that had been tucked at his waist.

“Damn.” Earth-Tiger was stunned. “Fence-sitter, what are you doing? Planning to come here and cut me?”

“Not really. After all, Leader, you’re so tiger-like that I don’t really want to dirty my knife.” Earth-Mouse said. “I originally thought there would be a bloody battle. Now it seems like there won’t be, so I’m taking the knife off early to avoid stabbing myself.”

“Wha…?”

“Tiger Leader.” Earth-Mouse said again in a deep voice. “I don’t know if my memory is good. Help me think—haven’t we been continuously, loudly, ostentatiously, and brazenly ‘plotting rebellion’ here for three days straight?”

“Keep your damn voice down!!” Earth-Tiger roared. “The way you’re talking, who doesn’t know we’re plotting rebellion here?! Are you fucking crazy!?”

Earth-Tiger’s huge voice shook three times in the room. The words “plotting rebellion” echoed around the beams, causing everyone in the room to fall silent.

After three seconds of silence, Black Sheep turned his head to look at the Lazy Dog beside him and said softly, “Can I kill him now? Right now.”

Lazy Dog sighed and patted Black Sheep’s shoulder. “Calm down… calm down…”

The tall Earth-Rabbit wrapped in bandages nodded and also raised his head to say to Earth-Tiger, “Pei Qianhu, what they mean is we’re too safe right now. This is very abnormal.”

“Safe…?” After hearing this, Earth-Tiger immediately frowned. “No, bro, why are you also calling me ‘Pei Qianhu’? Didn’t we just meet?”

“Uh… sorry, I got used to calling you that.” Earth-Rabbit touched his head embarrassedly.

“Exactly.” Earth-Mouse nodded. “Tiger Leader, why are you so tiger-headed and tiger-brained? It’s been three whole days—why haven’t the people above come to deal with us?”

“This…” Earth-Tiger’s brow furrowed, and he instantly understood.

“There are ‘Qinglong’ and ‘Heavenly-Dog’ here…” Earth-Mouse continued. “Why aren’t these two leaders dealing with us? Even if their usual work focus is all on below, after such a long time, they should have heard one or two treasonous words, right?”

After hearing this, Earth-Tiger reached up to touch his chin. Although what Earth-Mouse said was true, he felt this matter might not be so difficult to explain.

“Maybe their ears… grow downward?” Earth-Tiger said. “So they can’t hear horizontally, only vertically…”

“You…”

After everyone heard this, they were speechless again.

Black Sheep paused slightly, then slowly stood up and reached his hand toward the short knife on the table. “Earth-Mouse, lend me your knife. I’m going to kill a tiger.”

“Calm down… calm down…” Lazy Dog hurriedly stood up to stop Black Sheep.

“No… why kill me? Maybe it’s really like this.” Earth-Tiger blinked. “They simply can’t hear what we’re saying on the ‘Train’ because their ear roots face downward.”

The numerous “Earth-levels” in the room all reached up to hold their foreheads, feeling like the exhausting moment of every night had come again.

“This is also easy to verify.” Earth-Tiger said dully. “We can just do an experiment, right?”

“Do an experiment?” Black Sheep initially didn’t think much of it, but the next second a sense of ominous foreboding surged up. He understood Pei Qianhu too well.

“Wait a minute!!!” Black Sheep shouted and stood up, lunging toward Pei Qianhu’s direction.

But Pei Qianhu was quick-witted and fast-mouthed after all. Before Black Sheep could cover his mouth, he stretched his throat and shouted loudly:

“Qinglong!! Fuck your uncle!!”