Chapter 1109

In the pitch-black void, only the hoarse, exhausted, resentment-filled roar of Ji Bai Jie remained.

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"You guys, liars, liars…… why do you treat me like this?"

"My dream isn't some damn starry sea…… I just want to sit on that throne, even if only for a day, just one day would be fine!"

Wu Tie looked at Lao Tie, Lao Tie looked at Wu Tie, then both spread their hands and shrugged.

"This Zhuge-surnamed person is not simple." Lao Tie let out a heavy sigh.

"Yeah, although I destroyed those gods' garrisons and broke ninety percent of the great formation that besieged them on Mu Dalu, with the Heavenly Crystal War Star present, this formation is still clinging to life."

Wu Tie muttered: "Being able to directly break through this formation's barrier and leave directly…… over these years, he actually came up with quite a few good methods."

Wu Tie shook his head forcefully and sighed: "He has no hope for our future at all?"

Lao Tie drooped his face, muttering to himself: "Pessimism, surrenderism, escapism…… Ah, back then, this guy would have been directly sentenced to extreme punishment by a military court and sent straight to the furnace to be remelted and recast."

Lao Tie spread his hands and let out a long sigh: "Hey, so why read so many books? Why make our brains so sharp? Thinking up random nonsense…… the more you think, the more complicated things get……"

"Tsk, someone like me, not bad—giving it my all and fighting desperately, didn't I also end up with a 'Chaos Transformation' as a result?"

"Whether human or not, one cannot be too clever." Lao Tie finally drew a very incisive conclusion.

"Whether human or not, one cannot be too clever." At the same time, in the secret hall beneath Wahuang Island's Wahuang Miao, more than a dozen of the strongest and most influential clan chiefs among the current human populace gathered together, among them the chief of the Shennong clan, Jiang Shen, gazing at Qing Ning imprisoned on a bronze divine pillar, shook his head.

"You, do you have anything else to say?" Jiang Shen had his hands tucked in his sleeves and calmly asked Qing Ning.

He looked at Qing Ning with regret.

This woman is just too smart. Because she is too smart, she looks down on everyone in the world. All her schemes are like dancing on a blade's edge, exquisitely intricate to the extreme, also perilous to the extreme, giving herself or others no leeway whatsoever.

A plan that seems flawless, if every step is perfectly executed, then Qing Ning's scheme for Gongsun Yao is undoubtedly perfect.

But because of Wu Tie's appearance, Qing Ning's perfect scheme was interrupted; various clues and traces, even cover-ups, became hard to conceal.

Over these years, prolonged imprisonment and interrogation have led the high echelons of the human populace to a unanimous conclusion about Qing Ning's actions.

Qing Ning and Gongsun Jun kept their mouths shut, revealing nothing of value.

But Gongsun Yao, being young, after being shouted at several times by those crafty old clan chiefs and Elders, ended up blurting out many things he should and shouldn't have said.

And the hundreds of Wanwan women under Qing Ning's command are all implants placed in the human populace by the Wisdom Divine Clan after their first extermination war. They are Qing Ning's direct subordinates, their life and death controlled by her single thought.

However…… the Wisdom Divine Clan possesses a peculiar racial trait: you never know what bizarre things they will do to destroy enemies or even their own kind.

Over forty percent of the captured Wanwan women, after a bit of harsh torture, immediately spoke up.

They confessed in detail how they infiltrated the Six Paths of Reincarnation, how they reincarnated within the human populace, and then, with the help of some human collaborators, successively reincarnated into the Field of Destiny, successively undermining the Wahuang clan's bloodline—all of it they revealed.

They revealed Qing Ning, the Wisdom Divine Clan's plots, their spies and collaborators within the human populace, and all the people they had bribed, recruited, and controlled over the years.

They unhesitatingly sold out everything they knew, clean and clear.

Although Qing Ning didn't speak, it no longer mattered.

No need for her testimony; evidence gathered from other aspects is already sufficient to confirm her death sentence.

Not to mention anything else, just saying she slaughtered all the human elite atop Xi Valley—this crime alone is enough to leave her without a burial place, and even drag along this branch of the Gongsun clan of Gongsun Jun, which the human high echelons will thoroughly purge.

Qing Ning licked her lips.

Her originally rosy, moist lips had turned blackish, covered with thick scabs, with dirty blood continually seeping from the cracked fissures and trickling down the corners of her mouth.

"Heh, hehe, what else is there to say?" Qing Ning drooped her eyelids and looked contemptuously at the assembled clan chiefs.

"You guys, your luck is really good…… ah, those idiots of the Fate Divine Clan sometimes actually make sense…… Fate, ah, truly a damned thing—sometimes it grants you success for no reason, sometimes it destroys you for no reason."

"That Wu Tie, that damned Wu Tie—if it weren't for him, I would never have failed."

"Just missing this step, just short of this step…… the Heavenly Crystal War Star, as long as Yao'er controls the Heavenly Crystal War Star…… just short of this step……"

Blood water continually surged from Qing Ning's mouth.

Over these years, basically every secret art passed down among the human populace, thousands of sub‑clans large and small, and countless powerful tribes has been tried on Qing Ning.

She is still alive now, but only because secret arts are forcibly keeping her breath.

Her whole body has not a single intact cell left; once the secret arts dissipate, she will instantly lose her soul and spirit—there is no doubt about that.

More than a dozen clan chiefs stared at Qing Ning with expressionless faces.

Feelings of pity or reluctance are almost impossible to appear on these veteran clan chiefs.

"Let Jun‑brother and Yao'er have a way to live, guarantee Yao'er can marry and have children, live well…… I'll exchange it for a huge secret." Qing Ning panted and put forward these conditions to Jiang Shen and the others.

Jiang Shen stared blankly, then he and the clan chiefs all burst out laughing.

Jiang Shen shook his head and sighed softly: "How could that be? Letting them live? Then Wahuang Island, Xi Valley, and all those countless commoners killed by your schemes over the years—wouldn't they be wronged?"

"In five days, you will be publicly beheaded." Jiang Shen said coldly: "Your proposal……"

After a moment of silence, Jiang Shen looked curiously at Qing Ning: "Don't tell us you, a demonic temptress, would actually consider the life and death of Gongsun Jun and Gongsun Yao."

Qing Ning gave a grim smile: "You don't believe it, I don't believe it…… really gone mad…… I, the Grand Princess of the Wisdom Divine Clan, would actually sincerely love a lowly human…… I once mocked Jing Jiu, but never imagined I'd end up like him……"

Closing her eyes, Qing Ning murmured: "You rejected my terms; you will surely regret it."