Chapter 1111: Qing Ning

Wahuang Miao, underground.

The dim light filled the prison packed with countless restrictions; Wu Tie quietly watched Qing Ning, bound to the bronze divine pillar.

Qing Ning hung weakly from the heavy metal rings, seeing Wu Tie slip in silently, she gave a grim grin: "Ha, ha, ha, you are exactly as I thought, you have already stepped onto that step of merging the laws."

"No wonder you could slip in without alarming those old fogies."

After a cough, Qing Ning said coldly: "Their attack is far more vicious than that of the female demon called Blood Prison… sigh… Though we are both remnants of Pangu, you lot, the 'Orthodox Human Race' whose forms are completely identical to Pangu's, are even more vicious."

kakaka laughed a few times, Qing Ning narrowed her eyes and said: "But it's useless on me. A woman like me, who is sly, ruthless, heartless, and vicious—how could severe torture make me yield?"

Wu Tie narrowed his eyes, a faint light flickering in his pupils, grasping Qing Ning's injury condition.

He shook his head: "You don't have much time—speak quickly if you have anything to say."

Qing Ning gave a dry laugh: "What's there to fear? They won't let me die before my public execution… sigh… If I say, let you kill that little slut Qing Wu and all the Wisdom God Clan brats under your protection, could we make a deal?"

Wu Tie shook his head: "Their lives are now entirely in my single thought… they will become the future, the new strength of my Wuguo that understands the god race's prototype… unless they do something foolish, I won't kill them."

Qing Ning nodded, using her tongue to lick the blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.

She fell silent for a moment, then said in a low voice: "Well, let's forget that. You'll find that the Wisdom God Clan's people are all damned white-eyed wolves; letting them live, they'll eventually do something harmful to you."

"Besides, that's fine—for someone as willful and confident as you, keeping them around to cause you harm is good."

Wu Tie shrugged: "Can I think you're trying to sow discord?"

He had already taken her words to heart in his mind, but Wu Tie's tone seemed as if he didn't take her words seriously at all.

Qing Ning gave a grim grin: "Then let's talk about the next thing… let Yao'er survive, let Yao'er outside give birth and raise children, propagate the lineage. This is my only condition."

Wu Tie fell silent for a while, then looked curiously at Qing Ning: "If you can give me a condition that moves my heart, I could save your whole family, even the entire Gong Sun clan branch, and that would also be possible."

Qing Ning laughed: "Would you really do that?"

Wu Tie said honestly: "Then it depends on whether your condition can move my heart."

Qing Ning stared blankly, then seriously pondered Wu Tie's words.

After a long, long while, she finally slumped and sighed: "I can't, I can't—my condition can only exchange Yao'er's single life for yours; that's your limit… to have us all survive, that condition is too great, I can't do it."

Wu Tie looked at her gently: "Whatever you did to send that little brat to deliver a message to me—people like him aren't rare among humans—if you hand them all over to me, you'll live."

Qing Ning began to gasp violently.

She clenched her teeth tightly, glaring fiercely at Wu Tie: "Even if I handed over their list to you, what could you do? I, or rather the other gods, have neither bribed them nor coerced them, nor even tempted them…"

"They merely, because of your humans' inner weakness, voluntarily acknowledged us, approved us, began to revere and worship us… they voluntarily knelt down, serving us as oxen and horses, willingly becoming our lackeys…"

"There are many, many such people—on the surface they appear noble and righteous, constantly claiming to act for humanity… but deep down, they gladly kneel at our feet, and when we make no demands, they eagerly offer up everything!!!"

"Their dignity, their pride, even their property and lives… all they seek is the scraps that leak from between our fingers!!"

"They voluntarily broke their own spines and knelt down!!"

Qing Ning gave a bitter smile: "They are… those who kneel at the sight of a god, who worship and pledge loyalty to—not just a single deity… they revere me solely because of my status; even if I were a complete fool, they would still kneel and lick my boots due to my identity and bloodline."

"There are so many of such people that even I don't know their exact number!"

Qing Ning shook her head: "I can't, I cannot hand them all over to you… unless you can make them willingly stand up, otherwise, in their hearts they will forever be kneeling!"

"I don't even know how many such people there are, I cannot hand them over to you."

Wu Tie remained silent for a long time, looking at Qing Ning; regardless of whether she spoke truth or falsehood, it seemed impossible to gain anything from her.

He sighed: "It seems you are indeed formidable… you, very formidable… regardless of whether you speak truth or falsehood, I'll tentatively believe your words."

"Heh, in just a few short words, you've planted two nails in me here… good, indeed formidable, no wonder you're the highness of the Wisdom God Clan."

Wu Tie's tone turned much colder: "So, your condition is merely to let Gong Sun Yao live?"

Qing Ning pondered for a while, then nodded: "Let Yao'er live… I currently can't produce enough chips to have you save all of us. In your heart, you still wish I would die, don't you? I can see it—you won't allow me to live."

After a sigh, Qing Ning said helplessly: "I've been too extreme in my actions; I should have left those few old matriarchs related to you alive, letting them live. By wiping them out, I've also erased all hope of my survival today, haven't I?"

With a bitter laugh, Qing Ning murmured: "If that's the case, then I will die, and Brother Jun will certainly die with me… since Brother Jun is dead, his relatives, who daily receive so many benefits from us, naturally must die with us as well."

Qing Ning looked at Wu Tie and smiled: "Am I not a terribly wicked woman?"

Wu Tie asked her bluntly: "Do you truly love Gong Sun Jun… and do you truly hope for Gong Sun Yao to become a dragon among sons?"

Qing Ning stared blankly, then countered: "Do you believe my words?"

Wu Tie nodded: "Of course, even Jing Jiu could fall for a human girl… even though you act so crazy, so mad… but I believe that any intelligent being is not born evil."

Qing Ning widened her eyes, sized him up for a long while, then went "puff" and laughed: "If you still hold that idea… sooner or later you'll die a miserable death. Truly, some peoples are born evil, innately devoid of any goodness."

"But… perhaps I am merely an exception among the Wisdom God Clan?" Qing Ning muttered, a little dazed: "For a man, for my son… I truly am possessed."

"Come, listen well—you still have about a thousand years of Mu Dalu standard time." Qing Ning looked at Wu Tie with a smiling tone: "Roughly a thousand years later, when immortality descends."

Wu Tie's body suddenly stiffened, he stared in shock at Qing Ning.