E'shou froze, staring wide-eyed at Li Qingjun for quite a while. The atmosphere became exceedingly awkward.
"Make one for Us to see." How was it supposed to make one?
Swearing an oath was simple. The problem was proving that the oath was binding. Was it supposed to deliberately break it and suffer a Heavenly Punishment for them to see?
This was simply not something that could be demonstrated.
In truth, one of E'shou's divine traits was that it would never be bound by any oath it violated. That was simply its nature. Whether it suffered punishment or not, this demonstration could not be made. It was meaningless.
E'shou felt a pain in the balls.
Nearly everything it said was half true and half false. Even its final claim that Nine Infants had sworn a blood oath to demonstrate sincerity was half true and half false. Combined with its divine nature, an ordinary Soaring Cloud cultivator would already have been fooled so thoroughly they could not tell north from south. Why was this Emperor so difficult to handle...? She looked as though she believed it, yet she still demanded proof first...
Were all rulers so suspicious?
Yet this also proved that this diplomatic mission had achieved a certain result. This ruler truly had some inclination toward cooperation.
The apparent gap in cultivation was far too great, and E'shou had been overly confident in its divine nature. It had never imagined that the other party had been completely unaffected by its deceitful words, responding from beginning to end with absolutely calm reasoning—and even trying to fool it in return. Li Qingjun's performance only made it feel that success was just one step away...
After pondering for a long while, it took out a jade vial. "How about this? These are Dragon Snake