A Most Welcome Sight

Wei Wu froze. When he came to his senses, he was overjoyed, so excited that tears nearly filled his eyes.

This was Shape-Shifting!

Wei Wu had been struck by this move once when the Flying Fish Guard had hunted down Great Immortal Green Ox.

He had been beaten half to death back then, nearly unable to care for himself.

He had never imagined that, after so many years, he would experience it again.

But this time, it had saved him.

Looking down at the four-clawed python robe on his body, Wei Wu was even more stunned.

The old Shape-Shifting had swapped people too, but it had never swapped their clothes and belongings.

This swap had exchanged even the clothes and items on their bodies.

It had truly swapped only their bodies. Even the gag in his mouth had not been moved. Great Immortal Green Ox's shifting technique had improved as well.

At that moment, the freshly minted "scapegoat" on the execution post was struggling madly, twisting and howling, "Mmph! Mmph!"

Even from far away, the bulging veins on his forehead were visible.

Yet... the harder he struggled and howled, the more grotesquely his face twisted.

So much so that no one noticed the person tied to the execution post had already been switched.

Only the lead executioner paused slightly, feeling as though the man's face before him had changed.

But he merely paused for an instant before beginning the execution.

The man was already tied to the post. No matter how he changed, he was still the same man. It was probably just his eyes playing tricks on him.

Before long, long nails pierced the "assassin's"—that was, Crown Prince Li Chenggang's—shoulder blades, sealing the true essence within his body.

Li Chenggang's frantic struggling instantly weakened considerably, but his cries grew