Brother, Care for a Few Rounds?

Shibi Corpse was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, then burst into laughter. He pointed at Bai Qiuran and laughed, "So you wanted to trick me into committing suicide? Do you really think I'm stupid? After I die, won't my clansmen and allies be at your mercy?"

"So you think I'm afraid I can't beat you."

Bai Qiuran his arms wide, assumed a fighting stance, and said, "Then, brother, how about we exchange a few blows?"

Shibi Corpse looked down at Bai Qiuran, then sneered, "Come on then, I'm not afraid of you!"

He roared, his divine Divine Power surged, and the blade of the Refined Iron Long Spear in his hand produced Hurricane and Thunder. At the same time, the clouds in the sky gathered above his head as he moved. This celestial Heavenly Gods was accompanied by Wind and Thunder with every move he made.

The veins on Shibi Corpse's arms bulged, and with a powerful stomp of his six legs, he roared and charged towards Bai Qiuran with the force of a mountain splitting and sea shattering.

Bai Qiuran glanced at him. As Heavenly Gods being, his strength was extremely powerful, and the Divine Power he possessed enhanced the attack capabilities of his weapons. However, in terms of skill, his attack methods were very crude, resembling those used by ordinary hunters.

Such power might allow him to defeat ordinary Cultivators through sheer strength, but against Bai Qiuran, it was clearly far from sufficient.

Bai Qiuran stepped forward and grabbed the Long Spear before Long Spear him. He used Force-Redirecting Technique to transfer the force of the spear into the ground, creating a trench hundreds of miles deep underground that no one could see.

Then, with a forceful tug, he pulled Shibi Corpse, spear and all, over, snatched the Long Spear, cleaved it in two, and then kicked Shibi Corpse away.

With a deafening roar, the surrounding Divine Army saw billowing dust stretch from the rebel stronghold all the way to another mountain peak.

Bai Qiuran raised her hand and grabbed Shibi Corpse from the end of the ravine, throwing it to the ground in front of her. Then, pointing at his face, she asked, "Tell me, do I need you to commit suicide?"

Shibi Corpse's face flushed red and then turned pale, before he muttered, "No need, you're very strong."

"Can we talk things out properly now?"

Bai Qiuran lifted him up from the ground and asked, "Take me inside, and we can talk about it slowly, shall we?"

Shibi Corpse got up, dusted himself off, and then had his clansmen and allies make way for him before leading Bai Qiuran into the stronghold.

During the recent conflict, Shibi Corpse, who was kicked away by Bai Qiuran, damaged a corner of the stronghold. Fortunately, no one was there at the time, so there were no casualties within the stronghold.

Bai Qiuran followed Shibi Corpse into the stronghold and saw the people of the other two kingdoms.

Gu Mingyi, the Giant Kingdom are a group of Giant with tall statures. Apart from being at least five or six meters tall and having exceptionally large hands and feet, they are not significantly different from Human Race in appearance.

The people of the Rainbow Kingdom are quite peculiar; they all have two heads, and while walking, their two heads constantly talk to each other.

Seeing Bai Qiuran follow Shibi Corpse in, they all looked terrified. The eight- or nine-meter-tall Giant cowered in front of Bai Qiuran, as if Bai Qiuran would open her mouth and devour him at any moment.

Following Shibi Corpse, Bai Qiuran arrived at the very center of the stronghold. Inside the tall wooden house in the center were several huge chairs built of wood and some kind of animal bones. Shibi Corpse sat down on the central chair covered with Beast Hide, then invited Bai Qiuran to sit on a slightly smaller chair next to him, and asked, "Tell me, why do you need my head to save my people and allies?"

"Because I need to gain the trust of the Heavenly Emperor."

Bai Qiuran replied, "In this rebellion, the Warriors of the Shibi Corpse Kingdom, the Giant Kingdom, and the Rainbow Kingdom are no match for the Eastern Divine Army of the Heavenly Court. Why would they need to trouble a Ninth Division Rank Divine General like me? Firstly, the Heavenly Emperor wants to test my abilities. Secondly, it's because you, the Heavenly Gods Shibi Corpse, are the one leading the rebellion. If you die, the Heavenly Emperor won't care whether the other tribesmen live or die. To put it bluntly, those tribesmen outside are probably less than ants in the Heavenly Emperor's Garden in his eyes. As long as I offer up your head, it will be much easier for me to lead your tribesmen to safety now, or to save more tribesmen in the future."

"Easy for you to say."

Shibi Corpse asked, "What methods do you plan to use to take my people and allies away, and where do you intend to take them?"

"This is simple. I recently learned a new trick from a friend. Watch closely."

Bai Qiuran spoke, he took out an Ink Jade Wolf-Hair Brush and a blank scroll from his Storage Bag.

He unrolled the scroll, lay down on the ground, dipped his Wolf-Hair Brush in the ink he had brought from his Storage Bag, and then began to write swiftly and powerfully on the scroll.

As a hidden bigwig in the Righteous Path Alliance, Bai Qiuran has also studied the techniques of other sects. Among them, he has certainly studied the Painting Technique of the lineage of the Li Pengfei.

The former Painting Sage, and that shameful fellow from the Azure Nether Sword Sect who liked to collude with the Painting Sage to buy pornographic books, had both received his guidance in brush and ink techniques. Therefore, painting a traditional Chinese ink painting was not a difficult task for him.

Soon, Bai Qiuran painted a freehand landscape on a snow-white scroll of paper, Spiritual Sense by the mountain range where he had been living recently.

He put away his brush and ink, blew the ink off the painting, and then said to Shibi Corpse, "I will rely on this painting to lead your people out of here."

"It's a good painting."

Shibi Corpse asked doubtfully, "You don't actually think that you can bribe the Heavenly Emperor to spare our three kingdoms, do you?"

"Come here."

Bai Qiuran beckoned to Shibi Corpse, who approached with some suspicion, only to be suddenly grabbed by the neck by Bai Qiuran and slammed into the painting.

Shibi Corpse struggled twice, but Bai Qiuran quickly released him. He jumped up and angrily shouted at Bai Qiuran, "Kill me if you want, torture me if you want! Shibi Corpse cannot tolerate your insults!"

"Look around you before you say that."

Bai Qiuran said to Shibi Corpse.

Shibi Corpse looked around and found himself in a mountain range he had never seen before, so he asked in surprise, "Where did you put me?"

Welcome to the World Within the Painting.

Bai Qiuran stretched out her arms and said to him, "Although I'm not very skilled at this yet, this space should be enough for your people to survive for a while."

Why did you choose to help us?

Shibi Corpse looked at the unstable and shifting ink marks at the edge of this space and asked, "You are not of my kind, yet you are favored by the Heavenly Emperor. You could very well become a true ruler of the Heavenly Court, enjoying a life of extravagance beyond our imagination, and forever enjoying prosperity and wealth."

"Because even the Heavenly Gods are not of my kind to me."

Bai Qiuran smiled and replied, "And my race is far too weak to the Heavenly Gods, so we need allies, just like your alliance with the Giant Kingdom and the Rainbow Kingdom."

Shibi Corpse remained silent.

"Think it over carefully, my plan to offer your head as a sacrifice."

Bai Qiuran turned his back and said, "I'll give you two days to think it over. If you don't give me your head in two days, then I'll have no choice but to obey. You yourself said that you're not of my race, so for the sake of my race, annihilating three races is nothing to me."

Are you threatening me?

Shibi Corpse smiled bitterly.

Bai Qiuran and replied, "That's right, you can understand it that way."