#569 - Bai Youheng, dead

Without a doubt, Wei Changtian was waiting for Ning Yongnian.

And this was the first time the two had met.

Their eyes met in mid-air, and he glanced at Li Wutong, who had been thrown aside by Ning Yongnian.

Wei Changtian smiled and stepped on Wu Ding's chest, but the raised Leaking Shadow slowly lowered.

In fact, if possible, he would have preferred Ning Yongnian to appear sooner, so the Divine Strike Talisman that hit Bai Youheng would probably have changed its target.

He could even use his remaining 500 system points to buy another Divine Strike and try to kill the latter directly.

However, the probability of success was likely small.

After all, Ning Yongnian was already extremely cautious, and with Bai Youheng as a cautionary tale, he probably had more than one life-saving item on him now.

And if he failed to kill him, there was no way he could defeat two Rank 2s.

You should know that the previous one-against-three was not really one-against-three.

Wu Ding had already been half-killed by Qin Zhengqiu.

Bai Youheng was suppressed by the Luck Divine Beast and had also taken a Divine Strike.

So, strictly speaking, he only needed to deal with Li Huaizhong alone.

And dealing with a Rank 2 was all that Wei Changtian's "own strength" could do.

From this perspective, if Ning Yongnian hadn't been a little slow because he was a bit far away, and had arrived on the battlefield immediately, he might not have been able to handle it.

But now that the situation was set, the next thing was...

"Swish, swish, swish!"

After a few breaths, all the long sabers around Li Huaizhong had returned to the Starry Sky Saber Sheath, and the former tacitly retreated to Ning Yongnian's side.

Standing tall amidst the encirclement of thousands of soldiers, Wei Changtian looked at Ning Yongnian, whose face was extremely ugly, and said with a smile:

"Your Majesty, I've long heard of your great... oh, no, that's not right, I almost forgot."

"The Emperor of Da Ning is no longer you."

"Hiss, then what should I call you?"

"Just call you Ning Yongnian?"

The rhetorical question was full of sarcasm, which made Ning Yongnian clench his fists tightly.

At this moment, he couldn't wait to immediately order the soldiers to surround and kill Wei Changtian, no, he should say he couldn't wait to personally tear this young man into pieces.

However, when his gaze swept over Wu Ding, who had already fainted, and Bai Youheng, who looked like a hedgehog, he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart.

"Wei Changtian, don't be arrogant."

"Do you know that there are 100,000 troops of Our army in Huailing City!"

"If you don't want to die, release them immediately!"

"In that case, We might spare your life!"

"..."

"This, this is Young Master Wei?!"

"No wonder he saved the Emperor!!"

"I didn't expect Young Master Wei to be so powerful!"

"Young Master Wei should be here for Princess Wuping!"

"Such affection is truly hard to find in the world!!"

"..."

For a time, various discussions were noisy, and in addition to being grateful for Wei Changtian's "righteous act", everyone's eyes fell on Li Wutong at the same time.

In their opinion, Wei Changtian was not only a hero who saved Da Feng from fire and water, but also a good man who was affectionate and righteous to Li Wutong.

Even Li Wutong herself thought so at this time.

Although her acupoints were sealed and she couldn't move, her eyes had been looking at Wei Changtian not far away, and the emotions in them were extremely complicated.

There was joy, emotion, regret, and pain.

Wei Changtian suddenly appeared and saved Li Qi, which should have been a good thing.

But the more this was the case, the more Li Wutong would think of her previous actions, and for a moment she didn't know whether she should cry or laugh.

So, she just stared blankly at Wei Changtian... even though the latter only glanced at her once from beginning to end.

"Ning Yongnian, don't you think what you just said is ridiculous?"

Ignoring the surrounding noise, ignoring Li Wutong's complicated eyes, Wei Changtian still calmly faced Ning Yongnian.

"Spare my life?"

"Tsk tsk, I don't know who gave you the confidence."

"In my opinion, you should first think about how to save these two people's lives."

"Crack!"

With a little force under his feet, several of Wu Ding's ribs were instantly broken.

The latter spat out another mouthful of blood, and was actually pained back to temporary consciousness from a comatose state.

He turned his head with difficulty to look at Ning Yongnian, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

And when Ning Yongnian saw this scene, a trace of pain appeared on his face for a moment.

Bai Youheng had a cooperative relationship with him, Li Huaizhong had a "previous record", and Han Zhao had already rebelled.

So, among the group of experts around him today, Wu Ding should be the one he trusted the most.

"Okay, today We admit defeat..."

Staring intently at the smiling Wei Changtian, Ning Yongnian squeezed out word by word.

"Wei Changtian, didn't you come to Huailing for Li Qi and his daughter..."

"We will grant your wish!"

"We will no longer pursue the matter of Li Qi, and Li Wutong can also be given to you!"

"Now, release these two people!"

"..."

Li Qi plus Li Wutong, in exchange for Wu Ding plus Bai Youheng.

Although the latter two were both Rank 2 experts, the former two had special identities, so from the perspective of "hostage value", it was difficult to say who gained and who lost in such a transaction.

However, Ning Yongnian's initiative to propose the "exchange of hostages" undoubtedly proved that he had admitted defeat.

It was just that even though he had "put down" the pride of being an emperor, Wei Changtian didn't appreciate it at all.

"Ning Yongnian? Are you really out of your mind?"

"Li Qi has already been rescued by me, and he is not in your hands, what are you going to exchange with me?"

"If you really want to exchange, then at most one person for one person, unless you have someone there that I want."

"..."

The anger in his eyes had almost reached an uncontrollable level, the more Wei Changtian appeared so relaxed, the more angry Ning Yongnian became.

However, he really couldn't come up with any more bargaining chips, so he could only listen silently as Wei Changtian continued to say:

"Look, you only have one Li Wutong in your hand."

"In that case..."

As if chasing away mosquitoes in the summer, Wei Changtian suddenly smiled and waved his hand gently as he spoke.

His movements were so casual that until the moment the long saber suspended above Bai Youheng's head suddenly fell, everyone didn't react to what he was going to do.

"Puff!!"

The long saber fell, instantly piercing Bai Youheng's head.

The latter's eyes suddenly widened, and then slowly lost the last trace of vitality in tens of thousands of shocked gazes.

Silver-white snowflakes quietly fluttered, falling into the pool of blood.

And apart from the slight sound of falling snow, the entire vegetable market was left with a long silence.

One of the thirteen Sons of Heaven, one of the real culprits of the Yuanzhou City massacre, died silently.

And perhaps even Bai Youheng himself didn't expect Wei Changtian to be so decisive, or rather, so casual.

If he really wanted to kill himself, he could have killed him earlier, why did he have to wait until now?

Could it be that Wei Changtian was deliberately showing it to Ning Yongnian?

"Shua shua shua!!"

All the long sabers nailed to Bai Youheng's body were pulled out, even carrying flesh and blood as they flew back to the Starry Sky Saber Sheath.

Wei Changtian's expression remained unchanged, as if he had only done a small thing, he clapped his hands, then raised his eyes to look at Ning Yongnian, whose body was trembling slightly.

"Alright."

"Now, we can talk."