#229 - Chapter 229: Tiger Skin

The Fourth Prince was stalling for time. He was truly unwilling to hand over his Immortal King Body Scripture and his sister's Phoenix Divine Tree just like that. Therefore, he wanted to find a way to avoid fulfilling the bet before Lin Changqing came out.

So, he told the Princess of Chu to wait until Lin Changqing came out. The Fourth Prince's aim was to buy time, hoping to find a solution to the bet before Lin Changqing emerged.

"Fourth Brother, take advantage of Lin Changqing not being out yet and quickly think of a solution. My Phoenix Divine Tree cannot be given away. It's a Quasi-Immortal artifact. Once it's gone, my strength will probably drop by 50%. Besides, the Phoenix Divine Tree is also very important to our Wu Kingdom, even related to our national fortune. If we lose it to the Chu Kingdom like this, not only will Lin Changqing's personal strength greatly increase, but the Chu Kingdom's national fortune will also increase!" The Thirteenth Princess said with a worried expression. She frowned at the Fourth Prince, already feeling somewhat resentful towards her Fourth Brother.

Why did you have to make a bet with Lin Changqing? Didn't you know that Lin Changqing is an unimaginably talented prodigy?

Now it's all good. You coveted his Azure Heaven Lamp, and now you've given away your own Phoenix Divine Art.

The Thirteenth Princess felt some resentment towards her Fourth Brother in her heart!

"Don't panic, Thirteenth Sister, there must be a way. Give me some time." The Fourth Prince paced back and forth anxiously. Indeed, he had lost big this time. Once this matter spread, he would become a laughingstock to the entire world.

A bet that led to losing his family's Quasi-Immortal artifact and the Great Sun Golden Crow Body Scripture. The Fourth Prince could imagine the cultivators of the Seven Kingdoms mocking him as a spendthrift in the future.

"What to do? Should I just go back on my word, or what?" The Fourth Prince paced back and forth like an ant on a hot pot. Should he go back on his word? On one hand, going back on his word would greatly damage his reputation. On the other hand, he couldn't go back on it. In the previous bet, the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess used their Soul Imprints as a contract. If they didn't fulfill the bet, the result would be the shattering of their Soul Imprints!

For a cultivator, the shattering of the Soul Imprint doesn't mean immediate death, but once the Soul Imprint is shattered, it's equivalent to the entire person being crippled. Future realms will have no progress, and spiritual power will be lost by 80%. Therefore, going back on his word is absolutely impossible.

"Going back on his word won't work, so what should I do?" The Fourth Prince was desperate at this moment. He really hadn't thought of any way to avoid handing over the Great Sun Golden Crow Body Scripture and the Phoenix Divine Tree.

Of course, there was also a way, which was for the Fourth Prince to know the Time Reversal technique and return to before the Jade Ladder challenge began, so he wouldn't have made this bet with Lin Changqing.

[Just as the Fourth Prince was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, you also finished merging the Hongmeng Purple Qi and came out of the Jade Ladder. As soon as you came out, the Princess of Chu immediately surrounded you with joy. The other cultivators of the Seven Kingdoms also surrounded you, saying words of congratulations. You politely responded to each of them, then looked at the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess over there. Seeing their expressions and inquiring with the Princess of Chu, you understood what had just happened.]

"Fourth Prince, Thirteenth Princess, I heard that you two were waiting for me to come out? Now that I'm out, how about it? Quickly hand over the Great Sun Golden Crow Body Scripture and the Phoenix Divine Tree." Lin Changqing looked at the anxious Fourth Prince and Thirteenth Princess with a playful gaze, feeling like a cat toying with a mouse.

It must be said that Lin Changqing had already guessed why the Fourth Prince had made a bet with him before. It was estimated that Qin Wushang had told the Fourth Prince about the difficulty of the 100th floor.

In the eyes of ordinary people, with an Ancient Great Power, who could pass the 100th floor?

But no one expected that Lin Changqing happened to have a World Tree fragment and could also be reborn. This was Lin Changqing. If it were someone else, they definitely wouldn't be able to pass the 100th floor. So, at this moment, Lin Changqing began to show his true colors.

"Don't dawdle, hand it over quickly," Lin Changqing urged again.

"Lin Changqing, you're out!? How so fast!" The anxious Fourth Prince's face turned pale upon seeing Lin Changqing emerge so quickly. He hadn't even thought of a response!

"Fourth Prince, what to do? Lin Changqing is out. Are we really going to hand over the Phoenix Divine Tree and the Great Sun Golden Crow Body Scripture?" The Thirteenth Princess stamped her foot anxiously, her cold and beautiful eyes filled with great dissatisfaction as she looked at her Fourth Brother.

Now that Lin Changqing was out, they no longer had any reason to delay.

The Thirteenth Princess felt that she had really been tricked this time.

"Seeing your expressions, you two don't want to hand it over. You can refuse to hand it over and exchange the Great Sun Golden Crow Body Scripture and the Phoenix Divine Tree for the shattering of your Soul Imprints. I'm also very willing." Lin Changqing said leisurely, cupping his fist. If these two were willing to give it, that would be good. If they didn't hand it over, exchanging it for the shattering of these two's Soul Imprints would be even more worthwhile for Lin Changqing.

After all, once these two went back on their word and their Soul Imprints shattered, it would mean that these two were crippled again. Lin Changqing naturally felt that no matter what these two chose, he wouldn't lose.

"What to do?" The Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess exchanged glances. They both felt that they had reached a dead end at this moment. Looking at the current situation, they really had to hand over the Great Sun Golden Crow Body Scripture and the Phoenix Divine Tree.

At this moment, both of them felt a bleeding sensation in their hearts. Were they really going to give away such heaven-defying treasures just like that?

"Don't panic, Your Highnesses. I have a way. Let me try it." A short, old Taoist with a goatee, around fifty or sixty years old, walked in front of the Fourth Prince and his sister. His name was Gu Laoshan, and he was a Qing (high official) of the Fourth Prince.

"What method do you have?"

"Use power to suppress people!"

The Fourth Prince and Gu Laoshan asked and answered, and in an instant, the Fourth Prince understood what Gu Laoshan's answer meant.

"My method may not be useful, but it's the only method. Just let me treat a dead horse as a living one." Gu Laoshan said, then looked at Lin Changqing, "Lin Changqing, you are a subject of our Wu Kingdom. The Wu Kingdom has the grace of nurturing you. You should understand the heart of gratitude. The Phoenix Divine Tree is a Quasi-Immortal artifact, a treasure of our Wu Kingdom, and it concerns the national fortune of Wu. If you forcibly demand these two treasures, His Majesty the Human Emperor Qin Wushang of our Great Wu will definitely be furious. Do you think your end will be good?"

"Oh, what do you mean by that?" Lin Changqing asked indifferently.

"Young people shouldn't be too arrogant! I advise you to take the initiative to give up this bet and not demand these two treasures. Otherwise, when His Majesty the Human Emperor of our Great Wu descends in the future, even if you have the life to obtain these two treasures, you won't have the life to use them." Gu Laoshan said coldly. The so-called using power to suppress people was to use the power of the Great Wu Human Emperor Qin Wushang to suppress Lin Changqing!

The Great Wu Human Emperor Qin Wushang, a Void Refinement expert, the number one expert in the Seven Kingdoms. Who in the Seven Kingdoms wasn't afraid?

Gu Laoshan didn't believe that Lin Changqing wasn't afraid?

Gu Laoshan was using this power to force Lin Changqing to take the initiative to give up the bet, so it wouldn't be considered a breach of contract by the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess!

To put it simply, it was pulling Qin Wushang's tiger skin to scare Lin Changqing!

Gu Laoshan didn't believe that a small Nascent Soul would not be afraid of offending the Void Refinement Qin Wushang?!