Chapter 1476: Let's Collaborate

"Only 0.4 percent to go!"

Xu Que's eyes instantly brightened.

During the battle with Li Xuanqi, the progress of the System upgrade had already reached 99.6 percent. And now, with only 0.4 percent to go, he was going to be able to complete the upgrade very shortly.

According to the average speed that the upgrade had been moving, 0.4 percent was estimated to take another 10 to 20 minutes.

It was not going to be an easy thing to do to try to brace himself to last for more than 10 to 20 minutes under the deadly moves of three Celestial Kings, but he couldn't figure out any other way.

Common sense dictated that the key to being able to get through this was to endure as best he could and avoid all kinds of deadly moves until he could successfully upgrade at the last moment and then complete the reversal of fortunes.

But smart people such as Xu Que didn't always do it in that way.

"Wait a minute, I have something important to say." Xu Que suddenly raised his hand in an effort to stop the three Celestial Kings who were getting ready to strike.

He decided to try to use his bullsh*t tactics to casually drag out more than 10 or 20 minutes, which was not that difficult for him at all.

Xu Que realized that rationally there was no need to risk such a ridiculous battle. "Why should he let himself be beaten half to death only to counterattack at the last crucial moment?"

"No, I won't do that," he thought to himself.

He sneered, with an indifferent and self-confident look on his face, as he shook his head saying, "You three Celestial Kings have joined forces together to bully me, a Disbanded Celestial of the Great All-Embracing Heaven. What's the fun in this?"

"Hee, hee, hee, don't you worry about that. We just want to kill you is all." The old woman of the Sage Sect scoffed at him, looking incredibly menacing.

Immediately after she finished speaking, she snapped her fingers, and the void in front of Xu Que abruptly became warped.

"F*ck!" Xu Que's face immediately changed. His feet stepped into the void straightaway, and he soared up into the sky.

BANG!

At almost exactly the same time, the place where he had been standing ruptured and broke open into several void cracks.

Xu Que's forehead suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. Luckily, he had been able to move fast. Otherwise, he might've been cut up into pieces just like the void.

D*mn, this old woman sure does have the ability to strike extremely viciously!

Xu Que looked grim as he glared at the old woman Celestial Venerable of the Sage Sect.

"Hee, hee, hee, your speed is pretty good. That's not something that an average Celestial of the Great All-Embracing Heaven can achieve." The old woman Celestial Venerable of the Sage Sect smiled coldly.

Even if she'd verbally paid a compliment concerning Xu Que's speed, her tone was also contemptuous and disdainful, as if to let Xu Que know that even if he could achieve a speed that an average Celestial of the Great All-Embracing Heaven couldn't, it would still be easy for her to kill Xu Que.

"Oh, you all are in such a hurry to kill me. Isn't that precisely because you think I have some kind of Deity Artifact on me? In fact, I can tell you how I was able to just disappear from right under your noses, and how I was able to conjure an illusion that even you couldn't distinguish whether it was real or fake..."

Xu Que crossed his arms in front of his chest and spoke with a chuckle.

Once he'd thrown out the topic, it had apparently piqued the interest of all three Celestial Kings.

"What Deity Artifact are you talking about? You merely used some underhanded tricks, that's all. What else is there to say?" Li Xuanqi looked at Xu Que with scorn on his cold face. After all, he was also embarrassed to tell the truth, and didn't want to ask Xu Que how he did what he did in front of so many Heaven Palace Academy disciples.

"Hee, hee, hee, you just don't get it. What I used was a treasure that has been handed down from generation to generation in my family. It was something that my father gave to me before I left the Heaven Continent to protect me. This object is an unparalleled glory. Once it unleashes all its power, even if the Celestial Emperor came, he would also have to give it a wide berth."

Xu Que started to talk nonsense and all kinds of rubbish the moment he opened his mouth. He was playing for time.

All three of the Celestial Kings were paying a lot of attention. Obviously, they'd been somewhat stirred up by and were curious about Xu Que's words.

"What was this object,and could it really be so powerful?"

They were uncertain as to whether it was true that the Celestial Emperor would give it a wide berth, but Xu Que had disappeared from right under their noses using this particular object, and he'd also created a realistic illusion of his figure with it. Indeed, they had witnessed all this themselves, and so they knew it wasn't false.

It was enough to demonstrate the power of this particular object.

"But even if I take out this object and you three kill me for it, I'm afraid it's not enough for you to split," Xu Que said, all smiles.

The three Celestial Kings suddenly smiled contemptuously. Li Xuanqi calmly shook his head and said, "Our generation of people only pursue things to strengthen themselves. We couldn't possibly be interested in your heretical ways and things. If you think that you can cause the three of us to fight among ourselves over this thing, then you're really barking up the wrong tree."

With that, he waved his sleeves and made it clear that he didn't want to talk any more nonsense with Xu Que.

The three of them must have been very concerned about what object Xu Que had on him. But it was their own business as to how to divide it. They couldn't let any conflict be evident in front of everyone.

"Wait!" Xu Que's lips immediately moved and switched to soundless communication to shout at the three Celestial Kings. "In fact, I still have more Divine Items. I happen to have two such objects, enough for the three of you to divide equally."

Li Xuanqi immediately stopped any attack once he'd heard this soundless transmission.

The other two Celestial Kings from the Sage Sect also raised their eyebrows slightly, looked at each other, and then glanced at Xu Que.

Xu Que smiled a little and then communicated soundlessly again, "You three, every one of us comes out to hustle, only for reputation if for nothing else. The reason you want to kill me is for your reputation. I don't want to be killed by you, also to guard my reputation. Since that's the case, why don't we collaborate and create a win-win situation?"

Li Xuanqi and the other two Celestial Kings fell silent and continued to look at Xu Que.

Their intentions were obvious. They'd wanted to listen to Xu Que's idea and see if Xu Que could really take out something that would tempt them. They didn't mind letting Xu Que live for a few more days.

"How about this? I'll stay in the Heaven Palace Academy, and you can give me one day's time. At that time, someone will come to your door with the two Divine Items, and I will publicly apologize. Then this feud between us will be written off at one stroke. What do you say?" Xu Que offered them a proposal.

The three Celestial Kings looked at each other again and communicated with each other using only eye contact.

"Do we let this guy live for another day and then kill him once we've each received a Divine Item?"

"Or do we kill him now, and then the three of us can discuss how to divide the Deity Artifact?"

These were the only choices that these three people had been able to come up with.

"How about the two of you? What do you think of this?" Li Xuanqi was the first to open his mouth and ask the two Celestial Kings of the Sage Sect to consider his proposition through soundless communication.

The old woman Celestial King of the Sage Sect frowned and replied, "Something is wrong with this scenario. This little animal is sinister and cunning. I don't trust him. He has no reason to know that even if he really takes out the Divine Items, he can ensure that we won't kill him anyway."

"That's right, and he may ask us to swear an oath on our Inner Demons that we won't kill him when we obtain the Divine Items. But I agree I still feel that there is something wrong with this." The white-haired old man Celestial King of the Sage Sect also looked suspicious.

They felt that Xu Que had changed a little too quickly, and he'd become so cooperative that he'd actually wanted to take out the pieces of Divine Items in exchange for his life. Was this the same person as the Xu Que who had just killed ten Celestial Kings a few days ago in Tian Sha City?

All three Celestial Kings were hesitating and confused.. After all, it was hard for them not to be tempted by the possibility of having two more Divine Items given to them by Xu Que.

While all this thinking and myriad discussions were going on, the many disciples of the Heaven Palace Academy below began to become restless.

"What's going on?"

"Why have they stopped fighting?"

"It seems that they are soundlessly communicating about something. Don't tell me that Xu Que has offered them some conditions to try to bribe these three Celestial Kings?"

"That's pretty unlikely. Patriarch Li has said that he basically doesn't care about the heretical ways and objects that Xu Que possesses."

"Hee, hee, hee, I'm afraid you're the only one who believes that."

All the many people who were gathered below continued discussing all these many possibilities among themselves in low voices.

Buttface suddenly jumped up out of the crowd and shouted, "Are you still going to fight or not? Your Holiness is very busy. Uh, can you please not dillydally?"

"That's right! Hurry up and start fighting." Duan Jiude also urged.

"Come on, can you two just shut up, please." Xu Que immediately glared down and them and shouted back, his face full of anger.

"Why are these two fools such ninnies? I, the Act-Tough Saint, am trying all the ways I can figure out to delay and buy time. Why the h*ll are you rushing me?"

"Xu Que!" At almost the exact same time, Li Xuanqi suddenly growled.

The three Celestial Kings seemed to have deliberated and arrived at a common conclusion. Li Xuanqi gave a big wave of his hand and an ink-black sword flew out of the sleeves of his robe. It divided into five in the air and landed beside Xu Que to form a Five Elements Imprisonment Ring.

"You deserve to die 1,000 deaths. But, in order for the departed soul who died unjustly to be able to rest in peace, I cannot let you die so easily. So, from this moment on, you have to face the punishment of being hacked into 1,000 pieces and having your soul set on fire to burn to death."

Li Xuanqi's voice had just started to fade when his five fingers suddenly formed a fist. The five ink-black swords instantly gathered together and formed into one enormous sword, which was hanging over Xu Que's head.

Xu Que's entire person was instantly suppressed and sealed in place, unable to move at all.

"D*mn, these three old immortals actually came up with this kind of vicious move." Xu Que's face fell.

Apparently these three people still didn't trust him, but couldn't forgo the two Divine Items that he'd mentioned. Thus, they wanted to sentence him to death by 1,000 cuts at a later time, so that it would leave them time to force Xu Que to send the two Divine Items to them.

However, this seemed to Xu Que to be a rather good outcome. At least he didn't have to face a joint attack from the three Celestial Kings right at this juncture.

It was better to suffer a little, than to be hunted down and killed.

Xu Que looked very unhappy. When he looked at the progress of the upgrade on the System interface, a cold glint flashed in his eyes however.

99.8 percent!

Waiting for the last 0.2 percent wouldn't take more than ten minutes. I will make all three of you Celestial Kings weep!

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