This was the Li Family’s “Painting Becomes Reality” bloodline divine skill. Through the secret technique passed down by Bai Xingzhi, combined with the bloodline divine skill, they managed to pull off the current “deceptive substitution.”

Li Mo and Li Xue, two Li Family elders, hid in the distance, holding paintings prepared in advance. When Li Song drew the array pattern on the Li Family disciples, they could then perform the teleportation swap.

Su Changkong and Li Song had also had the teleportation array pattern drawn on them in advance. As long as Li Mo and Li Xue from afar activated their bloodline divine skill, they could immediately replace themselves with a painting scroll.

Therefore, what Su Changkong had to do was to buy time for Li Song, to transfer and swap Li Zhengao and the other two one by one, then make a full retreat.

Of course, this bloodline divine skill had a distance limitation. If the distance was too far, it wouldn’t work at all.

The young person from the Li Family was replaced and appeared several miles away from the Execution Grounds Plaza in a narrow alley.

“You go first!” Li Xue and Li Mo, who had been waiting, immediately untied the young disciple and took out a painting. Conjuring a lifelike white crane, they didn’t waste time with extra words and urged the Li Family disciple to leave at once.

The white crane, carrying the young Li Family disciple, flapped its wings and immediately soared into the sky.

Releasing a white crane to fly someone away from atop the execution platform was without question impossible. With the speed and fragility of the white crane taking flight, it would be torn to pieces by a swarm of Shi Family martial artists before even lifting off.

And even if it managed to fly, if there were skilled archers among the Shi Family’s martial artists, a few hundred meters was just a bowshot away.

Therefore, they had to create sufficient distance to give the white crane enough time to take off.

“Over there! Send some people!”

The Shi Family martial artists guarding the perimeter noticed the white crane flying from the distant alley and vanishing into the horizon. They immediately realized there were people from the Li Family responding from that direction. Several Shi Family martial artists hurriedly rushed towards it.

“Go!”

But Li Xue and Li Mo weren’t foolish enough to stand still. Having sent away a Li Family disciple, they immediately changed locations. All they needed to do was to hide within several miles of the Execution Grounds Plaza and wait for Li Song to send people over.

“Damn it!”

On the Execution Grounds Plaza, Shi Bupo also saw the young Li Family disciple disappear into thin air. Apart from being astonished at the mysteriousness of the Li Family’s bloodline divine skill, he was furious. Someone had escaped right under his watch, even though he had personally taken action? But as long as he captured the few people in front of him, he could still accomplish his goal!

“Roar!”

Shi Bupo’s throat erupted with a thunderous roar, the ground cracked, and his body swelled crazily in size. In the blink of an eye, he grew to a massive three meters tall, bursting the battle armor on his body, his muscles bulging and skin turning a dark black color.

In the blink of an eye, Shi Bupo transformed into a three-meter-tall rock giant. Under the Giant Whale Body Technique, even Su Changkong, standing a little over two meters tall, seemed somewhat small in comparison.

The Shi Family’s bloodline divine skill was named “Heavy Mountain,” which, upon activation, made one resemble a rock giant, impervious to blade and spear. Their heavy mountain-like bodies endowed their punches and kicks with terrifying power.

“Die!”

With his bloodline divine skill activated, Shi Bupo’s giant rocky hand reached straight for Su Changkong’s head. This simple grasp distorted all the air in front of it, as if he was grasping the entire space, making it cave and warp.

“Catch them!”

The other Shi Family martial artists weren’t merely onlookers either, each of them pounced like fierce wolves toward Li Song, preventing him from inscribing the array patterns on the other two men.

Su Changkong’s gaze became extremely solemn. Shi Bupo was a Five-Qi Grandmaster with a bloodline divine skill, far stronger than Qi Gang. Even the current Su Changkong couldn’t afford the slightest negligence.

“Five Animal Frolics. Violent Bear Shakes the Earth!”

Against the massive hand reaching for him, Su Changkong chose to meet force with force. He concentrated his Essence Qi Spirit, spiritual energy within a hundred yards surged wildly, and behind him, a giant bear phantom emerged. The bear, with its brown and yellow fur flying about, stood upright and slapped its enormous paws, carrying earthen ripples, toward Shi Bupo’s shoulder.

The rock giant that Shi Bupo had become was heavy as a mountain and a bit slower, allowing the giant bear phantom’s paw to strike his shoulder first.

“Boom!”

The bear paw, capable of crushing mountains and cratering the earth, exploded with terrifying force. The ground where both stood crazily caved and cracked, and the shockwave spread out in all directions, affecting everything within a hundred meters.

“Wind-avoidance Beast!”

Li Song was well prepared. While his right hand drew array patterns on a Li Family disciple, his left hand pulled out a painting scroll from his garments and quickly spread it open. A majestic beast resembling a unicorn or a lion burst forth from the painting, pushing back the spreading shockwave.

As the Family Head of the Li Family, Li Song had the most concentrated Paint Saint bloodline, and he had intensely studied the paintings left by Bai Xingzhi, making his strength no trifle!

“Be careful!” The massive number of Shi Family martial artists rushing over was thrown by the shock from the Violent Bear Shakes the Earth. Those with weaker cultivation, even after activating their bloodline divine skills, were struck so hard that they broke bones and spat blood.

“Buzz!”

Simultaneously, as the inscription of the array pattern was completed, the second Li Family disciple was also teleported out, vanished amidst the twisting space, leaving behind a painting scroll in his place.

Shi Bupo’s eyes burned with rage. Su Changkong’s mighty strike had buried half his body in the earth and stone, yet he was unharmed. He also saw that out of the three hostages, only one remained.

If Li Zhengao was teleported away, then this operation, which was nearly a sure success, would be a complete failure, all because this unknown Five-Qi Grandmaster had tied up his strongest combatant!

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