“Well, what do you think? Have you considered matters thoroughly? You’re definitely strong, and there’s no reason for us to cause problems for you. Considering you’re an Ascendant, you’ll obviously accomplish great things in the future. So why don’t we work out a deal?”

The ghostface monkey-god and the snake goddess obviously wanted to buy some time and escape, then come up with some other plan to deal with the situation. From the interchange moments ago, they knew how strong Yang Qi was and could tell that if they kept fighting they would die. Both had only become Lesser Gods fairly recently, and hadn’t even had time to earn a reputation as such. So there was no way they wanted to simply throw their lives away here.

One could only imagine how difficult it must have been to struggle up through the ranks of the Demonfolk until they were actual gods.

Despite being gods, they knew how to endure humiliation in order to survive. The Demonfolk were powerful beings, and the fighting among them was fierce. Even gods had to learn to endure certain situations; if they...