Facing Shepherd Arts' recruitment, Li Zhōujūn gave no answer. Instead, he picked up a chicken leg and took a bite.
Seeing this, Shepherd Arts narrowed his eyes slightly. "Looks like you're unwilling to submit to me."
With that, Shepherd Arts addressed the people trapped inside the chessboard. "Everyone, this man's methods are exceedingly strange. Even I cannot break them. I hope you will join forces with me and break open this chessboard. I will remember this favor!"
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, rest assured. We will certainly lend you our aid!"
"That's right. This Azure Emperor outside has truly thought nothing of us. He deserves to die!"
The cultivators trapped inside Li Zhōujūn's chessboard echoed Shepherd Arts one after another.
Black Flame Demon Emperor watched Shepherd Arts rally everyone with a single call, the corner of his mouth twitching uncontrollably.
What a difference in treatment!
Of course, there was nothing to be done about it.
The people present were not afraid of offending Black Flame Demon Emperor.
But if they offended Shepherd Arts, hardly anyone present could bear the consequences.
With Shepherd Arts taking the lead, the Eternal Ninth Stage cultivators inside the chessboard had, at least reluctantly, formed a united front.
Shepherd Arts struck first. With a single thought, lightning surged behind him and transformed into nine golden thunder spears, their might soaring to the heavens.
The other Eternal Ninth Stage cultivators also attacked one after another, unleashing their divine abilities. Black Flame Demon Emperor was among them.
In an instant, the entire chessboard space changed color. It was as if a great building were about to collapse and the apocalypse had arrived.
As for Li Zhōujūn, he calmly gnawed on the chicken in his hand.
Boom—
As the many Eternal Ninth Stage cultivators trapped inside the chessboard space