However.
The next moment.
Lu Chen faced Grand Void Daoist's kind and "certain" gaze and slowly—but with incomparable resolve—shook his head.
His voice rang clear, each word like a nail, spreading across this frigid starfield.
"Sorry for disappointing you, Senior."
"After careful deliberation, we unanimously believe that..."
He paused deliberately, his gaze sharp as a blade as he looked straight at Grand Void Daoist's faintly stiffened face.
"Boundless refuses the alliance!"
Silence!
A deathly silence!
It was as though even the trajectories of every star in this starfield had ground to a halt at this moment!
The perfect, gentle smile on Grand Void Daoist's face—the smile of one who controlled everything—solidified in an instant at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Then, like colored glass struck by a heavy hammer, it shattered inch by inch!
The muscles on his face even began to twitch ever so slightly, in a way he could not control.
What had he heard?
Refuse... refuse?!
Those two words were like two red-hot poisonous needles, stabbing viciously into his eardrums and piercing into the deepest reaches of his Primordial Spirit!
The leader of a tiny, barbaric indigenous world in a Grade-Guai region, a mere junior at the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm...
Had actually... actually refused the alliance invitation from his Profound Yellow Great World?!
Refused the goodwill of Grand Void Daoist, a supreme existence in the Chaos Realm?!
Absurd!
The greatest joke under heaven!
An indescribable fury, one whose edges had long since been ground smooth by his endless years of cultivation,
was like a chaotic volcano that had lain dormant for billions upon billions of years, now thoroughly ignited.
It erupted with a thunderous roar from the deepest depths of his heart!
Boom!!!
The surrounding starry sky began to twist and collapse violently!