As the three sides faced one another with cold eyes, Sikong Jing smiled faintly...
"Burial Emperor Rules, you said you would pay the price of thirty Burial Emperor Eras to blast us all to death."
"Unfortunately, you failed again."
Previously, Burial Emperor Rules' plan had been to eliminate the four strongest, including Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor, then have the thirteen mysterious powerhouses kill Sikong Jing and his wife before reshuffling everything.
The price was thirty Burial Emperor Eras to accomplish that goal.
But now, not a single mysterious powerhouse had died. Naturally, Burial Emperor Rules had failed.
Rumble, rumble, rumble...
Suddenly, it was as though even the space on the seventeenth level of the Hell Array was shattering madly.
The Hell Array's space seemed to have become extremely unstable. No one knew whether it was caused by the confrontation between seventeen of the world's strongest beings, or by the towering fury of Burial Emperor Rules.
But Sikong Jing did not care. He continued speaking...
"Burial Emperor Rules, what are you planning to do next?"
"Will you first find a way to blast Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor to death, or kill me? Which of us do you think poses the greater threat to you?"
The powerhouses of the three sides gazed at one another from afar...
Their eyes shifted to Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor, then back to Sikong Jing.
One was the strongest existence among the mysterious powerhouses—an ancient figure who could still amass immense power within the Hell Array, a terrifyingly powerful being whom even the six led by Horse Armor, despite his being bound in chains, could not kill.
The other was a terrifying genius who had stirred the winds and clouds, reached the realm of the Ten-Tribulation Emperor Venerable, yet had not passed the divine tribulation.
At Radiant