As the words fell.
High in the sky, the towering phantom of the Demon Palace rolled into view.
Deep purple mist surged from the depths of the Demon Palace like a tide. In the blink of an eye, it spread for thousands of miles, staining the entire sky an ominous hue.
His burly frame seemed all the more imposing beneath that pressure.
A radiance lit up within the Demon Palace.
It seemed his Dao Chess was about to manifest.
But the burly man gave no one a chance to see it clearly.
He never revealed his true cultivation, concealing his edge and hiding his reserves so he could catch his enemies unawares.
That was how he had always operated.
Even if the person before him was merely a human girl of the Chessmaster Five Pieces.
He still treated her as the greatest enemy of his life, staking everything on a fight to the death the instant he struck!
Boom!
The pitch-black halberd tore across the sky in an instant, like thick ink flung forth in fury!
A purple-black radiance nearly a hundred thousand feet long erupted between heaven and earth in its wake.
A single glance.
Was enough to reveal its power to destroy heaven and earth!
"Hm?"
Bai Wenge was somewhat surprised.
Even with his back turned to the man, a flicker of wariness still crossed his eyes.
He had long heard that this fellow hid his strength well, having reached the Twelfth-Piece Chessmaster Realm tens of thousands of years ago. His cultivation was unfathomable.
What chilled people to the bone even more was this.
Though he rarely attacked, not a single opponent had ever survived when he did.
Thus, even now, Bai Wenge, the second young master of the Southern Immortal Palace, still had no idea just how