"..."
The thunderous commotion from moments ago, the Painting Realm's spiritual radiance churning seas and overturning rivers, all seemed to fall silent because of that single sentence.
Looking at that somewhat youthful face, even the two sect masters who had not been completely terrified when facing a Great Demon like the Cloud-Dream Palace Master had their faces turn green.
At a time like this, who else could dare step forward from the Chessmaster Realm... other than her?!
But why had she come out now?!
They had staked their sects' very foundations and risked their lives to hold the Cloud-Dream Palace Master back, all to buy her a chance to escape.
Yet this girl had not only refused to run, she had instead delivered herself straight to the true culprit.
Wouldn't everything they had just done become a complete joke?!
Jie Wuya and the Hundred Flowers Sect Master exchanged a glance. With their years of tacit understanding, they immediately grasped each other's intent.
No matter what, they had to get this girl out of here!
But in the next instant, the girl's action left the two of them rooted to the spot.
Jiang Yuechu casually extended a hand forward, curling her fair fingertips toward the sky.
Mockery lingered at the corner of her lips as she spoke in a calm voice. "So you're the Cloud-Dream Palace Master? You're not even a demon?"
Though her words were flat, there was a faint trace of disappointment in them.
"..."
The Cloud-Dream Palace Master frowned warily.
The aura around her was not that of the rumored Twelfth-Piece Chessmaster Realm, but had instead reached the Perfected Chessmaster Realm.
But so what?
To a Painting Realm cultivator like him, there was no difference between one piece and sixteen pieces in the Chessmaster Realm.
What truly made