The Great Devil King's gaze narrowed slightly.
Su Bai merely flicked his sleeve, and an invisible ripple spread outward, severing the connection between himself and the billions of Immortal Dao troops behind him—their connection as "chess pieces" to his vital aura!
He had actually taken the initiative to relinquish his qualification as a "chess player"!
"You have already laid out this game, so I will enter it."
Clad in peerless white, Su Bai stood upon the chessboard. His voice was calm, yet it traveled throughout the starry sky.
"But my Dao lies not in control, but in nature."
"My compatriots are living beings of flesh and blood. They possess their own wills and beliefs; they are not chess pieces for others to manipulate."
"In this game, go ahead and command your black pieces."
"And I..."
His gaze swept over the resolute, fervent faces behind him before finally returning to the Great Devil King.
"Will treat them as heroes."
"Not chess pieces!"
Boom!
The moment those words fell, they were like a stone shocking the heavens!
Whether Devil Race or Immortal Dao, every living being was stunned!
The Immortal Dao experts were all moved to tears, the faith in their hearts becoming ever deeper.
As for the Devil Race experts, even though they had been forcibly made into chess pieces, a trace of conflict and struggle remained in their eyes.
Give up controlling the chess pieces?
In this All Beings Chess, which determined the fate of all life, return the fate of the pieces to the pieces themselves?
This was simply madness!
At last, a distinct ripple surfaced in the Great Devil King's ancient-well-still-water eyes. It was incomprehension, along with a trace of anger at being slighted.
"Do you know what you are doing?"
Its voice remained indifferent, but there was