Su Bai's words fell, calm yet icy.
The expressions on the eighteen Immortal Kings' faces stiffened ever so slightly in one ten-thousandth of an instant.
"Su... Sect Master Su, why do you say that?"
The female Immortal King with tears glistening in her eyes looked even more grief-stricken, even carrying the desolation of one falsely accused.
"We are already fish on the chopping block, our Life and Death resting on a single thought from Sect Master Su. Why would we need to pretend?"
"This Finality Calamity Power cannot be faked, and neither can the fallen fellow Daoists!"
"Yes, Sect Master Su, please see clearly!" Another Immortal King said urgently, fear mingling across his face.
"If we truly harbored ulterior motives, why would we go so far as to sacrifice four fellow Daoists?"
"Under the Finality Calamity lightning, body and soul are annihilated. How could that be a price one could fake?"
Their arguments were heartfelt and sincere, their logic seemingly without a single flaw.
The Finality Calamity Power was undeniably real, and the auras of the fallen Immortal Kings had completely vanished. Everything pointed to them truly being driven into a corner.
How could that humility, fear, and posture of being willing to pay any price for survival possibly be an act?
Unfortunately, they were facing Su Bai!
A man who had walked through the ruins of more than one Epoch and personally witnessed far, far too many Observers.
More importantly, they understood him, and he understood them just as well!
The First Immortal King's Consciousness-Shard Doppelganger had grown increasingly refined!
From the Eighth Immortal King to the First King Marquis, even Su Bai had nearly been deceived.
And precisely because they understood Su Bai, they knew that he walked the path of protection.
So now, they had staged another