"I never expected this. I thought everyone from the Life Forbidden Zone was a brainless fool, yet there's an outstanding talent like you among them, meticulous in your schemes."
Ye Tian smiled calmly as he looked at the mass of shadow.
Yet that amiable smile seemed unbearably piercing to the shadow.
A chill rose within him and stabbed straight into his heart. Cold sweat poured down his body, as though he stood before an existence that lorded over all creation. Terror made his heart falter.
"What a pity... within the Life Forbidden Zone, you certainly have what it takes to be a chess player, plotting across the world. Even the other Hunters would struggle to escape your schemes."
"But your greatest mistake was making an enemy of me and the Ye Family."
"Otherwise, you would certainly have remained safe and sound."
Ye Tian sighed softly with deep regret and shook his head. A trace of pity appeared in his eyes as he looked at the shadow.
"Hahaha, as expected of a peerless prodigy who broke several eternal records. There's good reason you claimed first place on the Eternal Physical Body Ranking."
"As for those rumors about a mortal physique, you can fool the outside world, but don't dream of fooling me."
"You, Ye Tian, possess a physique that ranks among the top five of countless physiques, even without awakening your God Emperor Bloodline. What physique it is, however, I cannot say."
The shadow made no attempt to escape. Instead, he rose into the void and faced Ye Tian.
Perhaps... this was a battle between chess players, men who plotted across heaven and earth and made pawns of everyone.
Now, at last, the two chess players were facing each other directly.
Ye Tian listened quietly, then began to clap.
"As expected