"M-Master? Is this really the Xiao Qingkuang I know? It's hard to imagine someone like him actually calling another person... Master!"
"I seriously suspect I've fallen under an illusion, too."
"It's no illusion. His aura is exactly the same as the Devil Master's! I followed the Devil Master into battle for years. There's no way I could mistake him!"
"Is that so? Then it looks like the Devil Master really has surrendered."
"This Crown Prince who appeared out of thin air really isn't someone we can afford to underestimate."
Everyone whispered among themselves, deliberately keeping their voices low.
The moment Xiao Qingkuang appeared and uttered the word "Master," Chen Mu could plainly see the loyalty of the Blood Corpse Devil Masters present surge.
Under the system's rules, loyalty could only increase, never decrease.
Chen Mu liked that feature very much. It spared him a great deal of unnecessary trouble.
Rumble!
Just when everyone thought everything had ended and the final full stop had been written, the earth suddenly began to tremble without warning.
"W-What's going on?"
"Don't ask me! I'd like to know, too!"
"The tremors seem to be coming from underground. An earthquake?"
"I've lived in this region for thousands of years and never seen an earthquake. Perhaps some peerless Demon Beast is about to emerge."
"Then what are we waiting for? We must dispatch troops immediately to suppress it, just in case!"
At the mention of dispatching troops, everyone's gaze instantly converged on Chen Mu.
He was now the unquestioned authority within the Blood Corpse Devil Race. As his subjects, they naturally had to obtain his permission before making a major decision like deploying troops.
Chen Mu did not rush to answer. His eyes changed color as his Divine Sense enveloped the entire territory of the Blood