"Do none of you have brains?"
The leading Beast Emperor, who had been speaking so politely to that privileged young heir, suddenly roared, startling all the surrounding Emperor Species.
"This is something the human Half-Saint deliberately demanded." Its gaze swept across the gathering with a hint of ruthlessness. "And here in the No. 47 Beast Domain, we have no Half-Saints."
"Under the unwritten rules, Ji Xuan would not normally attack us and bully the weak with his strength. But if we provoke him first, his attack becomes perfectly justified!"
"Does he want a Star-Guarding Stone? All he wants is a reason to kill us!" the Beast Emperor said gravely. "Ji Xuan came here to help the No. 47 Beast Domain in the first place! He won't let any opportunity to act slip by!"
"If we refuse, none of us will escape. All of us dying here is a minor matter; the Beast Domain No. 8 being unable to destroy the No. 47 Beast Domain is the real issue."
"Even if you die here, the families behind you will still have to bear the towering wrath of the Saints! A hundred deaths would not atone for your crime!"
Its words left the other Emperor Species stunned.
Wasn't this just refusing to hand over a resource? Was it really that serious?
But after thinking it over carefully, they could not help being shaken.
Because what it said was indeed possible.
For a moment, the Emperor Species that had been staying out of the matter all turned toward the Monarch Rank Emperor Species refusing to surrender the Star-Guarding Stone.
Now the pressure was on it.
Of course, not every Emperor Species was swayed by those words.
Another Beast Emperor, firmly guarding that Monarch Rank Emperor Species, spoke gravely. "There is some reason in