Today's first update: Chapter 2044! 1/3!
Was it because he had taken the Nüwa Stone?
That probably wasn't the only reason...
Xu Kun grasped the crux of the matter. With a hint of mockery in his eyes, he said, "Belial, you really are a step ahead."
Yan looked confused. "What do you mean?"
Xu Kun looked at her. "He'd been plotting against me every step of the way. On one hand, he wanted me dead, but on the other, he entrusted the Angel Race's future to me."
"He was... betting on both sides!"
Huh?
Everyone who heard that was utterly baffled.
Xu Kun did not explain. Instead, he asked, "They lost their ability to pass down their bloodlines because the Angel Race kept intermarrying within the race, right?"
Yan nodded. Although she was not among them, learning about this still filled her with grief and indignation.
This extreme situation had appeared before the Angel Race in all its bloody brutality.
No wonder the Heavenly Lord had willingly martyred himself. The Sacred Celestial Realm under his rule had already drained its potential dry.
Only by putting Belial of the Abyss of the Fallen in power could they attempt to free the Angel Race from its current predicament.
Losing the ability to pass down their bloodlines did not mean losing the ability to reproduce. It meant that this final generation of angels could no longer give birth to angels with the same bloodline as themselves!
Unlike the Dragon Race, which would mate with any race, sending the True Dragons they bore to the Eastern Dragon Court and the mixed-blood dragons to the Western Dragon Court, while giving every mixed-blood Dragon Descendant a chance to rise to the heavens in a single step.
The Angel Race had always adhered to the principle