Today's second update: Chapter 2246! 2/2!
Although there was no need to guess, when Kurong explained the first line of the prophecy, everyone from the human race was certain that person was Xu Kun!
But when Xu Kun truly arrived, a problem arose.
In the end, he was only at the Second Realm. Even Master Kurong, one of the Five Saints and at the Close-Range Eight Realms, had struggled to withstand the arrival of Jiumozhi, the Demigod Garuda. What could he possibly do?
All things in the world countered one another. Jiumozhi normally required a demigod to contend against him, but Xu Kun's thoughts were clear now. As he approached the western frontier, he had already found the answer.
It was like in certain games: based on combat power alone, the protagonist could die ten thousand times and still never defeat the enemy.
So what the plot required was not defeating the opponent through stats alone, but gathering certain key items.
The days Xu Kun had lost were much the same. The Devil Fruit Tree's hundreds of assassination attempts had indeed delayed his advance, but they had also given him the means to deal with Jiumozhi!
"Erpang!"
"Understood!" Xu Erpang replied, panting heavily.
With a clap of his hands, the spinning Divine Wood King Cauldron appeared and descended above the entire Tianlong Temple!
If one did not look closely, the crack Xu Kun had slashed into the Divine Wood King Cauldron within the Eternal Divine Tree Secret Realm appeared to have been completely repaired.
Yet only by lying at the center of the cauldron could one see that tiny crack.
It had recovered so quickly thanks to the Devil Fruit Tree power within the Devil Fruit Tree hosts whom Xu Kun and the others had counter-killed over the past