Today's fourth update: Chapter 2376! 4/4!
"Yata no Kagami," Shangguan Yuanwei answered.
Never heard of it!
"Where did it come from?"
Shangguan Yuanwei tilted her head slightly. "Where did your Kongtong Seal fragment and the Xiang Liu divine source inherited by Sima Dai come from?"
Xu Kun immediately recalled it, then said in surprise, "Ancient Cherry Blossom Nation?"
When the Haotian Era arrived, it had been the first nation to be destroyed. It existed only in historical records, but after the Huaxia territory later expanded into the sea, they learned that Cherry Blossom survivors still lived there, ruled by Yamata no Orochi, the alias of Xiang Liu whose divine source was incomplete.
Afterward came the Jiangnan War. Following Xu Kun's single move that wiped out hundreds of millions of sea folk, the East Sea Sea Race led by Ao Guang had been forced to migrate eastward. Yet they were stopped by Yamata no Orochi and became his slaves.
There had been no further contact after that, until Xu Kun accepted the surrender of the wolf race led by Queen Seondeok on the Goryeo Peninsula. His Brother Zheng had crossed the sea to the old Cherry Blossom homeland with only Bai Qi, slain Yamata no Orochi, and massacred every last Cherry Blossom survivor.
He brought back Yamata no Orochi's Xiang Liu divine source. After Xu Kun entrusted the Ultimate Divine Weapon of poison to Sima Dai, it happened to complete the Xiang Liu divine source, granting Sima Dai an enormous stroke of fortune.
Xu Kun, meanwhile, obtained the Kongtong Seal fragment known among the Cherry Blossom survivors as the "Yasakani no Magatama."
Xu Kun knew the entire process, but he had not known that the outcome involved more than what he understood.
Shangguan Yuanwei explained, "On the old Cherry Blossom