Yesterday's fourth update: Chapter 2574! 4/4!
Although En Suo-fei had been defeated miserably earlier, his life was not in danger. He was merely seriously injured and would be fine after recovering.
With the Thirty-Six Holy Pillars' inheritors and more than six hundred SSS-tier Talented Individuals cultivated by draining the Sacred Celestial Realm dry, Frieza had believed that in this battle of wits, among the ordinary pieces on the chessboard, victory was already his.
And the facts had indeed borne that out at first. With the human race's own foundation still undeveloped, aside from Xu Kun and people like Yang Yao at his side, who could still participate in such a war, all the others who could be used were remnants of the Era of the Heavenly Eye.
They were, so to speak, using the savings accumulated by the previous generation to fight a battle they were destined to lose.
In Frieza's eyes, regardless of who won the ultimate showdown between him and Xu Kun, after this battle, the human race's accumulated reserves would be exhausted.
Even if Xu Kun could defeat him, before doing so, the human race's reserves would have been squandered by him.
At that point, Xu Kun would become the human race's greatest sinner.
It was difficult to build up reserves, but easy to squander them.
Even a vast fortune could be lost overnight.
Without their reserves, even if the human race possessed brilliant potential, they would become playthings in others' hands, to be bullied at will. And if Xu Kun were eliminated as well, the human race would be utterly without hope.
Even if the Sacred Celestial Realm could not achieve its full objective, with Belial's methods, turning around and swallowing the human race whole in one stroke seemed more valuable than fighting the Titan