Today's fourth update: Chapter 2720! 4/4!
After the endless darkness and those despairing cries, Xu Kun felt his heart clench as light returned before his eyes.
What he saw was his grandmother, the Phoenix Lord, holding the Kirin Race accountable for the death of his second aunt.
For the four hundred years before Yuan Lichang's death, the Phoenix Race, like the other races, had been governed by powerful members of the Blue Star Phoenix Race who had yet to transcend—first Jiang Zhuohua, then Yuan Lichang.
After Yuan Lichang's death, the Blue Star Phoenix Race was left leaderless. Tai Si, Xu Kun's third aunt, who should have succeeded Yuan Lichang as the Phoenix Race's administrator, had instead been deceived by "treacherous people," betrayed her race, and stolen Mu Qingxuan's phoenix egg...
Because of the successive incidents involving Yuan Lichang and Tai Si, as well as the Phoenix Lord's own experiences, Yun Hongyi had not been personally appointed by the Phoenix Lord as the next administrator of the Phoenix Race. Instead, one of the Phoenix Lord's avatars personally managed the vast Phoenix Race.
The cause of this unusual situation was inseparable from the Kirin Race's god-creation plan.
At the time, the Phoenix Lord had been beyond the domain. Without giving it much thought, she crossed space and struck directly at the star occupied by the Kirin Ancestors—the very star the Kirin Race had originally used to welcome the Holy Mother Kirin.
What she had not expected was that a mere sweep of her phoenix wing, an attack intended only as a warning, would directly shred all the Kirin Ancestors.
Xu Kun could feel his grandmother's shock at the time. Even her grief over her beloved daughter's death was soothed by that sight.
She had come to demand accountability and an explanation,