Xu Kun had two prerequisites before pressing the start and speed-up buttons.
Winning this last-place elimination match against the Rat Race was not the goal. The key was using the Rat Race to give the Huang Race its first real combat training.
The purpose of training the troops had been achieved. After being tempered by war, the Huang Race had fought hundreds of thousands of battles, large and small, over the past year and a half.
After suffering losses totaling forty-five million, their troop deployment, individual combat ability, and even their realms had all improved by leaps and bounds.
Most visibly, nearly one-fifth of the Huang Race had raised their realms to the Heavenly King Realm.
By Xu Kun's estimation, once the battle with the Rat Race was over, at least half of the Huang Race would successfully break through. Though their already meager population had suffered attrition, their overall strength had risen rather than fallen.
There was little point in dragging things out any longer. The Rat Race's Emperor Realm experts and Half-Saints could threaten ordinary Huang Race members and even Totem Wielders. What Xu Kun wanted was an equal contest, not to send his people to their deaths.
So, aside from Xu Kun personally entering the fray, he had been waiting for another card to fall into place to bring this last-place elimination match to a close: Kirin Mother Hongdou, who had just completed the full transformation of the Wildlands Battlefield.
Xu Kun had not immediately had her participate in this last-place elimination match against the Rat Race because she had more important work to do.
Over the past year or so, under Xu Kun's instructions and with Hongdou's own abilities, the former Kirin Race Battlefield—now the Wildlands Battlefield—had been completely transformed into Kirin's Tomb Online.
This was