Today's third update: Chapter 2967! 3/4!
A faint smile rested on Xu Kun's lips, but it was not mockery.
Erh's reaction was far better than he had expected.
"Are you not afraid that I'll... kill you right now?" Xu Kun's voice was low, like an icy whisper brushing against his ear.
Erh's body trembled uncontrollably. Then, he forced the most "sincere" smile he could manage at this moment, his voice carrying an almost imperceptible hint of ingratiation. "If my lord wishes to kill me, why would you need to... dirty your own hands?"
He deftly avoided answering whether he was afraid and instead emphasized his own "insignificance."
"Then..." Xu Kun pressed with interest, "do you still wish to continue this 'cooperation' with me?"
Only now did Erh completely understand just how weighty Xu Kun's earlier warnings of "seeking a tiger's skin" and "acknowledging a thief as one's father" truly were!
He really had walked through the Gate of the Underworld, nearly stepping into an abyss of eternal damnation!
His current situation was like walking a tightrope over a bottomless cliff.
One wrong move, and today would be the day he died.
Before Xu Kun, who had revealed his true face and represented absolute power and an old blood feud, every escape route and contingency Erh possessed had turned into nothing but bubbles.
Turn back? Behind him lay the abyss that awaited once the Black Tortoise Race learned the truth. There was only death!
He had only one path left—follow this ferocious tiger before him, one that could devour someone at any moment, all the way into darkness!
Yet what filled Erh's heart now was not fear, but an almost pathological, unprecedented excitement and thrill!
Father King! Black Tortoise Race! Open your eyes and look carefully! Look at the kind