Today's third update: Chapter 3067! 3/4!
Just as Yi had been when he was about to face Xu Kun, who came bearing towering flames of vengeance, before the final battle even began, the Eight Wise Kings—his heart already shrouded in unease and countless doubts—dismissed all attendants and entered alone the secluded ancestral temple that only the Black Tortoise Race's most core direct bloodline had the qualifications and authority to enter—the Black Tortoise Ancestral Sacrifice Temple.
In the great affairs of a race, there were only sacrifices and war!
For the ancient Black Tortoise Race, whenever they reached a critical juncture that would determine the race's fate, burning incense, praying, and casting divinations within the ancestral temple in hopes of receiving guidance and revelations from their ancestors had long become a tradition and habit ingrained in their bloodline.
Yet for the Eight Wise Kings, the current Tortoise Lord who had stood at the pinnacle of power for many years, ever since he had emerged victorious from that brutal struggle for succession and ultimately taken the Tortoise Lord's throne, he could no longer remember how many years had passed since he had entered this sacred yet oppressive ancestral temple alone with such an anxious heart.
To be fair, as the ruler of one of Blue Star's foremost royal races, there was little in this world that could completely escape his control.
Even the various schemes he had once laid against humanity, though they had ultimately failed to achieve their full purpose, had been nothing more than temporary setbacks and failed plans.
The raging flames of war had never truly shaken the Black Tortoise Race's unfathomably deep foundations, much less threatened the stability of his exalted position as Tortoise Lord.
But this time, things were entirely different!
Facing the suddenly risen and