Today's fourth update: Chapter 3132! 4/4!
Xu Kun had originally thought that She Tu Renekton, after going to such great lengths—first provoking him with a drowning battle before the armies, then fleeing for his life with such clumsy, bedraggled acting, even at the cost of the Thirteen Protectors' and his own dignity—must have laid some earth-shattering, perilous killing trap.
But after all that fuss... this was it?
To be fair, it had to be objectively acknowledged that the "God-Binding Black Tortoise Seal" formation jointly deployed by eighteen pure-blooded Tribe- trấn Turtle Kings, each exhausting their bloodline secret arts, was indeed terrifyingly powerful.
Gathering the origin power of all eighteen Turtle Kings and fusing and elevating it through the formation, the sealing and enslavement power it displayed, purely in terms of "quantity," was even more vast and tyrannical than the authentic Mystic Warrior Seal personally cast by a single SSS-tier pure-blooded Black Tortoise!
Mystic seal arts were an innate privilege bestowed upon the pure bloodline of the Black Tortoise Race.
No matter the rank of a mystic seal, its most fundamental function was to lock onto and enslave a single target at the soul level. When used to control beings far weaker than oneself, those whose souls had already been injured, or those willing to open their minds, its effects were Tyrannical Path and nearly impossible to resist.
However, a mystic seal cast individually was essentially more akin to a "contract" or "branding" technique, making it ill-suited for the ever-changing, fiercely contested realities of battle.
To effectively incorporate the power of mystic seals into combat, it had to undergo deeper evolution and development.
Just as Crown Prince Si's "Siwater Darksea," which he had used back in the Clam Race, was a model example of perfectly combining the power of his