Today's fourth update: Chapter 3140! 4/4!
The mysterious, powerful soul connection between him and Xu Kun abruptly severed, as though it had drained away all his Essence, Qi, and Spirit, along with the meaning of his existence.
He himself developed a bizarre "illness," becoming muddleheaded and dull-witted, like a walking corpse.
The Black Tortoise Race displayed its usual pragmatism and indifference. After futile attempts at treatment failed to uncover the cause of his "illness," they swiftly deemed him a useless discarded piece and stopped investing even the slightest attention in him.
Although, due to clan rules, they did not publicly strip him of his title as Vassal King or his fief, he had become a completely invisible shadow within the clan.
The vast fief he had earned through his past "achievements" immediately became a succulent prize in the eyes of the surrounding Vassal Kings, Heir Kings, and powerful Tortoise Marquises. It was continuously encroached upon and divided up.
Such was the harsh reality of the Black Tortoise Race's ironclad rule—no idlers, and no pity for the crippled!
Yet who could have expected that, when all had fallen silent and everything seemed settled, Xuan Shiba would return so shockingly after lying dormant in silence for a full nineteen years!
This was no simple recovery, but a rebirth that remade him from the inside out!
His bloodline had actually achieved an unimaginable second advancement. The vast power helped him break through in one stroke and enter the Emperor Realm, even condensing the incomparably powerful Law, Heaven, and Earth that only SSS-tier pure-blooded Tortoise Kings could wield!
At that moment, his towering Dharma manifestation stood above the Royal Court, looking down upon all directions. Its boundless divine might swept through the enormous court like a tide, its dominance piercing the