Today's fourth update: Chapter 3144! 4/4!
At this critical moment, with the allied front's situation taking a sharp turn for the worse and teetering on the brink of collapse, the Black Tortoise Race's royal court—the leader of the Wild Hunt Operation—had yet to receive word of the frontline developments. Instead, it was caught in the midst of an internal purge, thrown into turmoil and unrest.
With the Eight Wise Kings' deliberate or inadvertent indulgence, Xuan Shiba, who had just broken into the Emperor Realm and returned bearing overwhelming divine might, had become the center of this storm.
Though his massive Emperor Realm Avatar had already been withdrawn, his chilling killing intent still pervaded the royal court.
At his feet lay seven or eight enormous black tortoises, sprawled in every direction. Among them were Tortoise Kings and Tortoise Marquises with sixth-realm strength!
Yet before Xuan Shiba, whose strength had soared and who had arrived in a fury, even these experts joining forces had been unable to withstand a single exchange. Every one of them had fallen!
"King Eighteen... spare me... spare me..." A Tortoise Marquis with a cracked shell and feeble aura pleaded with difficulty, his voice filled with terror.
Xuan Shiba planted one foot atop the other's battered shell and applied slight pressure, making him let out an overwhelmed **.
His icy gaze swept across all the terrified members of his race present. His voice was as frigid as a wind from the deepest netherworld. "Spare you? Then who spared the people of my kingdom back then? Who let off those innocents you slaughtered and plundered at will?"
Those whom Xuan Shiba regarded as mortal enemies and ruthlessly purged were all "brothers" who had long held grudges against him, or who had kicked him while he was down during