Today's first update: Chapter 3173! 1/4!
"N-No! Please, spare us!"
Shrill, despairing wails and cries for mercy rose and fell like crashing waves, instantly filling the ears of Xuan Shiba, Ting Sha Piaoliang, and the others as they entered the Mongoose Race battlefield.
This was the first sight that greeted them when they arrived as representatives leading the Black Tortoise Race and crocodile race delegations to sign that humiliating "letter of surrender." It was like a basin of icy water dumped over their heads, sending a chill through every member of the delegations.
As far as the eye could see, the mountains and plains were covered with Mongoose Race soldiers in tattered clothes, their faces ashen.
Like livestock being driven to slaughter, they were herded forward under the cold spears and barked orders of Huang soldiers, staggering toward an enormous pit that made their hearts tremble.
The pit had clearly been altered by human hands. Its edges were steep, its depths bottomless, like a giant maw leading to hell, waiting to devour these last prisoners.
"The audience is in place. Begin the final curtain call!"
Xu Kun's cold, merciless command echoed through the void and reached the Huang soldiers waiting in readiness.
At the order, Lin Huo led his elite legion swiftly to the edge of the pit, as though conducting a solemn yet brutal sacrifice.
"Release!"
With Lin Huo's command, Kirin True Fire surged from around him and exploded above the pit, turning into a sky full of blazing streams like deadly fireworks announcing the end—brilliant and lethal.
Then, countless Huang soldiers gathered around the pit responded in unison, each unleashing their own fire arts or firing oil-soaked arrows that had been set ablaze.
In an instant, fiery rain poured down. Countless scorching Fire Lines tore through the