Today's second update: Chapter 3198! 2/4!
Xu Kun's first target was naturally the Wood Race Demi-Saint spirit body that had worked with Ji Qingqing earlier, attempting to use the Wood Race's secret arts to trap him to death.
This exchange once again confirmed for Xu Kun why the Wood Race had rarely taken the initiative to involve itself in the vortex of competition among the myriad races.
Unlike the other races, which had sent outstanding figures from among their Demi-Saint Realm members and people with real authority, the Wood Race had merely dispatched a spirit-body clone cultivated from a seed. Their perfunctory attitude was plain to see.
If not for the restrictions imposed by the rules of the Second Tier War, then given the Wood Race's unfathomable foundation, accumulated over who knew how many eras, mere Demi-Saints likely would not have counted as much among their ranks. Saying that "sixth-realm experts were everywhere" would not have been an exaggeration.
As one of the rare "guests" who had entered the core region of the Wood Race's ancestral court as an outsider, Xu Kun understood the true strength hidden beneath the Wood Race's peaceful facade far better than most.
Even eighth-realm ancestor-level living fossils were not particularly rare within their race. Their bloodline descendants were even more numerous, flourishing beyond count.
Within the Wood Race, weak beings such as the lowly Lan Yin Grass, which could never cross the threshold into the first realm throughout their lives, were everywhere. Yet correspondingly, powerful beings with profound cultivation and extraordinary realms were so numerous that it made one's scalp tingle.
This was completely different from most other races, which had been reborn and developed anew on Blue Star after the descent of the Haotian Pagoda. The Wood Race were true "remnants of an