Today's first update: Chapter 3205! 1/4!
With the battle having developed to this point, even someone as experienced as the Nine Spirits Lion Saint could not help but feel a measure of astonishment and caution.
The Royal Lion Race had actively worked behind the scenes this time, connecting various parties and ultimately persuading the major peak races to send representatives to jointly stop the Huang Race. Their fundamental aim had been to forge an irresistible united front and exert immense pressure on the Huang Race and its unfathomable Huang Lord.
The message that pressure was meant to convey could not have been clearer: Know when to stop! Do not remain so greedily insatiable and continue devouring everything in sight!
Yet no one had expected this Huang Lord to be so... impervious to reason!
Not only had he shown no sign of retreat beneath the united pressure, his methods had been unyielding to the extreme. He was like a chunk of gristle—neither soft nor hard tactics could move him, and he feared nothing!
His killing of his own disciple, the Golden Lion Half-Saint, could be understood as a display of authority and retaliation; his slaughter of the Black Tortoise Race's Heir King, whose position had already been awkward and who was little more than an abandoned pawn, could be seen as punishment for the Black Tortoise Race's repeated vacillation;
He had even severely wounded Black Ice of the Dragon Race, destroyed the Wood Race's spirit body, and exiled Ji Qingqing of the Phoenix Race... Though shocking, these actions still fell within the "bottom line" that the various factions could accept based on their own interests. After all, those individuals either did not hold absolutely core positions or were not their true bodies, so the consequences of their deaths or departures