Today's fourth update: Chapter 3240! 4/4!
Xu Kun's requirements for the identity of the "Huang Lord" were extremely demanding—he hoped that without using any trump cards that would directly expose his identity as the Kun of the Human Race, he would still possess the formidable strength to confront, and even defeat, those veteran Sixth Realm experts head-on!
To achieve that at his current level of perfected Emperor Realm, while deliberately suppressing himself from breaking through, he was still more than a little lacking.
In truth, this was because Xu Kun demanded too much of himself.
One had to know that although the Nine Spirits Lion Saint was only in the Half-Saint Realm, his true combat power was enough to crush any ordinary Sixth Realm expert casually chosen from among the lower-ranked S-Tier Races!
Even the pure physical strength contained within his battle-tempered Half-Saint body alone was enough to make him look down on over ninety percent of Sixth Realm beings in the world!
But Xu Kun's sights had never lingered on the "ordinary" or the "commonplace."
His hypothetical enemies had always been the hidden old monsters of the higher-ranked S-Tier Races, or even carefully groomed core Sixth Realm experts of royal races and saint races!
What was more, once the Holy War phase began, the rules permitted supreme beings who had already transcended Blue Star's restraints and stepped into the Heavenly Being Seventh Realm or above to send avatars or incarnations to descend and assist in battle for the sake of their race's honor!
A mere wisp of such an existence's consciousness was far more terrifying than an ordinary Sixth Realm expert.
On this thorn-filled path toward becoming stronger, Xu Kun had actually long since begun pursuing a more difficult and even more astonishing route.
This was precisely why,