Today's second update: Chapter 3242! 2/4!
Even if one found the world's finest craftsmen and used the most miraculous materials to repair it, the repaired portions would ultimately retain indelible traces. It would no longer be the flawless, naturally perfect treasure it had once been.
Forcibly maintaining it was nothing more than self-deception. That crack would remain forever, becoming a fatal weakness that prevented it from bearing greater pressure and advancing to higher levels.
With his insight and boldness far beyond all reason, Xu Kun had precisely seized upon the heart of his problem.
Xu Kun had originally been pondering how to help this senior complete the most difficult and dangerous step of "Rupture and then Stand."
After all, the simplest way to achieve that was to do it himself—to utterly destroy the other party!
Making someone obsessed with past glory willingly shatter the "old vase" he regarded as his life was a difficulty easily imagined.
When he unleashed the Huang Domain, that had been Xu Kun's plan. But he had not intended to forcefully destroy him, because he was certain the other party should recognize his identity. At that point, he would explain this theoretically viable method and let the Nine Spirits Lion Saint decide for himself whether to do it.
Yet before Xu Kun could even make that suggestion, the Nine Spirits Lion Saint, who clearly knew his identity, chose not to acknowledge him. Instead, he chose a fight to the death!
Perhaps fate had decreed it long ago.
The Nine Spirits Lion Saint had struggled all his life, trapped by his innate defect. To some extent, his outlook on life had been pessimistic and stubborn.
Yet when facing Xu Kun, the "disciple of an old friend," the pride and dignity belonging to a legendary