Today's first update: Chapter 3245! 1/4!
The Nine Spirits Lion Saint, forcibly expelled from the Myriad Races Battlefield, descended without a sound, unnoticed by anyone.
He did not leave at once. Instead, he stood silently where he was, like a stone statue lost in thought, Xu Kun's seemingly casual yet deeply meaningful final question echoing repeatedly in his mind.
"What did you mean by... 'Are you still going back to the Royal Lion Race?'"
Those lightly spoken words now felt like a boulder thrown into a tranquil lake surface, stirring monstrous waves in his heart.
By all reason, returning to one's roots was an obsession deeply ingrained in the vast majority of racial beings, one that would remain unchanged even in death.
In this life, the Nine Spirits Lion Saint had indeed successfully reincarnated with the aid of the lion race's fortune. From the perspective of karma, he had long since become inseparably bound to the lion race's bloodline and the Royal Lion Race.
However, unlike many reincarnated powerhouses who had lived another life through their own opportunities or their race's secret arts, the Nine Spirits Lion Saint's circumstances were exceptionally unusual—his rebirth had only been possible because of the supreme power of his former life's Lord.
This unusual foundation brought both clear advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage was that he had started from a very high point. He had quickly recovered a small portion of his former strength and memories, giving him the capital to crush others of his generation from the very beginning of his growth.
Even when facing the extraordinarily gifted Douzhan Martial Saint, who would later sweep across an entire era, he had forcefully suppressed him three times. That record alone was enough to prove his might.
The drawback, however, ran far deeper.
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