Today's fourth update: Chapter 3248! 4/4!
"If it were merely to deal with the threat posed by the Tiger Fiend Race, then given young friend Xu Kun's breadth of mind and wisdom, there would have been no need for him to deliberately point out that warning—'Are you still going back to the Royal Lion Race?'—at the very last moment before I left."
Thoughts raced through the Nine Spirits Lion Saint's mind, growing increasingly clear.
"Although the lion race faces crises both within and without, surrounded by tigers ready at any moment to tear off a huge chunk of flesh, with me returning to hold the fort, the lion race will never become fish on the chopping block, left to be slaughtered at others' whim!"
"But if... he had long regarded the Royal Lion Race as meat on the table, a target in his grand design, then my return to the Royal Lion Race now would mean that, in the future, I would inevitably have to contend head-on with the human race or Huang race under his command."
At that thought, the turbulent emotions within the Nine Spirits Lion Saint gradually calmed instead, like the final stillness before a storm.
He knew perfectly well that Xu Kun had treated him sincerely and regarded him as an elder. That bond had been founded upon the friendship between him and his late benefactor, Yu Ding Zhenren, despite their age difference.
After witnessing Xu Kun's unfathomable strength and endless methods firsthand, the Nine Spirits Lion Saint had long since cast aside the lofty attitude he had held when he suppressed Douzhan Martial Saint, his senior brother, three times in the past.
This junior was someone he had been unable to see through or fathom across two lifetimes. Mystery clung to every part of