Today's third update: Chapter 3251! 3/4!
Xu Kun's seemingly casual yet deeply meaningful words carried a strange magic at this moment, quietly soothing the Nine Spirits Lion Saint's rage, which had nearly boiled over at the ugly spectacle before him.
The taut lines on his face, drawn tight by extreme fury, gradually eased. The surging waves in his heart slowly calmed, and in the end, every emotion settled into an unfathomably deep indifference.
When he looked again at those "filial descendants," still endlessly bickering over profit and even willing to come to blows, there was no longer the slightest warmth or heartache in his eyes. Only a cold smile remained—a faintly mocking smile born of seeing through everything.
"Truly... I have lived for so many years, yet I still cannot comprehend the treachery of the human heart, nor see through how easily profit can stir people's hearts and blind their minds!"
He let out a long sigh, his voice filled with the exhaustion and release of one who had weathered countless years.
Whether Xu Kun had truly foreseen this specific, chilling scene when he first offered that warning, reality had already provided a more convincing answer than any argument could.
Xu Kun's words might not have directly hinted at this ugly scene of internal conflict. Yet from the moment he laid down that earth-shaking chessboard aimed at the Royal Lion Race, from the moment he precisely grasped the character flaws of the lion race's upper ranks, it seemed that today's unbearable outcome had already been inevitable.
The lion race's upper ranks had not developed such impatience and ugly greed overnight!
Tracing it back to its roots, nineteen years ago, when Xu Kun personally mediated the war in the beast domain and prompted the Tiger Fiend Race to abdicate its