Today's fourth update: Chapter 3252! 4/4!
In truth, for the Nine Spirits Lion Saint, a forefather who had watched the Lion Race weather centuries of upheaval, rise and decline, he should not have been the least bit surprised by this ugly farce of fighting over an inheritance.
Having long understood the ways of the world, he had already seen through the true nature of humanity beneath the entanglement of power and profit.
On the contrary, if these upper echelons of the Royal Lion Race had managed to remain restrained and dignified before such an immense temptation, that would have been truly bizarre!
People's hearts had changed, and the world had gone downhill.
A nation might change, but one's nature... was ultimately hard to alter!
As he watched these "worthy sons and grandsons," usually so sanctimonious but now scrambling like street ruffians, a cold and despairing question surfaced in the Nine Spirits Lion Saint's heart:
Could a Royal Lion Race rotten to the core like this truly... still be saved?
If the Nine Spirits Lion Saint had been like the old ancestors of other races, spreading branches and leaves through descendants of his own blood, establishing a deeply rooted family lineage within the Royal Lion Race that continued for generations, then even if he "fell" today, his direct descendants would naturally inherit and manage everything he left behind. No matter how covetous others might be, they would never dare fight over it so openly.
Unfortunately...
Because of the peculiar nature of his reincarnation and rebirth, he could not bear direct descendants in this life.
And because of that, the vast inheritance he had left within the Lion Race had become, in everyone's eyes, a mountain of gold without an owner, a crown without a king—a gigantic cake that everyone could