Today's fourth update: Chapter 3256! 4/4!
Compared to the grief and symbolic blow brought by the "death" of the Nine Spirits Lion Saint, the fact that all six Lion Ancestors under him now wished to leave with him was the truly devastating loss that would shake the very foundations of the Lion Race!
Was this not splitting the Lion Race apart?
But who could stop any of it?
Among the six lions, Rao Shi, Fu Li, and Tuan Xiang had always been alone. Their resolve was incomparably firm.
Their present status as Lion Ancestors had not come from the blessings of the Lion Race bloodline, but entirely from the Nine Spirits Primordial Saint's grace in remaking them and his careful teachings.
Whether they remained in the Lion Race or not made no fundamental difference to them personally. Besides, they had long since transcended Blue Star's restraints, and their karmic ties to the lions of Blue Star were already exceedingly shallow.
Following their master away now was simply following their hearts, with nothing left to hold them back.
However, the situations of the three great Lion Ancestors—Snow Lion, Suanni, and Bai Ze—were entirely different!
Suanni Lion Ancestor in particular was the founding ancestor of the Suanni Lineage, a branch of immense importance within the Lion Race!
As long as he remained, the soul of the Suanni Lineage remained. If he followed Nine Spirits into the human race, how many direct descendants and core members of that lineage would follow their ancestor without hesitation?
The chain reaction this would trigger would be no different from pulling the spine out of the Lion Race's Suanni Lineage. This powerful branch would inevitably exist in name only, perhaps even merge wholesale into the human race!
The situations of Snow Lion Ancestor and Bai Ze