Today's fourth update: Chapter 3428! 4/4!
This precisely confirmed why Xu Kun had so strongly advocated and pushed for the Tiger Fiend Race to "abdicate" its nominal royal status all those years ago.
Nineteen years of development had perfectly proven Xu Kun's foresight.
The Tiger Fiend Race had merely given up the hollow title of "royal race," which was more likely to invite siege than bring any benefit, yet in doing so, it had secured crucial time for development, room to maneuver, and accumulated prestige, quietly completing the consolidation and leap in its strength.
Meanwhile, the Lion Race, which had taken on that "hot potato" and become the "temporary royal race," had replaced the Tiger Fiend Race in bearing nearly all the pressure, provocations, and hostility from within and beyond the Beast Domain.
What the Huang Race had done today followed the same strategic line as the Tiger Fiend Race's former "abdication," only even more ingenious and profound.
It was merely a change in form rather than substance—turning "retreat" into "attack" and "keeping a low profile" into "making a high-profile display." Yet the core objective was the same: redirect conflicts, seize the initiative, and carve out breathing room and strategic space for the true "target" that needed protection amid the chaos.
As for the "slaughter" of the Black Colt Race...
Fundamentally, as long as Mother of the Black Colts, the race's core and symbol, remained unharmed, and as long as the Black Colt Race's foundations had not been completely destroyed, then with the insect race's astonishingly terrifying reproductive and recovery capabilities, given enough time, losing thirty percent of its fresh battlefield forces would be nothing. Even greater losses would not be difficult to recover from, rebuild its strength, and revive the race, so long as the brood nest remained