Today's first update: Chapter 3465! 1/4!
It still had to be Yang Yao.
While all the experts concerned about Xu Caiyi and Bu Wan were beside themselves with worry and unable to remain calm after the shocking news from the Dog Race battlefield, her first thoughts had strangely not focused on the girls' "safety."
Even taking a step back, even if the mysterious Huang Lord seated atop the Myriad Wild Cauldron was not Xu Kun himself, judging by how he had clearly shown mercy to their group of seven in the previous battle of Huang Domain—testing them more than slaughtering them—he had his own principles and bottom line. He was certainly not someone who killed innocents indiscriminately or bullied the weak.
What reason did he have to deliberately make things difficult for or harm two juniors who had clearly been used by others?
Thus, almost the instant she received the news, an almost instinctive intuition told her that there was something fishy behind this matter, and that this "fishiness" was most likely inseparable from "him."
What she first considered was not how to rescue them, but—how to perfectly cooperate with this unexpected drama that "he" might have been forced to stage, and steer this sudden storm in the direction that would cause the least harm to "him," the Huang Race, and even their long-term plans.
Therefore, while urgently summoning the Human Race's core leadership to discuss countermeasures, she had already settled on a strategy: have Angel Yan, the most resolute and fiercely tempered person, and the one with the deepest ties to Xu Kun, take the first step and charge straight for the Royal Lion Race's ancestral grounds, using the most forceful stance possible to intimidate them militarily.
This sword strike cleaved open not only the gates of the