Today's first update: Chapter 3469! 1/4!
Fine weapons were ill-omened; sages used them only when unavoidable.
The moment Shen-bao's choked yet incomparably clear "I agree" left her lips, the suffocating tension hanging over the battlefield seemed to suddenly tear open along a crack.
Representatives of the various races, their nerves taut and their hearts clenched with worry, could not help but let out long breaths of relief. Their suspended hearts finally settled, if only a little.
Since Shen-bao, Xu Caiyi's birth mother, could endure her grief and accept Lord Huang's terms for the sake of her daughter's long-term safety, what standing did they outsiders have to stubbornly object and insist on starting a war?
After all, although the various races had assembled heavy forces here, their banners snapping in the wind and their might soaring to the heavens, very few of them truly wished to wage an all-out war against the Huang Clan here and now.
There were simply too many concerns involved.
The first was the need to avoid harming the innocent.
Once the flames of war were truly ignited and matters descended into chaotic, frenzied slaughter, Xu Buwan and Xu Caiyi—held as hostages in the Huang Clan's core territory—would inevitably be the first to suffer and face the greatest danger!
When that time came, blades had no eyes and laws showed no mercy. No one could guarantee that the two women would emerge unharmed.
In fact, part of the deeper, unspoken purpose behind the allied forces' deployment here was precisely to intimidate and isolate—to prevent other forces with deep grudges against the Huang Clan, or ulterior motives of their own, from taking the opportunity to attack the Huang Clan!
For if such an unexpected conflict occurred, the Huang Clan, when driven into a corner, might very well