Today's first update: Chapter 3485! 1/4!
In the previous battle on the Dog Race battlefield, in order to make this grand "kidnapping" act convincing and leave the various factions without a shred of doubt, the injuries Xu Kun inflicted on his younger sister Xu Buwan and daughter Xu Caiyi were no empty show. They were genuine wounds.
After all, the spiritual senses of experts from every race had interwoven and probed layer upon layer. Mere illusions or superficial injuries could never have fooled those seasoned old monsters.
Only by making them appear indisputably grievously wounded could he silence the masses and firmly seize the initiative.
At the time, Xu Caiyi had been tightly bound by Lan Yin Huang Tang San's sinister vines, her aura faint and weak. She had been made to appear as though her life hung by a thread, as if she might perish at any moment, truly wrenching the hearts of everyone who cared about her.
Yet as both a brother and a father, how could Xu Kun truly be so cruel as to recklessly harm his own beloved family?
The words "genuine wounds" concealed much more beneath the surface, containing a carefully crafted explanation.
Xu Buwan was already a Half-Saint, while Xu Caiyi had also stepped across the threshold into the early Heavenly King Realm.
Compared to the vast majority of races, they undoubtedly stood among the upper ranks of the pyramid of powerhouses.
For cultivators at their level, true grave danger often did not lie in torn flesh or broken bones, but in soul injuries and Great Dao wounds that touched their foundations.
The prerequisite for "keeping hostages" was ensuring their lives and the basic possibility of recovery. That was also the bottom line allowing all parties to compromise temporarily in later negotiations.
Thus,