Today's second update: Chapter 3494! 2/4!
Heh, just as expected!
So the knife was finally revealed, was it?
Xu Buwan's heart tightened, and her gaze instantly sharpened as she stared deeply at Xu Kun.
Sure enough, he had no intention of making a losing deal. Before entering the Holy War, he intended to squeeze every last bit of "remaining value" from them.
She wanted to hear just what this deeply calculating Huang Lord wanted her and Caiyi to do.
Just as Xu Buwan held her breath and focused, preparing to hear Xu Kun state his "conditions"—
"Clang—!"
A clear, resounding phoenix cry suddenly came from the distant sky, its piercing note instantly shattering the slightly stagnant atmosphere within the hall.
The cry was urgent, carrying an obvious warning.
Xu Buwan and Xu Caiyi both stirred, instinctively turning back. They thought something had happened within the Phoenix Race, or that a message had arrived.
Yet when the figure pierced through the clouds and rapidly approached, they saw that it was not a magnificent, multicolored phoenix, but a Snow Phoenix whose feathers seemed carved from ice and snow, with a cold and aloof bearing.
This Snow Phoenix was clearly a member of the Huang Race. It landed directly before the hall and, before it could even fully assume human form, urgently spoke toward Xu Kun, its voice carrying unprecedented gravity.
"Huang Lord! The myriad races have been shaken!"
Those six words alone seemed to weigh a thousand tons. Everyone in the hall—whether the Huang Race generals or Xu Buwan and her niece—tensed at once, instantly pulled from the discussion of quotas and conditions as they sensed the oppressive tension of an approaching storm.
Xu Kun's heart jolted.
Only then did he recall the sudden, intense palpitation he had felt when his