Today's third update: Chapter 3535! 3/4!
"Big ba... cough, Uncle Huang..."
She corrected herself in time, but her question went straight to the heart of the matter. "If that's the case, these Star Islands are scattered so widely and so far apart that teams from different races might be separated by vast 'rivers of light' and never even see one another.
Wouldn't everyone mostly be left passively waiting for the islands to drift, waiting for chance encounters?
Then wouldn't the so-called conflicts and 'discussions of the Dao' between races be... full of randomness? They might not even get to fight for a very long time?"
She had raised an exceptionally sharp observation.
Indeed, this was worlds apart from the format of the First and Second Tier Wars.
In the first two stages, the races had clearly divided, fixed battlefields with adjoining territories. They forged distant alliances and attacked nearby enemies, formed vertical and horizontal coalitions, clashed head-on, and plotted schemes... Every act of war had a relatively clear stage and target.
But in this Final Saint War, within this vast, boundless ocean of laws dotted with countless islands, whether you could even encounter an enemy had itself become the first uncertainty.
If the so-called "discussion of the Dao" and competition could not even bring opponents face-to-face, then wouldn't they become empty talk?
"Haha, excellent question!" Xu Kun nodded approvingly, his eyes revealing a look that said, As expected, she thought of that.
"This question is precisely what distinguishes 'participants' from 'competitors.'"
He patiently explained, "For more than ninety percent of the races in the past Myriad Races Sequence, the situation you described was their reality.
This was especially true for races ranked Tier-B and below, who had few participants and limited individual strength.
After entering Two Realms Mountain, their