Today's first update: Chapter 3545! 1/4!
As a hypothetical enemy the Asura Race had long since "marked" and secretly instructed them to pay special "attention" to, the Mount Tai Ghost Race might not have understood the Huang Race's foundations as thoroughly as Xu Kun—that old acquaintance who had deep ties to the Ghost Race and even knew all its core racial secrets.
But after the Huang Race's forceful rise in the Second Tier War and its emergence as the focus of all races, they had naturally never relaxed their necessary intelligence gathering and analysis.
Even with the Asura Race enthusiastically providing the reassuring yet critical intelligence that the Huang Race "lacked top-tier combat power and had an unstable foundation," a brief review of the Huang Race's recent record was enough to make any rational opponent discard all contempt—
Within a single Tier War cycle, this race had risen like a comet tearing through the night sky. From struggling at the very bottom of the Wildlands Battlefield, once regarded as a land of exile, it had carved its way through five hundred Tier-B Races with a series of bloody, jaw-dropping upsets. It had forcibly crossed the Tier-A Chasm, seen as an insurmountable abyss, and ultimately entered the S-tier hall of the Thousand Races Sequence, symbolizing top-level power, ranking fifty-second!
Such a rate of rise and such ferocious achievements were rare even in the history of all races.
Underestimating such an opponent? The price would likely be far more than mere losses. It might very well be the prelude to annihilation.
Therefore, even though he had formed certain expectations regarding the Huang Race's "shortcomings" based on the Asura Race's intelligence, Song Jiang, as one of the leaders of an old-established S-tier force, had not chosen his general to meet the enemy