Today's third update: Chapter 3551! 3/4!
After the Asura Race rode the momentum of the powerful races that had once joined forces to besiege the Demon Race, and with the tacit approval or support of top races such as the Dragon Race, they brought the old royal race, the Demon Race, down from its pedestal in one stroke and successfully ascended to the status of a "royal race," their ambitions and reach rapidly began to expand.
The Asura Race sought suitable pieces for its grand Seven Sons Plan, and the Mount Tai Ghost Race, which controlled the Gate of the Underworld and possessed immense potential, naturally became an exceptionally tempting target.
Thus, all manner of overt and covert "appeasement" offers, promises of benefits, and even coercive measures began streaming endlessly toward the Mount Tai Ghost Race.
For many among the Liangshan stars, who already felt pressure over their prospects of independence and lacked confidence in humanity, this was undoubtedly an enormously attractive "new option."
An olive branch extended by a new, powerful royal race on the rise, compared with a neighbor barely able to protect itself—how one should choose seemed self-evident.
Thus, led by Song Jiang, a resolute, massive, and increasingly powerful "pro-Asura Appeasement Faction" quickly took shape and grew.
Had Chao Gai not relied on his special status and the firm opposition of some core Tiangang stars to obstruct them with all his might, the Mount Tai Ghost Race might have changed allegiance more than two hundred years ago and become one of the Asura Race's "Seven Sons"!
Besides the "old-school conservative faction" led by Chao Gai, which favored humanity, and the "radical appeasement faction" led by Song Jiang, which favored the Asura Race, the remaining Liangshan stars formed a centrist faction, also known as the independence faction,