Today's fourth update: Chapter 3560! 4/4!
He slowly raised his head, his gaze passing over the chaotic battlefield and fixing firmly on the Black Robe Figure at the very front of the Huang clan's formation—the Lord of the Great Wilds, who had not moved an inch from beginning to end, as though he had merged with the Star Islands beneath his feet.
That calm, almost indifferent attitude stood in glaring contrast to the bloody clamor of the battlefield.
"Let's see whether you can truly sit by and watch this little girl's soul scatter and vanish!"
Song Jiang sneered inwardly.
At present, although both sides were locked in battle, they still held considerable strength in reserve.
On the Mount Tai Ghost Race's side, a group of top-tier combatants led by Jade Kirin Lu Junyi had yet to enter the fray. On the Huang clan's side, that mysterious Lord of the Great Wilds and his core guards also remained still.
At the beginning of a Final Saint War that would determine a race's aura of luck, whoever lost patience first and committed all their true trump cards and top forces to a local slaughter could lose the initiative and fall into a disadvantage in the broader contest to come.
In Song Jiang's eyes, Xu Caiyi, this unexpected variable, was no longer merely a threat that needed to be eliminated. She had become a "scale" with which to weigh both sides' resolve and patience.
He was certain that the Huang clan had sent her out for a deeper purpose—perhaps to probe them, perhaps to disrupt the situation.
"Since you wish to 'cast a stone to test the way,' then why can't I simply 'invite you into the jar'?"
He intended to use the Mount Tai Ghost Race's true elites to lay down