Third update today: Chapter 3575! 3/4!
Unfortunately, the world was ever-changing, and the board had already shifted.
Xu Kun had yet to reach the time to return to the human race and reclaim command of his old forces.
And using the entirely new identity of the Lord of the Wild Race to stand above the ghost race and forcibly absorb them would not only violate his strategic positioning for the wild race—"rise independently, rely on no one"—but also greatly risk exposing the true identity he had kept deeply hidden.
Therefore, when it came to dealing with the complicated historical issue left behind by the Mount Tai Ghost Race, the human race now had only three paths to weigh, each one entangled with far-reaching consequences and staggering costs.
The first was forceful annexation: take them in as wings beneath their own.
This was a strategy even more thorough and more Tyrannical than the Asura Race's so-called "recruitment."
What it required was not the loose, ambiguous subordinate cooperation of the Asura Race's "Seven Sons," but complete integration and Shared Prosperity like that of the Gleaming Moon Spirit Cat Race, the Light and Dark Elf Race, and the Northern Wolf Clan—from bloodlines to civilization, from resources to vital foundations—turning the Mount Tai Ghost Race completely into an extension of the human race and building an even greater community of shared destiny.
If this plan succeeded, the human race would directly control the Gate of the Underworld, the "golden key" to the netherworld, gaining endless netherworld resources and strategic depth. The benefits would be unprecedented.
However, its prerequisite was exceptionally harsh: it had to be carried out in the name of the human race, personally enforced through Xu Kun's own prestige and strength.
This was precisely the ideal blueprint the former "Kun God"