Today's fourth update: Chapter 3628! 4/4!
If the Huang Race and the Pig Race had merely been two unfamiliar forces that happened to encounter each other in the sea of stars today, then after confirming each other's identities and the gap in their strength, with Zhu Ganglie's shrewdness and pragmatism, he would have unquestionably chosen to stay far away rather than rashly start a war.
But the special thing about the current situation was that Zhu Ganglie's hard-line stance was not driven by a desire to seize resources or star islands. He was genuinely willing to gamble the Pig Race's prospects and elite forces in this Holy War, all to "protect" Xu Buwan and Xu Caiyi, two old acquaintances he considered immensely important!
He wanted to forcibly intervene through martial force, fight a battle, and then rightfully "rescue" the two of them from the Huang Race, taking them away from what he saw as a "place of trouble" and a "prison."
On the Huang Race's side, however, the greatest problem was precisely this—they were strong on the outside but hollow within!
Aside from the unfathomable Huang Lord and the mere dozen or so core retainers at his side, there was no other fighting force on the enormous star island.
If all the Huang Race's elites had been present, relying on the star island's defenses and the Huang Lord's might, let alone one Pig Race, even an allied army of several Tier-A Races of equal scale would likely have gained no advantage.
But now, Zhu Ganglie was willing to stake his entire race on the two of them, while the Huang Race just happened to be at its "weakest."
Granted, Xu Buwan had personally witnessed the Huang Lord's godlike method of "suppressing ten thousand ghosts with a single paper talisman,"