Today's fourth update: Chapter 3632! 4/4!
Seeing that Xu Kun had actually accepted the challenge, and that his words seemed to imply he intended to contend with Zhu Ganglie, Xu Buwan swallowed the words of dissuasion that had reached her lips.
A flash of realization and contemplation crossed her beautiful eyes—yes, from Huang's deliberate rebuke and arrest earlier to his step-by-step escalation of the conflict...
He seemed to have been directing Zhu Ganglie's fury toward a direct confrontation with himself all along.
Could it be... that he had intended to fight Zhu Ganglie from the start?
Could it be... that this pig-headed man had been his target from the very beginning?
With that thought, Xu Buwan felt somewhat reassured. At the same time, she gently held back Xu Caiyi, who was still trying to rush out and mediate, and slightly shook her head, signaling for her to wait and see.
"There is no need to make things so troublesome."
Within the Kirin Manifestation, Xu Kun's voice returned to its initial calmness and majesty. "Your pig race can try to seize the island by force right now. If you can take it, everything on this island will naturally belong to your pig race."
Then his tone abruptly shifted, carrying the boldness and aloofness of one challenging the starry river:
"But the battlefield between you and me... is not this tiny patch of land."
The Chaos Kirin Manifestation raised a forehoof and pointed beyond the Star Island, toward the vast, endless, ceaselessly surging Law River, filled with boundless danger and chaos:
"Do you dare to fight without restraint above this Law River, amidst the void of the starry sea?"
The moment those words were spoken, not only Zhu Ganglie, but every pig race expert, as well as Xu Buwan and her