Today's first update: Chapter 2327! 1/4!
Xu Kun's breathing grew extremely heavy. Naturally, he could not accept such a reality.
Ever since Yuan had lost her bloodline and stayed by his side for so long, the wrongs she had once committed against Shen-bao, Daji, and the others had gradually faded away through time and her own conduct.
Even Shen-bao and the other victims had gradually come to accept her through their day-to-day interactions.
Once they learned of her past and realized that her sickly obsessive personality had merely been a false shell she used to protect herself from the misfortunes of her childhood—
Pity and empathy made everyone centered around Xu Kun feel even more heartache for Yuan.
Moreover, after exhausting the Yuan Ancestor's origin power and essence blood, she no longer had the ability to scheme against everyone as she once had. In the end, everything she had done was simply the result of being used by others.
Those who had used her included the Phoenix Lord, the Dragon Ancestor, and Belial!
She had been powerless to control her own fate. It was simply fate playing tricks.
From Xu Kun's perspective, since his loved ones were unharmed and Yuan had paid the price for what she had done, the hatred naturally dissipated.
If that were all, then they would have become complete strangers from then on, never interacting again until death. She would be her Yuan Lord, and he would be a human. They would become two parallel lines that might touch at certain points, but would share no bond.
Yet karma existed in the unseen. Something unclear had still happened between Xu Kun and her.
That relationship was not limited to the physical one. After all, Xu Kun had been out of control then, without any awareness