Yesterday's fourth update: Chapter 2534! 4/4!
The descent of the black mist slowed. Xu Kun was drenched in cold sweat as he and Wu Meier approached the stone slab where a pattern had appeared, his arm simply bandaged and hanging at his side.
This time, it was no longer a pattern, but a line of text.
When one whale falls, all things flourish.
Wu Meier looked at Xu Kun, her eyes flickering. "What does that mean?"
Xu Kun gave a bitter smile. "You already know the answer. Why ask?"
Unable to accept such an outcome, Wu Meier threw her arms around Xu Kun as if she had gone mad. "No, I don't want this!"
Her delicate body trembled as boundless terror gripped her.
Unexpectedly, the one who had accompanied Xu Kun this far was Wu Meier, who had harbored sinister intentions and fed herself to the tiger.
Xu Kun rarely showed such gentleness as he stroked her hair. "What, you can't bear to part with me?"
Wu Meier said nothing, only cried.
This was not a matter of whether she could bear it or not. She simply could not accept Xu Kun sacrificing himself to save these primitive people who had nothing to do with him.
Whenever she imagined that scene, it felt as if a giant hand had clenched her heart tightly, hurting so badly that she could barely breathe.
At that moment, she understood. She had completely fallen in love with Xu Kun, loving him down to her bones.
It was something she had never dared to imagine before.
Xu Kun's reputation as a lecher had spread throughout all races. Those unfamiliar with him saw him as nothing but a lustful, vile scoundrel.
The Redeem Luck Sect, whose goal was to bring Xu Kun down, regarded this