Today's second update: Chapter 2690! 2/4!
Yue Chan'er trusted her own brother just as Xu Kun trusted Yang Yao and his brothers and sisters' abilities.
But having someone guard the home was not the goal. Entering the Wildlands Battlefield after seemingly failing to break through was itself a major move Xu Kun had made at a crossroads in his life.
Bringing Yue Chan'er and the Twelve Moon Maidens into the Wildlands Battlefield had been beyond his expectations, but this change was not a bad thing. On the contrary, it gave Xu Kun, who had originally planned only to gather Mo Chou, the other Demon Sound Race members, and the natives of the Plague Realm Ruins, a few intimate companions by his side.
He would not be... quite so lonely.
In Xu Kun's plan, this loneliness of his was meant to last for a long time.
So what exactly was Xu Kun's overall plan? What did it entail? When had he begun devising it? What would mark its beginning, and what would mark its end?
First, the origin of Xu Kun's plan lay in his past as a chess piece, in the mindset he had developed under the step-by-step calculations of the people led by Uncle Yang—a desire to break free from fate and take control of his own life.
Along his path of growth, many footprints seemed to have been arranged long ago. Though in most cases, they were growth paths laid out by his elders, after Yang Jian entered the Myriad Races Battlefield as a racial leader, calculations from all directions became far more frequent.
Xu Kun vaguely felt a powerless dread, like a storm was about to descend.
His intuition was right. The tallest tree in the forest was bound to be battered by the wind. Each