Today's first update: Chapter 3029! 1/4!
This suffocating, desolate atmosphere in meetings was no longer unfamiliar to those present.
Over time, it had even become a helpless norm.
Everyone missed Xu Kun equally, regardless of their strength or status. Yet Yang Yao, who had known Xu Kun the longest and now bore the heavy responsibility of leading humanity, undoubtedly carried the deepest pain and longing in her heart.
However, whenever the mood sank to its lowest point, she was always the first to pull herself together, drive away the gloom with a smile, and gently comfort everyone.
Yang Yao took a deep breath and shifted her gaze from the military map to Zhan Rourou beside her. Her voice carried concern and a trace of barely perceptible worry. "Rourou, those two divine maiden babies... still showing no signs of being born safely?"
That question tugged at everyone's hearts.
Eighteen years had passed.
After Caiyi, the Eldest Daughter of the Xu Family, had been safely born, Zhan Rourou had not only completed the dual divine inheritance with Xu Kun's help, but had also absorbed the remaining soul-source fragments of the Saint Angel Ancestor God Gal and the Fallen Angel Ancestor God Mona, successfully becoming pregnant with a pair of twin sisters.
Yet time had passed. The tiny Caiyi from back then had now grown into a graceful, lively young girl, while the twins in Zhan Rourou's womb seemed to have been forgotten by time itself. They had gestated for a full eighteen years, with no sign whatsoever of coming to term!
It was simply inconceivable, beyond ordinary understanding of life and birth!
In fact, three years earlier—at precisely the time Xu Kun had led the main force of the Huang clan out of the Wildlands Battlefield—Zhan Rourou had clearly felt unusual