Today's first update: Chapter 3309! 1/4!
"Unable to control oneself, subject to another's will... like a fate whose freedom is bound by invisible threads..."
The Wilderness Lord's calm words, seemingly infused with some strange magic, were like an Evening Drum, Morning Bell, exploding across the lake of Sikong Ting's heart, which had been muddled for nineteen years, and stirring up monstrous waves.
All the confusion, suspicion, self-doubt, and helplessness of the past seemed to be cleaved apart by a sharp ray of light at that moment, revealing the more complicated yet clearer outline of a truth long obscured by the fog of emotion.
Sikong Ting abruptly raised his head. His eyes, once blazing with anger and dimmed by worry, now burst forth with an almost scorching radiance. He was like a traveler who had staggered through endless darkness for too long and finally glimpsed the faint light of a distant lighthouse.
His voice trembled with irrepressible excitement and anticipation as he asked, "Were these words... from Yaya... from Artemis? Did she ask you to pass this message on to me?"
His heart, frozen in the depths of despair, suddenly came alive again and pounded violently.
The nightmare that had plagued him for nineteen years—the question of whether she had heartlessly abandoned him—seemed to have mostly dispersed at that moment. It was as though he had seized the only piece of driftwood in a vast ocean and found a brand-new direction in life that he had to strive for.
Facing Sikong Ting's expectant gaze, which was nearly blazing, Xu Kun's voice remained steady and devoid of personal emotion, as though he were merely stating an objective fact. "Just as you said, she is the divine maiden of the Titan Race. Her status is exalted, and any move involving her affects