First update today: Chapter 3325! 1/4!
Spring rain, summer cicadas—the weather will be fine tomorrow.
Autumn winds rise, snowflakes drift; beneath the sea, the seasons cannot be seen!
This gentle song, which had arisen from nowhere yet seemed to originate from the very beginning of the soul, was like the first ray of sunlight piercing through heavy clouds.
That beam of redeeming light pierced through layer upon layer of despairing phantoms, falling with flawless precision upon the cold, lifeless seabed of the soul and illuminating the tiny figure swimming desperately toward her.
"Yi Yi!"
Almost instinctively, Shen-bao called out with the last trace of strength in her soul.
As she watched the child rush toward her without hesitation, the fortitude, responsibility, and boundless love she had accumulated over nineteen years as a mother erupted from Shen-bao like a dormant volcano, displayed in full.
It was a power that transcended personal gains and losses, born from the inheritance of life and the instinct to protect!
At that moment, warm ripples spread across the once-dead seabed.
The bitter tears that had been building for nineteen years out of longing for Xu Kun, nearly drowning her soul, seemed to be cleansed by a miraculous purifying power at that cry of "Mother," transforming and sublimating entirely into an even vaster, more resilient tide of maternal love!
That tide was gentle, yet contained inexhaustible strength—enough to lift up any drowning soul.
A second ago, Shen-bao had still been trapped in that unprecedented illusion of despair—Xu Kun's body and soul had been obliterated, the child born of their love had died in the womb, and all hope and color in the world had been stripped away.
Yet as Xu Caiyi's figure pierced through every illusory barrier of demonic sound, ignoring every shackle upon the soul