Today's fourth update: Chapter 3352! 4/4!
"Brother Jian!"
Su Xiaoxiao, who had been quietly standing behind Hao Jian, providing support and protection, finally snapped out of her initial shock and daze.
Her gentle, beautiful face was instantly filled with unconcealed worry and heartache. With a cry, greenwood radiance and a soft breeze surged around her, turning into a streak of light as she rushed forward to support her seemingly unsteady husband.
"Don't come over!"
Yet even as he endured pain and humiliation beyond anything he had ever experienced, Hao Jian gritted his teeth upon hearing Su Xiaoxiao's concerned voice. He forced himself to raise his massive arm, trembling slightly from the pain, and made a firm, resolute gesture to stop her.
His voice was distorted by the agony, yet it still carried an unquestionable will.
A man born between heaven and earth should stand tall and upright!
Especially before his own woman, at a time like this, he had to hold himself up. How could he let her see him at his most miserable? How could he let her support him?!
This concerned his dignity, the pride he held as a husband and as the "Human Race's Jian Shen"!
More importantly, to Hao Jian, the damage inflicted by Profound Unity Zheng-Gu's blow was not so much physical injury that could be healed, but an insult and trampling upon his very person that would be hard to erase!
He had to reclaim this score himself, in the most direct and violent way possible!
He abruptly raised his head. Within those enormous molten-gold eyes, what burned now was no longer fighting spirit, but towering fury so tangible it seemed capable of incinerating the eight desolations!
He fixed his gaze on the distant Profound Unity Zheng-Gu, whose aura was likewise beginning to