Today's first update: Chapter 3469! 1/4!
Yang Yao, Shen-bao, and the others exchanged glances in secret. Though it lasted only an instant, it conveyed more than a thousand words.
They naturally understood the deeper meaning behind Xu Kun's actions—how was this kidnapping and extortion?
It was clearly a forced, premature, yet unavoidable "father-daughter reunion" and "crisis management" carried out in the most intense manner possible!
Faced with such a situation, they naturally supported it with both hands and feet. In fact, they had vaguely been looking forward to this for a long time.
The ones who truly had suffering they could not voice and were frantic with worry were the powerful figures of the other races, who did not know the truth but sincerely cared about Xu Caiyi and Xu Bu Wan.
If they knew Yang Yao and the others' true thoughts at this moment, their Dao Hearts would probably collapse on the spot as they threw back their heads and cried out in grief:
We were preparing to fight to the death and swear to save the princesses, so why did you surrender first?!
However, the stage had already been set, the gongs and drums were thunderous, and the arrow was already on the string.
To flawlessly cooperate with Xu Kun in finishing this grand performance between "kidnappers and victims," turning this unexpected crisis into an "established fact" that caused the least harm to all sides—especially Xu Kun's identity—required more than tacit understanding. It required acting skills exquisite enough to deceive the heavens themselves!
At this moment, the focus of the battlefield was Xu Caiyi's "miserable" appearance, like the sharpest needle stabbing into every pair of concerned eyes.
Shen-bao's heart-rending cries, as though they had emptied her very soul, echoed across the vast, deathly silent battlefield, adding even