Today's third update: Chapter 3487! 3/4!
If the foundation was not firmly laid, how could one hope to one day stand atop the summit and seek the supreme Dao?
The hardships one had not swallowed in childhood would eventually become even fiercer obstacles on the road to growth, repaid tenfold.
Xu Kun understood this principle better than anyone.
For that very reason, in a sense, his nineteen-year separation from the two women had unexpectedly become a "blessing."
Had they not been separated back then, during the crucial years of their growth, given Xu Kun's deep love and protectiveness toward his own flesh and blood, he likely would have found it difficult to harden his heart and play the role of a strict mentor. More likely, he would have been a gentle, doting brother and loving father, equally unwilling to let them endure too many storms and hardships.
Yet those nineteen blank years had created a crucial opportunity to "reassess."
Only when Xu Kun observed his long-separated younger sister and daughter from the perspective of a near "stranger," stripping away the filter of familial affection, could he so precisely and ruthlessly see through all the problems hidden beneath their splendid façades.
This provided the clearest diagnosis for his next step of prescribing the right remedy.
Letting the two women be "injured" in battle was not only to set up the Heaven Deceiving Array and fool others; it was also the crucial Step One in Xu Kun's plan to sort out their paths and rebuild their foundations.
This first session of "treatment" officially began the moment they awakened from those carefully engineered injuries.
However, when Xu Kun, carrying such deep and complicated expectations, hurried eagerly toward the two women's temporary residence, he had not even stepped through the palace doors before