Today's fourth update: Chapter 3724! 4/4!
And what about herself?
She was Xu Kun's daughter, the darling of the myriad races, a "Proud Daughter of Heaven" surrounded by loving gazes and precious gifts wherever she went.
The elders of her race held her in the palms of their hands, terrified she might suffer even the slightest grievance.
Her father's former enemies—those who had once fought him to the death on the battlefield—mostly put away their hostility upon seeing her, even offering her a few friendly smiles.
She did not need to be like Yao Yao's Mother, watched intently by countless eyes from the moment she could remember, burdened with the mountain-like responsibility of "shouldering the race's future."
She only needed to be a beloved "Little Princess," growing up happily, cultivating without a care in the world, then steadily walking toward a bright future along the broad road her elders had already paved for her.
—This was everyone's expectation of her.
But it was not what she expected of herself.
She had never told anyone.
The scattered clues she had quietly recorded during her travels, regarding the hidden schemes of various racial factions.
The fragments she had caught from the sighs and hesitant expressions of elders after they drank, regarding the hidden dangers threatening humanity's future.
The silent self-examinations she underwent in the dead of night, facing the Haotian Pagoda phantom alone and asking herself again and again, What kind of person do you want to become?
She knew all too well how many unexploded mines lay buried beneath humanity's surface prosperity.
She knew all too well that aside from glory and reverence, her father had also left this race with countless lingering dangers and covetous enemies that had not been uprooted.
She knew all too well how much goodwill