Lin Hao's Perfectly Timed Rescue

She looked only five or six years old, her delicate little face as lovely as a porcelain doll. But now, her large eyes, which should have been clear and lively, were filled with immense pain, fury, and deep exhaustion. Her body trembled faintly, and the pale golden light around her flickered as if she might vanish at any moment. As the incarnation of Blue Star's Heavenly Dao will, she was enduring the backlash from the entire planet, as well as the frenzied erosion and suppression of her origin by the "Heaven-Devouring Spirit-Locking Great Array" and the demon egg. She could feel those ten probing energies, like a festering sore clinging to the bone, had firmly locked onto this place—and onto her!

"Dad... Mom... Grandpa Han Feng... everyone..." Lin Xiaowan's voice was weak and trembling, choked with tears. "They... they're here... So many... so strong... Xiao Wan... Xiao Wan can't hold on much longer..." She tried to summon more power to protect everyone, but each movement made her body feel more illusory, while waves of agony crashed against her fragile consciousness.

"Xiao Wan, don't be afraid!" Ye Wan'er turned around, forcing down the heart-wrenching pain to give her a smile of utmost gentleness. "With your mom and dad here, no one can hurt you." Her voice was soft, yet carried an unquestionable strength.

Lin Tianxiao said nothing. He simply took another step forward, and the Phoenix Wings Gilded Rake appeared in his hand in an instant. He placed himself more firmly between his wife and daughter and everyone else, shielding them all behind him. He looked up at the sky, his gaze cold as ice that had lain for ten thousand years, and his killing intent swept out like a biting wind.

As if in response to his killing intent, the