The "Peerless Sacred Body" Who Needed the Goddess's Help (5K Chapter, Please Subscribe!) (Continued)

"It would simply mean Zhou Min dying in the Outer Domain, leaving you alone and helpless again. A minor with no family standing or patron, you would only become an even more pathetic pawn in Heavenly Origin City.

Then, my Lan Tuo Family would personally take over everything you have. Altering your memories would be no difficult task...

In the end, you would no longer possess even the slightest freedom to make the choices you still have now."

Lantuo Yan continued tightening the noose, having calculated every advantage and weakness of the human heart:

"You have no other choice."

He sat upright in the seat of honor, his gaze cold and forceful, his tone steering her with absolute certainty:

"Submit, and your aunt lives. You gain supreme resources and cultivate in peace. Resist, and Zhou Min dies. You become a captive pawn, your remaining years spent in a cage."

Two paths: one seemingly gentle, boiling the frog in warm water; the other, a brutally hopeless dead end that chilled her to the bone.

No way out.

Absolutely no way out.

Could someone help her?

Qi Xiyuan stood rooted to the spot, ice-cold all over, her fingertips white. The last trace of defiance in her eyes crumbled little by little.

She bit down hard on her lower lip, her eyes red, her delicate body already trembling slightly.

She could disregard her own fate. She could face hardship, oppression, and a treacherous road ahead without fear.

But she could not gamble with her aunt's life.

Zhou Min was the only family she had left in this world.

At last,

Her voice emerged hoarse and broken, steeped in utter helplessness, on the brink of surrender:

"I..."

One word spoken, half a lifetime imprisoned.

Once she finished that sentence,

She would become the bloodline