Investing in the Empress's junior sister, she broke through her defenses after comparison.

Xiangling looked at her father's anxious and guilty expression, shook her head vigorously, and tears fell, tracing a crystal arc in the air.

"no!"

Her answer was resolute and without the slightest hesitation!

"Xiangling has never resented her father!"

Thor was completely stunned.

He stared blankly at his daughter, her pretty face, streaked with tears, filled with seriousness and determination.

Xiangling continued, her voice choked with emotion, yet filled with a moving pride.

"Father, to protect all the people under heaven, you alone guard this barren land!"

"With a father like you, Xiangling... Xiangling feels nothing but endless pride and honor!"

She knew that if her father hadn't been here, his body forming a dam, that terrifying chaotic maze would have already devoured countless star fields, turning billions of lives into withered bones.

Since ancient times, loyalty and righteousness have been difficult to reconcile.

Her father chose the greater good.

He didn't abandon her; he simply... chose to protect more people.

In Xiangling's heart, her father was not an absent father, but a towering and invincible hero!

"Father!"

Xiangling raised her head, and her eyes, washed with tears, were surprisingly bright.

"In Xiangling's heart, you are the greatest hero in the world!"

Boom!

This statement was more shocking than any thunderbolt before!

It pierced right through the mental defenses that Thor had built up through millennia of solitude, and crashed into the softest part of his soul!

Great hero...

She...she said I was a great hero?

Thor's body trembled violently, and the lightning-patterned cane he had been gripping tightly slipped from his grasp and fell into the void with a clatter. It was then held up by an invisible force and suspended to the side.

Two streams of turbid tears flowed uncontrollably from the corners of his aged eyes!

Tears abound!

Ten thousand years!

It's been ten thousand years!

In this desolate place, he endured the corrosive effects of boundless loneliness and the erosion of chaotic energy, his body and soul constantly suffering immense pain.

He never told anyone about it.

He also thought that this suffering would never be understood by anyone.

But now, his daughter, his most beloved little darling, understands!

She understands everything!

"It was worth it..."

Thor's cracked lips trembled as he muttered to himself.

"It was all... worth it!"

Ten thousand years of perseverance, ten thousand years of loneliness, ten thousand years of suffering all seemed to vanish like smoke in the face of his daughter's words, "great hero."

All the efforts were perfectly demonstrated at this moment.

At this moment, his long-dead heart seemed to be infused with endless warmth, giving his decaying body a faint glimmer of life.

Slowly, with all his might, he raised his withered hand, which was nothing but skin and bones, and tremblingly tried to touch his daughter's cheek.

Seeing this, Xiangling quickly stepped forward and gently pressed her cheek against her father's cold and rough palm.

"Father……"

She closed her eyes, feeling the fatherly love that had been lost for thousands of years, and her tears flowed even more profusely.

Thor's rough hands gently stroked his daughter's smooth face. Feeling the warm touch, a genuine, satisfied smile finally appeared on his aged face.

Although that smile was uglier than crying.

Ye Feng, who was standing to the side, was also slightly moved when he saw this scene.

He hung the purple-gold wine gourd back on his waist, crossed his arms, and watched quietly.

For a god-king who has suppressed evil lands for ten thousand years to cry like a child, perhaps only blood ties can do that.

Just then, Thor's emotions calmed down a little, and his hand, which was stroking his daughter's cheek, paused slightly.

His gaze passed over Xiangling's shoulder and landed on the ever-relaxed young man in white.