Regarding the question of whether one thousand lives are enough to beat Honkai Impact 3rd.

At the same time, a mysterious sound resounded, like the beating of a giant heart. After only two earth-shaking tremors, Honkai energy, like boiling blood within the earth's crust, gushed forth and landed precisely on the Xuanyuan Sword, forming a connecting bridge.

Is it Chi You?!

The Xuanyuan Sword and Chi You have been linked for thousands of years. In essence, the Xuanyuan Sword has been infected and become part of Chi You's body. Therefore, a mechanism of its own immune system reacted when the Xuanyuan Sword needed Honkai energy.

Su Qing'an is no longer just facing the remnant soul of a thousand years, Himeko Murata, who has been manipulated into a puppet. He also has to face the assistance given to them by the Judgment-level Honkai Beast Chi You.

The holy spear he used before was named "Spear of Longinus," but perhaps Su Qing'an is now facing an existence of equal renown.

The legendary Eternal Spear, the declaration of the Great God.

That is, Gungnir.

In Norse mythology, this is the exclusive weapon used by the chief god Odin. Its sole function is that it will always hit its target when thrown.

It was like fate.

Now it's as if this gun is flying towards him, aimed at the Cyclops's eye, piercing Achilles' ankle, telling countless epic tales and laments, conveying the gods' declarations and decrees, and finally reaching his own heart.

It was as if He was speaking to the boy:

Su Qing'an, you deserve to die.

Faced with these facts that had all been revealed, Su Qing'an simply smiled. Of course, there was nothing funny about what he was going through, but he always felt that other things were worth laughing at.

You think Su Qing'an is just an ordinary person with a worthless life. He has been struggling and barely surviving until now, and in the end, he only has less than ten years left to live.

Even if he survives today's battle, he won't live for another five years.

Perhaps it won't happen for three years.

But if it could bring him the result he wanted, then dying wouldn't be a loss.

only……

I think I've broken the contract again, hua.

Time and time again, even though this is the thing I hate doing the most.

Looking at the girl in the black ancient dress, Su Qing'an made up her mind.

160. Xiao Su, please come back?

Formed from remnant souls and Honkai energy, she is a beautiful young girl dressed in a dark black outfit from ancient times.

The only two colors on it are the muted gold threads, which, together with different shades of black, create cloud patterns, serving as an exquisite and magnificent decoration.

She looked at the silent boy hidden inside the armor in front of her with a cold expression.

Ji Xuanyuan, Ji Lin.

In this ancient era, the ancient sages who once tried their best to protect the people are now filled with resentment and malice.

What she held in her slender fingers was the jet-black Xuanyuan Sword.

Himeko stood there like a puppet, her dull eyes showing no sign of struggle.

Her consciousness remained under Ji Xuanyuan's control. The memory loop caused by that emotion led her to the most crucial point in her life, thus forcing her to continuously indulge in this dream.

This is why Su Qing'an did not choose to step forward to stop him; he could not guarantee that Ji Xuanyuan would not directly attack Ji Zi.

The girl, dressed in a single layer of clothing, seemed to be expressing a sense of longing and nostalgia for this physical vessel.

Even if there is nothing else here but a scene of devastation from the battle.

But in the brief moments of breathing; in the real sensation of the breeze caressing her cheeks; in the unmistakable colors clearly reflected in her eyes, in the face of so many things she had silently longed for for countless years, the girl still felt a heartfelt joy that permeated her very bones…

Hatred.

How can one not hate?

Imprisoned in darkness that seemed to be beneath an abyss, unable to sleep, he survived alone for a thousand years, possessing his own consciousness.

How can one not hate this long-standing loneliness and suffering?

Su Qing'an said earnestly:

"Red Kite, I have not betrayed you."

She said softly:

"Danzhu is dead, Cangxuan is dead, Lianshan is dead, and I am actually dead too, leaving only this inhuman and ghostly appearance."

"You're saying... Chi Yuan didn't betray us? Maybe, but does it matter?"

Su Qing'an did not answer. He was just glad that Fu Hua was not here, because even though they both knew that the Ji Xuanyuan in front of them was not the real Yellow Emperor from a thousand years ago.

But this answer and question still made the immortal feel sad.

And he... didn't want to make her sad.

Perhaps, going to the battlefield alone was an inevitable outcome.

Ji Xuanyuan suddenly revealed a bewitching and morbid smile. She laughed loudly, mocking the boy's silence, and venting her endless malice.

moment.

【定风波】 and the Xuanyuan Sword struck out jarring notes once more.

Boom boom boom.

Each clash of swords created countless air rings and sonic booms.

Like phantoms, the extreme speed of the sword intertwined across the entire battlefield. A girl dressed in ancient black robes engaged in a fierce battle with a boy in black armor, wielding an ancient sword.

It was no longer a turn-based game like before. The two players' super mobility allowed the battlefield to extend beyond a small area. Two dark lines drew countless tracks in this desolate deep-sea ruin, almost obliterating the original shapes of the land.

Kiana and the others' battlefield was also affected. The combat power of those clones was no less than that of any normal A-rank Valkyrie. The trio who needed to take care of Sato Yuno could only barely hold their own for the time being, while Su Qing'an's efforts to pull the battle back prevented them from being greatly disturbed.

Those who didn't know that Su Qing'an had undergone artificial holy marks transplantation had already expressed amazement at his current combat power, but they also felt unprecedented anxiety about the increasingly unpredictable battlefield.

However, the large amount of physical exertion and the limitations of one's own abilities rendered these emotions useless.

Although all three of them have cheat codes, the existence of those things is not a good thing in the current situation.

Raiden Mei, who cannot control the power of the Herrscher, Kiana, who is unaware that she is the Herrscher's original form, and Bronya, who has not yet become the Herrscher of Reason in the Sea of ​​Quanta.

Unlike the protagonists who suddenly become overpowered in typical shonen manga, even the main characters in this corrupted world can never do whatever they want.

……

The high altitude is also their brief battlefield.

This unknown armor uses gamma particles and Honkai energy to create a brief levitation ability.

Yes, Su Qing'an cannot fly.

But with just this one ability, combined with martial arts, Honkai energy techniques, and the speed of [Thousand Stars], he showed no sign of being at a disadvantage against this girl's sword that could fly freely.

Ji Xuanyuan's fighting style is the most basic and unadorned close combat. Just as modern martial arts are only suitable for killing, most of the martial arts she knows are used to deal with Honkai Beasts, which are usually large in size.

Su Qing'an has mastered all the martial arts of these two schools, with the killing techniques being the very martial arts he was initially taught.

With only this level of skill, he wouldn't be a match for the teenager.

Let alone the current Ji Xuanyuan, who only knows how to exploit his memories and fighting instincts to act recklessly, even the original Yellow Emperor...

Su Qing'an also has the confidence that he will never lose in martial arts.

"You lost."

Before the words were finished, the boy, falling like a meteor, swung his sword and unleashed the [Time Slash].

That was a sword strike that was much faster and more frequent than the previous ones.

So the sword blade swept across the opponent's soft and delicate neck. This should have been a fatal blow, but instead, no blood appeared in mid-air.

It was as if he had struck at nothingness; the enemy that Su Qing'an had been fighting and wielding his sword against was nothing but a non-existent mirage.

But the boy's face beneath the armored helmet remained expressionless. It wasn't that he had anticipated the sword would be useless; rather, he simply believed that Chi You's assistance to Ji Xuanyuan went far beyond this.

Besides, she was just playing around.

The girl laughed heartily, her beautiful face bearing the joyful smile of someone who had tasted a sweet fruit.

She casually paused in mid-air, seemingly unconcerned about the feeling of a sword piercing her neck, and asked:

"What is your name? A descendant from a thousand years in the future."

Her voice echoed in the vast space, like a wandering ghost, floating beside everyone's ears.

The boy replied:

"Su Qing'an."

Ji Xuanyuan couldn't help but laugh and said:

"Su Qing'an, how much of your lifespan did you consume in that brief minute of fighting with me?"

"A week? Or a month?"

Su Qing'an silently slashed across her waist, but just like her previous responses, it was a meaningless attack.

It was as if he had struck an entire ocean.

The boy vaguely understood something; perhaps it was the ocean.

A sea of ​​Honkai energy.

Ji Xuanyuan does not have a physical body; she is an energy body created by Honkai energy. However, due to unknown reasons and extremely high density of Honkai energy, she appears to be indistinguishable from a real person.

Human weaknesses naturally don't apply to her, and even pure weapon strikes lose their meaning.

The help Chi You gave her was nothing more than linking his unused Honkai energy with her, turning Ji Xuanyuan into a humanoid BOSS whose health bar would never run out.

She ignored Su Qing'an's actions and asked with a smile:

"How much longer do you have to live? Seven years? Your vitality is like a candle flickering in the wind; it will go out almost without being blown away."

Are you courting death?

"How stupid, how stupid, how stupid! Whether you win or not, you won't live much longer after this battle."

Kiana, Raiden Mei, and Bronya, who were in the middle of a battle, reacted to this on almost different levels.

They were only curious about what kind of new special armor it was; Destiny's technology was even more advanced than they had imagined.