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

Just as she never thought she would go to study in a city as big as Canghai, life is constantly changing.

So even if today's experience is miraculous, it may not be as important in the future.

The Fu Hua of the past would not have thought about these things. She was used to living by going with the flow, without her own opinions or dreams.

Even after what happened today, nothing will change. But for the first time, Fu Hua is struggling with the future. What will happen next?

This usually quiet girl was a little irritable at the moment. She had never felt such complicated emotions before, nor had she ever felt such affection for a member of the opposite sex.

Fu Hua, who was already quite young, had no idea how to deal with this situation. Looking at the sleeping Su Qing'an, she suddenly felt even more frustrated.

In the end, all she could do was secretly think bitterly to herself.

I'll kick you out as soon as you wake up!

However, compared to her subsequent efforts to keep her footsteps down, this was just like a flailing, bluffing kitten, utterly intimidating to anyone watching.

Kind of cute.

...

...

When Su Qing'an woke up, the weather outside had changed from morning to dusk, which was approaching night.

Golden light, partially obscured by the curtains, lingered in a corner of the room, while dust motes, stirred by a gentle breeze, rose and fell.

The boy threw off the covers and stepped barefoot onto the ground.

The air was slightly cool, yet warmed by the sunlight.

Is it spring or summer?

He drew back the curtains, and light tore through the darkness, flooding his pupils.

The area in this direction seemed to be blocked by buildings. The boy looked at the sky through a narrow slit between the buildings, where the sky was a bright red, as if flames were burning in the clouds.

Looking down, you can see many children playing and running around in the streets and parks.

Some elderly people were taking a walk together, while some housewives were carrying grocery baskets and chatting and laughing on their way home.

It was an ordinary and mundane scene; the pre-civilization didn't seem as different from my own past as I had imagined.

however……

In the not-too-distant future, these images will all become dust of the times, the past of history.

The white color, representing death, will sweep across this land, and peace and tranquility will be completely destroyed.

Since the outbreak of the Honkai is inevitable, all I can do right now is to protect that girl.

Suddenly, Su Qing'an caught sight of a familiar figure. She watched as the girl carrying two bags of groceries slowly walked home.

He slightly parted his lips and opened the window.

8. I will teach you the Tai Xu Sword Qi.

As the setting sun slowly sank into the sunset, its crimson glow cast long shadows of the two figures.

The rustling of birdsong and human voices mingled with the rustling of leaves and branches, reaching my ears.

A gentle breeze brushed against her hair and the hem of her clothes, seemingly swaying her shadow and weaving them into a hazy, dreamlike picture.

The girl said to Su Qing'an beside her in an annoyed tone:

"Su Qing'an, you can't just do something as dangerous as jumping off a building!"

She glanced helplessly at the boy, who was wearing pajamas, barefoot, and looked completely unaffected.

At this moment, he wore a faint smile, his dark eyes filled with golden light, and he held the bag he had been holding earlier in his hand.

Fu Hua felt as if her worldview had been torn into strange shapes.

Three seconds ago, she had just looked up when she saw Su Qing'an suddenly leap from the eighth floor and land lightly on the ground.

Her mood went through several cycles, from bewilderment to worry to confusion. The girl felt like her heart was being challenged, and she began to question whether there was something wrong with her initial confidence.

The person in front of me is completely strange.

Would a normal human being jump off a building just to get somewhere faster?

The mentally ill patient thought she could fly, which is why she did this. However, Su Qing'an landed unharmed and even calmly took the bag from her hand. This matter-of-fact manner made the girl doubt that she was the one who was wrong about common sense.

It was obvious that his initial thought that bringing Su Qing'an home would be safe was completely wrong.

It's ridiculous to try to confine someone with your own way of thinking and common sense. With [Hidden]'s ability, she should have realized this long ago.

Upon hearing Fu Hua's gentle questioning, Su Qing'an realized for the first time how vulnerable the girl before her was.

A single, ordinary tank-class Honkai Beast could easily tear her life apart. Her martial arts, which had not yet developed into a coherent system, combined with her slender and frail limbs, could only deal with the weakest assassins.

This made it difficult for the boy to feel safe.

It's difficult to change the future for the better, but it's always been easy to change it for the worse.

No one can say for sure whether Fu Hua can still follow the original path and become the Crimson Iris Immortal 55,000 years later.

It would not be surprising if he died suddenly due to an accident.

Su Qing'an began to struggle with whether or not to temporarily leave Fu Hua's life, as if even a few steps away from her would cause him unavoidable anxiety.

This is an era on the verge of collapse. Far from this city lies a distant experimental field filled with Honkai Beasts and vast amounts of Honkai energy, where accidents could happen at any moment.

Even if a small-scale collapse occurred in the next second, giving birth to an Emperor-level Honkai Beast, Su Qing'an would not find it strange.

The pre-civilization was destined to be a terrifying hell on earth.

All Su Qing'an had to do was ensure her safety.

As for everything else, it has nothing to do with him now.

The boy, gazing at the scene beside the road, responded:

"It's okay, no one will see."

He became increasingly adept at using the skill of [Hidden]. He intentionally did not separate himself from Fu Hua's subconscious, but instead blocked the vision of the surrounding life forms, which created the strange state in which only she could see Su Qing'an.

That is why Su Qing'an still did not discover the fact that Yu Duchen had shown the girl the power of [hidden] [power].

Fu Hua glanced at his ankle, where a scar was visible, but ultimately remained silent.

This person seems to have a past that he doesn't know about, completely different from the world and life he has experienced. It's as if he lives in the stories of urban legends, and has gone through countless bloody storms before finally arriving in the normal world.

Whether it's the faint scars of varying depths on his body, his strange abilities, his physical qualities that surpass those of ordinary people, or even the martial arts level he possesses that far exceeds his own, all of these indicate that Su Qing'an has an abnormal past.

Because it is obvious that only abnormal experiences can cultivate abnormal abilities.

Tigers in zoos don't need to learn to hunt; they can be fed without any training. They don't need to hone their bodies or develop fighting skills. But tigers that live alone in the wild are completely different.

The differences between humans can be like the differences between these two, creating an irreparable distance. Fu Hua once saw her father use a short-range force to shatter an ancient tree as thick as a waist.

She could clearly understand that normal humans were two completely different beings compared to her father.

In this technologically advanced yet terrifying era, martial arts schools cannot survive without genuine skills.

Su Qing'an's situation was even more extreme. The girl's martial arts skills were still shallow, so she couldn't see through the boy's abilities, but she understood that Su Qing'an was definitely stronger than her father.

This is true even in martial arts alone.

There's no magic among martial artists that allows one to see through another's skill level at a glance, but Su Qing'an's use of force-dissipating techniques and light movements cannot be explained simply by high physical fitness.

Fu Hua immediately realized that Su Qing'an had a high level of martial arts skill.

This person seems to have never thought of hiding anything from me.

That's really strange.

But that was all the girl was thinking. When she said Su Qing'an was strange, she didn't realize that she herself was strange.

Normally, if you bring a stranger home and find that the other person is far more powerful than you, your first reaction should be a sense of crisis and a vague regret or fear. But Fu Hua's reaction was just a little surprised.

It seemed as if she subconsciously knew that Su Qing'an wouldn't hurt her.

Just as Fu Hua was lost in thought, Su Qing'an broke the silence with a word.

What groceries did you buy?

The girl glanced at the bag he had taken and instinctively replied:

"Two pieces of pork, one green pepper, one eggplant, and some spices."

Su Qing'an felt the weight of the bag and said:

Is the rice cooked in the rice cooker?

She replied naturally:

"It's been fine for a while now, it's just being kept warm."

Su Qing'an asked:

Do you have rock sugar and seasonings at home?

The girl thought for a moment and said:

"Yes, we have all of those, including dried osmanthus flowers and many medicinal herbs."

Fu Hua realized something was wrong and asked:

"...Why are you asking these questions?"

Su Qing'an looked at her with a puzzled expression, then said matter-of-factly:

"Of course I'll cook. If we have osmanthus and pork, would you like braised pork with osmanthus?"

The young girl was taken aback for a moment. She actually had some doubts about the other person's cooking skills, but faced with the question, she still answered honestly:

"I don't dislike it."

"Stir-fried green peppers and pork?"

"is acceptable."

"Minced meat and eggplant?"

"I don't dislike it."