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

He should therefore have a limit, and the time required for human wisdom and understanding to reach that limit is immeasurable.

However, there exist limits, which are situations that even an intelligence devoid of arrogance needs to be very concerned about.

Sato Yuno tried to refute, she said:

Even so, it won't be that fast.

The little girl stretched out her hands and drew a very large circle in the air. She earnestly recited:

“I will achieve my goal before then. I am very capable, so it doesn’t matter if I don’t kill him.”

The Honkai consciousness said indifferently:

You will kill him, for you have no choice, my apostle.

"——".

The slight sound of the door opening made Sato Yuno understand the specific meaning of those words. She stared blankly at the boy who stepped into the room step by step.

Verbal negativity indicates a state of complete indifference to the collapsing consciousness, but behavioral negativity is quite the opposite.

Even if killing Su Qing'an wasn't actually that important, after Sato Yuno showed concern for this human, he became the most suitable person in the mind of the Honkai consciousness to make the girl completely sink into the Honkai side.

If he had personally killed someone even slightly important, then breaking the girl's fragile bottom line and completely igniting a war would have been even easier.

Just like a wild beast drinking blood for the first time, the savagery that stimulates its instinctive genes will naturally drive it to follow its own desires and plunder other lives.

From the very beginning, the Honkai consciousness had no intention of letting Sato Yuno truly stop.

Even if it means destroying some of the purity of the soul, it doesn't matter. As long as a delicate balance is achieved between the utilization rate of the power and the obedience of the Herrscher, it will be considered a success.

The Honkai consciousness could not truly regard the Herrscher as its own daughter. It does not possess any human emotions. Even its seemingly human conversations with Sato Yuno are actually full of calculations and imitations.

Therefore, regarding Sato Yuno's own wishes, the Honkai Consciousness has no possibility of yielding to things outside the scope of the target elements.

Kill him, my apostle.

The seductive words fell heavily, and the three shackles in the subconscious mind intensified the restraint.

At the same time, He transferred Sato Yuno's own negative emotions about her parents' deaths into this blank consciousness.

This approach is sufficient to make the battle utterly unavoidable without compromising the purity of the soul.

Despair, sorrow, anger, confusion, escapism...

These intense, dark emotions surged like a tide, oppressing the pure white consciousness and squeezing out corresponding irritability and an uncontrollable loss of reason.

Su Qing'an looked at the girl's suddenly empty eyes and the violent fluctuations in her soul aura, and understood the current situation.

The Honkai consciousness is not stupid. Even if it retains the humanity of a Herrscher for some reason, it also has the means to manipulate Herrschers when necessary.

Even though he had mentally prepared for the battle beforehand, Su Qing'an still found it difficult to control himself when he truly sensed the involuntary lamentations of the soul within the body of the person before him.

The despair and sorrow intertwined in their souls were so oppressive and dark that they suffocated even the boy who could understand them.

The high and mighty gods thus used their power to distort the souls of their friends and toy with their future.

In that instant, the burning rage buried everything, rather than the fear of facing the Herrscher head-on.

Su Qing'an said indifferently:

"I'll make you get out of Yuno's body and knock you down so hard you'll break the connection."

For the Honkai consciousness, this is a pointless declaration.

In His eyes, the boy's body was extremely weak against Honkai energy, and the technology of [Thousand Stars] was already the limit that allowed him to overcome many obstacles and catch up with the Third Herrscher.

No matter how much a human body is tempered and refined, it cannot withstand a casual blow from a Herrscher wielding their power.

Nothing Su Qing'an said is worth paying attention to.

Sato Yuno looked at the only living being in the room besides herself. Her mind was already unclear, and the need to vent her emotions became the only guiding principle for her actions.

Destruction, destruction, slaughter.

Only plunder can quell this boundless despair and suffering.

Thus, attacking becomes an action that requires no thought and is taken for granted.

"Snap." That was the crisp sound of fingertips rubbing together.

As the thunder raged on, the boy's clear, cold voice pierced through the deafening roar and fell softly.

"Feather Crossing Dust O Critical Point".

……

……

This is the first hour since Su Qing'an left the shelter.

Based on the exact distance between here and the academy, regardless of whether Sato Yuno had an accident or not, Su Qing'an should have already started his return journey by now.

If he just waits patiently for a maximum of one hour, the boy can return to the shelter.

At that time, the atmosphere here will not remain so tense.

If... there are no unexpected events.

The distraught girls remained silent, and whether they considered the possibility that Su Qing'an might not return remained an unsolved mystery.

But in this situation, it is clearly inappropriate to discuss this.

The reason for the long silence, besides being in a bad mood, was that Su Qing'an had instructed before leaving that the level of sensory sensitivity for searching for humans varied depending on the type of Honkai Beast.

For safety reasons, remaining silent and concealed is the most appropriate approach in the current situation.

Fu Hua gradually became more adept at using her sword heart to sense her surroundings. She extended her slender white fingertip and gently tapped the swaying, seemingly delirious crimson feather beside her, softly murmuring:

"Chi Yuan, you also feel lonely without Master Su, right?"

This feather was given to her by Su Qing'an before he left, saying that keeping it here would make her feel more at ease.

The name that Su Qing'an would find very strange was one that Fu Hua had chosen in her heart a long time ago.

The reason is that only he and Master Su can see the feathers.

Fu Hua's own guess was that it was because both of them cultivated the Taixu Sword Qi.

Based on this, the girl recalled the Crimson Kite Immortal who created the Taixu Sword Qi, as mentioned by Master Su, and inexplicably felt that this beautiful feather, full of spirituality, was very suitable for her.

Feather Dudu floated listlessly in the air for a while before lazily settling on her head. The distance between it and Su Qing'an was now far too great, causing its internal Honkai energy to rapidly dissipate every second.

Even though Su Qing'an had anticipated this and had been injecting a large amount of Honkai energy into the Feather Dust for half a month in advance, this amount could only last for about two hours at such a distance.

This resulted in the feathers, which were originally very spiritual, becoming quite wilted.

Seeing the feathers looking listless, the little girl steadied her head, trying to keep them from slipping down. She pursed her lips and murmured softly:

"That's true. Even if you're very intelligent, you still can't speak."

Feather Dust struggled to turn over, and it floated down to the girl's eyelids, rubbing against her fair face as if to offer comfort.

Fu Hua's lips parted slightly in a faint smile as she held Yu Duchen in her hands.

In the dim light, the crimson glow of the feathers dispelled the unease and fear.

The girl whispered:

"Thank you, Chi Yuan."

In the brief moment when the feather's tail swayed as if to indicate that it was alright, the line connecting it to the boy's soul suddenly appeared in her holy blue eyes.

Pale red threads pierced through all matter, tied to feathers, stretching endlessly into the distance.

The essence of the thin thread is the chain of the soul. Su Qing'an's emotions conveyed a few fragments of warmth, which made Fu Hua vaguely see a dreamlike illusion.

In the unknown end, there was a boy...

It is burning in flames.

It seemed as if only a fraction of a second had passed before the fine thread and feather vanished without a trace.

The girl tried to clench the emptiness between her palms and her chest; she understood the answer.

That person is fighting.

A battle so dangerous that this feather must be used.

"————!!!"

At the same time, a deafening crashing sound came from all around.

It's a Honkai Beast.

74. Immortal, Su Qing'an.

This underground shelter is actually quite like a fortress with a sense of life.

These facilities are not public civilian areas, but large private refuges that wealthy individuals spend huge sums of money to renovate in order to satisfy their sense of security.

The shelter that Su Qing'an chose was located on the outskirts of the city, close to the suburbs. Due to the influence of his powers, the elevator system of such facilities was almost completely paralyzed.

Therefore, shelters with too many underground levels were prioritized for elimination during the initial selection process.

Even the most well-constructed shelters are merely venues set up by wealthy individuals, and the experts they invite are at most involved in the bombing of large weapons.

It offers little protection against Honkai Beasts, which are uncommon Honkai phenomena.

Even the remaining plots, which were converted from nuclear missile silos into 17-story bunkers, would be no different from ordinary underground shelters in the event of such an incident.

At the same time, in order to create a certain sense of crisis, Su Qing'an chose a location that was not particularly luxurious. An overly low-level bunker would only make people lower their guard, as the perception of Honkai Beasts and human perception are completely based on two different systems.

If it were the 17th floor underground, the very bottom, then for Fu Hua's sword heart, at the level of still water, to fully sense the danger from the outside world would undoubtedly be a pipe dream.

Once the Honkai Beasts truly discover them, Fu Hua will only face a skirmish where she has the initiative.

But now things are different. This shelter is completely isolated from those comfortable environments with cinemas, swimming pools, armories, granaries, and farmland.

It only guaranteed basic survival space, living supplies, and basic shelter facilities worth tens of millions.

Even firearms do not exist because the social status of the shelter owners is not high enough to disregard the rules and obtain the corresponding channels.

This is, of course, also a consideration for the young man.

For the frail girls who had no experience in operating firearms, having these weapons meant that, in addition to the uncertainty of whether they could harm the Honkai Beasts, they also had to consider the risks of stray bullets and accidental discharge. This was undoubtedly an unwise move.