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He was determined to obtain the 'Sword Heart Technique'.
Greek mythology, Ark Terra, the lawless zone of the heavens, the world of swords, the digital world, the Pokémon world.
There are no means or methods to improve one's state of mind, but due to sharing, the speed at which all of Angelica's abilities improve each time exceeds the limits of control.
Sleeping in a bed that collapses, walking in a hole, jokingly killing your teammate—these are all jokes, but in reality, no one can laugh.
"Alright, then two conditions." Bai Zhi looked bewildered, but Fu Hua spoke seriously: "First, I want you to inherit the Inch Heart Fist Technique. Second, tell me, who is that elder you once knew, and is he still alive?"
"!!!"
Bai Zhi was completely shocked this time.
His main means of combat are ranged firearms and bows and arrows, and close-range leg techniques. There is really no need for him to learn an additional Cunxin Fist technique. However, since it is Fu Hua's request, he does not mind. He is already here.
But the second condition is not good.
During the second Siberian catastrophe, your memories were not entirely burned by the Taixu Sword God, yet you come to ask me about Ancestor Kevin. Could it be that there is some unknown secret hidden within?
Indeed, what games and comics reveal may be the unknown secrets of the real world, but they don't explain everything in detail. Reality is not a two-dimensional world, and the secrets hidden in the shadows may be beyond imagination.
Besides, how many times has miHoYo retconned the plot? At most, retconning the game's storyline is just players joking about Dawei (a popular internet personality), but if we translate that into reality, it would be quite disastrous.
For example, the Honkai Consciousness Prometheus has the authority to influence the birth of Herrschers, but the appearance of the pseudo-Herrscher Yuno is contradictory.
“...Kevin Kaslana.” After a moment’s thought, Bai Zhi decided to tell the truth. He had decided to betray fate. He didn’t like variables, but that didn’t mean he hated them. On the contrary, if he could influence Fu Hua and create an irreconcilable conflict between her and Otto, he could better carry out his plans in secret.
"He is still alive, but his situation is not good. He was sunk to the deepest part of the Quantum Sea by the former civilization Ying Jiesu. Without the accurate coordinates of the original world, he has never been able to return."
"Who exactly are you?" Fu Hua turned around, not letting Bai Zhi see her expression, but her tone was volatile, clearly not calm.
Since that's the case, I'll definitely add fuel to the fire.
Bai Zhi, no, Bai Ge, the future world snake cadre of the future civilization, one of the thirteen heroes of the forward civilization, sends his greetings.
"Lord Hua, the snake has been waiting for your return."
Honkai Impact 3rd Serpent Soloist: Chapter 51 Sword Heart Technique
"In the Destiny Babylon Laboratory in Siberia, all the researchers vanished overnight. While Otto ordered an investigation into this 'mysterious' event, others seemed to be worried about 'her' reappearance. And all of this unveiled the prelude to the Second Honkai Impact..."
Could someone describe the battle situation during the Second Honkai Impact?
In the afternoon history class, Walter Young, the history teacher with his lesson plan in hand, used humorous language and storytelling-like narrative to unfold the grandeur and sacrifice of the Second Collapse for his students.
"Lady Cecilia was no match for the Herrscher of the Void. In her moment of desperation, she chose to sacrifice herself to buy time, which allowed the Honkai Fission Bomb to arrive, ending the Herrscher of the Void and bringing an end to this disaster that affected everything from the moon to the Siberian continent."
Bai Zhi raised his hand to answer, his concise statement clearly pointing out the main battle, and stating that Cecilia's position was correct, a standard and correct answer, which, combined with his current appearance, showed that he was physically miserable but determined.
The long neck and bare arms were wrapped in bandages. Even the slightest movement of the joints caused a sore and swollen sensation that was chilling.
"What you said is not comprehensive. War is not about one person's bravery. At that time, the combatants who fought against the Herrscher of the Void included not only the Valkyries of Schicksal and the Titans of Anti-Entropy, but also fighter jets and armed personnel from various countries, who fought against 100,000 Honkai Beasts. They also paid a heavy price. History is about events. We cannot participate in the battle, but we cannot forget the heroes who sacrificed themselves because of protecting others and choosing to fight."
Walter Yang pushed up his glasses and met Bai Zhi's icy blue pupils. The two exchanged cold smiles, a kind of mutual respect between heroes.
Unfortunately, others saw it as a new student provoking the teacher (same sex repulsion). St. Freya Academy was an all-girls school, and most of the teachers were retired Valkyries. Walter Yang was already a lone green leaf among a sea of flowers, and Bai Zhi's arrival was diverting the women's attraction to the opposite sex.
Is this reasonable?
According to male logic, it makes perfect sense: only games and women are things that should not be let down.
Only Fu Hua understood what the two were talking about. Although she didn't remember the second Honkai, which was burning her memories, it didn't mean she wouldn't actively collect information. This part of the historical information from Schicksal Headquarters was completely open to Fu Hua, and she knew what the leader of Anti-Entropy looked like. Her imagination wasn't so wild that the leader of Anti-Entropy would become a teacher at St. Freya.
Bronya might understand that due to the information asymmetry, she sensed something was off about the two men's attitudes, but she couldn't know the truth.
Raiden Mei sat upright, still worried about how to explain her trip to Changkong City to Kiana without arousing suspicion after being threatened yesterday.
When Bai Zhi and Welt Yang were talking, their gazes turned to Kiana, who was fast asleep with her eyes closed, slumped over her desk. For once, the boy's eyes shifted from indifference to pity.
'If I hadn't known beforehand, I would never have guessed that you were once a lone wolf who traveled across several countries and continents to find your father. There's no such thing as a wrong nickname, only a wrong name. Paramecium, what a pity, Kiana. Theresa will not let you wallow in depravity, and Otto will not let you continue to be decadent. I will make you stand up for the protagonist's position ahead of time.'
The bond isn't enough. Three years in St. Freya is necessary. Only feelings accumulated over time can accumulate enough love. Only when this love is completely destroyed will the ultimate hatred be born, Kiana.
It's inevitable that you'll hate me, hate us. Therefore, in Changkong City, I will show you that nothing matters in the face of the Honkai; only power is fundamental. Whether you call it something yet or hypocrisy, your time in St. Freya is the last chance we're giving you. I hope you're prepared, otherwise, a future you absolutely do not wish for awaits you.
After class ended, Bai Zhi woke Kiana up and, while the girl was still groggy, took her hand and staggered towards a secluded corner at the stairwell. Raiden Mei and Bronya planned to come along, but remembering the conditions from last night, they forcibly suppressed their desire.
The other female students, however, noticed the two men and women who looked remarkably alike. Their gossipy nature began to stir, and they started discussing their forbidden love, which was not accepted by others. In no time, many versions of the story emerged, and the news spread throughout the entire campus via the local area network.
While dealing with trivial matters and considering how to get funding for the second half of the year from Otto, Theresa, who was taking a break and planning to have some fun with the students, had just opened the campus network when she saw her eldest niece's 100,000-word taboo love story and almost vomited blood.
Let's go back to when Bai Zhi and Qi Yana were alone together.
"Cousin Paimon, sigh, I don't want to disappoint Auntie, but I just can't concentrate in class. I get sleepy as soon as class starts, and I can't even read a few pages of the textbook. Even when Mei and Little Dot supervise me, I just skim through it. Oh dear, what am I going to do about the entrance exam next month?"
Since she became conscious, Kiana has seen very few relatives: her father Siegfried, her aunt Theresa, and her distant cousin (pseudo) Paimon.
She cherished this hard-won family bond and was willing to expose her true self to him. Bai Zhi listened quietly without interrupting the girl's outpouring until finally, he spoke.
"Kiana, come with me to Changkong City tomorrow or the day after. It is necessary to pass on the Kaslana family legacy to you, even though it is so many years late."
The two returned to the classroom and were subjected to gossip from their classmates, but that's another story.
After school in the afternoon, Fu Hua called Bai Zhi to go to the training room together. After a thorough after-school tutoring session, the wound that had almost healed reopened, and the bones made an inappropriate sound. Fu Hua was forced to be bandaged up like a half-mummy.
A strict teacher produces outstanding students. Fu Hua's teaching methods are strict yet simple, classic yet efficient, and the punches are delivered with a visceral impact. Bai Zhi's understanding of the Cunxin Fist technique has reached a new level, but unfortunately, she still hasn't managed to launch a single effective attack, which is a pity.
The 'Sword Heart Technique' is a result of genetic science that refines and transforms the body. It requires time to slowly cultivate, and there is no shortcut until other Bai Zhi share the ability to apply it to other techniques.
At eight o'clock at night, I returned to the dormitory, opened the door, and was greeted by the familiar aroma of food and warm lights. The smiling maids welcomed me back.
As Bai Zhi ate her meal and drank mushroom soup, she complained to one of her only two friends about Fu Hua's inhuman behavior.
After the meal, Raven from the mercenary website replied. He chatted briefly and asked Raven to arrive in Changkong City in two days. The payment would be discussed in person at that time. He paid a deposit using Bronya's mobile phone account and signed it as World Serpent Executive White Dove.
Turning off her phone, Bai Zhi lay on the bed, ready to drift off to sleep and experience tonight's nightmare scenario in Changkong City, striving to reduce her death count to less than ten.
Honkai Impact 3rd Serpent Single Push (qi Erlin) Qiu Qi Shaanxi Normal University: Chapter 52 Why Are You Still Alive?
Looking around, what comes into view is a street that has been smashed beyond recognition, with huge stones lying haphazardly.
Along both sides of the road, almost all the residential houses have collapsed, with broken walls and rubble scattered in mid-air, and broken tiles and twisted steel bars exposed. Some walls have collapsed on one side, as if they could fall at any moment.
As far as the eye could see, there was hardly a single intact building.
The entire city seemed to have been wantonly ravaged by an invisible hand, turning into a pile of unsightly 'dismembered limbs'.
The collapsed high-rise buildings piled up one on top of another, forming countless intricate street gaps and voids. At a glance, one could almost smell the bloody stench of disaster, making one's head spin and causing one to hold their breath.
If the city ruins are a microcosm of the aftermath of a disaster, then the purplish-red Honkai Beasts scattered throughout the ruins are an ongoing natural catastrophe.
The Honkai Beasts varied in size and shape. The short ones, resembling enlarged mosquitoes, scurried through corners and crevices, while the enormous ones were even comparable to the surrounding tall buildings. There were also Honkai Beasts that looked like elephants, knights, and dinosaurs. At a glance, there were definitely quite a few of them.
On the deck of the Hyperion, Bai Zhi looked down at the old site of Changkong City. This was not the place a few years later, a pristine land that had been thoroughly cleaned up by St. Freya and the team sent by Destiny, where ravens built their nests and raised their young.
“Q*UN仪球企si泣U舞瘤 My home, my hometown, these... are all the sins I have committed.”
The girl murmured blankly, her memory of the bustling, prosperous new city where people came and went, and the noisy, laughing crowds all turned into unsightly, lifeless figures the moment she 'looked' at them. The inhuman citizens looked at her and met her gaze.
Resentment, hatred, confusion, and despair—all these emotions coalesced into a blood-red interrogation.
Raiden Mei, why did you have to kill us...?
Raiden Mei, why are you still alive after committing such a terrible mistake...?
Raiden Mei, why did you come to die with us?!
"...!!!"
Raiden Mei suddenly covered her cherry lips, her pale face bent over and dry heaving. The casualty data on paper was not as profound and despairing as what she saw with her own eyes.
Bai Zhi placed her hand on Bronya's shoulder, leaned slightly down, and whispered in the girl's ear: "Cocolia's mistake is right before our eyes. Why don't you say a few words in defense of your mother and explain the necessary sacrifices in front of the bones of these thirty million people?"
The girl with no connections clenched her fists. Life in the orphanage and with her friends softened the killer girl's will. Perhaps Bronya wasn't inherently bad; she had her own principles, her own moral standards, and her own silent list.
However, 30 million people is enough to break a young girl's heart.
Bronya would do anything for Seele!
The girl, head bowed and eyes closed, stopped looking. Bai Zhi patted her shoulder again.
The highest level of deception is to deceive oneself, and Bronya has not yet reached that level.
The two, who were required to follow along, used the excuse of not trusting Kiana to board the Hyperion's warship together. The scene of disaster before them deeply touched their hearts.
The Thunder Lady and the future third generation of Anti-Entropy were just extras. Bai Shu's gaze focused on the white-haired figure at the end of the deck, who had remained silent all along. The figure approached and placed his hands on the railing. The howling wind still affected the Valkyrie's body and balance, but the Kaslana bloodline members were not affected. At this moment, no one would disturb their conversation.
"Kiana, what do you see when you face Changkong City, where you once lived for more than a month?"
“I can’t see anything, Cousin Paimon. There’s nothing. There’s no trace of living people, no noisy city, no students playing on their way to school, no office workers’ silence. There’s nothing. All I see is death. It’s a dead city.”
In Changkong City, Kiana bit her lip, her body trembling, her mind in turmoil.
It's fair to say that no normal person could remain calm after witnessing this scene.
"Kiana, remember this moment: Honkai is cruel and merciless. It is an ineradicable natural disaster, a delusion that can never be restored no matter how much effort is put in."
Under Theresa's influence, the teaching atmosphere at St. Freya was very harmonious. After all, no one can guarantee that the classmate you bully will become a comrade-in-arms who would entrust their life to each other in the future.
I could have endured the darkness marked by the moon's ripples, if I had never seen the light, for without contrast there would be no harm.
Bai Zhi and Rita met Kiana's trio at Qianyu Academy. Having not experienced the attack on Changkong City, Kiana, Raiden Mei, and Bronya's will had not yet transformed from students into warriors.
Even though Kiana and Bronya had special experiences in their childhood, compared to the Great Honkai, their experiences were insignificant and incomparable.
Yesterday's wonderful and joyful campus life has turned into today's cruel and cold urban ruins.
Honkai is not a dinner party; there is no room for compromise or slackening. Only by witnessing this scene firsthand can it truly resonate with a young girl's heart.
Under Captain Himeko's remote command, Hyperion chose to land in the coastal area of Changkong City. The Honkai Beasts near the beach and the edge of the city quickly cleared a suitable place for landing amidst the siege of more than a dozen Assault Valkyries.
This group was led by Dean Theresa. Upon learning that Bai Zhi was preparing to lead Kiana and the other two to Changkong City, she quickly assembled the three-year-old Valkyries who were about to graduate. The difference in quality between the graduates and the current students was readily apparent.
St. Freya graduates can intern at various branches of Schicksal through Theresa's arrangements, with positions determined by performance—a unique perk.
A year-long internship is more cost-effective than personally participating in the aftermath of a major catastrophe, offering better career prospects and more valuable battlefield experience.
People die when they are killed. The graduates know that once they leave St. Freya, no one can provide them with a safe haven in the future. Their life or death will depend on themselves.
Although it is cruel, Theresa will not ignore the excellent training ground of the Sky Ruins.
"Besides, what could be safer than having an S-class Valkyrie from headquarters personally leading the team? You agree, right, Rita?"
Bai Zhi rests her chin on her hand.
The sound of neat and harmonious footsteps came from the warship's cabins. The three-year graduating interns of St. Freya had formed teams according to their Valkyrie levels and assessment results.
Intelligence reconnaissance teams, battlefield rescue teams, frontal combat teams, ranged support teams, and reserve/substitute teams.
"Team Leader, St. Freya Squad's combined arms deployment is complete. Please give instructions!"
"Maintain the core of three standard squads, start clearing the Honkai Beasts from the periphery, explore every building along the way to rescue civilians..." Rita took the initiative to step forward and gave professional instructions. Finally, she hesitated for a moment before adding: "Prioritize your own lives. Remember, more important than the safety of civilians is that you survive so that you can save more people."
Honkai Impact 3rd Serpent Soloist: Chapter 53 - Fist is Power
The click-clack of guns being pulled mingled together as a dense barrage of specially designed armor-piercing bullets pierced the purple-red-white silicone skin. The Honkai Beasts roared fiercely, accompanied by powerful and heavy movements, their limbs slamming in a spiral, their giant feet trampling in war, and their spears slicing through the air.
"Three groups on alert. The ballista-class Honkai Beasts in the rear are throwing stones at your location."
"A number of twenty Rush-class Honkai Beasts have been spotted on the flank. Group 7 has dispatched half of its Valkyries to engage them."
"The tank-class Honkai Beast has launched a surprise attack. Be careful to dodge and don't try to take the hit head-on!"
The commanders on the rear battlefield, based on intelligence from the on-site survey teams and in conjunction with satellite projections received by the Hyperion, adopted a conservative tactic to develop Changkong City, advancing steadily without taking any radical measures.
The Hyperion arrived in Sky City, marking the second hour since the start of the battle.
Satellite radar shows that there is still a continuous stream of Honkai Beasts moving towards the breakthrough point.
Currently, the casualties are seven seriously wounded and three dead.
Having achieved this milestone by advancing the search and rescue operation by one kilometer, the team brought back seven able-bodied citizens from a residential building.
The casualty ratio is so low that it doesn't even qualify as a Pyrrhic victory. It should be noted that the strongest Honkai Beasts currently are three tank-class Honkai Beasts that are ten meters tall. Many special zombies infected by Honkai are the biggest factor causing casualties. The existence of this group of special zombies is solely for killing.
Not everyone possesses Kevin's bravery, single-handedly leading Mei from the heart of the Honkai area to the complete zone with just a baseball bat.
Durandal, the strongest S-rank Valkyrie in the world, was the only one to return during her first mission to subdue the Honkai. All the other A-rank Valkyries leading the team and the standard number of Valkyries were killed in action.
"Stop, Kiana. This is not a battle you should be involved in. I promised Principal Theresa that I would bring you to Changkong City intact, and I will send you back intact."
Paimon grabbed Kiana, who was getting up beside him, to stop her from rushing into the battlefield in a moment of impulsiveness.