Chapter 293: Animated Short "Shattered Samsara" Released to Shocking Acclaim! Kiana's Taixuan Sword God!
Facing the Herrscher of Sentience, who had unleashed her full Herrscher power, Kiana was struggling immensely, only barely managing to dodge the onslaught of attacks.
However, every time a fatal attack appeared that seemed impossible to evade, a pink feather would manifest before her, blocking the killing blow from the Herrscher of Sentience!
["The help I can provide is limited. You must seize the opportunity, Kiana."]
Fu Hua's voice echoed in Kiana's mind.
Now, everyone finally understood why Kiana had been able to trade blows with the Herrscher of Sentience earlier. Without Fu Hua's constant assistance, Kiana would likely have been defeated long ago!
"This is... 'limited help'?"
Senti froze for a moment, then complained helplessly.
"Old Timer, you blocked every single one of those lethal blows for Kiana. If it weren't for you, Kiana would be dead or crippled by now."
The rest of the people in the livestream nodded in agreement. As Senti said, objectively speaking, there was a massive gap between Kiana's current strength and that of the Herrscher of Sentience. If they weren't inside the Taixuan Dream, and if Fu Hua hadn't been helping Kiana, the battle would have ended already.
[Isn't this just the classic 'old master' trope? Whenever the protagonist can't win, the old master has to step in!]
[What 'old man'! She's an old lady!]
[Do you even understand the weight of 50,000 years of Shenzhou's flat-chested sage!]
[Damn, Fu Hua is the number one 'save-the-day' queen in Honkai Impact 3rd! Who agrees? Who disagrees?!]
[Fu Hua said her power was limited and she couldn't help much... 'Limited' my foot! Was this performance not perfect enough for her?]
[I'd say it's just that characteristic Shenzhou modesty!]
[Fu Hua can provide such an insane buff with just one feather; I can't even imagine how powerful she was in her prime!]
[In her prime? Prime Fu Hua would have told Kiana to step aside and finished the fight herself!]
The viewers in the livestream were reflecting on Fu Hua's legendary life. She lived to protect Shenzhou against the Honkai; after death, her body brainwashed the Herrscher consciousness sent by the Will of Honkai into a fool, and even as a mere feather, she provided an incredibly powerful buff... If that isn't legendary, what is?
Facing the Herrscher of Sentience's fierce assault, Kiana finally found an opening, relying on Fu Hua's power.
She didn't let the opportunity slip by. Leaping high into the air, she used spatial crystals condensed from the Herrscher of the Void's power to smash heavily into the Herrscher of Sentience.
["This ends now!"]
As the dust cleared, the Herrscher of Sentience slowly stood up. She held her forehead; though the attack hadn't dealt significant physical damage, it had struck a massive blow to her pride.
["Damn it! How is it possible... how is it possible for the fight to turn out like this!!"]
She had brought out her true strength, yet she couldn't take Kiana down. This was completely different from what the Herrscher of Sentience had imagined! Against an incomplete Herrscher and a nearly dead "Old Timer," she was unable to crush them?
Why? Where did it go wrong?
If she couldn't even defeat an incomplete Herrscher like Kiana, didn't that mean she wasn't as powerful as she claimed? For the Herrscher of Sentience, who constantly branded herself as the stronger, better Fu Hua, failing to defeat Kiana meant the total collapse of her beliefs!
This was undoubtedly a devastating blow to her!
["You two, why can't you just listen to me!!"]
Fury erupted from her chest. In her extreme rage, even her facial expression became distorted. The Honkai energy bursting from her body instantly dyed the sky a blood-red color!
Under such immense Honkai energy, Kiana knew her current state was insufficient to resist. Despite the risk of erosion by the Herrscher of the Void's power, she had no choice but to unleash its full potential, transforming into the Queen's form!
Yet even so, facing a hysterical Herrscher of Sentience, Kiana remained at a disadvantage, forced to continuously use the Void's power to dodge the attacks.
["Damn it, damn it, damn it!! You bunch of fools! Idiots!"]
However, the speed of Senti's assault was such that dodging alone was no longer enough. Going toe-to-toe with Senti—who possessed a peak MANTIS body and Herrscher powers—was clearly unwise, but when faced with unavoidable strikes, Kiana demonstrated flexible mastery of the Void.
For instance, using imaginary space to teleport Senti's flying swords away. Or bunching the Void Spears together to act as a shield against the greatsword; at the moment she realized the shield wouldn't hold, the spears instantly dissolved into imaginary energy that wrapped around the greatsword, redirecting its momentum into the sky under Kiana's guidance, allowing her to narrow escape.
Evidently, Kiana's mastery over the Herrscher of the Void's power had become much more proficient than before. As a Herrscher who could control space itself, the Herrscher of the Void was an entity of infinite possibilities. It was a pity that this power had originally fallen into the hands of a certain "Pufferfish"... If the Void's power were given to the genius scientists of the Honkai world, they would likely have performed miracles with it.
["Why... Why do you insist on defending that failure!!!"]
Seeing her attacks neutralized again and again, Senti's patience reached its limit. Once Kiana had parried the greatsword, she looked up, and the sight before her made her break into a cold sweat.
The sky had been stained blood-red by Honkai energy. That dark figure was gathering terrifying amounts of power, causing the very world to change color—a precursor to the Herrscher of Sentience's ultimate strike!
["You are all... nothing but losers!!"]
Amidst Senti's roar, the gem on her forehead erupted with blinding light. A giant shadow of a black phoenix spread its wings, blotting out the sun with overwhelming momentum! Even the blades and the ground of the Taixuan Dream shattered under this force, drawn upward by the sheer power.
This apocalyptic scene brought an intense sense of pressure to the viewers.
[Is this the Herrscher of Sentience's ultimate move? Is that... Taixuan Sword God?]
[Is it really Taixuan Sword God? But I didn't hear Senti chant the incantation.]
[It feels more like Jingwei's ultimate, the 'Fenghuang Down: Fire of Reminiscence.']
[The skill where she turns into a giant spirit bird in the sky and slams into the ground? It really looks like it!]
The viewers were speculating whether Senti's move was indeed the Taixuan Sword God.
"If this really is the Taixuan Sword God, then the stakes are way too high!"
Even Senti raised an eyebrow and spoke with a hint of fear.
"That move is an ultimate that can even disconnect the Will of Honkai! Honestly, if the Will of Honkai hadn't blocked that hit for Sirin, Sirin would have been out of the game right then and there. There wouldn't have been anything that followed!"
Knowing the terror of the Taixuan Sword God, everyone in the livestream took a sharp breath. That move was impossible to block; Sirin only survived because of the Will of Honkai. How could current Kiana possibly block an formless, substance-less sword strike?
"Does this mean the Old Timer is going to die by my hand?!"
Realizing that Fu Hua had already shown signs of being written out of the story, Senti's face turned pale. Killing the Old Timer with her own hands was something she absolutely did not want!
"Rest assured, this move is not the Taixuan Sword God," Fu Hua shook her head, correcting them. "The Taixuan Sword God requires a chant before release. It is likely, as the viewers guessed, the 'Fire of Reminiscence'."
Reminded by Fu Hua, Senti remembered that for the Taixuan Sword God, Fu Hua did indeed recite a very long incantation. Since her in-game self didn't chant, it wasn't that specific move.
"But even so..."
Looking at the sun-blotting bird, Kiana's expression was grave.
"I probably can't block this move either... Is it really going to come down to the Class Monitor? But her power is almost gone; is she really going to..."
Kiana clenched her fists. Though she was usually a mischievous girl with many flaws—her "stinky old man" Siegfried could complain about her for days—she cherished those around her deeply. Despite their bickering, if Siegfried ever truly met with disaster, she would cry harder than anyone.
The fools of the Kaslana family were all top-tier emotional monsters. Kiana's biggest breakdown before this was when Himeko-sensei sacrificed herself in "Final Lesson" to save her, falling into imaginary space with her fate unknown. Before that, she thought she wouldn't cry over a mere game.
As it turned out, "Final Lesson" made Kiana cry her eyes out.
Seeing that the Class Monitor might now sacrifice herself to protect her, Kiana felt both sorrowful and powerless.
"I can finally understand how Mei felt back then."
She sighed. Back in Nagazora, when Mei saw Kiana trying to go to her death, Mei must have hated herself. She hated her lack of power and her inability to protect those she loved. That was why she cried out in despair, "I can't do anything." While that line had become a classic meme used to tease Mei, at the time, it was her most painful, honest reality.
"Is it my turn now to be the one who 'can't do anything'?"
Amidst Kiana's worry, the animated version of her also showed a look of panic facing the colossal shadow of the phoenix.
["This is the Class Monitor's..."]
However, at that moment, an illusory but gentle hand pressed lightly against Kiana's back.
["Kiana, control your power."]
Fu Hua's voice rang out behind Kiana, and her figure appeared at her back.
["Remember what I taught you."]
Those teachings from Fu Hua—the results obtained through sweat and persistence—transformed in this moment into the power for Kiana to break through obstacles and move forward. The figures of Fu Hua and Kiana seemed to overlap.
Kiana closed her eyes. Taixuan Sword Qi flowed through Kiana via Fu Hua's hand, gathering in her palm. At that moment, the Herrscher of Sentience in the sky seemed to sense something, and a look of disbelief appeared on her face.
As golden energy condensed in Kiana's palm:
["The Sage is the ultimate of change; a word for the mystery of all things, beyond description."]
Accompanying Kiana's low murmur, light shone from her forehead. The golden energy solidified in her palm, forming a golden divine sword! That sword seemed to possess the power to pierce heaven and earth.
This familiar move instantly triggered the memories of everyone in the livestream—it was the very technique that had left an indelible shadow on Sirin: the strongest strike of the Phoenix Sage, the Taixuan Sword God!!
In this moment, heaven and earth were split into two colors. In the sky, the purple phoenix blotted out the sun. But on the earth, the golden divine sword remained resilient, standing firm against the approaching storm. The world seemed to consist only of purple and gold.
["Taixuan Sword Qi—Eminence!!"]
As Kiana shouted its name, the golden sword erupted with a brilliant light, slashing toward the phoenix in the sky. This strike was like a rainbow piercing the sun!!
["Argh!! How can I lose to this guy!!"]
The Herrscher of Sentience merged with the phoenix shadow. In her anger and unwillingness, she spread her wings, let out a phoenix cry, and dove toward Kiana!
The collision of the Taixuan Sword God and the Fire of Reminiscence caused the purple and gold colors to occupy opposite sides of the world. The terrifying power caused the Taixuan Dream to tremble violently, as if it were about to collapse!
["The Class Monitor was never... a loser!!"]
Facing the sun-blotting bird, Kiana's eyes were firm, without a hint of retreat. She controlled the Taixuan Sword God, pouring all her power into this single strike!
The sword pierced through the phoenix in the sky, and the entire world was instantly swallowed by golden light!! The Herrscher of Sentience showed a look of extreme frustration, but she could not escape, and was likewise swallowed by the golden radiance!
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