Honkai Impact: Starting from Wandering with Kiana

"I refuse to believe you can take this!"

In the end, Sirin decided to continue throwing the giant black hole out. This giant black hole had consumed a lot of her energy, and canceling the energy would not return it.

Jiu Xiao watched with a smile as Xi Lin gathered her strength to create a giant black hole. While Jiu Xiao hesitated whether to rush forward and interrupt Xi Lin's spellcasting, he softly uttered two words to her…

"turn down."

The giant black hole's process instantly reversed, then it transformed into pure Honkai energy and disappeared from this world...

With her spellcasting interrupted and her energy depleted, Sirin suffered a backlash and fell from the sky.

Theresa took the opportunity to bind her again with Judah's chains. Sirin was so weakened by the backlash of energy that she temporarily lost the ability to resist and could only let Judah bind her, kneeling on the ground.

Jiuxiao: "I don't know who taught you this idiotic fighting method... Even if I don't intervene, Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple can directly shatter your forming giant black hole... and you will still suffer a backlash and fall into weakness..."

"How should I know... no one taught me how to fight..."

Sirin muttered something under her breath, then revealed the Herrscher Core.

"Since you've won, here's the Herrscher Core you need."

Penglai Temple's Nine Heavens reached out and took the core of the Second Herrscher. The round core, shimmering with golden light, looked holy and beautiful, yet it constantly exuded an ominous and unsettling aura.

"Could this thing... really be our hope?"

"Who knows? My Herrscher Core is the cornerstone supporting this world. If it is destroyed, neither I nor the Nine Heavens of Houraiji, nor even this world, will be destroyed in an instant. In the end, it will all be a waste of effort."

Iselin: "No... all of this won't be in vain. As long as I can stabilize this Herrscher core, I can find a way to separate it from Horaiji Kusho's body."

Sirin, please help us… You are the consciousness of the Herrscher core; if you are willing, you can definitely control the corruption of the Herrscher core!”

"My consciousness? What a ridiculous idea..."

Celine shook her head with a wry smile and continued speaking.

"If my will alone can change all of this, who would want to be trapped in this doomed world?"

From the very beginning, I was powerless to do anything... I could only become someone else's tool, witnessing one tragic ending after another.

Kiana too… Mei too… They had no choice, because the ending was already predetermined. All they could do was follow the course of history and bring an end to this world.

"But...but..."

But this is not the end!

Bronya shouted firmly.

"No matter how slim the hope, I do not believe this is the end. It is because we have overcome despair time and time again that we are standing here!"

Neither the past nor the future can stop us from pursuing hope.

Theresa: "That's right, even in the end, we must fall on the path of pursuing hope... That's the meaning of the Moth of Flame's existence, what those children taught me!"

"Alright, alright, I'm really defeated by you guys..."

With a smile, Xilin canceled the imaginary space and transferred everyone to Changkong City.

The girl's appearance changed again from her battle maiden form, transforming into a cute loli with long purple hair and a dreamy purple dress.

Xilin

"Cirin, what do you look like?"

"This is what I was originally like... I've always been used as a tool and become someone else's puppet. I don't know when I started to forget what I originally looked like! It's not just my appearance, it's also my original intention... Heh."

Xilin floated down to the front of Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple and looked at her tenderly.

"Hōraiji Kyushō, the sacred marks you possess are truly incredible... They not only embody everyone's hopes but also everyone's sorrows... Even I am one of them."

Now let me return everything to you, and let me see if your so-called "savior" can truly create a new ending.

Time is running out. The world I failed to create is now in your hands… You are the ones who will compose the final note of this requiem.

Xilin cupped Penglai Temple Jiuxiao's face in her hands, touching her forehead to hers, and then her figure completely disappeared into the sky.

Meanwhile, the radiant core in the hands of Penglai Temple's Nine Heavens gradually lost its light, revealing the true Herrscher core contained within.

Iserin: "Sirin has reverted to her core form... It seems she's handing over all the choices to us. Let's go, let's hurry back to the base. I just thought of a new way to salvage this."

I don't know where Xing has run off to again; Iseryn is probably hiding from Bronya. Strange… normally, Xing should run to Bronya immediately if she sees her.

Was it that shared memory with the world that created a rift between Anne and Bronya?

However, Iselin couldn't be bothered with Xing anymore. She waved her hand, signaling Jiuxiao and the others to follow her, only to find that both Jiuxiao and Penglaiji Jiuxiao were standing still, seemingly lost in thought...

"Nine Heavens? Nine Heavens of Penglai Temple? What's wrong with you guys?!"

"Hehehe..."

Penglai Temple's Nine Heavens covered his right eye with his left hand and protected himself with his right hand, emitting a demonic, eerie laugh.

"Uh... Could it be that the Honkai has started to erode her body again?" Iselin immediately panicked and started rummaging through her backpack to take out the wrench she had just put in, preparing to knock Penglaiji Jiuxiao unconscious.

"Finally... I've remembered! This sacred destiny, sealed away in this desolate world!"

Iserlin: "!!! Penglai Temple Nine Heavens? You can't be...!"

Penglaiji Jiuxiao touched the End Cross on the back of his hand and put his gloves back on.

"I, Penglai Temple's Nine Heavens, will personally shatter this doomed fate. Now... let us rejoice in the return of the savior!"

"All memories have returned?!"

Chapter 317 *Gulp*... You can have my body, but you can't have my heart.

"What... In the end, only his personality returned to its previous state, but his memories haven't fully recovered yet."

After returning to the base, Iselin conducted a series of checks on Penglai Temple's Nine Heavens before letting out a helpless sigh.

Instead of regaining his memories, he's developed this chuunibyou (middle school syndrome)... This chuunibyou personality is worse than if he had never come back!

"It's not just these things... I always feel like my body doesn't belong to me, and I don't have a real sense of my condition... Everything is so blurry, as if I shouldn't exist in this world..."

Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple stretched his wrists and smiled at everyone, saying:

"However, I don't hate who I am now, nor do I hate this place. Although it's a desolate and broken world, everything here seems to be calling to me, waiting for me to redeem me."

“You really are an incredible person. A savior, huh…maybe it really is.” Bronya sighed softly, then turned to look at Jiuxiao, who had been deep in thought the whole way.

"Jiuxiao? What's wrong? You seem distracted and lost in thought the whole way."

"Hmm... how should I put it?"

Jiuxiao thought for a moment, organized his thoughts, and then said to Bronya and Penglai Temple Jiuxiao:

"Everyone should understand by now that the people in this world are not beings in the real sense."

Kiana's Stigmata memories provided a "soul template" for the beings of this world, Sirin's Herrscher Core provided space and energy for this world, and the Stigmata of Horaiji Kyuukai brought all of this together, using itself as a vessel to evolve and create this incomplete world.

Kiana and Sirin said the outcome wouldn't change, meaning this world will eventually perish... So what if we reversed that outcome, rewriting this inevitable demise...?

Bronya looked at Jiuxiao excitedly and asked, "Jiuxiao, what do you mean?"

"Hmm... The reason this world was destroyed is because it was merely a Sacred Mark space reflecting the life state of Penglai Temple Nine Heavens. If we separate it from Penglai Temple Nine Heavens, what will the outcome be?"

"Theoretically, it is indeed feasible... but Jiuxiao, do you have a specific method or theoretical approach?"

Iserly asked the question, while simultaneously activating the link with Fimilis, preparing to input the solution Jiu Xiao had mentioned into the data model so that Fimilis could verify its feasibility.

Jiuxiao shrugged and shook his head regretfully.

“I have some ideas, but there are too many prerequisites that prevent me from achieving them. However, Iselin, since you entered this place by analyzing the Sacred Mark space of Penglai Temple Nine Heavens with the help of Fimilis… could you ask Fimilis to first separate this Sacred Mark world from the Sacred Mark space of Penglai Temple Nine Heavens, creating an independent space?”

"It's quite difficult. We know too little about the Stigmata that have been passed down through our bloodlines since ancient times. Cutting into the Stigmata space... the unknowns are too high. But I'll have Femilis try..."

"If you succeed, please let me know as soon as possible."

"Ok."

After saying goodbye to Iselin and the others, Jiuxiao went to a deserted place by himself.

Jiuxiao planted the Star Sword in the ground and channeled the Honkai energy within his body into the ground through the Star Sword.

Wherever Honkai energy spreads, the atmosphere of that place changes instantly, and its very existence is rewritten by the Nine Heavens.

But soon, the areas covered by the Nine Heavens Collapse Energy were swallowed and assimilated by the uncovered areas, returning to their original state. Just like on the deck of the Hyperion, it failed…

"Tsk... It's still a bit too difficult for me to do it all by myself."

"What are you doing?"

Xing appeared not far from Jiu Xiao, her Sinful Eye watching Jiu Xiao with great interest.

"I just noticed that the ground covered by your Honkai energy has changed its form!"

"Yes, I was trying to rewrite this area into a real world using my abilities... but as you can see, I failed."

"Tsk, you're really free..."

Xing muttered a complaint under her breath, then sat down on a bench and idly tossed pebbles she had picked up from the ground.

"By the way, what are you doing here? Why did you suddenly disappear after we fought Sirin?"

"Do I need to explain to you where I'm going?"