Honkai Impact 3rd: The Girl Who Chases the Flame

Jiang Wanru practiced swordsmanship her whole life, but in reality, it was just an expectation in her heart.

But that expectation is gone now.

Damn it, they're going to die eventually.

Those who are meant to live will live well.

But the person who should have lived was not her.

"Wanxi, I'm sorry."

Jiang Wanru raised her head and leaned quietly against the stone wall, watching a shadow get closer and closer to her.

"Su Mei, are you here to kill me?"

Jiang Wanru could no longer see anything, but her intuition told her who was in front of her.

Su Mei, not Second Senior Sister.

"Yes."

Su Mei was not surprised.

"But if you're willing to help me, I can spare your life."

"How did Su Yi die?"

Jiang Wanru didn't want to pay any attention to those words. Some things are enough to do once in a lifetime; twice is too much.

"I didn't do it, and I didn't know that the child had lost his sword heart. It was done by someone who coveted the Taixu Sword Qi."

Whether it's Hua or Shao, these self-proclaimed righteous people are even more despicable than those from minor sects when it comes to their deeds.

Su Mei, on the other hand, spoke directly.

"But you know about this."

Jiang Wanru understood immediately.

“I knew, but I didn’t know she had lost her sword heart. The Taixu Sword Qi is invincible; a few petty villains shouldn’t have been able to take her life.”

"But she still died... Was her death tragic?"

“The master was nearby at the time, and they were afraid. When they couldn’t get the information out of her, they killed Su Yi with a sword and set a fire before leaving.”

Su Mei kept her head down, as if she were talking about something that had nothing to do with her.

"I haven't suffered any humiliation, so you can rest assured."

"Your junior sister is dead, yet you tell me I can rest assured?"

Jiang Wanru suddenly laughed; she found this second senior sister quite boring.

"Did they have the guts to attack the Seven Swords of Taixu? Although I can't see them now, your evil aura... is the same as it was twenty years ago."

"...It was not my intention."

"But she died because of you."

"I know."

Su Mei did not deny it, but at this point, these things were not important.

"I have nothing to say."

Jiang Wanru closed her eyes.

"If it were my senior sister, I would have a lot to say. But since it's my master, I won't trouble him to give me a ride. You can just forget about it."

"...Do you hate me that much?"

"I just think you're a pretty boring person. Love, hate, after all these years of surviving, I've finally figured it all out."

Jiang Wanru decided to mock her after all.

"In this life, you can lack many things, but you can't lack a heart. In this life, you lack nothing, except a heart."

"...Given your temper, for you to say something like that, you must really dislike me."

Su Mei nodded.

"But I still have to see you off... not because I'm slaying demons, but because I need to borrow your body for a while."

"Ha...hahahahahaha..."

Jiang Wanru thought she would say something like she was getting in her way or that she was about to wreak havoc on the world, but this sentence was something she never expected.

"Su Mei, Su Mei... you really are an amazing woman. We were blind all these years, how could we not have seen it?"

"..."

Su Mei didn't say anything more; there was no need to say anything more.

She didn't love anyone, nor did she want anyone to love her.

Jiang Wanru is right. She lacks nothing in her life except for her heart.

She drew the Twin Swords of Yin and Yang from her back, which had not been drawn for twenty years. She had never used these swords since she became the sect leader.

In his usual martial arts practice, he always deliberately sought out substitutes, and no one in the sect had ever seen the sect leader draw his sword.

But no matter what, the person in front of her was Jiang Wanru.

To kill her, nothing but the Xuanyuan Sword is worthy.

Without hesitation, Su Mei swung her sword down. If this sword were to land, Jiang Wanru's heart meridian would be severed instantly, killing her in a flash.

However, the sword went astray.

In an instant, Su Mei's expression changed; in less than a second, she realized...

There is still a powerful figure in this space who can threaten her.

The next second, the slender sword that had just blocked her sword strike was now aimed straight at her face.

In a duel between masters, the outcome often hinges on mere seconds. The opponent gained the upper hand, a sword intent that Su Mei was all too familiar with…

Xuanyuan Sword, Light Dust Willow.

If Su Mei hadn't been wielding two swords, she would have been killed instantly!

However, Su Mei's sword intent and Xuanyuan Sword Peerless were indeed two swords. Su Mei's left hand trembled, and the black sword was drawn, blocking the sword momentum that was heading straight for her face.

People say that Ma Feima, one of the five disciples of Taixu, is the best in the world.

However, compared to him, Su Mei and Lin Chaoyu were far superior in both sword spirit and sword techniques.

Lin Chaoyu, the senior sister who has followed Master Chiyuan for thirty years, has reached the pinnacle of her Taixu Sword Qi.

Su Mei, whose seniority was second only to Lin Chaoyu and who had studied the Taixu Sword Qi since childhood, was only slightly at a disadvantage.

The move the two had just exchanged seemed simple, but for most martial arts practitioners in the world, it was a fatal blow.

Apart from the successors of the Taixu Sword Qi, there is absolutely no one who can withstand this fierce attack.

Su Mei crossed her black and white swords in front of her chest to protect her vitals, while Lin Chaoyu stood still with the tips of her swords pointing diagonally.

"Su Mei".

Lin Chaoyu only had one sentence to say to this junior sister he hadn't seen in a long time.

"What does Senior Sister have to say?"

"Give me your life."

For the first time, Lin Chaoyu, the senior sister who treated her fellow disciples as family, spoke to those who were once as close as sisters.

…………

Ma Feima is not actually stationed at the Taixu Sword Sect.

No sooner had Lin Chaoyu left than he handed over the business to the most senior disciple of the Taixu Sword Sect.

"From this moment forward, the Taixu Sword Sect is closed. You are not to participate in any affairs of the martial world. However, if any demonic beasts attack, you must immediately descend the mountain to exorcise them."

Leaving behind these three sentences, Ma Feima rode his beloved horse at breakneck speed toward the South China Sea.

Ma Feima, who was going against Lin Chaoyu's will for the first time, suddenly had a premonition.

This premonition excited him.

He had a premonition...

He was about to die.

Who killed him?

This is what Ma Feima is most interested in right now.

I'm looking at Greta's feet, please don't mention it.

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Chapter Twenty-Six: The Glorious Tang Dynasty

This is the sixth autumn since I entered the palace.

Looking at the gray sky, Tang Cai Ren thought of her hometown.

In fact, she often thought that this magnificent palace was just a beautiful cage. People outside could only see its prosperity, but they never knew what it was like inside.

Tang Cairen felt that she was destined to live out her life in this golden cage.

She entered the palace at the age of fourteen and is now twenty. She has risen from a concubine to a lady-in-waiting, but she has hardly ever seen the emperor.

Those selected for the palace were all exceptional women, but many of them, like Consort Tang, could only gaze at their aging faces each day, clinging to a sliver of hope...

She hoped that one day the emperor might notice her, and then wealth and glory would be within her grasp.

But in reality, Consort Tang didn't really want to become the emperor's woman.

Someone like her, with no background and little money at home, only entered the palace to have a meal.

If one is selected to enter the palace, regardless of whether the emperor approves of them or not, at least one will receive some silver every month and will not have to worry about food and clothing.