Collapse, Kaslana's Way of Survival

And this is Otto's purpose.

Taking this small piece of shattered space as an opportunity, Otto, who gained freedom along with it, planted it at a lightning speed from the carefully selected origin point on the Imaginary Number Tree, and then let it expand to the size of an entire world before reconnecting it with the Imaginary Number Tree.

"Phew, all the preparatory work is done. Now I just need to reconnect it to the tree of imaginary numbers, and my goal will be fully achieved..."

Although his body had been reduced to dust as space shattered, Otto, having stolen the power of the false god, had not lost it. He seemed to be mumbling to himself, but his voice echoed in Kayno's ears, becoming fainter and fainter.

Keno watched the entire process of Otto's evolution of the world, and pondered for a while with his hand on his chin.

"It's nothing, Bianca, let's go back."

"Nephew, niece, you're back."

Theresa was slightly startled when she saw Kaino and Bianca walking into her office. She first glanced at the door that Kaino closed with a dim look in her eyes, and then asked the two to sit down.

"When I heard that Grandpa had secretly left on a plane, I guessed you guys had left too. I didn't expect you to come back so soon... Phew, what's up with Auntie? Just to be clear, I don't have time to go out with you guys lately."

"We are not ignorant children. We came here to tell you, Auntie, that the bishop has handed us over to us."

Bianca spoke first, concealing the information about Otto's resurrection and telling Theresa that the Thirteenth Herrscher would not appear.

Theresa nodded with a complicated look in her eyes.

"Grandpa... oh, okay, I understand."

"However, you don't need to worry about the Herrscher defenses. Researchers at Skyward Sword have summarized the patterns of the Herrscher's appearance to some extent. We've also exchanged some information with Anti-Entropy and the World Serpent. All you need to do is wait for notification to fight the Herrscher."

"Oh, by the way, speaking of this, I have something to ask you."

Theresa said, looking towards Kaino.

"Nephew, the Gem of Desire should still be with you, right?"

Keno nodded.

"That thing is quite dangerous after all, so I have been keeping it in the imaginary space. What's wrong?"

"That's right. According to the joint analysis of the three organizations, when the Herrschers Wind and Death are born, their corresponding gems will instantly disintegrate, then transform into cores and emerge within the Herrschers. However, if we can prevent the gems from disintegrating, we can also, to a certain extent, control the birth of these two Herrschers."

"And it just so happens that we have recently found a way to contain it."

After all, she was asking her eldest nephew for something, so Theresa's expression became a little awkward.

"So, nephew, you..."

"clear."

Without waiting for Theresa to finish, Kayno took out the Gem of Desire, slammed it on the table, and gently pushed it in front of Theresa.

After all, it is not a complete Herrscher core. It is not as convenient for Keno to use it as it is for his own stigmata, so there is no point in keeping it.

"Come to think of it, the birth of the Herrscher of Gem Disintegration has only happened once. Could it be that Destiny has already come up with a countermeasure?" Bianca looked a little surprised.

"Ah no, it's not actually the result of Tianming's research." Theresa scratched her face, looking a little unnatural.

"It's the work of the World Serpent—more precisely, it's a legacy of a previous civilization. That previous civilization left behind a device called the Yellow Spring Staff, which could disrupt the connection between cores, gems, and other items and the Tree of Imaginary Numbers. The World Serpent modified it to specifically imprison gems, thereby seizing the initiative in the war."

"Unfortunately, even that result can only suppress the disintegration of the gems but cannot completely prevent it. Otherwise, we could have prevented the birth of the Herrscher and completely won the Honkai Impact without a fight."

Theresa looked a little lost.

"Be content, Auntie. It's good enough to be able to take the initiative to a certain extent."

When Kainuo said this, he suddenly remembered something, sat up straight, rubbed his palms, and looked at Theresa expectantly.

"By the way, now that we have the initiative to start the war, I'd like to ask you for a few days' leave for Xier and me."

"Ask for leave? What leave?" Theresa was a little confused. "Nephew, aren't you an official Valkyrie of Destiny? And Xier is also... uh."

"Nephew, are you trying to ask for leave from Saint Freya?"

After being the archbishop for a few days, she still couldn't wrap her mind around it.

"correct."

Keno nodded.

"I haven't been to class for several days. Teacher Jizi probably won't approve my next request for leave, so I came to you directly."

"That's easy. I still have the title of Saint Freya Academy Principal! Besides, I'm now the direct superior of the entire Far East Branch. For small matters like this, I can just call Himeko later."

"But nephew, what do you want to do with your leave? It's okay to go out and play during this time... but don't set a bad example for Kiana."

"I'm going to the Quantum Sea," Kainuo replied with a smile, "to see an old friend and get some help... Auntie, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing Theresa suddenly frown, Kainuo felt panicked.

Oh no, could it be that Theresa, who I criticized about the orphanage, was sensed by her period?

"No, nothing, it's just the name of the Quantum Sea..."

Theresa picked up the documents placed aside, flipped through them for a while, then pulled out one of them. After glancing at it, she raised the corner of her mouth and tried hard to suppress her smile.

"Well, this is the information I got from communicating with the World Serpent and Anti-Entropy. Both organizations said their top leaders were trapped in the Quantum Ocean. Why don't you rescue them when you come back, nephew?"

Chapter 281 Revisiting the old place

At the foot of Taixu Mountain, Xier, dressed in a black dress, looked at the huge statue of Fu Hua on the side of the mountain with her arms crossed, a look of dissatisfaction on her face.

"So, you specifically asked for leave to bring me out here alone, only to end up wandering off to a world from five hundred years ago, to Fu Hua's former residence?"

"It's about meeting an old friend. And although I want to bring some fighting forces with me, this isn't actually our main destination. We have a second stop soon."

Kaino said with a smile.

Although he promised Theresa to rescue Kevin and Walter, compared to looking for those two people floating somewhere unknown in the vast quantum ocean, it was more important for Kayno to go back to the world where he had stayed for several years.

So after giving the soul steel that Bianca gave him to the artificial intelligence Prometheus in Longominiard's body, Keno happily handed over the task of maintaining the stability of the world bubble to the other party temporarily, and he happily slipped into the world bubble with Xier.

"Fu Hua, I'm back to see you guys!"

Kainuo shouted towards Taixu Mountain, and then instead of walking up the extremely long stairs, he took Xier's hand and stepped into the Xushu Gate, and arrived at the top of Taixu Mountain almost at the same time as his shout.

Nearly two years have passed, and the appearance of the top of Taixu Mountain has changed drastically.

The original ruins had of course been cleaned up, with four or five simple wooden houses located in sequence. Cang Xuan Zhishu was sitting on the steps in front of a house with a depressed look on his face, rubbing a basin of green stuff, while Fu Hua was standing on a Tai Chi platform carved out of stone slabs and doing boxing.

Kainuo walked up to Cang Xuan Zhishu, who was stunned when he saw him, and flicked his head, then waved to Fu Hua.

"How's it going? Do you miss me?"

Fu Hua stopped when she saw Kainuo coming, and answered Kainuo's question seriously.

"Those who practice martial arts should be calm and composed. It's not easy for them to feel longing for you. Moreover, in a sense, we have been inside your body for a long time. Although we haven't seen each other, we haven't been apart for long."

"...But, it's been a long time."

No longer frowning, Fu Hua also smiled.

"Speaking of which, I haven't seen you for two years. You seem to have grown taller?"

"How old was I when I left? It's normal to grow taller."

"But could you please not speak in that tone? I always feel like I've gotten a cheap mother..."

Kainuo curled his lips and said.

Mingming and Fu Hua from the Equivalent World are almost on the same level, but it seems that because Fu Hua had taught him for a period of time, this Fu Hua always looks at him as a junior.

"Once a teacher, always a father. Although I am not your master, you are still a disciple of Taixu Sect after all... Forget it, let's not talk about this today."

Fu Hua, who was about to preach, suddenly stopped and turned to look at the Book of Cang Xuan.

"Xiao Xuan, move a table over here, and don't forget to move four more chairs."

“Ah, ah…Ahhh!”

Cang Xuan Zhi Shu, who was called by Fu Hua, finally came back to her senses. She flew around Kayno a few times with a little excitement and pinched his face by the way.

"Live?!"

"What the hell is alive?"

Kainuo couldn't help but complain, and Fu Hua frowned slightly.

"Xiao Xuan, don't be rude. Now, go move the table."

"Move, move, move my head! You blockhead, can you please take a look at my small body before you speak?"

Cang Xuan Shu widened his eyes and clenched his fists to vent his dissatisfaction.

"It's fine if you asked me to help you dry the pickles, but now you're asking me to carry things that are several times taller than me! You've changed, you're not like this before..."

"Stop!"

Seeing that the Cang Xuan Book was about to chatter on and on, Kainuo quickly stopped it and directly reproduced several sets of tables and chairs.

"You blockhead, look at them! Thankfully, all of your disciples are reasonable, unlike you, otherwise your Taixu Sword Sect would be finished sooner or later!"

Upon seeing this, Cang Xuan Zhi Shu dissed Fu Hua with a smile, then looked at Kainuo.

"what?"

Her gaze paused on Xier, and she flew closer to Xier on the scroll and took a closer look at her.

Xier frowned slightly and leaned back.

If it was just a stranger who dared to approach her like this, she would have just chopped him down with her sickle, but after all, it was Kainuo who brought her here...

Phew, just bear with it for now.

"Hmm~!" Cang Xuan Zhi Shu leaned closer, his eyes narrowed almost into slits, and his mouth curved into a V shape, "This child is quite cute!"

I can't help it!

"Xiao Xuan, you've embarrassed yourself outside."

Fu Hua expressionlessly pressed the Cang Xuan Book onto the seat beside her, glanced at Xier with a stern look on her face and Kainuo with a subtle look, coughed lightly, and continued.

"Xiao Xuan isn't usually like this. Maybe she was a little excited after not seeing each other for a while, so she was a little rude."

"Speaking of which, Kaino, you haven't explained yet, who is she?"

"She's Xi'er."

Kainuo raised his right hand that was holding Xier's and shook it without saying anything more. Then he briefly introduced Fu Hua and Cang Xuan Book to Xier, so that they had a rough understanding of each other.

"By the way, where is Su Shang? I remember she said before that she wanted to study with you, Fu Hua?"

"And Kevin? I thought he'd stay with you after returning to this world, or did he go off to guard the gate to the afterlife?"

Kaino asked as he looked around at the houses.

Although Fu Hua, whose sword heart was broken, was still not weak, he was still not strong enough to face the Herrscher of the End, so the other party was not on his invitation list this time.

"Past... Paradise?"

Fu Hua was slightly stunned by the unfamiliar term that came out of Kainuo's mouth.

"I don't know about the paradise of the afterlife, but as for Su Shang and Kevin, they do live with us."

"Although Herrschers will no longer appear in the world, Honkai Beasts still roam the land, so Kevin would occasionally go down the mountain to kill them. Su Shang's martial arts skills, which she had learned from me, had almost reached their limit, so she followed Kevin down the mountain to learn his fighting methods."

"Calculating the time, the two of them will probably be back in a day or two... What do you want from them?"

Don’t know about the paradise of the past?

Even Fu Hua, whose memory was severely damaged five hundred years later, still knew about the paradise in the past life, but this Fu Hua didn't know?

Kainuo frowned slightly, and although he was puzzled, he put the doubt aside for the time being.

"Don't worry about the paradise in the past for now."

"I just asked them for a favor. Since they're not here, let's just wait for them to come back. Anyway, time isn't as urgent this time as it was when I left last time. But this time I plan to go see other places with Xi'er, so I won't be here with you guys, Fu Hua, for the next two days."

Kaino stood up by supporting himself on the table.

Chapter 282 Orphanage

"Who is Su Shang? My wife is a billionaire..."

Almost as soon as they left the top of Taixu Mountain, Xier suddenly asked Kainuo.

"Hmm? Oh, he's a friend of mine, I guess. His full name is Li Sushang. He helped me a lot back then, and he's also Fu Hua's disciple."

"Oh, by the way, there is also a Li Sushang in our world. Although from my point of view, the difference between the two is quite big."

"From the name, it seems she's a girl?"