Crossover anime/manga, immediately transmigrated after death

Suicide squad.

Cheng Ling Shuang looked up at the sky.

The clouds are gathering, pressing in from the horizon at an abnormally fast speed.

The clouds changed color from white to gray, and from gray to black, like a basin of ink being poured into clear water.

"It is going to rain."

After she finished speaking, she turned to look at Li Sushang.

"Go. Slay the demons."

Li Sushang placed her hand on the hilt of her sword, but did not draw it immediately. Instead, she looked at the assassins rushing towards her, their faces still bearing the expressions of their lives.

Fear, pain, confusion.

These things were frozen on their distorted features, like masks.

"Zhang Yang," she asked, "are these people... still salvageable?"

Zhang Yang said directly, "The brain is dead. Only the Honkai energy remains to drive this body. There's really no way to save it. Let's just do it."

"First published on 705u.com - Book Club"

Clang!

The Xuanyuan Sword was drawn, its dark golden blade reflecting a cold light in the midday sun.

She took a step forward, her figure as swift as a swallow skimming the water, the sword light drawing an arc in the air.

brush!

The first head flew up.

There was no blood.

The blood inside the assassin's body had long been evaporated by the Honkai energy, leaving only a thin, grayish-black membrane at the cut, resembling charred wood.

The headless body took two more steps forward before crashing to the ground.

Li Sushang did not stop; her swordplay continued unabated, one strike after another, each strike representing a life.

The "Qi" technique of the Taixu Sword Qi unfolded in her hands. In the starting stance, the sword moved lightly and nimbly, using speed to defeat the enemy.

There were no superfluous movements, no fancy moves; every sword strike went straight for the vital points.

Heads rolled to the ground.

Those twisted bodies fell to the ground one after another, like broken wooden stakes.

Zhang Yang glanced at it, said nothing, and walked towards the city.

Cheng Ling Shuang followed beside him, her pace equally unhurried.

"Su Chang can handle it."

"I know."

The two walked forward along the main street.

The shops on both sides of the street had their doors and windows tightly shut, and occasionally a half-open eye would peek out from a crack in a few doors, only to quickly retreat again upon seeing them.

The air was filled with the smell of rust and rotting flesh, which grew stronger the further we went.

Boom boom boom!

The ground began to shake, and at the end of the street ahead, a giant beast squeezed out from between two houses.

It stands three meters tall, is entirely white, and is wrapped in a purplish-red band of light.

The head resembles an inverted shell, with no eyes, no mouth, only a crack running across the entire face.

Honkai Beast.

Zhang Yang glanced at the Honkai Beast, but didn't stop walking.

"Honkai Beasts are mutated animals corrupted by Honkai energy. The larger they are, the more dangerous they are."

He continued, "Lower-level Honkai Beasts are classified according to their form, starting from the smallest Beast-class, and then moving upwards to the Charge-class, Knight-class, Ballista-class, Chariot-class, Temple-class, and Warlord-class."

"Above that are the higher-ranking Honkai Beasts: Emperor-class, Judgment-class, and the legendary End-of-Dharma-class."

"Chi You is a Judgment-class Honkai Beast."

"However, the levels of lower-level Honkai Beasts are only classifications of form, and there is no absolute difference in strength."

"Su Chang can handle all of these things that are happening right now."

Li Sushang had several black ash marks on her body, but her clothes were intact and her breathing was slightly erratic.

A faint golden light flowed across the blade of the Xuanyuan Sword, its sword energy not yet subsided.

"Are you done?" She glanced at Zhang Yang. "There's still a bunch ahead of us."

"Can you kill them all?"

"We can kill them all."

Zhang Yang didn't ask any more questions.

The three of them walked along the main street.

Li Sushang led the way, the Xuanyuan Sword crisscrossing among the horde of crumbling beasts. At first, the swordplay was a bit clumsy, but it became smoother as it progressed, as if something was gradually awakening in the battle.

With a single horizontal slash, the forelimb of a Knight-class Honkai Beast was severed at the root.

The sword turned and slashed down diagonally, cracking the carapace of another ballista-class Honkai Beast, from which purplish-red Honkai energy gushed forth.

She dodged the charge of a tank-class beast, leaped into the air, and used her Flying Swallow technique to draw an arc in the air, piercing the head of the Honkai Beast with the tip of her sword.

With a twist of the sword hilt, sword energy exploded inside the skull.

boom!

The colossal structure collapsed with a deafening roar.

Zhang Yang followed behind, walking with ease.

The hundred-meter-tall Honkai Beast did not appear.

The size limit of a lower-rank Honkai Beast is around thirty meters, and at most it will not exceed forty meters.

The larger the Honkai Beast, the higher the concentration of Honkai energy, and the more serious the pollution to the surrounding environment.

That level of monster has not yet been born in this border town.

But the source remains.

"Go this way, the source of the demonic possession is there, there's probably a very powerful monster there." Cheng Ling Shuang casually pointed in the direction of the city center.

Zhang Yang chuckled softly, "Ling Shuang seems to be quite familiar with this matter."

“Master used to lead us in slaying demons and monsters.” Cheng Ling Shuang glanced at Zhang Yang sideways: “If only you were here back then.”

"I will be by your side." Zhang Yang simply nodded.

The three of them crossed the last street.

In the very center of the city, a mansion stands on the steps at the end of the main street.

The house has blue bricks and gray tiles, and a plaque hangs above the door.

The county government office in the border town had its gates wide open, and the interior was brightly lit.

An altar was erected in the courtyard.

It was made of loess, about ten feet high, with a flat top.

The surface of the altar is covered with runes and patterns that are intertwined to form a complex design.

The patterns were glowing, with a purplish-red light flowing along the grooves, like pulsating blood vessels.

A person stood in the center of the altar.

It was a woman, and judging from her clothes, she seemed to be an ordinary person.

She wore a gray cloth dress, her hair was tied up with a wooden hairpin, her face was pale, and her eyes were closed.

Her body was being lifted by an invisible force, her feet three inches off the ground, hovering above the altar.

A massive amount of Honkai energy surged from the patterns beneath the altar and flowed into her body.

Purple lines appeared on her skin, spreading inch by inch, as if something was taking root inside her.

"This..." Cheng Ling Shuang was slightly taken aback, somewhat puzzled: "It's somewhat similar to the one during the Sacred Flame Conference. It seems what you said is true."

Cheng Ling Shuang will never forget the Olympic torch relay she experienced when she was two years old.

On the summit of Wangshan Mountain, Yan Shilu held the "Sacred Flame Assembly," issuing a challenge to the entire Central Plains martial arts world. The eldest brother killed Yan Shilu in three moves, and the master found her still alive and took her as his disciple.

Zhang Yang's initial claim that the matter of Yan Shilu had never ended was met with skepticism, but now she completely believes it.

Zhang Yang simply pointed and asked, "Do you recognize that sword?"

Beside the altar stood a broken sword.

The sword is dark gold with dark gray patterns, and there is a half-inch deep notch on the blade, as if it had been smashed by something.

Cheng Ling Shuang's gaze fell on the sword and stopped.

Li Sushang followed her gaze and was stunned for a moment: "Master, that's the Xuanyuan Sword, how could it be here?"

Cheng Ling Shuang remained silent, her gaze fixed on the broken sword as if a nail were driven into the wood.

"This is my sword, the sword my master gave me. I used it to attack my master..."

"I buried it in the desert."

Her tone remained calm, but her speaking speed slowed down.

"I buried it myself twenty years ago, so why is it here?"

Standing beside her, Zhang Yang's doubts were finally resolved. He then said, "Because this is a Herrscher, a pseudo-Herrscher, but also a true Herrscher, the dominant Herrscher of the previous civilization, also known as the Thousand Herrscher."

Note: [The Legend of the Broken Sword in China] has been discontinued, so this is all a secondary setting. The BOSS from 500 years ago is arranged to be the Herrscher of Domination from the previous civilization.

Chapter Fifty-One: Its Nature is Like Water

Standing before the altar, Zhang Yang glanced at the broken sword and explained, "The Xuanyuan Sword is no ordinary weapon. It belongs to a system called the 'Key of Gods,' thirteen weapons forged by the previous civilization using Herrscher cores. The tenth Key of Gods is the Key of Domination."

"The Tenth Law Master, the Law Dominator, also known as the Law Master of a Thousand People."

"Its core was divided into a thousand parts, which were made into a thousand keys of domination. The Xuanyuan Sword is just one of them."

“The core of every Key of Domination is the same—'Soul Steel' composed of nanobots, which has the ability to change shape.”

"It takes on different forms depending on who holds it: knife, sword, gun, bow, gauntlet... there are more than a dozen known types. Their original form is the same: the Xuanyuan Sword."

“These keys of dominion are like ‘clouds,’ each one is an independent entity, but they share a common underlying layer. They are all one.”

Cheng Ling Shuang shifted her gaze from the broken sword to Zhang Yang's face: "What killed you that night was the consciousness of the Thousand-Man Herrscher."

Zhang Yang nodded slightly and continued, "The Thousand-Man Lawyer is different from other Lawners."

"The other Heralds are the ultimate manifestations of certain physical laws: flames, frost, wind, lightning, and matter recombination."

"Although the physical properties of the cores of the thousand Herrschers are the same as those of the Herrscher cores, their energy levels are far lower than those of other Herrscher cores. The previous generation of civilizations implanted these cores into human bodies to create pseudo-Herrschers."

"A pseudo-Herrscher?" Cheng Ling Shuang pondered for a moment, then confirmed, "Just like what Yan Shi Luo did?"

Zhang Yang said, "Perhaps it's more than that, but the power of pseudo-heroes is not comparable to that of true heromens, but their numbers are numerous and they are scattered across a thousand individuals."

"After the previous civilization killed these pseudo-Herrschers, they extracted their cores and created the Keys of Domination. These Keys of Domination then passed down to this era..."

He looked at Cheng Ling Shuang: "Your Tai Xu Sword Qi and the Sword Heart Technique contained within your hearts are essentially a technological modification of a pre-civilization."

"Those 462 meaningless syllables are not for chanting incantations, but for subtly transforming the cultivator's brain into a biological processor capable of manipulating Honkai energy."

"Users of the Key of Domination will resonate with the Key of Domination during use."

"Their emotions, memories, will... some of them will remain in the Key of Domination."

"These lingering thoughts gathered together through the underlying connections between the Keys of Domination, and over time, the thousand Herrschers eventually regained their self-awareness."

The air in the courtyard was quiet for a moment.

Then Cheng Ling Shuang spoke up: "You mean, sword intent is the enemy. We thought that when sword intent is perfected, the Xuanyuan Sword will transform into a form that suits us, but in reality, the Xuanyuan Sword in our hands also influences our thoughts through resonance?"