Zhang Yang crouched down and looked at Otto's face: "Do you know what it's going to do now?"

Otto nodded: "I can roughly guess that he wants to create an imaginary singularity."

Cheng Ling Shuang asked, "Is it the same as the one your husband made?"

Zhang Yang shook his head and said, "My one is unstable, but this one is probably a stable singularity that can be absorbed. In that case, the core of the Herrscher of Domination will be reactivated."

“Yes.” Otto agreed with this statement: “The Herrscher you mentioned seems to be injecting the Singularity into Kallen’s body to generate a new Herrscher of Domination core.”

Zhang Yang stroked his chin: "Besides the Void Treasury, did you bring any other Divine Keys?"

Otto did not answer immediately, his gaze falling on Zhang Yang, a strange look flashing in his emerald eyes.

Strangely enough, just half a month ago, Zhang Yang was just an ordinary person who struggled to kill even a few bandits and was extremely wary of himself, as if he had encountered some trouble and might be swallowed up at any moment.

At the time, Otto only felt that this person was very perceptive.

However, looking back now, I realize that he did indeed have a trick up his sleeve.

The Xuanyuan Sword was bestowed by the True Man Chiyuan, and the girl in that girl's hand is the Xuanyuan Sword. Moreover, they did indeed find the True Man Chiyuan.

Oh……

It really was completely guarded against.

Otto suddenly smiled: "You asked this question because you know your abilities will be countered by the treasure of destiny, right?"

Zhang Yang raised an eyebrow: "Answer my question."

Otto ignored him and continued, "Let me guess—your ability is essentially to ignite information."

"Information?" Li Sushang blinked. "What information?"

Otto's gaze never left Zhang Yang: "Everything has its information. The information of a piece of iron includes its atomic structure, forging process, and history. The information of a tree includes its growth trajectory, annual ring distribution, and the storms it has weathered."

"What I mean by 'igniting information' is not physical oxidation or combustion. It's a brutal information-energy conversion process—"

"Treat the information that constitutes the underlying logic of things as a special kind of fuel."

"It's not about igniting matter, but about igniting that intangible, formless collection of information that records 'what' and 'what' things have experienced.'"

“The act of ‘igniting’,” Otto said slowly, “is a chain reaction fueled by information itself. Once the information is ignited, it will spread along the logical record of its existence, from the point of ‘now’ where it was ignited, to the past and the future. It destroys and covers the orderly record of information into disordered heat.”

Zhang Yang narrowed his eyes: "What does this have to do with my question?"

"My lord, let him speak. I'm quite curious," Cheng Ling Shuang said. "Could you please keep it simple?"

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“Of course, ma’am,” Otto continued. “You can think of it this way: suppose an entity is a book that records the cause and effect of its entire life.”

"A normal attack is to tearing the book, burning the pages, and destroying the physical carrier, but the story inside the book remains."

"This young hero's fire seal uses the text itself as fuel to ignite it. The flames don't burn the paper, they burn the words. The text is burned to generate high heat, and the paper is probably the last thing to be ignited."

Li Sushang was stunned: "What...what does this mean?"

Otto looked at Zhang Yang, a slight smile playing on his lips: "I guess you asked me earlier if I had brought any other Divine Keys because you were afraid."

"Scared?" Li Sushang was taken aback. "What is he afraid of?"

Otto's gaze fell on Zhang Yang's face, and he said, word by word, "He fears the Oath of Judah, whose power is to suppress all forms of Honkai energy and all forms of energy conversion."

"And your ability, 'information-energy conversion,' is also a kind of energy conversion."

"The oath of Judah is just what you need to suppress."

"That's why you have this problem!"

After saying that, Otto looked at Zhang Yang with a smug look, as if he was waiting for the other party's reaction.

Zhang Yang: "..."

Where does this inexplicable competitive spirit come from?

Did you get scammed?

Fu Hua hesitated and asked, "So... you brought the Key of Binding with you, and it's in the hands of the Herrscher of Domination now?"

Otto: "..."

Seeing that Otto remained silent, Zhang Yang had no choice but to press further: "Does the Herrscher of Domination possess any other Divine Keys?"

“Yes…” Otto could only say, “The Black Abyss White Flower is placed in the coffin.”

Zhang Yang squatted down and patted Otto on the shoulder: "Then why are you talking so much nonsense?"

Chapter Sixty-Eight: Who Isn't Afraid of the Demonic Fu Hua?

Su Mei woke up and opened her eyes, but she was still dazed. Her gaze wandered over the ruins for a while before gradually focusing.

My dantian felt empty, as if a piece of it had been scooped out.

Sword Heart shattered, cultivation vanished, and even the true energy that had been circulating within his body for years disappeared completely.

It took her a few breaths to accept this fact.

"Awake?" Ma Feima squatted down next to her, his voice very low.

Su Mei did not answer immediately, but turned her head and looked around.

On the ruins of the high platform, Zhang Yang and Otto stood together, Cheng Ling Shuang leaned against a broken stone pillar, and Li Su Chang stood not far away, holding the Xuanyuan Sword.

Below in the plaza, the martial arts practitioners whose skills had been crippled were being helped away by disciples from their respective sects.

Her gaze finally settled on Fu Hua.

The gray-haired, blue-eyed woman stood there, looking exactly the same as she had seen twenty years ago.

Su Mei remained silent for a moment, then propped herself up on the ground and sat up.

Ma Feima reached out to help her, and she did not refuse.

"Second sister." Cheng Ling Shuang also saw her. "Do you want to explain?"

Su Mei looked at her, her lips instinctively trying to curve into a smile, but her lips twitched and she ultimately failed.

After losing his martial arts skills, even his expression became somewhat dull.

"Explain what? Explain why I did so many stupid things?"

“Explain why you were controlled.” Zhang Yang squatted down to look her in the eye. “You are Su Mei, the martial arts world’s recognized ‘unparalleled strategist’. You should be the first person to discover the problem.”

Su Mei looked at him, remained silent for a moment, and then said, "You're right, I was the first to discover the problem. But so what? Discovering a problem and solving a problem are two different things."

"On the day I achieved mastery of sword intent, I vaguely knew that there was something inside the Xuanyuan Sword."

"That was a consciousness that didn't belong to me, pulsating in the sword's heart, as if it were alive. I thought about breaking the sword, just like Xiao Liu did back then."

“But I didn’t.”

"Because I believe I can control it. I am Su Mei, what storms haven't I weathered? What can a remnant soul within a sword do to me?"

She gave a self-deprecating laugh: "And then I was fooled by it for twenty years. The Peerless Sect searched all over the land, but I still couldn't unravel the secret of the Xuanyuan Sword and the Sword Heart... Peerless Wisdom? It's nothing but a joke."

Su Mei closed her eyes, as if organizing her thoughts: "When I was being controlled, my consciousness was still intact, and I established a connection with it using my sword intent. I saw its memories."

Li Sushang was taken aback: "You can do that?"

“My sword intent is special. You may not know that the human body actually contains a weak amount of electricity, and electricity has two poles, yin and yang.” Su Mei explained softly, “My peerless sword technique controls these two poles, which also allows me to better control my thoughts.”

Li Sushang was a little confused: "Is that so?"

“That’s right,” Zhang Yang said calmly. “This involves physics; all I can say is that this world is surprisingly logical.”

"What is logic?" Li Sushang asked, puzzled.

Zhang Yang: "..."

Fu Hua looked at Su Mei: "What did you see in the heart of the Herrscher of Domination's sword?"

Su Mei's tone was somewhat complicated: "The Sword Demon was born out of fear."

This statement silenced everyone present.

Looking at the clouds above her head, Su Mei slowly said, "The emotions of countless heroes who fought against the Honkai remain in the Herrscher core of the Xuanyuan Sword through the resonance of their sword intent."

"Over time, these fragmented thoughts gradually merged and fermented, giving birth to a complete consciousness."

"This consciousness originated from the desire to eliminate demons and uphold justice, so it also instinctively wants to eliminate demons and uphold justice..."

"Until this consciousness gave rise to the first emotion, an emotion called 'fear'."

Su Mei's gaze fell on Fu Hua: "It's afraid of its master."

“It was afraid of being discovered by True Immortal Chi Yuan, afraid of being ‘exterminated by demons’.” Su Mei’s voice was calm yet somewhat cruel. “So it has always been cautious and dared not expose itself. It’s normal for a divine artifact to be a being, just like the magical artifact of destiny.”

As she spoke, she glanced at Otto.

Ma Feima said with a serious expression, "So it controlled us to do wrong things?"

“Little horse, the Sword Demon doesn’t have that much power. The only emotion it understands is fear.” Su Mei said, her tone tinged with self-deprecation. “We, the Seven Swords of Taixu, are all people with weak sword hearts because we are all afraid. We are afraid that one day we will also fall into demonic ways and be punished by our master.”

The ruins remained quiet for a long time.

The wind blew in from the mountains, carrying the smell of gunpowder and dust.

Fu Hua stood there, her gray hair blowing in the wind and falling back down. After a long time, she finally spoke: "That's what makes the Herrscher so terrifying. It can always find your weakest spot and then stab you in the back."

Zhang Yang stood beside her, looking at her with a strange expression in her emerald eyes.

Sadness? Self-blame? Confusion?

It's possible to have both, or it's possible to have none at all.

This person has lived too long and witnessed too much life and death; her emotions have long been dulled by the passage of time.

However, it's also possible that Fu Hua simply doesn't know how to take care of a child.

According to Su Mei, the consciousness of the Herrscher of Domination is somewhat like Xiao Shi, who is naturally close to Fu Hua and has the will to protect humanity, but it is also somewhat like Erosion, who has thrown himself into the Honkai due to his fear of death.

OK……

The immortal is quite skilled at raising children.

Zhang Yang then spoke up: "No one is born with a firm sword heart. If a person can prevent their parents from killing their parents, their wife from killing their wife, their best friend from killing their best friend... she must have thought about not killing her best friend, not killing her teacher, and not killing her comrade-in-arms."

"You've already killed your master once, can't you go and kill your wife and best friend now?"

Ma Feima's shoulders began to tremble.

He couldn't imagine how such a person could exist in the world, killing his parents to stop them from killing his parents, killing his wife to stop him from killing his wife, and killing his best friend to stop him from killing his best friend...

Su Mei looked at Fu Hua and couldn't help but ask, "Master, what is the purpose of all this?"

Fu Hua did not answer, perhaps because she couldn't remember.

Zhang Yang replied on her behalf: "I've long been numb to the chaos of the world; all the precious bonds have been broken; my thousand-year perseverance is only for saving all living beings."

Upon hearing this, Ma Feima and Su Mei felt their heads go blank. They looked up at the floating island atop the Sky Dome Peak and the gathering clouds of gas.

Recalling the power of the Law of Domination, they suddenly felt weak, having joined the Taixu Mountain Sect but never truly intending to save the world.

I've never witnessed a Herrscher destroy countless lives...

Ma Feima knelt before Fu Hua, head bowed, his shoulders trembling.

"Master..."

Su Mei sat on the pile of rubble, watching Ma Feima's kneeling back. She remained silent for a long time, then she supported herself on the ground, slowly stood up, walked to Ma Feima's side, and knelt down.

"..."

Seeing this, Cheng Ling Shuang said nothing and also knelt down in front of Fu Hua.

Fu Hua looked at them, and after a long while, she finally spoke, "Get up. What kind of behavior is it to kneel on the ground?"

Zhang Yang looked away, and was about to say something to ease the tension when he caught a glimpse of light out of the corner of his eye.

A very thin beam of sword light shot out from the shadows of the ruins, as fast as a whip.

brush!

The beam of light made a bend in the air and wrapped around Ma Feima's waist.

"Varied--"

Ma Feima's pupils suddenly contracted, and before he could react, he was pulled backward by the sword light.

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