Honkai Impact: The Dream Keeper

Chapter 182 An Encounter with the Past

"...Where is this?" Long Qiao muttered to herself as she swayed as she sat up, her right eye stung by the sunlight.

“Hiss… This place looks so familiar… I remember now, this is… Changkong City, the time when I first met Bronya, and also… the scene where Uncle Narumi died…” Long Qiao said, clenching her fists.

"If... I change this point in time... will it affect my timeline?" Long Qiao asked the void.

"...No, because this is a different point in time, not our time." Black Dragon Qiao's voice came from within Dragon Qiao's body.

"Is that so... then I know what to do."

As Long Qiao walked out of the alley, just as he expected, the streets were full of assassins and Honkai Beasts roaming around.

Long Qiao walked down the street with his hands in his pockets as if nothing had happened. The fleeing crowd looked at him with strange eyes, but Long Qiao continued to walk slowly. At this moment, a Knight-level Honkai Beast came up to Long Qiao and tried to kill him.

"Get out of my way," Long Qiao said coldly.

But this Honkai Beast is still just like a complete idiot, so you can imagine what its fate will be.

"Since you're here, then hand over your Honkai energy."

Swah——

A sharp spike instantly pierced the chest of a Knight-class Honkai Beast, absorbing its Honkai energy, and the Honkai Beast whose Honkai energy was absorbed was instantly reduced to ashes.

"It tastes good, but there's too little," Long Qiao said after retracting her whip.

Immediately afterwards, Long Qiao went into a damaged clothing store. When he came out, he was wearing a cloak that completely covered his body and a mask. Long Qiao used a dual voice of demon and human to mutter to the void.

"Let's go... find Sayaro, and this time we'll make him pay!"

Long Qiao's figure disappeared from the spot in the blink of an eye, and the next second he appeared on the rooftop of a tall building, looking down.

"This was the only route we could take when we were fleeing. Looking down from here, you can see right there..."

After an unknown amount of time, Long Qiao finally saw her past self and Bronya from the past arrive here together.

Meanwhile, everything that happened was just as he remembered: the Lucky Clover organization, Centipede Orphnoch killing the people behind him, and so on... However, Long Qiao turned his gaze to Sayaro, who was at the very front of the Clover organization.

"He actually managed to sneak in...?"

At the same time, Sayaro also knocked Long Qiao away at this moment. He looked at Bronya and slowly walked towards her with a cruel smile on his lips.

"Who exactly are you?" Long Qiao stood in front of Bronya and questioned her.

"Hmph, how dare an ant face me?" Sayero used an attack that Long Qiao couldn't even see clearly at the moment to send Long Qiao flying to the side. Long Qiao, with blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, was helped up by Narumi.

Just as Sayaro raised his long sword to kill Bronya, Bronya closed her eyes. A few seconds later, she realized she wasn't hurt and opened them. In front of her was a man in a black cloak, and she was being carried in his right hand in a princess carry.

“You really can’t just sit idly by,” Sayaro said.

“Indeed… I cannot stand idly by, so… I will take your dog’s life today,” Long Qiao said coldly.

"If you can do it, then try it, Long Qiao..." Sayero had barely finished speaking when Long Qiao turned and kicked him several meters away.

Upon hearing Sayero's words, everyone gathered around Long Qiao and looked at him.

"……never mind."

Long Qiao threw away his cloak and crushed his mask, then put it back in place. He looked at everyone with his uninjured left eye, and everyone was astonished when they saw the hideous wounds on Long Qiao's face.

"Little Qiaozi... what have you been through?" Uncle Narumi asked, frowning.

"It's nothing...just a minor injury..."

No sooner had Long Qiao finished speaking than a sharp spike came hurtling towards him. It was the centipede Orphnoch, still smiling, unaware that his death was imminent...

A piercing sound rang out as Long Qiao directly grabbed the centipede Orphnoch's attack and interrupted it.

"Your attack is weak enough. Let me show you what a real attack is!"

Long Qiao, supporting his sweating face, bent over. To everyone's horror, Long Qiao's spine began to slowly tear open, from which whip-like tails slowly emerged, a total of six back whips appearing and waving in mid-air.

Long Qiao coldly then manipulated the back whip to attack the centipede Orphnoch. The speed was so fast that the other three Orphnochs did not even have time to react. The centipede Orphnoch was reduced to ashes right before their eyes.

"Who...are you?" Long Aofino asked, his voice trembling.

"I... am... the Demon God Long Qiao... the supreme ruler of the Demon Clan, die..."

The back whip burst forth instantly, knocking the crocodile Orpheus to the ground. Then it turned and instantly killed the lobster Orpheus. The dragon Orpheus was so frightened by this bizarre attack that it could only hide behind Sayaro.

"Long Qiao, do you dare to use your full strength and have a one-on-one fight?" Sayero suddenly said.

Long Qiao stared silently at Sayero's figure. Just as Sayero thought Long Qiao dared not speak and was about to make a sarcastic remark, the next second, the bandage on Long Qiao's right hand was ripped off, revealing a demonic claw exuding a strong dark aura. The chain on his left hand was thrown off, revealing a hand covered in dragon scales that radiated a rolling evil aura.

“If you go all out, be careful you don’t die in one round. Don’t be begging me to stop when you’re done,” Long Qiao said jokingly.

"Hoo... The Mark of Calamity is activated, the Fifth Calamity is upon us, and I shall become... the Demon God!"

In an instant... before everyone's eyes, Long Qiao transformed into a man with two horns on his head, short platinum blonde hair, a bare upper body, red pupils with black sclera, and tattoos.

"I also have the Calamity Mark and the Evil Dragon Mark, but I'm not very proficient at using that power yet, so I'll just leave it as it is."

"Tch... Let's see who's stronger and who's weaker!"

Long Qiao and Sayaro took a step forward simultaneously. Instantly, their elbows collided on the battlefield. However, it was clear to everyone that Long Qiao completely dominated Sayaro during the clash. After they jumped back, they attacked each other again, their elbows colliding once more. But Long Qiao freed his left hand and punched Sayaro in the face, sending him flying. Then, Long Qiao quickly approached Sayaro, grabbed his elbows, flipped over, stepped on his hands, and quickly punched Sayaro in the face before leaping into the air. He then extended his right hand and swooped down towards Sayaro.

"Sayaro, this time...you will die!"