Collapse, survive

"Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!"

Sunshine, snow, clouds, rain, thunder, lightning, wind—all things can be used as swords.

"This kind of momentum..."

Fu Hua wasn't just dodging. While Shadow Knight Moon Wheel's speed specialization was her biggest advantage, she wasn't the type who only knew how to dodge. She also threw a punch, shattering the sword energy that was cutting through the air beside her.

However, Fu Hua quickly realized that this was a futile effort and decisively chose to give up.

There was no other reason than that, from beginning to end, she did not sense any sign that Fang Jie was 'consumed'. His Honkai energy was inexhaustible and he handled it with ease—my sword energy is inexhaustible, while your power has already dissipated to such an extent.

After letting out a soft sigh, Fu Hua leaped lightly like a bird soaring high in the sky, maneuvering and pulling the sword energy in pursuit over a wider area... This kind of slash only had the power to cut through space for the moment it broke free of its sheath; afterwards, it was nothing more than an ordinary sword energy formed by the Honkai energy of an Emperor-level Honkai Beast.

Fu Hua understands too much, so she can't catch up with her at all.

What to fight next?

First, maintain distance.

The aliens, who seem to excel at large-area 'spellcasting' and can deploy imaginary shields that cover the entire Oceania, are actually more dangerous in close combat.

No, it's just that he hasn't switched that 'imaginary shield' to attack mode yet.

Fu Hua could clearly see how terrifying that future was; with just a slight tremor, this part of the continent would inevitably crumble and sink into the sea...

"Well……"

Her head started to hurt again, as if she had seen this scene before.

She had gotten used to not thinking about it.

'If we can only retreat, we can't even hold them back, and the distance is too great for Yu Du Chen to be effective. His mental defenses aren't as weak as he claims.'

Fu Hua held the Feathered Dust Blade, her body subtly resonating with the entire world, forming an unparalleled, sharp sword aura.

"at this point."

"I no longer need to hide my identity."

"All you need to do is strike with that sword!"

She then realized something, and Fu Hua in Eclipse mode suddenly emitted a burst of fire.

The firelight transformed into the phantom of a red kite.

High in the sky, the phantom transformed into flames that fell like rain, slowly consuming the memories that the Crimson Iris Immortal had stored in his mind.

"He's serious."

Fang Jie wasn't blind. Even if it was a mental buildup that led to a substantial change in Honkai energy, he was just disappointed that it had still come to this.

Unless he is willing to open up his memories, Fu Hua's mind is so hard that it cannot be persuaded with words.

She'd rather believe Otto!

Fang Jie was unwilling to reveal her memories, which was for her own good. Who knew what kind of weird memories Yu Duchen would dig up? Compared to Yu Duchen's 'mind-burning' nature, getting rid of those memories... perhaps the Great Lady wouldn't even remember them in the future.

It's even worse now, don't recklessly cross the line into the end, you bastard!

At this point, Fu Hua began to gather her strength. Her condition was so poor that she needed to gather her strength in order to be confident of breaking through Fang Jie's defense, both physically and mentally.

To avoid that terrible future, she must... at least obtain the information to leave for future generations.

Having prepared himself to endure the backlash of having his memories burned once again, the Crimson Kite Immortal finally made up his mind and activated Feather Crossing.

The black figure was about to transform into flames...

"To be honest, Immortal, you don't even need to be considered an examinee; there's no need for us to fight. But you probably won't listen anyway, and I can hardly avoid being..."

The great lady remembered.

Fang Jie stopped thinking about studying and started taking things seriously.

Focus, similar to Kenshin's focus, though it can only be considered the 'dustless' state, absolute focus, without any distracting thoughts, feeling the flow of power, his eyes shone with golden light.

Brilliant lightning appeared, converged, and formed a 'sword' in his hand.

This sword is no weaker than the Sword God; it is Fang Jie's Sword God, ethereal and unpredictable, filling space, omnipresent, and invincible.

I wasn't planning to electrocute her.

"Let it flow."

Time flies like water, and the four souls are severed.

At the same time, it made Fu Hua, who could never forget no matter how much she tried to forget, realize what kind of despairing power that was, and the Crimson Phoenix Immortal, who had personally experienced that scene, wavered for a moment.

"erosion……"

She also realized what she truly needed to do to save the world!

But it was too late.

Before she could revert to Fu Hua's desperate state at all costs, going mad and nearly going insane, Fang Jie had already drawn his sword.

The void shattered; the goal was not to kill her, but to control her and banish her to another dimension. The slash shattered heaven and earth, and no matter how fast the Shadow Knight of the Lunar Eclipse flew, he could not escape the void cataclysm that spread like the night sky.

Fang Jie shattered heaven and earth.

In that instant, Fu Hua had nowhere to hide and fell into a small cave.

That cave was very small, its radius not exceeding ten thousand meters.

This area, spanning ten thousand meters, was filled with no fewer than seventy-three longswords of various sizes!

Furthermore, the closer these longswords are to the single hill at the very center, the better their quality and the stronger they are!

At that moment, Fu Hua landed on the sword mound and was instantly suppressed. Every inch of this cave was filled with evil power that was being corrupted, and the mental projection suppressed her desire to activate the Feather Crossing Dust.

At the very top of the hill, the gray-haired, black-armored Crimson Kite Immortal had to lie supine in the center wearing tactical goggles, his chest pierced by a black and red longsword and stuck on the hill.

The Jizo Soul, which the previous civilization had failed to forge, was not a sword designed to damage the physical body. Instead, it was filled with endless evil energy, which she struggled to resist.

"bell……"

Oh it's you.

That makes sense, that makes sense.

Fu Hua was no longer worried about whether Oceania would become a disaster zone of the Great Collapse. What she needed to worry about was when the current civilization would face destruction. Otto... Otto would be corrupted in the first place, and then press the button to launch the global Collapse Fission Bomb.

"No, you can't!"

Even though she was already under someone else's control, with Fu Hua and Yu Duchen disconnected, a surge of powerful sword intent still welled up from her body. The terrifying fluctuations she emitted began to spread explosively, causing the Shadow Knight Moon Wheel to shatter, and she was heading towards madness.

Compared to the aloof and otherworldly Chi Yuan Immortal, Fu Hua will be more like a madwoman who only wants to destroy everything, including herself.

Then, all the swords in the entire cave rang out in unison!

Before the fiery red kite that blotted out the sky in the spiritual realm took flight, thousands of spiritual swords transformed into a sword enclosure to prevent her from collapsing.

Suddenly!

A clear light flashed in Fu Hua's eyes, and the terrifying fluctuations disappeared.

"Ring, what do you want to do?"

Fu Hua didn't understand why the other person was stopping her in this way... without hurting herself. To be honest, she had never been a smart person.

"The bell isn't here, it's me."

Upon hearing the response, Fu Hua heard the voice.

Who are you?!

As the tactical goggles shattered, her gaze reached Fang Jie within the sword encirclement... a projection appeared.

These are all projections, including those swords, only their shapes have been changed and incorporated into other materials, resulting in inconsistent quality.

He could certainly project himself, although Fang Jie didn't really like doing so.

"Crimson Mandarin Immortal, you immediately chose a huge sacrifice, giving everything to prevent something from happening. You truly..."

In reality, he's a reckless brute.

Can't she think? Well, Fang Jie scratched her head a little. She was so decisive precisely because she had thought about it.

The current civilization knows nothing about the Honkai, and Otto, that scoundrel, has always been one to kill without burying, only responsible for creating disasters so that others can sacrifice themselves, from Kallen to the present day.

But the immortal knew what Honkai was. As the person in charge of the 'Fire Seed Project' on the human side, she had always been the first line of defense to protect and safeguard civilization. However, she was becoming increasingly powerless, which is why she trusted Otto so easily.

Perhaps the higher-ups in the previous civilization were even more dog-like; she's already used to rotten people.

"Believe it or not, Akane Sage, the Fire Seed Project has succeeded. I mean the Fire Seed Project on the Herrscher side. From Joyce to Welt, the Herrscher of the Void Sirin and Raiden Mei, they are no longer puppets of the Honkai, but are protecting and destroying humanity out of their own will. Even Rin has regained her humanity."

Alicia's Fire Seed Project is to return to the cocoon, using her power and will to sever the manipulation of the Honkai for future Herrschers, thereby enabling them to possess humanity.

This is also the essence of the Fire Seed Project: her memories remain in the Paradise of the Past, waiting to inherit the power of the origin; her will remains in the cocoon, waiting for future generations to arrive there and entrust the future at the end.

Fu Hua fell silent, the aliens before her revealing something that...

Fang Jie understood that the whole plan was something she shouldn't know, not even Ling. She only knew Alicia, the lovable Alicia, who was protected by the heroic spirit of the Fire Moth, which was why she bravely made that choice.

The person who said these things is probably even more suspicious. Trust is always a scarce commodity, no matter where you are. Children don't trust strangers easily, but stray dogs do.

"In short, the bell is not here. I suppressed you using the Divine Key Jizo Mitama, which you can also call [Kill], not the Herrscher of Erosion."

Fang Jie stared at Fu Hua, who still needed to be suppressed, but before he could speak, she raised a question:

"Who exactly are you? And what do you want?"

"As you know, I am an alien from beyond this world. As for what I'm going to do, well, it's probably to add a little more possibility to this world of probability."

Probability is a quantitative numerical concept, meaning that the occurrence of an event is deterministic.

Probability is a qualitative concept and cannot be precisely quantified.

Uncle Yang also finds it difficult to judge which future is better, but he ultimately chooses to embrace the possibility of "making the world a better place" and entrusts it to Fang Jie for inheritance and trust.

Fang Jie readily accepted this, respecting him as Uncle Yang, rather than the Old Yang who was always ready to clash with him, and became determined to bring a better possibility to the world.

The purpose was also very pure—

I don't expect everyone to team up to fight the Supreme Two Collapsers in the Forbidden Zone, but at least help me fight the Void!

"I'm sorry, I can't go on with my self-introduction. After all, I can't explain it clearly. All you need to know, Immortal Red Iris, is that the final meteor is about to fall."

"With the preparations and accumulation of the previous civilization, even if the Herrscher of Corruption were to try to destroy the world, it wouldn't be so terrible. But the end, only the end..."

“Red Iris Immortal, you must have foreseen all of this, which is why you had no choice but to select Otto to protect the world.”

Fang Jie released the suppression and approached Fu Hua, who could shatter his projection with a single punch, with genuine sincerity:

"Time is running out. We can't afford to waste any more time. We must act now, Immortal Red Iris."

"Project Fire Seed has not failed; it continues to move forward and will surely create the future. Project Stigmata has not failed either; I mean the original Project Stigmata. The people of Tianyuan will surely appear. Project Hengsha has not failed either; I am that manifestation, although it was not you who observed me, but I who observed you. As for Project Ark, there is no need to be sad anymore; Gretchen already has a child."

Fu Hua originally planned to lash out and fight again. She couldn't stand by and watch the world be destroyed. She didn't mention Joyce, and Fang Jie wasn't even a Herrscher but an alien.

but--

"what?!"

She was stunned, confused, and bewildered, because she understood so much that she could hardly comprehend this incomprehensible language.

She certainly understood Project Fireseed; the human civilization was a child of the previous civilization, and the Herrscher of Humanity had also appeared on the Honkai side; the initial stages of Project Stigmata... well, it's not important.

As for Project Hengsha, are you the answer from an extraterrestrial civilization that has transcended the Collapse?

It's hard to imagine, but understandable.

And Project Ark...

Fifty thousand years have passed, and she was still quite frightened when she heard Ling's name again, which shows how deeply it was etched in her memory, given her poor memory.

And Gretchen...

"Don't you remember, Immortal?"

Fang Jie's expression... it was one of sadness for her.

No, I remember.

Fu Hua silently withdrew her fist—no, she reached out her hand—and was pulled up by Fang Jie, standing in this world full of swords.

"Sorry, I need to calm down."

The corroded bell and Gretchen, who now has a child, are both old friends who come to visit, wanting to buy osmanthus flowers and share wine. It's a bit too exciting for an honest person.