Submit or Die?

"A-Xing, what do you think this world is like?"

"Huh? What's it like? What else could a world be like?"

Xue Qinghe fell silent for a moment.

"What do you think of us? I want the truth."

Stelle scratched her head in confusion. She really didn't understand what Xue Qinghe meant.

"It's a pretty backward place, I guess. I've been to lots of places: the Herta Space Station, Belobog, Amphoreus, Penacony, and more. Every place has its own character, but... the Douluo Continent just feels backward all around."

"Backward..."

Xue Qinghe murmured the word. He really didn't understand what it meant.

As Qian Daoliu's granddaughter, she had definitely seen more Titled Douluo than anyone else. She had thought she had seen the sky above this world.

But now, someone had told her that her understanding had never truly expanded.

That feeling... was really unpleasant.

"What does the world look like to you?"

"My world?"

Stelle thought for a moment, then pointed high into the sky.

"My world is all those stars filling the sky. I want to go everywhere in the universe and see all sorts of different worlds. And I'll bring the Trailblaze there, too!

"Of course, if anyone needs the Express's help, we'll go without hesitation, because someone has to go on ahead and blaze the trail.

"My world is traveling with my companions to unknown worlds, toward an unknown future, toward a brighter tomorrow!"

Stelle's smile was beautiful.

She didn't have many memories from after her birth, but she was lucky, too. She had March, Dan Heng, and everyone aboard the Astral Express.

She didn't know what the future would look like, but she was willing to push it toward an ending she liked, toward a romantic ending unlike any before.

What if there was something she didn't like? Finality would tell her the answer.

On the path of the Trailblaze, not a single one could be left behind.

Xue Qinghe stared blankly at the girl shining before her. She opened her mouth, but couldn't get a word out.

The starry sky... what exactly was up there?

Xue Qinghe didn't know, and she had never thought about it.

Her birth seemed to have been a mistake. She had no father, and her mother...

Her childhood seemed... so small.

"What will my own future look like?"

"Partner, sometimes being lost just wastes time."

With the setting sun behind her, Stelle held out her right hand to Xue Qinghe... or rather, to Qian Renxue.

"Instead of staying lost, why not go out and see this world for yourself? Live a different life, one that belongs to you."

Something flickered in Xue Qinghe's eyes. She seemed to know something, yet also seemed not to.

She smiled, not as Xue Qinghe.

She reached out and took Stelle's right hand, looking at the shining young woman (mature beauty).

She was the one with the Angel Martial Soul, so why did it feel like the other girl was the angel?

"If I get the chance, I want to see this world too, with my own eyes."

The sun continued to set. Perhaps a tiny seed inside a cage would turn toward a new ray of sunlight.

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

A golden light flashed in Wei Xi's eyes.

"Honestly, as expected of the Galactic Succubus. She's only been here a short while, and she's already added two unknown futures to this world. Old me, perhaps there'll be another seat in your character pool."

The golden light faded, and Wei Xi shook her head.

In any case, that was all "big bro's" business. As for her, she just had to enjoy herself exploring the entire continent.

Wei Xi slowly walked toward the center of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

"Infernal Delicate Apricot? Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass? Tell me, should I try some Ice and Fire Body Tempering too?"

The Immortal Herbs on either side of the spring swayed slightly. Clearly, they already had some awareness. People said the Immortal Herbs would gain intelligence ten thousand years later, but what about ten thousand years earlier? Didn't they have intelligence now?

That was really hard to guess.

"Oh, forget it, forget it. You aren't much use to me. After all, I'm already immune to all five elements, so just keep growing for now."

Only after hearing Wei Xi's answer did the two Immortal Herbs relax slightly.

But... the Water and Fire Dragon Kings? I'll go meet you.

Wei Xi spread her arms and slowly sank into the spring.

As she sank farther in, the Human Emperor Banner appeared behind her, and the presence of a king began to stir the entire bottom of the spring.

The next second, Wei Xi slowly opened her eyes. Before her, two dragon souls, one red and one blue, looked at her in surprise.

"Ah! So this is the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well? You're the Water and Fire Dragon Kings? You don't look like much."

"Human, do you know what you're saying?"

A majestic voice sounded beside Wei Xi's ear, carrying the faintest trace of pressure.

"What? Am I wrong? Even if you were once dragon kings, even if you were once the foremost gods of the Divine Realm, now you have only one name: losers."

Golden light flashed through Wei Xi's eyes.

"And I don't like the way you look down at me from on high."

As soon as she finished speaking, golden flames streamed from the Human Emperor Banner, crushing the combined pressure of the two dragon kings in an instant.

"This... is impossible! Who are you?!"

The Water and Fire Dragon Kings had lived a long time, and it wasn't as though they had never seen human geniuses before. But... they truly had never seen anyone this gifted!

This human child was only six years old, wasn't she? And... what on earth was that Martial Soul? How could it possibly suppress the two of them, even if they were only remnant souls?

"Me? You may call me the crown prince of the human race."

Wei Xi grasped the Human Emperor Banner behind her with her left hand and slowly reached forward with her right, closing it around empty air. The entire dragon soul space began to tremble violently.

"Mystic Yellow."

As the words left her mouth, a longsword slowly took shape. Its blade was mostly gold, with countless technological patterns along both sides. At the center of the blade was a circular slot engraved with eighteen different icons, while two characters were engraved on the hilt: Mystic Yellow.

There were scales, a wineglass, books, a lighthouse, and so on.

If anyone familiar with Honkai: Star Rail had been there, they would definitely have cried out, "The eighteen Paths!"

As Old Wei's first account, if she said she was the crown prince, who would agree and who would object?

Besides, she was a template woven together by Caelus (Finality), Aha, and Stelle (Trailblaze).

Being a little overpowered was perfectly normal, right?

She lightly pressed the sword, and the icons on its blade flashed one after another.

The next moment, the space before the Water and Fire Dragon Kings was no longer the dragon soul space of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Instead, they had arrived beneath a vast, dazzling sea of stars. When they looked up again, eighteen towering figures were all gazing at the two dragons.

And Wei Xi looked down at them from on high, a banner in her left hand and a sword in her right.

"Do you know why a sovereign is a sovereign? Because I was born one."

"Submit to me. That is your only choice."