(Thank you very much to 'Shao Feng Ye', 'Yume no Shouyou', and 'tanzit' for their rewards!)
It was as though the outlines of Wu Yan's body had been clearly traced, while every other part of him had turned transparent. A circle of faint light flickered around him, instantly covering his entire body.
At the same time, Yagokoro Eirin's certain killing blow arrived. That palm, containing enough power to crush the earth itself, slammed viciously toward Wu Yan's head.
And just like that, in the very next instant, something happened that Yagokoro Eirin had once again failed to anticipate.
"Whoosh—!"
The fierce killing palm struck Wu Yan's head, yet Yagokoro Eirin felt as though she had hit nothing but air. Her entire body passed straight through Wu Yan's, completely lacking any sensation of impact. All it brought was the howling roar of her powerful strike cutting through the air.
"Wha—!" Having passed entirely through Wu Yan and arrived behind him, Yagokoro Eirin's pupils shrank sharply.
Yagokoro Eirin could sense that Wu Yan had not truly become transparent. Rather, it was as though he existed in another dimension, one higher than the dimension she occupied, making it impossible for her, in the lower dimension, to touch him.
The target clearly was not transparent, yet she could not touch him?...
This was not the first time Yagokoro Eirin had witnessed such a situation.
This state of being an "opaque transparent person," where external interference was completely ineffective and one seemed invincible, was precisely the method by which the shrine maiden of Gensokyo's Hakurei Shrine—Reimu Hakurei—had become the administrator of both Gensokyo and the Great Hakurei Barrier, was it not?...
It was precisely because she possessed such an invincible method that Reimu Hakurei, merely Peak Eighth Order, could stand at the pinnacle within Gensokyo,