In the end, Qian Qian still won.
Of course, it had not been an easy victory, and it definitely had not come from that godforsaken "Instant Thousand Kills." Though I had to admit that "making the enemy suffer over a thousand fatal attacks in the instant before they could notice" sounded impressive, Qian Qian had spent ages hammering the giant's calf with her oversized blade without even cutting a nick into it. She had countless inventive ways to attack, but trading blows with someone while lugging around a giant cleaver was definitely not among them. In the end, her hands were nearly cramping up, and the giant successfully broke free from Time Stop. The only result of Qian Qian's creative "Instant Thousand Kills" was giving us all a good laugh. What truly made the giant concede defeat was what he saw after escaping Time Stop: several hundred tons of psionic crystals piled up within a two-hundred-meter radius around him. Though he did not "recognize" psionic crystals, he could still see the unprecedentedly powerful energy readings within them. Faced with an enemy he could never possibly hit, while that enemy could find countless ways to attack him every instant, the giant calmly admitted defeat.
"You won," the giant said, glancing at Qian Qian in the distance, who held a detonator in one hand and propped herself up with the Ship-Slaying Blade in the other, panting heavily. The giant found this utterly baffling. "But what exactly are these things? This energy... Hmm, I recognize energy, but I have never seen this kind of crystal. Could these really be things the masters used back then?"
"Psionic... psionic crystals, huff huff." Qian Qian caught her breath and indignantly put away the dangerous explosives she had scattered everywhere. "You don't even recognize these? If there