Xu Yanwu saw the fallen statue and fell into thought as he fought Higu Maru.
What he was fighting now was merely one-fifth of Higu Maru.
As the controller of this Saint Mark Space, Higu Maru should have been the one who knew its current state best... in theory, that was how it should have been.
But Xu Yanwu noticed Higu Maru's current condition.
Chaotic, furious, and unclear-headed—her mind seemed to have been pieced together from countless fragments of memory, while still being swept up in a storm of hatred.
Even if Higu Maru held control over the Saint Mark Space, Xu Yanwu did not believe that she could truly control it in her current state.
For Higu Maru, whose mind was in disarray, this was clearly an extremely difficult task.
That was precisely why Xu Yanwu had begun, little by little, to take over Yae Sakura's Saint Mark Space.
It was not only to avoid harming Yae Sakura's body, but also to preserve Higu Maru's mind.
To Xu Yanwu, Higu Maru's ability to exist without a body, retain an independent consciousness for more than fifty thousand years... and even attempt to possess other people's bodies was remarkable.
He was very curious about this ability and wanted to know exactly how it had been achieved.
If Xu Yanwu could understand it, it would be of great help in assisting others... Danzhu Cang Xuan, for example.
If... Xu Yanwu could provide a body with no soul in it?
Would Danzhu Cang Xuan be able to have bodies again then?
But more than that, Xu Yanwu wanted to help Higu Maru free herself from the pain that had stretched on for tens of thousands of years.
Especially after learning from Fu Hua's memories and Danzhu Cang Xuan's descriptions that Higu Maru's real