Sakura

To get away safely with Fu Hua, Xu Yanwu pondered slowly and decided how he should handle the situation before him.

But... Xu Yanwu intended to stall for time first.

Because... Xu Yanwu had seen Yae Sakura at the front, resisting two different kinds of intent.

Since Yae Sakura had been taught by Xu Yanwu, he could sense that she was now... undergoing a transformation.

Was Yae Sakura strong?

She truly was strong.

Because of Higu Maru, Yae Sakura, who had originally only learned sword techniques, had become a one-in-ten-thousand Pseudo-Herrscher...

Although there was still quite a gap between a Pseudo-Herrscher and a Herrscher, Yae Sakura's circumstances were very special.

Higu Maru was the Twelfth Herrscher of the previous era... the Herrscher of Corruption.

And Yae Sakura had almost completely shared all of that with Higu Maru.

Moreover, after five hundred years, although Yae Sakura had failed to develop a Herrscher's core, for various reasons, she had developed her own stigmata.

Furthermore, now that Yae Sakura shared her life with the fox Honkai Beast Higu Maru had become, her vitality was exceptionally vigorous.

If a Herrscher's physique was already beyond human, then Yae Sakura's body was outright monstrous.

With such raw strength, combined with the sword techniques Yae Sakura had learned from Xu Yanwu since childhood, her power might not have compared to a fully matured, calamity-level Herrscher like the Flame Herrscher, who had burned down an entire continent in the previous era, but she was more than capable of fighting a Herrscher that had only recently been born.

But in terms of sword techniques alone...

Yae Sakura's swordsmanship had never truly escaped Xu Yanwu's shadow.

The sword techniques Yae Sakura learned... could be divided into two periods during her years of training.

One... was before Yae Rin's death, while