Yu Sheng's Traditional Specialty

The "Living Saint" before them was clearly even more simple and brutal in her approach than everyone had imagined, while Yu Sheng was curious whether this was part of the Living Saint's preset behavioral parameters or the influence of that nameless Saintess's mind.

After all, in theory, a Living Saint was a "hybrid life-form" forged from the souls of hundreds or even thousands of Artificial Saintesses. During the forging process, all personality traits had already been erased from those souls—except that something outside the design had occurred. The soul of the last one to be fused, Candy Girl, had been protected in advance and endured the subsequent "fusion" process.

Thus, in terms of the result, the current Living Saint was equivalent to one soul suddenly awakening among a thousand blank souls. That sole awakened soul was currently driving this body forged from a thousand souls.

She was one in a thousand, yet also the entirety of a thousand souls.

The pure-white Artificial Angel floated quietly in midair. Her blurred face seemed to be staring intently at Yu Sheng, as if waiting for her next command—or perhaps she had simply entered some kind of "standby" mode, like Luna.

Yu Sheng found it difficult to discern her expression from that blurred face.

"Can you talk?" he asked curiously.

The Living Saint remained motionless, neither nodding nor shaking her head.

"Her reaction feels... kind of strange," Huli muttered softly. "But she seems to understand what we're saying."

The little doll folded her arms, looking solemn. "Maybe she hasn't fully woken up."

Yu Sheng felt that the little thing was talking nonsense, but he couldn't find anywhere to refute her.

Regardless, they had found a passage.

At the end of the crystal-forged holy-light hall, the heavy Crystal Barrier had been cleaved open, leaving a