What if Absolute Combat Power Crushes? Kiana Defeats the Herrscher with the Dao Heart!

Sea God Tang San didn't speak, but his brows furrowed even deeper. He looked at the Knowledge Law User on the screen—obsessive, proud, yet inexplicably pitiful—as if he were seeing the embodiment of some kind of Rules. A rule... completely different from the power of Deity, yet equally powerful to the Rules.

"You're lying!"

Within the Light Screen, the Knowledge Law User bristled like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. "I am the most perfect! I know better than that old relic how to wield power! Protection? What can protection buy? Only victory matters!"

She roared, and black energy gathered wildly, transforming into a Giant Sword that reached the sky and slashed down fiercely towards Kiana's head!

This sword strike seemed poised to cleave the entire world in two!

"It's over!" He Caitou closed his eyes in despair.

Tang Ya and Bei Bei's hearts sank to the bottom.

However, faced with this devastating attack, Kiana closed her eyes.

She gave up?

No.

She was smiling.

"Then let me tell you... a story about her."

Kiana's voice rang out clearly amidst the whistling wind of the sword.

The next second, the space behind her rippled like water.

One by one, figures emerged from the ripples.

It is Cang Xuan, it is Danzhu, it is Lin, it is Su... These are the old friends that Fu Hua protected over the long years, but lost one by one.

Their illusory figures, with warm smiles, stood behind Kiana, forming an insurmountable Great Wall.

"This is..."

Xue Ye of the Heaven Dou Empire suddenly stood up from his seat, his face full of disbelief.

"Illusion? No... it's Remembrance! Remembrance stored in that girl's body!" Huo Yuhao's Divine Power surged out frantically, but he could only sense a vast expanse of sorrow and warmth.

"It's a lie..."

The Herrscher of Knowledge Law User suddenly contracted, and the Giant Sword, powerful enough to split the heavens and the earth, stopped an inch above Kiana's head.

Her hands were trembling.

"This... it's all a lie! It's all Shackles that old fogey made up to Binding me!" she screamed, her voice carrying a hint of panic that she herself didn't even realize.

"Whether it's true or false, doesn't your heart know best?"

Kiana opened her eyes and walked forward step by step.

The phantom images of her old friends surrounded her, reaching out to gently stroke Fu Hua's cheeks, their Kamisato filled with longing and comfort.

"Can't you feel their warmth?"

"Can't you hear them? Their cries."

The Knowledge Law User staggered backward, the arrogance and disdain on his face gradually peeling away, revealing a bewildered and helpless face beneath, like that of a lost child.

"No... don't come any closer..."

She waved her hand, trying to dispel the phantoms, but her hand passed right through their bodies.

She tried to back away, but her feet seemed rooted to the spot.

Those heavy yet warm Remembrance that belonged to Fu Hua overwhelmed her like a tidal wave.

Every encounter, every time we walked side by side, every farewell...

Every heart-wrenching pain, and every resilience that chooses to stand up again after the pain.

She witnessed Fu Hua's heartbreak when faced with her apprentice's betrayal.

She saw Fu Hua's loneliness as Guardian Deity the land all by herself.

She saw that Fu Hua was willing to endure five hundred years of solitude on Mount Taixu in order to keep a promise.

She Mingdu "knew" all of these Remembrance.

But it was only at this moment, through Kiana's guidance and the "gaze" of her old friends, that she "felt" it for the first time.

That's not data, that's not information.

It's an unforgettable... emotion.

"I..."

The Knowledge Law User clutched his head and knelt on the ground in anguish.

Black energy surged wildly around her, and the world it constructed began to crumble inch by inch.

"Why... why does it hurt so much..."

"I was clearly... the Victors..."

She defeated Fu Hua, defeated Kiana, defeated everyone; she stood at the pinnacle of power.

But why is her heart so empty, like a bottomless pit?

Why am I so... sad?

"Because you were never born to win."

Kiana walked up to her, knelt down, and gently placed her hand on the top of her head.

That gesture was exactly the same as when Fu Hua comforted her.

In an instant, the Knowledge Law User froze.

She looked up, tears blurring her vision. The white-haired girl before her overlapped with the red-haired figure in her Remembrance who had repeatedly reached out to her.

"I... I just..."

She wanted to say, "I just want to prove myself."

I just want you to see me, not to see someone else's shadow through me.

I just... don't want to be alone anymore.

But she couldn't say anything.

All pride, all pretense, were utterly shattered at this moment by that tenderness that transcended fifty thousand years.

"I... lost..."

When those three words came out of her mouth, the entire Douluo Continent, and countless powerful figures, fell into a deathly silence.

Lost?

It was an overwhelming advantage; it was clear that the opponent could be completely annihilated in the next second.

How could we... have lost?

"What's going on?" Zhou Weiqing looked at Rong Nianbing beside him with a bewildered expression. "Hey, Ice Cube, do you understand? What happened? They surrendered right after fighting?"

Rong Nianbing ignored him. The God of Emotion merely frowned, a rare occurrence, and whispered, "The heart has lost."

"Heart?"

"Hmm." Tang San picked up the conversation, his voice low and solemn. "That new consciousness called the Knowledge Law User, her 'Way' has been completely destroyed. She built her foundation on 'self' and 'victory,' but Kiana showed her that everything she inherited originated from Fu Hua's 'protection' and 'bonds.' Her very existence is the greatest irony of her own beliefs."

How can someone who can't even convince themselves possibly win?

"So... this is what battle can be like," Tang Wulin murmured, feeling his worldview being greatly shaken.

He had experienced countless life-or-death battles and knew the cruelty of combat. But the scene before him made him realize that the ultimate showdown had long transcended the clash of strength.

That was a clash of wills, a battle of beliefs, and... the crushing force of the Tao.

Inside the Light Screen, Shi Zhi's body began to become transparent, and countless points of light emanated from her body.

She did not resist.

He simply looked up and stared blankly at Kiana.

"Hey, Kiana."

"Um?"

"If... if only I had met you from the very beginning."

She smiled, a smile as pure as a child's, carrying a hint of relief and a deep sense of regret.

"In that case, perhaps... I can also become the amazing ' Fu Hua ' you mentioned."