Facing Kokushibo in his second form.
Xia Xi desperately wished he could activate some similar transformation cheat.
Something like a chakra cloak or Kaio-ken.
Unfortunately, the humans in this setting had no special skills like those.
"Why the hell are you so hung up on Yoriichi?!"
Xia Xi talked back as he dodged. "The Red Heavenly Venerable was strong, I admit it."
"But that's all in the past. He's a historical figure, okay!"
"Just because someone in history was [the strongest], don't assume everyone who comes afterward has to live in his shadow forever."
Steadying his somewhat ragged breathing, he slashed with all his might, sending out a pitch-black blaze of light.
Only for Kokushibo to easily cleave it apart with his enormous, grotesquely transformed [Kokyū Shinju].
Undiscouraged, Xia Xi kept shouting.
"Don't you understand that every patch has its own god?"
"Times change, technology advances."
"Given enough time..."
"Someday, someone extraordinarily gifted will catch up to Yoriichi Tsugikuni-or even surpass him!"
Perhaps his current self, and even all the geniuses of the next few decades, still couldn't compare to the legendary Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
But what about another hundred years or so?
Top-tier Sandevistan cybernetic acceleration, top-tier Kerenzikov reflex enhancement, and an immortal Thermal Samurai Sword.
Surely a cybernetic swordsman like that could take on Yoriichi Tsugikuni?
If not, push it back another few hundred or thousand years.
Surely he couldn't claim that an interstellar swordsman with top-tier genetic modifications, clad in Golden Power Armor and shouting "Long live the Emperor," couldn't measure up to Yoriichi?
Besides...
Xia Xi simply refused to believe it.
Whether the story expanded into other regions of the map or added DLC later.
Someone had to surpass this strongest background character from launch.
The vampires in Part One were powerful, but did that mean the