Frost and bloody rain surged into the air and scattered in all directions.
Xiao Yurong lashed out with fists and feet, blades of bitterly cold frost clinging to her body as she unleashed seven or eight attacks in succession.
Shen Ye merely blocked them casually, then sliced outward with his palm.
Blade Art: Everlasting Regret.
Hundreds upon thousands of streaks of Blade Radiance blasted Xiao Yurong away, frost and all.
Thud.
She landed far away across the street, her entire body looking as though it had suffered a thousand cuts. She trembled on the ground for several breaths, then went still.
In the sky.
Another Xiao Yurong descended.
"There's no point in fighting me like this."
Shen Ye sighed as he spoke.
"I've completely seen through that Hand Blade move. It's simply too powerful for me to block at the moment," Xiao Yurong said indifferently.
Shen Ye glanced at her without comment.
Who gave you that confidence?
-I was only casually performing swordsmanship with my palm. I hadn't even employed a tenth of the blade formula's variations.
In fact-
I hadn't even used a blade.
You couldn't withstand brute force alone.
And you dared claim you'd 'seen through' it?
So...
"How did the Eternal Brain die back then? And what about those powerful beings? Don't tell me you killed them," Shen Ye asked.
"Of course not," Xiao Yurong said.
Shen Ye nodded.
That made sense.
The artificial intelligence had lost all her living samples. Although she had inherited a great deal of knowledge, she had no living powerful beings to provide her with real samples.
That was why she had failed to grow.
Next-
Should I kill her?
...No.
There was no point in killing her.
The main body's will had merely descended into this clone through a chip.
Destroying