Chapter 870 - As Easy as a Flip of His Hands
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Rise of Humanity
- Pig Nerd , Zai Zhu , 宅猪
- 4973 characters
- 2020-05-10 01:42:40
Chapter 870: As Easy as a Flip of His Hands
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
After that, everything in Fu Shang’s memory was all about the tragedies that befell the Fuxi Celestial Race, resulting in the 20,000 years of bloodshed to the Fuxi Celestial Race.
Powerful messengers descended following the Heavenly Monarch’s death, claiming that they are Heaven’s messengers, warning that annihilation was about to happen.
Fu Shang noticed something was not right but he hesitated and had no idea what to do in this situation; at the same time, the Fuxi Celestial Race’s strongest army was ambushed as they were sending Dao Venerate Fu Min’s coffin into the Ancestral Star.
The core of the Fuxi Celestial Race was almost entirely wiped out and at that time, Fu Shang stood out and lowered his head to the many races out there, saying that his father did the wrong thing and asked them for their forgiveness.
And that was the final straw that broke the camel’s back; the fame, power, and might built by Dao Venerate Fu Min for the Fuxi Celestial Race over the span of more than 120,000 years collapsed like a house of cards. The many races out there saw the weakness in Fuxi Celestial Race and their inevitable demise!
They rebelled and fueled the flames of war but the crown prince, Fu Shang did not come out and suppress the rebellions first hand. Instead, all he did was give in, further plunging the entire Fuxi Celestial Race into the abyss.
At that time, Fuxi Celestial Race was still the strongest of all, a race that possessed power that could crush every race out there. But because of Fu Shang’s cowardice and weak will, the Fuxi Celestial Race was being swallowed bit by bit like a sheep being swallowed by a serpent.
Ironically, those that sought protection under Fu Shang betrayed him, including those that were reborn into Fuxi Celestial Race. They had all rebelled under the name of justice.
A thousand years later, the bloodline curse emerged and completely decimated the Fuxi Celestial Race’s future.
Heavenly Monarch Tian Yuan received Heaven’s messengers support, and became the Heavenly Monarch. He, however, willingly lowered his position by one level, calling himself as the Heavenly Son, which also meant son of Heaven. With that, the actual Heavenly Monarch’s position became nothing but a figurehead.
Apart from that, throughout the thousand years that was acquired for the Fuxi Celestial Race by Dao Venerate Fu Min at the cost of having his soul entirely destroyed, Fu Shang failed to do anything useful and with that, the extinction of the Fuxi Celestial Race became a certainty.
As a result, Feng Changyang, the final clan master of the Fuxi Celestial Race, had to beg for the monarchs of the other races and the traitors to let the Fuxi Celestial Race preserve a bit of their bloodline.
In the end, Feng Changyang sacrificed himself on the Heavenly River, using his own life in exchange for his son to be able to live as a Fuxi proudly in the future. Fu Shang too, survived as Heaven appreciated Dao Venerate Fu Min’s contribution in creating the Six Paths Reincarnation. Along with those who could not bring themselves to see the annihilation of Fuxi and those that appreciated Fu Shang’s protection, they had Fu Shang sealed away and suppressed him within the Heavenly Prison.
Zhong Yue felt nothing else apart from sadness; Fu Shang was a kind man; when Dao Venerate Fu Min obliterated the obstacles in Fuxi Celestial Race’s future, Fu Shang protected those existences. But in the end, the protection brought nothing but the destruction of his race and Fu Shang’s kindness only saved himself.
Fu Shang retracted his psyche. This prince was no longer the proud and kind-hearted man he used to be. Now, he was just a dying old man, one that remembered nothing but the faults and sins he committed.
Trash!
Xin Huo shouted,
Why are you still alive?
Fu Shang lowered his head and remained silent.
Zhong Yue sighed,
Xin Huo, let’s go.
Xin Huo then returned to Zhong Yue’s forehead but the still furious flame shouted,
It’s not like he did not have such talents and capabilities but they did not live up to his position! Allowing someone like that is a disaster! He is not even worthy of the prison he is in!
Zhong Yue shook and said,
But I do hope that he will recover from this and walk out from this micro-universe and continue his father’s legacy.
Then I’m afraid that your hopes are fated to end in disappointment. He is just a useless piece of garbage. I think you should be the one that recovers Fuxi Celestial Race’s might and power.
Hearing this, Zhong Yue felt extremely powerless; at the end of the Earth Order Era, there were at least 3,000 monarch level existences and though most of them died by Dao Venerate Fu Min’s hands, there were still some that escaped death. There was also this Empyrean Heaven so high above, how was he supposed to fight against these powerful foes?
But then, he quickly cheered up again and he laughed happily,
To hell with whatever Heaven and the others! All I need to do is just hack them all to death!’
Yes! That’s right!
Xin Huo joined Zhong Yue,
Just hack the shit out of them!
Through shouting and swearing, the duo brushed off the disparity and depression in them.
Zhong Yue then took out the 30 Drawings of Heavenly Daos, examined them closely and thought, Fu Li had Third Prince Mu now. I will let him to be tortured for some time before I go rescue him. Without suffering, how is he going to be grateful for saving me?
He continued studying the drawings but after some that, he struggled as he found the wonders in the drawings were so complicated that they were beyond his understandings.
Everything in the drawings was just too advanced. Even if he was the creator of the [Yin Yang Divinatory Calculation Technique], Zhong Yue found himself helpless before these drawings.
No wonder Sui Sovereign did not teach this to Xin Huo but gave the drawings to him so that he could pass it down.
Zhong Yue lamented before he kept away the drawings and directed his attention towards [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture]. To him, the [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture] was much easier and along with Fu Shang’s knowledge and experience, the difficulties he once found to be extremely hard to comprehend became nothing.
Previously, when he studied this [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture], there were many parts that he couldn’t understand, rendering him no choice but to focus on the Six Paths Reincarnation but now, with the complete [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture] in his hands and Fu Shang’s understandings, he could now cultivate this [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture]!
The [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture] was an art that suppressed an entire era; the knowledge contained within this art was extremely vast and powerful; Dao Venerate Fu Min was a prennate living being, which denied him the chance to evolve into a Dao God but this art was definitely a Dao God level art!
As Zhong Yue started looking into this art, he couldn’t help but praise at how incredible this art was as he continued to delve deeper and deeper into it.
Although Fu Shang was incapable, his own strength was undoubtedly powerful; with his talents, he had acquired deep understanding into this art and this was extremely important for Zhong Yue as it could prevent him from taking too many detours.
While his own understanding towards Dao was already on the Imperial Emperor level, his understanding only included the Innate Tai Yang, Tai Yin, Celestial, Demonic and Lightning Dao.
He did not achieve the same for the Innate Yi Dao.
And the only reason he triumphed over the Creator from the Jinwu Clan was because of his deeper understanding in Innate Tai Yang Dao.
If it were the other Daos, for example, the Elementals and Six Paths, Zhong Yue definitely couldn’t win.
But Fu Shang’s knowledge became a great boon for Zhong Yue, allowing Zhong Yue to see things he couldn’t before and understand things that were beyond his comprehension!
The most important part was the Innate Yi Dao; if Zhong Yue comprehended more of the Innate Yi Dao and reached the monarch level, his strength would experience a terrifying leap!
And through the Innate Yi Dao, his other five Innate Dao would be boosted into the monarch level as well!
And that was incredibly terrifying!
Xin Huo, the complete [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture] best part is that its help in boosting my six great Innate Dao.
Xin Huo stunned for a second before he suddenly shouted,
The concept on the complete Six Paths Reincarnation!
Within [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture] contained perfect Six Paths Reincarnation and the Six Paths Reincarnation was created by Fu Min Dao Venerate. He was the one that led the operation, supervised it and created it with the gathered talents from the many strong magnates out there and their intelligence was entirely included in the [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture].
With that complete [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture], I could fill-up the holes in the many Fuxi Heavenly Monarchs’ arts and it’s not just the Fuxi but also the Sui Sovereigns’!
The excited Zhong Yue shouted,
I could complete them all through the concept of Six Paths Reincarnation and perfect them flawlessly!
Xin Huo was caught off guard and happiness struck him right away,
If that’s how it is, it means that my heritage is still useful!?
Yes!
Zhong Yue gave him a firm nod,
In fact, it will be a great help! After I complete the arts, they would turn into flawless monarch level arts that contained the Six Paths Reincarnation! Even the Sui Sovereign’s arts will become the Fire Order monarch level arts that contained Six Paths Reincarnation!
Xin Huo crossed his arms at his waist and shouted,
With that, the Flame of Inheritance will be of great use! Hahahaha! And here I was so worried about my heritage turned into garbages that has no use but it seems like Master Xin Huo is still powerful!
Hearing this, Zhong Yue replied softly with a difficult expression,
But this can not be pulled off in a short time. Just the [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture] alone will take me massive amount of time to complete, let alone the other arts….
It’s ok. You don’t have to rush!
Xin Huo remained excited and he said,
What you gotta do now is cultivate! Do your best to increase your strength and once you become a Creator and the Imperial Emperor, it will be less difficult to complete these arts! Young man from Fuxi, keep up the good work for Master Xin Huo is depending on you now!
Zhong Yue nodded and he immediately shut himself in to cultivate; his Innate Yi Dao became stronger as days passed. Soon enough, he had cultivated it into his innate divine saber.
After absorbing Fu Shang’s Dao, this saber had turned into an Imperial Emperor level weapon but it was still not part of his strength.
If he wanted to fully unleash the power within his saber, his Innate Yi Dao had to be raised to the requisite level.
But, of course, due to the restrictions in his cultivation level, even if his understandings on the Innate Yi Dao reached the Imperial Emperor level, he would only be able to unleash a portion of the saber’s power.
But just a portion of the Imperial Emperor level weapon’s power would be more than enough!
Then, Zhong Yue kept this up for a month or so before he felt something as soon as his seals were triggered. He opened up his eyes and from his ears came a very familiar voice.
Yi Feng, Senior Martial Brother Yi, are you in there?
As he did not expect this, Zhong Yue stunned for a second and he thought, Jin Hexi? Why is she here?
When he left, he was sure that he did not leave any traces behind, thus, it was really unexpected that she managed to find him here.
Zhong Yue walked out from the palace, only to see a lady in golden clothes standing far away and somewhere near to the seals he planted.
Upon seeing Zhong Yue, the lady raised her hand and giggled,
Brother Yi, I’ve planted a tracker into your clothes. That’s how I found you.
A tracker?
Zhong Yue was confused and that was when Jin Hexi took out a line and said,
I pulled off a line from your clothes, which obviously is not one that you made yourself. With that, you wouldn’t notice anything wrong about the clothes but since this line is from your clothes, I could track you down through it.
She let go of the line and the line immediately drilled back into his clothes and returned to normal as if nothing happened.
These clothes were made by a friend.
Zhong Yue’s question was answered and he asked,
Senior Martial Sister Hexi, what is your purpose here then?
For another round of debate, of course!
Jin Hexi’s eyes flickered with battle intent,
Now that this is not Valley of Tang, you can set aside your worries for even if you win, you will not be harmed!
Senior Martial Sister, please look at this palm of mine.
Zhong Yue burst out laughing, showing her his palm where a sun slowly flew upwards. It was the Innate Tai Yang.
This Dao of mine is called Yi Dao. With a flip of my palm, I could control the rise and fall of the sun and moon, turning days to nights and nights to days.
Zhong Yue flipped his palm, where the Innate Tai Yin Moon rose up, changing places with the sun and aligned with the sun. The Innate Tai Yang and Tai Yin flew side by side before they merged into an Innate Tai Chi Picture!
And that is Yi in a flip of palm.
said Zhong Yue calmly.
On the other side, Jin Hexi who was about to begin a debate with Zhong Yue had her face turned pale upon seeing this scene.
In the Tai Chi Picture, the extreme Yang gave birth to Yin and even gave birth to Yang through the extreme Yin. With the Yin and Yang reimbursing each other, the entire picture was perfect and flawless!
Such level was far beyond her level!
I….
After a moment, she said bitterly,
I’ve lost….
Chapter 870: As Easy as a Flip of His Hands
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
After that, everything in Fu Shang’s memory was all about the tragedies that befell the Fuxi Celestial Race, resulting in the 20,000 years of bloodshed to the Fuxi Celestial Race.
Powerful messengers descended following the Heavenly Monarch’s death, claiming that they are Heaven’s messengers, warning that annihilation was about to happen.
Fu Shang noticed something was not right but he hesitated and had no idea what to do in this situation; at the same time, the Fuxi Celestial Race’s strongest army was ambushed as they were sending Dao Venerate Fu Min’s coffin into the Ancestral Star.
The core of the Fuxi Celestial Race was almost entirely wiped out and at that time, Fu Shang stood out and lowered his head to the many races out there, saying that his father did the wrong thing and asked them for their forgiveness.
And that was the final straw that broke the camel’s back; the fame, power, and might built by Dao Venerate Fu Min for the Fuxi Celestial Race over the span of more than 120,000 years collapsed like a house of cards. The many races out there saw the weakness in Fuxi Celestial Race and their inevitable demise!
They rebelled and fueled the flames of war but the crown prince, Fu Shang did not come out and suppress the rebellions first hand. Instead, all he did was give in, further plunging the entire Fuxi Celestial Race into the abyss.
At that time, Fuxi Celestial Race was still the strongest of all, a race that possessed power that could crush every race out there. But because of Fu Shang’s cowardice and weak will, the Fuxi Celestial Race was being swallowed bit by bit like a sheep being swallowed by a serpent.
Ironically, those that sought protection under Fu Shang betrayed him, including those that were reborn into Fuxi Celestial Race. They had all rebelled under the name of justice.
A thousand years later, the bloodline curse emerged and completely decimated the Fuxi Celestial Race’s future.
Heavenly Monarch Tian Yuan received Heaven’s messengers support, and became the Heavenly Monarch. He, however, willingly lowered his position by one level, calling himself as the Heavenly Son, which also meant son of Heaven. With that, the actual Heavenly Monarch’s position became nothing but a figurehead.
Apart from that, throughout the thousand years that was acquired for the Fuxi Celestial Race by Dao Venerate Fu Min at the cost of having his soul entirely destroyed, Fu Shang failed to do anything useful and with that, the extinction of the Fuxi Celestial Race became a certainty.
As a result, Feng Changyang, the final clan master of the Fuxi Celestial Race, had to beg for the monarchs of the other races and the traitors to let the Fuxi Celestial Race preserve a bit of their bloodline.
In the end, Feng Changyang sacrificed himself on the Heavenly River, using his own life in exchange for his son to be able to live as a Fuxi proudly in the future. Fu Shang too, survived as Heaven appreciated Dao Venerate Fu Min’s contribution in creating the Six Paths Reincarnation. Along with those who could not bring themselves to see the annihilation of Fuxi and those that appreciated Fu Shang’s protection, they had Fu Shang sealed away and suppressed him within the Heavenly Prison.
Zhong Yue felt nothing else apart from sadness; Fu Shang was a kind man; when Dao Venerate Fu Min obliterated the obstacles in Fuxi Celestial Race’s future, Fu Shang protected those existences. But in the end, the protection brought nothing but the destruction of his race and Fu Shang’s kindness only saved himself.
Fu Shang retracted his psyche. This prince was no longer the proud and kind-hearted man he used to be. Now, he was just a dying old man, one that remembered nothing but the faults and sins he committed.
Trash!
Xin Huo shouted,
Why are you still alive?
Fu Shang lowered his head and remained silent.
Zhong Yue sighed,
Xin Huo, let’s go.
Xin Huo then returned to Zhong Yue’s forehead but the still furious flame shouted,
It’s not like he did not have such talents and capabilities but they did not live up to his position! Allowing someone like that is a disaster! He is not even worthy of the prison he is in!
Zhong Yue shook and said,
But I do hope that he will recover from this and walk out from this micro-universe and continue his father’s legacy.
Then I’m afraid that your hopes are fated to end in disappointment. He is just a useless piece of garbage. I think you should be the one that recovers Fuxi Celestial Race’s might and power.
Hearing this, Zhong Yue felt extremely powerless; at the end of the Earth Order Era, there were at least 3,000 monarch level existences and though most of them died by Dao Venerate Fu Min’s hands, there were still some that escaped death. There was also this Empyrean Heaven so high above, how was he supposed to fight against these powerful foes?
But then, he quickly cheered up again and he laughed happily,
To hell with whatever Heaven and the others! All I need to do is just hack them all to death!’
Yes! That’s right!
Xin Huo joined Zhong Yue,
Just hack the shit out of them!
Through shouting and swearing, the duo brushed off the disparity and depression in them.
Zhong Yue then took out the 30 Drawings of Heavenly Daos, examined them closely and thought, Fu Li had Third Prince Mu now. I will let him to be tortured for some time before I go rescue him. Without suffering, how is he going to be grateful for saving me?
He continued studying the drawings but after some that, he struggled as he found the wonders in the drawings were so complicated that they were beyond his understandings.
Everything in the drawings was just too advanced. Even if he was the creator of the [Yin Yang Divinatory Calculation Technique], Zhong Yue found himself helpless before these drawings.
No wonder Sui Sovereign did not teach this to Xin Huo but gave the drawings to him so that he could pass it down.
Zhong Yue lamented before he kept away the drawings and directed his attention towards [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture]. To him, the [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture] was much easier and along with Fu Shang’s knowledge and experience, the difficulties he once found to be extremely hard to comprehend became nothing.
Previously, when he studied this [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture], there were many parts that he couldn’t understand, rendering him no choice but to focus on the Six Paths Reincarnation but now, with the complete [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture] in his hands and Fu Shang’s understandings, he could now cultivate this [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture]!
The [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture] was an art that suppressed an entire era; the knowledge contained within this art was extremely vast and powerful; Dao Venerate Fu Min was a prennate living being, which denied him the chance to evolve into a Dao God but this art was definitely a Dao God level art!
As Zhong Yue started looking into this art, he couldn’t help but praise at how incredible this art was as he continued to delve deeper and deeper into it.
Although Fu Shang was incapable, his own strength was undoubtedly powerful; with his talents, he had acquired deep understanding into this art and this was extremely important for Zhong Yue as it could prevent him from taking too many detours.
While his own understanding towards Dao was already on the Imperial Emperor level, his understanding only included the Innate Tai Yang, Tai Yin, Celestial, Demonic and Lightning Dao.
He did not achieve the same for the Innate Yi Dao.
And the only reason he triumphed over the Creator from the Jinwu Clan was because of his deeper understanding in Innate Tai Yang Dao.
If it were the other Daos, for example, the Elementals and Six Paths, Zhong Yue definitely couldn’t win.
But Fu Shang’s knowledge became a great boon for Zhong Yue, allowing Zhong Yue to see things he couldn’t before and understand things that were beyond his comprehension!
The most important part was the Innate Yi Dao; if Zhong Yue comprehended more of the Innate Yi Dao and reached the monarch level, his strength would experience a terrifying leap!
And through the Innate Yi Dao, his other five Innate Dao would be boosted into the monarch level as well!
And that was incredibly terrifying!
Xin Huo, the complete [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture] best part is that its help in boosting my six great Innate Dao.
Xin Huo stunned for a second before he suddenly shouted,
The concept on the complete Six Paths Reincarnation!
Within [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture] contained perfect Six Paths Reincarnation and the Six Paths Reincarnation was created by Fu Min Dao Venerate. He was the one that led the operation, supervised it and created it with the gathered talents from the many strong magnates out there and their intelligence was entirely included in the [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture].
With that complete [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture], I could fill-up the holes in the many Fuxi Heavenly Monarchs’ arts and it’s not just the Fuxi but also the Sui Sovereigns’!
The excited Zhong Yue shouted,
I could complete them all through the concept of Six Paths Reincarnation and perfect them flawlessly!
Xin Huo was caught off guard and happiness struck him right away,
If that’s how it is, it means that my heritage is still useful!?
Yes!
Zhong Yue gave him a firm nod,
In fact, it will be a great help! After I complete the arts, they would turn into flawless monarch level arts that contained the Six Paths Reincarnation! Even the Sui Sovereign’s arts will become the Fire Order monarch level arts that contained Six Paths Reincarnation!
Xin Huo crossed his arms at his waist and shouted,
With that, the Flame of Inheritance will be of great use! Hahahaha! And here I was so worried about my heritage turned into garbages that has no use but it seems like Master Xin Huo is still powerful!
Hearing this, Zhong Yue replied softly with a difficult expression,
But this can not be pulled off in a short time. Just the [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture] alone will take me massive amount of time to complete, let alone the other arts….
It’s ok. You don’t have to rush!
Xin Huo remained excited and he said,
What you gotta do now is cultivate! Do your best to increase your strength and once you become a Creator and the Imperial Emperor, it will be less difficult to complete these arts! Young man from Fuxi, keep up the good work for Master Xin Huo is depending on you now!
Zhong Yue nodded and he immediately shut himself in to cultivate; his Innate Yi Dao became stronger as days passed. Soon enough, he had cultivated it into his innate divine saber.
After absorbing Fu Shang’s Dao, this saber had turned into an Imperial Emperor level weapon but it was still not part of his strength.
If he wanted to fully unleash the power within his saber, his Innate Yi Dao had to be raised to the requisite level.
But, of course, due to the restrictions in his cultivation level, even if his understandings on the Innate Yi Dao reached the Imperial Emperor level, he would only be able to unleash a portion of the saber’s power.
But just a portion of the Imperial Emperor level weapon’s power would be more than enough!
Then, Zhong Yue kept this up for a month or so before he felt something as soon as his seals were triggered. He opened up his eyes and from his ears came a very familiar voice.
Yi Feng, Senior Martial Brother Yi, are you in there?
As he did not expect this, Zhong Yue stunned for a second and he thought, Jin Hexi? Why is she here?
When he left, he was sure that he did not leave any traces behind, thus, it was really unexpected that she managed to find him here.
Zhong Yue walked out from the palace, only to see a lady in golden clothes standing far away and somewhere near to the seals he planted.
Upon seeing Zhong Yue, the lady raised her hand and giggled,
Brother Yi, I’ve planted a tracker into your clothes. That’s how I found you.
A tracker?
Zhong Yue was confused and that was when Jin Hexi took out a line and said,
I pulled off a line from your clothes, which obviously is not one that you made yourself. With that, you wouldn’t notice anything wrong about the clothes but since this line is from your clothes, I could track you down through it.
She let go of the line and the line immediately drilled back into his clothes and returned to normal as if nothing happened.
These clothes were made by a friend.
Zhong Yue’s question was answered and he asked,
Senior Martial Sister Hexi, what is your purpose here then?
For another round of debate, of course!
Jin Hexi’s eyes flickered with battle intent,
Now that this is not Valley of Tang, you can set aside your worries for even if you win, you will not be harmed!
Senior Martial Sister, please look at this palm of mine.
Zhong Yue burst out laughing, showing her his palm where a sun slowly flew upwards. It was the Innate Tai Yang.
This Dao of mine is called Yi Dao. With a flip of my palm, I could control the rise and fall of the sun and moon, turning days to nights and nights to days.
Zhong Yue flipped his palm, where the Innate Tai Yin Moon rose up, changing places with the sun and aligned with the sun. The Innate Tai Yang and Tai Yin flew side by side before they merged into an Innate Tai Chi Picture!
And that is Yi in a flip of palm.
said Zhong Yue calmly.
On the other side, Jin Hexi who was about to begin a debate with Zhong Yue had her face turned pale upon seeing this scene.
In the Tai Chi Picture, the extreme Yang gave birth to Yin and even gave birth to Yang through the extreme Yin. With the Yin and Yang reimbursing each other, the entire picture was perfect and flawless!
Such level was far beyond her level!
I….
After a moment, she said bitterly,
I’ve lost….