645: Chapter 645 Foolish Hope

An Ran sneered: "It's useless. You'd better give up. There's no need to endure this endless pain anymore!"

Chen Yi did not give up.

He gathered his strength again, and the seven-colored light sword formed once more.

"You cannot win. No matter how strong you are, your power will eventually run out!"

Chen Yi gritted his teeth and slashed out the second sword.

An Ran still raised her hand and gave a gentle grasp.

"As long as I don't allow it, none of your attacks can touch me. Give up!"

Chen Yi ignored her.

The third sword, the fourth sword, the fifth sword—he slashed out sword after sword, putting his full strength into every single one!

The seven-colored light bloomed in the Void Realm and was extinguished again and again!

While erasing his attacks, An Ran whispered in despair.

"Do you know? I have seen countless people like you!"

"They all talk about protecting, about resisting, about creating miracles!"

"But in the end, they all died! Some died on the battlefield, some died of old age in hospital beds, some were backstabbed by their own people, and some—some even gave up on themselves!"

"The things they protected are all gone too!"

The twentieth sword, the twenty-first sword, the twenty-second sword—

"Those women you want to protect will eventually leave you too!"

"Not now, maybe in the future, ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years, a million years—they will all die!"

"You will watch them leave one by one, yet be unable to do anything. That kind of pain is worse than death!"

The ninety-ninth sword, the one-hundredth sword, the one-hundred-and-first sword—

"What is the point of you fighting so hard now?"

"Delaying their deaths? Letting them live a few more years?"

"And then what? Then you still have to face the separation, still have to endure this loneliness all by yourself!"

Chen Yi continued to attack, never stopping.

With the help of the water-attribute heaven and earth spiritual treasure, he could quickly recover his state and didn't need to worry about energy consumption!

It was just a pity that it had absolutely no effect!

"I know everything you just said!"

"But I still won't give up! Because they are still alive!"

"As long as they are alive, I must protect them! Even if it's only for one more day, one more moment, one more breath—I will protect them!"

An Ran looked into Chen Yi's eyes, and a flash of complex emotion crossed those blood-red pupils.

Then, she smiled.

But that smile was even colder than before!

She reached out, and dark power gathered in her palm, turning into countless black feathers.

"So stubborn! Then let me grant you even deeper despair—"

Before she could finish, she realized she couldn't move!

No, it wasn't that she couldn't move, but that a sword was stuck in her chest!

It was an ice sword, ordinary, without any flashy decorations, without any special power!

It was just stuck there in the position of her heart, piercing through from her chest to her back!

An Ran looked down at the ice sword, stunned for a long while.

She raised her hand and gently touched the blade of the ice sword.

The coldness that came through was real; it wasn't an illusion, it wasn't an attack at the level of rules, it was just a solid, physical ice sword!

"This is—interesting!"

She looked up at Chen Yi, revealing a smile that held a trace of approval.

Those seven-colored light swords from before were just a cover!

The real killing blow was this ordinary ice sword!

Although those seven-colored light swords were erased by the rules, their power did not dissipate; instead, he had secretly, bit by bit, injected them into the surrounding Void Realm!

When her attention was completely drawn by those seven-colored light swords, Chen Yi used that energy to silently condense an ice sword in the Void Realm!

Then, he stabbed it out in the most primitive way!

Rules can erase skills, can erase energy attacks, but they cannot erase a solid, tangible ice sword!

The erasure power she had just unleashed was clearly only targeting energy attacks!

Who would have thought that Chen Yi had actually seen through it?

After figuring this out, An Ran immediately smiled.

There was surprise, appreciation, and even a trace—of relief!

"You are smarter than Chen Yu."

She pulled the ice sword from her chest, and the wound healed rapidly under the dark power, as if it had never existed. "However, you've already used your trump cards, and you won't be able to win from here on out~~~"

Chen Yi clicked his tongue: "What a monster, you didn't even die from that?"

The Fallen Angel gave a faint smile: "Are you in despair? If not, then let me grant you even deeper despair!"

With a wave of her jade hand, darkness enveloped the entire galaxy.

Countless black feathers fell from her wings and hovered in the Void Realm.

The next second, those feathers poured down instantly, shooting towards Chen Yi.

Every single feather contained the power of rules, enough to pierce through the defenses of a God Emperor!

Chen Yi dodged desperately, his figure shuttling rapidly through the Void Realm, leaving behind trails of afterimages.

He tried to create distance.

But those feathers seemed to have eyes; no matter where he fled, they would catch up.

He tried to use a wind-attribute secret treasure to teleport away, but every time he emerged from the teleportation, those feathers were already waiting for him.

He tried to use a shield from an earth-attribute heaven and earth spiritual treasure to take it head-on, but those feathers could penetrate any defense; they were simply impossible to block!

It was completely power at the level of rules, impossible to shake!

An Ran floated in the Void Realm, watching Chen Yi dodge in a sorry state, the sneer on her lips never disappearing.

"Give up, you can't escape! In my rules, you have no chance of winning!"

Chen Yi did not answer.

He continued to dodge, continued to flee, continued to endure, without any sign of a counterattack!

An Ran floated in the Void Realm like a god looking down on all living beings, full of majesty and mockery.

She was not in a hurry to end the battle; she didn't even show any urgency.

Those blood-red pupils held a hint of playfulness.

She was observing Chen Yi, observing his struggle, observing his resistance, observing his despair—

Like a cat catching a mouse, even though she could swat him to death, she insisted on toying with him for a long time!

Because what she wanted was not death, but surrender—not just the submission of the body, but despair of the Soul!

She wanted Chen Yi to completely understand—everything was in vain, everything was a delusion. Only then would he willingly walk towards his end!

As for turning to attack Emilia and the others?

No need!

Such methods were too inferior; they could only bring short-lived pain and could not reach the depths of the Soul!

She wanted to wait for those women's power to Breakthrough to the limit, wait for Chen Yi to exhaust all his trump cards, wait for them to ignite all their hope, and then personally shatter it all!

That kind of despair was true despair!

Right now, it was just a cat-and-mouse game!

Chen Yi was fleeing frantically through the Void Realm, but no matter where he flew, An Ran's figure was always like a shadow, unhurried and leisurely, as if she were taking a stroll!

She wasn't chasing; she was just taking a walk!

And Chen Yi was just the scenery she watched while taking her walk!

"This must be the backup plan Chen Yu left behind, right? Placing hope in this—how foolish—"