# Chapter 2543: Questions That Sting the Heart
How could Innocent be willing to accept this?
Just moments ago, he had been boasting that Jiangnan couldn't break his four-dimensional body, and now Jiangnan had proved him wrong right before his eyes!
The Hundred-Curve Thousand-Blade was too absurd, and combined with the Two-Dimensional Armor, it was a technique no weaker than his own four-dimensional body!
But unfortunately, even breaking the four-dimensional body still couldn't easily kill Innocent!
He was still fundamentally situated in the fourth dimension, with a whole dimension separating the two of them!
No matter how ferocious Jiangnan's attacks were, they still couldn't harm Innocent's essence!
Jiangnan, on the other hand, was no longer in a hurry. He hadn't felt this excited in a long time, as if every cell was throbbing, every drop of blood boiling!
Innocent gritted his teeth and said, "Don't be happy too early! It's not over yet!"
Jiangnan said calmly, "It's not over yet, but at this rate, the end isn't far off either."
"There's a fundamental gap between you and me. When I encounter a problem, the first thing I think about is how to overcome it, how to solve it! But you try to ignore the problem and crush it with a more domineering posture!"
"But the problem is always there, with no progress at all! It's not that you're brainless—you just don't want to use it!"
"And if you keep fighting this way, three minutes from now, I guarantee you'll die by my hand!"
Innocent's expression stiffened, his face turning grim, but then he let out a bitter laugh.
He had to admit that what Jiangnan said was the truth!
Facing Jiangnan's Two-Dimensional Armor and Hundred-Curve Thousand-Blade, he clearly had better ways to deal with it, yet he still chose to confront it head-on!
A smooth-sailing journey had cultivated this way of thinking in him!
But Jiangnan was different. He had climbed up from the muddy abyss, taking every step cautiously. Ignoring problems only led to destruction!
Innocent looked at the Holy Judgment Blade in his hand, took a deep breath, and let out a bitter smile.
Master... I've let you down!
He never thought the day would come when an enemy would teach him a lesson and wake him up!
Then his expression turned serious. He absorbed a Stardust Pearl, and a powerful gravitational force blossomed, distorting the surrounding space!
Jiangnan grinned. "Now this is starting to get interesting!"
Innocent squinted. "I'm your opponent. Is it really a good idea to remind me like this?"
Jiangnan gently swung the Two-Dimensional Blade in his hand, his expression indifferent. "I don't care. I just don't want this fight to become boring. Isn't it exciting to cut down an opponent of equal strength?"
"After all... I never thought I would lose."
As he spoke, his crimson eyes locked onto Innocent, filled with madness.
A madness that sought to crush and destroy Innocent's dignity, pride, will, and persistence!
Innocent let out a sinister laugh. "It seems your problem is a bit bigger than mine, huh?"
"Again!"
The Wind Still Star Stop Domain blossomed but was compressed to the extreme by Innocent, clinging tightly to his four-dimensional body. At the same time, his body was also wrapped in gravitational armor!
He also activated the time dilation effect, pushing it to the limit from the start!
Innocent's four-dimensional body was completely unfazed by gravitational compression, and with the Stardust Pearl, he didn't have to worry about consumption either!
But Jiangnan was different. He was still made of flesh and blood, and there was a limit to how much gravitational compression he could withstand!
So whether it was the strength of the gravitational armor or the degree of time dilation, Innocent was a notch above Jiangnan!
The particle freezing from Wind Still Star Stop, combined with time dilation, made things even more troublesome!
Innocent crossed a dimension in one step, charging into the Hundred-Curve Thousand-Blade, and swung his blade at Jiangnan!
Jiangnan laughed maniacally. This guy learned fast!
The Thousand Blades shot toward Innocent again!
But this time, it wasn't so easy. Innocent's gravitational armor was exceptionally strong!
The moment the Two-Dimensional Blades approached Innocent, they were twisted into fragments by the gravitational field and adhered to his gravitational armor, forming a Two-Dimensional Armor!
This was basically a two-dimensional layer over the four-dimensional body!
"You're just manipulating these two-dimensional fragments. That doesn't make you their master. They can listen to you, but they can also listen to me!"
In an instant, more than half of the Hundred-Curve Thousand-Blade was seized by Innocent's gravitational field, colliding with those controlled by Jiangnan!
Meanwhile, at the tip of Innocent's high-dimensional slashing blade, space warped as it heavily struck Jiangnan's shoulder!
Infinite two-dimensional flowers blossomed. Innocent's eyes were wide with fury!
"Open up for me!"
Under the gravitational clash, Jiangnan's own gravitational armor gradually lost ground, about to be torn open!
And under the infusion of the high-dimensional slash, the Two-Dimensional Armor began spreading toward Jiangnan's body!
Once the gravitational armor was breached, Jiangnan would be directly two-dimensionalized!
Everything happened in an instant!
It could elevate you, but it could also destroy you!
But at that moment, Jiangnan suddenly performed a spatial displacement!
Leaving only a two-dimensional fragment in place, Jiangnan appeared behind Innocent!
Innocent: !!!
He could leave marks on the two-dimensional fragments? And swap with the fragments on his Two-Dimensional Armor?
This was a trap?
Jiangnan gripped his blade with both hands, warping space to the extreme, concentrating the strong gravitational force at a single point on the blade tip!
He thrust it sharply along the gaps in Innocent's Two-Dimensional Armor!
Under the Starry Sky Dominion, he continuously smoothed out space, nullifying Innocent's gravitational armor while strengthening the gravitational slash at the tip of his blade!
"Pfft!"
Innocent's gravitational armor was pierced in an instant, and the Two-Dimensional Blade passed through his body!
A massive two-dimensional flower burst forth from Innocent's four-dimensional body, tearing through everything!
Just then, three instantaneous slashes appeared beside Jiangnan, wrapped in a dense gravitational field!
Jiangnan activated warp speed and escaped, the instantaneous slashes missing their mark, but it gave Innocent a moment to breathe!
He re-emerged in the void, looking extremely displeased!
Jiangnan said smugly, "What works for me doesn't necessarily work for you! You can try something else!"
Innocent was grinding his teeth so hard they might shatter. I refuse to believe this!
He switched abilities again. Though he had lost one horn and couldn't replicate two abilities at once, one horn was still enough to fight with. The Ten Thousand Star Pearl he carried was nothing if not versatile!
In an instant, Innocent switched to the Apocalypse Pearl, gaining the Whisper of the Divine precognition ability!
But he soon discovered that the Whisper of the Divine wasn't much help. Both of them were too fast—one in the fourth dimension, the other in the second. The amount that could be deduced was limited!
Even if he foresaw something, he couldn't change it. He was still being beaten down by Jiangnan!
Several times, his four-dimensional body was nearly broken. At this point, Innocent could only frantically switch abilities, trying to find a way to counter Jiangnan!
The Death Radiation of the Gamma Clan was useless—it was immediately two-dimensionalized. The Energy Source of the Celestial Star Clan was even more garbage. The Insect Clan ability was unusable. The Chaotic Entity's Energy Great Outburst was somewhat useful!
But Jiangnan countered it with continuous Domain Expansions, expanding space and neutralizing it!
Preventing the fluctuations from ever reaching him!
Perhaps a combined Energy Great Outburst from multiple people would work, but Innocent was alone and couldn't achieve that scale!
In the blink of an eye, Innocent had switched through hundreds of Starry Sky Sequence abilities, combining them with his four-dimensional body in attacks!
But without exception, Jiangnan countered and neutralized them all with various methods. His skill combinations were as versatile as a universal tool!
It gave off the feeling of letting the storm rage while remaining unmovable as a mountain!
This kind of on-the-spot adaptability wasn't something developed in a day or two. It came from countless battles and an explosively rich accumulation of combat experience!
It allowed Jiangnan to handle any situation thrown at him!
Innocent was almost in despair, racking his brains but unable to find a way to push Jiangnan into a corner!
He truly experienced the unreasonable strength of Jiangnan!
No wonder he had been rampaging through the Starry Sky until today—there was no way it was without reason!
But how could he admit defeat?
If he thought in his heart that he was inferior to Jiangnan, he would really lose!
Try again!
This time, Innocent absorbed the Star Mirror Clan ability. Under the Void Illusion, hundreds or thousands of Jiangnans charged out from the void illusion!
Their auras, appearances, and power levels were all identical!
But the Void Illusion couldn't replicate Dimensional Reduction Strike, nor could it replicate the Baleful Flame Secret Art. Jiangnan's accumulated killing momentum was not something the Void Illusion could copy!
Jiangnan had too many unconventional abilities!
As a result, the mirror images of Jiangnan were far inferior in quality, unable to form a complete combat system!
Even with numbers making up for it, the quality gap was too large!
This directly led to Jiangnan cutting through his own mirror images like chopping vegetables, causing no obstruction at all!
Though it felt weird to cut himself, it didn't slow Jiangnan down in the slightest!
"Hey hey hey! Innocent! Are you out of ideas? When did such low-level tricks become worthy of showing off?"
Innocent's forehead veins bulged with rage!
"Attack the enemy's weakness—you taught me that! No one is perfect—you have weaknesses too!"
"Mirror of the Heart • Heart Demon Manifestation!"
At this moment, what emerged from the void illusion was no longer a mirror image of Jiangnan!
A familiar figure stepped out of the mirror!
It was none other than Xueli!
The smile on Jiangnan's face froze, and even his movements paused!
Xueli was still wearing the same clothes as when Jiangnan last saw her, but now she was crying profusely, looking at Jiangnan with tearful eyes!
Her big eyes were filled with loss as she cried:
"That day... why didn't you come to save me? I looked up at the sky, filled with hope. How I wished you would appear, appear and rescue me, so I wouldn't have died..."
"You're the Era Lord, the existence I've always admired and looked up to. You never let people down, but this time, why did you let me down?"
"Don't be sad... I don't blame you. I just hope you won't forget me... But one day in the future, you'll definitely forget me, right?"
"I'm no longer in your memories, nor in your world. You no longer have a reason to remember me..."
"A person experiences three deaths in their lifetime: once when the body dies, once when there are no traces left in the world and the world forgets them, and the last time when they disappear from others' memories..."
"Jiangnan... will you forget me? Will I... die?"
Every word from Xueli stabbed into Jiangnan's heart like a sharp knife!
There are always some wounds in this world that can never heal. No matter how much time passes, they remain just as bloody and shocking!
Jiangnan's forehead veins bulged. He gripped the Two-Dimensional Blade in his hand, his expression completely darkening. His voice was icy cold:
"I'm starting to get a little angry now!"