# Chapter 2165: Death Struggle
The shadow personality was being pulled and deformed. During this process, Xu Huo repeatedly mobilized his spiritual materialized objects to attack, but they were all blocked by Dou Shengnan's materialized objects. She seemed determined to dismember the shadow personality right before his eyes. Since the shadow personality was itself a part of Xu Huo's spirit, he also had to bear tremendous pressure when it was impacted. Thus, before this execution had even lasted ten seconds, Xu Huo's form became unstable and he landed on a building that hadn't completely collapsed.
As for the others around—Nie Xuan, the Double-Bright Bird players—they only knew that Xu Huo had suffered a loss in his confrontation with Dou Shengnan, but didn't understand the specifics. Several super evolvers on the Double-Bright Bird side had been severely injured. If Nie Xuan hadn't intervened in time, Dou Shengnan's space rays would have cost them dearly. Now they had a brief moment to catch their breath, but because they couldn't grasp the exact situation, they dared not advance.
Seeing Xu Huo's nose bleeding profusely, Nie Xuan understood he was seriously injured and planned to circle behind Dou Shengnan for another attempt.
"Don't go over there," Xu Huo stopped him. Because his spiritual world was still locked in battle with Dou Shengnan's, he stood up with great difficulty. "Go negotiate with Double-Bright Bird. After losing so many people and still not being able to take down Dou Shengnan, they should be willing to listen now."
"If an agreement is reached, use my raised hand as a signal to close the blockade barrier."
Nie Xuan looked at him, understanding that worrying about his injuries now was less important than persuading Double-Bright Bird's people a second sooner. So he nodded solemnly, "Wait for my good news!"
After Nie Xuan left, Xu Huo summoned the Library Tower again, trying to trap Dou Shengnan inside.
The library didn't contain Dou Shengnan; instead, it swayed slightly under the onslaught of black water. The doors on every floor were burst open, and as the black water poured in, Xu Huo's face grew increasingly pale. But after hearing Dou Shengnan's words, he laughed instead. "Since you've never seen it before, you shouldn't be careless. Have you forgotten what my personality left behind in your spiritual world?"
"It didn't succeed just now, so it'll work now?" Dou Shengnan said mockingly. "You gained power beyond the individual through your dual personalities. I'd like to see what happens if I destroy your personalities."
She was injured, but Xu Huo wasn't any better off. His condition was far worse, and he had held on for too long...
Seeing this, Xu Huo wasted no more time and turned to rush toward the Double-Bright Bird Pharmaceutical side—though he and Dou Shengnan weren't far from Double-Bright Bird Pharmaceutical, this move was entirely to divert her attention.
The young personality's hand pierced through Dou Shengnan's back. She lunged forward violently, coughing up a large mouthful of blood, and the force restraining the shadow personality also loosened. But just as the shadow personality and the young personality tried to strike her again, her body suddenly dissolved like water, only to condense again right before Xu Huo himself!
Xu Huo had no advantage in speed, and his instruments were nearly depleted by now. He could only barely block with a space ray barrier. In just four or five seconds, he had accumulated several new wounds. One was on his right abdomen—if he hadn't dodged quickly enough, that whip-strike would have sliced all his internal organs to pieces!
Confirming that it was the real Dou Shengnan pursuing him, and realizing they were less than a kilometer from Double-Bright Bird Pharmaceutical, he suddenly raised his right hand!
"I've never seen a case like yours. Today, I'll experiment on you first."
Dou Shengnan had suffered such a great loss at his hands—how could she let him leave so easily? Besides, if she didn't kill him now, he would surely become a formidable enemy in the future. So she expanded her spiritual world on a large scale, and the black water swept her forward, rapidly closing in on Xu Huo!
Dou Shengnan didn't have multiple personalities, but her spiritual power was strong enough to create a lifelike materialized object resembling herself. The black water world's state was especially suited to this evolution of hers, allowing her to freely shuttle (chuānsuō) without needing to open a portal. The young personality hadn't injured her real body earlier, and likewise, the person now appearing before Xu Huo wasn't the real one either!
The young personality and the shadow personality appeared on either side of Dou Shengnan, each restraining one of her hands. Just as the materialized long blade pierced her chest again, the real Dou Shengnan emerged. She was no more than three hundred meters from Xu Huo, holding a black sphere in her hand.
"You've been hard to find." Dou Shengnan wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and crushed the black sphere.
The surrounding blockade barrier instantly disappeared. When another materialized object pierced his left shoulder at close range, Xu Huo abruptly activated his time power!
Time power from another space, flowing at a different speed, descended like a gentle stream from high above, silently falling upon Dou Shengnan... In truth, Dou Shengnan wasn't entirely unaware, but by the time she realized it, it was too late. In just one or two seconds, the skin on her face visibly sagged!
Now it was time for items to take the stage—defense items, defense traits, Xu Huo used practically everything he could. He wasn't sure if it had truly succeeded, so he couldn't leave yet...
Dou Shengnan's expression shifted slightly. At that moment, within her black water world, another "Xu Huo" suddenly grew out of nowhere. This "Xu Huo" looked somewhat younger than the one speaking, but his facial features were identical. Moreover, he wasn't a false figure condensed (níngjù) from spiritual power—he was a real personality, like an actual person!
Normally, even a split (fēnliè) personality moving within a spiritual world wouldn't be completely traceless, especially in the black water world. For him to approach Dou Shengnan silently was nearly impossible. Yet it had indeed happened. This personality, Xu Huo's spiritual power, had mixed into her black water world, numbing her senses...
That was a strand of power left by the shadow personality in Dou Shengnan's spiritual world. How it had been left there, or why that power could exist for so long in another person's spiritual world, was unclear. But this time it had genuinely wounded Dou Shengnan—that was truly excellent.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Even in this state, the items Dou Shengnan released the moment the blockade barrier disappeared remained very active. And then, the thing Xu Huo had most feared appeared. A transparent item shaped like a heart materialized before Dou Shengnan. This item floated up on its own, then merged into her chest. Following that, her entire body seemed encased in a glass shell, actually sliding out of the area affected by the time power!
Xu Huo's eyelids twitched at the sight. He immediately tried to compensate, but at that moment, Dou Shengnan's eyes suddenly appeared right before his—they maintained a considerable distance, yet her eyes now seemed pressed against his eyeballs, causing his mind to go numb and his limbs to stiffen.
A section of transparent finger bone shot out from Dou Shengnan's direction, stabbing straight toward his brow!