The monster’s mouth spread wide, its neck twisted at a hundred and eighty degrees, revealing a smile as bright as a sunflower.

Tang Xin’s eyelid twitched, activating the shield device to ensure that this scene wouldn’t be seen by the viewers outside.

If someone with ill intentions spread this scene everywhere, her image would be ruined.

As a singer, she certainly had to care about her image.

"Alright." Tang Xin silently intensified the grip of Silent Hand, "I have a good temper, hardly anyone can make me angry, the one time I was really angry was when someone bought traffic to smear me, as for who that person was..."

"It’s not important." Tang Xin gritted her teeth,

"What’s important is that you did it too."

As the grip of Silent Hand increased, the monster’s convulsions sped up, the cracking sounds from its body growing louder.

Silent Hand directly crushed the monster.

Tang Xin didn’t let her guard down.

No kill notification.

Only to see black fluid slowly flowing down Silent Hand, finally merging into it.

Suddenly, Silent Hand also began to convulse, before Tang Xin could react, it spun around and struck her, sending her flying dozens of meters away.

Tang Xin lightly leaped on the ground, her palm and String Sword continually slicing, breaking the massive stones lifted by Silent Hand, only stopping after a while.

Once Tang Xin stopped, she quickly surveyed the surroundings, shadows emerged from the large hand beneath her, bubbling. She raised her String Sword, thrusting downward, the shadow rapidly shifted to another spot, bubbling again.

Tang Xin didn’t want to waste time, she ran to the side, but in an instant, the shadow emerged before her, transforming into her own appearance, and opened its arms to greet her.

Tang Xin quickly retreated, the shadow clasped its hands behind its back, eyes curved like a blue crescent moon, quietly watching her like a child filled with curiosity examining something long awaited.

"Shadow Assassin"

"Affiliation: Divine Kingdom"

"Alignment: Absolutely Hostile"

"Move." Tang Xin said.

"Move." The shadow repeated.

Tang Xin walked right, the shadow followed to the right.

Tang Xin raised her eyebrows, then walked left, the shadow mimicking her brows raised, and walked left.

Like a mirror, no matter what Tang Xin did, the shadow would mimic.

Tang Xin suddenly fell silent.

As she refrained from speaking, intending to see if the shadow would remain silent, the shadow’s palm suddenly conjured a String Sword, pressing it to its own neck, tears welled in its eyes, like a blue water moon.

Then, it looked provocatively at Tang Xin, meeting the widened eyes of the young girl, sorrowfully began to play Chopin.

"Damn." This time Tang Xin couldn’t hold it in, realizing her loss of composure she quickly covered her mouth.

This was simply too hellish.

"Stop." Tang Xin gestured.

"Stop." The shadow mimicked the gesture.

Tang Xin was certain the opponent was not merely a mirror mimicking her actions.

As for why this elite monster called Shadow Assassin displayed traits identical to hers, she wasn’t sure.

At this moment, Bai Youyou was fighting against Gernika’s legion, while she was blocked outside by an elite monster.

Tang Xin shook her head, softly singing, multiple halos rose under her feet, the monster similarly followed suit, multiple halos appearing beneath it.

Tang Xin advanced, the shadow simultaneously charged in her direction, the distance between them shrank rapidly to the naked eye, in just a blink, String Sword and String Sword clashed simultaneously, even the collision points were precisely identical.

Tang Xin stared intently, the shadow wore a smug smile.

After briefly separating, they clashed again, this time Tang Xin deliberately pressed down the sword edge behind her, surprisingly, the shadow mimicked even without seeing her move, also slightly pressing down its sword edge.

Once again, the collision points of the String Swords were precisely the same.

In an extremely short instant, Tang Xin raised the String Sword upwards, revealing a flaw at her shoulder, the shadow did the same.

Tang Xin chose to thrust the String Sword, its gleam fast as lightning, the shadow didn’t dodge, also chose to thrust at the flaw on her shoulder.

Tang Xin decisively retreated, the shadow didn’t pursue but stood there, idly using the String Sword’s tip to draw circles on the ground.

"Don’t waste time." The shadow suddenly spoke, voice slightly hoarse, like gravel grinding.

That was Tang Xin’s unadulterated real voice, though now she could restore her ordinary voice through various means and sing on stage, this true sound wouldn’t change, she could immediately discern it.

"I am invincible, you can’t defeat me, and I won’t let you pass through here."

"Invincible?"

Tang Xin retorted, raising her hand like a conductor, surrounding herself with several giant arrays, String Sword lightly flicked, causing a star to transform into a streaming light, directly blasting towards the shadow.

"Yes, absolutely invincible."

The shadow smiled, similarly mimicked, star collided exploding, airwave spread, star core collapsed disintegrating, they began star-blasting.

"Mirroring is so boring, to me, the purpose of mirroring was never to mimic a person but invincibility itself."

"No one can defeat themselves, no exceptions, so as long as you can perfectly mimic anyone, become their shadow, then no one can defeat you."

"Hence, I am invincible."

"Don’t waste your efforts imagining exposing a few of your flaws, hoping I’ll attack them and thus reveal flaws for you to exploit!"

Shadow spread its hands.

"Take a good look around, fool, even the buildings’ symmetry is perfectly identical, I specifically chose this location to meet you, you could choose to go around to a place possibly ambushing me, but it’s at least twenty kilometers from Gale Street."

"If she can hold out for that long."

"Next, I will only do the same actions with you, no matter what you intend to do!" The shadow proclaimed aloud,

"Self-solution, escape is a good choice, isn’t it?"

"Like what you did before, right?"

Tang Xin silently dragged the String Sword down, resting it beside her leg, suddenly walking toward the shadow’s direction.

The shadow similarly walked toward her, during their approach continued star-blasting, stars’ cores exploded around Tang Xin as well as around the shadow, the shards gouged their faces.

"Awakening to find oneself mistaken, choosing to end one’s life before the beloved, my dear Elis, if that’s not escape what is?"

"Singing sorrow, leaving so many regrets unrectified, so many wrongs unamended, instead embracing a new life, is it fair to those who’ve perished in anguish, is it fair to your beloved?"

"What’s the difference from escape?"

"My dear Elis?"

"Do you know my leg was injured during dance practice?" Tang Xin suddenly said.

"This injury has followed me to the Wastelands, I consider it my experience of growth."

With that, she accelerated towards the shadow, the snowy gleam of String Sword flashed past. The shadow was puzzled but continued following the girl’s trajectory, moving its hands.

"So, when I move, this issue always bothers me, and you seem unconcerned about it. Looks like there’s still a difference between your body and mine."

"You healed your right leg’s injury, didn’t you?"

"Aren’t you invincible? Then why can’t you accept your weaknesses?"

Tang Xin’s strike didn’t target the shadow but instead thrust towards her own right leg.

"I won’t regret choices."

"You’re the one escaping, Achilles."