That confidence was not empty.
Yuzuki had earned it.
She had fought enemies above her Realm and won. She had broken sword prodigies who thought raw cultivation could overwhelm technique. She had faced multiple Half-Divines simultaneously and bullied them through superior skill, timing and precision.
In the world she understood, a newly advanced Sky Sovereign should not have been able to threaten her seriously.
Phei had stopped living in that world months ago.
He remembered all the Demigod beasts, Divine Being beast, Saint and Divine Lord beast too whose fists had caved his organs inward despite his tempered body. He could still remember spiritual pressure crushing space until True Void Steps itself became difficult, crystalline weapons exploding against his skin and still launching him through mountains, old wounds healing only for new ones to arrive before his regeneration finished.
