Genshin Impact: The Beginning of the Wind

At that moment, the two, who were considered to be at the pinnacle of the mortal world, suddenly realized that there was a dead soul behind them.

Chapter Sixty-Two: The Boatman and Pure Water

"who are you?"

When Su Feng turned around, he realized that a ghost had appeared behind him. He admitted that he was frightened, but even so, he remained calm and asked the ghost.

While questioning the other party, Su Feng couldn't help but glance at them a few times.

This was a ghost dressed as a boatman—although it was a ghost, Su Feng's perception of its presence had faded to almost nothing.

If the other party hadn't spoken up, Su Feng probably wouldn't have been able to detect their presence.

What Su Feng found even more bizarre was that a silver-white soul-ferrying boat had appeared in the sky at some unknown time, quietly waiting for the arrival of many dead souls.

“Oh, noble ascendant, what you need to wait for is to ascend the throne in the sky, while I am merely a boatman serving my mistress.”

"Why should someone as noble as you care about a lowly boatman like me?"

"The thick fog has dissipated, and the souls that have been away for so long are about to set foot on the land of their homeland."

"O glittering silver boat heading to the moon, boat of the sun and the children of the mountains, everyone is going home, oh, the golden house on the moon... Lost child, hurry and get on the boat, the mistress of the golden house will be angry..."

A trivial explanation and a song calling to the dead came from the mouth of the ghost who claimed to be a boatman, and at his call, many ghosts from Heguan gradually surrounded him and boarded their own boats.

"..."

"Just do as you said, take the souls of the dead with you and leave, I won't make things difficult for you."

"If there are any problems... Ying... I'll have to trouble you to help this boatman!"

"But please let him leave this world quickly with these souls."

Su Feng gave the boatman a deep look, but even under Su Feng's pressure, the boatman, who claimed to be a servant, did not waver in the slightest and continued to do his job. Knowing that he could not get much information from the boatman, Su Feng could only give up his remaining plans for the time being.

After glancing back at the Soul Ferry in the sky, Su Feng turned and left. Although not much information was revealed, the one on the moon had already expressed his thoughts and opinions to some extent, so all that was left was to wait for time to pass.

Moreover, Chikaze's master is still in Inazuma!

What's the point of making things difficult for a boatman? Wouldn't it be much more interesting to just rush over and interrogate the Lord of a Thousand Winds?

Moreover, Su Feng didn't think that Qianfeng's master would be completely unaware of this matter; he just didn't know how that guy would try to brush him off.

However, the more important thing now is to repair the world barrier here.

With this in mind, Su Feng simply took Ying and left He Guan, returning to the small island that Ying had previously cleaved in two with a single strike. Although some souls still lingered in He Guan, the most important ley lines had now been liberated, and Yandora could now try to use the power of water to repair the world barrier here.

"Yandora, is there anything else I need to handle?"

Upon arriving at the new Wuxiang Blade Narrow Space, Su Feng summoned Yandora and inquired about her whereabouts. Yandora, after whispering affectionately in Su Feng's ear, then re-examined the ley lines of the area.

“My noble master, the ley lines here are now sufficient to support my work, but before that, I, in my humble state, still beg you to grant me pure water to cleanse these ley lines. Only water of sufficient purity can sustain my insignificant authority to carry out your commands.”

The little water sprite made its final plea, and Su Feng glanced at Ying beside him first, waiting for the local landlord to nod before he decided to take action.

As mentioned before, injecting one's own power into the ley lines is equivalent to an entity declaring its sovereignty over this place. Although Kage had never injected his power into the ley lines of Tsurukan before today, this place still nominally belongs to Inazuma. He cannot do such a thing without Kage's consent.

However, it is clear that Shadow would not disagree with such a thing. Even if Su Feng did this to repair the barrier of the world to block the abyss, Shadow would not mind giving Tsurukan and even the entire Inazuma to Su Feng.

After all, Su Feng had saved Inazuma and her sister, and that alone was enough to make Ying relinquish her position as ruler of the mortal world. The only pity was that Su Feng might not want the position.

Su Feng didn't know what Ying was thinking, but now that Ying had agreed, he naturally didn't hesitate any longer.

He quickly transformed the surging light energy into pure, flowing water, which he then poured into the earth's veins. Soon, the pure water began to flow through the earth's veins in He Guan.

The filth, resentment, bitterness, and even impurities were quickly washed away and thoroughly purified by the pure water flowing from every hidden corner. Under Su Feng's water, which far surpassed that of the pure water spirits, this land that had been silent for thousands of years was quickly cleansed.

As the pure water began to spread across the land, Yandora, who had been hovering beside Su Feng's ear, tumbled a few times in the air before looking at Su Feng with pleading eyes.

Seeing the little guy's longing look, Su Feng couldn't help but smile. He nodded gently to Yandora, and after receiving her consent, Yandora affectionately rubbed her cheek against Su Feng's before falling directly into the surging clean water.

"Buzz!"

Once inside the purified water, Yandora began to activate tiny fragments of her own water authority. In the purified water where Su Feng had fully opened his authority, she easily mobilized the purified water, which was far beyond her imagination.

Pure water began to spread from the earth's veins, and streams gradually appeared on the land. These flowing streams grew little by little from scratch and eventually converged into huge rivers.

The clear, flowing water began to nourish the parched earth, and even the withered earth veins stretched out again with the support of this pure water. The tiny fragments of power that originated from the beginning also began to repair this ravaged space according to the original blueprint.

The purified water transformed into the most precise adhesive, seeping into the cracks in the space and beginning to weave, little by little, a song belonging to the world and life.

Hollows are filled, broken parts are stitched up, blocked areas are cleared, and dead places are reborn.

Although she was just a tiny water sprite, with the support of Su Feng's endless pure water, even the insignificant Yandora was able to do what only the most powerful pure water could do.

The world's wounds were healed, and new flesh and blood gradually filled the void.

Chapter Sixty-Three: Teyvat on the Verge of Collapse and New Power

Repairing the world's barrier is not a simple matter. Even Sky Island can only use Sky Nails to make some simple and crude repairs. This is not because Sky Island has lost the technology that once shaped the entire world, but simply because the power they now possess is insufficient to support them in rebuilding the tattered 'eggshell'.

The effort required to reshape a world is unimaginable; even the original being could not do it a second time, let alone the current being, whose situation is probably still uncertain.

Su Feng couldn't do that either.

Even if Sky Island were to hand over the most complete authority to him now, he still couldn't do it.

Even a Herrscher with boundless power is still too insignificant when facing a complete world. The power that Su Feng can output now is not even enough to keep up with the power lost by Teyvat. Even if he puts all his power into repairing Teyvat now, it will still be just a drop in the ocean.

Moreover, without resolving the abyss's intrusions and dealing with the still-mad enemy, no matter how hard we try, we still cannot save the world from its decline.

Su Feng was well aware of this, so under Wendy's guidance, he finally realized how insignificant he was in the grand scheme of things and never even considered saving Teyvat with his current abilities.

While Yandora used her power to repair the world, he simply used his own power to quietly feel the authority of water.

He still needs to understand the world and feel its rhythm, and this action to repair the world's barrier is a good example of that.

It was likely a pre-arranged demonstration.

However, Su Feng did not care about the possible arrangements and calculations involved. After experiencing so many things, he had already realized that he was already registered on Sky Island.

It's even possible that the conversations have already been discussed at a higher level without his knowledge. Now, all he needs to do is to seriously learn and experience these things.

This won't do him any harm.

With this in mind, Su Feng's consciousness began to penetrate deep into the barrier of the world.

……

What do the barriers of the world look like?

This point is unclear to most beings in Teyvat. After all, even the Daedric Lords often know very little about the world barrier. At most, they can only sense the condition of the surrounding barrier and use the materials at hand to seal the gaps.

Doing this is like sealing a hole in a water pipe with tape—it works, but the hole is still there, and when the tape ages, it will still leak.

Only Sky Island can truly heal the wounds of a water pipe.

Now, with the help of Yandora's tiny fragment of authority, Su Feng finally has the possibility of getting a glimpse of the truth, something that would have been impossible in the mortal world.

But when Su Feng finally observed all of this from a more specific perspective, he fell silent again.

As his will, accompanied by pure water, began to penetrate deeper into the world's barrier, an even more powerful force suddenly led him to observe the entire world from a higher-dimensional perspective.

Then Su Feng finally saw the current state of Teyvat.

How to describe it?

Perhaps a more accurate description would be that Teyvat is currently surrounded by a huge and broken 'eggshell'? However, compared to an eggshell that hatches life, this 'eggshell', which is riddled with holes and filled with cracks and even pores of all sizes, is not an outer garment for nurturing life, but rather a wall protecting the contents within.

Unfortunately, under the ruthless methods of the avengers, the wall that once isolated all external forces has fallen into ruin.

The most conspicuous feature is the huge crack that almost runs through most of the 'eggshell'.

Although not entirely clear, Su Feng could still sense the endless churning abyss and the power of the Light Realm clashing within the enormous rift. And beneath the power of the Light Realm, the Wish, twinkling like a constellation of stars, was painfully providing more power to prevent this wound, large enough to tear the entire Teyvat apart, from festering.

The answer to why Sky Island, which once defeated dragons and ruled the entire world, and once promised endless honey and milk, has fallen into silence and even death in this era, has been found.

After the entire power of Sky Island and even the whole world has been exhausted just by sealing the biggest gap, can the people who are firmly protected behind them really make any more demands?

A single wound was enough to exhaust Sky Island's entire power, forcing it to resort to a near-brutal act of seizing the meager strength from the souls of mortals.

Under such circumstances, Sky Island has persisted for thousands of years, but now it has reached a point of near desperation.

Just how powerful is the abyss that we need to fight, and how long can Fanes and Sky Island hold out?

The situation in Teyvat is much worse than anyone imagined!

After finally seeing Teyvat's current predicament in the most direct way, Su Feng understood many things.

Sky Island may seem inhuman to mortals or the world at large, but perhaps its inhumanity is simply a matter of necessity.

You can rebel against Sky Island, or even choose to defeat it, but what will you choose when the world-destroying frenzy descends?

This is probably going to be a very difficult question to answer.

Perhaps everything was already decided when Fanes chose to banish the Dragonborn and reshape Teyvat.

I wonder how Sky Island plans to break out of this predicament?

Su Feng couldn't help but have such thoughts, but he quickly regained his focus.

There are some things he doesn't need to consider right now. Compared to thinking about the future of Sky Island, he should be more concerned about the work at hand.

After all, repairing the world's barriers is no easy task.

Even if he didn't concentrate, he would probably miss many important steps, so after paying a brief look at Teyvat's current situation, he devoted himself to repairing the 'small gap' in front of him.

He watched intently as the pure water, driven by the power of water, gradually enveloped the gap, patching it up little by little, and then spurred the growth of the world barrier—he even saw the continuation and growth of rules and power.

Rather than saying that the power of water is to make up for the world's defects, it is more accurate to say that the power of water is to encourage the world itself to repair its shortcomings. Pure water simply guides and prunes the world's instincts.

But it was precisely because of this that a small part of the essence of the world began to appear before Su Feng's eyes. Although these essences were not yet something Su Feng could grasp or understand, he still forcibly engraved these scenes deep into his memory and soul.

He may not understand these things now, but one day Su Feng will be able to take a higher step, and at that time everything he has recorded now will become his resources to continue moving forward.

This is accumulation, and also a reward paid in advance.

Moreover, as he earnestly perceived this growth and reconstruction, another force gradually opened its doors to him.

Although not complete, it already possesses the qualification to be driven, which is a truly unexpected joy for Su Feng.

Chapter Sixty-Four: The Black Mist Lingering Between Fingers