Genshin Impact: The Beginning of the Wind

"You bastard... never mind, I'll try out this body first to see if it's any good."

Su Feng was completely helpless against Wendy, who was not ashamed but rather proud of it. After all, what could he do if the other party didn't even think it was a disgrace?

So after hearing Wendy's words, he decided to try out the body that had been finally constructed, since it would be his body from now on, and it would be troublesome if it didn't work well.

"Tch, they run pretty fast."

Wendy, who hadn't expected Su Feng to transform into a beam of light and merge into the slender dragon body in front of her without a word, pouted. Originally, Wendy had planned to continue arguing with Su Feng, but she didn't expect Su Feng to run away so quickly.

Since Su Feng had already run away, Wendy naturally didn't say anything more. At this moment, he also focused his attention on the giant dragon in front of him, which was gradually beginning to have a sense of agility, to see if Su Feng could make good use of this body.

After all, it took everyone so long to create this body, and even Wendy was eager to see how Su Feng would perform after acquiring such a powerful body.

Of course, Wendy also had a little something to think about – if Su Feng got things sorted out, then he would have two dragons as his servants, right?

Well, Mondstadt will have two dragons then. Just think of some countries that don't even have a single dragon... how pathetic!

In no time, Wendy's mind was already filled with all sorts of wicked and perverse thoughts. Unfortunately, Su Feng, who was completely focused on his new body, didn't notice the guy's wicked ideas.

He was now satisfied with his body—a body that was incredibly powerful.

Although it is not a true elemental dragon, the strength of the dragon body created by Zhongli using his own dragon body as a template is beyond doubt.

Even the outermost layer of the dragon's body, the Azure Jade Power that serves as a barrier between the inside and outside, has an extremely high status. Under normal circumstances, this power, which is sufficient to protect against the power of gold and jade, can even effectively block the erosion of the abyss power. As long as Su Feng can provide a continuous source of power, even in the void realm that is being eroded by the abyss, it is enough to ensure that he will not be eroded.

The immense power to easily cleave mountains and the various pre-set techniques contained within the dragon's body filled Su Feng with immense joy.

Moreover, the golden and jade power gathered in the dragon's body, which had reached its peak, symbolized power and terror, and with the blessing of the golden and jade power, Su Feng's power was greatly enhanced.

But the biggest surprise wasn't the dragon body that Su Feng had already anticipated, but rather the brand-new Herrscher core that was gradually appearing inside the dragon body, which was enveloped by the gravity core.

The law of constraint, the law of the law of contradiction!

Even among the many Lawbringers, this power is still considered peculiar and bizarre, and now, even Su Feng cannot understand it, this power has fallen into Su Feng's hands.

Chapter Thirteen: Wendy's Little Tricks

After the enormous dragon silently flew into the sky and left Liyue in the blink of an eye at an extremely fast speed, Venti, sitting on the dragon's head, spoke up in amazement.

"That's incredibly fast. Even the elemental dragons of the past, except for the Wind Dragon King, couldn't arrive this quickly. As expected of a body personally developed by the old man, it's so powerful even in seemingly insignificant places."

"I just don't know how far the old man can go. I really want to give it a try."

While the other Dragon Kings are powerful, their enormous bodies are also a burden to some extent. It is obviously impossible to expect such bodies to perform the feat of flying out of Liyue in an instant like Su Feng.

Of course, Su Feng, who was stretching his dragon body high in the sky, didn't care about that. He was very satisfied with the 'ability to ride the wind and clouds' that Zhong Li had mentioned earlier. Although it was indeed not as good as Su Feng being able to go wherever he wanted when he transformed into a breeze, this huge dragon body could still allow him to roam freely in any part of Teyvat within half a day.

That's enough. Besides, if he really needed to speed things up, Su Feng wasn't without options.

More importantly, besides the ability to 'ride the clouds and wind', this body naturally has many other wonderful uses, but Su Feng will have to learn and get used to them little by little.

Of course, those other minor abilities can wait until he has time to work on them later. Now that his body is sorted out, Su Feng is more anxious to get to Haiqi Island. He doesn't want to miss this opportunity to enter the Lower Abyss Palace on Haiqi Island.

Wendy has emphasized several times that the Abyss Palace is very important this time. Although there is no way to find out exactly what makes the Abyss Palace so important from Wendy, since this unreliable guy has said so, Su Feng will naturally take it seriously as well.

Because he knew very well that Wendy's words were mostly only half true, and if you believed them completely, you might suffer a great loss. But Wendy never lied when it mattered.

Moreover, Su Feng didn't think Wendy would resort to any tricks in this kind of situation.

After all, this doesn't benefit him at all.

"It seems we've arrived at just the right time; the Three Realms Road Sacrifice hasn't truly begun yet."

Although the sea route from Liyue to Inazuma is quite long, it is not too long for Su Feng, who can fly from Jueyun to Yunlai Sea in an instant. So, in just a short while, he brought Wendy to the sky above Haiqi Island.

Then, Su Feng, who was hiding and hovering above Haiqi Island, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the seal leading to Yuanxia Palace below had not yet been opened.

The main reason was that Wendy kept emphasizing the importance of this trip, and with his constant emphasis, Su Feng was somewhat worried that he might miss the Three Realms Road Feast.

It seems there shouldn't be any problems now.

"Don't worry, how could I be late? Are you looking down on me? If I were really going to be late, I would have urged you already!"

Wendy, who had been muttering that this trip absolutely couldn't go wrong, was now sitting leisurely on Su Feng's dragon horns, swinging her legs, and saying this as if she wasn't the one who had been creating tension earlier.

"..."

"Crash!"

Upon hearing Wendy's gossip, Su Feng's face darkened. His dragon body slightly shifted before reverting to his usual human form. Wendy, who had been sitting on Su Feng's dragon horns, suddenly lost his footing and nearly fell off.

"Wow!!! Why didn't you warn me before I changed my body! Didn't you see I almost fell? At that height, even if I fell, I would have died!"

A gentle breeze lifted Wendy up, and she began her usual dizzying complaints. As Su Feng listened to the wind god known as the Lord of a Thousand Winds complaining about possibly falling to his death, his eyes sharpened.

"I think you'd better think before you speak."

Su Feng made no attempt to hide his threat at all and began to threaten Wendy. However, for some reason, Wendy had the audacity to completely ignore Su Feng's threat and continued to complain, as if she wasn't afraid of him at all.

"Ok?"

Wendy's reaction, which was completely beyond Su Feng's expectations, puzzled him. But Su Feng quickly realized something and his expression became interesting. He then looked at Wendy with hostility, and under Su Feng's terrifying gaze, Wendy, who had been rambling on about Su Feng's 'disrespect', gradually lowered her voice.

In the end, his gaze wandered as he surveyed the empty sky above, as if he wished a Dvalin would suddenly appear and rescue him from his predicament.

Unfortunately, such a thing is impossible. It's even unclear whether the Dvalin that actually rushed out would be to save Wendy from her predicament or to subdue this lazybones and get her to work.

"So, how much gold did you secretly hide away before?"

Su Feng asked his question in an extremely calm voice.

Why is Wendy acting so brazenly?

The only explanation is that the areas where he was always at Su Feng's mercy are no longer at Su Feng's mercy!

According to Su Feng's understanding of Wendy, the only thing that could give Wendy this illusion recently is the large amount of byproducts produced for the creation of the Jade Power—that is the gold used to create Mora!

In particular, this gold can be easily shaped and used as Mora, or even if you don't want to make counterfeit money, it's not a problem to trade it directly with alchemists for a slightly smaller amount of Mora.

After all, Mora is an important consumable in alchemy, and these golds naturally have the same properties as Mora, so exchanging them with alchemists is perfectly fine.

In short, it wasn't difficult to exchange this gold for enough money. However, Su Feng didn't care about the gold and Mora at all, and simply handed over the gold, which was a byproduct, to Zhong Li to handle.

Now it seems that Wendy probably secretly hid a lot of gold while he was talking to Zhongli.

"Ahem! Um... please don't keep staring at me like that, it's a little scary!"

"Besides, what gold? I... I'm just a poor wretch, how could I possibly have any gold on me?"

Wendy would love to run away right now if he could, but unfortunately, he can't right now.

How much did you hide?

Su Feng began to question this guy about how much gold he had secretly hidden, but Wendy decisively pretended to be stupid in the face of Su Feng's question.

"Huh? What are you talking about? I don't know... Wow! What are you going to do!"

Before Wendy could even begin to argue, Su Feng transformed back into his dragon form, grabbed Wendy's cloak, lifted him up, and began shaking him violently. And then... glittering gold began to fall continuously from Wendy's body.

Chapter Fourteen: Hiding and Finding Things

"These are all my work results! How could you do this!"

Wendy looked at the gold that Su Feng had shaken out and was about to confiscate with teary eyes and said this, but unfortunately Su Feng completely ignored the girl's earth-shattering pleas and put the gold away again.

After finishing sorting through the gold, Su Feng asked his question in a rather curious tone.

"How did you manage to stuff a ton of gold, almost the size of your entire body, into your clothes without anyone noticing? That's a bit of a mystery to me!"

If it were just one or two pieces of gold falling off Wendy, it wouldn't be anything special. But what really stunned Su Feng was that he actually managed to shake off a whole bunch of loose gold pieces that were at least as big as Wendy himself.

More importantly, Wendy, who had been hiding so much gold on her body, didn't seem to be acting strangely at all. This superb skill almost made Su Feng's eyes pop out.

"Hey!"

"As a bard, I always need to have some hidden tricks up my sleeve! Otherwise, what if I suffer a loss while traveling in Teyvat?"

After Su Feng asked about this, Wendy started to pretend to be deaf and dumb and changed the subject. However, Su Feng, who had just confiscated a lot of gold, didn't care much about it. Anyway, Wendy's confidence to roam around had been taken away, so there was no need to worry about Wendy causing any more trouble.

"Never mind, but I think we should consider something else now—why did Ying come over too?"

Su Feng didn't press Wendy's question any further. He was now more concerned about a familiar aura he sensed from the island below—the aura of travelers who were still wandering around.

Just two months ago, he was helping with the Ganlu Flower Sea project in Sumeru, and now he's here on Inazuma Island to participate in the Sanjie Luxiang Festival? This traveler is really good at traveling!

Su Feng even had a thought that one day he might just arrive on Sky Island and see this person having a pleasant conversation with the one who upholds the laws of nature—although that scene was too fantastical and unlikely to happen, but if it were Ying... maybe the Crimson Moon Goddess would also be moved by her?

In any case, it doesn't seem strange to Su Feng who Ying can make friends with.

"Ahem, after all, she is the most beloved person in this world, so it's only natural that she's there if anything happens."

After hearing Su Feng's question, Wendy coughed twice and gave a somewhat forced answer. Su Feng glanced at him after hearing the answer, but Wendy did not show much emotion under Su Feng's gaze.

"Alright, I'll take that seriously. But let's go down and say hello first. I think Ying seems to have sensed our presence."

Su Feng didn't say much to Wendy. Moreover, Ying, who was on Haiqi Island, was looking up at the sky from time to time. It was obvious that Ying had sensed that someone was watching her from high above. However, Su Feng and Wendy were so high up that Ying did not notice their presence immediately.

"Let's hurry down then. I haven't seen Ying and Paimon for a while, so let's say hello to them!"

Upon hearing Su Feng's words, Wendy rushed down without hesitation—now that Su Feng's attention had shifted to Ying, she couldn't let Su Feng continue to pay attention to her.

Su Feng did indeed shake away most of the gold just now, but as a qualified bard, how can he not have some tricks to hide some gold? And if this last bit of gold is also stolen, then everything will be over!

Upon seeing Wendy's disheveled escape, Su Feng sneered and then, with a wave of his hand, retrieved a piece of gold about the size of an infant's fist from the void—clearly, this was the last piece of gold that Wendy had secretly hidden.

These are all things he made. Does Su Feng really not sense them at all?

I imagine Wendy would have a very interesting expression when she discovers that even her last treasure is gone.

With this thought in mind, Su Feng's cold smile deepened.

......

"So there are so many people coming to Haiqi Island this time? I originally thought that only locals from Haiqi Island would participate in this 'Three Realms Road Festival,' but Xinhai has brought quite a few people!"

"And everyone seems pretty good, it looks like this festival is going to be really intense!"

Paimon, who was standing next to Ying, looked at the many samurai carrying swords in the village and sighed. They had returned to Haiji Island after receiving a letter from Xin Hai. They originally thought that, given the relationship between Haiji Island and Narukami Island, there probably wouldn't be many people participating in this festival, but things had turned out to be much better than they had imagined.

Perhaps because the two sides had previously cooperated to fight against those filthy demons, the relationship between Umijima and Narukami Island has improved significantly. Many Inazuma samurai have also participated in Umijima's 'Sankai Rika Festival' this time.

I just don't know if Narukami's orders were involved.

"But this is also a good thing. That way, even if any problems arise, they should be able to be dealt with, right?"