Genshin Impact: The Beginning of the Wind

If it weren't for the shrine's self-evident magic, the entire shrine would probably be plunged into pitch-black darkness right now.

Although he didn't know what had happened, the general instinctively sensed that the black mist emanating from the Divine Cherry was extremely unusual. In particular, when he felt that the filth that had been locked up in the Divine Cherry was now violently erupting and attacking the seal of the Divine Cherry after the black mist appeared, this ominous feeling became even stronger.

There's something wrong with the filth that these divine cherry blossoms have collected!

Those evil gods probably started plotting this a long time ago. If it weren't for Shenying constantly collecting and purifying this filth, the entire mortal realm of Inazuma would probably have fallen by now!

Even this mysterious black mist might have been secretly sent into the Divine Cherry Tree by the other party at some unknown time, just to deliver a fatal blow to Inazuma from behind at a time like today!

I just don't know how those guys managed to fool the Divine Cherry Tree and her senses.

The general and the shadow guessed this almost instantly, but it was pointless to consider the evil gods' past methods and schemes now.

After all, the other party has already achieved their goal, no matter what.

After confirming that the black mist was likely the work of the evil gods, the general decisively raised the naginata, which had been reforged not long ago.

"Thunder! Plunge!"

With General Thunder's furious roar, endless lightning bolts suddenly fell from the sky, crashing heavily onto the thick black mist. However, it seemed that the endless lightning strikes the black mist only caused it to tremble slightly before producing no further results.

"..."

Although the general knew that the evil gods' methods were not so easy to deal with, his pupils still contracted sharply when he saw this scene.

What exactly is going on with this black mist? If the thunder that was summoned just now had landed on a certain evil god, it would have been enough to seriously injure the opponent. But now it has no effect on this black mist.

How is this possible? When did those losers acquire such power?

However, before the general could make any further probes, the entire land of Inazuma was soon subjected to unimaginable tremors. At the same time as the earth shook, five other places, centered on Mount Kage, simultaneously flashed with huge pillars of light, accompanied by a massive eruption of filth.

On the side of Shadow Mountain, endless filth instantly gushed out from the Divine Cherry Blossom!

Upon sensing the unusual movement of the Divine Cherry behind him, the general instinctively unleashed a vast amount of elemental power from his body in an attempt to resist the gushing filth. However, this filth, which did not know how to break through the Divine Cherry's restraints, showed no sign of being blocked by the powerful elemental power.

The gushing filth instantly transformed into a colossal wave, completely engulfing the general and the elemental power they unleashed.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The filth that erupted from the Divine Cherry blossoms instantly engulfed the general and then condensed into a huge, filthy cocoon. From the cocoon came a heart-like rumbling sound, as if life was being nurtured!

"General! Quickly! Go find Lord Gong Si!"

The sudden series of anomalies caught everyone off guard, but the priestesses quickly realized that General Raiden had been attacked and reacted swiftly.

However, it was at this moment that one ferocious monster after another slowly struggled out from the edge of the constantly pumping cocoon and appeared in front of the gradually withering Divine Cherry Tree.

"Quickly! Go find reinforcements! I'll stall for time here!"

Upon witnessing this scene, the shrine maiden Sachiko's pupils constricted sharply, but she quickly pulled out a stack of talismans from her sleeve and stood in front of all the shrine maidens. With the first person acting as a guide, the shrine maidens, who had been in a state of panic due to the attack on the general, finally calmed down.

"Send the younger ones to report the situation. All the priestesses with more than five years of service stay here. We must set up a barrier here and absolutely prevent these monsters from rushing down the mountain from the shadows!"

"Activate all the shrine's protective barriers; we must delay them until the High Priest arrives!"

......

This is a troublesome situation!

When Su Feng cut Mana into pieces again and found that it did not regenerate as before, he knew he was in trouble.

Mana managed to break through Su Feng's blockade and leave without a sound!

Clearly, the preparations made by those evil gods for today far exceeded Su Feng's expectations, and Mana, who inherited everything from the evil gods, also obtained these backup plans and made good use of them.

After realizing this, Su Feng immediately guessed where Mana had gone.

So he immediately removed the strong wind that had previously isolated the inside from the outside. As soon as the wind dissipated, Su Feng saw Inazuma completely engulfed by the terrifying black mist.

"Couldn't the general hold out for such a short time?"

"It seems they've done much more preparation than I expected!"

Upon seeing the black mist enveloping the entire Inazuma, Su Feng immediately guessed what had happened.

That's why he understands even more clearly just how difficult Mana is to deal with now.

In order to escape from Su Feng and to continue the evil gods' scheme, he made very little useful resistance when facing his attacks.

While it's true that he was powerless against Su Feng in terms of raw strength, focusing some of his energy on Inazuma was probably also a major reason.

Incidentally, this reaction also lulled Su Feng into a false sense of security.

It must be said that this paralysis was indeed very effective. By the time Su Feng realized all this, it was too late; the opponent had already gained the upper hand.

Thinking of this, Su Feng gritted his teeth and then transformed into a gentle breeze, rushing towards Inazuma, who was shrouded in thick black mist.

Then he was surprised to find that this seemingly weak black mist actually isolated the connection between the inside and outside, just like the wind wall that Su Feng had summoned before.

Breaking through the black mist by force was not easy. The ideal fluid, which had been almost indestructible, returned empty-handed after hitting the black mist!

"Humph!"

Su Feng, who never expected to be tricked by the other party time and time again, couldn't help but snort coldly.

Even though he was furious that he was now being blocked from Inazuma, he could only suppress his anger and begin to investigate what this black mist that was blocking him was.

He didn't know the general's current situation, nor did he know how Shin was doing, who was residing in the Divine Cherry Tree. But in any case, he had promised to help Shin, so he absolutely could not delay any longer.

Thinking of this, Su Feng stretched his palm into the thick black mist, and then he was surprised to be thrown away by a sudden burst of force!

"Is this... a membrane formed by imaginary force? Or is it simply pure inert imaginary force?"

"How is this going?"

Finally, Su Feng, who had figured out what was going on thanks to the sudden burst of power from the black mist, was astonished. He never expected that the black mist blocking his way would be such a high-level power.

How exactly did these evil gods obtain this power?

Chapter Twenty-Six: It's not time to admit defeat yet!

Imaginary force is pure imaginary internal energy. This force, which is widely present throughout the entire tree of imaginary numbers, can essentially be said to be the source of all power.

Previously, Su Feng had tried to convert the continuous imaginary energy drawn from the Herrscher core into a light force more suitable for Teyvat. In the end, it was through this method that he was able to receive the power of the End one by one from inside the 'cocoon'.

Only after that did he truly gain his own power and freedom.

However, from another perspective, imaginary energy is actually a fairly common and even ubiquitous force—because imaginary energy exists in any world that is born from the tree of imaginary numbers, and even any existence originally evolved from imaginary energy.

To put it bluntly, if you're skilled enough, you can extract imaginary energy from even a rock.

Of course, being able to access something doesn't mean you can use it; those who can trace the origins of everything created are extremely rare.

Let alone catching a rock to extract imaginary energy, it's almost impossible to find even a tiny bit of unconverted imaginary energy in the naturally existing world under normal circumstances—don't you see that even the Herrschers directly draw imaginary energy from the imaginary space!

Imaginary internal energy is actually a rather active force. Once it enters the material world, pure imaginary internal energy will almost immediately transform into other forces in this world. Therefore, under normal circumstances, pure imaginary internal energy cannot be seen.

But there are always unexpected events, and what Su Feng is encountering now is such an unexpected event.

A black mist constructed purely from inert imaginary internal energy?

This thing is less like black mist and more like a modified world bubble barrier!

The inert imaginary energy is a necessary barrier for the leaves that fall from the tree of imaginary numbers to continue to exist in the sea of ​​quantum numbers. Otherwise, those worlds filled with imaginary energy would have exploded instantly upon falling into the sea of ​​quantum numbers due to the conflict between the two forces.

Do you really think the struggle between the tree and the sea is fake? Even if the quantum sea didn't specifically target these world bubbles, the quantum force that's everywhere won't compromise with the imaginary force. The inevitable outcome is that the two will collide and explode.

The reason why those world bubbles suspended in the quantum sea can still exist is largely due to the existence of these imaginary internal energies that, after inertization, hardly react with any force.

Otherwise, the fragmented world that fell from the Tree of Imaginary Numbers would not be able to exist in the Sea of ​​Quanta.

But how exactly did those evil gods find these membranes that should have belonged to the world bubble to protect itself? And how did they manipulate these extremely lazy imaginary numbers to their own advantage?

These evil gods have such outrageous abilities?

Upon realizing what the black mist in front of him actually was, Su Feng's expression immediately became uncertain—he had indeed underestimated these evil gods who had struggled to survive in the Dark Outer Sea until now.

He scornfully believed that these losers had little power to resist, but these evil gods always managed to bring Su Feng one surprise after another.

Perhaps a long, long time ago, these evil gods had already begun to want to do something big to the heavens, but he was extremely unlucky and ran into these guys.

But there's no time to think about that now. He has to break through the blockade of these black mists as soon as possible, otherwise no one can guarantee what will happen to the entire Inazuma under the onslaught of Mana.

Fortunately, even if the outer wall of this world bubble is inert and unresponsive, it is still imaginary internal energy. Although there are some differences, it is not impossible for Su Feng to open a gap in it in a short period of time.

Even so, we need to speed things up. If it drags on for too long and something goes wrong on Ying's side, he won't be able to explain it to Zhen.

......

So when exactly did these evil gods begin plotting these things?

It was probably after the first time they returned to Teyvat only to be cut down by the two Narukami as easily as slicing melons and vegetables, and after most of their power was taken back.

That was a very long time ago, so long ago that even the evil gods couldn't remember exactly when it happened.

It was after that incident that the evil gods finally realized that these losers were being used as trash by the forces of Heaven.

But who would really be willing to give up completely like that?

At least the evil gods were unwilling to be treated as trash forever, so after realizing they had been abandoned by the Heavenly Principle, these former losers gathered together, and then, in their resentment, they made this decision for some unknown reason—to give the Heavenly Principle a big blow, to take revenge on the Heavenly Principle, and to take revenge on Teyvat!

In fact, the Dark Outer Sea is not a good place. The chaotic order, the ever-changing rules, the terrible environment, and the filth flowing everywhere make it difficult even for a demon god to survive there.

After all, the filth everywhere, the wild light energy, and the omnipresent abyss are all things that evil gods cannot properly handle. In fact, even an evil god could perish if he is not careful.

Perhaps it is precisely because Tianli is very clear about the situation in the Dark Sea that he feels so at ease in exploiting these evil gods—after all, what can they do even if they are unwilling under these circumstances?

As it turns out, the evil gods who refused to accept defeat and tried again were indeed able to give the heavens a major shock.

No one knows what these evil gods, who were forced into the Dark Outer Sea, have experienced over the long years, but the black mist that now envelops the entire Inazuma is a treasure they have salvaged from the chaotic and terrifying Dark Outer Sea over the long years.

In order to make good use of this bubble of worlds that came from nowhere, they gradually mixed it into Teyvat during countless battles with Inazuma Narukami, and sent it into the world while their own power was being cut off and taken away.

So, over the long years, the black mist that shrouded the entire Inazuma gradually accumulated within the Divine Cherry Blossom, and then, at the most crucial moment, it stabbed the general in the back with the filth that also concealed the chaotic consciousness of many evil gods.

The general, who had almost absolute trust in Shenying, was indeed caught off guard and suffered this blow, just as the evil gods had predicted. In the end, these evil gods did indeed perfectly complete their plan.

What Mana, who has inherited everything from the evil god, needs to do next is to use the filth gathered in the divine cherry blossom and the general who was captured unexpectedly to completely destroy the entire Inazuma.

Now that Inazuma has lost its general, the enemy has penetrated deep into its territory, and its biggest external support has been cut off for a short period of time, does it really still have hope?

of course not!

It's not time to admit defeat yet!