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The old woman couldn't understand how her apprentice, who had been kidnapped by Lu Sheng, had made friends in Sumeru.

Given their antagonistic relationship, shouldn't he have tortured and abused Mona?

Things seem to be heading in the worst possible direction.

This is the situation that Barbie Ross, as a teacher and a parent, least wants to see.

"Let me see your fate!"

She grabbed Mona from a distance and performed a divination on her.

The result of the divination completely broke the old woman's defenses.

Mona is completely caught up in someone else's fate and can't escape it.

In short, Mona is no longer his obedient disciple; he can no longer control her fate.

"Oh my god! That bastard Rikuo! I'll never let him get away with this!"

Just then, Rikuo, who had returned to the Order of the Teachings, heard this and asked curiously, "Thinking about me?"

Sumeru Chapter: Chapter 133: The False Starry Sky

Upon hearing Lu Sheng's voice, Barbie Ross reacted as if facing a formidable enemy. Her deep blue eyes, like the sea, fixed on him, and she immediately began to curse: "Lu Sheng! You despicable person! It's Rhinedot who's been messing with you, not me. What do you mean by kidnapping my disciple and bringing him to Sumeru?"

“Don’t say things like kidnapping.” Lu Sheng corrected the other person’s mistake. “Mona was invited by me to Xumi to serve as a tutor in the Academy of Teachings. I provide her with food, lodging and expenses. I’ve spent tens of millions on Mora alone. If you don’t believe me, just ask your apprentice. Before she came to Xumi, she was skin and bones from hunger. Now she’s gained a lot of weight.”

"Hmph! You think I'd believe that? It's nothing but dirty tricks; you're just using Mona!"

Barbie Ross was extremely rude and wouldn't listen to a word Lu Sheng said.

She turned to Mona beside her and asked, "Apprentice, ask yourself honestly, were you happy and joyful during your time in Sumeru?"

"Master, I..."

"Don't be afraid. Tell the truth, with your master here to back you up today, we will definitely not let anyone who bullies you get away with it!"

Mona said timidly in a low voice, "Actually, I was quite happy in Sumeru."

Upon hearing Mona's answer, Barbie Ross's eyes rolled back, and she felt as if the sky had fallen.

“My apprentice, you’ve been corrupted by sweet talk! This guy is just using you! Otherwise, he wouldn’t have sent you to provoke that dangerous guy, Viserfnir.”

Mona took a deep breath and mustered her courage to deny her master's words. "Master, if I was kept in the dark before, now that I know the whole truth, I still want to stop Viserfenir. Please, just this once, let me make the decision I believe is right!"

Barbie Ross's face was deathly pale, and her gaze toward Mona kept shifting. A thousand words were on the tip of her tongue, but she swallowed them back.

Finally, she sighed softly, "They're courting death, so why are you rushing to send yourself up too?"

As she spoke, she looked at Lu Sheng and asked, "Do you even know how terrifying that guy is? Of all people to mess with, why did you have to lure him out? Do you know how many people he killed to erase his existence from this world? Even I was spared his purging only because of the Witch's Guild's protection."

Lu Sheng noticed the key point in Barbie Ross's words and asked curiously, "It sounds like you have some kind of grudge against Visefnir?"

Barbie Ross gave a bitter smile. "It's more than just a grudge. I also had a life-or-death struggle with him. I knew how terrifying he was, so I didn't want Mona to get involved. But now it seems it's all too late."

Upon hearing that Barbielos had a past with Visefnir, Riku suddenly saw hope of defeating Visefnir.

“I think we can cooperate. It would be good for both of us if Viserfnir disappeared from this world. Mona would no longer be hunted down, and you could get revenge.”

"Cooperation? Haha, must I have misheard? You and the Witch's Guild have already reached that point, isn't talking about cooperation a bit of an exaggeration?"

Lu Sheng shook his head. "I'm not discussing cooperation with the Witches' Guild. I'm discussing cooperation with Mona's master."

Barbie Ross suddenly fell silent, her facial expression quite fascinating.

Mona suddenly grabbed her hand, pleading in a coquettish tone, "Master~ please help Mona this once~"

Ugh! This is so annoying!

Barbie Ross shouted and glared at Lu Sheng, "You're lucky, kid. Mona didn't suffer. For the sake of my apprentice, and because I already have a grudge against that guy, I'll help you this once!"

Lu Sheng was overjoyed and respectfully invited Barbie Ross into the Church.

"Master, please come in."

Barbie Ross was too lazy to scold Lu Sheng for his glib talk, so she snorted and walked into the Church of God.

Talk, everything is negotiable.

Even two forces with deep-seated hatred can sit down at the same table and discuss cooperation in the face of a more powerful opponent.

Mona sat cautiously beside her master, feeling very happy that her master and Lu Sheng hadn't gotten into a fight.

"Master, you said you had a grudge against Viserfnir in the past. When was that? How come I don't know anything about it?"

A complex emotion flashed in Barbie Ross's eyes as she recalled the past.

"Of course you don't know, because I was the same age you are now back then."

"When I was young, I was arrogant and proud. My achievements in the field of astrology far surpassed yours now. At that time, I considered myself the most powerful astrologer in all of Teyvat. Ordinary astrology could no longer satisfy my growing confidence, so I began to delve into the unknown."

“Until I came to Fontaine, there I found a prophetic stone tablet with a prophecy about Fontaine.”

"The content of the prophecy is no secret: every person in Fontaine is born with an indelible original sin. One day, the sea level in Fontaine will rise, submerging and dissolving all the people of Fontaine, leaving only the water god weeping on his throne. Only then will the sins of the people of Fontaine be washed away."

"I was amazed by the ancient history of this stone slab and wanted to find the place where this prophecy was written. So I started looking for clues everywhere, and finally, many years later, I succeeded."

"I discovered an astrologer who has never been recorded before. His existence dates back to the Kanria dynasty five hundred years ago, but since the Kanria calamity, this astrologer has disappeared without a trace and vanished from the face of the earth."

"Not satisfied with the result, I chose to continue the investigation, little did I know that my actions had already attracted the attention of the other party. Without me saying more, you should be able to guess that the other party is Vesevernil, who disappeared hundreds of years ago."

"After he divided up the power of the abyss, he gained the powerful prophetic ability to see through the stars and time, and could even foresee events that would happen hundreds of years in the future. At that time, he would already be the most powerful astrologer in the world."

"Having seen through fate, Viserfnir knew the ultimate truth of the world and the secrets of the stars. He saw that everything in this world was predetermined by fate. In order to break free from this shackle, he chose to completely disappear from this world. Any record of him, anyone who knew his past, was ruthlessly erased by him."

"Including the people investigating him, namely, me when I was young and naive."

"He wanted to kill me, but I found out. We fought each other with astrology for a long time. That's when I realized that there are always people more powerful than me. In short, I was no match for him when I was young. I failed and could only hide everywhere until I met Alice, my lifelong enemy."

"Alice invited me to join the Witches' Guild, where I met Rhinedot. She and Visefennir were both descendants of the Kanria dynasty. Through her mediation, I promised never to reveal any secrets about Visefennir, which ended this farce."

At this point, Barbie Ross sighed bitterly and said helplessly, "Who would have thought that after so much time, my apprentice would encounter the same fate as me? Perhaps this is the cruelty of fate..."

Mona never imagined that her usually arrogant and disdainful master had such a miserable experience in his youth, which explains why he never mentioned it.

After recounting her grudges and feuds with Visefnir, Barbielos glanced at the group and sneered, "Looks like you've been tormented quite a bit by Visefnir. Hey Lu Sheng, where did your arrogance go? If that's all you've got, we witches won't even give you a second glance."

Lu Sheng was not angry at being mocked like this, and calmly replied, "I hate cowards the most. Let Viserfnir come out and face me directly."

Barbiros shook his head. "He can win from behind the scenes, why risk showing himself? As for you, if you continue like this, your Sumeru will truly perish."

"So what? It's better to die standing up than to hide and live like a coward."

"Who's the old turtle! Who are you calling an old turtle?!" Barbie Ross gritted her teeth.

"I'll yell at whoever gets angry."

Barbie Ross's face quickly turned red, and the atmosphere between the two sides immediately became tense.

Seeing this, Mona quickly dissuaded him, saying, "Lu Sheng, my master is here to help. If you drive her away, who will save Sumeru?"

Lu Sheng remained unreserved and continued, "Your master is clearly afraid of Viserfnir. She admitted defeat long ago, otherwise why would she have been hiding for so long, afraid to seek revenge?"

"Ha! I'm afraid of him?" Barbie Ross slammed her hand on the table and stood up. "I only lost to my younger self! Things are different now. What is Viserfenir anyway? Does he even deserve to be my opponent?"

Lu Sheng was overjoyed. Sure enough, the tactic of provoking someone with such an arrogant personality never fails.

"Then may I ask, what methods do you have to deal with Vesefenil?"

"The method is very simple. Doesn't he like divination? Then I will just create a fake starry sky in Sumeru and let him do divination. I will send him false information and make him believe it to be true. It will be easy to lure him out."

Barbie Ross blurted out the plan without hesitation, as if he had already thought it through carefully.

The old woman had lived for so long; how could she not know Lu Sheng's provocation?

She was simply taking the easy way out.

A mortal's life is no more than a hundred years, but Barbie Ross has lived for more than a hundred years. Her predetermined fate has already determined her future. Even though she never consults the oracle about her own destiny, she knows that she doesn't have many days left.

She originally didn't want to concern herself with worldly affairs anymore; her only thought was to prove that she was stronger than Alice before her life came to an end.

Another thing she was most worried about was her apprentice Mona. In order to help Mona grow, she sent her out to find her diary from her youth.

That diary not only records the dark history of an ignorant girl, but also the details of the growth of that genius astrologer.

The contents of her diary are enough to help Mona grow into an excellent astrologer.

Who knew that fate would play such a cruel trick on things, leading to this outcome?

The humiliation that Visevernir had brought her constantly reminded her that she had to take revenge one day.

She studied Visefennil day and night for decades, until the day she adopted an orphan, which transformed her from a vengeful, resentful woman into a strict teacher.

His feelings for his apprentice outweighed his obsession with revenge.

This obsession resurfaced today when his apprentice faced a crisis.

No matter who it is, if anyone dares to harm Mona, Barbie Ross will risk her life to destroy them.

“A fake starry sky…” Mona was as shocked as when she first looked up at the stars. “Master, are you kidding me? Who in this world could fake a fake starry sky?”

Barbie Ross smiled gently, "Silly child, you underestimate your master too much. Although I am just a mortal, when it comes to astrology, no one in the entire Tewat knows more than me."

“This is not a pipe dream of mine; in fact, I have already succeeded once.”

"What?!" Mona stood up excitedly. "How come you've never mentioned something this big to me before?"

Barbie Ross shook her head. "Because this wasn't my achievement alone; it was done with that wretched woman, Alice. It's a fairy tale world called Himulanca, which originated from a bet with an old friend. The bet was whether life would follow the predetermined path or whether one would bravely break the rules and choose their own way."

"The three of us witches created a world, and I am in charge of the starry sky that represents destiny in that world."

Upon hearing the name Ximulanka, Lu Sheng immediately perked up.

Wow, isn't this the fairy tale world where our hero saves the evil dragon?

“Creating a starry sky is not an easy task, but in my hands, any tricky thing becomes very easy. I succeeded, and that starry sky continues to shine to this day, reflecting the fate of Shimulanka’s life.”

"Creating a fake starry sky in the real world would be much more difficult, but as long as I take action, there's nothing I can't do."

What Barbie Ross exudes is extreme self-confidence.

This is the spirit that Mona learned throughout her life: never ask if something is possible, only by doing your best will you know whether you can succeed.

“So…” Barbiros placed her hands on the table, staring at Rikuo, “what kind of scenario do you want to devise to lure Viserfnir out?”

Lu Sheng pondered for a moment and then asked, "How can you be sure that Viserphniel won't be able to divine your intentions?"