Genshin Impact, Teyvat's own beloved immortal.

"Forty years."

"At least seventy years."

"Fifty years."

Lu Sheng slammed his hand on the table and stood up: "Deal."

In an instant, Yae no Miko felt like she had been tricked.

As if by magic, Riku produced paper and pen and began to write: "Yae no Miko, the priestess of Narukami Taisha Shrine, voluntarily sells herself into slavery, willing to serve as a beast of burden without complaint, for a period from today until fifty years later..."

"Heh! I've already agreed to your request, why bother with all this stuff? Would I, a dignified Eightfold Divine Child, lie to you?"

"This is called being prepared. Enough talk, sign it."

Lu Sheng pushed the contract over.

The child tilted his head and said, "I don't have hands, so I can't write."

Without saying a word, Lu Sheng grabbed the god's front paw, dipped it in the red oil pot, and then covered it with paper. A bright red paw print appeared on it.

"Alright! The contract is signed. Anyone who breaks their word will be punished by the Rock of Food. Little fox, eat slowly. Once you're full, we'll get to work. Oh, right, I forgot to remind you, from now on you must address me as Master or Immortal Venerable. If you call me wrong even once, I'll throw you back into the wilderness to survive."

Lu Sheng put away the contract with satisfaction, patted his behind, and left.

Hehe! We must teach this sly fox a lesson while she's down on her luck!

She usually likes to laugh and joke around, acting as a riddle teller and not taking anything to heart. Now she's really messed up.

Seeing a once invincible and powerful entity now weak, pitiful, and helpless, wouldn't it be a waste of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity not to take this chance to thoroughly humiliate it?

What? Bullying the weak and fearing the strong? I gave birth to you, why would I care about that?

If you don't bully the weak and fear the strong, are you going to bully the strong and fear the weak?

Hotaru and Miko gritted their teeth in unison and blurted out two words: "Newborn!"

However, the divine child soon became content with the status quo. At least here there was hot pot and fried tofu to eat, which was better than drinking dew, eating insects, and begging for food on the mountain.

Even now, just recalling the taste of those insects makes my mouth water; it was absolutely horrifying!

"Hmph! When you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. Once I regain my power, then... mmm~ fried tofu with this sauce is so delicious!!"

After a hearty meal, Yae no Miko ran up to Rikuo and asked him about Ayaka Kamisato.

When she learned that there was an anti-Suzuka Gozen alliance on an unknown island, the princess was greatly pleased.

"As expected, there are still people who can see through Suzuka Gozen's true colors. For the sake of supreme power, she has completely abandoned all moral principles. I don't know if this is good or bad for a ruler, but for a country where ordinary people are the majority, it is definitely not a good thing."

Riku seized the opportunity to mock, "Why do I feel that Inazuma is much better now than when you ruled?"

The divine child fell silent, then murmured softly, "My country, Inazuma, has its own circumstances. It's just that the general's understanding of eternity is too narrow."

"Then why don't you care? If you wanted to, you could easily become someone second only to the emperor. You could save many people, but you just watch quietly from the perspective of an outsider, hiding in your Narukami Shrine. You don't care when the Fatui come, and you don't care about the enactment of the Seclusion Edict and the Eye Hunt Edict."

"How could an outsider like you know so much? Did Ayaka tell you? Oh dear~ I don't deny these things, but if you say I don't care about this country, then you're really wronging her."

The divine child spoke mournfully and plaintively: "Five hundred years have passed. That incident happened a full five hundred years ago. Since then, the Raijin that everyone knows is no longer here. The one in the castle tower is just a puppet that only does what it is programmed to do. In these five hundred years, without me, this country would either have fallen into disarray or been completely destroyed by that inflexible puppet."

"The disaster of Inazuma has been repeating itself for five hundred years. I am really tired. I have tried everything, but it only treats the symptoms and not the root cause. The root cause lies with the puppet general. No matter what, as long as the general is still here, all the suffering will continue to repeat itself."

"There is only one way to save Inazuma: to awaken the true Raijin. So I stopped caring about these things and sometimes even pushed for it in secret. Since Raijin pursues eternity, why not let the country fall into chaos and make things so big that He has to face it personally?"

Lu Sheng shook his head upon hearing this, "Nonsense. Since the culprit is that doll in the castle tower, why not just go over and smash it? Wouldn't that cause a much bigger commotion than your plan?"

Upon hearing such astonishingly arrogant words, the Divine Child trembled and blurted out, "The puppet's strength is almost on par with the Thunder God, and it has no humanity. There is only one outcome for challenging it: annihilation. Let alone making a commotion, there is no possibility of even getting the puppet to use 30% of its strength. Moreover, most challengers cannot even get past the Heavenly Commander."

Lu Sheng retorted, "How do you know it won't work if you don't try?"

"I don't want to die yet," the priestess replied quite decisively.

Oh~ no wonder they sent the blond guy. Even though our blond guy is a bit useless, isn't his life worth anything?

"Hmph! Not a single one of them has been useful in the entire five hundred years of Inazuma!" Rikuo said bluntly, "Once I get the Heart of God, I'll personally dismantle it and show you!"

P.S.: I got ganked by the editor, so there are no more skirmish stories!

Inazuma Arc: Chapter 83: A Single, Unthinking Strike

Eight-layered island, a narrow space between blades of no thought.

A pink fox darted through the grass, climbed to a high spot, and shook its head, looking around.

"Sniff! Sniff! Hmm~ I smell my tail! It should be nearby! Glug glug~"

The goddess let out a confident, fox-like laugh.

"Where is it? I can't see it."

Lu Sheng looked around and, apart from the nuclear contamination area created by Thor's slash, there was no trace of the Killing Stone.

The divine child leaped off the rock, tiptoed to the edge of the purple sea, and sniffed it.

"It seems to be below this."

Lu Sheng frowned. "Farewell!"

"Come back, come back! You said you were going to challenge General Thunder, but a mere pool of lightning element scared you like this? You're shameless!"

"Oh? You mean it's because of the lightning element that this place turned out like this?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Sheng's spirits lifted.

"That's right. Back then, the guardian serpent Orobas of Haiqi Island was killed by Thor's sword right here. Do you see this incredibly long narrow passage? That's the remnant of that sword strike. Orobas's remains are still on this island, but due to the pollution of the demon god's power, the island is no longer habitable."

Rikuo looked up at the narrow passage, imagining the unthinkable blade that could split the island in two.

I don't know if I can handle it.

He glanced at the divine child and said, "Call me a nice name, and I'll help you retrieve the Killing Stone."

"Oh dear~ Master~ I look so pitiful, please help me~"

"Call me Immortal Venerable."

"Very well, Your Majesty!"

After teasing the divine child, Rikuo smiled and went to the water's edge.

"What do you plan to do? Going down directly will kill you instantly. I know a spell that can temporarily avoid lightning damage, or..."

Before the divine child could finish speaking, Rikuo raised his hand to interrupt, saying, "There's no need for that!"

After saying that, he plunged his entire hand into the water and instantly absorbed the lightning element in the water.

[Ding! Elemental energy detected, conversion in progress...]

[Lightning element skill level has been upgraded, gaining new skill: Three Thousand Lightning Illusionary Body Level 1: Lightning Flash - Movement as fast as lightning.]

[Lightning Element skill level has been upgraded, gaining new skill: Three Thousand Lightning Illusions Level 2: Lightning Instant – Teleport your body to the desired location with lightning speed.]

[Your Lightning Element skill level has been upgraded, gaining a new skill: Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body, third level: Three Thousand Lightning Movement—A Dou Zong level expert, terrifying indeed. Your agility is unmatched among those of the same level; you can even escape unscathed from challenges beyond your level.]

Oh my god, Xiao Yan, is this BYD system breaking down a skill into individual parts and selling it separately again?

Lu Sheng knew the entire Battle Through the Heavens by heart, so he naturally knew that the strongest part of the Three Thousand Thunder Illusionary Body was not its movement technique, but the thunder clones that appeared after it was fully mastered.

The main body is immortal, and the clones are indestructible.

Even if you're annoying, you can annoy your opponent to death.

However, the unlocking condition for the Thunder Illusion Body is to first cultivate to the Three Thousand Thunder Movements.

In other words, the third life increases strength, and the fourth life supplements the mechanism.

As expected of Thor's Unthinkable Strike, used to slay the Demon God, it contained such abundant lightning elemental power.

The power of a demon god is terrifying!

Seeing Rikuo put his hand into the lightning water, and the entire seawater visibly returning to its original color, the Divine Child's two slender fox eyes widened instantly.

"What did you do?!"

"Protect the environment."

The divine child was speechless for a moment.

Swish!

Suddenly, Lu Sheng flashed to the other side, leaving only a lightning afterimage in his original position.

Wow! How did you do that?

Lu Sheng nodded in satisfaction. With such agility, he would no longer be afraid of being shot in the back.

I can dodge even bullets.

"Want to learn? I'll teach you."

"Hmph! It's just that I jumped a little further. Do you think I couldn't do that?"

As he spoke, the divine child took a few steps back, kicked his hind legs, and prepared to sprint.

call out!

Her body traced a graceful arc in the air before plunging into the water with a splash.

Lu Sheng quickly pulled the struggling divine child up, saying, "That's not how you jump. If it were thunder and water down there, you would be dead."

The divine child shook himself, splashing water all over him, and stubbornly said, "I just wanted to go into the water to find the Killing Stone."

“Who would go down to look for it themselves? You said it yourself that there would be a monster guarding it. Since it would hide things underwater, it must be an aquatic monster. Going down rashly would only result in being killed.”

As he spoke, Lu Sheng calmly sat down by the water and began playing with the mud.

"Hey, I'm telling you, this isn't the time to be childish. Even if you can't think of a good idea, you don't have to play in the mud here, do you?"

While they were talking, Lu Sheng had already used his Golden Creation Technique to create a mud fish.

"No rush, let it probe the situation first."

He put the fish into the water, and the fish quickly wagged its tail and dived down. After a while, bubbles rose from the surface, and then the mudfish turned into a puddle of mud and floated to the surface.

"Mud really isn't working..."

He picked up some stones, smashed them into powder, and shaped them into a stone turtle.