Didn't you go to Teyvat to earn money to support me?

He had completely given up hope of defeating Shen Liang; all he wanted now was to escape as quickly as possible!

Even though he already had a full understanding of the boy's strength, he still underestimated Shen Liang. Especially when a huge firearm with four rotating barrels emerged from the boy's light screen and launched a barrage of fire at a rate of over three thousand rounds per minute on the arena, he completely lost his will to fight.

The massive arena was shattered by his relentless barrage of firearms, making escape extremely difficult. Whenever he attempted to retreat, teleportation screens that flashed within a kilometer radius would intercept the scorching muzzles of his guns at close range, the dazzling muzzle flashes reflecting off the young master's scarred face.

His left arm was shattered.

The right arm was pierced.

Three hits caused massive bleeding.

There was nothing that could be done about the wounds on his body caused by the splashes.

This is a decisive battle between Teyvats and Earthlings, where the overwhelming advantage of "external objects" is displayed before this backward world.

Finally, even the Evil Eye stopped providing him with power. The young master's orange hair had turned yellow and withered. If he continued to use the Evil Eye, the only option left was to self-destruct it, but that would most likely not be enough to defeat Shen Liang, and there was no possibility of them dying together.

In his frantic escape, Shen Liang finally seized an opportunity, wielding a broken katana. The young master gritted his teeth to avoid screaming, but he still fell to the ground, no longer able to resist.

"You really want to kill me!" the young master roared madly, his face contorted with rage amidst the lightning. "What right do you have to kill me! We have no grudge against each other! If you kill me, you will be making an enemy of the entire Fools, and an enemy of the Queen! What are you thinking!"

“So a bad job is a bad job. In the end, it always exposes its ugliness.” Shen Liang said as he shook the blood off his katana and walked over slowly.

In fact, the young master has already suffered enough torture. Shen Liang is not a bloodthirsty person in the true sense. He does not want to continue torturing someone whose limbs are broken and whose body is covered in wounds.

Rather than letting him continue to be tormented by fear and resentment, it would be better to let him end his life now without pain.

Go to hell and repent for your sins.

Shen Liang calmly raised the knife.

……

Just then, Shen Liang suddenly felt the rainwater harden.

—No, that's not right! How could rainwater harden?

He then felt a sharp pain as several cuts appeared on his body.

Before he could even look up, he felt the sky suddenly darken. He almost instantly pulled open the teleportation screen to dodge, and then, right where he had been, a huge iceberg weighing tens or even hundreds of tons crashed to the ground!

Shen Liang looked up abruptly and saw a mature, tall blonde woman standing in mid-air. She had a slender waist and high breasts, and wore a black and white trailing dress. Her jade-like hand, hidden in a velvet glove, held an illusory thread that suspended a huge block of ice.

Beside her, a young, wandering man wearing a large straw hat coldly looked down at Shen Liang.

"You actually held back, Eighth Seat. You seem to have quite a relationship with that otherworldly person," the wanderer said coldly.

"Watch your tone," the woman said coldly. "Soldier, if you dare to call me that again, I won't hesitate to take care of you right now."

The vagrant known as "Scattered Soldier" snorted.

Shen Liang also noticed the two Fools' Enforcers hovering in the air. The beautiful woman was an old acquaintance, "Lady," and the other should be the so-called "Scattered Soldier."

But Shen Liang had no intention of getting close to the woman he had just met. He summoned his GSGH-7.62 Gatling gun again and looked at her coldly.

The woman's pretty face paled slightly, and she visibly took a step back. The skirmisher, on the other hand, seemed not to quite understand what a Gatling gun was and frowned.

"Rosalyn, you want to be my enemy?" Shen Liang's face was expressionless, and her tone was calm. "Although I don't particularly want to deal with pretty women, it doesn't mean I have any patience for those who stand against me. Besides, you still need my help, don't forget."

The woman gritted her teeth and said in a low voice, "We were friends after all. For my sake, let's let this matter drop for now. Consider it a favor I owe you."

"You think you can exchange your favor for the life of an Executor of the Fools?" Shen Liang sneered. "That's far from enough."

The woman sighed.

Then she suddenly broke apart the ice layer, and the rain curtain instantly turned into falling ice blades. The ice blades fell vertically, leaving Shen Liang almost no room to dodge!

Faced with this wide-ranging attack, Shen Liang quickly entered the light barrier, but the moment he entered, he realized he had made a mistake and hurriedly rushed out again.

But it was too late. As soon as he came out of the light screen, he saw that the lady and the skirmishers had arrived at the spot where the young master was lying, and a portal that tore through space had already opened behind them.

Shen Liang was taken aback.

—Do the Fools possess teleportation technology?

Before stepping into the portal, the woman turned to look at Shen Liang. Knowing he couldn't stop her, Shen Liang stopped and stared at her, saying, "Remember this."

The woman's body trembled slightly, but she left immediately.

Not knowing where the other end of the teleportation portal was, Shen Liang had no chance of catching up. He had simply mastered the art of manipulating the teleportation screen, which did not mean he understood any spatial abilities.

He stood in the rain, calming himself down for a while, before he saw Yae no Miko's figure flash like lightning to the Sakura Dojo. Then she stroked her chin, looking thoughtfully at the arena and audience seats that had been bombed to the point of near total destruction.

Then she said knowingly, "Young Master didn't kill him?"

How did you know I was going to kill him?

"Your world must be so beautiful, so beautiful that you can't even stand to see something like this," Yae no Miko said calmly. "I can tell you want to kill someone just by looking at your eyes."

"Let him run away."

"What's a small matter for you is a big one for me." Yae no Miko patted Shen Liang's face and smiled helplessly. "The Heart of God that Ying entrusted to me has indeed been stolen. Tsk, with me not in the shrine, the shrine's restrictions are practically useless against the scattered soldiers... Oh, you've seen the scattered soldiers, haven't you?"

"That Kabuki-zhe?" Shen Liang nodded, then suddenly said, "But your Narukami Taisha doesn't even have this much security? What is the Heart of God? It sounds very important, but you can just let someone take it away when you're not around? Is your position as priest really that lax?"

Yae no Miko looked at him, and he looked at the fox.

"Tsk." The fox clicked its tongue. "As expected, you saw right through me. Why don't you just be a cute little wolfhound who pleases women? I hate talking to smart people."

“Young Master is a member of the Fools, you all know that. I don’t believe that your Inazuma clan has been infiltrated to the point that you don’t even know how many executors have arrived… Or even if the Shogunate is corrupt, you are the Eightfold Divine Child, a dignified fox spirit, how could you not know?” Shen Liang sneered, “That so-called Heart of God, it’s fake, right?”

"No, it's true." The fox smiled slightly and tapped his nose. "Didn't expect that, did you?"

Shen Liang was taken aback.

Was the Fools' elaborate scheme to lure the tiger away from the mountain and seize the Heart of God... real?

"Why?" Shen Liang asked, puzzled.

"Guess?" Yae no Miko avoided answering, changing the subject. "The wildfire is out. Ah, actually, I mainly went to put out the wildfire; I haven't even gone back to the shrine yet. Those Fools are really something. Stealing the Heart of God is one thing, but setting a fire on top of that is quite another. The losses are huge. General Kujo was furious when he saw the fire and arrested all the Fools who started it, throwing them into the Heavenly Prison. It looks like no one will bail them out. Tsk, poor thing."

Shen Liang looked around, "What about the upcoming uprising of a hundred men?"

"What else can we do? The Northern Country team is completely gone, and the top general of the Hiiragi family's Tamagotsu team is dead. Only the two of you teams are left. What's the point of further selection? Let's just go straight to the finals."

"I heard the finals are at the castle tower? General Raiden is going to personally present the Jade Dragon Flag to the winner?"

Yae no Miko was lazily resting on his back when she heard this and suddenly paused for a moment, thinking of the scene of Thor and Shen Liang meeting again.

"Can you please stop bullying my god?"

"I don't know what you mean, Lord Kyoji. I was merely invited by the Kamisato family to participate in the Hyakunin Iskkuri. According to the competition rules, I am entitled to receive the Jade Dragon Banner and become this year's..."

"Seriously, can you please stop bullying my god?"

What kind of weird picture is this?

Chapter 248 She came to see you without her boyfriend's knowledge...

On an overseas island far from Narukami Island, a portal made by the technology of the Winter Kingdom opened, revealing the figures of three Fatui executives.

"Hiss..." The young master gasped, supporting his severed arm with one hand, and collapsed onto the beach, utterly exhausted. He then looked at the lady and said with a wry smile, "It's really embarrassing to let you see me in such a weak state."

"Shut up!" The woman disgustedly shook her cloak, using her elemental power to erase the bloodstains from the young master. "What a piece of trash!"

The young master smiled wryly: "It can't be that bad. Although I lost, that was the executioner Shen Liang, an otherworldly being whose strength is completely immeasurable. As for trash... you guys probably wouldn't be much better than me."

The Fools' executives are not entirely colleagues; in fact, most of them prefer to work alone and there is no such thing as a good relationship between them.

If it weren't for the fact that the skirmisher and the lady were nearby, and that he was also part of the skirmisher's plan, he would never have had any other executives come to his rescue.

"Take the insult of being called trash. If I were in your position, I wouldn't have angered him at all, nor would I have fought him," the woman said coldly. "Because of your foolish thoughts, you almost ruined the Queen's grand plan. You're more trouble than you're worth!"

The skirmisher retracted the portal and stared at the woman for a while. The aloof female executive officer felt a little uncomfortable under his gaze and frowned: "What are you looking at? Are you trying to provoke me?"

"Hmph, indeed. If you were in the eleventh seat, you certainly wouldn't have offended him." The soldier said sarcastically, "Who knows what kind of agreement you made with Shen Liang in private? You stopped when you ambushed him before, and he treats you completely differently than he treats us. In fact, quite a few people in the Fools have a past with him... Eighth seat, you got along very well with Inazuma during your time here."

"Heh, you suspect me of having an affair with someone from another world?" The woman's beautiful, icy blue eyes narrowed slightly. "Fine, I really will have an affair with Shen. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to act on the Empress's will and teach me a lesson?"

"How could that be? How dare I interfere with your actions?" The soldier shrugged and chuckled. "No one says that a Flame Witch who has lived for hundreds of years can't enjoy the company of a young and handsome boy. I heard that he has inherited the Sea Moon Transformation technique from the Coral Palace. Heh... no wonder. That way you can find him to soothe your centuries-old flames with your body."

The woman was furious, and a chill emanated from her black stiletto heels, freezing the ground in all directions. "You're asking for it!"

"Did I hit the nail on the head?" The evil eye on the skirmisher's body also flickered.

The two were on the verge of exploding, and the young master could only helplessly interject, "I'm saying, no matter how much we executives don't get along, can we please stop fighting amongst ourselves at such a crucial moment? That guy's actions were really domineering; if the wounded here are left to linger any longer, they'll really die."

“Alright, madam, I apologize.” The soldier sneered, then took a step back and tossed a medicine bottle from his bag, which the young master caught with his right hand.

"The 'Doctor's' newly developed rapid repair drug has already been tested on humans. The side effects are extremely damaging to the body and will inevitably shorten lifespan. But as you can imagine, it's basically no problem for someone like you who can even tolerate the side effects of the Evil Eye," the soldier said. "Just apply it to the wound, and we'll give you a new arm. We still have plenty in stock."

"But no matter how I look at it, it's not as useful as my own arm." The young master stopped the bleeding, sighed, and a mysterious intention flickered in his eyes. "It's really a good testing ground. I've taken a liking to it. Please, neither of you, try to take it from me."

"You still want to deal with Shen?" the woman frowned.

"I was too arrogant this time. Next time we meet, I will show him the full power of the Demon King and the fully blooming Evil Eye."

"Don't drag others down with you if you're looking to die," the stragglers mocked.

The lady frowned deeply; the young man's words made her show even more obvious disgust. She then looked away, not wanting others to see her expression at that moment.

Neither the young master nor the scattered soldiers noticed the brief change in her expression.

“But since you already need to recuperate, it seems that the work in Liyue will have to be changed.” The skirmisher turned around and looked at Narukami Island in the distance. “With the Inazuma matter settled, the next targets will inevitably be Liyue and Mondstadt, but the other executives all have important matters to attend to.”

“My problem.” The young master struggled to his feet. “There’s no need to change people. The Liyue diplomatic project needs to be delayed for a while. I’ll probably need six months to a year.”