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

Just before the tornado reached Shen Liang, who was closing his eyes and waiting to die, someone roared and charged out!

The Yaksha's supernatural power, "Two Wind Wheels Stand Alone!" The Yaksha clan's free and swift technique, described in scriptures, allows a single step to cover 330,000 li (approximately 155,000 kilometers) with a single wind wheel, encompassing the Three Realms and Nine Provinces. And this incoming red light, carrying an intense heat, is like the furthest reaches of the Fire Rat Marsh in the south, and the entire Gathering of the Candle Dragon in the north!

"Get—out—of—me!"

The roar was as loud as thunder!

Haltafu didn't stop. At this moment, he had an absolute advantage. No matter who came, he would use the iron torrent to shred them and burn them to charcoal along with Shen Liang! As the flames approached, the earth was burned black, and the rocks blocking the way were smashed and melted. Haltafu gritted his teeth and made the Golden King Beast continue to breathe. Then he saw the furious woman.

The Fire Yaksha, Yingda, is the most destructive of the five Yakshas! In terms of pure combat power, she is not as good as Fushe, and may even be inferior to Xiao, but she is the best at destructive power when it comes to competing with such a giant beast!

She revealed her wrathful form! The raging flames outside her body formed the ethereal image of the fire rat, and the intense red flames revealed her impatience and rage!

"Di-E-Yu-"

Yingda roared like a madman, slamming his fist into the ground! Then, an indestructible jade rose from the earth, naturally detaching into a hundred-meter-tall tide-swallowing whale! That was a feat only the Rock King Emperor could create; on this battlefield, there was actually such a contingency plan!

The Di'e Fish, surrounded by the raging flames and iron tornadoes of the Yaksha, charged head-on! The power of the two colossal beasts, each over a hundred meters tall, clashed and pressed against each other, and then a long spear flew in from the sky and planted itself on the ground, accompanied by the clear and resounding shout of Fa Nan!

"Wake up, Pu Yuan!"

Adorned with jade, it rises ten thousand feet high!

A colossal jade eagle, equally imposing, spread its wings from the mountain rocks, shattering all the mountains and rivers, and soared into the deep sky. It was the second colossal beast created by the Rock King Emperor, crafted from the most precious "He Shi Bi" jade. It had been sealed here since the end of the Demon God War a thousand years ago—for far too long, so long that countless people had forgotten that when facing a colossal beast, one should treat it with the utmost respect!

The Di'e Fish and the Hepu Kite, one tall and one short, blocked the iron torrent with their massive bodies. How could iron be as hard as jade? The iron torrent was blocked head-on, and then the two giant beasts pounced on the Golden King Beast. They had no other methods but pure strength!

Chapter 108. Died while crossing the river, what can be done about it?

My life wasn't meant to end! My life wasn't meant to end!

Shen Liang stood in the center of the battlefield and laughed out loud.

At that moment, among the reinforcements from the enemy forces, the flag bearer Shi Mobing spotted the figure of the boy laughing loudly at the forefront of the position. He quickly nudged his friend Lin Dong beside him, "Look! Everyone has fled, but His Highness is still here!"

Lin Dong frowned, looked over, and then exclaimed in shock: "Holy crap, really? No way, that little princess fought to the last one?"

This immediately drew the attention of their entire formation, and soon the troops from the Battle of Nan noticed the tiny figure in the center of the battlefield. They had known that the Beast King had appeared when they came to provide support, and due to the lack of a personal guard commander, the morale of Shen Liang's side quickly collapsed, with large numbers retreating or fleeing.

They assumed Shen Liang would be the first to leave, and that they couldn't force a foreigner to do everything for them, but they never expected... never expected it.

The arrival of reinforcements naturally restored some courage to the deserters. Shen Liang turned to look at the regrouping troops, his voice echoing across the battlefield through the intense heat of battle: "Brothers! If the enemy reaches me, I will accept my fate! No one will die alone today. If we lose this battle, a god will be buried with you! I have proven this! We will never retreat!"

Shi Mobing and Lin Dong exchanged a glance, then shouted like the other soldiers and charged towards the ferocious beasts opposite them!

The different units in the Layered Rock Abyss didn't actually have much contact with each other, and they hadn't established any close relationship with Shen Liang like the higher-ups did. They didn't even know whether that prince was the crown prince or a princess. But at this moment, at least all the Thousand Rock Army, regardless of whose unit they were—Fanan or the Liyue Seven Stars—felt that he was a good leader.

Fighting side by side and dying together is the standard behavior of a good leader.

This alone was enough to inspire everyone on the battlefield. In addition, no man could tolerate a beautiful woman in white being more valiant than them, so their fighting spirit was even stronger.

In fact, warriors in the midst of bloody battles are all quite understandable. They crumble when faced with monsters they cannot defeat, and if even one person flees, it triggers a chain reaction that causes a massive drop in morale. But equally, if a leader displays admirable qualities, the warriors will follow, and they will also refuse to give up.

Fear and courage are both contagious.

At this moment, Yingda, covered in wounds, was finally helped down to Shen Liang by her younger sister. Shen Liang glanced at her, and without hesitation, reached out and pressed her forehead, intending to heal her.

But Yingda immediately stopped his hand and shook his head, "No need, Liang'er, your body can't take it anymore. If you treat others again, you might not even be able to maintain your current rationality. Once you fully enter the backlash period, none of us will be able to help you alleviate it, and you might die."

"You won't die, at most you'll be burned into mental retardation." Shen Liang smiled.

“But there’s no need to sacrifice too much for someone like me who is about to die,” Yingda said.

Shen Liang was taken aback.

But the next second he suddenly understood, because a shocking and terrifying scene appeared.

Having been restrained for so long, the Golden King Beast finally displayed its nature as the most brutal creation of the chief alchemist of Kanria. It flew into the sky, away from the Die Fish and the Pu Yuan, and then ignored the attacks of the two giant beasts. It began to circle in the air, drawing power from the earth's rocks and mineral veins!

It was originally a ferocious beast capable of tearing through space and devouring worlds—this was its innate divine power! All attacks against it were absorbed, and then it released the absorbed power back into its body, compressing it into an extremely powerful rock armor covering its wolf body! It was rock compressed by space, harder than jade! It slowly raised its wolf head, seemingly ignoring all attacks, and then charged towards the two giant beasts!

"boom!"

The roar of mountains colliding!

The Golden King Beast smashed the giant whale and the eagle! Two divinely created behemoths were utterly destroyed by a man-made behemoth! Then, the Golden King Beast glared ferociously at the battlefield and strolled leisurely toward Shen Liang and the others.

The beast tide roared with deafening battle cries, their wild joy, fury, and chaos fueling their equally swift and ferocious attack!

The situation reversed in an instant; in the face of an absolute power disparity, morale was meaningless.

"So, don't worry too much about the dying. Preserve your strength. After all, only you can deal with those bastards from Kanria." Yingda smiled mischievously. In the instant Shen Liang's expression changed, she released Shen Liang's hand and handed it to Fanan, then stepped back.

Shen Liang stared blankly at the white jade fragment in her palm.

He wasn't unaware of the fierceness in Yingda's words; rather, he was simply unable to react. The moment he obtained the white jade fragment, his consciousness was completely absorbed.

He saw a thousand years of history from long, long ago, from beyond the Milky Way, beyond time, when he was still an infant, thrown into this continent during a landing module.

In an instant, millions of images recorded by the landing module flooded into my mind.

Six thousand seven hundred years ago, the landing module docked in the stratosphere.

—At that time, three moons fell upside down, the sky collapsed, and the earth cracked. The landing pod escaped the world's calamity and made an alliance with the Second Throne. The Second Throne provided the landing pod with resources for survival, and the landing pod did not participate in the struggle for the Second Throne.

—Three thousand five hundred years ago, the landing module lost the second throne supply and could not provide Shen Liang with the resources to sustain life.

After repeated inquiries to the Second Throne went unanswered, the landing module prepared for landing and was lowered into the Earth's crust.

—Three thousand four hundred years ago, the landing module crashed on the continent of Teyvat. Resource gathering robots were dispatched to resupply the landing module and sustain Shen Liang in his infancy.

—The landing pod fell like a star crashing to earth, turning the wasteland into a colossal abyss. The Teyvat natives revered the landing pod, mistakenly believing its pristine appearance to be a piece of unparalleled jade. They built a city around the abyss, naming it "Fallen Jade City."

—Afterwards, the war between demons and gods broke out, and the landing pod carried Shen Liang away to avoid the war.

—When people saw the beautiful jade ascend to the sky, they all sighed in regret. The Rock King Emperor renamed the Fallen Jade City to "Escape Jade Mausoleum", meaning "the place where the beautiful jade escaped".

Then came the story that Shen Liang himself had heard: he was taken to Inazuma by the landing pod, where he was discovered by the Inazuma God Raiden Shin and treated as his own son. The landing pod was then destroyed and returned to the sky.

but--

Shen Liang held the white jade fragment in his hand. He knew what it was: a Heavenly Nail from the Heavenly Principles! This Heavenly Nail contained his experiences from thousands of years on the Teyvat continent!

He even remembered the name of the landing pod: the Moth of Fire A-303 Millennium Life Support Pod! He even glimpsed a glimpse of the holy woman who had entrusted him as an infant to Raiden, that beautiful and sorrowful nun gazing at him across thousands of years, tears streaming down her face, and gently opening her mouth.

“My…Eve…”

Little by little, bit by bit! His memories began to resurface—the things he should remember, the things he couldn't recall; the things he should keep, the things he couldn't hold onto. No wonder Yingda gave him this; anyone who touched this fragment would be drawn to him by the endless subconscious within it, knowing it was his memory!

This Heavenly Nail Fragment is someone's backup plan. It doesn't matter if Shen Liang never remembers who he is. There will always be something on the Teyvat continent that can remind him, in various places!

But who left this backup plan?

“Apo...Nia?” Shen Liang covered his forehead, his mind a complete blank.

"You remembered? What did you remember?" When he said those four words, Mistelin could no longer remain calm. Even when Shen Liang faced a life-or-death crisis, she could not remain calm at this moment. She was not afraid of Shen Liang dying. At worst, she could stay with Shen Liang for thousands of years, which suited her perfectly.

But if Shen Liang remembers, then she cannot delay any longer. She must... pave the way for Shen Liang's awakening. In any case, she must be the guide for Shen Liang to return from "Thunder and Lightning Liang" to "Shen Liang"! Before this goal, she absolutely cannot have any personal desires!

Even if... even if Shen Liang might abandon her.

"Mother Aponia? No, no... She never even truly arrived on this planet... The timeline has been altered? No, that's not it either... Who else... The timelines of the two worlds are inconsistent. If one arrives in Teyvat from Earth, then both time expansion and compression are understandable... Can anyone from the current Earth civilization touch the Teyvat continent? Only me... Who else besides me can cross the 'Tree of Imaginary Numbers'..."

Shen Liang racked his brains, hoping to recall more things, things about Earth, things about the pre-civilization... He tried his best to remember.

What's the backup plan? What's the backup plan?

He can save Teyvat. The reason he dared to come to the Teyvat continent must be because he has a backup plan! Gradually, Shen Liang remembered that the reason Raiden Shin let him leave Inazuma was because Raiden Shin also believed that he would find his backup plan sooner or later.

He comes from the future, and in his future, Inazuma Liyue is still alive! Kanria has been destroyed; Kanria is the real loser!

Shen Liang gradually realized many things, such as why Lei Dianzhen knew telegraph technology, because it was something his future self had inadvertently conveyed to Lei Dianzhen; why Lei Dianzhen loved him unconditionally, because she had seen him countless times in her dreams; and why Lei Dianzhen treated him as her own son, because she had long known that Shen Liang was her destined child.

No wonder Shen Liang always felt that his gentle and beautiful mother's gaze was a little strange, always carrying a hint of mockery. She knew very well that Shen Liang was a visitor from the future. The cherry tree that Raiden Shin casually planted five hundred years ago would become the tree trunk road where Shen Liang carried Yoomiya Ayaka to participate in the Hundred-Man Uprising. Perhaps in Raiden Shin's eyes, his son wasn't some innocent and adorable child at all; he would be surrounded by beauties in the future, with social officials, young ladies, fireworks shop owners, and even the last descendant of the Tengu clan—all potential daughters-in-law.

Thinking about it this way, she had long anticipated Shen Liang's character, which is why she was so wary of her close friends? She knew that her philandering son was absolutely unable to resist girls throwing themselves at him.

And it was precisely because Raiden had seen the future in his dream.

Therefore, Lightning is not wrong. This war is bound to end in victory. The Abyss of Laminaria will not be swallowed by the beast tide, as long as he finds the key to victory.

"The key! Ahhhhhh!" Shen Liang was in excruciating pain all over his body. The intense thinking accelerated the backlash and torment of his body. He had to rest for a while and then he looked up. Then, he saw a scene he didn't want to see at all.

The Fire Yaksha, Yingda, dragged his broken body and held a fragment of the Heavenly Nail in his hand, standing in front of the Golden King Beast.

She held off the Golden King Beasts alone for a long time, for these beast-like wolves feared the Heavenly Nail and the authority of Heavenly Law. But she couldn't hold them off for long; the alchemist Haltafu of Kanria still ordered the King Beasts to advance, so Yingda finally rose and soared into the sky.

She glanced at Shen Liang one last time, then turned away, her face contorted with a ferocious demonic mask.

Then, she put her fingers together and recited a divine incantation similar to the one she used when Fushe activated the restriction!

Shen Liang instantly understood what she was trying to do. If she couldn't defeat the Kanriyans either, then at least she could give Shen Liang time to figure out the "key"! Just like Fu She!

"Southern Fire Decree, commanded by the Six Ding. Nine Heavenly Warriors, a million elite soldiers. I, with righteousness, will annihilate evil and eliminate demons. Mountains will crumble, rivers will dry up. Gods will perish, ghosts will vanquish. The Emperor's decree, the righteous law has no favorites. Fire is urgent, exterminate all, demons must be subdued—" Yingda shouted decisively, his Yaksha form shattering in an instant. Terrifying fire elemental power, along with the life-risking seal, completely bound the Golden King Beast to the ground! Whips of raging fire pressed it forcefully into the earth!

"—Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!"

As the final incantation was completed, the Golden King Beast seemed to be subjected to a pressure of ten million tons in an instant, its body was slammed to the ground, and it could never get up again! The behemoth was like a dog that had been chained up, and it seemed as if there was some kind of suction force inside the Abyss of Layered Rocks, pulling it into the abyss.

This is the Yaksha clan's sealing spell, which seals an opponent they cannot defeat underground. However, the fighting power of Liyue's side is far greater than that of the Golden King Beast, which is a demon god-level monster, so she had already prepared to sacrifice herself.

Fanan silently watched the red robes being scattered by the flames, without stopping them. As their younger sister, she did not stop Yingda from going to find Fushe. And she did not stop Yingda when he resolved to die.

The Yaksha clan doesn't dwell on life and death or romantic entanglements. She is the smartest among the Yakshas, ​​so she knows that some things don't need to be said, and death is not worth talking about.

“You should not have crossed the river, yet you did, and you died while crossing. What can be done about it?” Fa Nan said softly.