Cross through Teyvat, and you'll become stronger by taking the hits!

"Ahem, this is all to keep your brother here. Look at him, he ignores everyone except you."

Lu Li coughed awkwardly, then pointed to Kong, whom he was carrying on his shoulder, and explained confidently, poking Kong's face with his finger as he spoke.

Regardless, the villain is also one of the main characters, and he's quite handsome. No wonder he can attract so many girls when he's the main character, just like Ying.

"Huh? If that's the case, then the traveler should thank you, right?"

Paimon let out a small gasp upon hearing this.

"..."

"I don't mind, traveler. Although I sacrificed a boy's precious chastity to save your brother, you don't need to thank me too much. Please don't try to force me to give you tens of millions of Mora as a thank-you fee or anything like that..."

While Ying remained silent, Lu Li suddenly realized something, then deliberately spoke with an honest expression.

"Get lost... I don't have that much Mora, and is my innocence worthless? What if my brother really misunderstood?"

Ying was initially unsure how to react, but her fists hardened immediately upon hearing Lu Li's words.

"There's nothing we can do about it, at least your brother's here now, isn't he?"

Lu Li carefully moved a little further away to avoid Ying Zhen's punch.

"That makes sense. Lu Li always likes to shout things like that to deliberately provoke others, like the time with Tvalin and the time with Oser."

Paimon could understand Lu Li's actions, since she herself had participated in such activities.

"Don't talk nonsense. It was Paimon who shouted that time with Osel."

Lu Li immediately shook his head in denial.

Osel was the one who got scammed the worst, and he didn't want to be the bad guy.

"Wow, you're just a fool! You've been completely fooled by your sect...!"

Paimon stomped his foot angrily in the air.

I thought I could be a great hero, but it turns out that it's quite different from what I imagined.

"...Alright, we can see the teleportation anchor point ahead. Let's hurry over there."

Ying looked at the empty space on Lu Li's shoulder and reluctantly forgave him.

After glancing at the teleportation anchor point not far ahead, Lu Li quickened his pace.

hum-

Just as they were about to reach the teleportation anchor point, a portal resembling a starry sky suddenly appeared, and a fire-attribute Abyss Singer slowly floated out from it.

"Release my prince..."

"Weaklings, begone!"

Just as the other party was about to say something, Lu Li raised his hand and unleashed a dark shockwave, sending it flying back into the portal.

"Hey, how come you're even less civilized than me!"

Peeking out of the portal again, the Abyss Singer discovered that Lu Li and Ying had bypassed the portal and were about to reach the teleportation anchor point.

The Abyss Order's intelligence network naturally knew that Ying could use teleportation anchors; if His Highness had been taken away by them, finding him would be difficult...

"A fervent proverb!"

The next moment, several small red magic circles appeared on the ground as Lu Li moved forward, spewing flames from them. Then, flames rose in front of the teleportation anchor point, separating it from the teleportation anchor point.

"Travelers, you go first, then."

After dodging the flames spewing from the ground, Lu Li simply handed the empty bag on his shoulder to Ying.

"A complete reversal of polarity!"

Before Ying could say anything, Lu Li paused for a moment, then instantly retreated back to the point where he had just bypassed the abyss portal. At the same time, he used elemental power to condense a shield in his hand, and a Chigu sword was controlled by the art of manipulating objects and flew in mid-air.

"Um?"

The Abyss Singer was clearly unaware that Lu Li had suddenly turned around and approached it, but since it was not near Lu Li's landing point, it was not hit by the impact of the spacetime rupture.

"You can't handle a group, but do you think I'm afraid of one? I'll act in the name of protection!"

Lu Li leaped up, swung the thick ice shield in his hand, and slammed it down towards the Abyss Singer.

On the other side, Ying, along with Paimon and her brother, touched the teleportation anchor point and instantly disappeared from the spot.

When it reappeared, it was already in front of the teleportation anchor point for Tiger Rock in Liyue Harbor.

"..."

"Don't move!"

As Ying landed, two Thousand Rock soldiers patrolling nearby paused for a moment, then took a closer look at the empty space bound to Ying's hands, and immediately raised their weapons and surrounded her.

……

After Ying left, Lu Li fought fiercely with the Abyss Singer for more than ten rounds. During this time, several Abyss Apostles arrived to attack, but Lu Li defeated them one by one and sent them back to the ley lines.

Oh no, the monsters of the Abyss Order are all transformed from the remnants of Kanria, and they can't even return to the ley lines.

Although the Abyss Singer who started out secretly hid in the back, he was eventually knocked to the ground by Lu Li's ice shield.

"Stop! Stop! I'm going to die if you keep hitting me!"

Seeing Lu Li approaching again with his ice shield, the Abyss Singer, fearing he might suffer the same fate as the others, hurriedly raised his hands and begged for mercy.

"What's wrong with this person?! It's one thing to be immune to fire, but how come they're not even afraid of the power of the abyss?! You have almost more abyssal energy than me!"

The Abyss Singer thought anxiously.

However, what Lu Li heard at this moment...

"Why are humans and dragons the only ones we can't kill and eat?!"

Upon hearing this voice, Lu Li's eyes flashed red, and the ice shield in his hand gradually twisted under the influence of ice elemental power, as if it were being crushed bit by bit by an invisible giant hand.

"Hey! I've already begged for mercy, but why do you look like you want to hit me even more...!"

Noticing Lu Li's reaction, and unaware that he was affected by the power of the abyss, the Abyss Singer retreated a distance on the ground in a panic before getting up.

However, his words were distorted by the power of the abyss in Lu Li's ears, becoming...

"Heh, you probably don't know this, but before Columbia's body was dumped in Nordkal, she kept calling your name. Even in her dying moments, she thought you would come to save her..."

boom--

The next moment, the ice shield in Lu Li's hand was crushed by ice elemental force, and countless ice shards were scattered around.

Ice elemental power climbed up Lu Li's body, forming an armor-like garment. His hair was also completely transformed into white by the frost, even turning into long hair that fluttered in the wind.

A crack appeared on the surface of the ice-attribute evil eye that was attached to the Glass God Eye, and pitch-black, extremely cold power surged out like water bursting its banks.

Lu Li gripped the Chigu Sword that flew back to his side with one hand. The pitch-black ice spread wildly along the sword, instantly transforming into a giant ice blade pointing straight to the sky, exuding a terrifying aura.

It is at least a hundred meters long.

"Wait, wait! Don't come any closer—!"

The Abyss Singer looked at the human before him, whose aura was even more terrifying than that of an abyss monster and whose eyes faintly revealed madness. His face beneath the mask turned almost green.

It swore to the abyss that it had just begged for mercy in the most cowardly tone imaginable! What's wrong with this person?!

"..."

"Shut up!"

Hearing those vicious words again, Lu Li, his eyes bloodshot, gripped the sword hilt tightly and swung the black ice blade down.

All the ice elemental power extracted from the Evil Eye transformed into a devastating sword beam, instantly cleaving the earth in front of it.

Wherever the sword's edge passed, even the Azure River was cleaved in two.

In the middle of the cut-open river channel, deep black ice freezes from the water's surface to the bottom of the riverbed, forcefully blocking the surging river water and turning it into an impassable black ice wall.

Such sword marks spread directly to the bamboo forest of Qingce Village on the opposite bank of the Biyue River.

A wild boar that was foraging near the teleportation anchor point was cleaved in two by a single sword strike. Before it could even scream, it was reduced to two flat ice sculptures.

……