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

"?"

Ying tilted her head.

I didn't even doubt whether this Columbia was a monster from the abyss, and you're doubting me!

"...!"

At this moment, the moon spirit that brought Ying here flew to Ying's front, seemingly expressing something.

"Nuonnota?"

"What are you doing here? Come over here and let me see!"

Upon seeing the Moon Spirit, Lu Li immediately waved to it.

He had visited Nordekare before, during the winter solstice, when this moon spirit suddenly appeared in front of Lu Li.

In the tradition of the Frostmoon Children, unlike ordinary moon spirits, only moon spirits born through the blessing of the moon god are called "Nu'onnota," and that is how it got its name.

Nuonuota obediently moved closer, and Lu Li reached out to touch it, but it dodged away immediately.

"...!"

It seemed to be trying to express something in the air, then flew behind Lu Li and nudged Colombia's shoulder.

"Hmm... okay, I understand, I'll talk to him."

Columbia looked at Nuonnotta and could only nod.

Lu Li and Ying both looked at Colombia with confusion, wanting to know what Nuonnota was trying to say.

"It's trying to tell Lu Li that you have to wake up."

"Nu'onota has always been protecting you inside your body, but if the power of the abyss is not eliminated, it will not be able to stay there safely indefinitely."

Colombia conveyed Nuonnotta's message and explained its situation.

That's why it suddenly emerged from Lu Li's body.

"what?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Li subconsciously touched his chest and abdomen with both hands.

He then looked at Nuonnotta, pondered for a moment, and decided: "In that case, you shall call me Mother from now on."

"?"

Nuonnotta tilted his head.

"...So what exactly is going on? Why is Lu Li here? Is this a dream? Are you really Columbia?"

Ying was speechless for a moment because of Lu Li's train of thought, and then couldn't help but ask the question that concerned her.

This courtyard, filled with moon-praying flowers, doesn't quite look like a scene from a dream; it's more like a reflection of reality.

"Hmm...it's probably because the moonlight connects us, day and night."

"Lu Li, Nuonuota is very worried about you, so please wake up soon. We'll see you next time."

Columbia put one hand on her chest as she spoke, then reminded Lu Li.

"Okay, then I'll be going."

Lu Li nodded, then got up and walked to Ying's side.

Although Ying didn't quite understand what was going on, bringing Lu Li back was more important right now.

"Lu Li, I'll be waiting for you in the Silver Moon Court."

Seeing that Lu Li and Ying were about to leave, Columbia couldn't help but call out.

"Yes, I'll come to Nodkare to find you once Nata's matter is resolved."

"When the time comes, I'll find a way to take you to the moon with me."

Lu Li nodded firmly.

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

Columbia responded softly.

As Lu Li and Ying walked away, Nuonnota followed them.

The Silver Moon Garden slowly disappeared...

"Well……"

Columbia woke up groggily in the moon rocking chair.

"...!"

Yue Ling, who was gently pushing the rocking chair for her, curiously came over.

I just dreamt about Lu Li...

Columbia rubbed her eyes in confusion.

"Do you want to know what we did in our dreams?"

"Hmm... I don't remember~"

……

"Traveler... Traveler... Wake up, traveler!"

"Hmm...?"

Ying, who was lying by the bed, was groggily woken up by someone.

Looking back, I realized it was Cetalli and Paimon.

"Lu Li...is Lu Li still not awake?"

Ying vaguely recalled the contents of her dream and immediately looked at the bed, only to find that Lu Li was still curled up.

She remembered following Lu Li to the exit of the Silver Moon Court, but just as she was about to run out, a huge black hole suddenly appeared beneath her feet, sucking the two of them in.

"No, he looks exactly the same as yesterday... Huh? He's awake!"

Paimon shrugged, but before he could finish speaking, Lu Li suddenly shook his wings, stretched out his curled-up body, and sat up from the bed.

"You're finally awake... Do you feel any discomfort anywhere? Should I go get the doctor to come and check you out?"

Seeing Lu Li wake up, Cetalli breathed a slight sigh of relief and asked him about it.

"..."

Lu Li opened his mouth, but a purplish-black glint appeared in his eyes, falling like tears.

The next moment, a dark purple aura shot into the sky, directly blowing off the ceiling of the room. The strong airflow caused Ying and Sitralli to retreat uncontrollably, and Paimon was even spun out of the door.

Fortunately, the figure outside the door grabbed her with one hand holding the starry sky cloak.

"Th-thank you... You scared me to death... What's wrong with Lu Li? Is this... the power of the Abyss?"

Paimon thanked Appepp for pulling him back, then hid behind Appepp, looking fearfully at the abyssal aura that was constantly surging out of the room like purple mist.

"It seems that, just as we feared, the absorption of a massive amount of abyssal power has affected his mind."

"If we don't find a way to wake him up, Nata's fate won't be much different from Kanria's."

Capitano also rushed over and solemnly reminded Mavica beside him.

"I understand, the abyss never disappears into thin air..."

"Your Excellency Appepp, please help us control Lu Li and feed him the medication for Abyss Erosion Syndrome again."

Mavica nodded seriously, then told Apep, who was standing next to her, about their plans.

"Um."

Although Apep looked down on demons and humans, she nodded for the sake of her Dragon King.

After confirming their target, the three of them rushed into the room without hesitation, braving the abyssal aura that was pouring outwards, and charged towards Lu Li, who was flying in mid-air.

"Entangled".

Apep raised his hand, and countless vines sprouted from the walls of the Olympic Arena, wrapping around Lu Li in an attempt to restrict his movements.

"Blue-silver entanglement..."

Lu Li murmured softly.

His gaze fell on Appepp, but what he saw was no longer Appepp, but a blue-haired boy with a twisted expression, shouting things like "Blue Silver Wrap," "Resurrect, my..." and "You are ready to die..."

"Damn it, monster!"

"You have already chosen your own path to death!"

"Blue-silver entanglement!"

Lu Li roared and raised his hand, swinging it forcefully.

The next moment, countless blue silver grasses transformed into vines that sprouted from all around the Holy Fire Arena, indiscriminately attacking and entangled anyone nearby.

Mavica and Capitano were also instantly entangled by the Blue Silver Grass.

[Successfully used Blue Silver Binding to bind and play with a group of Nata people and Nata dragons, skill upgraded!]

[Blue Silver Wrap: LVMAX (LV99)]

It can summon Blue Silver Grass at the Limit Douluo level to entangle all enemies. Whether it can control the opponent depends on the toughness of the Blue Silver Grass, which increases slightly with level.

Characteristic: The Path to Death

Targets controlled by Blue Silver Grass will suffer from "meme contamination" and will uncontrollably shout "You have a way to die" when angry.

Upgrade condition: This skill levels up each time you use it to perform bondage play with a different target.

In almost an instant, Lu Li had taken control of a large area.

The Blue Silver Grass, at the Limit Douluo level, immobilized everyone in the Holy Flame Arena.

However, without dodging, he was instantly entangled by the vines summoned by Apep, turning into a green cocoon with only his head showing.

"This is……?"

Mavica was surprised to find her body strangely entwined with blue silver grass, and then tried to ignite flames on herself.

"It's no use... My Blue Silver Grass, fire immune!"

As soon as Lu Li finished speaking, the blue silver grass wrapped around Mavica was burned to ashes.

"..."

Capitano, who was also under control, paused for a moment, then his body erupted with black ice, easily severing the surrounding blue silver grass and freeing Apep, Paimon, Luminous, and Sitale.

"It seems he's still somewhat clear-headed and isn't using his full strength against us; he's trying to finish this quickly."

Capitano quickly made this judgment and then continued to rush towards Lu Li, who was entangled by the vines summoned by Apep.

Seeing Capitano and Mavica approaching, Lu Li, who was controlled by the vines, used the dragon bone sword that appeared out of thin air to cut the vines, and flapped his wings to quickly take off and fly into the sky from the ceiling destroyed by the abyss aura.

It was early morning, and the sun was slowly rising on the eastern horizon.

But in Lu Li's eyes, it was a black sun.

Wherever the black light passed, the entire Nata was dyed a strange dark purple.

Looking around, the once familiar mountains, forests, and towns were now all shrouded in the shadow of the abyss.

The monsters ravaging the land, like monstrous creatures born from the darkness, densely covered the horizon.

"must……"

"I will annihilate you..."

Behind Lu Li, the pitch-black abyss flames burned wildly.

At this moment, Ying and the others also came out of the room and looked down from the highest point at Lu Li, who was suspended in the sky above the Sacred Flame Arena.

Then they saw Lu Li pull out a stone slab from somewhere.

"..."

The stone slabs look so familiar...

Ying felt that this stone slab looked familiar...

"?!"

"Wait...that's...quick, quick, cover your ears!"

A moment later, Ying finally recognized the stone slab.

But it was too late; Lu Li's voice echoed throughout the entire Sacred Flame Arena.

"In the year when doves carry branches, the eternal throne in the heavens will arrive, and the world will be renewed."

"Then the true king, the original one, began to wage war against the masters of the old world, the seven terrifying kings, who were dragons."

"The primordial being created its own luminous shadow. And the number of shadows is four..."

"..."

Upon hearing Lu Li's voice, Mavica and Capitano exchanged a glance.

They probably understood what Lu Li was reciting, but was it something that could be recited in public like this...?

Without hesitation, Mavica's hair was ignited by golden flames, and Capitano transformed into black ice, rushing towards Lu Li in the sky like two shooting stars.

At least shut him up...

……

After leaving the Silver Moon Court with Ying, Lu Li arrived in a pitch-black space.

And appearing in this space with him was Gustott, Gustott in an indescribable form.

Just as Lu Li was on guard, the black figure gradually gathered and transformed into a pitch-black person exactly like Lu Li, with wings on his back and four horns on his head.

"You even mimic me?"

Lu Li laughed in exasperation.

"Borrowing... the power of... the remnants... from infinity... a brief awakening..."

Just as Lu Li was about to use the principle of reversion to eliminate the mimicking monster in front of him, the dark figure suddenly spoke. Although the voice was intermittent, it carried an ancient and magnificent majesty that seemed to transcend time and space...

This surprised Lu Li. This didn't sound like something Gustott would say.

"I must warn... the substance that brought you into this world... my blood... my soul... has been tainted by shadows..."

"You... must never... directly confront the abyss..."

"Just as you...see...the womb...the artificial body..."

"Beneath a dazzling destiny... disaster will still... occur... in Nata..."

"Unbreakable...only the radiance of creation..."

The voice distorted as it spoke, eventually reverting to Gustot's form and occupying the very center of the dark space.

This pitch-black space symbolizes Lu Li's physical body.

……

On a clear day, the floating islands in the sky can be seen from any country in Teyvat.

If one were to observe closely, setting up a telescope would not reveal the scene inside Sky Island, but it would allow one to discover that around the floating island, a being called the Nails of Judgment quietly encircles Sky Island.

There are seven nails of judgment in total, forming a crown-like structure with seven gaps around the floating island.

However, to this day, six Sky Nails have been dropped, leaving only one last azure crystal nail quietly circling around Sky Island.

Now that the principles of justice have fallen into slumber, even the four shadows have no authority to control the fall of the nail of judgment. This is also why the last nail did not fall on Kanria five hundred years ago.

However, the Heavenly Principles had already set up many complex and precise triggering programs for the Sky Nail, including an abyss powerful enough to erode the world and a rebellion against Sky Island.

Today, the Sky Nail's program was sensed and scanned in the direction of Nata.

"Detection... Abyss Index is rising..."

"Detection... Target: Blackwing Dragon... Confirmed..."

"Detection..."

"Multiple conditions have been met..."

With a buzzing sound, the azure crystal nail slowly adjusted its position, aligning itself with the direction of the Holy Fire Arena.

Then, it descended in that direction at a steady pace, everything was so peaceful.

Above the Sacred Flame Arena, Lu Li, who had just finished reciting the poem about the past and future without incident, roared and his body suddenly swelled up rapidly.

With a flap of its jet-black wings, it sent Mavica and Capitano flying back as they charged forward.

When they steadied themselves and looked carefully at the sky, they saw a colossal black dragon that blotted out the sky, spreading its enormous wings like a canopy, casting its shadow over the entire Wanhuo Ou.

Under the majesty of the ancient world's ruler, the Nata people, who had just escaped the entanglement of the Blue Silver Grass, felt as if a boulder was pressing on their chests, making it almost impossible for them to breathe.

"That is... the legendary Primordial Dragon King..."

"The black dragon that descended upon Nata thousands of years ago... Nibelungen..."

Although the Nata people lived a very difficult life in Nata during that period, they still managed to survive, so some records of that great battle have been left behind.

Sitale had seen some of them in the scrolls of the Smoke Lord.

"Whoa... What, what is that?!"

Just as everyone was shocked or terrified by the colossal dragon that blotted out the sky above, Paimon suddenly cried out and pointed to the northeastern sky.

There, a celestial nail emitting a ghostly blue light was slowly descending towards the Sacred Flame Arena.

The jet-black dragon slowly raised its head, its dark pupils reflecting the image of the Heavenly Nail.

Under the light of the Heavenly Nail, the pitch-black color gradually faded, and the golden pupils regained their clarity.

……

P.S.: Actually, Nata originally wanted to write a rather long story, but since there's no Colombian storyline, I'm already speeding up the pace to get to Nordkare as quickly as possible.