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

"Holy crap! This ice looks so familiar!"

Lu Li stared in shock at the ice crystals floating in mid-air.

"Hmm? You can still touch it? But you can't get through?"

He subconsciously reached out and touched it, then was shocked to find that his soul form could not penetrate it.

So, Lu Li's entire soul lay down on it and stuck out his tongue to lick it.

"Why does it taste so salty... I thought it would smell like a pretty girl."

Lu Li withdrew his tongue in disappointment.

"Don't scare yourself..."

Seeing Lu Li's entire soul lying naked on the ice crystals, Nibelungen gave a silent reminder.

Although the fetus sleeping in the ice crystals has not yet awakened.

"Okay, but now here's the problem: we've traveled back to before I was born, but what's next?"

Lu Li nimbly climbed onto the ice crystal and stood up, turning back to look at Nibelungen with his arms crossed in confusion.

According to Nibelungen, there is a way to revive Lu Li, but in order to cleanse the abyss that makes up Lu Li's soul, it is necessary to come to the place where Lu Li was born.

"It's very simple: either reshape your soul, or heal the you before you were even born."

"Regarding the soul reconstruction plan, a technique can be used to mold your soul for rebirth in this place. I followed the instructions to complete the procedure, and I can recall this technique."

As Nibelungen spoke, the pure white space around them slowly changed, and many devices with numerous indicator lights, displaying various data and densely arranged operation buttons slowly emerged from their hiding places.

Almost instantly, this pure white space with a fantastical feel transformed into what resembled a mysterious scientific laboratory, with the enormous ice crystal in the very center preserved in a transparent cylindrical petri dish, isolated from the outside world.

"Reshaping the soul...is there any risk involved?"

The soul is a rather sensitive thing, and Lu Li couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"The theory won't be any worse than it is now, because your consciousness is independent, and the soul is just its vessel."

"Even if a devastating mistake causes your soul to shatter completely, you can simply find a new primordial soul as material to help rebuild it."

Nibelungen shook his head, then flew to the instrument that Lu Li couldn't understand and operated it a few times with his small dragon claws.

hum-

With a buzzing sound, the huge ice crystal slowly descended, leaving only an empty petri dish.

Following Nibelungen's instructions, Lu Li floated into the petri dish.

"Close your eyes, don't open them."

"After all, watching your own soul being dismantled and reconstructed will still cause psychological stress..."

Nibelungen gently comforted Lu Li.

Listening to its voice, Lu Li closed his eyes and calmed down.

"..."

"I'm sorry, child."

Lu Li, with his eyes closed, did not notice Nibelungen's sigh.

As Nibelungen manipulated those sophisticated instruments, Lu Li felt a sudden dizziness, and then he knew nothing more.

After Lu Li collapsed in the petri dish, Nibelungen slowly rose into the air, entered the petri dish, and transformed into a phantom dragon that embraced Lu Li's soul.

"A soul cleansed of impurities, if left unfilled, is empty and incomplete..."

"Children of the stars... I entrust my proud daughters, and all the lovely creatures of Teyvat, to you..."

The next moment, their souls slowly dissipated in the petri dish.

[Undergoing restructuring...]

……

The Moon Hunter was too powerful; even with the help of his servant Arecino and Lady Rosalind, along with Grand Master Falgar of the Knights of Favonius, they could not defeat him.

In order to uncover his secrets, Nefer, the owner of the Secret House, used a chess box given to her by the "King of the Go" to peek into the past of the Moon Hunter Rayleil. She also witnessed the story of Rayleil and Solindis, as well as his eventual division of the power of the Abyss and becoming one of the Five Sinners of Kanria.

However, her search for secrets alerted the Moon Hunter, who followed the "network cable" directly into the chess box, intending to eliminate Nefer and the Traveler.

Fortunately, at the last moment, Columbia and Dinnes Reeb came to their aid, allowing them to escape from the chessboard.

Before escaping, Nefer also did her best to use the power of the chess box to temporarily imprison the Moon Hunter inside.

However, the chess box could only imprison Rael for two days at most. During this time, they began to discuss how to defeat Rael.

Although the problem is urgent, at least I can get a good night's sleep tonight without worrying about the Wild Hunt suddenly coming to bang on the door...

That night, in the Silver Moon Garden.

"Traveler, is this really possible...?"

"Don't speak, close your eyes, and keep doing it."

"Hmm, but I didn't even open my eyes in the first place?"

On the meadow covered with moonflowers, guided by Ying, Columbia held the Entangled Bond in her hands and prayed fervently in her heart.

This is a very special ability; it involves consuming a certain medium to pray to the sky. Ying once used this ability to obtain some weapons that fell from the sky.

However, she personally preferred the bladeless sword, so she sold all those weapons at high prices.

Only when a sudden inspiration struck did Columbia raise her hands.

The next moment, the Entangled Bond in his hand trembled and soared into the sky.

"We've arrived... Let's connect our dreams!"

Ying gripped her hand tightly with excitement.

Although she had never personally tried to revive someone using the Entangled Bond, she had seen Lu Li do it.

Since Lu Li could use the three Entangled Bonds to revive Raiden and the others, there was no reason why she couldn't use them to revive Lu Li.

"Rise, my Lu Li..."

Columbia opened her eyes, gazing at the Entangled Bonds that flew up and shone with colorful light, and softly uttered lines from the story Lu Li had told her.

Then, the entangled bond crashed into the top of the cave, lost its light, and fell back onto the grass.

The Silver Moon Garden is actually an underground cave, but it contains crescent stones and is covered with Moon-praying flowers.

"How about we go outside and do it again...?"

Seeing this, Ying scratched her head awkwardly.

"……No."

My wish was not answered.

Colombia looked at the dim, entangled fate ahead and gently shook her head.

"Hmm... then try it again when you're in a better mood."

"Don't worry, I still have a few Entangled Bonds left. If you don't have enough, just use mine."

Seeing Columbia's expression, Ying didn't press the matter further.

After saying goodbye to Columbia, Ying went back to find Paimon.

"Well……"

"I'm sorry... Traveler... Actually, it's me... I'm completely exhausted..."

After Ying left, Columbia leaned weakly against the crescent stone.

"My body feels so light... it's like I'm about to float away..."

Where will we go...to the moon? Or...to find Lu Li...?

She felt herself disappearing little by little.

……

One day later.

With the time for the Moon Hunter to escape drawing ever closer, a huge problem has arisen in the plan that everyone had discussed: to use the Moon Hunter's power to fight back against him.

Columbia, who was originally expected to bear this power and temporarily resist the Moon Hunters, has disappeared.

They disappeared without a trace, leaving no trace whatsoever.

"This... doesn't this sound like a plot from a light novel where the female protagonist suddenly runs away because she's feeling down?"

After hearing the last person to have seen Columbia, Ying, describe the situation, Paimon scratched his head.

"No, although Kutar is confused, I believe she is not fragile inside."

Lauma shook her head, denying Paimon's guess.

……

P.S.: At this rate, this book won't be able to finish the main storyline of Winter, so I won't be writing the Winter storyline anymore. It should be finished after I finish writing about Nordkalé.