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

Clutching the toy gift box, Columbia walked through the streets of Liyue Harbor, feeling somewhat lost.

However, before she could get far away, Zhong Li suddenly rushed towards her.

"Young friend Columbia, how is the Rebirth Hall doing?"

Upon seeing Columbia, Zhongli hurriedly inquired about her.

Upon hearing that Hu Tao and Qian Yanjun had clashed, he rushed back immediately.

"Yes, Hu Tao is fine. I've teleported the Thousand Rock Army to Tianheng Mountain."

Columbia answered and then continued walking forward.

Seeing her like this, Zhong Li seemed to understand something.

"Young friend, do you think a place that can provide shelter counts as a home?"

"Hmm?"

Upon hearing Zhongli's sudden question, Columbia stopped and turned around with some confusion.

"According to Liyue customs, a place that provides shelter from the wind and rain is ultimately just an inn. A true home requires a light to be left on at night, and someone to light it for you."

Seeing that Columbia had stopped, Zhong Li continued speaking.

"A lamp..."

Columbia repeated herself in a low voice, as if she had suddenly thought of something.

"If a weary bird has no branch to perch on, it can only drift with the wind. Although it may see all the beautiful scenery in the world, it is ultimately a rootless duckweed."

"Since young friend Lu Li is here, why treat yourself as a passerby and leave without saying goodbye?"

"Why not stop here and treat this place as yours..."

Zhongli's voice seemed to carry a convincing power, but before he could finish speaking, a voice called out from behind.

"Columbia? How come you've run so far away when I just turned around... Oh? Guest Elder is here too?"

Walnut, who had caught up from the Hall of Rebirth, jogged over to Columbia's side.

"Hehe, never mind, Columbia, let's go home. To thank you for solving this huge problem for me, I'll personally cook a meal to reward you!"

"Don't worry, this time I will definitely do my best..."

As she spoke, Hu Tao took Columbia's arm and pulled her back.

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"Is this the Golden House? It looks like Ajax has already gone inside, and he's managed to lull all the Thousand Rock soldiers guarding it to sleep."

Near the Golden House, Lu Li hid on a high place and secretly observed the situation inside, discovering Qian Yanjun lying haphazardly on the ground.

But Lu Li wasn't in a hurry to go in, because he noticed that the Traveler was also flying towards them.

Clearly, after learning about the situation in Liyue Harbor and guessing where Tartaglia would go, she directly used the teleportation anchor to ascend Mount Tianheng and used the Wind Wings to fly here.

Lu Li traveled on foot, so he wasn't much faster than her.

However, Ying and Paimon were clearly in a hurry to enter the Golden House to stop D'Artagnan, and did not notice Lu Li hiding high up.

Seeing them rush into the golden house, Lu Li then revealed himself and followed them.

He deliberately slowed his pace so as not to appear to have arrived too promptly.

At the same time, he was also thinking about whether it was more appropriate to shield Luminosity from Tartaglia's attack or to shield Tartaglia from Luminosity's attack.

If it's the latter, it's equivalent to you and Tartaglia fighting against Luna and Paimon, a very fair 2v2 situation, with you fighting Luna and Paimon fighting Tartaglia.

However, if it's the former, then it's easier to end the battle by fighting Tartaglia together with Ying, which is a 2v1 group fight.

Thinking this way, Lu Li finally entered the Golden House and heard the sounds of fighting.

"Not bad, not bad, you do have some tricks up your sleeve. I need to take you a little more seriously."

Just as Lu Li stepped into the battle arena, purple lightning flashed, and Tartaglia put on his mask, entering the state of Evil Eye Unleashed.

In this state, Tartaglia's movement speed increased dramatically, instantly turning the tide of the battle.

Ying didn't have time to adapt to the sudden increase in speed and was suppressed for a while.

"Oh no! Travelers, we're surrounded by Lu Li and the young master!"

Paimon, who was cheering for Ying from behind, was the first to spot Lu Li, and she was so startled that she quickly shouted a warning to Ying.

Upon hearing her voice, Ying and Tadalia, who were fighting, immediately separated and looked towards Lu Li's direction after regaining their footing.

"..."

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"Would you believe me if I said I came here to take pictures as a souvenir?"

Lu Li originally intended to watch the show from the sidelines for a while and wait for D'Artagnan to activate his Demon King Armor before going up to help, but unexpectedly he was discovered by Paimon, so he had no choice but to take out his camera and snap a picture.

"Hey, Lu Li, this is my opponent, you're not allowed to help me."

Tadalia seemed worried that Lu Li would help deal with Ying, so she quickly reminded him.

"Fine, fine, I won't help you."

"By the way, Traveler, I helped you defeat Ajax, oh, that is, D'Artagnan. Do I have to pay back the Mora I owed you last time?"

Upon hearing D'Artagnan's request, Lu Li nodded knowingly and then asked Ying for her opinion.

D'Artagnan: "No... buddy?"

"……Can."

Ying thought about it and agreed, since it wasn't much Mora.

After receiving Ying's confirmation, Lu Li stepped forward and condensed a shield from the ice elemental power gathered in his right hand.

"Alright, alright, I didn't get to use my full strength last time I fought you. Now, let's see if the two of you combined can give me a good time!"

Looking at Lu Li standing next to Ying, Dadalia suddenly felt a pang of sadness and clapped her hands in anger.

"Take this!"

Then Tartaglia flashed like lightning, appearing before Ying in the blink of an eye, and unleashed a double slash.

However, since arriving in Liyue, Luminous's strength has far surpassed that of the novice adventurers she was in Mondstadt, and she immediately dodged Tartaglia's attack by sidestepping.

Lu Li, who was standing to the side, also swung her shield, trying to come over and help, but Dadalia ignored her completely, dodging aside and continuing to launch a barrage of attacks on Ying.

Ying never expected Tartaglia to suddenly unleash such power, and for a moment she found it difficult to defend herself.

"A sheer cliff, towering a thousand feet high!"

Finding that D'Artagnan was ignoring him, Lu Li raised his hand and pointed at D'Artagnan's feet.

The next moment, a rock ridge emerged, slamming into Dadalia's belly and sending him flying into the air.

"A power I've never seen before..."

"So you held back last time too!"

Tartaglia adjusted her position in mid-air, and after saying something with some surprise, she finally became interested in Lu Li. Driven by her lightning elemental power, she instantly rushed towards Lu Li.

Lu Li raised his shield and blocked Dadalia's attack.

Without using any system skills, Tartaglia's two-in-one double-headed sword instantly pierced into the shield.

"Thinking about it, that makes sense. After all, Liyue is your home, and you probably don't want me to take the Divine Heart, right?"

Instead of drawing his weapon, D'Artagnan pressed himself against the shield, increasing the pressure as he spoke to Lu Li.

He was also explaining to himself why Lu Li chose to stand on Ying's side.

"No... what I mean is, you could never have taken the Heart of God on your own."

"Rather than letting you fight to the death and end up badly injured, it's better for me and the Traveler to team up and knock you down first so you can calm down."

Upon hearing Dadalia's words, Lu Li, who was wrestling with him while supporting himself with his shield, replied in this way, his feet being pressed down and he slowly retreated.

This forced Lu Li to free one hand, which he then grasped as dark and abyssal energy.

"Weaklings, begone!"

"?!"

The next moment, the scattered dark energy transformed into a shockwave that pierced through the shield and struck Dartalia directly in the chest, sending him flying.

"Ah...it's the demise of the Immortal Ancestor!"

After Dardaria flew backwards, he landed next to the Immortal Ancestor's Dharma Body, startling Paimon.

However, this was exactly the effect Lu Li wanted.

"Lu Li...you..."

D'Artagnan clutched his chest, glanced at the Immortal Ancestor's physical form beside him, and then ignored it.

"You actually think I'm weak?!"

"Today I will prove to you whether I am a weakling or not!"

The words Lu Li had just shouted clearly provoked D'Artagnan, and now he didn't even care about the Immortal Ancestor's Dharma Transformation.

The next moment, lightning flashed throughout the entire golden house, and Tartaglia's body slowly rose into the air, supported by the water flow, gradually covered by purplish-black armor amidst the lightning.

Immediately afterwards, a purple cloak, as blue as the starry sky, unfurled behind him.

The ends of his orange hair gradually turned a purple gradient, and the shape of the mask on his face changed accordingly, with the blue gem in the middle resembling a single eye.

He then raised his hand, and the purple double-headed sword that had just been knocked away immediately flew over and landed in his hand.

"Let's continue the battle from last time, Lu Li, give it your all!"

"Extreme Evil Law - Devouring Annihilation!"

With a roar, Tartaglia, wielding his double-headed sword, slammed it down toward the center of the arena, crackling with lightning.

The next moment, the floor shattered, and Lu Li and Ying fell into another level below.

However, there was no major problem, and the plane landed steadily.

Then, Tartaglia, in his Demon King armored form, slowly flew down from the sky, his mere presence causing the dust to disperse on its own.

"Then let's continue our sparring from last time. But before we start, I have to remind you that the Heart of God is not actually here. That Immortal Ancestor's Manifestation was just a smokescreen by the Rock God. You've been tricked by the Rock God."

Seeing Tadalia fall, Lu Li nodded in agreement and gave him a reminder.

"None of this matters anymore!"

In his Demon King Armor form, Tartaglia had put all of that behind him and only wanted to fight Lu Li with all his might to wash away the shame of being a weakling.

He was no longer able to stop and think, as if what he had just said was merely the name of a move.

"call……"

Lu Li could only let out a sigh of relief and activated his Evil Eye as well. The chill gradually spread throughout the golden house, and frost gradually climbed onto Lu Li's hair.

"Since you're going all out, then I won't hold back either."

As Lu Li spoke, a layer of ice elemental power gradually covered his body, forming a defense on his skin like an armor.

At the same time, he raised his hand and activated the Snowfield Survival Laws.

The Snowfield Survival Rule can be doubled in cold environments. Since it was upgraded to level 4, it can increase defense by 50% and maximum health regeneration by 3.5%.

In cold conditions, it will become 100% defense and 7% maximum health recovery.

Furthermore, this 100% increase in defense is an "independent multiplier," meaning that Lu Li's defense, which he increases with elemental power, will also be amplified by this boost.

This was the power he hadn't used during his last sparring session with Tartaglia; back then, he had basically relied on his physical defense and regenerative abilities to withstand the damage.

Whether the holder of the Eye of God uses elemental power to protect themselves or not makes a world of difference in defensive power. The same applies to the Evil Eye, whose power is basically the same as that of the Eye of God.

After entering the Evil Eye Release state, Lu Li spread his hands out again.

"As solid as a rock."

The next moment, a portion of the rock elemental power within the Mora forged by the surrounding golden houses was extracted and gathered onto Lu Li, forming a jade shield.

"Stand behind Bloom."

Then, the ice shield in Lu Li's hand, which had been pierced, returned to its complete form and gained an opportunity for absolute defense, as well as a 35% damage reduction effect from the front.

"Alright, I've applied the buffs, come on, Ajax."

After doing all this, Lu Li raised his hand to gesture to Tadalia.

As for "Eternal Wall," that skill summons an ice wall, and since the area here isn't very big to begin with, we won't open it for now.

D'Artagnan: "..."

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