Genshin Impact, I, a mere mortal, cannot accompany you to the very end.

No one could stop Qing Nuoyan's progress. He had inherited Fu She's swordsmanship, a swordsmanship that was almost like the Dao of immortals. Under the authority of the Salt God, his physical qualities were now combined with this killing swordsmanship for the first time, gradually becoming integrated and mastered.

Ordinary killing techniques cannot eliminate invisible karmic obstacles; they must be exorcised using the Nuo ritual. Therefore, even Zhongli could not accomplish this task, so it had to be done by him.

Mr. Zhongli could clearly sense that the rate at which karmic obstacles were overflowing had decreased. He then added four more rock pillars to completely suppress the overflowing karmic obstacles, preventing them from dissipating and harming the world.

"Qingnuo Rock..."

Mr. Zhongli looked at the departing figure with a complicated expression. After a long while, he gave a helpless bitter laugh, as if he felt helpless towards this young friend and old friend, "I really can't do anything with you."

But perhaps he really can do it.

Perhaps, this time the ending will be different from that of 2,400 years ago.

Three shadows appeared beside Qing Nuoyan, the filth in their eyes almost materialized, completely different from ordinary karmic obstacles!

Qingnuoyan recognized them; they were the karmic burdens of the three Yakshas!

Mi Nu, Ying Da, Fa Nan.

They stared at Qing Nuoyan's voice, their shoulders trembling slightly, their expressions chaotic and frantic. Of course, they recognized Qing Nuoyan and the swordsmanship they had seen countless times.

But... but isn't Brother Fushe right behind them...? Brother Fushe is beneath the giant abyss of layered rocks, Brother Fushe hasn't woken up yet.

This is not a temporary dwelling! This is not a temporary dwelling!

The divine cut trembled from the air, emitting a clear light. Qingnuoyan channeled that light and sent it through Mi Nu's throat. The lightning snake collided with the karmic barrier. He took a step forward, lowered his body, and bypassed Yingda's flames. The divine cut turned again and slashed back against the clear light.

Karmic obstacles without a physical form are still just karmic obstacles. Besides, Qingnuoyan inherited Fushe's skills, and the Yakshas were all raised by Fushe, so he was naturally very familiar with their fighting style.

“I’ve come to take you home,” he said.

Shenqie shattered Yingdadi's karmic obstacles, and his filthy body split open on both sides under Shenqie's blade, scattering into fluttering gray butterflies. Qingnuoyan opened his arms and embraced those gray butterflies, and then the karmic obstacles flowed along his body into his heart.

Shenqie's blade turned again, and the heads of the other two karmic obstacles soared into the sky, their forms disintegrating. Qingnuoyan accepted them all and absorbed them all.

The filthy emotions slowly gathered, and reason moved further toward madness. Qingnuoyan dragged Shenqie forward.

One karmic obstacle after another was shattered and devoured. He walked on the road to madness and death, but he would eventually walk out of this road. He learned about life through death!

One thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand!

He finally reached the deepest part of his karmic obstacles, the place where the giant mountain collapsed. The rocks crumbled, the mountain range broke apart, and countless huge cracks crisscrossed the mountain, like deep wounds.

From those countless wounds, dark and filthy karmic obstacles overflowed and floated upwards.

Gan Yu collapsed to her knees, tears of blood streaming down her face, but her eyes shone with a sickly light.

Gan Yu stared blankly ahead, not even glancing at Nuo Yan, and murmured softly, "Senior Brother."

Gan Yu didn't even notice Qing Nuoyan's arrival.

She lowered her head, her nails digging deep into her flesh. Of course, she knew that it wasn't her senior brother; it was just karma.

Qingnuoyan raised his head and looked at the giant mountain.

The mountain collapsed, and piles of stones whistled through the air. The world darkened, and on the shattered corpse of the mountain, the greatest filth was awakening.

That is... the karmic obstacle of [Floating Abode].

Qingnuoyan didn't need to use Nuoyou to forcibly bring Fushe into his heart; he didn't need to do that.

Because Fushe is him, and he is Fushe, therefore Fushe's karmic obstacles are his karmic obstacles.

One's own body is the body of the floating body, and as far as karma is concerned, the instinct of karma to seize the body of the original body is the reason for its existence.

Qingnuoyan opened its arms toward the corpse of the mountain, as if to embrace it.

And the mountain responded to the boy's embrace.

The pebbles floating in the air slowly converged towards Qingnuo Rock. The center of karmic obstacles was shifting, and those thoughts, those resentments, those memories unique to Fushe were all flowing towards Qingnuo Rock.

He stood at the center of his karmic obstacles and gently closed his eyes.

Gan Yu's empty gaze followed the mountain, moving hesitantly before finally landing on Qing Nuoyan.

【lv.85】

【lv.89】

"Master..." Whether it was karma or sweet rain, they gazed at the boy who appeared beside them.

His aura was both so unfamiliar and so familiar, growing more and more familiar with it.

My heart felt like it had stopped.

"Senior brother?"

This is her senior brother.

It can't be wrong, it can't be wrong.

The karmic obstacles of Fushe chose him.

Everything is connected now, so that's how it is!

She's wrong. She's been wrong from the very beginning.

Gan Yu finally realized the truth, which she deliberately ignored, deliberately missed, and deliberately chose to ignore because of her pride and arrogance.

And now, she has finally given up that so-called arrogance. In her most painful and desperate moment, she was saved again. Just like before, she looked at Qing Nuoyan expectantly and lowered her eyes.

"Senior brother... Senior brother... Have you come to save me?"

Qing Nuoyan lowered her eyes and whispered in her heart, "I didn't just come to save you."

To him, Gan Yu was just a stranger he had met twice. She was not his junior sister. Like millions of others, he did not come to save one person, but to save everyone.

This was merely Qing Nuoyan's inner thought, but his karmic burdens manifested it through his body, even distorting parts of his inner voice:

"No."

"You're not my junior sister. You killed me," Ye Zhang said calmly. "Why should I come to save you?"

...

"...Huh?"

【lv.89】

Overwhelming karmic obstacles gathered in his chest, rapidly polluting Qing Nuoyan's heart. He gritted his teeth, struggling to maintain his inner clarity.

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P.S.: This chapter fills in a few plot points that I've been laying for a while. Some comments have said that I keep emphasizing "carefree" and it's meaningless, but that's exactly what I mean... Also, some people said that my two main quests contradict each other... Actually, they don't contradict each other. If you want to fulfill your promise, you have to "live carefree".

I've been trying to be as fast as possible; the last few chapters have been a thousand words longer than before...

Chapter 107 'Only you, never believed me'

Why should I save you?

Eh...

Gan Yu was stunned. She blinked her golden eyes gently, seemingly not having heard Nuo Yan's words clearly, or rather, she had heard them clearly but still couldn't react.

She recognized every single word, but when strung together, it was incomprehensible to others.

Why should I save you... Gan Yu had never thought about this question since she was very, very young.

It seemed that it was only natural for Fushe to come and save her, and she was used to asking her senior brother for help. There was no other reason than that she was the junior sister and he was the senior brother.

Yes, why should I save you?

Why should I...?

From the moment her body was possessed by karma, she felt as if she were standing on empty clouds, with no sense of reality about what was happening around her. Her emotions seemed to have stagnated; she stopped thinking and therefore stopped feeling pain. But at this moment, accompanied by Qing Nuoyan's calm words, she fell from the clouds to the earth.

In the heart of the desolate, scorched earth, a belated sense of palpitation accompanied by pain arrived.

She lowered her eyes, and the puddles on the ground reflected her face. The eerie color of her eyes, like flowing fire, spread along her eyelids, outlining crimson lines at the corners of her eyes. But deep in her eyes was an emptiness and stillness like stagnant water. The corners of her mouth were also unnaturally raised, sickly and strange, with the filth of karma entrenched in the depths of her soul.

Is this me...?

Is this me?

She subconsciously touched her cheek with her fingertips.

Fragments of Fushe's remains were scattered in the air, the fine particles reflecting a cold light. Each particle was a remnant of Fushe's corpse. She stared at the rubble, then paused, realizing all too well what she had just done.

What did she do?

Each one was a corpse of a floating abode. The pebbles shimmered with a faint light, like drops of tears.

Her senior brother... Fushe's remains... were destroyed by her.

She had never visited the shrine, no matter how many times Yingda invited her. And now, she had destroyed her senior brother's body...

Ah, she killed her senior brother; she broke the seal that Fushe had forged with his life.

She destroyed Fushe's remains.

Those are the stones she shattered, just like the heart she pierced two thousand four hundred years ago.

She looked around in panic and helplessness. The gloomy karmic obstacles rose to the highest point of the towering abyss. One giant rock after another was stained with filth, and the long-dormant dead fire in the lava reignited, with blood-red flames licking the leaden sky.

Did she do all of this?

I made all of these myself.

What did she do?

Liyue may be destroyed because of this.

If that's the case, then by what right do they deserve salvation?

She stared blankly at Qingnuoyan, noticing that the young man's aura was becoming increasingly similar to her elder brother's. The turbulent rock elements converged on him, as majestic, as weighty, and as reassuring as a mountain.

It remains as powerful as ever.

She cannot be saved.

They also have no right to be redeemed.

The more she thought this way, the deeper her karmic obstacles seeped in. The emptiness in her eyes was tainted by a dark, filthy darkness. That voice kept whispering in her heart: That's not your senior brother, that's not your senior brother, your senior brother will definitely come to save you, your senior brother will definitely come to save you...

That's not your senior brother... That's not your senior brother!