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

Qingnuoyan seemed lost in thought.

Through the lady's pale purple, clear eyes, he saw the vast expanse of frozen ice. On the throne constructed of ice and snow, the Queen of Winter Kingdom raised her eyes, gazing at him calmly and indifferently.

Unparalleled nobility, unparalleled coldness.

The gaze of the gods.

"The Heart of God," the Queen said softly, her tone calm, "is on him. Go and bring it back."

It turns out the reason the lady wanted him was because of the divine heart within him.

The Queen gazed upon this place.

Qingnuoyan could no longer bear the Empress's gaze.

Its ancient majesty seemed to freeze the world; the majesty that belonged only to the rule of ice and snow was irresistible to anyone.

But there's always a great salt god... who fears no one.

"Hey, here to steal Saint Liya's followers, huh?" Liya stared calmly at the ruler of the Winter Kingdom and calmly cursed, "Who are you? Get lost."

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P.S.: Phew, I went to see Suzuya-no-Kara, and Yoko's comment was that the music was really good!

Time to sleep!

Chapter 136 "Kill the Lady"

This is a perpetually lonely, enclosed space.

As far as the eye can see, the crimson sunset paints its blood-red hue onto the broken shrine torii gates, and ruins are scattered across the desolate land.

The deity named Lei Yingdian lightly stepped onto the shrine, her dark purple braids hanging naturally behind her. She wore a purple kimono with gentian flowers embroidered on the collar, and her sleeves fluttered down, revealing her slender, fair hands.

She held a naginata that crackled with lightning in her soft hand.

She lowered her eyes slightly, her gaze filled with an emptiness.

The naginata pierced through the doll that looked exactly like her.

But the doll cannot be killed; she will revive, just as this vast, empty world will never change.

Thick clouds piled up on the leaden sky, giving the entire sky a grayish-white hue. Although there were clouds, it never rained on this land, because no thunder could shatter the heavy clouds. A brief flash of light, without thunder to awaken it, naturally would not bring rain.

Therefore, this place is always oppressive and dry.

Time has no meaning here; the only thing that endures is the endless slaughter.

Every time she looked up at the gloomy sky, she knew that it was the same as always, and nothing would ever change. This unchanging nature gave her peace of mind, and in the midst of battle after battle, she could find eternal tranquility.

It has always been this way. So she stopped looking out at the outside world, and decades, centuries... time became meaningless.

Boom!

That should be the case today as well.

Boom!

A faint rumble of thunder could be heard.

Perhaps it was an auditory hallucination.

The rumble of thunder, faint and almost imperceptible, gently struck the clouds. Yet it was undeniable; as a few glimmers of lightning leaked through the gaps in the clouds and scattered across the empty land, Ying's empty eyes twitched slightly.

Narukami looked out again, beyond the heavy clouds, and finally saw a brief flash of lightning reflected in the sky above Inazuma. The lightning had returned.

Kage subconsciously gripped the naginata in his hand, and unusually, a look of astonishment surfaced deep within his usually calm eyes.

—She recognizes her.

You can also feel it.

That was the thunder of Kiyono, and also the slash of Kiyono's thunder.

Though faint and insignificant, it truly shone in the distant sky, shone above... the Forest of Guardians.

"Not a single strike is made," only that bolt of lightning remains eternally unchanged.

As a samurai, Kage is dull and insensitive to many things, but he is incredibly sensitive to the memory of martial arts.

But why?

Lei was clearly dead—Ying was absolutely certain of this.

The thunder's echoes will eventually dissipate, but why do they reverberate over Inazuma again?

I don't know about Lei Movie.

doubt.

—I need to go and take a look.

For the first time in hundreds of years of fighting, she had the thought of leaving this place.

She also sensed another aura enveloping and entrenched on Narukami Island, colliding with the lightning.

—That icy and powerful aura symbolizes the authority of winter.

She wants to go out.

Because the thunder is about to stop.

It's getting fainter and fainter.

Ying seemed to realize something.

I vaguely realized something...

The desire to see Na Lei grew stronger, but Ying found herself unable to leave this eternal land.

She could neither leave the sanctuary she had created nor return to her real body; she had lost control of her body.

"General," Shadow said coldly, his eyes reflecting the puppet before him, "what have you done?"

“I did nothing.” General Raiden calmly stared at the shadow, dragging his naginata, the blade sparking as it struck the ground. “This was all your will.”

"And I am simply fulfilling your original wishes."

"Shadow, you said the same thing before, didn't you? 'I won't come out again until I defeat you.'"

General Thunder said.

Wooden clogs tread among the desolate shrines.

Accompanied by the sound of some kind of machinery turning, illusory puppet arms appeared in the space around General Thunder. "All the changes you have caused, all the wear and tear you have suffered, are due to that fleeting lightning. Fleeting and eternal are inherently opposites and can no longer intersect."

"If we were to intersect again, it would only destroy the eternity that Shadow had established."

“What I’m doing now…” General Thunder said calmly, “is simply correcting a mistake. I will go and kill that ‘mistake’.”

"You once said that Lei is dead." The naginata in the general's hand crackled with lightning. "Since we've missed each other, we can never meet again."

The thunder subsided.

"Get out of the way." The shadow's voice turned icy.

“Shadow,” the general said expressionlessly, “it’s too late.”

"It was too late from the moment you stepped into this place," the general said in a flat tone. "It was already too late from the moment you made your choice."

"Get out of the way..." Shadow gripped her naginata tightly, and her eyes, faintly woven with lightning patterns, slowly opened from behind her, with extremely powerful and terrifying lightning slowly gathering.

"It was never me who stood in your way."

"From beginning to end."

The general's eyes reflected Ying's face. "The only person who truly stands in your way is yourself—and you've never realized that."

"You once said that if we could meet again, the ending would be different, but in fact, even if we met again, you never looked at mortals as you did a hundred years ago."

...Shadow was stunned.

Her thin lips moved slightly, "...What?"

"The truth I've been hiding is—"

The general calmly gazed at the shadow, "When you swept away the filth of Shadow Mountain, you passed by that thunderbolt, and you never looked away."

“I’m just a puppet, but I saw him too.”

This is the truth of everything.

You never looked at him.

wrong...

The shadow swayed slightly.

That's not how it works.

She lowered her eyes.

The last echo of thunder faded, slowly disappearing into the frozen riverbed. Without warning, a swift blade swept across, and the shadowy figure aimed for the general's neck—

So, that's why.

The general said softly, "Whether it was a hundred years ago or now, it will always be the same ending, Shadow."

"Only by missing out."

Boom!

As the last flash of lightning disappeared into the sky, the rain finally fell, leaving only ruins and rubble in the world.

I can never get out.

...

The rain is getting heavier tonight.

Guo Beng noticed that the decoration of the Qingye Tofu Shop was very different from the last time he saw it.

The tofu shop used to be old and serious, with everything, from the shop window to the kotatsu, kept spotless, showing a meticulous attitude; but what I see today... I don't know how to describe it, it just feels a bit... lively?

What's most puzzling is... that dark, black thing in the steamer.