People in Mondstadt, starting to develop black technology

Albedo laughed and said, "You said it was in the book, how could it be possible..."

He suddenly froze and fell into deep thought.

There is a strange crystal stone called "Deep Red Stone" in the snow-capped mountains. It is scattered throughout the snow-capped mountains, especially in the Snow-Covered Road, Snow Burial City and Starlight Cave.

If their appearance was indeed affected by the fragments of the Frost Nail, perhaps they really were the key to breaking the seal.

Moreover, after the Deep Red Stone is shattered, the strange energy contained within it will linger around the person's body for a period of time, dispelling the severe coldness in the body. Adventurers often use this method to keep warm.

If you swing a weapon to attack while carrying this kind of energy, the energy will be released all at once, causing considerable damage.

Hmm...why didn't I think of trying this method before?

Albedo was a man of great mobility, and he immediately found a deep red stone not far from the seal. He drew his sword and smashed it, then slashed the seal with his sword while the energy was still lingering around his body.

I saw a deep sword mark appear on the solid ice that had not changed at all before!

Sure enough!

Everyone was very surprised when they saw the damage the sword caused to the ice. After hearing Albedo say that this was done with the power of the Deep Crimson Stone, they prepared to set out immediately to find the Deep Crimson Stone.

Albedo stopped them and said helplessly, "Don't worry. The deep red stones in the snow mountain are still quite rare. Although they will re-crystallize after a while after being shattered, if we try to break the huge seal in front of us like this, it will probably take longer than the half month it took Gayula."

His eyes swept across Shen Qin and finally landed on Ying: "Ying, do you want to try it?"

"Me, me?" She was a little surprised.

"Yes, the magical power in your body can cleanse the curse in Tevarin's body. I wonder if it can also have a miraculous effect in breaking this seal."

Ying didn't hesitate: "I understand."

She was also pulled by Shen Qin to participate in the previous combat meeting, and listened to Albedo's story about the Verdant Kingdom three thousand years ago. If the power in her body could break the seal and even revive the Honeysuckle Tree, she was willing to do so.

This can be regarded as the fulfillment of the long-cherished wish of the last princess of that country three thousand years ago.

The crowd soon found another deep red stone, and Ying smashed it with her sword. But when she came to the seal, she seemed to have a feeling in her heart, so she threw down the sword and covered the ice with her palm.

Paimon jumped back from the alien space and looked at her worriedly.

A faint light also emanated from Albedo's Eye of God.

The moment her palm touched the seal, Ying's consciousness was suddenly pulled into a pitch-black space. She wanted to speak, but found that no sound came out of her throat.

Sound and light seem to be non-existent here.

Ying took the sword in his hand and groped his way forward, but the ground was flat without even a bump.

Then she simply ran.

But gradually, she could hear her own breathing, and the ground under her feet was no longer flat, but a thin layer of snow. She could even feel the cold temperature when she touched it with her hands.

Her feet made a rustling sound on the snow, and she couldn't help but slow down her pace, and finally stopped completely.

Because a female voice humming softly appeared in her ears.

"Who are you? Where is this?" she shouted.

The other party seemed to hear her voice and stopped humming. The next moment, she returned to the snow-capped mountains.

No, that's not right! This is not the snowy mountain from before! And the person in front of me...

The tightly wrapped girl stood up and greeted her: "Hello, welcome to my dream."

At her feet, a young silver-white branch had just been planted.

Chapter 171: The earth veins connect not only space, but also...

"You are..." Ying said in surprise.

"Shh - I don't have much time." The girl put her hand to her mouth to make a silent gesture, "I'll tell you what's going on."

"Yeah!" Ying nodded.

"Very good, good kid." The girl nodded with satisfaction. "I don't know how many years later you are now, but I know that in the land where Shar Findenir is, a black dragon that covered the sky and earth once descended from the sky and sprinkled its blood on the snow, right?"

Ying replied, “Yes.”

Although the blood was Tewarinyan's, it could not be said that what she said was wrong.

"It is true... The black dragon is the key to reviving the silver tree."

The girl was about to say something when the sky suddenly split into dense pieces, and the pieces kept falling down.

She gritted her teeth, hurried to Ying, held her hand, and said, "There is no time left. I don't know when we will meet next time, but please promise me to help me, to help Shar Findenir revive the Silver Tree!"

"Yeah!" Ying nodded again.

"Thank you!" Dense cracks appeared on the girl's body.

"Remember, the earth veins connect not only space, but also..."

Before she could utter the last words, her body turned into pieces and dissipated in space.

Ying retreated in panic, the world before her eyes kept breaking into pieces. She wanted to escape from here, but there was no way to escape.

She opened her eyes suddenly and heard Paimon's anxious shouting in her ears.

"Ying, what's wrong with you? Wake up!"

"Are you okay? Don't scare me!"

She turned around and saw that everyone was there, and knew that she had returned to the real world.

"I'm fine, I just seemed to have seen someone."

She was somewhat doubtful whether what she had just experienced was an illusion, because talking to a person who lived three thousand years ago was more or less a bit fantastical.

"Who did you see?" Qin frowned and looked alert, but she didn't see any figures around.

"Princess Shar Findenir, who has been dead for three thousand years."

The words of Ying are shocking.

Seeing their astonished looks, she pursed her lips and told everyone what she had just experienced.

"You mean, did you run into the princess's dream three thousand years ago... Interesting, and she mentioned that the ley lines connect more than just space, but also something else, which makes me concerned."

Albedo quickly accepted this strange setting.

"Could it be time? Does the earth vein connect different times of the past, present and future?" Shen Qin asked.

Durin, who was born more than two thousand years later, appeared in the princess' dream. Now Ying has also arrived in her dream. Does it mean that the earth veins transmitted the information of Durin's appearance in the snow mountain and Ying's consciousness back to three thousand years ago, and then were captured by the princess and became her dream?

The princess seemed to understand that these were things that would happen thousands of years later, and she pieced together the current situation based on the fragmentary information.

"We can't rule out this possibility." Albedo nodded.

Seeing that the two were about to continue their research on this issue, Qin interrupted them in time: "No matter what she wants to say, should we remove this ice seal first?"

"Sorry." Albedo also realized the problem. He came back to his senses and said to Ying, "I'll leave it to you next."

Just after Ying put the seal on her hand, the ice melted by a quarter in front of everyone at a speed visible to the naked eye. In other words, if it happens three more times, the seal will be completely lifted.

"If you feel unwell during the unblocking process, be sure to speak up and don't force yourself!" Shen Qin reminded.

"Yeah, don't scare us to death like you did last time!" Paimon was also worried that something might happen to her.

"Yeah, not this time."

Everyone found the second deep red stone near the seal. After Ying obtained the power contained in it, he placed his palm on the seal again and closed his eyes.

But this time her consciousness was not pulled into the princess' dream. She opened her eyes and shook her head at everyone.

"It seems that the previous incident was just a coincidence. It was probably because the special energy in Ying's body resonated with the seal... or the veins of the snow mountain for the first time, which led to this special situation."

Shen Qin agreed with Albedo's opinion. It seemed that there was no fixed way to communicate with the princess for the time being.

In fact, they had some doubts about the princess's identity and what she said at this time, and did not really believe her.

Suspicion is a natural quality of smart people, and it just so happened that everyone present was quite smart.

Since the authenticity of the princess cannot be confirmed, they can only ignore her for now and do things at their own pace.

The third and fourth deep red stones were soon found. When the last part of the ice melted in front of everyone, a strange ball with a diameter of about one meter appeared in front of everyone. The mechanical structure on its surface kept changing, and the speed of change was getting faster and faster. The whole earth began to shake slightly.

"Everyone, protect yourselves and return to the Mingguan immediately!" Qin gave the order, but as soon as she finished her words, the strange ball soared into the sky and disappeared in the vast snowstorm.

The next moment, everyone with divine eyes present cast their gaze towards the invisible top of the snow-capped mountain. They felt an extremely powerful force erupting there.

If they were at the top of the mountain, they would see the strange ball flying straight here in the blizzard, and then expanding into a small piece of the Frost Nail, which was then spliced ​​into the other half of the Frost Nail that was located here and smashed deep into the earth.

The people at the location of the honeysuckle tree also saw a scene that amazed them. They saw a new tree breaking out of the ground in the open space in the middle of the dead honeysuckle tree. It had blood-red branches, and red energy full of vitality was flowing on its surface. A blood-red crystal was condensed in the tree hole at the bottom of it.

"Is this... the revived honeysuckle tree?" Qin asked doubtfully. She wanted to go forward and take a closer look, but stopped cautiously.

"Yes, this is the Honeysuckle Tree, but it is different from the previous Silver Tree." Albedo looked at the crystal stone filled with Durin's power with a complicated look in his eyes, "It is the product of the fusion of the Silver Tree and Durin's power."

He came to the tree, placed his palm on it, and used elemental force to feel the energy flowing within it.

After a moment, he concluded: "The Honeysuckle Tree has not fully revived. There are two other key nodes where its energy is blocked. I guess these are where the other two seals are located."

"I suspect that the splitting of the Frost Nail into three pieces was planned long ago to seal the three most important root nodes of the Silver Tree until it was completely killed."

"Its life was unexpectedly tenacious. It managed to survive for more than two thousand years until it was nourished by Durin's blood."

Chapter 172 What can anyone expect from Barbatos?

They confirmed the revival of the Silver Tree. Although only one third of it has been completed, it proved that their solution was correct.

Next, as long as the other two seals in the snow-capped mountains are broken, the honeysuckle tree can be completely revived. At that time, it can exert its power, soothe the turmoil of the earth's energy, and completely resolve this crisis.

But now it was dark, and the vision, which was already limited by the snowstorm, became even narrower. Moreover, everyone had been busy all day and was very tired.

"It's too dangerous to spend the night in the snowy mountains. Whether it's the Abyss Cult or the group of monsters the rescue team encountered, they can pose a considerable threat to us in the dark. So we will go back to the foot of the mountain to rest for a night, and set off tomorrow morning to try to remove the other two seals at the same time."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Shen Qin and Albedo rubbed their hands and placed several surveillance cameras near the honeysuckle tree. Although they could not check the situation here in real time due to the disorder of the earth veins, if something unexpected happened at night, they would know what happened when they came the next day.

The Mingguan returned to the town at the foot of the mountain smoothly. When they got off the car, Wendy came up to them happily and reported the situation to them.

"What did you do? I can feel that the disturbance of the earth veins in the snow mountain has been suppressed, and the blizzard has also been much smaller."

They looked back and found that the blizzard covering the snow-capped mountains was indeed much smaller, but they could not really feel it when they were in the blizzard.

Ying and several knights went to rest, while Qin, Albedo and Shen Qin stayed here and narrated to Wendy their experiences in the snowy mountains today and asked for his advice.

"Hmm... So what you're worried about is whether Ying's meeting that person was someone else's conspiracy, and whether the leyline can connect the different times of the past, present and future."

Wendy said, "I can't answer the previous question because I wasn't there and can't judge. But I do know a thing or two about the ley lines, and I can introduce you to someone who knows a lot more than I do."

"Who?" Qin asked doubtfully.

Shen Qin turned his gaze to a young man who was slowly walking towards them not far away, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

"Come, come, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Zhongli, a guest official of Liyue Wangsheng Hall. He knows everything about astronomy and geography. From ancient times to the present, there is nothing in the world that he does not know. He can be said to be omniscient and almighty!"

Wendy's enthusiastic voice sounded like that of a brothel owner soliciting customers.

"I don't dare to claim to be omniscient and omnipotent. I just have a wide range of knowledge and a superficial understanding of many things." Zhongli corrected Wendy's statement, then bowed to the three people, "I am Zhongli, a guest of the Hall of Rebirth. The three of you must be Miss Qin, the acting leader of the Mondstadt Knights, Master Alchemist Shen Qin, and Mr. Albedo. It's an honor to meet you all."

"I'm also honored to meet Mr. Zhongli!" Shen Qin stepped forward enthusiastically and shook hands with him.

The most reliable man in Teyvat, the Rock King, who changed the way all players operate and became the rock god of Teyvat's useless man maker due to his super high shield capacity, Zhongli!

Anyway, by the end of the game, Shen Qin had become so clumsy that he couldn't play without Zhongli's shield.

"Hello." Zhongli shook hands with Shen Qin with a little confusion.

Is this person too enthusiastic?

"Hello." Albedo just nodded to him.

Qin shook his hand and asked uncertainly, "Wangshengtang... is it the Liyue Wangshengtang that I know?"