Modern Teyvat, bound to the Abyss Spiral

The attentive Shen He noticed Li Qingping's worry and offered comfort.

"Yes, and you too!" Li Qingping slapped his head.

He was almost confused by those cute slogans and even forgot that Shen He was Sister Xianyun's disciple.

Steady!

After stepping onto the platform, Li Qingping and Shen He looked at each other, overwhelmed by the situation before them.

"How could this happen?" Shen He couldn't help but ask as he looked at the mess in front of him.

The platform was littered with scattered mechanical parts, probably several thousand in number.

Those parts were covered with a thick layer of dust, and it was estimated that they had not been touched for at least a thousand years.

In the center of the platform there is a lifting platform controlled by a mechanism. Shen He was told that the mechanism used to assemble this level came from this place.

But now there was a big hole in the exit of the lifting platform. She and Li Qingping walked to the edge of the hole and looked down, and found that the mechanism inside was also damaged.

The level is destroyed again?

Li Qingping and Shen He looked at each other and found that each other's eyes were full of suspicion.

Has anyone been to this Yunhai Cave before?

"It's impossible that anyone has been here. The master said that without the key, even the emperor can't enter." Shen He was sure.

"Wait a minute, let me find something."

Li Qingping summoned the Fang of Osel, washed away the dust accumulated on the platform, and began to rummage through the pile of parts.

He wasn't interested in the mechanical parts; he was looking for the sign.

"found it."

Li Qingping found the special slogan board of the owner of Yunhai Cave Heaven at the bottom of the parts.

It was the first time he touched the signboard. After picking it up, he found that it had been treated with anti-corrosion and there was still some weak rock elemental force attached to the surface.

No wonder it can be preserved for so long!

As for the text on the placard, it was scratched off.

"What was originally written on this sign?" Li Qingping asked Shen He.

He didn't have much hope, but he got a pleasant surprise.

"Master specifically mentioned, 'Liuyun, can you win this time?' That's what I remember," Shen He said. "This level was reserved for Master. When the two of us had free time, we would compete in mechanical skills here."

"Those should be beautiful memories belonging to the two of them, why should they be scraped off?" Li Qingping put down the banner, very confused.

"Let's look further ahead. There must be some reason that we don't understand." Shen He suggested.

Li Qingping agreed, and the two continued forward.

They continued forward and encountered three more checkpoints.

Without exception, those levels could not be activated normally, and the words on the banners were also scratched off.

And next to the open spaces at those checkpoints, there was a pile of debris scattered around.

The debris included broken mechanical parts and papers that turned to dust at the slightest touch.

"These mechanical parts!" Shen He was a little bit unbelievable.

"Yeah, I noticed that too." Li Qingping said solemnly, "It's all from Sister Xianyun's hand!"

Li Qingping was pretty good. That day, he saw a small part of the mechanism drawings stored by Xianyun in the basement of Shenhe's house.

What is drawn on the blueprint is basically the same as the mechanical parts that are now discarded.

"And the things recorded on these papers." Shen He took a deep breath.

Those papers were not kept well, and it was not easy for them to survive until now and be seen by Li Qingping and Shen He.

Fortunately, Li Qingping and Shen He were more cautious and wrote down the contents before touching them.

It's not words, but musical score.

"It's most likely the music score that Grandma Ping gave to Sister Gui Zhong." Li Qingping added.

Grandma Ping and Xianyun are both good friends of Guizhong. So why did Guizhong throw away the gifts given by these friends after he was seriously injured and sealed himself in the cave?

Li Qingping and Shen He were silent.

The tranquil and peaceful Yunhai Cave now reveals an inexplicable weirdness, as if the owner of this mansion is disgusted with the past.

"We have passed the five levels, right?" Li Qingping asked.

"Yeah." Shen He said.

"Then let's go to the finish line and take a look. I really want to know what happened here."

"it is good."

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Outside the sea of ​​clouds and sky, on the other side of the deep pit.

Among the group of immortals that Li Qingping could not see clearly, Grandma Ping spoke.

"Emperor, do you still remember who the demon god was that Gui Zhong fought?"

The time seemed to have stopped. Zhongli looked at the immortal barrier in front of him and did not say anything.

Lei Dianzhen once said that the dead should not drag down the progress of the living.

As someone who has died once, she can certainly say this with great ease, but it is still too difficult for her to do so as a living person.

The treasured yet repeatedly opened memory was opened again, and Zhongli was in a trance back to that afternoon.

"Five demon gods joined forces to attack from the sea. We learned the news in advance and stopped them at Guyun Pavilion."

Zhongli answered the question irrelevantly, but the people around him listened quietly and did not interrupt him.

"While we were fighting, the mechanical bird sent a message from Guiliji that another demon god was invading and had already arrived outside Guiliji."

Zhongli waved his hand, and a floating jade appeared in front of him.

The jade is clear yellow all over, round and full, and is as big as a fist. If it were put up for auction on the market, it would be a priceless treasure.

But this precious jade was created only to resist the invasion of time.

There was a note inside it.

Zhongli held the jade, and the priceless jade melted like ice in his hands, leaving only the note.

The paper is very rough and not a product of modern papermaking technology.

Zhongli used elemental power to unfold the paper, which was the method that caused the least wear and tear to the paper.

"Hehe, there's a guy called the Demon God of Trickery and Deception who has revealed his identity and said that Guiliji will belong to him from now on!

Morax, it seems your name is useless!

It doesn't matter, I'm here! Watch me take care of that idiot!

Hey, you guys should work hard too!"

After reading the words on the note that everyone present could recite, Zhongli waved his hand and sealed the note back into the jade.

And the lively Demon of Dust seemed to jump out before their eyes again. She pouted and rubbed her hands together, ready to teach a lesson to the bad guys who wanted to invade their home.

Rain began to fall from the clear winter sky. The immortals showed no reaction and just let the rain fall on their shoulders.

The rain was getting heavier, scattering all the fleeting images before my eyes.

"That was a demon god that escaped from Mount Xumi. The Emperor also asked the Great Compassion Tree King what exactly was so powerful about that guy?"

Grandma Ping stared intently at the sea of ​​clouds and cave in the barrier and spoke slowly.

"He doesn't have much strength and is definitely not a match for Gui Zhong." Zhongli said.

That demon was indeed no match for Gui Zhong. When they turned back, they saw the wreckage of the demon of trickery and deception, which was a horrible sight.

It’s so damn good!

"But Guizhong said that she was seriously injured and sealed herself in the Cloud Sea Cave. At first we thought she would come out soon, but there has been no news since then." Grandma Ping said again.

"Emperor, you once said that there is still the breath of the devil in the Yunhai Cave Heaven, but it is not strong. Could it be her?" Fanan on the side couldn't help but speak.

There was the breath of a demon in the Yunhai Cave Heaven. Zhongli first mentioned this matter accidentally at a party. At that time, everyone fell silent and stared at him blankly.

The silence lasted for a moment, and then everything returned to normal. Everyone tacitly agreed not to mention this matter anymore, but just kept it in their hearts.

They didn't dare to say it out loud, the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

"Around the year 409 of the Teyvat calendar, I once came to the Cloud Sea Cave Heaven." Zhongli revealed a secret known only to him, "But as soon as I approached, Guizhong issued a warning, telling me to stay away immediately."

"Emperor!" Everyone exclaimed in unison.

They also didn't expect that Emperor Rock King would secretly come to Yunhai Cave Heaven and make such a major discovery.

Grandma Ping's eyes were red, and she pushed herself aside to wipe away her tears: "It's good that you're still alive."

"Well, Guizhong is still alive, at least it was a thousand years ago. As for why he wouldn't let me get close, I still don't understand." Zhongli sighed, "My old friend, what's wrong with you?"

In front of the rock where the Cloud Sea Cave Heaven was located, fourteen balls of light flew out and landed outside the barrier.

All the people who were trapped in Yunhai Yingbin came out, and now only Li Qingping and Shen He are left inside.

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Inside the Cloud Sea Cave

Li Qingping and Shen He started chatting on the way forward.

"Have the clothes I bought the day before yesterday been delivered?" Li Qingping asked.

"It was delivered on the same day." Shen He blinked his delicate eyes, "The master even said a few words to me at that time."

"Why would Sister Xianyun teach you a lesson for spending my money?" Li Qingping spoke up for Shen He.

Call her Sister Xianyun, and the old woman starts to show off!

How dare you teach my Shen He a lesson!

"My teacher didn't know about it at first. She's actually quite open-minded and has always supported me in going shopping and buying new clothes. It's me who doesn't want to go out. Apart from my school uniform, everything else is sewn by my teacher herself."

Sister Xianyun, I'm sorry for offending you before. You are young, beautiful and broad-minded. Please don't take it to heart with me!

Shen He saw that Li Qingping was a little flustered.

"what happened to you?"

"Ah! I didn't say anything bad about Sister Xianyun....Go on."

Li Qingping was startled.

You really didn’t say that!

Shen He tilted his head, not understanding what Li Qingping was afraid of.

"But there were so many clothes. She calculated that they cost hundreds of thousands. She was probably worried that I would develop a competitive streak and develop distracting thoughts that would hinder my practice, so she decided to teach me."

"This is my fault. I should have told Sister Xianyun. Didn't you tell her?" Li Qingping clicked his tongue, feeling a little annoyed.

"I only realized she was talking about the clothes after listening to the master's lecture, and then I explained it to her."

"Sister Xianyun won't blame you after she finds out, right?"

"No, she immediately frowned and kept saying things like 'unbelievable', 'the money-grubber has become adaptable', and 'he has ulterior motives'." Shen He thought for a moment, "Is she talking about you? But I don't think she's like you either."

"Ahem," Li Qingping almost gasped for breath, "How could it be me? What did Sister Xianyun say later?"

Li Qingping was never stingy with Shen He, so Shen He didn't think that the person her master was talking about was Li Qingping.

As for ulterior motives.

Shen He thought about it and thought that the master might be saying that she had ulterior motives towards Li Qingping.