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"Just like the bamboo and wood you cut down—logically speaking, the cause of separation comes first, and then the effect of death. But the world we see is different; the effect of death comes first, and then the cause of separation comes second."

“I know this is hard to understand, but in Teyvat, in our eyes it is something that can happen…”

What she said was undoubtedly somewhat abstract, but Gu Hua and Han Fulai, who was listening in, said in unison, "When a person is killed, they die?"

This statement sounds like a truism, but after the appearance of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, it took on a very real meaning.

The "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception" that Gu Hua obtained is actually a manifestation of this statement—replacing the "effect" of "death" with the cause of "being killed".

The phrase "because he was killed, he died" is reversed to "he died because he was killed," implying that the arrow was shot first, and the target was drawn later.

"Direct death" is the ability to reverse cause and effect.

Bai Chen nodded and said, "Essentially, it is a power belonging to 'time'. You see the end of things in the future ahead of time and bring that end to the present through your hands."

"If you were given enough time, you could certainly observe and experiment little by little to find the most vulnerable part of the bamboo or wood, or chip away at the rock into powder little by little... But the ability I give you is to infinitely shorten this time and bring it from the distant future to the reality of the next second."

“You can think of this ability as a kind of ‘prophecy.’ You’ve set a ‘prophecy’ and are fulfilling it yourself. To do that, you yourself need to have the ability to ‘fulfill prophecies,’ understand?”

Although Gu Hua was still a little confused, he knew very well what he should do—in short, he should become stronger first.

Become stronger than you are now for the sake of the people you love.

There are many ways to become stronger, but extensive and repeated practice is undoubtedly the most basic and common way.

As an elite test-taker from China, Gu Hua was already used to cramming for exams.

—In the future, this ordinary greatsword in his hand will be revered by bandits and outlaws as "the beacon of the underworld".

Once you catch a glimpse of the "Rain Cutter's" brilliance, you will never be able to embark on your journey home.

If you catch a glimpse of the "Rain Cutter's" brilliance, be prepared to perish.

The "beacon of the underworld" is thus feared.

No one knew that Gu Hua was repeatedly honing his "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception," and that the "Rain Cut" sword, through his extensive practice, had been elevated to the level of a divine artifact, equivalent to the concept of "death."

But now, Han Fulai knows.

Han Fulai recalled the "Rain-Cutting" sword enshrined in the Wangshan Hall at the old site of the Guhua Sect's mountain gate. The "Rain-Cutting" sword was inserted into a stone platform, half of it embedded in the stone, just like the legendary "sword in the stone".

Last year, he went to Wangshan Hall with Zhiruo and tried to pull out the "sword in the stone".

He tried everything he could but couldn't budge the greatsword at all, and even wondered if he would need a blonde beauty—like Yingmei—to pull out the "sword in the stone".

Now he understood that what was needed to pull out the "Sword in the Stone" was not a blonde beauty, but the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception," the power of "time."

The "Rain Cutting" inserted into the stone, just like when Gu Hua "sent" the sword into the mountain rock before, transformed into the "scabbard" of the "Rain Cutting," fitting perfectly and becoming one with it.

To pull out the "rain cutter," one needs to see the "death" of the rock.

Only by killing the "scabbard" can the sword be drawn.

Perhaps before reaching Sky Island, Gu Hua foresaw his own end... so he left behind his gun and sword, waiting for a successor to carry on his unfinished work—

"A knight-errant uses martial arts to break the law."

At this point, Han Fulai finally understood the profound meaning behind the inscription Gu Hua left on the sword hilt.

The "forbidden" that the chivalrous Gu Hua is about to violate is the "false heaven," which is the "heavenly prohibition."

Only those who can shoulder the weight of the world are qualified to take up their sword and finish what they have not yet done.

Han Fulai was not qualified at that time.

But Han Fulai has now.

In the illusion, Gu Hua opened his right hand and clenched it into a fist towards the island in the sky, as if he wanted to hold the world in his palm.

At this moment, he was full of ambition, imagining the day he would set foot on Sky Island and change the world.

Han Fulai, who was standing in front of him, also raised his right hand and made a loose fist.

As the gods, Ying, and Paimon gazed at each other, the fists of the two men touched lightly across two different times and spaces.

Just like back in the day when we played online games in the dorm, when the support player "Hu Ye" fell, the main DPS player "Han Fei" would inevitably make him hear the "Rampage" sound effect.

"The rest is up to you."

Han Fulai seemed to hear Hu Ye's voice.

With a light touch of their fists, Gu Hua and Bai Chen vanished without a trace.

Along with the ground beneath their feet and the bamboo forest beside them, everything turned into white ribbons of light that flowed into Han Fulai's hands.

Han Fulai clenched his fist silently, feeling the "seed of time" flow into his body, remaining silent for a long time.

The Divine Child, Ying, and Paimon also quietly stayed with him in silence.

It wasn't until Abe, who had been standing to the side for a long time, broke the silence that the silence was broken: "Have you found the legacy of the 'Heavenly Envoy'?"

In his eyes, the sudden disappearance and reappearance of these descendants of the "Heavenly Envoys" happened in the blink of an eye. However, he could clearly sense that the aura emanating from these descendants of the "Heavenly Envoys" was different from before.

Especially that young man.

After a long while, Abe vaguely felt the oppressive aura he had felt when he met the "Heavenly Envoy" in his previous life, which almost made him want to kneel down.

Han Fulai seemed to snap out of his reverie at his question, turned around, nodded at him, and gave him a gentle smile: "Thank you for preserving the legacy of the 'Heavenly Envoy,' which allowed us to learn the truth of what happened back then."

Abe didn't ask them what they had seen for a long time; it wasn't something he should know.

His wish has been fulfilled, and he has no regrets, as he was able to pass on the wisdom of the "Great God of the World" and the legacy of the "Hero of Heaven" to future generations.

He placed his hand on his chest and bowed his head deeply: "Then, I will open the path for you to ascend to the top of Helios. I beg you to cleanse the darkness and dispel the eternal night of gloom."

Han Fulai nodded, took out the "Imperial Reins," and recited the "Word of Power" towards the altar: "I am Alpha, I am Omega, I am the One who was, is, and will be."

The bridle emitted a sun-like radiance that shone directly into the altar, causing the altar to glow brightly and rise with a golden pillar of light.

A golden beam of light lifted the ceiling of the "Secluded Chamber," instantly bathing the dark, night-like chamber in bright sunlight.

Han Fulai and the others stepped into the pillar of light and were lifted into the sky by it.

In the sunlight, Abe's long-held "spirit of the eternal world" slowly faded and dissolved.

Until he disappeared, Abe's face remained beaming with a contented smile.

Because he has already seen the light.

Chapter 347 The Eyes That Bear Witness the Oath [4k]

During their ascent to the top of the "Great Sun Imperial Palace" tower by riding the pillar of light, none of them uttered a word.

Han Fulai was naturally contemplating the matter of Gu Hua, while Shenzi was deeply shocked by the background of his ancestor.

...It turns out that her ancestors had been thinking about "taking over Sky Island" thousands of years ago, and even put it into practice with the help of a "visitor from outside the world".

In this light, her past life connection with Han Fulai may have traced back thousands of years, or even to another world... The saying of the "Three Lives Stone" may not be false; fate is predetermined, and its origins are not without reason.

More importantly, she inherited a "supernatural power" from her ancestor Bai Chen and from the bloodline of "Cheng Huang"—the "Heavenly Eye" that is said to be able to see into the future.

By the time of the Divine Child, the power inherited in her bloodline had become extremely weak. Most of the time, when she used "Heavenly Eye," it was merely a substitute for "Elemental Vision," and she rarely managed to glimpse the future. Moreover, the future she saw was often just a fragmented piece, like a fleeting trace in the snow, a glimpse of light in a piece of fur.

She had no idea when or why those fragments occurred, and it was difficult for her to use the future she foresaw as a reference for reality.

Just like what people call "precognitive dreams," most of the content is often forgotten upon waking up, and only after the events in the dream occur in reality will a vague sense of déjà vu arise.

Such "clairvoyance" can only be described as "better than nothing".

Only when she assimilated her soul with the Divine Cherry Tree and the Inazuma Earth Vein, and received the blessing of the remnant soul of the Fox Palace, could she unleash the full power of her bloodline and truly glimpse the future to some extent.

Even so, her vision of the future was extremely limited. She could not do as she pleased and could only see some fragments of the future related to the "historical process" of Inazuma, with a time span of only twenty years.

For the demon race, whose time spans are often measured in millennia, a mere twenty years is but a fleeting moment, practically meaningless; it could easily pass in the blink of an eye while they nap in their cave. Take, for example, that tanuki demon, Wu Baizang, who plays the role of a stone statue in the "Guardian Forest"—he could play hide-and-seek with the Fox Palace for five hundred years…

Of course, the goddess is not an ordinary fox; she is a fox spirit who has become a demon, and she is an extremely intelligent fox.

Even if it's a "fragment of the future" that has no meaning for demons, immortals, and gods—especially a god like Ah Ying whose mind isn't particularly sharp—it's enough for her to see and cause great upheavals.

Just seeing the Coral Palace's resistance forces set foot on Hachiman Island, seeing a black ship sailing from distant Liyue... was enough for her to devise a plan, step by step, to change Inazuma's future twenty years from now, to change Inazuma's future shrouded in crimson moonlight.

After all, she is a fox spirit priestess who possesses both wisdom and beauty!

But the true "divine eye," the special eye possessed by her ancestor Bai Chen, was the ultimate "futuristic vision"—the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception"—capable of seeing into the future thousands of years in advance.

Such a powerful force is hidden within her bloodline.

A power capable of reversing cause and effect, even enough to "kill a god"!

So it seems that her coming to Yuanxia Palace with Han Fu to break the seal containing the ancestral inheritance was truly a "fate" decided thousands of years ago... a "fate" decided by her ancestor Bai Chen.

So, what kind of future will the "fate" arranged by their ancestors bring to her and him?

Even the divine child, who had seen countless storms over the past five hundred years, couldn't help but feel uneasy at this moment.

Paimon, who is always very talkative, and Yingmei, who is always referred to as "the mouth of God" by Paimon, are both silent on the surface but have a rich inner world. They have also remained silent since they came out of the illusion.

They were both thinking the same thing—

Bai Chen said to Gu Hua, "Without something as sublime as a world, how dare you speak of 'slaying a god'?"

They had both heard a very similar saying before.

And it's a phrase I hear in every country I visit:

"The whole world will open up to you as long as you don't lose your nobility."

—When they come into contact with the "Seven Statues" of the Seven Kingdoms and try to obtain the elemental power contained within them, Luminous and Paimon will definitely hear this sentence.

If Ying's identity as a "Descendant" represents the so-called "sublimity comparable to a world," does that mean that in the future, she will ascend to Sky Island and then... "kill a god"?

A few minutes later, Han Fulai and the others ascended to the top of the "Great Sun Chariot" tower along with the rising pillar of light, and saw the "Sun Chariot" called "Helios" by the people of Baiye at the closest distance.

Helios himself is placed inside a suspended triangular stone chamber platform, and a tall and majestic statue stands at the entrance of the platform, protecting Helios like a guardian.

The statue is dressed in a long robe in the style of ancient Greece, and its face is as indistinct as the other statues in the Yuanxia Palace. What makes it unique is that the statue holds a round balance bar in its left hand, while its right hand holds a cluster of coral branches that emit a faint light.

The divine child recognized the statue's identity: "This is a statue of the 'Sea God's Envoy,' with the same design as the one we saw in the 'Land of the Serpent's Heart'... except that this statue does not have a half-human, half-serpent appearance, but is a completely human figure."

Ying and Paimon looked at it carefully and nodded in agreement. They remembered that the statue in the "Serpent's Heart" was also holding something in its hands. However, because the upper body of that statue had been almost completely flattened, the object it was holding had also been cut off, so they hadn't been able to recognize the similarity earlier.

However, the statue's identity was no longer their concern. Through the crack in the window behind the statue, they could already see what Helios looked like.

Before coming here, the four of them had discussed the appearance of the "Dainichi Mikoto".

Han Fulai and Shenzi guessed that it should be similar to the "Light Realm Cone and Chisel" at the top of the "Virtual Realm Tower" - after all, the light realm power released by the "Light Realm Cone and Chisel" comes from the "Great Sun Imperial Carriage", so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the "clone" or "terminal" of the "Great Sun Imperial Carriage".

Ying and Paimon, however, believe it is likely to be shaped like a "chariot" or something similar—because its name is "Sun Chariot"!

But when they actually saw Helios, they realized they had been wrong.

Helios is a gigantic, luminous cube suspended in mid-air, more than ten meters in diameter. Even if you stand on tiptoe and crane your neck, you cannot see its entirety. It rotates constantly like a star, radiating light and heat outwards.

Standing near Helios, the group felt as if they were in the legendary "Sea of ​​Ashes," and their clothes were soaked with sweat in no time.

Outside Helios, there was a ring of triangular stone structures. These triangular structures revolved around the cube. Occasionally, bolts of electricity could be seen shooting out from within the cube, only to be blocked by an unknown force upon contact with the triangular structures, turning into curved arcs of electricity before disappearing, reappearing, and vanishing again…

Directly below Helios stands a scaled-down model of Helios.

This model is more complex than the main body above. Although the core is also a central cube, instead of a single outer ring of structures, there are four rings revolving around the cube. These rings rotate and revolve in different directions, either vertically or horizontally, intersecting, overlapping, and separating, creating strange arcs of electricity.

Upon seeing the model, Han Fulai's pupils suddenly contracted.

He realized that Helios was neither a "triangular pyramid" nor a "chariot"—if Han Fulai were to describe the structure of Helios using modern scientific knowledge, he would say that it was a Teyvat-style high-tech version of a "tokamak device".

The outer ring of structures revolving around the cube consists of circumferential and polar magnetic field coils, while the central cube is the central solenoid valve, and the occasional electric arcs emitted are plasma flows...

To put it bluntly, this "wise man" Abe no Yoshihisa has actually created an "artificial sun" and a "controlled nuclear fusion device" by hand!

Han Fulai began to regret not having learned the "sealing technique" from the True Lord of Lishui Dieshan.

If I had known that the "Great Sun Chariot" was such an amazing thing, I should have sealed Abe no Yoru's soul in amber, brought it to the "Liyue Academy of Arts" to be appointed as an academician, and let it shine for Liyue for thousands of years!

Now that Abe's soul has been freed from its torment, he is heartbroken...

...Well, on the bright side, although Abe no Yoshihisa, who built the "Dainichi Mikoto," is no longer here, at least the "Dainichi Mikoto" is still under his control.

When the time comes, we'll invite Academicians like Liuyun, Lishui, and Xiaoyue to come and study this "Dairi Mikoto." Perhaps we can replicate it.

However, this technology is likely to violate the taboos of Sky Isles. Even if it is successfully developed, it may not be able to be publicly displayed on the Teyvat continent now. It would be better to discuss this matter further when we return.

Speaking of which, there is also such an "artificial sun" on the "False Heaven" of Teyvat. Abe no Yoshihisa's technology was taught by the "Great God of the World," Ishtar, which means that Sky Isles must possess a more advanced propulsion technology than this "Great Sun Chariot," capable of enabling spaceships to travel through interstellar space.

If they could actually storm Sky Island, successfully "rebel," and seize the bird's throne, they would have everything they wanted and wouldn't care about temporary gains or losses.

If the "rebellion" fails... what will he care about the devastation after he dies?

While Han Fulai was pondering the application of Teyvat's advanced technology, the restless Paimon finally spoke up: "By the way, what should be the next step for the 'Triangle Road Feast'?"