Walnut used me to boost her sales performance.

Kong and Jiang Bai are very much like the humans of this world.

He's even more like Jiang Bai.

Chapter 253 Little Jiang Bai, Overestimating His Abilities

"Phew, the experiment is finally over!"

Paimon rejoiced upon receiving the Mora from Abedo.

"Now that we have Mora, what's next?"

After thinking for a moment, he thought, "I want to go to the top of the mountain and take a look."

Since they were already here, it would be a shame not to go to the top of the mountain and take a look. He also wanted to see what the Frost Nail looked like.

Abedo kindly asked, "Do you need me to take you there?"

"Great! We were just worried about not knowing the way!"

After packing their things, Abedo led the two of them up the mountain.

He saw many collapsed buildings in the air and, recalling the contents of that book, gently stroked the patterns that were still clearly visible on the buildings.

The ancient kingdom that flourished a thousand years ago is now reduced to these massive stone pillars, a testament to its existence.

Seeing him staring at the patterns, Abedo suddenly asked, "Do you remember when you and your sister came to Teyvat?"

Kong shook his head. "I don't know either."

He didn't know how long he had been asleep, how long he had been separated from his sister, or even when he had arrived in Teyvat.

His memory seems to be missing a lot.

He only remembered his sister waking him up, and the two of them preparing to leave this world, when they were stopped by a god who claimed to be the guardian of the natural order.

After that, he knew nothing more.

Kong didn't hide anything from Abedo.

As Mondstadt's top alchemist, he could tell at a glance that he was from another world, so there was no need to hide this from him.

Perhaps we can get some unexpected clues from him?

After listening to Kong recount these events, Abedo fell into deep thought.

Because he had a master who was known as a sinner, he knew some secrets that were unknown to others.

Including the abyss, including the principles of nature.

But what exactly did his sister do to attract the attention of Heaven and Earth, and even to prevent it from intervening?

But he knew too little to offer any useful guesses.

The group remained silent until Paimon finally broke the silence.

"Don't worry, the Knights have already posted missing person notices for us. Once we arrive in Liyue, we'll ask the Liyue Seven Stars to help us find her, and we'll find your sister very soon!"

Kong felt a little better. "Yes, thank you, Paimon."

After he finishes reading the Frostfire Nail, he'll have to head to Liyue.

Go early, pay Jiang Bai back, and have him show them around Liyue so they can see the local customs and culture.

Speaking of which, Jiang Bai was injured. Has he returned to Liyue yet, or is he still recuperating in Mondstadt?

Let's use the teleportation point to go back to Mondstadt and take a look later.

At this moment, in the Hall of Rebirth.

Jiang Bai, who has an amazing ability to recover, has almost fully recovered from his leg injury, but he still sits in a wheelchair, pretending that he is still injured and is a patient.

In the yard, he slowly lowered the back of his wheelchair, leisurely sunbathing while directing Gudu to water his sweet flowers.

At the same time, he was multitasking, manipulating a stone hoe made of condensed rock elements to turn over the soil.

He planned to plant a batch of the sweet flower seeds that Sugar had given him, and then plant the rest after the sweet flowers he had planted earlier had finished blooming and he had dug them up.

Soil and rock are not the same element, so he cannot directly manipulate the element to loosen the soil and can only resort to using tools.

He has summarized three ways to train elemental power, one of which is to maintain the durability of elemental creations.

For example, build the largest elemental structure that you can currently construct, and maintain it for ten days, a hundred days, a year, or ten years...

By maintaining the existence of creation, his spiritual power will gradually increase over time, and the resulting positive feedback will allow creation to be maintained for even longer.

Over the years, he could never become truly weak, no matter how hard he tried.

It's just that it's relatively slow; it's a process of gradual accumulation.

The second type is the control and precision of element manipulation.

For example, if he could control ten, a hundred, or a thousand stone hoes to turn the soil at the same time, his control over elemental power would be greatly improved.

At that time, manipulating elemental power will be as simple as lifting a finger. He won't even need to pass his thoughts down; the elemental power will already be flowing with his thoughts.

The third method is direct element output.

As long as the total amount of elements that can be controlled is large enough, such as raising a towering mountain on the ground, creating an island out of thin air at sea, or causing a massive earthquake that overturns the entire Lunar Harbor, these are all examples of the ultimate elemental output.

With the addition of the wine vessel, Jiang Bai can now manipulate more than double the amount of rock element, but at most he can only create a small hill of 20 meters. He is still far from being able to move mountains and fill seas.

After being thoroughly defeated by the woman, he decided to use three methods together.

He took some time to go to the outskirts of Liyue Harbor, found a sparsely populated place, and built the largest mountain he could currently create. He only had a little bit of elemental power left that he could still control, for his daily use.

He has held that mountain for two days.

Maintaining such a massive building is exhausting, and he's been feeling lethargic these past few days, completely unwilling to move.

Suddenly, Hu Tao appeared on the roof and threw a fruit over, which Jiang Bai caught.

"Why haven't you gone out these past two days? Are you afraid of seeing Grandpa Zhong?"

That day, in order to scribble on her face, Jiang Bai broke Zhongli's priceless inkstone, overturned the brush holder, damaged the precious carved wolf-hair brush, and even soiled a lot of rare and exquisite orchid-scented Xuan paper...

Of course, the final result was that Zhongli came in, and Jiang Bai didn't finish painting.

In order to avoid dying on the spot, he became even more indebted than before.

"How dare you say that, Master..." Jiang Bai's gaze was filled with resentment as he spoke of this.

Half of them were kicked over by Hu Tao during the struggle, so why was he blamed in the end...?

"Who told you to try and draw a turtle on my face!" Hu Tao said, hands on her hips, completely justified.

"I am the seventy-seventh generation head of the Hall of Rebirth. Don't I have any dignity?!"

Jiang Bai's voice was low and menacing, "Master, you'd better be careful when you sleep at night..."

"Oh, you think you can threaten me, Master?" Walnut crossed her legs, munched on a sunset fruit, and whistled.

"I have Youyou guarding the door. You think you can get into my room tonight? Dream on!"

Jiang Bai used his hand as a sword, pointing it at Hu Tao, "Hmph, once my divine skills are fully mastered, how could your little ghost possibly be a match for me?"

Hu Tao whistled again, "You've got quite the nerve, huh? Well then, I'll be waiting for you to master your skills!"

The little ghost crawled out of her body and defiantly put its hands on its hips.

Little Jiang Bai, overestimating your abilities.

Chapter 254 Sweet Rain

After rambling on for a while, Hu Tao finally got down to business.

"Xiangling invited us to try her new dishes, are you coming?"

"What new dish?"

"I don't know, probably some kind of slime-mushroom dish or something." Hu Tao had developed a phobia of Xiang Ling's bizarre cooking, and she really didn't want to go without Jiang Bai by her side.

Upon hearing the news about the slime sliding into the mushroom, Gudu, who was spitting out water guns to water the Sweet Flower, suddenly went mad, its two eyes turning into X shapes, and it lay on the ground pretending to be dead.

Hu Tao chuckled, "Hey, this little guy's pretty good at playing dead."

"It's okay, I won't eat you." Jiang Bai reassured the exceptionally intelligent little guy, and upon hearing that he wouldn't be eaten, the little guy was fully revived.

"You stay home and watch the house for me, I'll be back later."

The little guy jumped up and bounced twice, indicating that he was fine.

"Let's go, Master."

After staying in the courtyard for two days, Jiang Bai was quite curious to see what new dishes Xiang Ling had made.

As for the slime sliding onto the mushroom, he could accept that.

At this time, not only Xiangling was present at Wanmintang, but her junior sister Yaoyao was also there.

She acted like a little adult, carefully instructing her troublesome senior sister:

"Senior sister, sea monsters are delicious, but you can just cook on Sister Beidou's ship. Don't even think about hunting sea beasts! The sea is not like land. Guoba can't swim, he'll drown!"

Xiangling scratched her head, "I know..."

When Jiang Bai and Hu Tao arrived, this was the scene they saw.

Hu Tao chuckled and silently appeared behind Xiang Ling, intending to give her a good scare while she wasn't paying attention to what was behind her.

Before the pat could even land, Yao Yao pointed it out.

"Sister Hu Tao, my senior sister is timid, please don't scare her all the time."

Xiangling then realized what was happening, crossed her arms, and turned to look at Hu Tao, who was trying to scare her.

Hu Tao showed no embarrassment at having her thoughts exposed, casually placing her hand on Xiang Ling's shoulder. "I came to greet her, why would I scare her?"

"Yaoyao, it's been a long time."

Jiang Bai pushed the wheelchair over and greeted the child he had met once before.

"Oh, it's Brother Jiang Bai!" Yao Yao was delighted to see Jiang Bai, but the next moment, she became anxious. "How did you get hurt? Are you alright? Have you seen Master Bai Shu?"

"It's okay, I'll be fine soon."

Jiang Bai's injuries have almost healed, but he wants to rest for a few more days to allow his bones to heal better. Therefore, he still leaves the rock sealed and goes out in a wheelchair.

"That's good, that's good!" Yao Yao patted her chest and breathed a long sigh of relief.

She took out some snacks from her purse. "Yaoyao brought some sweets. Brother Jiang Bai, would you like some?"

"Thank you, Yao Yao."

Jiang Bai didn't stand on ceremony with the sensible child.

This kid really likes to give people food. The first time we met, I gave him a big radish, and the second time we met, I gave him some snacks.

"What about me? What about mine?" Hu Tao leaned closer and opened her mouth.

Yao Yao thoughtfully put the snack into her mouth.

Hu Tao put her arm around Xiang Ling's shoulder and mumbled between bites, "Didn't you say you made a new dish? Come on, let's go try it."

"It's a sea monster that Hokuto-nee just caught! It's a huge squid, supposedly as big as Hokuto-nee's ship! Hokuto-nee specially had someone bring me one of its tentacles to cook with! This is the first time I've ever cooked with a giant deep-sea squid!"

"A squid the size of a ship!" Hu Tao's eyes lit up instantly.

How big must this squid be!

"It's ready, come and try it out." With that, Xiangling beckoned the group into the shop.

Just then, Guoba brought out the dishes, jumping and waving at them, "Lulu~"

"Come and eat the crispy rice crust too."

The table was laden with a wide variety of dishes: deep-fried squid, dry-fried squid, stir-fried squid, squid sashimi... all sorts of cooking methods were available.

Seeing that it was a normal dish, Hu Tao breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems Captain Beidou has had a very fruitful voyage this time!"

"Yes, Sister Beidou also asked me to help in the kitchen on the ship for a few days. The crew members all miss my cooking."

Walnut picked up a piece of meat and stuffed it into her mouth, saying, "Then I'll have to eat more, because I won't be able to eat your cooking for the next few days!"