"The adepti have already reached Liyue Harbor."
Zhongli's first sentence made Orion lose his composure.
He finally understood why Zhongli had been displayed as "character occupied" earlier; the main storyline over there was seamless, so how could it not be occupied?
But that didn't seem right? How could the Liyue main storyline be this fast? Wasn't there a plot point where someone calls Ganyu "Wang Xiaomei"? Where did that part go?
After thinking it over, Orion covered his face with his hand.
Oh no, it seemed that when Ganyu asked him out, they had accidentally completed that plot segment along the way.
The essence of that plot was Zhongli and the others needing to pick a glaze lily and running into Ganyu; it seemed Ganyu had indeed given them a glaze lily last time, meaning the Qiqi plot and the Ganyu plot had merged.
Zhongli looked at Orion's expression and seemed to understand something: "That is why I say Descenders are unreasonable."
"Stop scolding, stop scolding."
Orion cast his gaze over the boundless sea of monsters, looking at Azhdaha, who was struggling to climb out of the ground in the distance: "You didn't pull me out just to insult me twice, did you?"
Zhongli sighed heavily, then also looked toward Azhdaha.
After two seconds of silence, he spoke: "Irminsul and the Ley Lines were not originally part of Teyvat."
He reached out, and the Memory of Dust appeared in his hand: "For the current Teyvat, the Ley Lines bear the responsibility of recording, storing, and transporting all information; even the cognition of all living and non-living things within Teyvat's destiny is influenced by the information within Irminsul."
"And these Ley Lines exist beneath the earth, adhering to the primordial rock like veins, intertwined like tree roots."
"However, this Irminsul and the Ley Lines themselves were brought from outside the sky by the one in the high heavens; the original information storage object of Teyvat was the primordial fire."
"But, before the King of Fire Dragons passed away, he seemed to have hollowed out the primordial fire, and for some unknown reason, turned it into some kind of weapon; the Ley Lines thus rightfully became the new information route."
Zhongli looked at Orion: "This is the truth behind Azhdaha's erode; born from the primordial rock, he did not originally possess the ability to protect himself from being unscathed amidst the deluge of massive information."
"He was once one of the adepti who protected Liyue, and was ravaged by time into his current state."
"You want me to save him?" Orion asked.
Zhongli nodded: "You mentioned last time that you seem to possess some kind of ability to corrode information; I would like you to see if you can do something about him. I no longer wish to see my old friend suffer."
"You two really are a pair of star-crossed lovers."
"What kind of strange talk is this now?" Even Zhongli's six thousand years of composure were slightly broken; did he not look at the occasion when saying such absurd things?
Orion chuckled; he had wanted to say that for a long time. He pointed behind him: "Then take good care of them; they are all your people."
Seeing that Orion had agreed, Zhongli smiled and shook his head: "They have never been anyone's property, but the consultant of WangSheng Funeral Parlor does not take a salary for nothing."
"Ah, is that not so?"
"Have I ever taken a salary for nothing?"
"Hu Tao watches me loot treasure chests and—"
"Go deal with Azhdaha."
"She told me I'm practically her God of Wealth."
"Go quickly, go quickly."
In the end, Orion walked toward the edge of the shield while bickering with Zhongli, while Zhongli walked back to Hu Tao and the others.
Hu Tao and Keqing discovered that Orion was walking toward the edge of the barrier all by himself, and both of them were somewhat panicked.
"Oh my, my great consultant Zhongli! You can't just bully Orion because he's not from Teyv... not a local!"
"Mr. Zhongli, it's too dangerous for Orion to rush out alone!"
Zhongli raised an eyebrow and looked at the two women, finally answering truthfully: "You will understand when you watch."
On the side, Jahoda silently walked to Yelan's side and hid behind her.
—This big sister gives off the same feeling as the boss; how reassuring~
Yelan looked at Jahoda, who had huddled up to her, and raised an eyebrow: "Are you the little girl by Nefer's side?"
"Eh?! You, you really know the boss?!" Jahoda was shocked.
Yelan smiled slightly: "She and I are business partners."
Jahoda was overjoyed: "To think I could run into an acquaintance here; as expected, there are still many good people in the world!"
Yelan smiled but didn't pay further attention to Jahoda; she also looked in Orion's direction with a solemn expression.
Not just them, but the Millelith behind them, the people from WangSheng Funeral Parlor, and even the workers who were slowly waking up saw the scene of Orion walking toward the edge of the barrier.
With a "boom," a colossal creature blocked his path; it was that Geovishap nearly twenty meters tall!
Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but feel anxious; he was only one person, could he really break through the layers of blockade of this horde of monsters?
Orion had now reached the edge of the shield and walked straight out just like that, without putting on even a shred of a shield; he walked out with his physical body!
"ROAR!!!!!"
The Geovishap knew how to strike first; as a Geo Element Geovishap, its body actually had many colors of light flowing across it!
"It's not a single-element creature! Four colors, plus the original Geo Element; can such a creature really exist on Teyvat?" Jahoda couldn't help but exclaim, voicing the thoughts of everyone else.
No sooner said than done, multiple Elemental Powers surged from the Geovishap simultaneously; light of fire and ice erupted from its fists, and a breath attack was even gathering in its mouth!
Orion saw this and calmly stepped forward two paces: "Excuse me, passing through."
The next moment, Orion's figure had already appeared behind the Geovishap, and the Geovishap—
"BOOM!!!"
With a dull thud, everyone looked up again and saw a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives.
That huge Geovishap had now turned into a pile of minced meat, unrecognizable from its previous appearance!
No, not just it.
It was all the monsters along the way that had turned into a pile of minced meat; Orion had actually used his physical body to crash out a path through the sea of monsters!
And at this moment, Orion had already arrived in front of Azhdaha, staring face-to-face with the bewildered Azhdaha.
Hu Tao sighed in relief, then spread her hands: "Wait, he has this level of physical strength, why does he still have such a strong Elemental Skill? Can he even use it all?"
"He cannot," Zhongli said. "I asked him, and he said he is often troubled by not knowing which ability to use to instantly kill his opponent."
"That is truly troubling."
Keqing looked at Zhongli: "Mr. Zhongli, can you control the permeability of the shield?"
"What do you mean?" Zhongli asked back.
Keqing gestured with both hands: "Look, we are currently inside Orion's shield, and outside Orion's shield is your shield."
"If you could let a small portion of monsters pass through the Jade Shield each time, they would be blocked by Orion's shield after entering. Not only would they be unable to hurt us, but they would also be trapped between the two layers of shields. That way, I only need to have the Millelith use their spears to poke the monsters to death from the inside."
Zhongli's expression brightened, and then he only said two words.
"Feasible!"
And at the very front of the battlefield, Orion was still staring at Azhdaha.
"Are you not going to continue climbing out?" Orion asked.
Azhdaha also let out a roar, struggling even more violently. At this point, the seal set by Zhongli had almost completely disappeared, and only a small part of Azhdaha remained underground.
But it was too slow.
Orion felt it was too slow.
He smiled and said to Azhdaha: "Time is running out～ (∠・ω＜) ⌒★!"
After speaking, he grabbed Azhdaha's brilliant golden crown and threw it upward with all his might!
For a moment, Azhdaha felt a massive force spread throughout its entire body; the immense power actually broke through the remaining seals directly!
Just like the soil and roots flying up when a tree is pulled out, the soil and rocks around the Fulong Tree, the entire ground surface, were all turned over by this move! Azhdaha was actually grabbed by the head and thrown into the air in its entirety!
This scene was too shocking in every way; everyone was dumbfounded by this sight.
But it didn't end there; Orion's arm slammed down, and Azhdaha's massive body, over eight hundred meters long, was actually smashed directly onto the ground just like that!
Rocks shattered, rivers flowed backward! The moment Azhdaha's dragon body hit the ground, the rock layers on the ground actually undulated like waves, and even the people inside the shield were shaken into the air by several centimeters for an instant.
Orion tapped on Azhdaha's dragon horns with his hand, green Anemo Element flowing over his body, and countless Anemo Element Wolfy were summoned.
"Come on, let's continue, Azhdaha."
"From now on, the battle officially begins."
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