Genshin Impact: The Beginning of the Wind

This is not how you use people!

Completely unprepared for his own troubles, Su Feng, with a gloomy expression, once again blamed Sky Island for everything. After all, everything in Teyvat and its 'fate' could be attributed to Sky Island, so if Su Feng didn't hold them accountable, who else could he blame?

Su Feng will remember this grudge!

Unfortunately, settling accounts is one thing, but the immediate situation cannot be ignored either, since he cannot simply watch the abyss before him truly expand.

However, repairing such a huge gap here is not easy. Su Feng could sense that the abyss and Teyvat here are almost directly connected by matter.

If the passage opened between Teyvat and the Abyss under normal circumstances is more like a space jump, then this place is more like a highway that has been built directly!

Destroying such a highway is not as simple as Su Feng repairing Heguan before.

Thinking of this, Su Feng couldn't help but show a pained expression. Sure enough, he was destined to be a hard worker!

Chapter Twenty-One: At worst, Wendy will work for us.

No one knows exactly what Ahmar did back then, but it is clear that the Abyss did open a huge passage in the desert in an attempt to invade Teyvat, and the Red King did take remedial actions after committing an unforgivable sin.

But as the saying goes, spilled water cannot be gathered up again.

Bringing the Abyss into Teyvat was easy, but expelling it from Teyvat is not something a mere Ahmar can do.

The entire desert and even the entire Sumeru region have paid a heavy price to drive away this invasion of the abyss, but in the end, they have only temporarily repelled this wave of abyssal invasion. As for the abyssal passage in front of them—the fact that this thing has been preserved to this day, and that the Crimson King has had to use the Crimson King's Tomb and the two enormous wonders of Aru to fight against it, already says everything.

Solving this massive abyss passage is very difficult. At least Su Feng can sense that using the power of the Law of Death or pure water to repair the world barrier here, as he did before, is completely useless.

Over a long period of time, the abyss had completely eroded everything here, and now the world barrier here has been completely healed.

This 'hole' is supposed to exist in Teyvat's own perception and blueprint!

No matter how powerful Su Feng is, he can't fill in the world barrier that has already been 'healed'—at least not now, as he can only repair it according to the 'blueprint'.

But to patch up a huge, long-lasting patch here—that's impossible!

Unless Su Feng can find a completely new energy source to provide a continuous supply of power, it is simply impossible to do this.

Moreover, no matter how strong and solid the seal or patch is, it can only gradually turn to ashes under endless impact. When facing the erosion of the abyss, the best way now is to make the world barrier itself stronger and directly refuse the abyss from entering.

The erosion from the abyss is no joke. Even if Su Feng can leave some of his power to temporarily block the gap, it will only be a temporary isolation in the short term.

Ahmar, the culprit, was able to seal off the abyss only by relying on the will and spirit of the people in the entire desert to generate a continuous stream of light energy.

Even so, it could only barely manage to do so. In the distant future, even the Crimson King's Tomb would gradually turn into sand and dust, unable to resist the eternal erosion of the abyss.

That's why Su Feng said it was a huge problem that he didn't yet have a solution for.

Su Feng felt that he was facing a huge problem, and the others who came with him naturally couldn't help but react after seeing Su Feng's reaction.

Especially after hearing Su Feng's description of the current situation at the Crimson King's Mausoleum, even the usually aloof Elhesen couldn't help but change his expression drastically.

As the kingdom closest to the main battlefield of the calamity five hundred years ago, Sumeru once suffered greatly from the abyss.

It could even be said that the reason why the Church Council has not achieved much in the past five hundred years is entirely due to the aftermath of the great disaster five hundred years ago.

After losing the Great Tree King and numerous sages and scholars, the Order of the Church was severely weakened. If it weren't for the existence of the Void System, its lineage might have been broken.

Even so, the Order of the Church has not yet recovered, and the worsening pollution of the abyss in the World Tree has severely affected the recovery of Sumeru.

It was under these various stimuli that the Church Council chose the blasphemous plan of creating gods.

If, as Su Feng claims, the area beneath the Crimson King's Tomb is a massive passage large enough to cause the Abyss to repeat the catastrophe of five hundred years ago...

This is a real dilemma.

Both the World Tree and the entrance to the abyss here are crises that could destroy the entire Teyvat, and neither of them seems like something that can be ignored for the time being.

But it is clearly unwise to expect Su Feng to handle everything alone.

Although in Elhesen's eyes Sufeng was definitely a mysterious and unfamiliar god, there were many gods in Teyvat who fell while fighting against the Abyss.

History has repeatedly proven that even powerful gods are not omnipotent.

"How can we help you now?"

Although Elhesen's face was extremely pale at this moment, he was still the calmest one among everyone present.

"Phew~ I need to go inside and see for myself how to do it. As for you guys... take this stone slab to the center of the Crimson King's Tomb."

After taking a deep breath, Su Feng explained his plan.

“I have left enough power in this stone slab. As long as you bring this stone slab to the control center of the Crimson King’s Mausoleum, I can naturally take over the control of the entire Crimson King’s Mausoleum.”

"This way, even in the worst-case scenario, I can control the Crimson King's Tomb to temporarily and completely block the entire passage at maximum power!"

Although the arrangement seemed rather hasty, and there were countless unexpected situations that could arise during the entire operation, Su Feng couldn't find a better way than to just start taking action.

After all, he couldn't possibly figure out what was going on here and fix this huge gap just by staring at this massive abyss passage.

To find a solution to the problem, we must understand the specific situation here, and right now, apart from Su Feng personally venturing into this huge abyss gap, there is naturally no other choice.

"I understand. I'm sorry we can't offer you any more help and might even be a burden to you."

"So if necessary, abandoning us directly is not an unacceptable thing."

Among the group, Elhesen was the calmest. After forcibly calming himself down, he decisively took the stone slab from Su Feng, which had begun to shimmer after being filled with a huge amount of light energy.

Just as he said, when faced with an abyss of such scale, they mortals were nothing but a useless burden. It was precisely because he was very clear about this that Elhesen said decisively that they could be abandoned at any time.

Although this sounds rather...cold, it is the truth.

"That kind of thing doesn't matter. As long as you stay in the core area of ​​the Crimson King's Mausoleum, you should be safe. After all, that should be the place with the most concentrated light energy in the entire Crimson King's Mausoleum. Even the Abyss cannot corrupt you there."

"And don't underestimate me. A mere abyss passage can't do anything to me."

Su Feng neither agreed nor disagreed with Elhesen's words. In his opinion, even if he couldn't find a way to repair the passage, he wouldn't be defeated here because of it—if he couldn't deal with the Abyss, couldn't he at least run away?

When the time comes, it won't be a big problem for him to temporarily seal off this abyss passage with the help of the enormous wonder left behind by the Red King.

As for what to do next... as long as we stall for a little time, Su Feng doesn't believe that the entire Teyvat region won't find a solution!

If things get really bad, we can just bring Wendy over to work for us!

Chapter Twenty-Two: Breaking Through the Passage

To ascend to Aru, one must possess the form of a vulture, hovering in the netherworld…

Only by consuming three organs can one obtain Ahmar's promise to fly across the river in the form of a falcon...

The mortal world is like a river flowing between the underworld and the realm of Aru. Mortals cannot cross it, cannot test it, and cannot covet it. Those who disobey will be forever condemned to the underworld.

Few people know the details of what happened in the desert, but it is not a secret that Ahmar had some interaction with the Abyss and even made some kind of deal with it.

What else could it be but falling into the abyss?

When Su Feng arrived at the lower level of the Crimson King's Tomb, he naturally saw the place that required "soaring through the Netherworld"—a bottomless hall that was completely unfathomable. After seeing this huge and terrifying hall, Su Feng realized that Ahmar had indeed played a very big game back then.

"You guys had a blast playing around with those fancy tricks back then, but then you just abandoned the group and went back to the Source Sea. Now I have to clean up this mess—I really want to drag you all out and teach you a lesson!"

The hall before him, which caused no ripples to mortals but had actually become an endless battlefield of abyssal power and light realm power in another dimension, made Su Feng unable to help but let out such a low angry murmur.

The immense abyssal power emanating from here demonstrates that the abyss has never given up on this passage that connects to the mortal world. However, the methods left behind by Ahmar have indeed been effective—at least until now, the abyss has not broken through the blockade here.

What Su Feng needs to do now is to temporarily bypass this chaotic battlefield and try to go to the passage to enter the opposite dimension to see what the abyss has prepared on the other side.

Then we need to see if we can find an opportunity to block this passage—even if we can't block it, we need to find a way to build a sturdier door for it.

Fortunately, although a massive amount of light and abyssal power are constantly clashing here, neither side has enough powerful figures to coordinate the conflict, so the battle between the two sides is more like a natural phenomenon.

This situation naturally gave Su Feng an opportunity to fish in troubled waters. After all, while it was difficult to slip by silently in the midst of a violent energy clash, it was not impossible as long as he concealed his presence.

But if there's a powerful enough force here to coordinate things, it won't be so easy.

Perhaps this is why the unattended Red King's Tomb has been able to persist until now?

However, this was not something Su Feng needed to consider at the moment. Relying on the two powerful forces that were merely instinctively clashing, Su Feng silently slid down the edge of the abyss passage.

Normally, moving back and forth between different dimensions is not a simple matter. Even Sky Island requires the use of tools like the Soul Ferry to cross over.

Although Sky Island can be seen by looking up in the mortal world, it is absolutely impossible to get close to Sky Island by flying, because the two are actually in completely different dimensions.

The main reason this massive abyss passage can connect the two sides is that the world barrier here has been thoroughly and cleanly corroded, directly linking the two sides in space.

The cost of maintaining this corrosion is terrifying, but the Abyss clearly doesn't care about that cost.

Even Su Feng, who could silently transform into a wisp of breeze and conceal all his power, found it difficult to move forward in this enormous abyss tunnel.

Because the power of the abyss here is becoming more and more concentrated, and when the power of the abyss transforms into an endless pool of pure water, even Su Feng, who is now just a wisp of breeze, still stands out like a string of bubbles in this water.

In other words, he hasn't encountered any living beings yet; otherwise, no matter how well he hides himself, he would inevitably be discovered—after all, he is far too conspicuous right now.

More importantly, as they delved deeper into the situation, Su Feng's mood gradually worsened.

He discovered that the abyssal power accumulated behind the tunnel was far greater than he had imagined, even exceeding his expectations.

The Abyss is a powerful force on par with, or even more so than, the Light Element. As a degraded form of the Light Element, elemental forces are inherently at a disadvantage when facing the Abyss. This is why the mortal world is generally extremely passive when it comes to breaches in the Abyss.

If there is absolutely no other way, then to seal the breach in the abyss, one must accumulate dozens or even hundreds of times more elemental power to barely prevent the abyss from further eroding the mortal world in a short period of time.

While using light-based force doesn't require the terrifying quantity of elemental force, it still requires at least twice as much for greater safety.

It is precisely because of this asymmetry between the two sides that Ahmar chose to gather the power of the entire desert and transform it into a massive force of light to seal this huge abyss passage.

At first, Su Feng also thought that Ahmar had succeeded—after all, this huge tunnel had existed for over a thousand years, but so far there had been no problems.

However, once he ventured deeper into the tunnel, Su Feng realized that his idea was wrong.

Because the abyssal power accumulated behind the tunnel far exceeded his imagination. Now, not only is the light force above twice the abyssal power, but the abyssal power is actually several times or even dozens of times the light force that Ahmar has gathered!

Who is actually guarding against whom?

The sheer volume of abyssal power accumulated so much that Su Feng was extremely puzzled as to what the abyss was doing, while also becoming extremely wary.

After all, it would be no joke if such a massive amount of abyssal power were to suddenly erupt.

Although Su Feng was confident in his own strength, he didn't think he could withstand such a massive amount of abyssal power. It was true that Herrschers could extract imaginary energy without limit, but their output limit in a short period of time was also fixed!

Although amazed by the accumulated power of the abyss here, Su Feng did not choose to turn back. Instead, he accelerated his pace of exploration. He wanted to see what was going on!

"Om~"

As Su Feng ventured deeper, he soon broke through the thick layer of accumulated power, and the next moment he suddenly burst out of a deep and terrifying lake filled with abyssal power.

Unable to control himself for a moment, Su Feng suddenly lost the terrifying suppression around him and transformed into a huge storm that spread out.