Genshin Impact: The Beginning of the Wind

Even names...even names couldn't be preserved.

If everything about the Great Tree King were completely erased from within the World Tree, then in the end there would only be one outcome—the existence of the Great Tree King would be forever removed from all inscriptions.

Everything she has will be completely replaced by Nasita. After that, the grass god named Nasita will become the first generation of gods like Wendy and Zhongli. The name of the Great Tree King will not even remain.

But this is not fair. Why can't the victims even leave their names in the end? This is something Nasita cannot accept!

“Nasida…I…”

"So, would you two be willing to listen to what I have to say?"

Nasita's little mood was nothing to the Great Tree King. She was just about to continue to persuade this child who had suffered so much, but at this moment, Su Feng, who had been watching all this with his arms crossed, suddenly interrupted their conversation.

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After drawing everyone's attention, Su Feng casually opened his palm, and then strands of dark red energy spread from his palm toward the Great Tree King. Upon seeing this, neither Nasita nor the Great Tree King resisted Su Feng.

To be more precise, the Great Tree King was just looking at Su Feng with some curiosity, while Nasita on the other side, although she didn't know what Su Feng was doing, was looking at the Great Tree King with great tension, her small hands clasped together as if she were praying to someone.

"Well!"

The Great Compassion Tree King, which was quickly enveloped by the dark red energy released by Su Feng, frowned. At the same time, a wisp of dark purple light that looked rather bad was also drawn out of her body!

"This is..."

Upon witnessing this scene, Nasita became excited, while the Great Tree King was also quite surprised after seeing the forbidden knowledge extracted from her body. She never expected that Su Feng could be able to extract forbidden knowledge from his information collection to such an extent.

This is something she herself couldn't achieve; otherwise, she wouldn't have been reduced to just this one wisp of consciousness remaining in the World Tree.

"If possible, please don't delete everything about yourself. I'm afraid that if you do, Nasida might not be able to handle the current Sumeru and the possible disasters that may occur later."

"After all, she is just a child who is over five hundred years old."

Su Feng naturally enjoyed Nasita's excited and admiring gaze while teasing the little girl a bit. Sure enough, he saw Nasita's face, which was originally full of surprise, turn into a puff of puffs at a visible speed.

Although she did have some immature aspects, it was still somewhat upsetting for Su Feng to point them out, especially since Su Feng was younger than her. Nasida was even angrier.

However, neither the Great Tree King nor Su Feng paid much attention to Nasida's sullen appearance. In fact, the Great Tree King found Nasida even more amusing after seeing her like this.

Fortunately, everyone didn't have much time to tease Nasita right now. It was more important to resolve the forbidden knowledge in the World Tree—and if possible, the Great Tree King would naturally want to preserve his consciousness as well.

This was not for her own sake. The Great Tree King, who had already made a sacrifice five hundred years ago, naturally did not care whether her consciousness could remain. However, she did hope that her consciousness could help Nasita share some of the future burden.

Teyvat will not be safe in the future. If she can retain this consciousness, she can teach Narcida a lot, and even sacrifice herself in Narcida's place when necessary.

Chapter Fifty: Did you enjoy sweet dreams tonight?

Completely erasing the forbidden knowledge from the Great Tree King's body is no easy task, even for Su Feng, who possesses the power of the Law of Consciousness.

However, this was not without its benefits for Su Feng. In fact, as he delved deeper into the consciousness of the Great Compassion Tree King and the information flow of the World Tree, Su Feng also gained a lot of benefits—the most obvious being that his control over the power of consciousness and its total amount were constantly increasing.

After all, Su Feng initially obtained the power of consciousness through his contact with the World Tree and the Great Tree King. Although there are some differences, the Great Tree King, who wields the power of dreams, can indeed help Su Feng gain more power.

After all, dreams and consciousness are closely related to each other. The Great Tree King, which was growing stronger while sensing that Su Feng's mysterious power was helping it to expel forbidden knowledge, was naturally willing to cooperate with Su Feng and grow through its authority.

This can be considered a form of compensation, right?

On the other hand, seeing that he was getting closer and closer to completely controlling and obtaining the power of the Law of Consciousness, Su Feng was naturally filled with excitement. After all, if he could obtain the power of the Law of Consciousness, it would be of great help to him.

After all, it is very difficult to deal with attacks and manipulations from the level of consciousness under normal circumstances. If one is not an expert in this field, one can only try to suppress it with pure force.

Back when facing the Dream Demon, even Morax could only choose to use a bow and arrow to snipe it from a distance. This shows that enemies who possess the power of consciousness are not enemies that most beings want to see.

Moreover, what Su Feng wants to do most right now is to take over the power belonging to the 'Cocoon' one by one, so he naturally won't miss such a good opportunity. Or rather, for him now, any opportunity to gain power is extremely precious.

Thus, through close cooperation between the two parties, Su Feng gradually improved his control over the powers of the Herald of Knowledge, and also gradually eliminated the forbidden knowledge from the information set of the 'Great Compassion Tree King'.

"Buzz!"

Finally, as the last bit of forbidden knowledge was removed from the body of the Great Tree King, a dark red light gradually appeared from Su Feng's chest. Then, another gem appeared briefly in the dim light before disappearing back into Su Feng's body.

However, neither the Great Tree King nor Narcida investigated the matter further when they saw this scene—regardless of Su Feng's situation, he was at least on Teyvat's side now. Moreover, he had just helped Sumi a lot, so they would never doubt that Su Feng would choose to harm Sumi.

Su Feng had no reason to do so.

"Is everything alright on your end?"

As Su Feng immersed himself in his body to organize and master the power of knowledge, his colleague Nasita looked worriedly at the Great Tree King, whose form had become much more transparent—removing forbidden knowledge from her body was not a simple matter, nor was it without loss.

In reality, this part of the operation is more like a computer that has been infected with a virus and hastily and completely deleted all the infected data. Although this simple and crude method can ensure that the forbidden knowledge is completely removed from the body of the Great Tree King, it also removes a considerable portion of the Great Tree King's 'data'.

This is an absolutely devastating loss for the Great Tree King, who now exists solely based on its past 'data' and 'information' within the World Tree.

"Don't worry, even though I've lost a considerable amount of 'information,' I'm still here in front of you, aren't I?"

"This is already the best possible outcome."

Seeing Nasita's worried expression, the Great Tree King gently comforted his child, and at that moment, Su Feng opened his eyes.

"So let's deal with the World Tree situation first. We need to deal with the forbidden knowledge as soon as possible, because I still have my own things to do."

Seeing the two Narcidas huddled together, and Luminosity and Paimon peering out from the side, Su Feng couldn't help but change the subject. Now that he had acquired another Herrscher power, he was even more eager to resolve the problem here as soon as possible.

As for where to go next... I haven't thought about it yet, but after solving the World Tree problem, the Sumeru problem shouldn't be too big, right?

With this in mind, Su Feng decided to stay in Xumi and rest properly after that.

Upon hearing Su Feng's words, Nasita finally realized that she still had things to do. Her smile turned slightly red, but she quickly covered up her embarrassment by taking out the two Hearts of God.

Unfortunately, her little trick didn't have much effect. In fact, everyone present noticed it, but no one called her out on it to save face for the little guy.

Fortunately, the two Hearts of God that Nasita took out quickly drew everyone's attention back.

"These two Hearts of God, along with the knowledge and abilities of the Sumeru people that I intercepted using the Void System and the knowledge and abilities that Su Feng obtained from that idiot Amon, are enough. In this way, we can completely delete the forbidden knowledge without excessively harming the World Tree."

Upon seeing the two Hearts of God before her, the Great Tree King nodded seriously. These two Hearts of God were necessary to activate the World Tree deletion program; otherwise, she would not have been able to gather such a vast amount of power. The abundant knowledge and energy that followed were used to stabilize the World Tree—after all, deleting all the parts contaminated by forbidden knowledge in one go would be a huge loss for the enormous World Tree.

Therefore, some degree of repair is necessary; otherwise, the consequences of problems with the World Tree would be far greater.

"Then let's act together!"

The Great Tree King, who had quickly taken the Heart of Thor into his hands, looked at Nasita gently and said this. Encouraged by the Great Tree King, Nasita became much more determined and picked up the Heart of Grass God again.

Subsequently, brilliant green and purple light intertwined and echoed within the World Tree, while immense elemental power flowed from the two Hearts of God and merged into the World Tree.

As the power flowed, Su Feng also opened the passage to Aru at the right time, and then the vast knowledge energy flowed into the interior of the World Tree under his control.

Thus, under the control of three god-level beings, a massive project involving the World Tree finally began.

Outside the World Tree, a dream rain belonging to everyone in Sumeru has finally begun its journey.

O Sumeru people, your gods have returned your dreams to you. Did you enjoy your sweet dreams tonight?

Chapter 51 What can be exchanged for the Heart of God?

Sumeru has been completely exhausted lately.

Whether it was the God of Righteousness who nearly destroyed most of Sumeru City, caused by the Fools and Sages, or the huge commotion that Su Feng created in the desert that almost overturned the entire Crimson King's Mausoleum, both turned the once peaceful Sumeru City upside down.

Especially after receiving the news that the sages had imprisoned the current Grass God and, together with the Fools, created the God of the Righteous Path, the scholars felt somewhat overwhelmed.

Are these sages being mind-controlled by the Fools? Otherwise, why would they make such an outrageous decision?

Of course, another matter soon made the scholars temporarily put this 'minor problem' aside.

For them, the God of the Righteous Machine, who had already been dealt with by the Grass God, was a thing of the past. But now, the situation they were facing was seriously affecting their studies and lives—because the Void System had been shut down!

Yes, after resolving the forbidden knowledge within the World Tree and completely eradicating the rampant Demon Scale Disease ravaging Sumeru, the first thing Narcida did upon returning was to shut down the entire Void System.

Now she has realized that the entire void system has indeed brought a lot of convenience to Sumeru, but it has also completely restricted Sumeru. If this continues, the situation for Sumeru will definitely be even worse.

Therefore, a large-scale overhaul of the Void System is necessary. At the very least, the aspects involving mining dreams and using bottled knowledge must be completely banned. Otherwise, who knows how many more problems might arise!

Moreover, what future do these 'scholars' have if they continue to rely on the Void System like this?

The Great Tree King also greatly approved of Narcida's actions. The reason she created the Void System was to collect the dreams and knowledge of the Sumeru people to combat forbidden knowledge.

Even opening the Void System to the Sumeru people at the beginning was more of a compensation, but she never expected that these guys from the Order of the Church would ruin so many things in just five hundred years!

As expected, we need to keep an eye on ordinary people. If we let them run wild without any restraint, who knows how many problems they will cause.

The Great Tree King even suspected that if the Church Council continued to develop in its current state, it would one day become as recklessly dangerous as Kanria had been, dragging the entire country down with it.

Therefore, rectification is necessary, and it's not just about rectifying the empty rhetoric; those 'scholars' also need to be rectified.

The gods' thoughts naturally don't require the consent of mortals, not to mention that the Void System was built by the Great Tree King and is based on their power and abilities to function. Now, shutting it down directly is naturally done without consulting mortals.

But ordinary people, especially scholars, who have become accustomed to relying on or even depending on the void system will suffer greatly.

Scholars who had already achieved paperless office work thanks to the convenience and powerful computing capabilities of the Void System had to find all sorts of paper-based tools again and painfully try to transfer all the information from the Void System. Also, because the Void System was shut down, all the scholars' research approvals, data processing, and even some other miscellaneous things had to come to a standstill.

This is driving the scholars crazy.

Unfortunately, neither the Great Tree King nor Nasita felt they had done anything wrong regarding the scholars' protests and troubles—after all, these scholars were far too reliant on the Void System, and in their view, their research was of little use... these guys were just wasting resources.

After all, it's no joke that the Academy's research and knowledge have stagnated for five hundred years. The two Grass Gods, who are quite dissatisfied with the Academy now, naturally don't care too much about the opinions of these scholars.

They even considered abandoning this group of scholars and starting a new one.

In short, given the current state of the Order of the Fatherland, it is unlikely that it will be able to operate normally for quite some time.

But this is ultimately a matter for Sumi himself, and for Su Feng, these matters involving mortals are even less worth his attention.

In comparison, it was only the doctor who suddenly appeared at Jingshan Palace that could barely divert Su Feng's attention.

"So what are you planning to do now?"

"I don't really want to do anything right now. If you're planning to cause trouble, you'd better watch out, or you'll anger me and I won't care about Queen Winter's reputation."

Su Feng, who was lazily lying on a recliner made of sacred tree in the Pure Goodness Palace, said these words to the Doctor who suddenly came to his door. The Doctor looked at this guy lying in mid-air with a lot of helplessness.

Although this guy seems unreliable now, his fighting prowess is no joke. Even though the Doctor is quite confident in his slicing skills, he doesn't think it's acceptable to fight him to the death.

Otherwise, the Empress might not be able to protect him in the end.

Fortunately, Su Feng, who seemed lazy at the moment, did not directly show his hostility. After glancing at Ying, who was already watching him warily, and Narcida, who was standing there, the doctor could only sigh slightly and put the hypnotic device that he was about to take out back.

It's really not a good time to make a move right now.

"Everything in this world has a price, and the Heart of God is something that Winter must retrieve at all costs, so God of Grass, name your price!"

After a moment's thought, the Doctor decisively chose to lie low and let things take their course—after all, he wouldn't be the one with the headache in the end, and besides, being able to 'purchase' a treasure of the Heart of God's caliber at a certain price in the end was something to be secretly happy about.

"How interesting. The Heart of God is not something I care about much, but my indifference does not mean that the Heart of God is not precious. It is still proof given by the High Heaven to the seven rulers. What price are you willing to pay for this treasure, which there are only seven in the entire mortal world?"