Genshin Impact: The Beginning of the Wind

Even if Narcida completely removes forbidden knowledge from the World Tree and Teyvat now, it only temporarily alleviates Apepna's terrible situation, because the overly brutal deletion has brought another problem.

As forbidden knowledge was deleted, the body tissues and powers that Appepp had previously been contaminated and integrated with also disappeared. This left Appepp's riddled body structure in an extremely unstable state. Without external help, Appepp's self-disintegration was only a matter of time.

Even then, Sumeru will still be subject to a massive baptism of grass elements, so resolving Apep's problem remains an urgent matter.

Chapter Fifty-Six: No one could have imagined it would turn out like this.

"Okay, this sounds like a lot of trouble."

"However, filling the void inside an elemental dragon king is no easy task—given the amount of elemental energy contained within its body, it would probably take draining most of the earth's veins in Sumeru to repair its body."

Although he understood Appepp's current situation and the problems he was facing, Su Feng was even more troubled at this moment.

Because the bodies of the elemental dragon kings are not so easily compensated for—as the pinnacle of elemental life, these enormous dragon kings, who wield super-abundant elemental power and the most primal elemental authority, are all major holders of elemental power.

While Apep may not be as physically imposing as a rock dragon known for its large and heavy size, that does not mean that the other's body contains less elemental power.

Otherwise, Nasita wouldn't have to worry about Apep causing an elemental frenzy that would sweep across the entire Sumeru due to his own disintegration. Moreover, the Dragon King's body was naturally forged through countless trials and tribulations, and even a simple repair would require unimaginable power.

It was precisely because of this that Su Feng concluded that it would take draining most of the earth veins of Sumeru to barely repair and stabilize Apep's body.

But that is clearly unrealistic.

Because Sumeru cannot afford this price. Such a large-scale depletion of the earth's veins is equivalent to turning Sumeru into a barren land where even mint and sweet flowers cannot grow. Such a painful price is simply unacceptable.

However, if Nasita and Su Feng were to bear this burden... that's impossible. Although Su Feng believes his Light Element Power is inexhaustible, expecting his small pipe to feed an Elemental Dragon King would take far too long. As for Nasita...

Forget it, even if this little guy gave up everything he had, it probably wouldn't be enough to fill the Grass Dragon's teeth.

"There's no need to worry about that. Apep is most famous for its unimaginable adaptability as the Grass Dragon. In fact, we just need to reactivate Apep's own power and authority. After passing through the most dangerous moment, it can stabilize its body on its own and then recover over a long period of time."

Nasida had anticipated Su Feng's concerns long ago. In fact, the Great Tree King had already made plans when he made a series of arrangements. Of course, she also knew that it was unrealistic to expect to fill Apep's vacancy, so she had already made preparations with the elemental beings who came out of Apep's inner world.

'Fire Seed' - A tool created by the Great Tree King and many elemental beings to mimic the operating mode of Apep's core.

In the distant past, the Great Tree King and the elemental beings hoped that after solving the forbidden knowledge, they could use it to reactivate Apep's core, thus allowing Apep to recover on its own.

Without a doubt, the former Great Tree King had indeed arranged everything. He even deliberately left a grass element crystal in the Pure Land Palace to remind Nasita of the forbidden knowledge, considering that she might forget about it after Nasita might need to 'delete herself' to resolve the issue.

Of course, the Great Tree King's consciousness is still recovering well in the World Tree, so there's no need for this backup plan. However, Nasita still needs to retrieve the 'Fire Seed' to save Apep.

"So the 'fire' isn't kept with you?"

Su Feng was puzzled to find that the 'fire seed' was not in Nasida's hands. What did it mean that such an important thing was not in his hands?

"We did this because we were worried that the 'seed' would be affected by the act of 'deleting forbidden knowledge.' The forbidden knowledge can be transformed into a more stable form and continue to exist near the Heavenly Nail in the Abyss, so..."

Nasita felt somewhat embarrassed and conflicted when she got to this point. She could understand why the Great Tree King had made these arrangements – after all, she was already preparing to delete herself, so naturally she had to leave behind as many clues and items as possible that wouldn't be 'rewritten'.

However, this also made Nasida even more grateful that she and the Great Tree King were able to meet Su Feng, otherwise all these arrangements might have really come in handy.

"Okay, I understand."

Su Feng, who had also figured out the reason, shook his head helplessly. However, now was not the time to dwell on such a small problem, because an even bigger trouble was waiting for them.

"The question now is whether the 'spark' preserved in the strata abyss really still exists?"

"Back in Liyue, I nearly turned the entire city upside down with that original Geo Dragon, and I even used the Sky Spikes to fill a world rift..."

"Before that, I even spread the power of the Light Realm throughout the entire Layered Rock Abyss. To be honest, I really doubted whether the 'Fire Seed' was still alive and well."

Under normal circumstances, using the Sky Spikes in the Rocky Abyss to preserve the 'Spark' in a more stable state would indeed be a good choice, but it seems that the Great Tree King did not expect that the Geo Archon of Liyue was much more skilled than her.

Using the corpse of the original Geo Dragon as a patch to repair the cracks in the world and adding a lock with Sky Spikes... This is not something an ordinary god could do. What the Great Tree King could not have imagined was that after the original Geo Dragon fell, it caused a huge upheaval that almost overturned the entire Liyue. In such a huge and terrifying war, does a small elemental life form... which was transformed into sludge by Sky Spikes and preserved, really still exist?

Anyway, Su Feng felt it wasn't very reliable. He never expected that his great power back then would dig such a huge pit for himself now.

"This is also my biggest headache right now. No one expected so many things to happen after the Abyss of Laminaria."

Nasida was also quite troubled at this point. The Great Tree King had found the Abyss of Layered Rocks for convenience, but even as the incarnation of the World Tree, she hadn't expected that this bottomless pit would be so troublesome.

"If we really can't find the 'spark,' we'll have to try to create one again. The Great Tree King still retains the original manufacturing process, but then we'll need to find enough elemental life forms that have come out of Apep's body."

"After all, the 'Fire Seed' was created by the Great Tree King and them together, and in many ways it is different from my power."

This was a last resort, because even Narcida couldn't be sure if she could find an elemental life form that could help her recreate a 'spark'.

"In any case, let's go to the Abyss of Laminaria first and see if we can get good news."

In the end, after much deliberation, the two could only decide to go and take a look first.

Chapter Fifty-Seven: There's Still a Backup Plan

Only after Su Feng brought Nasita back to the Abyss of Layered Rocks did he realize just how intense and terrifying his battle with Zahaka had been deep within the Abyss.

If the former Abyss of the Rocks was a jagged, bottomless funnel, then the current Abyss of the Rocks is more like a sieve about to break—its unfathomable openings and the fissures that tear the earth apart almost fill every part of sight.

What left Nasita even more dumbfounded was that the air throughout the entire Abyss of Laminaria was filled with a faint trace of the power of the Light Realm. Given that the power of the Light Realm is almost impossible to find in the mortal world, the fact that the Abyss of Laminaria was still emitting power of the Light Realm after a long time confirmed that the power of the Light Realm that had been released here was already incredibly concentrated.

How terrible was that war back then!

Even though she was an incarnation of the World Tree, and could use the World Tree to look up the horrors of the past war between demons and gods, Narcida, who had not personally experienced that tragedy, still had no clear concept of the war between gods—especially between top gods.

But now, just this one fresh battlefield has made her clearly understand what a real war between demons and gods should look like—compared to the war that once took place here, her previous battle with the God of Righteousness was like kindergarten children fighting. No wonder Su Feng couldn't muster any enthusiasm for the God of Righteousness before.

The gap between the two sides is simply too large!

"What kind of enemy were you fighting back then?"

Holding Su Feng in her arms high in the air, Nasita looked at the shattered earth and crumbling cliffs of the abyss and sighed. She even had the illusion that if she fell down, she might completely crush the extremely broken earth below.

"It's that very original Rock Dragon King!"

"Although it has fallen, it still possesses considerable power. In fact, it has become even more difficult to deal with after being embraced by the abyss, so it was indeed quite troublesome during the battle."

"If that guy hadn't been so reckless as to try and blow up the entire Teyvat ley lines in one go, and we hadn't seized the opportunity, then it's really hard to say who would have won in the end."

Recalling his past battle with Zahaka, Su Feng couldn't help but sigh. The reason they were able to deal with Zahaka relatively smoothly was mainly because this fallen dragon king was too greedy. If it weren't for his attempt to seize the body of the dragon king Rahu, forcing them to fight on two fronts, even if they joined forces, they probably wouldn't have been able to defeat him so easily.

It can only be said that excessive greed completely shattered the opponent's millennia-long scheme and even led to the complete erasure of himself.

"Well, now we can only pray that the child who brought the 'spark' and 'memories' here is still safe and sound, otherwise the matter of the Grass Dragon will probably be troublesome."

Although she was saddened by the war that had taken place here, Nasita was now more concerned about whether the elemental life form that had been released still existed. After all, aside from anything else, the vast and still pervasive light force in the surrounding environment posed a great threat to it.

"Worrying here won't do any good. Let's go down and take a look first."

Compared to Nasita, who was extremely worried, Su Feng was much more carefree. Of course, this might be because he always encountered all sorts of terrible things. Having become accustomed to preparing for the worst in many situations, Su Feng actually had a very good ability to accept things.

"Well, you're right."

"Then let's go down!"

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The current Abyss of Layered Rocks is absolutely a terrible place for mortals—the crumbling earth and rocks, the pervasive aura of light, and the ever-growing number of dragon lizards attracted by the overwhelming aura...

Let alone ordinary people, even a powerful Eye of God would probably get beaten up here, not to mention that Liyue is still in the aftermath of the great disaster that happened before.

With countless areas still unable to recover and no more manpower available at the moment, Seven Stars could only seal off the Layered Rock Abyss.

Not to mention that when Zhongli wanted to retire, the reason he gave was that he had to deal with the calamities outside the world and could not take care of Liyue. So where are the calamities outside the world?

It's definitely the Abyss of Lapis Lazuli!

Therefore, apart from some guards, there are not many mortals inside the current Layered Rock Abyss. Moreover, with Nasida and Su Feng's strength, it would be too easy for them to avoid being discovered by mortals.

Soon, led by Su Feng, the two arrived at the bottom of the Layered Rock Abyss. After seeing the bottom of the Layered Rock Abyss riddled with holes and the Sky Nail that still shone brightly because Su Feng had infused it with sufficient light energy, Nasida took another deep breath.

What happened here was far beyond Nasita's expectations, but now was not the time to admire the strength of her predecessors—because Nasita tragically discovered that the excessive light energy had completely cleared away the abysses that should have been transformed into silt, and even the transformed silt was completely digested in the face of the excessive light energy.

The bottom of the deep abyss, which used to be covered with silt, has now been completely cleared out!

"It seems we need to consider other methods?"

Although he didn't know what the 'fire seed' looked like, after looking at the surrounding environment where there was nothing but light energy, he knew that it was unrealistic to expect to find the 'fire seed' in the air.

"No, maybe the situation isn't as bad as we think."

However, just as Su Feng was thinking about whether he could pull Wendy away and then bring over a few worldly rulers to solve the problem with violence, Narcida suddenly said something with a hint of surprise.

"?"

"What? Did the Great Tree King have some backup plan in mind?"

Su Feng was somewhat bewildered by Nasita's sudden remark. Then he saw a sly glint in Nasita's emerald green eyes. Immediately afterward, the little girl grabbed Su Feng's hand and ran off in another direction.

"Let's go. Although we didn't think it would be very effective when we did it, it seems that sometimes it's always good to be prepared."

“That’s how Marikata was back then. She was the first one to leave us, but she was also the one who arranged everything the best. After spending a lot of time with her, I picked up that habit too, but now it seems to be very useful.”

"I've wanted to say this for a long time..."

In an instant, 'Nasita' seemed to have become a different person, pulling Su Feng towards another unknown place in the Layered Rock Abyss. When Su Feng heard 'Nasita' start talking about the past, he knew that the controller of this body had probably changed.

So the Great Tree King actually had a backup plan?

And he learned it from the Flower Goddess?

As Su Feng was being pulled forward, several questions popped into his mind, but he quickly chose to put them aside for the time being—after all, they weren't important to him right now.

Let's first see what the Great Tree King has prepared for this unexpected event!

Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Spark

Then Su Feng saw a giant mushroom.

Okay, I should say it's some kind of... mushroom?

Su Feng looked at the giant mushroom in front of him and felt that his head was full of question marks - was this mushroom, which looked like it was full of Sumeru style, the Great Compassion Tree King's backup plan?

However, this mushroom is indeed filled with quite powerful elemental energy.

Su Feng looked at the mushroom in front of him thoughtfully. What was this mushroom, which came from Sumeru, doing at this moment?

A: It was lamenting to 'Nassida' about all the misfortunes it had suffered over the years, as well as the enormous threats posed by the Abyss and even Su Feng and Zahaka before. It even complained that if it hadn't been lucky, the Great Tree King might have only been able to look at its mangled body and wonder if it could even have a feast.

In short, Su Feng never expected that a mere mushroom could be so talkative, especially when he heard that this giant mushroom was about to start talking about an adventurer who had cut it seven hundred years ago. Su Feng had no choice but to interrupt the conversation between the two.

"Gentlemen, I think the most important thing right now is to determine whether the 'spark' used to save Apep is still usable. Otherwise, I'll have to consider whether we should get a few more World Rulers together to completely eliminate the poor Grass Dragon."

"Xume is still in imminent danger!"