Genshin Impact: The Beginning of the Wind

"The power of the abyss is very strong, and... I mean, the Seven God Statues actually contain such powerful energy? More importantly, you don't seem to care at all that this thing is lost?"

"You've been slacking off way too much, haven't you? Aren't you afraid that one day the Abyss Order will cause a major incident right under your nose? You'll regret it then."

Compared to Wendy, who knew more secrets, Su Feng was more concerned about the faint power he sensed from the Statue of the Seven—it was definitely not a power originating from the Abyss, but another manifestation of the power of the Light Realm, and a manifestation in the pure spiritual realm.

After the Statue of the Seven left its original position, and after the erosion of the Abyss tore away the disguise, Su Feng finally understood what these Statue of the Seven, which had stood in Teyvat since the establishment of the Seven Gods system, were actually used for.

These are boundary markers, beacons, and collectors of power!

The Statue of the Seven can suppress and regulate the ley lines of Teyvat—the power of the seven gods penetrates deep into the earth through the Statue of the Seven to regulate and suppress the ley lines, and in this process, all souls and consciousness that enter the ley lines will be processed by the Statue of the Seven.

The memories and consciousness of the soul will be slowly stripped away and transformed into pure power, which will be absorbed into the Seven Gods Statue. Afterwards, this power will obviously be taken away by the Heavenly Principles above.

As for what that person intended to do with that power, Su Feng had no idea.

Although Su Feng also doesn't know what the Abyss Order wants to do, they clearly know the role of the Seven Gods Statue in this regard. More importantly, they have used the Abyss to modify the statue, turning the power that the High Heavens used to rule and stabilize the world into their own.

Su Feng could sense that the Abyss was slowly releasing its power into the land of Liyue through the statue. At the same time, the power of the Rock Dragon, which seemed to come from nowhere, was also constantly seeping into the Abyss after it opened a passage to the ley lines.

These two are silently vying with the Geo Archon for Liyue's ley lines!

"As expected, the power of the Rock Dragon was released from here, but how did the Abyss Order find such pure Rock Dragon power?"

Su Feng and Wendy stared at the reversed statue in front of them with serious expressions, lost in thought. It wasn't that they didn't want to continue investigating the source of the Rock Dragon's power, but after going through the Abyss, they simply didn't dare to investigate too deeply.

Even Su Feng, who could decompose and purify the power of the Abyss, was not very willing to venture deep into the Abyss's lair. After all, he was at most a Herrscher at the moment. Going to the Abyss's lair, which was definitely part of the Quantum Sea, would be no different from walking into a trap.

"Let's not worry about where the power of the Rock Dragon came from for now. Let's deal with this thing first. After all, cutting off the opponent's power delivery channel is definitely the right thing to do."

After a while, Wendy, still clueless about the thing, shook his head and prepared to solve everything with violence.

"Alright, let's do it that way."

"Do you still want this thing? If not, I'll just blow it up!"

Su Feng didn't seem to intend to put too much effort into this. With a wisp of breeze already rising from his hand, he prepared to deal with the statue in front of him directly. After all, no one knew how long Zhongli could control his emotions, so it would be better for everyone if they could resolve this issue quickly.

"Let's just blow it up. This thing is important, but not that important. Besides, it's already been ravaged by the Abyss. Even if we take it back, it probably won't be of much use."

Wendy didn't seem to care much about the statue. After all, he hadn't bothered to look for it when it was lost, so he didn't care even more now that it was in this state.

"That's good."

Having received Wendy's approval, Su Feng casually tossed out the wisp of breeze. With his movement, this seemingly insignificant breeze immediately stirred up a huge tidal wave in the small space, rushing towards the reversed statue.

"Buzz!"

"boom!"

However, at that moment, a dark purple light flashed, and then an invisible force suddenly annihilated the raging storm stirred up by Su Feng. After the storm subsided, an extremely ornate longsword was slowly put away.

"Ying, why are you with them?"

When everyone's attention was focused on the suddenly appearing figure, they saw the golden figure. Ying, who only then realized that the person opposite her was her brother, became very excited.

"Brother, I've been looking for you all this time."

"And why... why stand with the abyss?"

"Come with me and leave this place."

Ying was extremely excited to finally see her brother again, but compared to her sister who was missing and searching for her brother, Sora was quite indifferent at this moment, even to the point of being unacceptable.

"Ying, now is not the time to leave here. The Abyss... I will not choose to leave before the Abyss engulfs the throne of the gods in the heavens."

Perhaps because he hadn't had any contact with normal people for so long, Sora's expression remained almost unchanged. The only thing that could be discerned was that his somewhat dull voice did indeed carry a longing for his younger sister.

"Why..."

Ying was surprised that Sora had so firmly rejected her. She stared wide-eyed, as if she wanted to say something more, but Sora interrupted her again before she could finish.

“Ying, you should not be with Dayin and God, they... are my enemies.”

No one knows what happened to Kong, but his unbelievably calm voice makes him seem extremely strange now.

"You idiot, has the abyss messed up your brain?!"

"How could you say such a thing to your sister... Do you know how hard I went to find you before?"

Having been completely bewildered by Sora's current behavior, Ying finally came to her senses. She angrily roared at Sora, who remained calm beyond belief, and with that roar, she drew her longsword.

"I'm going to beat you up and then take you away!"

Chapter Nineteen: With just a little trickery, Kong can be captured without resistance.

"Fire, do you want to fight me?"

However, in the face of his younger sister's anger, Sora remained calm as always, even to the point of being indifferent, as if he were no longer capable of any emotional change.

But it was precisely this strange behavior that made Ying even more certain that something must have happened to Kong. This guy's current behavior was completely different from before.

"Ying, your opponent shouldn't be me. We shouldn't be fighting."

Although the current situation is not right, Sora still does not want to take action against his sister. After all, Ying is his sister, and there are some things that Ying really needs to experience before a final decision can be made.

Thinking this, Sora temporarily ignored his angry sister and looked at Wendy and Su Feng on the other side again—neither Ying nor Dain deserved Sora's attention for the time being.

Defeating these two wouldn't be difficult for Kong if needed; the only ones he truly cared about were the stronger Wendy and Su Feng.

"You...aren't you going too far!"

Kong didn't want to get entangled any longer, but Ying didn't expect her brother to be so outrageous. Enraged, she swung her sword at Kong, ready to teach her brother a lesson he would never forget.

However, before she could even get close to Kong, an Abyss Apostle who suddenly appeared blocked Ying's attack with twin water blades. Before Ying could react, the Apostle crashed into her and carried her into the portal that had appeared out of thin air, disappearing from the scene.

Meanwhile, Dain, who was also preparing to make a move, was suddenly kidnapped by an Abyss Apostle and forced to teleport away from the area.

"Now that the troublemakers have been taken away, it's up to us to decide what to do next."

After Luna and Dain were sent away, Sora drew his longsword again to face Su Feng and Wendy. However, this time no one from the Abyss Order came to his aid. When facing the overwhelmingly powerful Anemo and its familiars, most of the Abyss Order's combat strength was negligible. Sora was the only one who could truly stand there.

"Then let me see just how strong this so-called Abyss Prince really is!"

Upon seeing this scene, Su Feng knew that a battle was inevitable. After exchanging a glance with Wendy, he stepped forward to accept the fight, as he was also curious about the strength of Kong, the Abyss Prince.

"Let the wind blow!"

With Su Feng's words of power, a violent wind once again rose in the confined space. However, this time, the seemingly light wind was all created by Su Feng using his power. These seemingly light and ordinary 'winds' transformed into terrifying blades and torrents that were unstoppable and irreversible.

"!"

Faced with this raging torrent of wind, Kong, with his keen senses, immediately perceived the danger and horror it contained. Almost instinctively, he unleashed his surging abyssal power in an attempt to block the attacks coming toward him.

However, the abyss, which was almost impossible to remove when facing the power of light and elemental forces, appeared unexpectedly fragile and helpless when facing Su Feng this time.

The raging wind sliced ​​through the abyss in front of it like a hot knife through butter, and the light force following behind the wind seized the opportunity to completely envelop the separated abyss.

Under Su Feng's control, the light boundary force that enveloped the abyss power transformed into moon lotuses of varying sizes, and then quietly remained in place, continuously decomposing and digesting the difficult-to-handle abyss power.

Without a doubt, even the protection that the Abyss can provide is almost non-existent in the face of the unstoppable winds of idealism. And after splitting the Abyss, Su Feng can naturally overwhelm his opponents with the more abundant power of the Light Sphere.

"trouble!"

Kong also witnessed the division and purification of the Abyss Force by the Light Boundary Force. He finally realized that this Wind God's familiar, which appeared out of nowhere, was not so easy to deal with—the Light Boundary Force alone, filled with a wild aura, was enough to prove its strength.

To be honest, at that moment Kong almost thought he had seen the Nibelungen before it fell into the abyss, after all, this pure and noble primordial light power was just too perfect.

Is this guy really one of the so-called Wind God's Familiars?

When did that wind god, who doesn't really get involved, reach such a high position and be able to gather such a high-ranking subordinate? These two guys' positions are more like reversed, aren't they?

If I could, I really want to ask the Dragon King if the person in front of him is his illegitimate child left in the mortal world.

Unfortunately, he didn't have time to joke with the Dragon King right now—after tearing through the abyss's defenses, the unstoppable gale rushed straight towards him, and if he didn't react further, he might really be blown into dust.

Even if his body is completely destroyed, he will definitely not fare well.

"The abyss devours all things!"

Facing the raging wind, Kong maintained his cold expression as always, wielding his longsword. With each movement, the surrounding space shattered.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

A piercing sound, like the world's lament, echoed throughout the entire secret realm. A sudden spatial rift appeared in front of Kong, swallowing up the relentless gale. The endless black abyss, at this moment, bared its fangs and claws, hoping to break through the shackles of space and enter the world of Teyvat. Unfortunately, Teyvat's broken but sturdy 'eggshell' firmly kept it outside.

Perhaps because it could not break through the barriers of the world, the abyss quickly and frantically swallowed all the gale that rushed into the space. Even though this gale was almost unstoppable in cutting through the endless abyss, it still could not sever this seemingly endless abyss.

"bass!"

However, before the crack that Kong had opened could swallow up all the gale, Su Feng directly drew a pure wind sword from his palm and attacked Kong.

Since the unstoppable winds of idealism cannot break through the shackles of space and the plunder of the abyss, then he might as well just charge up and find an opportunity to strike hard on Kong. He doesn't believe that Kong can open up a spatial rift next to him at any time and absorb all his attacks.

"boom!"

Then, the first contact between the two surprised them both—the wind sword in Su Feng's hands, which could have easily cut through stars with enough force, was actually blocked by the rather ornate longsword in his empty hand!

More importantly, Su Feng could even feel a strong abyssal force emanating from the longsword, trying to erode the wind sword in his hand.

If Su Feng hadn't used the primordial light force but instead elemental force, this close-quarters combat might have put him at a disadvantage—after all, not everyone can withstand the invasion of the abyss into their body.

Su Feng was very surprised, and Kong was equally surprised.

Although he had noticed before that Su Feng's light boundary power was much more resistant to abyssal power than ordinary elemental power, he never expected that Su Feng could actually withstand the abyssal erosion released by the longsword in his hand.

The two sides even managed to fight back and forth for a short period of time.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Surprise as it may be, the battle between the two sides is unlikely to stop.

These two are now far beyond what ordinary people can imagine. However, after a short clash, they quickly expanded the battlefield to the entire secret realm.

The two agile and fast-moving individuals have completely disappeared from the sight of ordinary people. The only remaining evidence is the almost continuous sound of collisions and the repeated destruction they cause to the surrounding environment during their battle, proving that the two are still locked in combat.

This was undoubtedly a battle that was about to reach a stalemate. After entering a high-speed close-quarters combat, both sides had lost the possibility of quickly defeating each other with burst attacks in a short period of time. Perhaps in that brief moment of energy gathering, the opponent's longsword could directly strike the other person.

To be honest, Su Feng regretted it not long after entering close combat.

Compared to Su Feng, who had very little experience and only managed to hold on by sheer speed, Kong's combat experience was so rich that it was hard to know what to say. Even though he was slightly inferior in speed, Kong was able to instantly detect Su Feng's next move with his almost irrational instincts and perception.

Then Su Feng would be caught off guard by the well-prepared enemy and return empty-handed, and might even be counterattacked.

This is because Su Feng's speed is indeed fast enough; otherwise, he might have been killed by Kong by now.

"Crack!"