Genshin Impact: Watch me turn the tables and kill my servants at the start!

Fanes spent two leisurely days in Jueyun, doing nothing but eating, sleeping, and supervising Yakoda's hunting trips every day.

On the evening of the third day, he was squatting on the hillside, roasting a wild rabbit over a fire. Just as he turned the skewer over, Zhong Li and Wendy appeared behind him, one on each side.

Without turning his head, Fanes spoke up: "Have the two great minds finally figured it out?"

Zhongli sat down on the rock to his left, still composed, his amber eyes fixed on the leaping flames of the fire: "After these few days of observation and analysis, we have roughly figured out the operating rules of the power within your body."

Wendy crouched down to his right, holding another wine bottle in her hand. This time she didn't open it; she just held it in her hand as a decoration.

Fanes took the meat skewers off the fire and placed them on the stone slab next to him to cool. He turned around, sat cross-legged, and put his hands on his knees, adopting an attentive posture: "Tell me about it."

Zhong Li spoke, his voice unhurried: "According to our observations, the power within you is similar to a special wish-granting ability. When a life-or-death crisis arises, you will passively trigger this power and obtain the item you need most at that time. Just like the process of you obtaining that Seven-Colored Eye of God."

Wendy chimed in from the side, her dark green eyes gleaming with an excitement that said, "You definitely didn't expect there to be a second layer."

"That's not all! You also have a hidden passive ability—when you already have an item to resolve a crisis, you don't need to actively think about how to use it; your body will automatically pick up the item and use it. Just like when you faced Usa before, you never even thought about throwing the Eye of God into its mouth, but your hand did the action on its own."

Fanes sat silently in front of the fire for a while, going over the two paragraphs in his mind. Passive wish, crisis triggered, automatic pickup, automatic use.

He looked down at his hands, examining them carefully twice, then looked up and asked one last question: "Oh, so this is my cheat code. Is there anything else?"

Wendy and Zhong Li exchanged a glance. Wendy shook her head: "That's all."

Zhong Li nodded slightly: "Generally speaking, that's all."

Fanes' expression froze for a moment. He looked at Zhongli's calm face, then at Wendy's "we did our best" face, and raised his voice by half an octave.

"No way, you spent all this time telling me this? Three whole days, and you two gods researched and researched and all you came up with was 'you automatically conjure things when you're in danger'? How long have you been slacking off these past three days?"

Wendy raised the bottle of liquor in her hand, her face righteous and stern: "Actually, we've been working on it all along! I get up before dawn every day to analyze your energy fluctuations, and the old man uses rock element to sense the flow of energy within your body every day..."

Fanes pointed at the sealed bottle: "You fucking think I believe that? You haven't even removed the wax seal on the bottle. All your efforts over the past three days have amounted to is finding a scenic spot in Jueyun Mountain and drinking for three days straight?"

Wendy hid the bottle behind her back and whistled the same off-key tune that Fanes had uttered earlier.

Just then, footsteps sounded in the distance. Yakoda, carrying a bow and arrows and two pheasants she had hunted that evening, climbed up the hillside and quickened her pace when she saw Fanes talking to two people.

"Boss! We caught two fat ones today! We can add more tonight... Holy crap?"

Yakoda's gaze fell on Wendy, and she paused for a moment. Then her gaze shifted to Zhongli sitting next to her, and her pupils dilated sharply. She threw the pheasant in her hand to the ground, took two steps back and bumped into Fanes, her voice trembling with a sense of utter shock.

"What the hell is this drunkard doing here? And that guy next to him... Holy crap, it's Rock God!"

Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun emerged from the direction of the cave, her pale blue robes fluttering in the mountain breeze. She stopped on the stone platform and bowed respectfully to Zhongli and Wendy, her posture upright and reverent: "Greetings, Emperor. Greetings, Wind God."

As Liu Yun looked up, he glanced at Fanes and Yakoda, his tone carrying a hint of the detachment unique to immortals, "I already knew about the identities of the two gods. I just felt there was no need to specifically inform you two."

Yakoda's expression was particularly interesting at that moment, with the light in her starry eyes switching back and forth between the three emotions of "awe", "collapse" and "outrageous" more than a dozen times.

He stared at Wendy for a long time, then finally raised a finger to point at him, his voice cracking as if to say, "I can't accept this fact."

"Holy crap... this damn drunkard is the Anemo Archon? The guy I slapped under the Anemo Archon statue in Mondstadt... is the Anemo Archon? Mondstadt is hopeless, absolutely hopeless. The Anemo Archon looks like that and dares to call himself free? I think he's just being promiscuous!"

Wendy clutched her chest, feigning injury, her voice tinged with grievance: "You're making me sad! I'm the real Wind God! Show me some respect, okay?!"

Yakoda clenched her fists, the last vestiges of awe in her starry eyes completely replaced by the urge to "hit him": "My hands are itching so much right now, I really want to kill him. Who cares if he's a god or not, I'll just hit him first."

Fanes stood by, watching the scene unfold, then glanced at the two pheasants still thrashing about on the ground, and suddenly an idea popped into his head. He looked up at the night sky and casually said, "Give me a frostbite; I really want to smash it over his head."

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt something suddenly appear in his right palm. The object was cold and heavy to the touch, with a smooth and hard surface, and it gleamed with a cool and clear blue luster in the interplay of firelight and moonlight.

Fanes lowered his head and opened his palm. A cone-shaped blue crystal, about a foot long, lay quietly in his palm. Its tip was sharp and clear, and its entire body was filled with fine, icy blue light. Its angular edges refracted the surrounding light, like a prism cut from a polar glacier.

Fanes held the cold, sharp nail for three seconds, stunned.

Zhongli's gaze fell on the crystal prism, a rare flicker of emotion appearing in his amber pupils. Wendy opened her mouth, her dark green eyes first showing shock, then excitement, and finally a kind of schadenfreude that said, "This is going to be really funny."

Wendy turned to Zhong Li and said, "Grandpa, his ability seems to have evolved. Before, it could only be triggered passively when there was a life-threatening situation, but now he can conjure things up with just a few words."

Zhong Li looked at the icy nail in Fanes' hand, remained silent for a moment, and then gave a standard answer: "In terms of general rationality, that is indeed the case."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhongli raised his right hand and gently drew a line in front of him, silently enveloping his entire body in a semi-transparent golden shield.

Wendy, seeing his shield, immediately turned and leaned closer: "Grandpa, why are you activating your shield? Could you please activate one for me too?"

Fanes stood there, holding the Frost Spike, looking down at the blue-glowing crystal prism in his hand, then looking up at Venti who was rubbing against Zhongli Shield, and then looking down at what he was holding.

He slowly raised the Frostbite Nail, aiming it at Wendy's head and gesturing with it. The tip of the blue crystal gleamed with a cold, eerie light under the moonlight.

Yakoda, standing to the side, had a gleam in her eyes that said, "This is reliable!" "Boss, what did you just say? Give him a whack on the head?"

Wendy had already shrunk behind Zhongli's shield, revealing only half her face. Her tone was like a cat cornered against a wall: "No way! This is the Frost Spike! Although it looks like an ice sculpture toy, it is indeed the Frost Spike! Getting hit on the head by that thing will be a disaster!"

Fanes held the cold nail in his hand and weighed it: "Then why didn't you say you'd been slacking off for three days?"

Wendy peeked out from behind the shield: "I told you something big was going to happen!"

The fire crackled on the hillside, startling several night birds from the distant pine forest, while the moon hung atop the highest peak amidst the towering clouds.

Yakoda picked up the two pheasants from the ground and held them in her hands. She looked down at the ridge that was still emitting a blue light, then looked up at Fanes, who was gesturing at Wendy with it. The corners of her mouth slowly curved into a smile.

Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun stood at the entrance of his cave, watching this scene unfold. His dark eyes held a hint of nonchalance, as if to say, "I've lived for so many years, what haven't I seen?" Before turning and pushing open the door to go inside, he left a sentence that drifted in the night wind.

"Your Majesty, Lord Wind God, if you two wish to spar at the entrance of my immortal cave, please move down the mountain to fight."

Fanes put the Frost Nail back on the stone slab, squatted down and continued to fiddle with the two pheasants, muttering to himself, "Put the Frost Nail away for now. If I find you two squatting on the mountain drinking and not working again tomorrow, I'll use this to build you a pavilion."

Zhongli removed the shield and sat down on the rock again, a faint smile in his amber eyes, the kind of smile an elder would give when watching a junior fooling around.

Wendy crawled out from behind the shield, picked up his bottle, and crouched back in his original spot, muttering under his breath, "This kid is getting scarier and scarier."

Fanes, engrossed in cleaning the pheasant, replied without looking up, "I heard you. Believe me or not, next time I'll pull out the Plasma Spark!"