Genshin Impact, starting from becoming the God of the Ocean

He couldn't possibly renovate Mondstadt entirely; that would be too time-consuming and laborious, and completely unnecessary.

In short, let Barbatos deal with the troublesome matters himself; the most urgent thing is to find the Temple of Time.

The other wind god also originated from a single wisp of wind, so he might be aware of this matter. While he's preoccupied with the Dvalin affair, he needs to act quickly.

However, finding a temple at sea is extremely difficult, and with so much time having passed, the terrain may have changed.

The sea is still the same sea.

But what were once mountains may now be seas.

Su Zhe followed the directions shown on the map, but after searching for several days, he still found nothing.

"Strange, the direction should be correct."

As a big fish, he still has a sense of direction in the ocean.

They also know how to maintain a safe distance.

We should be pretty much there by now.

However, the vast ocean held nothing.

I did find two deserted islands, but unfortunately, there wasn't a single QQ user on them.

In general, this situation is caused by either the wrong timing, the wrong location, or a combination of both.

The timing is easy to understand. After all, Ishtar is a ruler of time. Wherever she has been, she will naturally use time to erase normal traces, so that she may only appear at a specific time in a day or even a year.

For example, the liquid of the full moon.

As for spatial levels, as long as it's not a special application of spatial power, it's fine. Even if Su Zhe had to dig up this entire sea area, he would still find it.

What he fears is that some power he cannot comprehend has concealed the Temple of Time.

Su Zhe took out the moonstone and examined it carefully. The thing didn't react at all. Ba Qiu had said that the moonstone was related to the secrets of the temple. Under normal circumstances, such a thing usually exists as a 'key'.

But he couldn't find the keyhole.

"and many more..."

Su Zhe had a sudden thought.

He suddenly realized that when the two moonstones were combined, they emitted the power of time.

Could that power also be considered one of the 'keys'?

Thinking this, Su Zhe calmed down and activated the power of time within his body to release the darkness within the moonstone.

As darkness enveloped the sea, Su Zhe keenly sensed that a wind had suddenly begun to blow across the once vast and boundless ocean.

This wisp of wind was quite special; it was not swallowed by the darkness, as if it were an eternal and indestructible wind between heaven and earth.

Under the cover of darkness, a visible flow is formed.

"There was definitely a problem."

Su Zhe was secretly delighted.

The key is not necessarily physical; the key lies in the power of time. Using time to unlock the secrets of time is the most correct method.

He followed the trail of the wind and soon came to a deserted island.

"It's roughly the same location as shown on the map."

Su Zhe pondered to himself.

Normally, after night falls, the surroundings should be pitch black. To break this situation, one must exist as equal to this power.

That is, right now.

Su Zhe discovered that there was light on the island.

However, this light is rather dim, somewhat like the visuals under the perspective of elements in a game.

In this state, everything appears only as a difference in light and dark, making it difficult to discern their specific appearance.

Because of the difference in light and shadow, the shapes of objects are clearly outlined. After Su Zhe landed on the island, he found that it was similar to the map shown in the game mission, only magnified many times.

In the very center there is something that looks like an altar, and directly in front of it is what appears to be a sundial, though it is not clearly visible under this line of sight.

"No monsters?"

Su Zhe remembered that there should have been a mini-boss as well.

He focused his gaze on the center of the altar, which was still closed off. After searching for a while without finding any clues, he went to look around the sundial.

It was discovered that there was a hole in the disc of the sundial.

The shape was exactly crescent moon. Su Zhe checked the surrounding area again before inserting the moonstone.

Rumble rumble rumble~~~

The location of the deserted island trembled noticeably. Su Zhe turned around and saw that the altar had been opened in the middle, forming a huge ventilation shaft.

He poked his head inside, but it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything.

However, from the wind flowing within, Su Zhe sensed the ancient aura of time; this was the power of the winds that had flowed for millennia, an undying wind.

"It would be hilarious if you jumped down and a monster caught you in its mouth."

To be honest, Su Zhe was a bit timid, but since he had already come this far, there was really no reason for him to back down.

He controlled the water element to surround himself for protection, then slapped his tail fin for leverage, and his whole body slid in smoothly.

Fortunately, the opening was large enough; otherwise, with Kyogre's obese body, he might have really gotten stuck.

Imagine finding a treasure after going through countless hardships, only to be unable to enter because you're too fat—that feeling would drive anyone crazy.

Swish! ! !

Su Zhe's body plummeted downwards, the sound of the wind whistling past his ears. He felt a moment of disorientation, and when he opened his eyes again, he found the scene around him to be very strange.

He was still moving, but this movement was not a falling motion. Moreover, the things rushing backward from both sides at this moment were more like countless images being stretched into a linear form, reminding Su Zhe of the scene when the traveler traveled through time and space to reach the special space under the Divine Cherry Tree.

In other words, the place this passage leads to is a point located in countless times and spaces.

And that is indeed the case; if he had fallen directly, he would have been seriously injured if he had hit the ground.

But when Su Zhe came to his senses, he was perfectly fine, and the scene around him had changed. The night had disappeared, replaced by a vast expanse of daylight.

There was nothing around. No, there was something: a huge cherry tree, and a person was lying under it.

Su Zhe discovered that time was frozen in this space; there was no wind, no flow of air, and no sound.

But his arrival seems to have subtly disrupted a delicate balance.

"This tree...doesn't it look a bit like the Inazuma cherry blossom?"

Su Zhe was taken aback.

He was very familiar with the Divine Cherry Tree when it expired, after all, the rewards for the Divine Cherry level were plentiful, and he could also see it from time to time in Inazuma's daily life.

He looked at the woman under the tree.

My first thought was to eat it while it was hot.

My second thought is whether this person is Raiden Shin.

"Wait, wait... how come it's her!?"

When Su Zhe saw the woman's face clearly, he was stunned.

It's not Raiden Shin, nor Ishtar (though I've never met her), but the maintainer of the laws of nature!

At this moment, Su Zhe's mind was full of questions. There shouldn't be any relationship between Shen Ying and the Heavenly Law Maintainer.

If there is one, it can only be the force that sustains this space—time.

"What exactly happened? Did Ishtar use her power to seal both the Heavenly Ruler and the Divine Sakura at the same time? Or is it just that this woman and the Divine Sakura only happen to resemble her?"

As I was thinking this, the surrounding space suddenly began to shake violently.

Time, which had seemed to have stood still for hundreds of years, began to flow again, and heavy gears began to turn, making a clattering sound.

Immediately afterwards, a powerful aura erupted with the vibration of space, and finally, a crisp clang was heard.

Space shattered!

The endless daylight vanished, space shattered into pieces, and was then replaced by blackness.

Immediately afterwards, the proud body of the Ruler of Heaven began to shrink little by little.

It seems that as space shattered, time, which had been locked in, also began to move at that moment.

Finally, under Su Zhe's gaze, the guardian of heavenly justice shrank into a tiny human figure!

"Zhao, Paimon!?"

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Chapter 8: Transformation into Human Form! The Traveler Arrives in Mondstadt

When they first entered, the Guardian of Heaven was fast asleep with his eyes closed.

Because time is frozen here, Su Zhe felt that she had entered a state similar to self-sealing.

Use the power of time to freeze yourself in that moment, and then wait for the right opportunity to wake up.

This is how it should be.

But Su Zhe's arrival changed this space.

Time, which had been imprisoned, began to flow. Once the delicate balance was broken, everything started to move forward.

For example, the upholders of natural justice at this moment.

Su Zhe didn't have time to think much. He stared blankly at Paimon floating in mid-air, countless possibilities flashing through his mind.

The process was very brief, so brief that Su Zhe didn't even have time to carefully check Paimon's condition. The moment he approached, a mysterious force pulled Paimon into the space.

Swish!

Paimon disappeared before Su Zhe's eyes.

At the same time, the entire space became fragmented, and Su Zhe's consciousness was pulled into darkness.