Genshin Impact, starting from becoming the God of the Ocean

She felt that the temperature inside was a few degrees colder than upstairs.

Based on her understanding of the snow-capped mountains, this location should be close to the center of the mountains, meaning that, if aligned vertically, it should be the point where the "Frosty Nail" is located.

So, is this because of the influence of the Frostfire Nail?

But what about cultural relics?

"Let's go in and take a look."

Yura carried her greatsword and walked inside.

Amber gripped her bow tightly, her golden eyes scanning the surroundings warily, ready to respond to any impending danger.

...

Roar! ! !

In the icy seawater, the giant beast roared angrily, slapping its pectoral fins forcefully.

The sea beast, whose surface was as solid as a mountain, was slapped, its snow-like rocks exploding. Then came another slap, and the series of blows completely stunned it.

"Tsk~ It's really damn hard."

Su Zhe thought to himself.

After several strikes, a final tail whip finally annihilated it.

Although he had killed the sea monster, Su Zhe had no appetite at all.

This thing appeared out of nowhere, its entire body made of hard ice and stone. Su Zhe did not sense any aura of demonic remnants from it, which meant it was truly just a pure sea beast.

In terms of raw power, it is even stronger than those second-tier sea beasts that have been mutated by the remnants of demon gods.

This is the fourth time Su Zhe has encountered this while diving all the way here.

This forced him to be careful.

"Ok?"

Not long after continuing forward, a dim light suddenly appeared above the sea.

It was the exit of a passage. Su Zhe went up the passage and found that the water level was several meters higher than the exit, and the wall was about a meter above the water.

The surrounding space is very spacious, resembling a basement, with a huge stone pillar in the middle connecting the ground and the roof.

At the center of the pillars, there is a high platform that looks like an altar. Originally, there were water channels built around it to guide the water flow, but now they are completely submerged by seawater.

You can see switches on the pillars. The scene setup is a bit like a puzzle in a game, but it's a puzzle in the water.

There are also some patterns carved on the surrounding walls.

After looking around and finding no danger, Su Zhe followed the wall.

Based on the information in the game, it seems that people on the ground migrated here.

He had noticed something was wrong before; judging from the altitude, this place was clearly below ground level.

"It seems that some people from the Snow Country also came here back then... Hmm?"

On one of the walls, Su Zhe saw a scene of people worshipping the gods.

But as far as he knew, the Snow Kingdom had been abandoned by the gods, and its long-cherished wishes were not fulfilled, which is why it sent out heroes to leave the snow mountains to find a way out.

Logically speaking, it shouldn't be possible for gods to appear.

His gaze shifted, and another picture appeared.

The carving depicts a priest receiving a crescent-shaped object from a creature with a glowing head.

Those radiant beings are probably deities.

Below the mural is a stone tablet with ancient characters carved on it.

This is not the common language of Teyvat, but Su Zhe can recognize these words through Oser's memories.

"...The merciful god answered the humble prayer of the supplicant, bestowing mysterious power upon the abandoned land..."

"...Time held back a night; in a land desolate and barren, the wind and snow stole the light, took away the warmth of life, and only the darkness of night could bring the hope of life..."

"...to praise its name (vaguely)..."

With a thought, Su Zhe took out the half of the moonstone and compared it with the one in the pattern.

They were found to be strangely similar.

Not only the shape, but also the patterns carved on them are the same.

"Could it be that it was Istar who saved these people back then? Time holds back the night... That guy Yaki did say that there is half night in here."

Su Zhe began to understand what Ba Qiu meant.

Unfortunately, the inscriptions on the stone tablet have been eroded by seawater and are now blurred, so only basic information can be discerned.

He walked around and then went to the central altar, where he found a stone slab.

"...A merciful God has saved us, but her power has not covered all calamities."

Su Zhe looked at the stone slab, and his intuition told him that there was more to come.

Sure enough, after leaving the basement, he found other stone slabs in three other similar locations.

By piecing them together, we obtain all the information.

"...A merciful God has saved us, but her power has not covered all calamities."

"...God took the day to another place, leaving behind the night. Under the cover of darkness, the wind and snow cannot get in here, and we can only eke out a living in the darkness."

"...Gods high above, they still refuse to give up. A new divine punishment has descended, taking away half of the night. We have nowhere left to retreat."

"...Prayers go unanswered, the unwilling break through the wind and snow, leaving behind an eternal, unchanging night."

Behind the pieced-together stone slab, there was a vaguely printed sentence.

—Its name is Thousand Winds, the Undying Wind, a tribute to the greatest sublimity.

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Chapter 2 Su Zhe: Mortals, do not overstep your bounds! Seize the power of time!

After reading this information, Su Zhe had a pretty good idea of ​​what was going on here.

The Snow Country was abandoned by the gods, but there are always truly benevolent gods in the heavens, just as Ishtar saved the White Night Country.

The inscription on the stone tablet says that the gods took away the daytime, and that place might be the Kingdom of White Night. As for the order of events, that remains to be discussed.

If I remember correctly, the people of the White Night Kingdom entered underground life at the beginning of the Demon God War. At that time, the Second Great War began, the world was overturned, and the land they lived on also fell underground.

But after the war ended, they were already restricted by the order of the heavens and lost the opportunity to return to the ground.

Su Zhe couldn't pinpoint the exact time.

But the power of time to preserve day and night naturally made him think of a deity.

There was a Great Sun Palace in Fuchishita Palace. It was created by the people of Fuchishita Palace in order to see the light. The person who made the Great Sun Palace was named Abe no Yoshihisa. He was granted wisdom by the God of the World. As far as Su Zhe knew, this God was Istaru.

The power of wisdom created 'daytime'. Although the methods were different, Su Zhe felt that the daytime there might be some kind of inevitable connection with the sealed night.

However, some secrets are better left hidden forever, such as past events, which is why Buffett was destroyed in the first place.

Um?and many more.

If we ever encounter an opponent we can't beat in the future, why not just tell them about what happened in the past?

Hey, Zhongli, want to hear a story? I have a good one here.

"When did I become so evil?"

Su Zhe shook his head secretly. No, this body of his was destined to become the God of the Sea. How could he easily abandon it?

"I wonder if the other half of the moonstone is still there."

According to the inscription on the stone slab, the people here eventually chose to leave, leaving behind an eternal night.

So barring any unforeseen circumstances, the moonstone will still be there.

Su Zhe took out the moonstone in his hand, and the light it was flashing became noticeably brighter. He remembered the treasure hunt event in the game, where the treasure hunt spirit would become dazzling when you got close to the treasure.

Unfortunately, there's no way to explore like in the game.

He could only search carefully, place by place.

The basement where the stone slabs were stored was divided into four sections, each a spacious space located at a diagonal corner.

He searched for most of the day, turning the page inside out, but still couldn't find any useful information.

Too much time has passed, and many things have long been soaked and rotted by the sea, rendering them worthless.

After circling around, Su Zhe arrived at the center of a basement complex. After fiddling around for a while, he discovered a hidden door.

This hidden door is quite large; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it's the size of a wall.

"Tsk~ How come you didn't notice something so simple?"

Actually, the mechanisms here aren't particularly ingenious. After all, the survivors of the Snow Country who came here were probably already in very good condition, and they simply couldn't have created any more sophisticated mechanisms.

In addition, with the passage of so many years, rising sea levels have submerged the original civilization, and some places that were not very stable to begin with collapsed at the slightest touch.

However, given Kyogre's enormous size and the unfamiliar environment, solving the puzzles in this immersive setting is far more complex than simply playing a game.

Besides, who would make their door that big?

The simpler something is, the more often it gets overlooked.

Perhaps the people here never intended to build any kind of mechanism; it was simply for convenience.

"There's no water..."

The water level stopped halfway up the stairs leading up from the hidden door.

Su Zhe wanted to get up, but he could only control the water to keep rising.

Fortunately, this isn't difficult for him now, since no one is likely to come out of this godforsaken place anyway... Huh?

As soon as Su Zhe emerged from the underground space into another space, he heard a gasp of surprise from the side of him.

"Wow! Yura, a monster! There's a monster!"

As the sound came, an arrow imbued with the power of fire element was already flying towards them.