Lu Bu, the Thunder General, is my adoptive father in Genshin Impact.

Bang! ! !

The frost and snow on the lake were blown away by the air pressure, and Xiao Yi landed steadily on the ice. The low temperature environment all year round made the ice lake of the snow mountain exceptionally solid and would not break easily.

Whoosh... He heard the sound of wings flapping.

Kujo Sara flapped her jet-black wings and landed beside Xiao Yi, a landing method that the Tengu were good at.

"It's been a long time since I've seen your wings," Xiao Yi then asked. "Where are the General and the Big Pot?"

Sara shook her head helplessly, looking slightly guilty, and said, "It fell ahead and I couldn't catch up. The strong winds on the snowy mountain affected our flight."

“Now is not the time to look for people.” Xiao Yi drew his katana from his waist. “It’s just a fall; the two demon gods will be fine. They’ll come as soon as they see signs of a battle.”

The wind and snow reduced visibility to extremely low levels, and a tall, dark figure stood not far away.

One minute has passed since Xiao Yi regained his strength.

The dark figure slowly walked up to the two of them. It wasn't a bald man in black robes, but a guardian whose head resembled a flower of the earth's veins—they had chased the wrong person!

Immediately afterwards, the guardian's head twitched rapidly, the earth vein flower bloomed fully, and countless golden rays burst forth from the gaps in the petals, sweeping across the two like a Gatling gun.

Xiao Yi and Sha Luo immediately rolled and dodged, the bullets fired by the enemy embedded in the ice, shimmering with a faint gold.

The bullets the guardian used to attack the two were actually Mora—money!!! It fired them generously, like scattering beans, creating a barrage of fire in an attempt to eliminate the two threats.

Mora itself contains energy, giving it a lot of kinetic energy, and it can easily flow through the human body.

However, Xiao Yi was very puzzled.

Why can this thing shoot so much money? Is it really a modified ley line flower?

While dodging, Kujo suddenly found a weapon in the snow—a hard bow and four arrows.

Perhaps it was left behind by a hunter or adventurer.

Whether it was overloaded or reloading, the Gatling gun suddenly stopped scattering coins. Just as Saro was about to join forces with Xiao Yi to destroy it, he heard his companion's tense voice.

"Saro, you'll have to take down the Leyline Flower on your own. I have something more troublesome to deal with."

A thick fog, even more obscuring than a blizzard, enveloped the surroundings, making everything gray and hazy. Within the fog wall in front of Xiao Yi, an irregular figure more than three meters tall rose.

He stared at the writhing shadow.

"Nice to meet you, you self-proclaimed 'Great Righteousness and Boundless Heavenly Venerable'." Xiao Yi gripped the purple gemstone on his chest. "Is it you who destroyed the Jade Pavilion and framed me?"

Thirty seconds until strength is restored.

Chapter 134 You're a Transmigrator Too? (4k)

Xiao Yi acted very bravely, but the next moment, he gradually became panicked.

He miscalculated the recovery time, thinking he could use it after 3 seconds, but the actual time was ten times longer than expected.

There are still 30 seconds left before my strength is restored, but the godlike boss has already made his grand entrance. What should I do? I need help urgently.

There was no other way but to resort to the time traveler's best skill: verbal sparring. Even if he didn't know what to say, he had to make something up to get through the remaining half minute.

Hopefully, the guy in front of me who calls himself a righteous and righteous celestial being is a polite villain who will listen to people finish speaking, rather than someone who will unleash a powerful attack and instantly kill me.

Xiao Yi mocked himself: What was the point of all that showing off and talking tough just now...?

Besides, where did Miss Ying fall to? Please help her!

(Xiao Yi: My Lord God, please help me!)

(Shadow: In my opinion, you can handle this guy, or at least protect yourself.)

Xiao Yi was somewhat bewildered. He didn't think that without the power of Thor, he could deal with the mastermind with the power he had previously gained. This guy had spread elemental power throughout Liyue, adding numbers above everyone's heads...

Despite borrowing the energy of the earth's veins and receiving assistance from the technology of the Fools of the Winter Kingdom, manipulating such a vast area of ​​earth's veins is no easy feat.

They want me to face this guy head-on, they'd love to see me die!

(Xiao Yi: Could it be that the puppet general wants to replace his adopted son and conspired with you to get rid of me?)

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(Shadow: The being in the mist before you is not the Great Righteousness Boundless Heavenly Venerable himself, but merely a projection he created through the earth's veins. Therefore, there is no point in me intervening. I am searching for the true enemy, and once I find the target, I will annihilate its true form with a single strike.)

(Xiao Yi: Okay, thank you for your hard work...)

27 second left.

Xiao Yi secretly took stock of the power he had gained and devised a counterattack plan. At the same time, he focused his mind on the dark figure in the fog in front of him, on guard against a sudden attack.

The shadowy figure and the statues in the castle were not so much similar as identical, but exactly the same. It was as if the light projecting the shadow was unstable, causing it to shake violently. Although it was humanoid, the edges of its outline trembled like waves, giving people an extremely eerie feeling.

Since it's a projection of the mastermind behind the scenes, it can't be weak. Xiao Yi wanted to take the safest approach to solve the problem—delay the fight until it couldn't be delayed any longer.

"Let's negotiate," he suddenly said.

"Conditions?" The writhing shadow answered Xiao Yi's question, its voice as muffled as an old radio, the static masking the original tone.

Xiao Yi was overjoyed. The other party was willing to listen to him, which meant that the plan to stall for time was more than half successful. The next step was to test his ability to deceive.

"That's right, I refused the Iron Contract's invitation to join the society last time." Xiao Yi spread his arms wide, making up a lie. "Thinking about it carefully, your organization isn't without its merits, but..."

He raised his left hand to his eyes, rubbed his index, thumb and middle fingers together, and said, "I am a very opportunistic person. The shogunate gave me benefits, so I became the shogun's adopted son. If you can offer me conditions that I can hardly refuse, I am not unwilling to act as an outsider and help the Shogunate."

(Video: So this is what kind of person you are!)

(Xiao Yi: Hey, didn't you already know? Besides, I'm bluffing him right now. Miss Ying, please behave yourself and focus on completing your mission.)

(Shadow: As an excellent martial artist, I can always remain vigilant, no matter when or where. Therefore, talking to you will not distract me from guarding against the enemy's true form.)

(Xiao Yi: I hope so.)

As Xiao Yi confronted the dark figure in the mist, the Earth Vein Flower unleashed its second round of fire. Sara tried her best to dodge while adjusting her direction to ensure that Mora's bullets would not hit Narutoko, and that the counter-attack arrows would not interfere with her companions' performance.

There were only four arrows in the quiver she found. She had already fired a headshot arrow while dodging the barrage, but she noticed that the enemy's head, which resembled a ley line flower, was unusually hard. If she didn't attach elemental power to it, the arrow would bounce off as if it had hit steel.

Try it on unexpected parts of your head!

She quickly drew her bow, seized an opening, and fired at the enemy's heart. The arrow pierced his chest, but the enemy remained vigorous, unleashing a barrage of Mora to swarm the nine warriors. The female soldier, now at a disadvantage, had no choice but to continue dodging and searching for an opportunity.

There are still two arrows left; we can't use them recklessly anymore.

On the other side, Xiao Yi has thirteen seconds left.

Like static on a radio, it responded to Xiao Yi's lie about pretending to join the group.

“Very good! If you are willing to help us, once we eliminate the Seven Stars and the Sage, and turn Liyue into a base for spreading 'justice,' we will make you the governor here. If you wish, Inazuma can also bask in the glory of 'justice'…”

"Hahahaha!" Xiao Yi laughed heartily, his expression delighted. "Then, there's only one answer..."

He originally intended to take the samurai sword from his waist and break it with his knee, hoping to buy time by shocking the enemy with a ruthless act.

But when he remembered that this weapon was crafted together with Gan Yu, and was the same model as the bow in her hand, a meaningful token of their love, he stopped what he was doing.

"Will you swear allegiance to me?" the shadowy figure asked.

Ding! ! !

The purple gem on Xiao Yi's chest shone brightly, indicating that he could unleash his power once again.

"No..." Xiao Yi threw the knife at the shadowy figure, "I'm going to kick your ass to pieces!"

The long sword pierced through the shadowy figure's chest, creating ripples like a pebble thrown into water, but without any feedback of hitting anything, proving that Thor was right.

This thing is indeed just a projection.

Although physical damage cannot break through the projection, as long as the energy is high enough, it can be disintegrated—just blast it apart with powerful lightning!

The deceived Great Righteous Celestial realized the problem. Although the distorted projection had no facial features, from Xiao Yi's perspective, a circular purple light appeared on the upper right side of the projection's head, as if it were drawing power from the earth's veins.

Immediately afterwards, a gleaming lightning spear appeared in the right hand of the dark figure in the thick fog. He raised his arm, preparing to unleash this energy at Xiao Yi, so that the disrespectful Ming Shenzi would be reduced to ashes.

(Shadow: The lightning spear that deflected my attack just now was one of these, but that one was thrown by my main body. The power you're facing now is far less than that.)

Boom! The thunder spear was suddenly hurled out.

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Xiao Yi casually extended his right hand, and the lightning spears thrown by the enemy seemed to receive his command, stopping in front of his palm as obediently as tamed wild beasts.

He asked in bewilderment, "Are you out of your mind? You actually used a lightning elemental spear to attack the adopted son of the Thunder God."

He had mastered this skill of drawing his spear quickly when dealing with evil spirits. The countermeasures were as if they were engraved in his body, and he could act without thinking.

Xiao Yi suddenly gripped the halted tip of the lightning spear. The lightning spear, formed from a high concentration of energy, instantly disintegrated, turning into particles that then reassembled, ultimately forming the halberd that landed in Xiao Yi's hand.

He thought to himself: Does reshaping the enemy's attacks into my own weapons feel a bit like being a minotaur?

Xiao Yi stopped his wild thoughts and leaped toward the dark figure in the thick fog. His swift halberd thrust straight at the projection's head, emitting a bright spot of intense elemental power.

That place is either the core or the source of power; in any case, it's better to stir things up than not.

Xiao Yi had always been puzzled as to why difficult monsters or bosses always liked to openly reveal their weaknesses.

Just as the halberd was about to strike, the dark figure suddenly raised his hand to block the sudden thrust. The purple light became even more brilliant, and the entire dark hand was covered in lightning. Countless purple glass-like lightning element barriers appeared in front of the dark figure.

The enemy deliberately blocked the light spot from attacking, confirming Xiao Yi's conjecture that destroying this luminous object would cause trouble for the enemy, so it did its best to intercept the thrust.

Xiao Yi did not stop his attack, attempting to overwhelm the opponent's lightning, pierce through the shadowy hand and barrier, and destroy the light spot on the right side of the head.

Lightning elements collided head-on, creating a deafening boom. A large amount of dazzling electricity was directed to the earth or dispersed in the air, and the shockwave overturned the nearby Salo and the ley line flowers.

Suspended in mid-air, Xiao Yi continuously poured energy into the halberd, attempting to pierce through the palm of the three-meter-tall black shadow and several layers of lightning shields. Sure enough, the enemy's lightning was far less pure than Xiao Yi's, and the halberd gradually broke through the defenses and pierced into the black shadow's palm.

With just a little more effort, victory is within our grasp.

While Xiao Yi was locked in a stalemate with the shadowy figure, the Nine-Tailed Sara and the Earth Vein Flower Guardian, who had been thrown over by the shockwave, got up again and began a race-like duel reminiscent of Western cowboys.

The guardian's leyline flower head needs to charge up its Mora to fire, while the nine arrows also need to be drawn and have their energy stored up. Whoever completes the action first will gain a huge advantage, and the prize for the victor is the life of the other.

Kujo Sara drew his hunting bow to its fullest extent, aiming it at the guardian, and gathered lightning elemental power into the arrowhead. The petals on the guardian's head then burst forth with golden light, accumulating kinetic energy to launch Mora.

Logically, both sides had equal preparation time, but unexpectedly, just as Kujo had drawn his bow to its fullest extent, he released it and shot the arrow at the head of the guardian deity, Shengkai.

Normally, an arrow without accumulated elemental power cannot penetrate the enemy's skull. But something unexpected happened. The rapidly flying arrow flashed with lightning, and the arrowhead pierced through the outer shell of the petals like a nail, as if a toothpick had been stuck into the flower.

The golden light gradually faded, and the guardian of the leyline flower head struggled and flailing its arms and legs, presumably having lost the ability to shoot Mora, while also suffering terribly from the electric shock.

Sara was able to gain a speed advantage in the duel because she did not conventionally accumulate lightning element with her own power, but instead directly absorbed the lightning in the air and attached it to the arrow. To put it another way, it was like a cowboy directly pulling the hammer with his hand instead of pulling the trigger.

Normally, such a trick wouldn't be possible, since the amount of lightning in the air is ultimately limited. However, at this moment, the projection of the mastermind behind the scenes is fighting with Xiao Yi, and both of them are using lightning. Just standing next to them gives one a tingling sensation.