I'm in the Teyvat running group

“But magic can.” Yunxiu stared at the skill description of the animated object, thinking about specific ways to implement it.

In Teyvat, ley lines are essential for constructing spaces, so the Prophecy school's [Detection Magic] and [Spot the Weak Points] are key. The former is used to observe the flow of ley line energy, while the latter is used to find the weak points of ley line energy.

Next are [Animating Objects] and [Commanding Spells], but I don't need such complex and high-level spells. I just need to keep the animated objects spiritual and remember one thing: maintain the stability of the space. This will minimize the difficulty of understanding and casting the spells.

Both spells were originally fifth-circle spells, but they didn't need to be used to command or activate highly intelligent beings; a single spirit was enough—to expand and stabilize space.

By utilizing the ley lines themselves and using spiritual materials as a wedge, one can theoretically create a stable space, even if it is not large, by casting spells such as the [Dimensional Bag] or even upgraded spells.

After writing and drawing on the paper, summarizing the basic formulas and principles of the spell, it was already completely dark outside.

"But I should rest for a bit before continuing..." The high-intensity battles of the day had left his mental and elemental energy nearly depleted. He finally returned to the tent he had arranged for himself, forced himself to wash up, and then rested.

He slept quite soundly that night.

He slept without a dream, at least until Sugar woke him up.

“Mr. Yunxiu…” Looking at Sugar’s cute green head approaching him, beneath her slightly messy short hair were a pair of adorable cat-ear glasses, and a pair of golden-red eyes filled with concern through thick lenses.

Her petite figure, dressed in the uniform of the Knights of Favonius, exuded a fragrance that blended potions and elements. Even after being mixed with alchemical potions, the extracted sweet flower essential oil still carried a slightly sweet but not unpleasant scent, which, combined with the girl's own body fragrance and warmth, was a truly harmless sweetness.

In the hazy state where sleepiness had not yet faded, the human instinct to seek desire and warmth overwhelmed all reason. Yunxiu opened her still drowsy eyes and, controlled by instinct, made an action that was not at all unexpected.

He reached out and embraced Sugar's slender waist, pulling her close to his body. He greedily inhaled the fragrance, which came purely from human instinct, and seemed to drift off to sleep again.

"Ah... Mr. Yun... um..." Sugar let out a short whimper, her whole body stiffened on the spot, her ears perked up and instantly became straight, trembling rapidly for a few seconds, turning red and hot at a visible speed, directly emitting a large amount of heat, which also made her cheeks red.

Still half-asleep, Yunxiu seemed quite pleased with the soft object, muttering something under her breath, and then unintentionally nuzzling Sugar's face and hair with the tip of her nose.

Held tightly in Yunxiu's strong arms, Sugar's ears were pressed against her head by the rubbing, and then she tensed up, but feeling the immense heat emanating from Yunxiu's body, Sugar gradually calmed down.

Her hands, suspended in mid-air, hesitated for a long time before finally gently embracing Yunxiu. She lowered her head and stroked Yunxiu's head. Her ears returned to their normal color and slowly relaxed, resting against the sides of her hair. Although she still radiated heat, she had almost become one with Yunxiu in terms of her aura.

The room was filled with the scent of the special version of Jiu Shi Sweet Flower No. 28 fragrance, which was soft, sweet and pleasant.

"Sister Sugar!" A fiery red figure jumped in with a "thump," and an innocent voice echoed throughout the tent: "Sister Ying is looking for you!"

"Ah, Sugar Sister, you're here..."

"Klee, don't look!" Ying rushed in and blindfolded Klee, then carried her out, turning back with a sly smile: "I won't bother you anymore, hurry up, Captain Jean is still waiting for the meeting."

"Ah!" Sugar released her hands like a startled little fox. Yunxiu was also completely awakened by the sound. Looking at the petite body in her arms, she gently released her hands as well: "I'm sorry, Miss Sugar, I startled you."

"N-no...it's okay." Sugar rubbed her hands shyly, her voice weak as she said, "Mr. Yunxiu, you...I know you didn't mean it..."

She lowered her head, her disheveled hair and animal ears plastered to her head, and as if gathering her courage, she said, "Never again... never do that again... if it were another girl, she would be angry..."

After saying that, she turned and walked towards the door, but was tightly hugged from behind by two hands.

Feeling an arm that was stronger yet gentler than before, Sugar was about to push it away when she heard Yunxiu's firm voice: "Sugar, only cowards would use 'carelessness' as a cover for their feelings."

"so."

Even without turning around, Sugar could feel the upward curve of Yunxiu's lips: "Just pretend I did it on purpose!"

"Hmm..." Feeling the blood rushing to her ears again, Sugar felt surprisingly calm. She didn't know where she got the courage, but she gently turned her head in Yunxiu's arms and took the initiative to hug Yunxiu.

A full ten minutes later, Sugar finally spoke up, "Good evening... How is evening... Leader Qin is still waiting for you..."

"Ah, okay." Reluctantly, he let go of Sugar, watching her cover her ears and quietly sit on the small stool in the room. Yunxiu walked into the compartment inside the tent, used the Mage's Hand, and twelve mage hands helped him wash his face, brush his teeth, change his clothes, and style his hair, finishing the cleaning in just a few minutes.

After changing into a Liyue robe custom-made by Liyue's top tailor, and taking out the jade pendant her father had given her to hang at her waist, a clean-cut young mage with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes appeared in front of Sugar.

Seeing that Sugar was still blushing and shy, Yunxiu gently bent down, took her little hand, and walked out together.

As soon as she stepped outside, she saw Ying grinning mischievously and blushing slightly outside the tent. She gave a rare, smug look and held out her hand to Yunxiu and Sugar, saying, "Leave Sugar to me for now! I'll give her back to you after Commander Qin finishes her meeting!"

Yunxiu glanced at Sugar, saw her purse her lips and nod slightly, then let go of her hand and said, "Alright, alright, I failed to fight my instincts. Now I'm going to fight Teyvat's instincts."

He then took out the new spell array he had drawn the night before and handed it to Sugar, saying, "Sugar, if you're interested, you can study this spell. If you're interested, you can try casting it."

"Here are the materials." He pulled out a sachet filled with a large amount of monster materials and handed it to Sugar: "If we can figure this out, it might be the most powerful invention in the history of Teyvat alchemy!"

"Ah... so many materials! And a Beast Realm King-level artifact! I've wanted this for a long time... Teacher Abedo said he would help me find one next time..." Upon hearing the word "materials," Sugar completely ignored Yunxiu's words and began to study the large amount of materials that Yunxiu had retrieved from yesterday's battle, completely unaware that there were several other people standing next to her.

Yunxiu didn't mind, gave Ying a word of advice, and then walked towards Qin's tent.

As soon as I stepped into the tent, I heard a slightly nonchalant, teasing voice: "Isn't this our Honored Knight, Savior of the Eastern Wind Dragon, Messenger of the Liyue Sword Division, Guest of Honor of Dawn Winery, Son of the Celestial Star, and Top Archmage Yunxiu? He's half an hour late today!"

Yunxiu glanced over and saw that Kaiya was wearing armor, casually tossing a peculiar coin around, and looking at her with a smile.

“Mr. Kaiya,” Yunxiu said with a worried expression, “this morning, human instinct unfortunately defeated me in the struggle against it.”

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Chapter 51 The Dead Machine Crisis Begins

"Mr. Kaiya, have you ever thought about this question?" Before Kaiya could react, Yunxiu continued with a serious expression, "If our human desires are merely physiological hormones, then where will our future lead us? Here, I can't help but ask, what are the mysteries of the universe? What is the meaning of human life? What motivates us to live in this universe?"

"????"

Seeing that Kaiya hadn't even picked up the money that had fallen to the ground, Yunxiu reached out and picked up the peculiar coin. She discovered that it was actually a gold coin engraved with strange patterns. The front was shaped like a Cecilia flower, while the back was covered with several lines of strange, distorted characters. Although she didn't understand their meaning, Yunxiu could still sense an aura that clearly emanated from a force from another world.

“I don’t know about human instincts, but an instinct that can cause a delay of more than half an hour is indeed unexpected.” Although he was briefly stunned by Yunxiu’s series of strange questions, Kaiya quickly recovered and even asked back, “And what kind of instinct is it?”

"Ahem... Let's not focus on these details." Yunxiu scratched her head guiltily, then looked at Kaiya with the coins and said, "Could I borrow this to study it? I can use a Beast Realm King-level artifact as collateral, so it should be worth its value."

"No need to mention lending it." Kaiya chuckled and shook his head. "I'll give it to you. I have plenty of these."

"but……"

"Please don't hesitate to ask if you need anything."

"If you discover anything from this research, please share it with me. I'd like to find something from it that I might know."

“No problem.” Yunxiu nodded. If he wasn’t mistaken, this coin was related to the lost civilization described in Cecilia’s Nursery, and the distorted writing on the back was clearly related to Kanria. So this coin might really be able to help him learn some truths about Kanria…

Picking up the gold coins, I found a seat and sat down. A civilian employee of the Knights served me a white-sauce vegetable stew with meat and two slices of fisherman's toast. Unlike the thick-sauce vegetable stew, the white-sauce vegetable stew was mainly made with cream and houttuynia cordata.

Although Yunxiu prefers the sweet and sour taste of thick vegetable stew with meat to the rich, creamy flavor of this, it must be said that pairing it with Fisherman's Toast covered with onions makes for a unique and delicious meal.

After quickly finishing the food, Yunxiu casually cast a water-making spell to wash herself. Just as she was about to continue thinking about the design of the spell itself, she heard a few footsteps coming from the doorway.

"Sorry, I was held up by some things." Jean, Diluc, and Abedor quickly walked in and sat down in their seats. "Lord Barbatos and Lord Dvalin are still on the battlefield confronting some unknown force. According to Lord Barbatos, two or three powerful energies have arrived nearby."

After saying this, the group sat down. Surprisingly, everyone turned their gaze to Yunxiu at the same time. After exchanging glances, Qin took out a diagram with strange magical runes and said to Yunxiu, "Master Yunxiu, we all believe in your understanding of magic. Can you tell what kind of magic circle this is?"

"Even Abedo didn't see it?" Yunxiu asked doubtfully. "In terms of pure understanding of spellcasting and the nature of the world, Abedo should far surpass me."

“I can see that it belongs to the alchemy part, but I can only understand part of the spell part. It should be combined with something.” Abedo pointed to the strange constructs on the four corners of the magic circle: “So I have destroyed these constructs, but I am worried that there will be unpredictable consequences after these magic circles are destroyed, so I have not touched them.”

"Let me see..." Yunxiu carefully examined the magic array, but her expression grew increasingly grim. As she looked, she continued to trace patterns in the air with her finger.

As she seemed to have finished drawing the last symbol, Yunxiu's face revealed an extremely distraught expression. This was a magic circle combining the Necromancer School with the Enchanting School, supplemented by alchemy, but the alchemy stage had already been completed.

A series of various pieces of information from the past were frantically combining in his mind, forming a sprawling thread that now came together completely!

Yunxiu frantically wrote string after string of magical runes and characters. The others watched with grave expressions, unsure of what Yunxiu was doing. Just as they were about to approach and ask, they heard Yunxiu muttering to herself.

"The world's first eye for a tiller..." "The alliance between the Fatui and the Cult of the Abyss..." "A Winter's Alchemist arrives in Mondstadt..." "An ancient dragon appears in the Wind Dragon Ruins..." "The Doctor obtains a batch of autonomous combat machines..." "A large number of monsters are killed, yet the Fatui do nothing..." "A strange magic circle suddenly appears..."

"It's connected! It's connected!"

"What's connected?" Kaiya was about to ask in confusion when he heard Yunxiu's resolute words: "Commander Qin, immediately evacuate all members of the Knights Order. All knights below the rank of captain must immediately withdraw from the Wind Dragon Ruins!"

"Okay." Qin didn't say another word. She immediately summoned several clerical staff and gave the order for everyone to evacuate.

Seeing that Qin had begun to withdraw, Yunxiu immediately turned to Kaiya and said, "Captain Kaiya, please immediately dispatch several elite heavy cavalry units composed of captain-level knights to destroy all the magic arrays. You must use elemental energy to completely destroy his meridians!"

"I'll go right away." Kaeya immediately dropped his nonchalant attitude, turned around, and left. Yunxiu then said to Diluc, "Diluc, do you have a way to temporarily unleash your power? Even if it might damage your body, as long as it doesn't cause irreversible harm, it's fine."

“In my memory, you’re not this anxious.” Diluc, for once, showed a look of surprise. “Can you tell me what it is?”

“Let’s go together, we can talk as we go.” Yunxiu immediately cast a flight spell on herself and flew quickly toward the center of the battlefield. Diluc glanced at her and quickly followed, saying, “I have a way to temporarily boost my strength by one level, but the price is that my armor will need to be completely repaired.”

“I think you’re going to have to spend a lot of money this time.” Yunxiu flew around while casually clearing the elemental rune nodes on the ground with spells, and then said to Diluc, “I don’t know if you understand the peculiar phenomenon of ‘necromancers’. Teyvat doesn’t have necromancers or undead, probably because Teyvat doesn’t have the concept of reincarnation. Even if the dead can manifest their souls, they won’t bring the corpses back to life.”

Although Yunxiu quickly thought of Fengdan's Lujing Spring and Pure Water Spirit, these are still different from humans.

“Necromancers? Undead?” Diluc nodded and said, “Legend has it that there is a temple of souls in Sumeru called Aru, but apart from knowing that it was built by the former Sumeru ruler Ahmar, I don’t know much else.”

Ahmar? Shouldn't the predecessor have been the Great Tree King?

Could it be that besides the True One, the Great Tree King is also still alive? If Egolia also exists, then does Fou still exist?

Of course, now is not the time to think about that...

“It’s quite different from that.” Yunxiu immediately continued to explain: “You can think of it as, you have lost your own will, but your body still exists. A strange and peculiar intelligence controls your body to fight. And because the dead body doesn’t care about dying again, it can often directly exchange injuries for injuries, causing even greater damage.”

"You mean..."

"Furthermore," Yunxiu added, "given the situation in Teyvat, the manipulation of the physical body is most likely the will of the Abyss. Such a thing has actually appeared in Nata before, but the people of Nata find it difficult to leave Nata, so outsiders are unaware of it!"

"So you mean," Diluc understood, "that the purpose of this magic circle is to summon the undead?"

“Yes…” Yunxiu looked around at the massive Wind Dragon ruins. Yesterday, Dvalin and the Knights had wiped out a large number of monsters here. Although many of them had been turned into pure energy, there were still flesh, debris, and all sorts of strange energies left behind. He smiled bitterly, “These are all of these! These are all of these!”

"Clang!"

Diluc drew his greatsword from his back, raised his hand, and unleashed a massive fire elemental sword aura that tore through the magic circle, slamming the ground into scorched earth!

"Moreover," Yunxiu began casting spell after spell to disrupt things, and he said solemnly, "if I'm not mistaken, Kanria's war machine construct and Fontaine's automated combat mechanism will also become part of the combination."

"War Construct?" Diluc asked doubtfully. "Even the most powerful War Construct remaining, the Mega-Eternal Dragon, shouldn't be invincible."

"But if you combine it with necromancy, it's completely different..."

Yunxiu's expression grew increasingly grim. If everything was as she suspected, the final product would likely be the experimental subject of the "Mechanically Modified Vortex Demon God".

Who orchestrated all of this? That's right, it must be the Doctor!

Moreover, it was probably him who informed Arecino of the Knights of Favonius's movements. This was a win-win situation for him. If the Knights of Favonius failed to rescue Dvalin, he would modify Dvalin into a mechanical dragon. If the Knights of Favonius rescued Dvalin, he would use Dvalin and the Knights' efforts to exterminate the abyssal monsters to gather a huge amount of energy and flesh and blood!

And just at this crucial juncture when Wendy is confronting the other gods, taking advantage of the fact that this wind god, who can easily obtain all information from the winds, is unable to concentrate on watching the world, he briefly seizes the opportunity to succeed!

In retrospect, whatever the reason, perhaps because of Wendy's assistance to Dvalin, or because Dvalin had been in the Abyss for too long, the Doctor chose to intervene actively, or even "help" the Knights of Favonius release Dvalin, in order to facilitate his strange and twisted research.

"Impressive tactics..." Yunxiu couldn't help but let out a long sigh. Since coming to this world, he had truly met a worthy opponent!

Chapter 52 Annihilation Cannon

Objectively speaking, Yunxiu actually has a certain sense of superiority over the people in this world. Only when facing a few truly powerful figures will he put away his condescending attitude.

Of course, the Traveler's starting position, coupled with the existence of the Book of Laws, gives him the right to be disdainful. Even if we only talk about his identity as the child of the Celestial Pivot and his understanding of the setting, Yunxiu can guarantee that he will at least do well before the destruction of Teyvat. If the Traveler can really save the world, then he will have made a profit. If he can't save it, he can still get Xiangling, so it won't be a loss.