I'm in the Teyvat running group

The family finished their meal together, and only then did Xiangling and I lie down in bed together that night.

He slept soundly again, not waking up until noon the next day to look for Zhongli. As for where Zhongli was...

During this period, the old man's refresh point has been basically fixed. Because he has a new play with Yu Tea House recently, he refreshes here every afternoon. He often brings Tuozi Ge along. The two of them have become an old duo who freeload off each other.

As soon as Yunxiu arrived at the teahouse entrance, she could already hear the storytelling voices inside. Stepping inside, she saw Tuozi, Zhongli, Guizhong, and Huangming, the four old friends, drinking tea together.

"Your Majesty." Yunxiu greeted him and sat down at the table. Soon a waiter came and brought him a cup of tea.

“I recently encountered Koitar and some things from the past…” Yunxiu recounted the recent situation, and the others fell silent.

Just as he was about to ask another question, he heard Gui Zhong say, "If I remember correctly, Tuozi answered Koytar's call to rebel against the laws of nature back then? He was then thrown underground and his mind was almost destroyed, and finally he was dug out by Old Man Zhong. Is that true?"

"If I'm not mistaken, there was also the Thunder Dragon King back then, but after he almost perished and bestowed his power upon Baal, he was hidden away, right?"

Chapter 519 The Old Stories of Heavenly Principles and the Strange Methods

Thunder Dragon King...

Yunxiu also learned what exactly happened back then from Yueji and Serania.

Simply put, the Thunder Dragon King escaped from the Dark Sea, then casually fought a few rounds with Thunder Movie before pretending to obliterate him and handing over his power. Thunder Movie then sent him to the shrine under the Abyss Palace.

That is, the place where Serania is. Although the Thunder Dragon King has had great difficulty recovering and has not yet fully recovered, his power is not the biggest problem. The main issue is that his laws have been almost completely obliterated, and his body cannot support the enormous power.

Therefore, in this situation, the only option is to seal oneself off, but Tuozi has Zhongli...

Why was Zhongli able to give Tuozi eyes and bring him to the ground? The fundamental reason was not that he bestowed eyes upon him, but that he signed a contract, solidified the laws of rock with the laws of the contract, and then used the laws of rock itself to give him power.

This level of skill is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, let alone ridiculous movies. Yunxiu has never seen anyone else pull off this level of skill. It can only be said that the Emperor's level is truly beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.

“My situation was different back then. Techno-Kor invited me mainly to participate in the resistance against that one, but I don’t remember the specifics.” Tuozi scratched his head before saying uncertainly, “The Emperor should know this best, but due to the laws of the contract, he may not be able to say it aloud…”

“This matter is indeed not that simple, but it’s not particularly complicated either.” Zhongli took a sip of tea before slowly saying, “You did the right thing, so there’s no need to worry too much.”

Hearing Zhongli's assurance, Yunxiu naturally felt less pressured and began to drink her tea. As for settling the bill—since he was there, he would naturally pay.

These days, the worst thing is to have no expectations. Once there are expectations, many things become minor. It will take some time for the power of the fire to be fully integrated and restored. Since the prophet hasn't come to him, there's no rush.

Every day I would visit Taranis and Jiheng, who were pregnant, or go to the Mage Association to see how their technology had improved, or occasionally handle some business matters for the Chamber of Commerce. It was a rare opportunity for me to pick up my cooking skills again, which I hadn't practiced in a long time...

It wasn't until early December that the time to meet Rene arrived at the Genesis Center, where Alice and Xiaoyue were already waiting.

"So the spatial magic you've constructed is a wormhole?" Yunxiu looked at the pile of documents René handed him, a field he could understand: "The combination of Kleiner and Alice's long-distance communication spell with the solidification of the Moon-Shaving spatial field and the prime number inversion of spacetime coordinates, is that right?"

"Actually, there's another breakthrough, which is that we may have found the outer shell of the magic factor... of course, we haven't opened it yet."

Rene pointed to a section of the document and said, “Look here. After we solved the formula for spacetime primes using PRIME, we calculated and completely decomposed the elemental force to this point, and finally a solid… magical factor shell appeared.”

"We can't open it yet, but we can indeed connect to some worlds within this universe, though three conditions are required."

“First, there are detailed coordinates; second, the world's will itself is not very resistant; and third, there are enough strong individuals.” Alice added, “According to what is commonly known in the universe, there must be at least six to seven peak-level galaxy-class powerhouses, which is what we commonly call peak-level familiars, peak-level legends in the Aion world, and A++ combat power in the Firefly universe… This is a level of combat power.”

"Then it seems Earth is out of the question. Are there other worlds?"

“Ocotavia and I gathered the information and searched through all the criteria we had. Only two met the requirements.”

"Which two are they? Do I recognize any of them?"

“There really is one…” Alice pulled out a document and handed it to Yunxiu: “You should be very familiar with this place. You even modified their spells, which is what you traded with Okotavia before.”

Yunxiu took the document and looked at it, then exclaimed in surprise, "This world has also encountered a strange pollution, but not the Abyss, but... Ether? So it's this planet. Can we connect with them?"

“It’s troublesome, but it’s still possible, since we have everything we need here.” Alice estimated for a moment before continuing, “Kleiner can go over there and make contact for us. It should be possible within two or three years. Although that world is also in a precarious situation right now, it should be able to hold on for two or three years.”

“Then I agree. It would be fine if we could open it up within three years. If I remember correctly, that level of erosion probably isn’t too much of a problem for us.” Yunxiu looked at the document and said, “Kleiner and his team should be able to handle this level of disaster, right?”

“His profession prevents him from interfering in these matters, although he wants to… but even transmitting information is difficult.” Alice spread her hands and said, “He has far more restrictions than I do, so even Klee has a hard time seeing her father often. Speaking of which, Klee has finally grown another year older recently. It’s so slow for our race to reach adulthood.”

“There are advantages to taking it slow… Anzhi and the others have already given me a lot of headaches.” Yunxiu waved her hand: “We don’t know what puberty will be like yet. Fortunately, they don’t think much of any troublemakers.”

"You're only thirty years old, but you talk like you're three hundred."

"Wouldn't it be a disaster if someone who's 300 years old talks like someone who's 30? Um... Cecilia doesn't count, it's good that she's cute."

"You reacted really quickly; I was just about to preserve the evidence..."

Yunxiu chuckled, stood up, and left. There were spatial anchoring arrays set up by Xiaoyue all around, so he had to go outside to teleport. However, he didn't plan to go back today.

Since we're already here, why not stay in Baisong Town for a couple of days...

Fontaine is not cold this season, which is perfect for a vacation. Fishing is a good thing to do at this time of year. As for what else you can do after fishing, that's hard to describe.

After lingering in Fontainebleau for a few days, Yunxiu finally returned to Wanmintang. However, what puzzled him most was that the prophet hadn't come looking for him at all, as if something had happened to keep him from showing up.

However, the projects and various matters under his own command have been progressing in an orderly manner.

The first cable of the space elevator was completed, the first batch of improved talismans appeared, the new cultivation package system began to be promoted downwards, Linaia became the first legendary powerhouse among surveying mages, and her child with Serania and Ji Heng was born, named Yun Anling and Yun Pingli by the Emperor...

There's also a whole bunch of other miscellaneous things, big and small.

It wasn't until August of the following year that Yunxiu returned to Fontaine, intending to celebrate Navia's birthday and hold a family reunion. It was then that she received a message from Rene—the prophet might be in trouble.

"Where did you get this information from?" Yunxiu looked curiously at the report that Rene handed her, and then asked curiously, "Simply speaking, although the prophet is not as strong as the sage, he might be even stronger in terms of unpredictability, right? If he is hiding in the cracks of the bottom of time, even you would not have an easy time finding him, would you?"

"Theoretically, that's true, but there's no such thing as guarding against thieves for a thousand days. The information we have now is that the prophet may have already encountered a problem, or the prophet who is currently outside may just be a remnant soul... His original body may have already been sealed away."

“Sealed? Who? There aren’t many people who have the ability to seal. If it were five hundred years ago, there would only be a handful of people in the world who could seal a prophet…” A series of names flashed through Yunxiu’s mind, but he quickly dismissed them: “None of them. These people probably don’t have enough motive to do this.”

“That’s what we’re wondering about too. Strictly speaking, we have found the seal, but the system of the seal itself is very strange. I can see that it combines the magic system and the elemental power system.” Rene handed over another diagram of the magic runes: “I remember that besides you, there should only be a few demigod mages with this ability, but I have checked them one by one, and it is not the work of any of you.”

"But this rune spell is also perfectly combined, it is definitely not something that an ordinary expert could do."

“Indeed, with spacetime magic sealing as its foundation, coupled with the suppression of bloodline magic, and further aided by stellar magic positioning and conceptual magic suppression, even I don’t have many spells at this level.” Yunxiu nodded and said, “But it’s clearly not from that particular lineage, nor from Alice’s lineage. Could it be… Selenne?”

But he quickly dismissed his own opinion: "No, this spell isn't entirely from the world of Aio."

"So, why don't you take it back and study it?"

“No problem, but why does this spell seem to have some dragon magic foundation? But it doesn’t seem like it was sealed by Serania, and my Three Corpses don’t know it either.”

"Besides, who could seal away a prophet like this, and perhaps even recently?"

Yunxiu took this thing back and studied it for more than a month without any results. However, he managed to restore the sealing spell to about 70-80%. He tried it out and found that the sealing effect was indeed very strong, but it was still not strong enough to seal the prophet.

This situation baffled him, and his only conclusion was that he would likely need to rely on some kind of bloodline to cast the spell, but his bloodline itself did not match the spell.

"So, this thing was probably cast by a warlock, not a mage? The warlock himself mobilized his bloodline, meaning his ancestor was a god-level mage." Yunxiu thought carefully for a long time but couldn't figure out who it was. After all, there are only one or two god-level mages in Teyvat, and Yunxiu knows them all!

Raiden Shin and the Great Kindness Tree King, and even Funina could be considered as such, but the problem is that he and Funina have a child. Yun Anxi shouldn't be in that direction!

Even if Yun Anxi grew up and went against the flow to seal it from the perspective of time, it couldn't be such a spell.

"Could it be An Yao? But An Yao specializes in shamanic magic..."

Yunxiu was completely baffled, while the prophet remained trapped in the seal.

Even when everyone started celebrating the New Year during the Lantern Festival, he still kept the spell at home, conflicted about it.

Until that day comes.

Chapter 520 Interdimensional Road-Track Combat Gear

On the last day of the new year, a very strange sealed box suddenly appeared on his table, exactly the same as the one that sealed the prophet.

But the way it appeared made him realize who had created the seal. In Teyvat, only one person could have delivered this item to his table so silently.

“The ruler of time, Ishtar…” He silently touched the box, suddenly remembering a question that was often mentioned when they talked about the original theory.

That is—what exactly do the five deadly sinners correspond to?

The final conclusion is that it likely corresponds to the principles of life, death, time, and space. Life corresponds to Rhinedoth, death corresponds to the Moon Hunters, principles correspond to the Sages, space corresponds to the Extreme Evil Knights, and the Prophet corresponds to time.

The Five Deadly Sins are actually the Five Reigns in reverse order, which also correspond to the Five Relics. This line of thinking is actually correct. The most interesting thing is that the four eras of Teyvat are inferred from the four ceremonial crowns, which Rene also talked about later.

However, after Rene was resurrected, Yunxiu discussed this issue with him, but the final conclusion was that it might not be perfect enough, and the Four Ritual Crown could actually lead to another possibility. What is it? It has an important relationship with the seven representatives of the primordial light of Teyvat, namely the seven dragon kings.

Three of the seven sacrificial crowns are missing: Rock, Grass, and Wind. These three dragon kings happen to be the ones who are still alive and active.

The Water Dragon King Navelette has been reborn, and is essentially a water god returning power. In reality, the power has already been transferred many times. The Fire Dragon King Shukutl has been turned into the abyss, the Ice Dragon King is already dead, and the fate of the Thunder Dragon King is unknown.

Of course, it's not much different from being dead.

Yunxiu and Rene had discussed this issue, and even talked to several Dragon Kings about it. The final conclusion was... unclear.

Objectively speaking, the sacrificial crown is not a rare or precious relic; it's a common item.

It is extremely easy to make, and can even be made from elemental crystals. Its original purpose was to resist elemental erosion, but with the emergence of elemental barriers, it has naturally lost its meaning.

Although it's unclear why the ruling power of time sealed the prophet, this person has always been quite enigmatic in his actions. We can only leave this thing behind for slow study; given his skill level, he should be able to finish the study in a few months.

"The battle to release the floodwaters has been going on for almost twelve years now... Why is this Ruler of Time still a complete enigma?" Yunxiu sighed and touched the box, then began to study it...

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“Research that only goes this far is not enough. We will never be able to win the next hollow disaster like this.” A young girl stood in front of several data screens, which were filled with dense surveillance data. The data was overwhelming, and the high-energy reactions in many areas had already made everyone present feel terrified.

"Roskelly Law is rumored to be working with TOPS Financial Alliance on a plan to weaponize the virtual hunters... Chief Ya, aren't you worried?"

What are you worried about?

"Worried about the weaponization of the Void Hunters..."

"The fact that you can ask this question shows that you have no concept of the Void Hunt."

"Chief Hoshimi! The portal has been successfully connected!" A pink-haired adult woman rushed over: "The first powerful individual has arrived, far surpassing the strength of an ordinary Void Hunter! It instantly triggered a violent reaction from the Void!"

"How strong?" Hoshimi Miya casually touched her hair. "Liu, I remember that the passageway isn't guarded by Master Yixuan of Yunkui Mountain?"

"Her energy index is seventeen times that of the newly promoted Void Hunter Ye Shunguang... even stronger than Master Yixuan." Liu shook his head and said, "And there's a high chance that more powerful individuals will come. According to her, she's just a scientist... and she even looks somewhat similar to Master Yixuan?"

"Oh?" Hoshimi Miyabi gripped her knife tightly and quickly followed, boarding a commuter bus and arriving at the research base in no time.

Almost two years ago, a traveler from another world, who called himself "The Seeker" Kleiner, brought enough goodwill to help them wipe out and eliminate most of the Papago Void and Havali Void. Then, under the leadership of Mayor Mefrau, the Passage Project was launched.

One reason, of course, is to gain an opportunity to escape to other planets.

On the other hand, he was also seeking help, since Mr. Kleiner said that his own strength was probably not even in the top 30 on his own planet, but he was evenly matched with Xu Shou.

While there may be some exaggeration involved, the prospect of hunting more than thirty virtual prey is still incredibly tempting.

As for what might happen, to be honest, there's nothing left to lose in New Elido. A civilization that crossed the stars must have the ability to terraform planets or even create planets in space, not to mention that terraforming planets is far more troublesome than cleaning up the ether.

Although science fiction often talks about things like the "dark forest," a little thought reveals that it's a completely impossible logic.