People in Mondstadt, starting to develop black technology

Wendy's eyes lit up: "Could it be... Shen Qin gave it to me? Then he told me that you can purify tears and lead me to find you... But the Knights already had an action plan, so what is his purpose in doing this?"

Ying also thought about it and asked him: "Does he know...your true identity?"

"Maybe." He thought of the conversation with Shen Qin that night in Qingquan Town. "So why did he ask me to come and see you... Last time he wanted to borrow my power, could it be that this time... Do you understand the Knights' plan? Do they have any difficult problems now?"

Ying quickly grasped the key point: "Yes! Tomorrow we will have a meeting to discuss how to break through the barrier outside the Wind Dragon Ruins. This is the biggest obstacle between us and Tevarin. I heard from Albedo and the others that they were studying ways to break through the barrier before the dragon disaster began, but they haven't found a suitable method yet!"

"That barrier? I'm very familiar with it." Wendy smiled, "I can solve it, but I still need the assistance of the Sky Harp...hiss! Could it be that all of this is part of Shen Qin's plan? This man is so scary!"

Shen Qin: I just opened my third eye, don’t cue me, thank you!

Chapter 99: Borrowing the Sky Harp

After discussing tomorrow's plan with Ying, Wendy left. However, on his way back, he noticed something unusual and turned into a small alley.

About half a minute later, a masked man in black walked into the alley, but was surprised to find that it was a dead end.

"Snapped!"

The man in black fell to the ground, and Wendy stood behind him holding a brick.

He lifted the mask on the man in black's face and saw appearance features that clearly matched those of the people of a certain northern country.

"It's the Fatui again... Why do they always follow me like annoying flies... Huh?" He tilted his head to look outside the alley, and his whole body turned into a breeze and floated onto the roof.

Two men in black ran over, looked around, and then quickly carried the unconscious man in black away.

Wendy murmured to herself: "What is their purpose..."

The next day, Qin convened a combat meeting for the general attack on the Wind Dragon Ruins in the Knights' meeting room. Almost everyone was there, even Shen Qin, who looked haggard due to his research, was pulled out from the basement of the cathedral. Shatang felt very distressed when she saw this.

"Albedo, Lisa, have you made any progress in your research on the barrier of the Wind Dragon Ruins?" Jean looked at them.

Lisa said, "There are very few records about that barrier in ancient books, but I found relevant records in an unofficial history book. In the old Mondstadt period, when the current wind god Barbatos had not yet ascended to the throne, the solitary king Diekarapian who ruled Mondstadt set up a wind wall outside of old Mondstadt to block the foreign wind and snow."

"The wind wall at that time is the barrier today. The will and power left by the lonely king Diekarapian in the ruins of Old Mondstadt were... probably guided out by the Abyss Cult to isolate the Wind Dragon Ruins from the outside world again. Although the barrier is not as strong as the wind wall, it is still the power left by the once powerful demon god, and ordinary forces cannot break through it."

"This is a demon-level power. It will take a long time to crack it using alchemy alone," Albedo added.

Shen Qin listened to them talking about these boring things, his head slowly lowered, feeling like he was back in the classroom during his school days, the more he listened, the sleepier he became...

"Bam—"

Before his forehead came into close contact with the conference table, Sandang, who was sitting next to him, promptly put his palm under it. Even so, the noise made everyone look over.

Sandang blushed and pushed his shoulder.

Shen Qin raised his head and Shatang immediately retracted his hand.

Qin said worriedly: "Shen Qin, you don't look very well, do you want to go and rest first?"

"Yes, little cutie, you must not sacrifice your body for research. You are much more important than any alchemical invention."

Shen Qin waved his hands quickly to reassure them: "It's okay, it's okay, it's just that the tone of your voice is too much like the teacher who taught me before, and I always fall asleep unconsciously every time I listen to his class."

Lisa nodded in agreement: "Indeed, when the teacher is teaching is the most comfortable time to sleep!"

"Huh? Are you all like this? I thought I was the only one sleeping in class!" Amber said in surprise.

As if she had found a soulmate, Klee said excitedly, "Klee also likes to sleep when mommy is teaching me alchemy!"

Seeing that the topic was getting more and more off-topic, Qin knocked on the table helplessly: "Okay, let's stop talking about sleeping in class. Since Shen Qin is fine, let's continue with the previous topic..."

"Captain Qin, I have a way to make that barrier disappear." Ying took the initiative to speak.

"Oh?" Qin looked at her happily, "Tell me about it!"

Ever since her power could purify the curse of Tevarin's poisonous blood, Qin believed that miracles would always happen to her.

"I want to introduce a person to you. It was he who proposed the solution. He is now at the gate of the Knights."

Hearing this, Qin immediately told Haro to go to the door and bring the person in.

"Hello - hello! I'm Wendy, a bard." He seemed to have that social cow syndrome, and enthusiastically greeted everyone he knew and didn't know at the scene.

Paimon's eyes widened: "Huh? Why is it Wendy?"

"Bard..." Qin looked at Ying hesitantly. Seeing her nod confidently, she temporarily suppressed her doubts and said to Wendy, "Hello, respected bard, Ying said you have a way to break the barrier of the Wind Dragon Ruins..."

Wendy nodded: "You can just call me Wendy. Ying is right, I do have a solution."

"Oh? Our entire order of knights can't find a solution. Do you, a bard, know more than us?" Lisa raised a reasonable question.

Wendy looked at her with a smile and said, "My beautiful witch sister, do you know the demon god Diekarapian who once ruled Old Mondstadt?"

"Of course, sweet little poet."

"Although He has passed away, a part of His power is still attached to the Wind Dragon Ruins because of the obsession in His life, and He is unwilling to dissipate. The barrier is composed of this obsession and power. As long as the ancient ballads of Old Mondstadt are used to awaken the obsession, He will return to the earth veins with this power, and the barrier will disappear. As it happens, I am the one who can sing the ancient ballads."

His words made several alchemists fall into deep thought, and finally Albedo agreed with him: "Vendy, if you are sure that this method is useful, I think it is worth a try."

Lisa: "Yeah, that does sound reasonable."

Shen Qin winked at Shatang, and she seemed to understand what he meant quickly. She said, "I, I think Mr. Wendy's method is feasible."

Shen Qin directly vouched for Wendy: "I believe him."

Klee: "I don't understand what you are saying, but Brother Wendy is a good person!"

Seeing that several knowledgeable alchemists approved of Wendy's method, Qin did not hesitate and agreed immediately.

"Wait, in order to break that barrier, I need to borrow something from you."

Qin asked doubtfully, "Borrow what?"

"The Sky Harp."

"What? Sky Harp, are you referring to the treasure left behind by the wind god Barbatos?" Harp was surprised and began to doubt Wendy's motives. "Impossible!"

"Hey!" Shen Qin interrupted, "Captain Qin, why don't you listen to his reasons?"

Wendy cast a meaningful look at him and explained to Qin: "I am just an ordinary bard. My singing voice cannot reach the great lonely king Diekarapian. Only by using the power of the sky harp can I play the ballad to awaken the demon god."

"But the Sky Harp is the only token left by the God of Wind..." Qin was still reluctant to lend it out.

"Qin, if the Sky Harp is useful, then this is the meaning of the Wind God leaving it to Mondstadt. If it is useless, its value is not even as good as a Mora in your pocket." Diluk said. He has never had any feelings for such symbolic things unless it can be sold for a good price.

Wendy gave him a thumbs up: "It's a very practical idea, I like it!"

Chapter 100: Qin seems to have a youthful feeling

Qin finally agreed to lend the Skyharp to the bard, but he had to promise to return it intact.

But when Qin sent someone to fetch the Sky Harp, Wendy stroked her old friend who was very familiar to her, tested the strings, and frowned: "The energy on it is completely gone, and it is seriously out of tune."

Lisa said, "When the evil dragon Durin attacked us five hundred years ago, we used the last bit of energy it had left to summon Tevalin, the dragon of the east wind. After that, it became the dim and gloomy appearance it is today."

"As expected, nothing can withstand the wear and tear of time..." Wendy sighed, then took out Tevarin's tears and gave them to Ying along with the Sky Harp. "Traveler, please help me channel the energy in the tears to the harp and repair it."

Seeing the familiar crystal, Lisa looked at Shen Qin thoughtfully. After she finished studying it, Shen Qin took it back. Unexpectedly, it appeared in Wendy's hands now.

Qin asked the question in her heart: "Why are they called tears?"

"Oh - that's it..." Wendy repeated what she had said to Ying last night, "So it contains the purest wind element energy, and it's most suitable for repairing the Sky Harp."

So, can a dragon shed tears when in pain? Everyone was silent.

Ying took the Sky Harp and the two tears in her hands, closed her eyes and silently chanted: Repair the Sky Harp, repair the Sky Harp...

The tears emitted a light blue light, and those beams of light poured into the Sky Harp. In less than half a minute, the two tears disappeared, and the Sky Harp was completely new. The dust and scratches that had previously covered the surface disappeared.

Qin was surprised and said, "Qin seems to have a feeling of... youthful and radiant?"

Paimon smiled and said, "Captain Qin is praising himself!"

Qin blushed for a rare moment: "I, I'm talking about the Sky Harp!"

Wendy picked up the Skyharp, played it briefly, and sighed, "It has not yet recovered to a usable state. It would be better if there were more tears. Tevarin must have licked his wounds painfully in various places in Mondstadt. There should be more tears left in Mondstadt."

"I may know the location of a tear." Eula suddenly said, "In the ruins of the Thousand Winds Temple, there is a ruins guard, it is guarding a treasure chest, I sense a very disgusting smell in the treasure chest, if the tear before being purified carries the power of curse, I think it must be there."

Amber added: "Come to think of it, I had a similar feeling when I was in the Black Sun Tribe in Dadaupa Valley."

They had carried out large-scale clearing missions before and traveled almost all over Mond, so naturally they discovered these two unusual places.

"Okay." Jean nodded and said to Wendy and Ying, "I will have the Knights search all of Mondstadt to collect the contaminated tears. When the time comes, the task of purifying them and repairing the Sky Harp will be left to you."

Since Shen Qin's strategic weapons have not yet been successfully developed and the Sky Harp will take some time to be completely repaired, the combat meeting was temporarily suspended. Before everyone went home, Shen Qin gave Wendy a look, and Wendy winked in return.

Half an hour later, Shen Qin, who had returned to the alchemy workshop after a long absence, met Wendy. They smiled at each other, and everything was said without words.

"Tell me what you want to trouble me with this time." Wendy slapped his doodle on the table. "You draw very well. Don't draw it next time. It took me several hours to figure out what you drew."

"Hey! Is this so difficult to identify?" Shen Qin felt a little guilty.

"It's very difficult to identify!" Wendy complained word by word.

"Okay." Shen Qin spread his hands and got straight to the point, "I want to borrow something from you."

"what?"

"Your Heart of God."

"Hmm..." Wendy was a little surprised. He didn't expect that this was what he wanted. But after thinking about it, he suddenly smiled, stretched out his right hand, and the Heart of God in the shape of a chess piece condensed into shape in his hand.

"Here, this is for you." He threw the Heart of God to Shen Qin, "You don't have to give it back to me. It's no use to me anymore."

Shen Qin was not surprised. So many years after the end of the Demon War, the Heart of God only had a symbolic meaning to the Seven Gods themselves, representing their identity as the "Seven Rulers of the World."

They first became the Seven Gods and then obtained the Heart of God, rather than obtaining the Heart of God before becoming the Seven Gods.

By abandoning the Heart of God, they were able to get rid of certain shackles and start to become stronger again.

"Thank you." Shen Qin casually stuffed the Heart of God into a small square box, and then reminded him, "You have to be careful of the Fatui recently, especially their eighth executive officer, "Madam" Rosaline. She has been planning to take the Heart of God from you, but it will be fine after a while."

"Oh? No wonder..." Wendy thought of the Fatui who had been staring at her recently.

"Well, this time I came to you mainly for the Heart of God. Now that I have it, I should continue my research."

Wendy asked curiously, "What are you going to study with it?"

"Research the ultimate weapon that can defeat Tevarin." Shen Qin showed a harmless smile on his face.

He came to Wendy in advance to get the Heart of God, not only for future plans, but also to study that strategic weapon.

The Chaos Core is the most advanced energy source he currently possesses, but it can only meet the energy requirements of the Dragoon Type I. If he wants to create a weapon that can hurt the Demon God, the only way is to use more advanced energy.

All Shen Qin could think of was the Heart of God.

The inspiration comes from Sanbing's God of Machinery. He used the Heart of God to make a pseudo-god mecha. It's not excessive for him to just use it to make a weapon, right?

It just so happens that Wendy has an unused Heart of God. Wouldn’t it be great to take it and study it?

After separating from Wendy, Shen Qin immediately rushed back to the basement of the cathedral. The other structures of the new weapon had basically been designed. The only thing missing was an energy system with sufficiently powerful energy as the core.

Because the Heart of God has other uses, it is necessary to quickly copy its structure. After the meeting, Shen Qin took Albedo and Sucrose to the laboratory.

"This, this is the Heart of the God of Wind!" Sugar looked at the small chess piece in front of her in shock. "Have you met Lord Barbatos? Why would He hand over something as important as the Heart of God?"

Albedo observed it with great interest: "So this is what the Heart of God inside a God's body looks like? It looks like a special alchemical product..."

"Perhaps the Heart of God is not that important to the gods." Shen Qin clapped his hands and mobilized the two people. "Okay, this is probably the situation now. We need to design an energy system with the Heart of God as the core and copy the structure of the Heart of God. We can use the Heart of God as energy when dealing with Tevarin, but after the war we will have to use the Heart of God we imitated."

He smiled and looked at Sugar: "You have the Eye of the Wind Element God, why don't you try using the Heart of God?"

Sugar: “Huh?!”

Chapter 101: It's like squatting in the toilet and holding the toilet paper tightly

Sucrose held the Heart of God tightly, closed her eyes and felt the wind element in the air, while Albedo used the rock element to feel the flow of energy inside the Heart of God.

Perhaps because she was too nervous, she tried several times but failed to activate the Heart of God. Instead, she connected to her Eye of God.

However, being so close to the Heart of God, she did feel that the wind element was more active than usual.