People in Mondstadt, starting to develop black technology

Bigger means stronger, and the bigger the better.

Shen Qin turned the car around and drove in the direction Albedo pointed.

If nothing unexpected happened, then if something unexpected happened, after all, there was an Abyss Mage who escaped back and tipped off the enemy, so it was impossible for the Abyss Cult to be completely unprepared.

The fact that they arrived here with such smooth sailing is proof of this.

A tall figure blocked their way—the Apostle of the Abyss, Frostfall.

No, how dare you, a mortal being?

Shen Qin stepped on the accelerator and ran over it, but of course he didn't really run over it. It opened its door and teleported to a nearby place before the front of the car hit him.

The car was stopped and the door opened. A group of fully armed people appeared outside the car and faced the Apostle of the Abyss from a distance.

"Mond, the Knights of Mond." It did not launch an attack immediately, but instead sent a message to everyone, "Our Abyss Cult will only operate in the snowy mountains this time and will not affect Mond in the slightest. I hope you..."

"It's stalling for time! Don't give it a chance!"

Shen Qin's voice came through the 1,000-watt loudspeaker on the Mingguan. Kaia fired the first shot, but the Apostle of the Abyss dodged it.

He is an agile fighter after all.

If it is a bulky power warrior like the Frost Armor King of the Hill, a few grenade launchers can kill it.

As soon as the battle started, the Knights cooperated well, showing that they were indeed partners who knew each other very well.

Klee flew in the sky, using bombs to restrict the movement of the Abyss Apostle. Kaeya and Amber, one shot the Ten Direction Thunder Bomb with the Death Rifle, and the other kept shooting rockets with the bow in his hand. Sucrose used the wind element to spread the three attributes of fire, thunder, and ice, making the entire battlefield constantly flash with red, white and purple light.

Qin, Ying and Youla chased the Apostle of the Abyss and fought him in close combat.

What is a just gang fight?

However, although the situation on the field is now one-sided, everyone cannot let down their guard, because if the other party dares to block the way alone, they must have something to rely on.

The Abyss Apostle dodged and distanced himself from the three people fighting, and snorted coldly: "Elemental power is really an inconvenient thing!"

That’s right, in addition to the three strange elements of wind, rock and grass, the four attributes of fire, ice, thunder and water all have corresponding restraining attributes. It will be very annoying when you encounter restraining attributes.

For example, ice will be restrained by fire, so let's abandon the ice elemental power!

The Apostle of the Abyss, Frostfall, floated up and curled up like a baby in its mother's belly. The thick abyss energy wrapped around it, blocking all attacks from the Knights.

Wow! Is it evolving?

Shen Qin began to look through his game memories and discovered that he could not find any higher-level abyss monsters. The only three known abyss monsters so far were the Abyss Mage, the Abyss Apostle and the Abyss Chanter.

Damn, the game version update is too slow!

Why didn’t I come here after the main storyline of the game was completed!

The Knights had no idea what kind of monster the energy of the abyss had bred, so they could only wait and see carefully around it.

"It actually dares to evolve openly on the battlefield. It seems that it is very confident in its defense against the abyss energy! If the Great Sun Destroyer was here, it would fire a shot at it first and see." Shen Qin looked at the abyss egg not far away through the car window and said with regret.

"If we use the Sun Destroyer, I'm more worried about whether the Ancient Ice can protect the Honeysuckle Tree and the Frost Nail fragments inside."

Albedo is also very curious about what will hatch from the Abyss Egg. Although the Abyss Cult has been causing trouble in Teyvat, the world knows very little about it and it is very mysterious.

Chapter 169: Space-based weapons?

The Apostle of the Abyss did not keep everyone waiting for long. After only half a minute, it broke out of the cocoon. Its body looked even taller, and many hideous black spikes grew on its arms, head and back.

Wow, baaaaaaaaaaa!

I just don't know if the spikes on its body can be shot out.

All kinds of elemental attacks that fell on it were blocked by a thin layer of abyss energy. Even the sea monster's armor-piercing bullets could not break through that barrier.

"I'll take care of you in three minutes." It raised three fingers, and then its figure disappeared on the spot. The next second, it appeared in front of Qin, and the sharp blade filled with dark energy in its hand slashed at her fiercely.

Qin's reaction was naturally extremely fast. Even though she didn't catch its movement, the moment it appeared in front of her, she subconsciously swung out a sword, pushing aside the sharp blade that was about to kill her, and at the same time released a wind field and energy shield with strong wind pressure centered on herself.

The Apostle of the Abyss was repelled several meters away, with Eula and Ying swinging their swords at it from behind, but it didn't even look at them. The spikes on its back intertwined, and the two swords chopped on the spikes, preventing it from moving forward.

Instead, it used the recoil force to rush towards Qin again. With a slight scratch of the sharp blade, it broke through the recoil force of the energy shield and engaged her in close combat again.

Ding-ding-ding-ding——

The weapons in the hands of the two men collided twelve times within three seconds. Every attack of the Apostle of the Abyss was blocked by Qin, but her body kept retreating. Seeing that its attack speed was getting faster and faster, she suddenly kicked it in the chest, taking the opportunity to widen the gap between them.

The next moment, Klee's bomb fell from the sky, engulfing the Apostle of the Abyss in the flames of the explosion.

Ying and Sucrose used the power of wind to blow away the smoke, but found that it had disappeared. Qin looked up suddenly and saw it appear next to Klee, cutting off the flying skateboard under her feet with one knife.

Jean yelled nervously, "Kelly!"

When it appeared beside her with its ferocious appearance, Keli was terrified, but when it cut into two pieces the Dudu flying skateboard that her brother Shen Qin gave her, she became angry.

"bad guy!"

She spread her wings of wind, and the Eye of God on her backpack emitted a dazzling red light. She opened her hands towards the Apostle of the Abyss, and with it as the center, a huge fiery red four-leaf clover mark appeared. The next second, everyone looked up as if they had noticed something, only to see a three-meter-diameter column of fire element energy falling from the sky, piercing through the Apostle of the Abyss and slamming heavily on the ground!

boom--

Accompanied by a huge explosion, the shock wave pushed the snow and gravel outwards, but everyone was not affected under the protection of the energy shield.

Space-based weapons?

Shen Qin looked up uncertainly.

The fire element energy column lasted for about ten seconds before finally dissipating in front of everyone. The Apostle of the Abyss knelt on one knee in the charred pit created by the energy column, with half of the black thorns on his body broken.

My goodness, you said before that you could deal with everyone present in three minutes, but now it’s less than a minute, why are you kneeling down?

"Hmm...it's almost as effective as Tevarin's two-second dragon breath." Albedo said.

Shen Qin tilted his head and looked at him: "Tevalin in his normal state?"

"of course."

You understand contrast.

Sucrose rode her skateboard into the sky and hugged Klee who was wobbling down. The little girl blinked her eyes and fell asleep peacefully.

She quickly scanned with her bracelet and breathed a sigh of relief when she learned that little Keri was just exhausted.

The others no longer cared about the Abyss Apostle and all gathered around. After learning from Sucrose that Klee was fine, they turned back to look at the Abyss Apostle, only to find that it had disappeared.

Shen Qin and Albedo also got out of the car to check on Klee, and then carried her back to the car to rest.

"Damn it, did that guy escape?" Amber said angrily.

Although she couldn't beat the opponent, she must not lose in momentum.

"It may not be an escape. It may have achieved the purpose of delaying time." Albedo opened his eyes and stopped sensing the energy underground in the snowy mountain. "After entering the snowy mountain, I felt that the energy in the entire snowy mountain land was converging towards the honeysuckle tree at a high speed, but just now, the speed of energy convergence slowed down."

Qin said, "If that's the case, then the people that the Abyss Cult has arranged here should have already withdrawn. Let's go and break the seal of the ice."

Albedo's guess was not wrong. The Apostle of the Abyss left quietly while everyone's attention was on Klee.

Before leaving, it glanced at Kelly and thought to itself: She is worthy of being her daughter.

It came to the seal on the other side of the tree, where a dozen abyss mages were already packing up various instruments.

An Ice Abyss Mage handed over a hollow metal ball filled with red light. Looking into the ball through the hollow space, one could see blood-red energy moving around in the ball like a dragon.

"My lord, this...thing has been fully charged."

At this time, the spikes on the Abyss Apostle's body had faded, and his body had returned to normal, but his clothes were not very decent. After all, it was normal for him to be stabbed by spikes and burned by fire.

It doesn't care. How could the people of the Abyss Cult be bothered by such trivial matters?

It picked up the hollow metal ball with three fingers and said, "Du Lin's energy can be integrated with the earth energy so perfectly. It is worthy of being called the Silver Tree..."

The Abyss Mage glanced at the metal ball, hesitant, as if he wanted to say something.

"Stop hesitating. If you have something to fart, do it now!"

The Abyss Mage lowered his head and said, "Sir, I am just a little curious. Since the Silver Tree has such magical effects, why not just bring it back to the Abyss?"

"Stupid! I told you to study Teyvat Geology and Advanced Abyssal Energy Theory, but you didn't study hard and asked such a stupid question! The Silver Tree relies on the ley lines to survive, and it can't survive if it is transplanted to the abyss..."

"Yes, yes, yes! I will read these two books several times when I go back and make sure I know them by heart..."

As the abyss portal closed, all sounds stopped abruptly.

Half a minute later, the Mingguan arrived here. As soon as he got off the car, Kaia frowned: "The smell of the Abyss Cult."

"Your nose is still as sharp as ever." Shen Qin patted his shoulder, came to the ice seal and looked up, only to see complicated dark blue lines on the thick ice surface. It looked irregular, but it contained a wonderful charm.

"The power of the sky." Albedo came to his side. "So much energy is gathered here. I originally thought that the Abyss Cult's goal was to revive the honeysuckle tree, but I didn't expect that they didn't have such a big appetite. They just want the energy hidden in the snowy mountains and land."

"But isn't energy the cheapest thing?"

Shen Qin: Oh, yes, yes, yes.

You are the son of Chalk, the most proud disciple of the "Golden" alchemist Rhinedot. Energy is naturally unimportant to you.

Albedo glanced at him with a strange look in his eyes and said with a smile: "I know what you are thinking, but I am speaking from the perspective of the Abyss Cult. These energies are nothing to them, unless they have plans that are far beyond our imagination."

His eyes turned to the fragment of the Frost Nail sealed in the ice.

Chapter 170 Hello, Welcome to My Dream

Now that we have arrived at the location of the seal, the next step is to find a way to break the seal and revive the honeysuckle tree.

Albedo closed his eyes and placed his palm on the seal. After a long while, he opened his eyes and said, "I can feel the majestic power of the Frost Nail in the seal, but the Honeysuckle Tree... I really don't feel any signs of revival. Perhaps our previous speculation was wrong?"

It’s not wrong, but the opportunity is still in Ying’s hands.

"Think about breaking the seal first." Shen Qin reminded.

"That's right. I was being too picky. Perhaps the seal has blocked the vitality of the ancient tree."

Under the leadership of Albedo, the group began to try various methods to break the seal.

Amber said, "Maybe we can try the Purgatory Explosive Bomb. No matter how powerful the ancient ice is, it's still ice, right? Ice will be melted by flames. Maybe the temperature of the previous flames was not high enough."

So eight bolt rifles emptied their magazines at the seal, but it had no effect other than melting the ordinary ice and snow on the ground around the seal.

"Let me break it into pieces with one sword." Eula raised the greatsword and was held down by everyone. They were really afraid that the Honeysuckle Tree was not dead before, but now it was killed along with the seal by her sword.

“Perhaps we can let someone who masters the element of ice feel the power of ancient ice. Once they master its power, they will be able to break the seal naturally.” This was Kaiati’s suggestion.

He and Eula were the only ones present who mastered the element of ice, so the two of them stepped forward and placed their hands on the ancient ice to comprehend this higher level of ice power.

I am more or less a smart person, so perhaps I can gain something from this.

Kaia thought so in his heart, and ice elements flowed in his body to echo the extreme cold before him.

Just a few minutes later, Eula beside him let out a cry of surprise, and saw a cold air spreading from the seal to her body, and finally merged into her Eye of God.

"Eula! Are you okay?" Amber walked forward worriedly.

"It's okay... I just feel like I have gained a better understanding of the element of ice."

She stretched out her right hand, and a small ice crystal sword condensed in her hand. The cold air emanating from it actually had a feeling of ancient solid ice.

Kaia's eyes widened in disbelief: I am the orthodox ice type! Eula is obviously a physics type!

But that was the fact, Eula had some realizations, but he had none.

Shen Qin blinked, as if he saw his disappointment, and stepped forward to pat his shoulder: "The Apostle of the Abyss said, 'Elemental power is really an inconvenient thing', the Eye of God is not as useful as this thing."

He patted the Cerberus bolt pistol at his waist.

A Kanrean should look like a Kanrean. I’ll build you a Revenge Ranger mech from Pacific Rim when I get the chance.

"Can you break the seal now?" Albedo asked Eula.

"It is possible, but it will probably take half a month." Eula said dejectedly. After mastering some of the power of ancient ice, she felt how solid the seal in front of her was. If she left it alone, it would probably remain the same after ten thousand years.

"Half a month is a bit long."

Albedo is ready to find another way.

All the previous attempts took only half an hour, but Shen Qin didn't plan to drag it out. He said jokingly, "I read in a book that there are often antidotes near poisonous things. So should we look around the seal to see if there is anything that can break the seal?"