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Whoohoo!

A symphony of electric currents generated by lightning.

Buzz!

When the electric current collided with the Divine Sakura barrier, it instantly brought about friction between two different forces.

On one side is a violent and disorderly conquest, while on the other side is an absolutely still defense!

However, the barrier is ultimately a dead thing. The Onmyoji who created it, Korekami Harunosuke, has been gone for hundreds of years. Now it is maintained only by the remnants of the sacred cherry, but the sacred cherry itself has been infected for a long time and can no longer take care of itself.

But under the influence of the [Frenzy] trait, Fan Yu's lightning instantly assimilated all the filth around it, and his power seemed to be endless.

Whoohoo!

Thunderous force surged from Fan Yu's blade. As Fan Yu transmitted this power, the entire blade was enveloped in thunder, purple on the surface and blazing white within. Fan Yu's attack not only didn't weaken, but actually grew stronger over time.

The intersection point where the Thunder Blade slashed the barrier condensed into an extreme lightning, like the chirping hooves of a thousand birds, and hit the barrier with one blow.

Click——!

In an instant, under the single-point erosion of this extremely compressed thunder force, white energy cracks appeared on its surface.

Then there were continuous "cracking" sounds, and the cracks spread to several other nodes of the barrier, until finally with a loud crash, the entire barrier covering the roots of the divine cherry was completely shattered.

Countless energy fragments floated in the air, shining brightly under the light of thunder.

Kamisato Ayaka: "The barrier is broken."

Hanasari had a moved expression on her face. She hadn't expected that someone could use pure brute force to bombard a barrier formed by the power of the divine objects on the Inazuma land vein, but still break it.

It’s as if humans have surpassed the power of nature!

Hua Sanli stared at Fan Yu in front of the tree roots, a figure whose side profile was visible in the lightning. At this moment, his golden eyes seemed to be glowing under the light, focusing on the center of the tree roots.

"It's not over yet."

Hanasari hummed, "Breaking the barrier this way will spread the pollution accumulated by the miasma."

The barrier around the shattered Divine Cherry, those energy fragments that seemed to be materialized, should have dissipated between heaven and earth, but were absorbed by the roots of the Divine Cherry in the remaining air.

The surface of the Shenying tree's roots glowed purple, and a disgusting smell emerged.

Compared to the fragrant cherry blossoms bathed in sunlight above Narujin Taisha Shrine, the roots rooted in the soil are far more eerie.

Fan Yu's sight finally fell on a glowing area below the rhizome. In the center of a cage woven from several separate dead woods, there was a purple glowing object, like a fruit grown in the roots.

His right hand felt a craving for food...

44 The Fallen Warrior

This feeling came over him, causing Fan Yu to look down subconsciously.

On the back of his right hand, the sun emblem has lit up, with a black outer circle and a golden inner circle.

This was the sign that appeared every time Fan Yu activated the Star Core. However, whereas in the past, Fan Yu had activated it himself, this time it was transmitted by the Star Core itself.

"Want to swallow it?" Fan Yu stared at the purple glowing object in front of him with a strange expression.

Star cores rarely desire anything. In the previous world, for example, this was a single spiritual vein, while other regions, planets, and cities were concentrated. However, after arriving on the continent of Teyvat, due to its high compatibility, whether it was calling out from the ocean to cause storms and tsunamis, or calling out from Inazuma to cause earthquakes that shifted the earth's crust... Fan Yu knew that was simply the result of drawing on the power of the earth veins.

A core like the one in front of us, which is obviously polluted, rarely conveys the desire to eat.

"That is the core that has been accumulated from absorbing filth during the Divine Sakura Purification for hundreds of years." Hanasari noticed the expression on Fanyu's face and took the initiative to explain it to him.

"In other words, the miasma and filth absorbed from the other five branches formed the crystal in front of me?" Fan Yu asked.

Hanasari nodded. "Yes, no matter what, there will always be injuries, pain, and evil thoughts in this land. And if war breaks out, it will bring more injuries, pain, and evil thoughts.

The filth brought by these things will accumulate, causing damage to the earth and deteriorating everything. This is what we encounter as miasma and pollution.

In order to remove this "filth", different people are employed across Teyvat. For example, in Liyue, near where Inazuma is, there are professionals such as immortals and alchemists. Inazuma is an Onmyoji.

In short, different places have different practices.

The sacred cherry blossoms above our heads possess the power of "separation from filth," absorbing impurities. The onmyoji Koshin Harunosuke, who had learned immortal arts in Liyue and returned, used this power to seal away those impurities.

To be precise, the process of "Divine Sakura Purification" is to purify this tumor."

She stared ahead from beneath her mask, the Divine Sakura roots tightly wrapped around the suppressed "tumor." Originally, as before, after the seal was lifted, the barrier created by the five giant roots around it could enable the surrounding mechanisms to operate, consolidating the suppression of the Divine Sakura roots.

But the current situation no longer has such favorable conditions.

In front of Hanasari's eyes, the core of the glowing object absorbed the miasma continuously absorbed by the roots of the Divine Sakura tree. The purple and ominous power continued to surge towards the center of the core, causing the tumor under the root of the Divine Sakura to grow larger.

"You have to be careful next time, it will summon those filthy monsters that appeared before, just like before!" Hanasari warned.

Fan Yu: "This reminder is a little late."

"Eh?" Hanasari paused.

She followed Fan Yu's words, realized something, and immediately looked towards the roots of the divine cherry tree. She saw that the purple miasma rising from the surface of the huge tree roots had automatically transformed into three warrior figures on both sides.

However, unlike the ronin warriors wearing conical hats before, these monsters that were transformed based on the memory of the earth veins were huge monsters nearly two meters tall.

One wore red samurai armor, wielding a flaming katana that burned with crimson flames. The other wore purple samurai armor, his blade emitting a constant roar of lightning. Both wore masks, their bodies surging with purple swarms released from the "tumors" growing on the sacred cherry blossoms, giving them a ferocious appearance.

"Two interesting people are here." Fan Yu showed a rare interest.

The transformed monsters killed here before were either Hilichurls or Slimes, and the wandering warriors among the humanoid monsters did not have the power to manipulate elemental forces, so for Fan Yu, they could basically be killed with one sword.

The two monsters in front of him reminded Fan Yu of the white-gloved warriors he accidentally encountered on the uninhabited island when he was leaving the outlying island.

Moreover, the two warriors in front of him, shrouded in miasma, had an even more terrifying aura.

Hanasari saw two warriors with unusual auras and solemnly warned them, "Be careful, they are the Fallen Warriors!"

"Ok?"

When the two fallen warriors gathered together, they seemed to have already known who was weak and who was strong in this area...

The two warriors simultaneously turned their attack direction towards Kamisato Ayaka!

Whoosh!

The two fallen warriors took a quick step forward, their huge bodies crushing the ground beneath their feet, and they rushed towards Kamisato Ayaka like a cannonball.

"Eh?"

Kamisato Ayaka's face showed astonishment. She had never expected that she was a person who was about to be marginalized, and would suddenly be targeted by the monster in the miasma.

Facing the attacks from both sides, the weapons in the hands of the falling warriors symbolized the blazing red flames and the purple lightning that sounded in front of Kamisato Ayaka.

She felt the threat and instinctively activated the icy power of the Eye of God.

But now at such a close distance, she found it was too late.

When the frozen air was halfway up from in front of Kamisato Ayaka, the weapons wielded by the two fallen warriors collided with it and it was instantly cut off with a hiss. Countless ice chips scattered and evaporated together with the flames of the fallen warriors, emitting sizzling white smoke.

Seeing two big swords coming, they were about to cut the eldest daughter of the Kamisato family in half.

On the other side, a sharp cold light flashed across the battlefield at the same time.

The blade flashed from the front where Kamisato Ayaka was looking.

Chi!

Among the two fallen warriors standing in front of her, the one wearing red armor had the surface of the armor cracked, and his body was broken into two pieces in an instant, and he died on the spot.

Another fallen warrior was hit by the aftermath and immediately jumped back to create some distance.

After regrouping, it immediately locked onto the figure that suddenly came to attack. He made a gesture of drawing his sword, and with a grim expression under the helmet, he aimed at the figure standing in front of Kamisato Ayaka, and the lightning sword on his waist flashed with electric light.

Fan Yu: "Hmm? That posture is..."

At this moment, Fan Yu seemed to see something.

The next second, in the blink of an eye, Luo Wuzhe's figure appeared behind Fan Yu as if teleporting. All the matter along the straight line was replaced by a dense blanket of lightning, turning into charred debris.

only.

At the end of his attack, there was a knife lying there, completely blocking the attack of the warrior.

Only half of the thunder blade in Luo Wuzhe's hand was left and was held by Fan Yu.

45 Beheaded, the dust settles

Click!

The blade broke and fell onto the humming grass on the ground, and arcs of electricity emerged.

Fan Yu turned around and stared at the fallen warrior in purple armor. Although the attack was blocked by him, this move was very familiar.

To be precise, it is a sword-drawing slash.

This move is a powerful skill that many people practice in Inazuma's [Five Lightning Transformations].

Many warriors also practice this power as a trump card.

Its principle is to actually use the thunder element to vibrate in the air, achieving sharp and explosive compression effects, and then gather at one point and release it at the moment of pulling it out. In another sense, it is also an explosive skill and an assassination skill.

This is almost exactly the same as the wandering warrior skill that Fan Yu obtained when he watered the flower of revelation.

The other party's body shape is also similar to the image that Fan Yu obtained when he received those experience books.

Fan Yu stared at the other person, his eyes fell on the knife jaw held in the other person's arm. There was an obvious break on the other person's fingertips, which made him look stunned.

"The demon transformed from the contamination of the Divine Sakura Root actually recorded you as well?"

Although he had learned in the Guardian Forest that the wandering warrior had gone to the battlefield and never returned, Fan Yu could confirm that the warrior in front of him was undoubtedly that warrior.

Because the cracked feature on the right gauntlet of the warrior in front of him was exactly the same as the position of the warrior in the swordsmanship that Fan Yu learned.

It is basically impossible for the other party to appear here according to common sense, but Shenying happens to have the characteristic of "being able to transform into a corresponding fallen warrior just by using the memory of the old shadow". It is entirely possible that the memory data of the other party's practice in the land of Konda Village can be materialized again by Shenying.

Seeing Fan Yu standing there, Hua Sanli asked curiously, "Do you know him?"

Fan Yu hummed: "I guess so!"

According to Inazuma customs, the person who taught him the kendo skills could be considered his teacher.

but……

This illusory teacher is not in a good condition at the moment.

Luo Wuzhe turned around and faced Fan Yu with the broken samurai sword in hand. His expression could not be seen under his helmet, but there was already a wound on his waist and abdomen from the attack he had just received from Fan Yu.

"This... unwillingness..." Luo Wuzhe muttered, the purple-red miasma surging from his body making him seem to have a radiant light. His voice was deep, and the resentment of his emotions made his whole body feel like a suppressed and violent state.

Fan Yu was very surprised. As a magical "monster", could it have its own consciousness?

The pair of red pupils revealed under Luo Wuzhe's helmet stared at Fan Yu. He squatted on his knees, placed his left hand on the scabbard at his waist, and made the same movement as Fan Yu just did.

"Oh?"

Whoosh!

In a breath, the fallen warrior disappeared instantly.

A large recoil pit was left on the field, and the purple-red energy gathered by countless miasma flew around like drifting thunder cherry flowers.

At the same time, right in front of Fan Yu, a straight line broke through the air with a thunderous sound, and rushed straight towards him like a wild beast.

In the blink of an eye, the thunder and the sword light had reached a distance of less than 1 meter in front of Fan Yu, giving people a violent and deadly murderous wave.

At such a close distance, such an instantaneous lightning-fast movement would not leave any chance for people to react, but a layer of golden ripples appeared on Fan Yu's body surface.

It was as if time and space were frozen on his body. His movements were not fast, but the moment the blade fell on his neck, the sharp blade in his hand had already been raised, as if he had arrived first and cut across.

Chi!

A sharp blade light flashed, and the fatal blow launched by the warrior was frozen.

Then in the next second, his arm separated from his body at the armpit area and fell directly to the ground.

Luo Wuzhe stood there in a daze, his red eyes trembling under his helmet, as if filled with disbelief...

But before he could come to his senses, Fan Yu raised the sharp blade that had cut off the opponent's arm and slashed it towards the face of the fallen warrior.

Chi!

A red blood line appeared from the warrior's face to his waist, and then his body suddenly split into two. A large amount of concentrated purple-black miasma gushed out from the broken wound and turned into black smoke, which then drifted between heaven and earth.

Half of the body fell to the ground on both sides and gradually disintegrated. Along with the scattered energy, it turned into smoke and disappeared completely.

"An interesting battle." Fan Yu calmly put away the samurai sword in his hand.

Kamisato Ayaka hesitated and said, "But you killed him in an instant."