Extracting funny skills from Genshin Impact

As time passed, the Qianyan Army outside the gate had already begun organizing the masses to come to Yujingtai to prepare to participate in the ceremony of inviting the immortals. Ningguang also brought two aides to the center of Yujingtai, waiting for the opening of the ceremony.

"Let's go too."

Keqing brought Arthur to the high platform next to Yujing Terrace, waiting for the event to begin.

Arthur also saw Ying's figure. Ying was particularly conspicuous in Yujingtai. She went to the incense platform to burn incense and pray, then came to the periphery of the crowd to chat with others, and then tried to squeeze through the crowd to the front to watch the ceremony.

As Ningguang looked at the position of the sun, she slowly took a step forward from her staff and began the prologue of the ceremony of summoning the immortals.

"The auspicious time has come."

As the ceremony of summoning the immortals began, Ningguang injected the four prepared star wheels into the furnace on the field from the four directions of east, west, south and north. As a beam of light filled with rock elements shot straight into the sky, the preparation stage of the ceremony of summoning the immortals was officially completed, and the next step was to wait for the appearance of the Rock God.

However, the clouds gradually broke through, and the scene of the Rock God appearing did not occur. As the clouds gathered, the Rock God appeared, but he fell heavily like a puppet without a fuse, and hit the ritual incense burner directly.

Then there was no movement.

The two aides who were closer had been knocked down by the impact and fell to the ground. After the smoke cleared, everyone only saw Rock God's body lying on the spot, motionless.

People around were already whispering, curious about what had happened, while Ningguang had already come to the side of the Rock God. After confirming everything, Ningguang turned around and stood up.

"The emperor has been killed, the whole place is sealed off!"

Following Ningguang's order, all the Qianyan soldiers rushed into Yujing Terrace and surrounded the onlookers.

Arthur saw that Keqing beside him seemed to have lost her mind, and seemed unable to accept the reality that "the Emperor was killed" as Ningguang said.

After the Qianyan Army surrounded everyone, they sent people to screen the suspicious people in the crowd. Ying quietly left the crowd, then avoided the Qianyan Army's sight and tried to leave quietly.

At this time, Keqing also accepted the reality and joined the screening team. Arthur was not called by Keqing to be responsible for the screening because he was not a native of Liyue, but because of Keqing's status as a guest official, he was spared the fate of being screened.

We can only wait for the screening to be completed. Of course, the screening will not produce any results. After all, if there is no murderer, where can we find the murderer?

"Crack."

Ying, who was about to leave Qianyan Army, suddenly stepped on a branch. The sound of the dry branch breaking directly attracted the attention of people around him.

Of course, it wasn't because Ying didn't observe the surrounding situation. As an experienced traveler of unknown size, she certainly would have noticed the branch, but it seemed that someone had moved the branch before Ying landed.

Then he saw the young master observing the situation on the roof, and Zhongli on the hillside behind Yujingtai.

Zhongli: If you run away, where can I find someone to contact the immortal to come forward?

If he had given up resistance, Ying would have only been suspected of having a motive for the crime, and would have been released because of his identity as Mond's Honorary Knight, but Ying simply ran away.

Seeing Ying trying to run away, the Qianyan Army simply gave up screening the crowd and surrounded him, trying to arrest the person who was trying to escape.

Chapter 73: Ying's escape and Keqing's request

At the corner of the stairs, the young man who had been hiding on the roof appeared and rescued Ying, and fled the scene with Ying.

Things are already back on track over at Ying.

"Lord Ningguang, a man just fled the scene. He is suspected to be the murderer, and there is an accomplice. The two fled together."

A Thousand Rocks soldier reported the situation to Ningguang.

"First, send someone to continue to screen the scene to see if there is anyone suspicious, and then track down the murderer. Make sure to bring the murderer to justice as soon as possible."

"Yes!"

The screening process went very smoothly because the most likely suspects at the scene were a few foreign travelers, but how could they, ordinary people, be the murderers?

After a round of screening, the Qianyan Army reported the results to Ningguang. At Ningguang's instruction, the personnel of Yujingtai were dismissed, and then the real murderer was searched in Liyue Harbor.

Keqing came to Ningguang's side and whispered something to her.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you then."

Ningguang left Yujingtai with her two aides, while Keqing stayed at the scene with a team of Thousand Rocks Army.

"Arthur, you go back first, I still have work to do."

After Arthur left, the Qianyan Army took out various parts and pieced together a wooden cart. After working together to lift the emperor's "corpse", they covered it with jade brocade and waited for night to fall.

When Arthur left, he glanced at Zhongli who had quietly left, and he also left Yujingtai, intending to participate in the progress of the incident.

"please!"

"please!"

Ying had already left Liyue Harbor to seek help from the immortals. In Liyue Harbor, Zhongli and Arthur were drinking the wine that Zhongli brought in Arthur's room.

"Why don't you ask me why I want to frame one of your companions?"

After a glass of wine, Zhongli Xian brought up the topic.

Just like when Arthur saw Zhongli's actions, Zhongli also saw that Arthur noticed his actions. He didn't expect that even though he came here specially, Arthur had nothing to say.

"I have already guessed that the people of Liyue, under the instruction of the Liyue Seven Stars, will not look for immortals, and immortals are also part of Liyue. In order for humans and immortals to build Liyue together, and to deal with the test you set, you need a tool who is not a Liyue person but has enough power to meet the immortals to invite the immortals."

After saying that, Arthur also drank the wine in the glass. If he had thought before that everything was a coincidence and Zhongli was just going with the flow, then after seeing Zhongli's actions, he realized that everything was just part of Zhongli's plan.

"Yes. After all, she is not from Liyue, and she is also an honorary knight of Mondstadt. She has perfectly met my requirements. If she hadn't appeared, I would have wanted to let the Fatui's son take charge of this matter. But since there are others who are more suitable to be the hub between the people and immortals of Liyue, there is no need to let the mastermind appear."

In general, Zhongli assumed that the candidate for the tool man was Gongzi. He only needed to find a way to lure the immortal here, and the plan could proceed normally. However, the appearance of Ying made Zhongli abandon Gongzi and instead choose Ying, a more upright tool man, to be responsible for the promotion of the plan.

"But it doesn't fit your image to cheat someone who knows nothing."

"Don't worry, I will compensate you."

Ying is his friend after all. Although Ying has always acted as a tool, he still needs to be paid accordingly. In Mond, at the commendation ceremony, Ying was transformed from a nominal honorary knight into a regular knight with a real title, but he does not have his own fiefdom.

In Liyue, I don't mind pursuing greater benefits for Ying.

After getting Zhongli's assurance, Arthur stopped talking. As the God of Contract, Zhongli would definitely do what he said.

"This is for you. This is a jade token that seals a part of my power."

Zhongli took out a jade token from his arms and handed it to Arthur.

Arthur took it in his hand and looked at it, but couldn't make out what it was.

"You can give this jade token to Ying as my reward. In times of crisis, the jade token can be automatically activated to produce a jade shield that is equivalent to that released by me, which can protect her."

"Ugh, you're rejecting a sick son-in-law all at once?"

"Rejecting a sick son-in-law?"

"It's okay, it's okay, just a pun."

Zhongli did not pursue what Arthur said. After all, there was no need for Zhongli to say this line when he released the Jade Shield.

"Then I'll leave it to you."

After saying that, Zhongli left.

Arthur was wondering whether he should give the jade token to Ying now, or wait for Ying to return from her search for the immortal.

After calculating the time, Ying might still be on her way to meet Zhenjun Xueyue Zhuyang. So I can go to Wangshu Inn in advance to wait for Ying. Xiao should be there now.

Suddenly I remembered that half a month ago, I did not see any trace of Xiao in Wangshu Inn, and suddenly I doubted whether I could really meet Ying successfully.

"Arthur!"

"Oh? Keqing?"

I didn't expect that Keqing would come again just after Zhongli left. Why was Keqing not guarding the "corpse" of the Emperor at Yujing Terrace, so why did she come to find me?

"Arthur, can you do Liyue a favor?"

"?"

I didn’t expect Keqing to come here just to seek help, but to help Liyue? Although the Emperor is “dead”, Liyue hasn’t been in any danger yet.

Arthur was confused by Keqing's words.

Keqing also noticed Arthur's confusion, and thought that she had not explained herself clearly, so she directly told Arthur the specific matters.

"Actually, it's like this..."

According to Keqing's narration, in general, Keqing wanted to ask Arthur to find the immortal to discuss the subsequent development of Liyue and how to deal with the crisis of the Emperor's "death".

"I didn't expect you to ask me to go find an immortal. I thought you would find a way to deal with everything with the power of the Liyue people themselves."

"Is this your opinion or Ningguang's?"

After being shocked, Keqing smiled helplessly.

"As expected of you, Arthur, it seems you have already guessed it."

According to Keqing, it was Ningguang's idea to seek the immortal. Originally, Keqing really wanted the people of Liyue to solve everything themselves, but Ningguang's words woke Keqing up, "Are we going to keep it a secret from the immortals forever?"

Ningguang also hopes to solve everything with Liyue’s own strength, but the Liyue Seven Stars may pursue interests and status, but for them, Liyue is their home and everything to them.

Immortals are something that must be faced.

"So you're looking for me to find the immortal?"

"Yes, the identity of that traveler has been investigated. Like you, she is an honorary knight of Mondstadt. I believe she is not the real murderer of this incident. Ningguang has revoked the order to hunt her down."

"If she hadn't fled, Ningguang would have treated her as an honored guest and asked her to go find the Immortal. But she has already left and has come into contact with the Fatui. So now I can only ask you, Arthur. Apart from the two of you, the other people in Liyue may not be trusted by the Immortal, and will only regard it as the fault of the Liyue Seven Stars."

"So please, Arthur!"

After saying that, he lowered his head and bowed deeply to Arthur.

Chapter 74: I didn't expect you to be so lustful! I'll remember this grudge!

Arthur quickly helped Keqing up.

Keqing was right. If the Seven Stars of Liyue went directly to the Immortal, how could the Immortal believe them? After all, as one of the Seven Gods in the world and a martial god, how could Morax be assassinated by ordinary villains? The first person the Immortal suspected when he came to Liyue was the Seven Stars of Liyue.

"Okay, I agreed, so what do I do?"

Although he also wanted to hand the jade token to Ying, since Keqing had come forward to get rid of him, he could only complete Keqing's commission first.

"Thank you. The other immortals should be in the mountains, but the location of one immortal can be directly determined. He is the Three-Eyed Five-Manifested Immortal who was supposed to be in Jueyunjian. He is now in Wangshu Inn."

"Wangshu Inn is Ningguang's spy. Ningguang told me this."

Now it is certain that Xiao is indeed in Wangshu Inn. It seems that there is no conflict between helping Keqing find the immortal and giving the jade token to Ying.

"Okay, I'll leave now."

Keqing had nothing to give to Arthur, so she could only pray that Arthur could complete the task smoothly.

Arthur was familiar with Wangshu Inn. What's more, Wangshu Inn was so conspicuous in Liyue that it could be called the Unrising Jade Pavilion, so it was easy to determine its location.

I flew directly to the top of Wangshu Inn again, but still didn't see Xiao. But unlike last time, this time I could clearly feel the presence of the wind, and even could sense the existence of the hidden Xiao with the help of the wind.

However, Arthur did not know how to directly point out the hidden Xiao, but instead used the subsidiary effect of his culinary proficiency to directly create a portion of almond tofu, then took out a set of tables and chairs from the warehouse, put the freshly-baked almond tofu on the table, and took out two teacups and poured tea.

Even though he had taken out the almond tofu, which was a weapon that could kill Xiao, he still couldn't lure out Xiao. It seemed that he could only take out some tokens that could lure out Xiao, but he didn't have the talisman of no taboos, nor the introduction of an immortal.

By the way, don’t the Seven Stars of Liyue have a talisman of no taboos? They just let you out like this. Aren’t you afraid that you won’t be able to see the immortal?

Although he does not have the Scroll of No Taboos, he has the jade token given to him by Zhongli. Although it is a reward for Ying, he has to take it out first to lure out Xiao.

The moment the jade token appeared, Xiao appeared directly on the scene.

"Please sit down first. Don't waste the fresh almond tofu."

"There is the breath of the Emperor. Tell me, what do you want from me?"

Different from the talisman with no taboos, which can only be used as a token of meeting an immortal, the jade token bestowed by the emperor can prove that this person has seen the emperor himself, and that this person is definitely not an ordinary person. Feeling the corrosive breath of the person in front of him, if he was not sure that there was no breath of the demon's residue, he would even suspect that the person in front of him was possessed by the demon's residue.

(Honkai Energy: I am not that kind of embarrassing thing.)

"Sit down and talk slowly. The food will get cold soon."

Arthur didn't rush to explain his purpose to Xiao, but let Xiao sit down and enjoy the food first.

Seeing that the person in front of him did not explain his purpose, Xiao did not refuse when he saw the tempting almond tofu. He sat down and enjoyed the almond tofu on the table.

Arthur spoke slowly after seeing Xiao start to eat the almond tofu.

"I am here on a mission entrusted by someone. Because something happened in Liyue, the Liyue Seven Stars have entrusted me to seek out the immortals to discuss the future development of Liyue."

"An incident? What kind of incident has required our intervention? It should be the time to perform the Immortal Ceremony now, why not seek the Emperor's help?"